FOLKTRONIC IN THE NME? YES...COURTESY OF ME....

sorry GOT CARRIED AWAY AGAIN!

nb: neil young - don't let it bring you down.

doom-e

now, you can print this off and show it too all of yer friends! hooray! oh no OH NO....I SUDDENLY FEEL LIKE DARREN DAY, NO IS RESPONDING....

*tears welling my eyes*

This seems the best NME thread to revive I think.

"Latest ABC figures for magazine circulation have been published - NME has dropped to just 56,284 in the last six months, down from 64,033 in the six months in the second half of last year".

How low can it go before it's cultural capital goes bankrupt?

Hello, I am off the NME, --- / when did you get off the NMEBus?

My work is continuing...

did doomie ever finish his book?

Oh, Doomiepaws.

Oh, Momuspaws.

Aaahhhh... nostalgia. I might have to go and eat some fruitcake in memorium.

did doomie ever finish his book?

-- DG, Friday, 15 August 2008 11:28 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

on not being able to read

Could do w/moreb revives of classic Doomie. Like his deep existential struggle to write an article sucking the Libertines cocks.

What was amazing about Doomie was how... sincere he was about it all. For all his sneery patronisation of forum members, he genuinely worshipped past-it institutions like the NME and Alan McGee (r) brand rock. And really couldn't seem to understand why other people's dismissals of said institutions might hinge on something other than jealousy.

I haven't seen him in years, though I do hope he's doing well, wherever he is.

I liked doomie's posts

I am trying to remember the last time I saw him... I think I just ran into him quite randomly on Waterloo Bridge in about 2004 and he was bouncy as ever and telling me about how some then-current buzz-band had had all their hits penned for them by someone else (it was something really bizarre - can't quite remember the details but it was along the lines of someone like the Kings of Leon getting their album written by someone like the singer of the BoDeans or something akin to that) and then springing off to go to a party for Carlos Barat. It was all very Doomie. I miss him.

'Twas Kings of Leon by the guy out The Mavericks.

I liked doomie's posts

Don't think I was here for his properly mental period but he chatted about some good stuff IIRC and repped Cherrystones a lot so he's OK with me

Last time I "saw" him he was running the Cherry Red website, I entered a comp to get a free CD, and saw his byline/email on it.

One of ILM better moments!?? Classic doomie!! Everyone was pretty batshit in that thread.

Poptones Goes Bust: Your Views Please - Here's My Considered Analysis

worst ilm thread ever, that poptones one.

some things are best left in the past.

Here's my considered analysis:

You know when bands 'split up' and then sort of reform without the band members that were genrally disliked or 'too big'? and that band then sets off with great fanfare, but it's not the same to say the least?

That was Poptones, from Creation.

That's it.

haha i've been looking for that poptones thread!!! it contains my first ever post

oh shit wrong one

I think a lot of what made Creation interesting can be attributed to Joe Foster and Dick Green. Once those two were out of the picture, McGee lost it.

"some things are best left in the past."

- Dingbod Kesterson

Yeah, that sounds about right.