Has The NME Got Good?

ha, otm

they lost when they dropped "accordion times" from the title

i thought i'd be sadder about this but tbh it feels like a mercy killing, and i'd kinda made my peace with the nme being dead a pretty long time before it turned into a freesheet anywway

it's still going to be available online isn't it? that's a kind of alive -- wait we're all dead aren't we

if only

i guess it'll be online for as long as time inc can continue to squeeze pennies out of it but tbh i have even less idea who bothers to look at the online edition these days than who bothered to pick up the freesheet

went to the website and all the top stories seemed to be Oscars-related

They haven't even bothered making an announcement on their similarly Oscars-heavy Facebook page.

the final NME print cover is a conceptual hommage to this LP:
http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cale-05-kevinayers.jpg

yikes

Well, I would never have expected Buzzcocks to make it onto the final NME cover!

I guess now Mark E Smith has gone...

a fitting tribute to the paper's birth in 1976 and it's continuing commitment to the best in new pop

can i just tip my hat to Matt for trying to delimit this guff to one active thread and also thanks for not making it the swagger thread

didwenevergetthissortedlads.txt

Shenanigans

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-nme-editor-reveals-shenanigans-12145655?x

terrible editor claims terrible editor wasn't terrible

poll each paragraph of that or do we have better things to do?

The boss of the music magazine between 2002 and 2009, Conor McNicholas had a front row seat to stars like Dave Grohl, Pete Doherty, the Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers

i was gonna post that specific line, sends a thrill thru the pulse

Mirror article hashtags:

Danny Baker Dave Grohl Joni Mitchell Reading and Leeds Festivals Kasabian Kings of Leon The Killers The Strokes Hospitals Giving birth

Seems to be more about white dudes behaving badly than about music.

Hospitals Giving Birth had their moments.

Is 'wide passion' a misprint?

I remember Dave Grohl almost killing a journalist by throwing an unopened can of lager full pelt at their head after they’d sprayed him with beer for a cover shoot backstage at Reading Festival. (Only a swift duck saved the hack.)

https://cdn.birdwatchingdaily.com/2013/10/ducks-Mallard.jpg

I caught a glimpse of (hair + eyebrows dyed jet black) Terry Christian yabbering incoherent cliches about this on the news and he was credited as a music journalist. How on earth do you get to the age of 57 and still be Terry Christian?

Some are born Terry Christian, some achieve Terry Christianity and some have Terry Christian thrust upon them.

A cover featuring Amy Winehouse

some have Terry Christian thrust upon them.

ew

#RIPNME This is from an NME photo shoot in 1997. Kenickie on the Staten Island Ferry. Should mention NME wouldn’t put us on the cover because we refused to strip off and be painted gold. pic.twitter.com/Gly7MKQ4ym

— Emma Jackson (@EmmakJackson) March 7, 2018

Seems to be more about white dudes behaving badly than about music.

on the NME's masthead since at least the early 90s iirc

since 1973 iirc

http://www.paulgormanis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nick_Kent_1.jpg

probably but i wanted to note *cough* honourable exceptions

honourable saelf-pimping klaxon: i wrote an obit in 2009 for steven wells which i think describes the good and the bad of the nme i cared about (which was never quite the nme i actually wrote for):
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/steven-wells-1960-2009-sleep-gently-sweet-foe/

lol as my sister just pointed out, i now have to jam another sentence into my book at late proof stage: thank you ipc for yr thoughtful timing you were always garbage >:(

Excellent timing from a promotional point of view though.

I was genuinely saddened by Swells' death. He was a big part of my formative years.

xp haha yes, i am still thinking like a sub-editor not a future mogul: MUST CHANGE THAT

G. K. CHESTERTON ON SWELLSY: "It is many years now since this colossus of crime suddenly ceased keeping the world in a turmoil; and when he ceased, as they said after the death of Roland, there was a great quiet upon the earth."

Swells was always one of my absolute faves even when i was getting cross with him for being mean about some music i liked or when he was doing that C4 breakfast programme being mean about football

That's a great piece on Swells there, Mark.

The woeful Luke Haines was making derisory comments about Swells and pretty much everyone else at NME on Twitter yesterday, and was evidently searching Twitter carefully enough to catch my subtweet of him and try and set the millions of Auteurs on me.

when everyone else was either tittering at Sean Ryder's big + clever *authentic* homophobia. Wells took the fucker down a peg or two with that Working Class Zeroes piece iirc.

or editing it out of interviews, I meant to add.

start a twitter war abt swellsy w/luke haines to promote my book y/n

if there was an a-hole that needed murking up, it's that fool.

y

he has 8,000+ followers, but most of those followers have +/- 90 followers and seem to be suffering frontal lobe damage so i'd say n

that's several thousand more than i'd've guessed and i enjoy much of his work

his professional baddie shtick is so lame tho

its hilarious that he's so anti-music-press when he is the archetypal only-the-music-press-cares-about-him artist.

I'll take him on with my 14 followers (4 of them porn bots).

4 Non Bots

Shenanigans

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-nme-editor-reveals-shenanigans-12145655?x

assumed this would be McDickless but c'mon, you could have used a trigger warning

lover Swells so much I attempted to special-order his novel from bookshops in Australia for years