John Earls (of Planet Sound fame) once awarded my band Demo of the Week. That was a good day.
John Earls is great. Turns up on here occasionally.
Still pisses all over Artrocker though.
Noel & Liam Uncharacteristically Agree On Full-Scale Privatisation Of All Public Services
âLike, them ambulances yer know, Iâm fookinâ mad fer it. But I reckon wiv hundred percent corporate funding I could go down âospital in some fookinâ crackers big monster truck if I get me ribs all knackered up in the name oâ rock anâ roll anâ all that public money can be spent on proper security wiv all fookinâ AKs anâ that. Mek the UK proper âard so ISIS, yer know, can fookinâ go back to playinâ wiv their 'Ornbies like. Mad fer it.â
Bleeding Edge Genre of the Month
",Donnie Swords of My Opposite Gendered Valentine has been reluctant to talk to the music press ever since he took great offence at a reviewer describing his live guitar technique as âgripping the tremolo bar and yanking it up and down to get his distinctively bent notesâ, but - before his sabbatical - had promised an eagerly awaited new album in the early months of 2018. It remains to be seen whether this album, like their other work, will take the emerging genre of âoppressgazeâ to exciting new places.
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So iâm assuming Morrisseys next mega-racist reactionary right wing statement will be getting the backing of the NME?
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WELL I FOR ONE CANNOT WAIT TO SEE WHO WINS THE NME 2018 GODLIKE GENIUS AWARD SPONSORED BY PETS AT HOME
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From Conor himself on the 02-05 period.
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Thatâs what it felt like tbf. I remember first picking it up in 01 (!) and it being all over the place but developing an identity around 02 and kick starting a lot of bands and the overall scene
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Reads like people loving the smell of their own farts.
15 years on and McNicholasâ NME still has nothing of any value to say.
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I havenât read the piece yet but i think heâs clearly correct that he-and-they helped re-create interest in the indie scene at a time when nobody gave a toss. Also the sheer number of times NME comes up in the Lizzy Goodman book, tells me it isnât just him that thinks so.
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I loved it in the late 90s/early 2000s
Didnât give a shit about the quality of the writing, and I imagine most in-betweener type 16 year olds living in the suburbs who read it couldnât tell you which writer or editor they preferred?
Dunno, maybe I was just a moron.
The Strokes/White Stripes felt like a very different thing from the shite they promoted from 2003 onward.
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this absolutely did me
It felt this way at the time. NME died when that scene collapsed. They just started calling any band the next big thing. I remember them trying to start a new rave thing Haiduken and Delphic. Just pure desperation
I remember going for a drink with James Endeacott on the last day of work before Christmas 2002, and Pete Doherty and Carl Barat from The Libertines turned up having signed to Rough Trade that day
that was 2001 cos by xmas 2002 theyâd released their first album
also it says they signed on 21st Dec 2001 on their wiki page
how the fuck did that not get checked?
ho hum
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The libertines.is the one they really backed and all the bands that came after. They became synonymous with the movement. So when suddenly The Enemy and Pidgion Detectives were headlining their volumes it was clear they were fucked!
And there lies the problem: âIâm not interested in putting anybody into the magazine who doesnât have good hair and good shoesâ. It doesnât matter how good the music is, I canât get excited about a band that doesnât look good.â
The scene became about image over music. Bands were signed on the bases of how they looked. Many far too young to have properly developed their voice. Just churning out crap to have more posters to put on people bedroom wall
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That bit was full Nathan Barley
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