Re: (TV) NME Review

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <000001c38932$8aaf9a00$30822b52@laptop>, Howard Webb
<howard@howardwebb.com> writes
>So, a columnist for NME was responsible for Television's original 
>breakup! What a load of bollocks.
>I think NME has over-estimated its importance.

Absolutely - very ugly website too. And Burchill always was a self-
important, talentless loud mouth. Am I the only one here old enough to
remember the NME in its glory days during the 70s when great writers
like Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray, Max Bell, Ian McDonald and the
like wrote great pieces about great - and not so great - music(isans)?
Like all the British music papers they got a bit lost when punk arrived
but I remember they recovered and took it seriously more quickly than
the rest - and there was that great Nick Kent review of Marquee Moon in
'77 (transcribed at http://www.marquee.demon.co.uk/nme77.htm for anyone
who hasn't read it).

As for The Darkness on the front cover, they're just what's going on -
for a while. Been down to the Rod Stewart Old Stage Outfits Sale by the
looks of it. Like The Strokes, I suspect, they'll soon be gone to make
way for the next month's 70s retro sensation. (Oh, wait a  minute,
that's the Kings Of Leon, isn't it?). It all just goes round and
around...

Which means that any day now my kids will be playing it to me as if it's
all just been invented. Which is their job, of course. And I'll be
rambling on about Led Zeppelin and Television, which is mine. On the
other hand, they can all sing the first verse of Little Johnny Jewel, so
there's hope.

Old Fart

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