I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the main forums...

 

There's rumours abounding that the NME is to cease its print version and to just concentrate on its web version, which was split from the print version last year.

 

If it's true, then this will bring to an end several generations of music newspapers and for that reason alone I will feel sad. Over the years papers have come and gone but over the past two decades we've seen Record Mirror and Melody Maker close (plus Sounds), but if NME does go, I think it will be a sad day. The paper tried a relaunch recently as a smaller, glossier, mag but it's obviously not working out.

 

To me, it really will be the end of an era. Though NME was never my choice as a music paper (I used to buy Record Mirror) we will be seeing the end of a weekly music news magazine.

 

I suppose time has to move on...

I think this should be in the ‘indie’ section as that is what the NME is all about. I would expect the ‘indie’ section is still the place where all the 18 year old students go, that is if the music scene is still anything like it was in the mid 1990s and when I was in higher education.

im not bothered tbh... ive not bought it for 25 years or so anyway! i think times have changed and the media is now the internet where you can get information direct, daily.

 

sad?...maybe, but nothing lasts forever.

I'm a little bit sad. I have read weekly print music papers for at least 20 years and I do still buy the NME occasionally. I was more gutted when MM folded as that was for the most part brilliant (apart from when they turned it into a glossy mag just before the end.) Still at least Peter Robinson is out of a job again (talentless no-mark)

I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the main forums...

 

There's rumours abounding that the NME is to cease its print version and to just concentrate on its web version, which was split from the print version last year.

 

If it's true, then this will bring to an end several generations of music newspapers and for that reason alone I will feel sad. Over the years papers have come and gone but over the past two decades we've seen Record Mirror and Melody Maker close (plus Sounds), but if NME does go, I think it will be a sad day. The paper tried a relaunch recently as a smaller, glossier, mag but it's obviously not working out.

 

To me, it really will be the end of an era. Though NME was never my choice as a music paper (I used to buy Record Mirror) we will be seeing the end of a weekly music news magazine.

 

I suppose time has to move on...

 

I'm like you Robbie in that I used to buy Record Mirror until it ceased in April 1991. I also bought Disc & Music Echo - remember that one,

 

Once, when it was a great music paper that covered many areas of music, I would have cared. Now it's a kids indie comic with all the depth of Heat or Hello I couldn't care less. Good ridance!

I'm like you Robbie in that I used to buy Record Mirror until it ceased in April 1991. I also bought Disc & Music Echo - remember that one,

DISC folded in 1975, and was bought out by RECORD MIRROR. So many have folded over the past 20 years. The first to go was SOUNDS which originally featured the Radio 1 chart, but later used MRIB`s data without the airplay data (used by independant radio)...after that RECORD MIRROR went, incorporated into MUSIC WEEK...MELODY MAKER went, now owned by NME!! In the 60s, POP WEEKLY closed in the Spring of 1966 (that used the EMI chart, which also finished in April 66...At that point, suddenly an album chart appeared in DISC AND MUSIC ECHO (the last music paper to feature an album chart, following MELODY MAKER in 58, RECORD MIRROR in 56, and NME in 62.

DISC folded in 1975, and was bought out by RECORD MIRROR. So many have folded over the past 20 years. The first to go was SOUNDS which originally featured the Radio 1 chart, but later used MRIB`s data without the airplay data (used by independant radio)...after that RECORD MIRROR went, incorporated into MUSIC WEEK...MELODY MAKER went, now owned by NME!! In the 60s, POP WEEKLY closed in the Spring of 1966 (that used the EMI chart, which also finished in April 66...At that point, suddenly an album chart appeared in DISC AND MUSIC ECHO (the last music paper to feature an album chart, following MELODY MAKER in 58, RECORD MIRROR in 56, and NME in 62.

I remember when Disc closed, it amalgamated with Record Mirror on the issue dated September 6, 1975. It brought to Record Mirror the improbably titled Fresco-Le-Raye cartoon strip written by J Edward Oliver. Unfortunately JEO died a few months ago, back in May. His dinasaur, Fresco, was an integral part of Record Mirror for two years,

 

For those who remember J Edward, his website is still being updated...

 

http://www.jeoliver.co.uk/

 

I religiously bought Record Mirror every week, until it cease. Most of them are gathering dust in the attic now. As for NME ceasing publication, I knew it had to come in the end, its not that long ago it was given a facelift. I'm not regular buyer of NME, as the magazine has lost its appeal to me, a long time ago, I guess its passed its sell by day.

 

Its funny though this time last year SMASH HITS ceased, and I was a regular buyer of that in the late 70s and early 80s, 90s came it went all Pop, and I stopped buying it.

Yep, terrible editorial decisions caused smash hits to fold and the same will happen with the NME - Conor McNicholas take a bow you t***.

 

The only good thing in the NME these days is the crossword. Their average album reviews barely even reach the 50 word mark. Not good for a full-scale publication.

So we won't have to pay £2.10 to read a magazine that's half full of adverts for gigs by groups you've never heard of? :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

Once, when it was a great music paper that covered many areas of music, I would have cared. Now it's a kids indie comic with all the depth of Heat or Hello I couldn't care less. Good ridance!

 

Spot on.... NME is just an utter irrelevance now, all the good writers deserted in their droves when NME went through their "change" in the mid-late '90s.. Funnily enough, quite a few ex-NME, Melody Maker writers are now writing for The Independent, Guardian, Observer, Times, etc music sections/supplements.... Which may go some ways to explaining why these newspapers have, ironically, a vastly greater, more in-depth music coverage than the likes of NME.....

From today's Popbitch email:

 

"We reported a rumour that the print version of

the NME was to close. We have been assured by

NME, and accept that any such rumour is entirely

false and there is no such plan in place or in

contemplation. We apologise to the publishers

of the NME for this inaccuracy".

 

Oh well.

So we won't have to pay £2.10 to read a magazine that's half full of adverts for gigs by groups you've never heard of? :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

 

???

 

i dont get this???

 

maybe you should just stick to q mag (it comes with a free cd put the magazine is as useless as ever, make you wanna rip it up in anger it is so bad and stick it down the throat of a feeling fan)

 

so what groups are you wanting it to be full of??? the hoosiers??? the feeling??? palladium???

so what groups are you wanting it to be full of??? the hoosiers??? the feeling??? palladium???

 

I remember when the gig ads used to be for acts that most people have heard of. I find myself going through the gig listings after them trying to find acts that I actually have heard of, then hope to God they've got tickets left.

Why bother advertising a sold out gig? That's why you've never heard of the bands. Commerciality means that many 'indie' gigs are sold out online in less than an hour - therefore there's no time for them to make the NME ad section.

I remember when the gig ads used to be for acts that most people have heard of. I find myself going through the gig listings after them trying to find acts that I actually have heard of, then hope to God they've got tickets left.

 

maybe you just grew out of the target market and that kinda studenty music doesnt interst you/cant be arsed finding out about. maybe???

 

btw do you read the word?? that might be your type of music mag. its got a good cd and a feature that has all the covers of all the old discontinued music mags in it. cant say what other features its got in it, apart from the best/worst bands list, as even tho i only got it yesterday its got dumped under blender , songlines, nme etc etc etc in my room and i dont where it is now and i dont think ill bother to read it anyway. you might like it. will be better than q whatever

 

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