Circulation figures released today show the NME selling an average 48,459 copies a week, down 24.3 per from 64,033. In its 70s heyday its was selling 250,000-plus.

I've never seen an NME probably since the early 80s. And when I was a teenager it was required reading.

So what's happened? Are the yoofs of today too thibk to read or what?

Thank fook I'm leaving. I can only get better.

NME makes me sick... its like Hello! for indie kids.

Time moves on ...........

I used to get NME, Record Mirror & Melody Maker in the 80s.

Never went near Smash Hits though.

Sounds was always my preferred read, I only read the NME if someone else had bought a copy.

NME is full of fashion bands rather than decent music these days

theres this magical creation called the internet that lets u look at nearly all the stuff in there for free

When Sounds was bought out by the people that owned NNE, and NME went from broad sheet to tabloid, music journalism died in the UK.

Now it's either clever bounders in the Telegraph, which young people do not buy or clever bounders in the Guardian which students do buy as they are encouraged to, by their lefty right on tutors. Or tits in the Sun. Tits are fine but the last singing tit I saw was Robbie Williams and thankfully his ilk has gone.

There is however a really healthy scene in the UK. Just don't buy what you are told to buy.

Oh, and never, ever buy Q.

OK??

99.9% of music jurnos and critics are cocks and bounders, endof
The same goes for fillum critics
They never pay to watch or listen, most of them can't play or act, so their opinion is worth cnutall

cun-talls was the name of the sponsor on newcastle's shirts a few years back, wannit?

Never bought a music mag unless it has a free cd on it, and thats years ago, at least circa 2003.

NME is so up it's own arse it's unless, i bought it at darlo station circa 2002, free cd included, and it was just bull, all fashion bands, trendy 'wannabe' music.

I don't need a mag to tell me what to like.

Now with things like myspace and downloads you just dont need a music mag.

indeed!


thing is, the influential types still see it as a benchmark so bands still strive to get in it....which is a tad pathetic I'll grant you that!
and then the 'punters' in turn think that if you've been in nme you must be good.
an example, NME said we were 'fucking amazing' which shows you how wrong they get it! but that quote got bunged on our posters and people came to see us on the basis of this and left disappointed!!!

artrocker magazine is better, not that I buy either like....

the last place I remember one of those was at "Windows" in Newcastle

Yeah, my Politics lecturers at Newcastle Uni spent most of their time filling us with lots of propaganda in an effort to turn us all into Guardianistas. Death to all the public school dickheads I watched filing into lectures with copies of The Times and The Torygraph under their shoulders. It's turned me into the man I am today...

I used to buy the NME every week between 1990 and 1995.

It used to to be a right chew on trying to get hold of it. I think there were only about 10 copies available in the whole town.

I also used to get Sounds and Melody Maker occasionally if there was someone I liked in there, but the NME was the best.

I stopped buying it when I moved away, although about 5 years I bought one while waiting for a train to see what it was like. It seemed to be aimed purely at 14-18 year olds, like a Smash Hits for indie kids and goths. I'm sure it used to have a broader appeal than that.