#226

Yeah, the emergence of file sharing, Myspace, messageboards etc would have seen them right. Their early demos were going for £££ on Ebay way before NME got hold of them.

#227

Hi Pete :wave:

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#228

Never change.

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#229

Aye they basically sidestepped traditional media didn’t they then NME at al caught on. McNicholas was too busy navel gazing Lahndahn to notice anything up north and then NME misjudged their rise by not making them headline the NME tour

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#230

Quite possibly, I’m sure I’d stopped reading NME by then. I don’t particularly like Arctic Monkeys either, but I can see even objectively that they’re in a different league entirely.

Kind of funny to think back now. When I was a student I had this absurd dream of being a music journalist and writing for the NME was my ambition.

In 2006, some time after I’d stopped being interested in being a music writer, someone from NME contacted me and asked me to write a review of some no-marks performing at Cardiff Barfly. I wrote a negative review, which they reworded into a positive review. I didn’t get paid, and the fact that I didn’t even buy the copy of the magazine that had my review in it, says a lot.

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#231

Year before had Kaiser Chiefs and Futureheads though. And the AM year had Maximo Park.

#232

That band? Albert Einstein.

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#233

I’m actually going to have to look up the name of the band. I honestly think that was probably the most press they ever had…

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#234

Oh God why am I defending 2004/5 era NME.

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#235

The libertines NME era was just so so so shit. Fuckin fashion sections about what people in Dalaton were wearing, here’s what Pete had for his breakfast (wahheeeyy) and shoehorning libertines into interviews with everyone.

If he arctic monkeys are so much better than libertines it’s funny and I don’t even like arctic monkeys. NME were the ones who tried pushing that indebted to the libs narrative and AM were shooting it down.
McNicholas’ brain just couldn’t cope with a natural organic scene beyond his radius or influence.

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#236

Remember how keen they were to push ‘actually we’re all more into hip hop’ line in every NME interview.

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#237

It was these guys

Not completely horrendous, but I was absolutely sick of We Are Scientists rip-offs by that time in 2006. Apologies to ‘Damn Arms’ (if you’re reading) for describing you as two-fifths as good as a Fall Out Boy chorus*

I believe this is one of the lines NME changed.

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#238

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#239

This is all lost to the sands of time, so I can’t remember if these guys were the headliners or if Damn Arms were the headliners and I was asked to review the whole gig or focus on them. But I included them in the review (absolutely shitting on them)

The other support act was Akira the Don, who I knew IRL at the time, although years removed from knowing him well. He was great!

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#240

Fuck, must make my donation.

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#241

Big banger

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#242

Just pick one of your own bands if you win, guaranteed 5s.

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#243

This goes for @Bamnan too.

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#244

Even bigger banger. Works better without the video.

When I used to compile my ‘top 100 songs of the year’ I always refused to include people I knew because I didn’t want to let my friendship with them affect my decisions (as if that mattered, lol). Anyway, I made an exception to the rule for this one. #11 in my top songs of 2005!

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#245

What was number 1?