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Can Eric sort the NME out? When did Eric Fuller edit Sounds magazine?

new managing director of IPC ignite! starts September 18th

IPC MEDIA APPOINTS ERIC FULLER MANAGING DIRECTOR OF IPC IGNITE!
http://tinyurl.com/hmd8b

IPC Media chief executive Sylvia Auton today announces the appointment of Eric Fuller, currently publishing director of IPC ignite! magazines, Nuts and Loaded, to the role of managing director
of IPC ignite!

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Eric joins the IPC Media board on September 18, 2006 and will oversee the IPC ignite! portfolio of men's and music magazines, Nuts, Loaded, NME and Uncut and their digital brand extensions, including the market-leading NME.COM.

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Eric started his career at Spotlight Magazines' music weeklies Sounds and Record Mirror, both of which he edited. He was promoted to publishing director of Kerrang! and also worked in the US as group publisher of Guitar Player and other magazines for musicians.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

also look who has turned up at 6 Music

ex NME writer

Imran Ahmed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/music_week/biog_imran.shtml

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Another good excuse for me not to invest in a digital radio.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Imran actually admitted to a friend of mine that his sole reason for working at the long dead NME was not because he had the slightest interest in music, but to get himself on the radio, and presumably from there into some kind of meeja career. Hmm, a bit like John Peel then.
-- snotty moore (liljelvi...), March 12th, 2005 12:03 AM. (link)

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Cut his ears off now, if he hasn't the slightest interest in music.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

dj martian, why do you care so much about what 14 year olds are listening to?

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

bit extreme.

xpost

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

As I've said before, if anyone thinks Imran Ahmed's hip-hop writing was bad, you need to see his pro-wrestling journalism. In particular his celebration of Bill Goldberg's wide ranging moveset.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I was torn between starting up a new thread and bumping this one to discuss teh indie v emo warz, but we may as well carry on here.

Thoughts:

1) Emo has basically left the NME fucked. Kerrang are back ahead in the ABC figures, and the NME is torn between appealing to its current readers by saying "Look at these poofs from America, I bet they don't drink WKD like real men such as the Fratellis do", and going "Well, there's a lot more money in emo than indie by the end of this year, let's break out the eyeliner". So, yeah, it basically is the modern day equivalent of the hip-hop wars.
2) NME-endorsed hatred of indie hatred of emo basically boils down to misogyny, right?
3) Where does this leave the Killers?
4) Mastodon fucking suck.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

why misogyny?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

i kind of lump indie in with emo. i am very out of touch. it's all 'lol indie' to me.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

why misogyny?

Because emo is basically for and specifically targetted at 14/15 year old girls. Go to My Chemical Romance's Myspace, try and find comments left by males.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

i see. i didn't know anything about it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

it's not like the hip-hop wars. it's like the bald-men-and-the-comb wars.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

So, let's see, IPC unwilling to use real writers with a real passion for music, preferring to use crap writers using "music journalism" as a kindergarten stepping stone to reviewing films for the Daily Sport.

Ah well, if you pay peanuts, you know what you get...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

some metal dude laughingly recounted to me a story of how at download an "emo kid" had been tied to a chair by a bunch of metal types who proceded to threaten slicing his wrists open. i thought that was quite unpleasant.

― pscott (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

you were very complimentary about 'plan b', and they don't even pay peanuts.

xpost

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

the NME has *always* covered EMO bands. i'm certain there have been other covers with the word large style on the cover over the last few years.

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

The NME discovered emo, what, two years after "The Middle" came out?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Thing about Plan B is that the payment issue doesn't bother me; I would enjoy writing for it anyway, as I do for Stylus (maybe I ought to think up some ideas for articles and get in touch with The Management). Whereas two years with IPC convinced me that obedient sweatshop writers were all they wanted.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Dom Dom Dom, when are we gonna see an emo character in wrestling? (Jeff Hardy doesn't count.)

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't Ring of Honor doing an emo character with one of their undercard workers? He does a lot of moping about his valet and then gets squashed. Alex Shelley would be a pretty cool emo heel I think, but Paparazzi Productions > anything else in wrestling at the moment so there's no point changing him.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

My Chemical Romance are effectively a boy band. And we've been slagging off certain boybands forever without misogyny accusations (because most people agree their songs are shit).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody didn't get the memo about My Chemical Romance being this generation's iconic band!

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Amusing to see Dom accusing people of misogyny!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's odd to thing that people who loved I dunno, Franz Ferdinand hating My Chemical Romance or vice versa - talk about the narcissism of small differences.

or is, as I suspect, this whole 'war' made up?

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

What do you think?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

if there is a "war" its more disgruntled hatebreed fans than kooks fans who are on the front line. nme's problem is just that its cycle has just peaked. it's 1997. don't worry, rock will be back in four years

― pscott (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

bidfurd otm

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

In the NME of 1984 it was WAR ON POP.

Now the author of WAR ON POP slags off anyone who slags off Paris Hilton in a pah-yr-just-jealous-cos-she-rich Simon Heffer style.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

i miss the days of hating on The Promise Ring style emo.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

and the get-up kids

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

but maybe actually kind of liking them.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever happened to Neds dustbins?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure they played glasgow last year at some point.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

He hasn't been well, you know.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Could someone pls. explain to the US readership exactly what the context for this War on Emo is? Cause I'm looking at this cover and have absolutely no idea what they're on about.

― Sean Braud1s (Sean Braudis), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Right-wing newspaper decides that My Chemical Romance are actually the cause of everything that's wrong with our youth today, some Kasabian fans throw bottles at Panic at the Disco at a festival, stuff happens.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Right-wing newspaper decides that My Chemical Romance are actually the cause of everything that's wrong with our youth today

Wait, really? Is there an article about this I can read?

― Sean Braud1s (Sean Braudis), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, there's an ILM thread on it as well, but...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400953&in_page_id=1770

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOD IT WAS THIS GENERATION'S ALTAMONT

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

No Dumpy's Rusty Nuts! No respectability!!

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

another person moving on

mediaguardian
http://tinyurl.com/lp5jy
Malik Meer, the assistant editor of NME, has been appointed editor of the Guide, the Guardian's entertainment listings magazine.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

ipcretirementhome.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

people in leaving jobs, getting new jobs incident.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

scratchmediocrebackillscratchyours.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ daily mail "emo cult" page.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ BRITISHES "EMO"

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

holy christ, that mail article is jizz. "teenage girls are frightened of manliness: they like boys who look like girls" ... yes, of course. that's why all the girls in my sixth-form were busy shagging me and my sorry-ass be-curtained mates instead of the local toughs with the cars and the skinheads and the DRUGZ.

er, hang on ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Someone sounds bitter..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

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