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Melody Maker - back, Back, BACK! (and yes, it is 2010)
Posted by Metal Mickey on 19 January 2010 - 3:24pm.
IPC has announced "plans to revive the Melody Maker name with a comprehensive online archive of the magazine - which ran from 1926 until it merged with the New Musical Express in 2000."
The full story implies that that IPC's hand was forced into doing something with the MM name to avoid the trademark being gazumped by a Spanish company, but this archive sounds like a nice idea.
MM never really had the cache of NME, but it was the first music paper I ever bought, in 1976 I think, on a particularly wet & miserable day on holiday in Scotland, so I have a soft spot for it.
More here: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44920&c=...
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When I was
a teenager I preferred it - it was more lairy and opinionated
I remember
Carol Clerk - I wonder how and where she is these days?
I loved it too
It seemed to be the weekly of choice for those pretentious youths - hem hem - who liked to maintain a good distance from the oiks buying NME.
I was a Sounds reader
NME was too punk, and MM was just,like, old......
MM and NME were interchangeable for me
My purchase depended on who was on the cover.
An online archive sounds brilliant.
Solid reasons for choosing MM
Melody Maker was always my choice of weekly inky too, chosen for solid, rational reasons. It had staples.
Later, of course, I developed equally solid prejudices about why MM was better. I stopped buying it a long time before it got eaten, and from this distance I can see that all the things that annoyed me about NME - chiefly the endless juvenile jokes, lack of self-awareness or any sense of history - were also present and correct in MM.
The archive sounds great. Maybe they'll have the letter I had published! (Complaining about Everett True, even though I realised at the time that this only made him say even more stupid things.)
I was NME all the way...
...although, secretly, I did enjoy all those 'Musicians Wanted' lists at the back. I even applied for one.
Didn't get it.
I've got an advert that I applied for too.
I'll start a new thread thanks for the idea Eddie.
My pleasure sir.
FYI it was for a 'Tolkien-esque' band in Bangor, North Wales and they were looking for a bass player. I was still at school, hardly knew how to play...but I had read my Tolkien. Turned up, smelled something weird. Ignored it and plucked my Avon Jazz Bass copy for a bit to the best of my ( limited ) ability. Got rejected.
Then punk swept them all away like a divine tsunami.