inky fingers : the story of the NME (bbc 4, 04. 07. 05)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/nme.shtml

― piscesboy, Friday, 1 July 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Good grief - Nick Kent looks almost beefy in that clip!

I am disappointed to see that Nicky Wire is going to feature.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

No mark s :-(

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S A TRAP!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

The clips suggest that some degree of self-mythologisation will feature.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

some degree of self-mythologisation will feature

Did you really expect anything more Norman?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, of course not! But, you know, it would be nice - "it was really boring", damn, I can't beleive we put those shitheads on the front cover" etc etc.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

"punk. We missed it, fuck".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

"at least we put eddie and sunshine on the cover"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

motorcycle boy!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

"we put the immaculate consumptives on the front cover and all we got was this shitty bootleg tape"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

the mid-eighties really were the golden years, weren't they? (and i never thought i'd agree with paolo hewitt on anything.)

nick logan is far more of a knob than i remember. morley is far funnier. "every day is like sunday" is far better, too. it almost - almost - made me consider digging out "viva hate" (before i remembered i sold it years ago).

as hour-long BBC4 documentaries go, this was OK. too short, natch, and far too reverential: i mean, given that almost everybody - even james bloody brown - agreed that the paper was at its best when the executive staff were prepared to risk everything (even their own jobs) for the integrity of the product, the current lot got far too easy a ride.

still. the hip-hop wars, "youth suicide" and mozzergate in the space of about 20 minutes: now that's what i call cultcha :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that they spent about the same length of time on the last 13 years as on it's first 20 years i.e a few minutes, speaks volumes for the cultural relevance it has now.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

It skipped from about 1992 to 2004 in about two seconds.

I quite enjoyed Conor McNicholas' statement about putting Morrissey on the cover for the first time in 12 years, something like "The NME had changed in the intervening time and had become something different, so that's why we went back and asked Morrissey to appear on the cover again."

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

Nice to know they would never question the attitude of anyone who sells their paper whenever they're on the front page, ever again!

(sheesh!)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

were the omnipresent collins and maconie omnipresent in this documentary to give their side of the 1992 nme scene seen?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

I saw about five minutes of this. (Taped a repeat, hopefully)

Can confirm Collins.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

collins repped for morley/penman so good on him. who they *didn't* have was a more telling list. no swells, for fuck's sake! but yeah, interesting how the last 13 years were basically wiped.

conor is more of a twat than i'd previously thought. beyond redemption.

it was better than i expected, though.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

xposts: nick logan is far more of a knob than i remember.

Errr, Logan didn't actually appear in the programme....???

were the omnipresent collins and maconie omnipresent in this documentary to give their side of the 1992 nme scene seen?

Present, yes. Collins featured quite heavily, Maconie only briefly.

Many of the mid-70s gang looked as haggard as fuck, and not even glamorously so. My dears, CSM's teeth!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

CSM's alive?!?!?!?

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

Nick Logan, wasn't he the tall, Will Self lookalike?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Lamaqs reason for not going to manchester for the weekend in the early 90's as being that you didnt look very good when you got back.

"yeah, I bet their kicking themselves now Steve..."

shoulda hung round camden with a bunch of blokes in Carter haircuts, obviously.

― Danny boy, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

right: that famous hottie lamacq 'in fine place to comment'.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

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