Interviews with NME journalists: Mick Farren
Editor of International Times and comics compendium Nasty Tales, sci-fi novelist, White Panther, lead singer with biker rockers The (Social) Deviants, doorman at the UFO club and organiser of the Phun City festival, yippie activist – Mick Farren’s counter-cultural credentials are impeccable.Continue reading
Interviews with NME photographers: Kevin Cummins
By his own reckoning Kevin Cummins took photos of almost every band that played in Manchester for about 15 years from the punk era onwards. He spent over a decade as staff photographer at NME, shooting iconic images of Joy Division, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and hundreds of other bands. Continue reading
Interviews with NME journalists: Tony Parsons
Despite later attempts to reposition itself, the NME was late in properly endorsing punk, leaving one of the smaller music inkies, Sounds, to clean up by being first to write …Continue reading
NME covermount cassettes
Over at the excellent Press Play and Record blog, they’ve been busy assiduously digitising and uploading loads of free NME covermount cassettes from the 1980s. NME covermounted flexidiscs from its …Continue reading
Interviews with NME journalists: Paolo Hewitt
The author and writer Paolo Hewitt spent much of his childhood and teenage years living in a children’s home in Woking in Surrey, before moving to London in the late …Continue reading
Morrissey versus NME
Following today’s news that Morrissey is likely to have his day in court in his libel action against former NME editor Conor McNicholas and the paper’s publishers IPC Media, much …Continue reading
NME – the fashions
Great couple of posts over on the excellent Tin Trunk blog collecting some of those small ads from the back of the NME that used to hawk cannabis leaf pendants, …Continue reading
The history of the NME – listen to the music
To complement The History of the NME (the book), here’s The History of the NME (the music), in the form of a Spotify playlist containing every song mentioned thoughout the …Continue reading
