NME UK's Biggest Selling Weekly

also they considered no one to have any sense b4 the age of 36

also: aqueducts!!

i think that's three ideas we could happily resurrect which wd transform the state of music writing for the better

Mildly related anecdote: I was once in trouble with a student radio station because I was complaining live on air about the NME "ferociously masturbating" over the Datsuns.

ME: 'blah blah blah ferociously masturbating over the Datsuns. Can I say ferociously masturbating?'

PRESENTER: 'No.'

ME: 'Sorry.'

I know this isn't overly interesting, but I did get to say, and possibly spell incorrectly, "ferociously masturbating" four times in one reply.

Hooray!!!!

So NME has now managed to get neck and neck with a specialist single-genre music magazine. That's quite an achievement.

Bang: 3 and a swapsie for last month's TV Hits.

Saucer of milk, Stevie? spot on, obv.

I've just received a fantastically bad piece written by C0n0r McN1ch0l4s for Record Of The Day. Sadly it's in Acrobat so I can't cut'n'paste and it's too big to transcribe right now, but the gist of it (in response to ROTD protestations that NME ignores UK music in favour of US stuff) is "We love UK music! Honestly! I mean, look at the new issue...*waves around Strokes front cover with White Stripes exclusive within*"

I wish I could find a link - I can email it as a PDF if anyone's got the spare bandwidth.

what exactly do you mean doomie? i don't understand!!

On the other hand, aqueducts.

And yay for the NME selling again: now I can go back to mocking it and not feel guilty.

I avoid DJ Martian's blog for a reason you know.

i love the nme! hooray!

Darkness routinely slagged off by NME as a comedy poodle embarrasment, for some crazy reason. Darkness put out by this and refuse to speak to NME ever again ever no matter what. Darkness get very big and popular in the forthcoming year or so, and go down a storm at Glasto, where they meet Conor backstage. Conor approaches Justin out of Darkness, admits he was wrong to suggest they'd never attain any sort of popularity and begs to put them on the cover. Justin instructs him to get down on one knee and *beg* for his approval; Conor complies. And after all that The Darkness still don't give 'em an interview and Conor has to make to with a four-page potted history and a few quotes from Darkness compadres... and now whoever it is that replaced Dominic Mohan in The Sun likes them, so arguably there are no winners...

Kurosawa movie with many people telling the same story from differing angles

Anyone know how much NME sold on average in the 70s, 80s & 90s?

Sigh even under a fake name i get the weakest homophobic haterz. I emailed you St Prick Gay Of Boys. I@ll be interested if you email me back. Meanwhile, back at the bat-cave - ILM I official give up! Neurotic Teen Idol I hope you don't mind if we take the soft-pop talk off ILM and into email. And Norman I'll be hassling you for more writing.

The most interesting thing about these figures is that Now outsells Heat.

1) the NME has six months to improve it's circulation or the plug gets pulled (this sounds familiar and it seems to do the rounds with such frequency that I take this with a Siberian salt mine.)

2) they axed a Strokes interview due to the fact that it contained strongly derogatory opinions about Islam and great praise for Bush (I Googled this one but the best I could come up with was:
... Apparently the drummer from The Strokes does. According to an article in NME, Fabrizio
Moretti will be ... be treated in accordance with the laws of Islam says Iraq ...
www.extremesloth.com/blog/archives/ 2003/March/index.shtml - 101k -)

cis may well be correcter than me re day names

there were three nodal days in any given month (kalends, nones and ides), and they sort of said: FRIENDS, ROMANS AND COUNTRYMAN, LET US FAPP TWO DAYS B4 THE NONES OF AUGUST, or whatever

it is a fucked-up way to run a calendar, but did you ever try arithmetic using i, v, x etc? i don't think the romans get full props for their empire-building given their self-imposed limitations!!

(i don't know what happened b4 they invented july and august: maybe they just slept in for eight weeks)

- The Editors of Bang

As if this wasn't insulting enough to the intelligence, there was the back page article in which Swells posited this stunning idea: what would happen...if, y'know, The Sex Pistols, right, were IN THE GOVERNMENT? CRAZY, EH! As you might expect, it was the worst kind of aging punk wank-fiction, devoid of any insight or wit, and the final straw for me, anyway.

As for the whole "Liam's Teeth" ridiculousness, I'm sure NME once printed a Thrills gag about a tabloid paper ignoring the outbreak of World War 3 in favour of a story about Liam buying some trousers. Ironic, non?

