NME Cover story: Tony Wilson 1950-2007

Out today in the UK..next week the rest of the world..it prob says all the things we've already read about in the last few days but I think everyone here should pick up a copy

http://www.nme.com/magazine

No new quotes taken from NOOL??

it has fac227 on the front cover that was for the fred fact page!

hibster wrote: it has fac227 on the front cover that was for the fred fact page!

correct.

Great that Tony got the front cover and i did buy a copy but they didn't make much of an effort did they? Just rented Morley to write a piece and a few quotes already on nme.com.

And Conor Nicholas says they went in especially at the weekend to do all the work ... That'll be about 5 minutes then

Waste of the £2.20 to read that, could have just read it in the shop. Thought it was gonna be pages long.

I guess the NME are damned if they did, and damned if they didn't give this 'story' a reasonable amount of coverage.

Can't be too harsh on them after this and the Godlike Genius award.

Not a huge fan of the publication, its writers or its editorial policy - it's just a mouth piece for a fucked, greedy industry, that had absolutely nothing to do with the Factory Records ethos.

I'm more looking forward to what the quality monthly magazines like The Word have to say. I want somebody like Dave Haslam with an understanding of the Manchester scene to write something.

Emile Strunz wrote:

• it's just a mouth piece for a fucked, greedy industry, that had absolutely nothing to do with the Factory Records ethos.

Good point well said.

So to recap - Paul Fucking Morley writes about himself again.

Some NME hack claims that Hooky got in touch with him, then quotes his blog.

They quote a few things from 24HPP as fact.

er...

That's it.

I'll be cancelling my subscription.

Oh, that's right, I haven't got one

They pissed on him didnt they? Half arsed and lazy.

Tony Wilson sets up one of the most important labels in history, brings loads of bands to peoples attention etc etc, and gets two pages, one of which is a full page picture.

The Cribs get four pages for apparently slagging off the twat from Razorlight.

I picked up a copy too. I stopped buying the NME at the end of 1999 as a big end of century rite of passage. I only buy the Xmas ones now like an old Annual for the end of year lists.

It's gone shockingly downhill this decade, reads like Heat magazine for indie kids. They seem to get all their information from social networking websites' hearsay without any old-skool journalism via interviews. They hardly review anything (maybe labels don't give them free records anymore). And it's full of links to extra material on their website (have you run out of ink & paper?) buried in a sea of advertising.

It'll fold like Melody Maker & Sounds in less than 5 years.

HaciendaThat wrote: I picked up a copy too. I stopped buying the NME at the end of 1999 as a big end of century rite of passage. I only buy the Xmas ones now like an old Annual for the end of year lists.

It's gone shockingly downhill this decade, reads like Heat magazine for indie kids. They seem to get all their information from social networking websites' hearsay without any old-skool journalism via interviews. They hardly review anything (maybe labels don't give them free records anymore). And it's full of links to extra material on their website (have you run out of ink & paper?) buried in a sea of advertising.

It'll fold like Melody Maker & Sounds in less than 5 years.

The NME's response to this view would probably go on about a generation gap, and recommending us to go read Q or the Word or something, totally missing the point that the magazine's editorial policy is now so narrow, it's fucking embarassing.

A few years ago the NME would contain articles and reviews of acts and culturally significant issues and events. Pop, rock, acid house, avant garde acts, industrial, AIDS, the Berlin Wall, Thatcher etc etc. Now, you get 'is this the moment Jonny Razorlight and the Arctic Monkeys set the world on fire!!!!???????' ad infinitum.

The NME was once slightly removed from the food chain model of producer, distributer, retailer, consumer.

It fucking isn't now. It's just one of many in IPC's 'portfolio' of media/advertising outlets. Once had a job interview there - the people were well scary soulless automotons.

As I said in a previous post, they had to run something, but I think it's rich that a publication that has nothing to do with all that Tony Wilson stood for, and everthing to do with all things new, throwaway, and pointless is now jumping on the bandwagon.