Thursday, November 25, 2010

1990s


In 1992, the NME also had a very public dispute with its former hero Morrissey due to allegations that he had used racist lyrics and imagery. This erupted after a concert at Finsbury Park where Morrissey was seen to drape himself in a Union Flag. The series of articles which followed in the next edition of NME soured Morrissey's relationship with the paper and this led to Morrissey's not speaking to the paper again for over a decade. When Morrissey did eventually speak to the NME in 2003, he made it clear it was because the three writers concerned had long since left.
Later in 1992, Steve Sutherland, previously assistant editor of Melody Maker, was brought in as the NME's editor to replace Danny Kelly. Andrew Collins, Stuart Maconie, Steve Lamacq and Mary Anne Hobbs all left the NME in protest, and moved to Select; Collins, Maconie and Lamacq would all also write for Q, while Lamacq would join Melody Maker in 1997. Kelly, Collins, Maconie, Lamacq and Hobbs would all subsequently become prominent broadcasters with BBC Radio 1 as it reinvented itself under Matthew Bannister.
In April 1994 Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead, a story which affected not only his fans and readers of the NME, but would see a massive change in British music. Grunge was about to be replaced by Britpop, a new form of music influenced by British music of the 1960s and British culture. The phrase was coined by NME after the band Blur released their album Parklife in the same month of Cobain's death. Britpop began to fill the musical and cultural void left after Cobain's death, and Blur's success, along with the rise of a new group from Manchester called Oasis saw Britpop explode for the rest of 1994. By the end of the year Blur and Oasis were the two biggest bands in the UK and sales of the NME were increasing thanks to the Britpop effect. 1995 saw the NME cover many of these new bands and saw many of these bands play the NME Stage at that year's Glastonbury Festival where the paper had been sponsoring the second stage at the festival since 1993. This would be their last year sponsoring the stage, subsequently the stage would be known as the 'Other Stage'.
In August 1995 Blur and Oasis planned to release singles on the same day in a mass of media publicity. Steve Sutherland put the story on the front page of the paper. He was criticised for playing up the duel between the bands. Blur won the 'race' for the top of the charts, and the resulting fallout from the publicity led to the paper enjoying increased sales during the 1990s as Britpop became the dominant musical genre. After this peak the paper saw a slow decline as Britpop burned itself out fairly rapidly over the next few years. This left the paper directionless again, and attempts to embrace the rise of DJ culture in the late 1990s only led to the paper being criticised for not supporting rock or indie music. The paper did attempt to return to its highly politicised 1980s incarnation by running a front-cover story in March 1998 condemning Tony Blair, who had previously associated himself with Britpop bands such as Oasis, and this received a certain level of attention in the wider media, but was generally not seen as coherent or well-argued.
Sutherland did attempt to cover newer bands but one cover feature on Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 1999 saw the paper dip to a sales low, and Sutherland later stated in his weekly editorial that he regretted putting them on the cover. For many this was seen as an affront to the principles of the paper and sales reached a low point at the turn of the millennium.
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Date:Thu, Feb 03, 2011(19:00)
Venue:O2 ABC Glasgow
Glasgow(UK)
Date :Fri, Feb 04, 2011(19:00)
Venue:Manchester Academy
Manchester(UK)

Date:Mon, Feb 07, 2011(19:00)
Venue:O2 Academy Newcastle
Newcastle Upon Tyne(UK)

Date: Tue, Feb 08, 2011(19:00)
Venue:Rock City Nottingham
Nottingham(UK)

Date: Wed, Feb 09, 2011(19:00)
Venue:O2 Academy Leeds
Leeds(UK)
Date: Fri, Feb 11, 2011(19:00)
Venue:Norwich UEA LCR
Norwich(UK)

Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2011(19:00)
Venue:O2 Academy Birmingham
Birmingham(UK)

Date: Sun, Feb 13, 2011(19:00)
Venue:Cardiff University
Cardiff(UK)
Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2011(19:00)
Venue:O2 Academy Bristol
Bristol(UK)
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011(19:00)
Venue:O2 Academy Bournemouth
Bournemouth(UK)

Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011(19:00)
Venue:Brighton Dome
Brighton(UK)

Date: Sat, Feb 19, 2011(19:00)
Venue:O2 Academy Brixton
London(UK)

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