The Strokes... I got fed up with The Strokes when NME just kept forcing and forcing them. And it was beyoned belief. They're a failry good pop band and all that but then you have talking about "Julian Casablanca's tortured genius"... I mean: WHAT THE FUCK? He's a spotty rich kid singing "spaceships they don't understand". What fucking tortured genius????

And I see they suddenly love bands they once hated again (Guns n Roses for one), and the leftism prounounced by such middle class wankers as Stephen Wells is sooo pathetic.

But they did do a pretty good job of initially introducing me to The White Stripes and The Libertines, so for all the cack they still have some use.

Cant find an NME radio thread but I couldn't be bothered reviving the usual threads. And I dont recall this one at all.

Commercial station NME Radio will no longer be accessible on digital radio or Sky, Virgin and Freesat TV networks, it has been announced.

But the station, which won a Sony Radio Academy Award in May, will still be broadcast online.

The announcement comes after DX Media, the company which launched the service in 2008, terminated its contract with station owners IPC Media.

IPC said the NME website attracts more than 4.2 million users every month.

NME's publishing director Paul Cheal said: "We have enjoyed a great working relationship with DX Media. We would like to thank them for all the excellent work that has gone into NME Radio.

"Meanwhile, we will continue to develop ways in which NME's audience can engage with both audio and visual content utilising our in-house studio facilities whilst maintaining an online music service via our award-winning music website NME.com".

The 24-hour service specialises in indie and alternative rock music.

Did anyone here ever listen to NME Radio?

Apparently it's better than you'd think, sort of original XFM vibe to it (pre-Capital takeover that is). Admittedly I've never actually listened to it.

I never heard pre-Capital takeover XFM either.

It was London only back then. I never bothered with it when I got a DAB radio as everyone said it was really bad by then.

i don't mind the Libertines. but i would rather eat faeces than hear Kings of Leon again.

sadly unprescient

i stand behind that

circulation has been collapsing for a while now, how much longer can it last?
New Musical Express ; IPC Media Ltd ; 33,875 ; -16.4%
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=46706

NME UK? Like there's international versions? Are they all utterly fixated on everything oasis as well?

Empire ; Bauer Consumer Media ; 179,064 ; -11.1%

that's pretty bad

Since Kerrang mainly covers emo, the mainstream metal kids buy Metal Hammer because there's pretty much zero metal in Kerrang now, but the bands they cover are just as shit as the ones in Kerrang. Once the whole emo thing is over I cant see how Kerrang will survive tbh.

Quite amazed to see that Classic Rock has more than double the circulation of the NME these days.

Mildly surprised by Mojo nicking ahead of Q, (and 'doing ok' with 3.9% fall). So it's now Britain's biggest music magazine?

man some serious year-on-year drops in general - Zoo 32.8%, Loaded 30.8%, Heat 19.3

nme are now in the sales range of classic cars weekly

if I were Krissi Murison I would be thinking about starting an indie caravanning club and turning the nme into its free magazine, caravan club freebies looking strong
33 The Caravan Club Magazine 386,494 0.8%
66 Camping and Caravanning 256,321 8.1%

It's got to hurt the NME's sales figures that it's weekly and most of those other things are monthly. I know it's always been that way, but as covers prices have crept up, the difference in annual cost is getting wider and wider. What is it now, two pound something a week? Who the heck wants to spend over a hundred pounds a year on it? Get your news on the internet and buy something glossy to read on the bog. You won't get ink on your arse that way either.

NME will eventually have to become monthly, I guess.

Around 16% down is serious. Most of the others are losing too, but down 4-5 per cent is kind of normal and expected in the internet age. NME's slide is more serious.

But then, maybe changing into a monthly would make them less aggressive in terms of always searching for the next big thing and tearing down anyone who's gotten as far as to the debut album?

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KEEPIN IT RELEVANT IN THE 2K11

he looks like Genesis P. post tit implants tbh

http://www.counterfeitchic.com/Images/anna%20wintour%20from%20modellaunch.jpg

Be interested to know how much money the website etc. makes. If it covers any print losses it's not so much of an issue. Making it a monthly isn't the answer - monthlies are more expensive to produce and there are too many of them in the market as it is.

Empire slump is actually more serious given that films serve you up and almost constant supply of new content and people still want to read about them.

Well, it'll show whether Beady Eye live up to the hype. I did love Oasis but I don't expect all that much from Beady Eye. If they eventually deliever, it'll be because they still have Andy Bell and he manages to come up with some of the songwriting skills he would at times show back in Ride and the somewhat underrated Hurricane #1.

