THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

It all begs the question how much of the NME's "brand" would be altered if they actually put out a non-disfigured magazine.

Well, Skins did manage to make Wolf Eyes the household name they are today, so that's something.

dunno, but this is some solid writing right here.

― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 5 February 2009 10:11 (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, I remember how keen the British left were on the Kosovan war. Good writing all round.

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God that cover looks bad.

Tempted to suggest a "extrapolate NME cover design to the year 2013" photoshop competition.

'Fix You'. Utterly wonderful. I shed a real tear. Lovely lovely lovely.

http://twitter.com/ConorMcNicholas/status/1225068901

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7910631.stm

Oasis have been named best British band at the NME Awards in London.

The Manchester band were nominated in a record seven categories, but picked up just one. Noel Gallagher also scooped a gong for best band blog.

A host of artists gathered the capital's Brixton Academy to see The Killers, from Las Vegas, given the title of best international band.

Muse were the biggest winners at the annual awards, picking up three prizes, voted for by the magazine's readers.

The Devon trio were named best live band for the second year in a row and were given the award for best album artwork for HAARP, their live album recorded at two gigs at Wembley Stadium during summer 2007.

Singer Matt Bellamy also won on of the more frivolous awards of the night, being named sexiest male.

Indie rock legends The Cure were presented with the Godlike Genuis award after 33 years together.

Nashville rockers Kings of Leon, who picked up two Brit Awards a week ago, followed on that success, winning best album for Only By the Night.

New-wave New Yorkers MGMT did a double, picking up best new band and best track for Time to Pretend.

Villain of the year

US pop band the Jonas Brothers also won two awards, though are unlikely to celebrate being crowned worst band and worst album.

Glastonbury won the top festival award, while best venue was won by London's Astoria, which closed in January and faces demolition to make way for a new cross-city rail link.

New US President Barack Obama was named hero of the year, with former commander-in-chief George W Bush winning the villain of the year for the sixth year running.

The show also featured live performances by Mercury Prize winners Elbow, Scots bands Glasbogus and Franz Ferdinand and ended with a 30-minute performance by The Cure.

Hosted by comedian Mark Watson, the 2009 awards will be broadcast on Channel 4 on Friday.

Ha ha, apparently Oasis were booed, but they don't report that, do they?

woah what muse are still going?

Noel Gallagher also scooped a gong for best band blog.

Haha what

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Scots bands Glasbogus

I see what you did there.

glansvegas

shitbandegas

Ha ha ha, with all the twittering going on about it, I'm really convinced that the entire Academy is filled with nothing but crackberrying and iPhoning freaks tweeting each other. Oh, the hilarity.

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STILL ON TOP

Yo, I thought I told you that we won't stop
Now whatcha gonna do when it's cool
bag a money much longer than yours

The full list of nominees for Hero Of The Year were:

Barack Obama
Noel Gallagher
Brandon Flowers
Alex Turner
Noel Fielding

who does barack obama think he is, ducking the ceremony like that?

He was sat in the White House posting comments on Noel Gallagher's myspace blog.

I'm glad my 15+ votes for the singer from Paramore helped her to an historic victory. I also did 15+ votes for Oasis is every category they were nommed.

nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom

that one's worth a repoll!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7911613.stm

And so, on to the coveted best British band award. It's a biggie and who should win but Oasis... who were subjected to some pretty deafening boos from across the venue.

woah what muse are still going?

― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 23:11

Huge in mainland europe, I believe. also the main dude in band is one of those guys who gets a feature in guitarist's magazines once every three months.

And girls love him

Huge in mainland europe

It was only two years ago they played friggin Wembley Stadium as well! I think it's actually that they don't need to have any sort of presence when they're not releasing an album or playing gigs

Unlike Oasis or most pop bands who feel the need to get into the tabloids so people dont forget about them. If Muse were in the tabloids I think they would be far more hated

Are Oasis in the tabloids much these days?

When they have a record coming out Noel always gets in them.

Tempted to suggest a "extrapolate NME cover design to the year 2013" photoshop competition.

game

but it really won't exist by then, right?

cant see it. Web presence only. kinda surprised they havent got a huge website like PFM for themselves. Lots of daily reviews and news with the NME brand it would be a massive hit in the UK im sure. Maybe there's no money in that? Not that there can be much money in printed media these days.

Pity they didn't keep their archive of old and new reviews of albums that they had 9 years ago before the cost-cutting. NME.com was good back then. I don't think I've visited it in years now bar the links to it posted on ILM.

Ugh what an ugly site http://www.nme.com/

Today in Smiths I saw two magazines I hadn't seen before. One was Shindig a magazine for old garage rock,funk,folk etc. Stuff that isn't mainstream enough for Mojo to cover. And a "Rock And Metal" magazine called Power Play with Justin Hawkins on the cover and it covers Slipnot and other such mainstream rawk/metal. Pretty much looks like a UK version of Metal Edge before unperson took it over. Looks totally pointless and cant see it lasting. Is it a new magazine or just new to my local wh smiths?

ok it appears Power Play has been going for 10 years

http://www.myspace.com/powerplaymagazine

http://www.shindig-magazine.com/

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NME going for the Kerrang readership?

Is that Sylar?

It's Biffy Clyro dude

Biffy Sylar?

I could give a fuck about the band but that's quite a neat cover I think. Have they used actual handwriting or one of those crappy fonts? Some of the letters look the same, some don't

Has Macnichols dude left yet?

I don't get it... why now?

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'Lux Interior by Bobby Gillespie'

That's the last Conor McNicholas issue, there are loads of different covers, partly as a bit of a final flourish for him and also presumably to give him a nice sales bump to go out on.

xp ha I'm no fan of Bobby Gillespie but to single him out amongst the pantheon of winners on that cover...

Show the Syd one!