Coldplay 2015

[Gucci Piggy]

I was sat in McDonald's yesterday and within 5 minutes two different people had dumped copies of NME next to me with Bloc Party on the cover. At first I took it as a sign to go and buy Bloc Party tickets; then I realised they were just and dumping it because it's shite.

[Woffy]

Though that's more insightful and marginally less embarrassing than anything in the new look NME.

Bloody hell, isn't it just.

Got my daughter to get a copy for me in The Oracle Shopping Centre in Reading.

It was like reading Heat magazine or summat. There was a fucking fashion section in it.

Sad days, although it's been getting progressively shitter for years.

I did some work experience at NME (and Shoot magazine!) in the old Kings Reach Tower in the early to mid 90s. It was still fairly decent then. And pretty interesting place to 'work'. There was a nasty little 'war' going on with Melody Maker on the next floor due to Steve Sutherland's defection.

Although in the whole:

Writer = tossers

Art / Photography Dept = cracking people

[rubenz]

Imagine Dragons are in that mainstream pop current that typifies also Bastille, Kodaline, Amber Run and other similar bands. CP influence on this kind of groups is quite obvious, they try to emulate their melodic formula and pack it in an electro-mainstream-rock texture, in order to have a catchier and "younger" sound.

needs to be read in a Pat Bateman voice for full effect