I am eagerly awaiting whatever Noel may come up with though.

also there will probably always be 60,000 teenage boys in the UK with too much pocket money and terrible taste in music

NME's in a perfect storm of print media apocalypse and the death of widespread interest in the music it covers, among the kids at any rate. Kerrang seems to be several steps ahead in terms of understanding its audience.

Actually, Geir, as I said on the DiffGear thread, it's got a lightness that Oasis never had, I reckon you'll like it.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TGaFUPJleS4/TMOYKoWjfpI/AAAAAAAAVYM/Nksx6FE4WNo/s1600/Beady+Eye+album+Liam+Gallagher.jpg

If they eventually deliever, it'll be because they still have Andy Bell and he manages to come up with some of the songwriting skills he would at times show back in Ride and the somewhat underrated Hurricane #1.

I think that this is why, i.e OTM.

I'm not expecting much from Noel, tbqf.

i would in all seriousness rather take my balls off with the kitchen scissors than deliberately listen to Beady Eye

Not very hygienic that.

I for one the Beady Eye record has the level of Andy Bell songwriting not heard since "only the strongest will survive, these days you've got to kill yourself just to stay alive".

Is the verb "punch" again?

IPC must see NME as valuable brand. Dunno about the solution. What's fashionable? Go free? iPaddy nonsense wouldn't make sense.

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Geir, I also think you're going to like Beady Eye. Liam has never sounded more Lennon-esque.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/willgompertz/2011/02/the_greatest_frontmen_ever.html

Not seen the actual NME list though. Anyone have it?

Grouty is slow, usually he will have this polled by now

found the list. might as well poll it

NME's Greatest Frontmen Ever (2011 edition)

That's two Beady Eye covers in two months, when Geir claimed they would never get one

I'm not expecting much from Noel, tbqf.

if Noel had left in 1998 I would have listened to a post-Setting Sun/Fucking In The Bushes/listing Hip Hop Don't Stop Vols 1 and 2 in his top five of the year Noel album. one imagines he's got just about enough sense to sit home burning fivers, or join FSOL on guitar, these days though

US rock group My Chemical Romance have taken two prizes home from this year's NME awards after winning best video and best international band.

The New Jersey group also performed at the ceremony, held at the O2 Academy in Brixton, south London.

Muse were named best British band for the second year running, while Scottish rockers scooped the trophy for best live band.

Other prizes went to Laura Marling, Hurts, Arcade Fire and Foals.

Marling, named best British female solo artist at the Brits last week, was named best solo artist, while Hurts received the best new band prize.

Arcade Fire received the best album award for The Suburbs in absentia, while Foals' Spanish Sahara was named best track.

Glastonbury was named best festival for the third year running, while Channel 4's youth drama Skins was crowned best TV show.

Foo Fighters front-man Dave Grohl received the Godlike genius award, presented last year to Paul Weller.

NME editor Krissi Murison said more than 3.5 million votes were cast by the magazine's readers.

Highlights from the event will be shown on Channel 4 on 26 February at 1125 and 2320 GMT.

who were the scottish rockers?

full results

The Shockwaves NME Awards 2011 winners and nominees are:

Godlike Genius: Dave Grohl

Philip Hall Radar Award: The Naked And Famous

Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music: PJ Harvey

John Peel award for Innovation: Crystal Castles

Best British Band (supported by Shockwaves)
Winners: Muse
Nominated: Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro, Foals, Kasabian

Best International Band (supported by T4)
Winners: My Chemical Romance
Nominated: Arcade Fire, Kings Of Leon, The Drums, Vampire Weekend

Best Solo Artist
Winner: Laura Marling
Nominated: Florence Welch, Frank Turner, Kanye West, Paul Weller

Best New Band (supported by Boxfresh)
Winners: Hurts
Nominated: Beady Eye, Everything Everything, The Drums, Two Door Cinema Club

Best Live Band
Winners: Biffy Clyro
Nominated: Arcade Fire, Foals, Kasabian, Muse

Best Album
Winner: Arcade Fire – 'The Suburbs'
Nominated: Crystal Castles – 'Crystal Castles II', Foals – 'Total Life Forever', My Chemical Romance – 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys', Two Door Cinema Club – 'Tourist History'

Best Track (supported by NME Radio)
Winner: Foals – 'Spanish Sahara'
Nominated: Cee Lo Green – 'Fuck You', Gorillaz – 'Stylo', Janelle Monae (featuring Big Boi) – 'Tightrope', Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. – 'Bang Bang Bang'

