what is the story with Mick Middles

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was he a decent music journalist, or a self-aggrandizing hack?

I just broke out the Joy Division/Factory book for the first time in a few years. His style came across as more of the gossip/interview variety, rather than as someone who makes unusual connections and has interesting insights. I definitely got the feeling I should be reading everything with a grain of sand.

What are your thoughts ilm?

― mt, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

His is brilliant - his writing is accessible and certainly not pretentious like Morely! Middles is a Northern genius can't wait for his new book!

― J howard, Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I like the parts of his Fall book that are within quotation marks.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

on the basis of that JD/NO book, i think he's a dick. even the title sucks. the writing's dreadful and sloppy, and ... i dunno, he just comes across like a knob.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I didn't think much of the Shaun Ryder/Happy Mondays one either.

Still, I hope mt wasn't looking for an answer to a competition question on this thread.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

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