The NME

[????]

...a freebie from today (didn't get one). What's it like?

Just made me nostalgic (surprise :)) for the good old days again when the Music Press was really important (or so it seemed) late 70s.

Sounds and NME were shared around our school on Thursday(?) religously - Meloday Maker less so 'for hippies'. And us soulies also had Blues & Soul.

I guess the 80s started the sliperry slope with more specialism (keraaang) and more general youth mags The Face etc.

Sad they've gone but understand why.

[steveo]

When I was in the print as a tiny wee lad, we did the NME, Melody Maker and Disc among others.

Seeing Ray Coleman, Chris Welch, CSM and even Nick Kent wandering around the Essex factory turned my head.

Sadly Ray wouldn't give me a job.

His loss

[Ridgley]

That takes me back :)

[Jah Lush]

I loved the NME and read it religiously for about 25 years. I'd even get it a day early on a Wednesday on Fleet Street and I'd devour it from cover to cover and do the crossword. It was the musical bible back in its 70s heyday and sold around 250,000 a week back then but has sadly long been in decline and probably only sells less than a tenth of that now. I still buy it two or three times a year or have a glance at it online but it just isn't the same since I was a youngster. Maybe that's because I am so much older now. I hope it survives.

[????]

Not a Sounds fan Jah?

[red devil]

I was an avid reader of the NME from late 70's to late 80's. Sounds just didn't do it for me, especially when it (Gary Bushell) started championing Oi, although I would buy it if it had a big feature on someone I liked. Don't think I ever bought MM. Some great journos/writers cut their teeth on the music press, excellent photography too...

[????]

Not a fan of the Rejects RD? :)

[red devil]

I liked them, probably not as much as you though :)

It was more of an anti-Bushell thing and the whole Strength Thru Oi/Nicky Crane fook up.

Anyway, have this one on me...

 

[????]

Nah, this one :)

 

[Jah Lush]

???? Wrote:

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> Not a Sounds fan Jah?

Yeah, I used to read that before it went all fooking Oi and then heavy metal. Melody Maker as well but the NME was king.

[Jah Lush]

red devil Wrote:

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> I was an avid reader of the NME from late 70's to

> late 80's. Sounds just didn't do it for me,

> especially when it (Gary Bushell) started

> championing Oi.

Indeed. I worked in close proximity to Bushell when he was a TV columnist on the Sunday People. Everyone seemed to think he was a nice bloke except me with my seething hate of his championing of the seemingly racist Oi and his 'friend' of the Krays crap. Total tosspot.

[????]

I picked it up today..... f*ck me how the mighty have fallen

[red devil]

Watched the first part of the BBC4 doc on Indie record labels last night, all very NME. Good to see Genesis P Orridge is still as nutty as a fruit cake :)...