Best Video (supported by NME TV)
Winners: My Chemical Romance – 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'
Nominated: Arcade Fire – 'We Used To Wait', Brandon Flowers – ‘Crossfire', Chase & Status – 'Let You Go', Gorillaz – 'Stylo'

Best Festival
Winners: Glastonbury
Nominated: Download, Reading And Leeds Festivals, T In The Park, V Festival

Best Dancefloor Filler
Winners: Professor Green – 'Jungle'
Nominated: Crystal Castles – 'Baptism', Kele – 'Tenderoni', Plan B – 'Stay Too Long', Tinie Tempah – 'Pass Out'

Best TV Show
Winner: Skins
Nominated: Misfits, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Peep Show, The Inbetweeners

Best Film
Winner: Inception
Nominated: Get Him To The Greek, Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, The Social Network

Hero Of The Year
Winner: Lady Gaga
Nominated: Gerard Way, Julian Assange, Kanye West

Villain Of The Year
Winners: David Cameron
Nominated: Axl Rose, Justin Bieber, Nick Clegg, Simon Cowell

Most Stylish (supported by Shockwaves)
Winner: Brandon Flowers
Nominated: Hayley Williams, Lady Gaga, Liam Gallagher, Noel Fielding

Least Stylish
Winnes: Justin Bieber
Nominated: Cheryl Cole, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Liam Gallagher

Worst Album
Winners: Justin Bieber – 'My World'
Nominated: Cheryl Cole – 'Messy Little Raindrops', Katy Perry – 'Teenage Dream', Kings Of Leon – 'Come Around Sundown', My Chemical Romance – 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'

Worst Band
Winners: Jonas Brothers
Nominated: 30 Seconds To Mars, JLS, Kings Of Leon, Tokio Hotel

Best Band Blog or Twitter
Winner: Hayley Williams
Nominated: Frank Turner, Kanye West, Lily Allen, Theo Hutchcraft

Best Book
Winner: John Lydon – 'Mr Rotten’s Scrapbook'
Nominated: Carl Barât – 'Threepenny Memoir', Jay-Z – 'Decoded', Keith Richards – 'Life', Russell Brand – 'My Booky Wook 2'

Best Small Festival (50,000 capacity or lower)
Winners: RockNess
Nominated: Bestival, Kendal Calling, Latitude, Underage Festival

Best Album Artwork
Winner: Klaxons – 'Surfing The Void'
Nominated: Foals – 'Total Life Forever', Gorillaz – 'Plastic Beach', MGMT – 'Congratulations', My Chemical Romance – 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'

Hottest Woman
Winner: Alison Mosshart
Nominated: Emily Haines, Hayley Williams, Lady Gaga, Shakira

Hottest Man
Winners: Matt Bellamy
Nominated: Alex Turner, Billie Joe Armstrong, Dominic Howard, Jared Leto

I actually kind of like Foals, but I do think SPanish Sahara is a total borefest of a song.

has axl rose done anything in particular this year?

did they do reading/leeds?

I think he did a uk tour and kept people waiting for 3 hours or so before he played each night and then he only played two songs and also he was totally shit. Something like that. xp

in what fucked up world is matt bellamy hot!??!?

a teenage girls one

"Worst album" - yeah, because NME readers will really have taken the time to listen to full-lengths from Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry. If Alison Mosshart is a hot woman then I'm going to give up on human sexuality.

Complaining about who teenaged NME readers find attractive is nagl

Cameron winning Villain Of The Year over Clegg raised my eyebrows a touch.

Absolutely.

Also, Best Book is won by a vanity-priced/formatted picture book?

Cameron winning Villain Of The Year over Clegg raised my eyebrows a touch.

Except it's true. NME readers OTM.

Also if any of you are a better authority than a load of teenage girls on whether or not dudes are hot than I apologise in advance, but otherwise STFU.

*raises hand*

matt bellamy is definitely not hot, and is aging really badly to boot - combination of scrawn + double chin + greying stubble = NAGL

teenage girls didn't vote in this poll ffs. they certainly wouldn't vote for matt bellamy.

I spent a good 30 seconds thinking of how I could photoshop that Liam cover into a schizophrenic nightmare vision animated .gif to post to the Noel thread. Then I realised I really can't be arsed. Someone else do it, please.

I wonder if Best Book has to be written by a celebrity. This shortlist doesn't say much for music writing.

iirc 'your sinclair' was selling more than the nme does now when future axed it