No Q Review/NME this year then?

[UEF]

Used to be one of my little post-festival treats, going to find a large WH Smitht to get the Q Review and NME review of Glastonbury with the posters etc (and feeling so knackered you wouldn't really read them)

 

I assume there'll be nothing this year - the NME doesn't exist (even in free form), the Q thing didn't happen in 2016...

Another tradition dead?

[dentalplan]

The @bennyhana22 review is where it’s at. Allowing one week for the sleep deficit to balance out.

[dingbat2]

The best thing about them was the pull out poster photo of the festival site. Used to love them

[Pinhead]

Yeah havent done Q one for a couple years I think and NME are no longer print. With the Western Daily Press review was still out after - who remembers that?

[UEF]

1 hour ago, Pinhead said:

Yeah havent done Q one for a couple years I think and NME are no longer print. With the Western Daily Press review was still out after - who remembers that?

Think I got one of those thorough the post last year 

[priest17]

I used to like them as well, but lets be honest they were awful and a waste of paper. Half baked reviews of all the obvious stuff rushed to be ready on the Monday morning. I'd honestly rather jump on Twitter on the Monday morning and read all the people that proper went for its still drunk reviews.

[bennyhana22]

1 hour ago, dentalplan said:

The @bennyhana22 review is where it’s at. Allowing one week for the sleep deficit to balance out.

I'm blushing, dental.

You really are too kind.

Ben
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[maelzoid]

I used to like getting the poster of the aerial view of the site - spot your tent!

But the quality of the writing in NME was abysmal at the end, it had to die.

[UEF]

Still nothing remotely similar I take it?

[Mr.Tease]

I used to like the Q review, until it started getting worse and worse, culminating in one year where their Saturday or Sunday review/walkabout declared a set as being great despite the fact the set had been cancelled- exposed as a bunch of frauds literally making stuff up.

[DeanoL]

I saw an ad in the long drops for something similar, seemed to be from an independent producer, said available at all exits on the Monday, but certainly didn't see anything.

[Avalon_Fields]

At least the official festival program remains a quality read, there’s never enough time at the festival to read it fully so I’ll be reading it cover to cover soon, it’s miles better than the Q mag turned out to be.

[chatty]

NME did the worst thing by turning on its core audience to try and cash in on the mainstream. Instead all the did was chase away a lot of their customer base whilst not attracting ay new ones. I'm surprised it took them that long to die in an era where print journalism is near defunct anyway.

The went all Kings of Leon.

It's a shame though as print journalism was a great way to find new bands and actually build them into popular culture. I dunno if it's been fully replaced yet, maybes it's just social media which I barely use so miss a lot but it does feel a lot harder to find new acts these days than when I was younger (in that I mean you have to work harder, not that they aren't there).

[SloopJohnB]

Have I imagined that you could pick up a Q Review on the way out on a Monday years ago?

[UEF]

1 minute ago, SloopJohnB said:

Have I imagined that you could pick up a Q Review on the way out on a Monday years ago?

Yes though I rarely seemed to exit at the magic hour necessary 

[SloopJohnB]

1 minute ago, UEF said:

Yes though I rarely seemed to exit at the magic hour necessary 

Always amazed me that,,....that and the football pink with scores in when you left Old Trafford ?

[Crazyfool01]

I used to like the Q daily ... more comic like I know but for me it was some lighthearted reading and was always good trying to spot yourself in the photos  mums the word .. a friend is involved in the free press  

[dingbat2]

The Guardian lanyard thingy referred to a souvenir print edition being available when you leave,  I didnt see anything and haven't noticed anything in the shops since so I assume they were talking plop plops?

Shame, I loved those aerial poster photos, if nothing else, still look at prior years posters now

[DareToDibble]

This thread has reminded me that as we were walking in this year there was a guy pointing a camera right at us. Turns out we made it onto the NME website: https://www.nme.com/news/music/gates-open-see-early-arrivals-glastonbury-2019-photos-2517208

I'm the guy with the red backpack and cap. Luckily they used the first picture he took not the one where I turned around and game him a thumbs up  

[fatyeti24]

46 minutes ago, chatty said:

NME did the worst thing by turning on its core audience to try and cash in on the mainstream. Instead all the did was chase away a lot of their customer base whilst not attracting ay new ones. I'm surprised it took them that long to die in an era where print journalism is near defunct anyway.

The went all Kings of Leon.

It's a shame though as print journalism was a great way to find new bands and actually build them into popular culture. I dunno if it's been fully replaced yet, maybes it's just social media which I barely use so miss a lot but it does feel a lot harder to find new acts these days than when I was younger (in that I mean you have to work harder, not that they aren't there).

SoundCloud, mixcloud, Spotify discover, and many more are all excellent for new stuff.  Limitless internet radio too. If you're relying on the media of your younger days then i can understand why it may seem hard to find new stuff, but there's plenty out  there. 

[DeanoL]

You can actually just listen to new music now though instead of having to read what someone has written about and and try and figure out if you might like it.