nme 1960 history

According to MacDonald:
I think all the other papers knew by 1974 that NME had become the best music paper in Britain. We had most of the best writers and photographers, the best layouts, that sense of style of humour and a feeling of real adventure. We also set out to beat Melody Maker on its strong suit: being the serious, responsible journal of record. We did Looking Back and Consumer Guide features that beat the competition out of sight, and we did this not just to surpass our rivals but because we reckoned that rock had finished its first wind around 1969/70 and deserved to be treated as history, as a canon of work. We wanted to see where we'd got to, sort out this huge amount of stuff that had poured out since the mid '60s. Everyone on the paper was into this.
The year 1976 saw Punk arrive on what some people perceived to be a stagnant music scene. The NME gave the Sex Pistols their first music press coverage in a live review of their performance at the Marquee in February that year, but overall they were slow to cover this new phenomenon in comparison to Sounds and Melody Maker, where Jonh Ingham and Caroline Coon respectively were early champions of punk. Although articles by the likes of Mick Farren (whose article "The Titanic Sails At Dawn", a call for a new street led rock movement in response to stadium rock) were published by the NME that summer it was felt that younger blood was needed to credibly cover the emerging punk movement, and the paper advertised for a pair of "hip young gunslingers" to join their editorial staff. This resulted in the recruitment of Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill. The pair rapidly became champions of the Punk scene and created a new tone for the paper (Parsons' time at NME is reflected in his 2005 novel Stories We Could Tell, about the misadventures of three young music paper journalists on the night of 16 August 1977, the night Elvis Presley died).
In 1978 Logan moved on, and his deputy Neil Spencer was made editor. One of his earliest tasks was to oversee a redesign of the paper by Barney Bubbles, which included the logo still used on the paper's masthead today (albeit in a modified form) - this made its first appearance towards the end of 1978. Spencer's time as editor also coincided with the emergence of Post-Punk acts such as Joy Division and Gang of Four. This development was reflected in the writing of Ian Penman and Paul Morley. Danny Baker, who began as an NME writer around this time, had a more straightforward and populist style.
The paper also became more openly political during the time of Punk. Its cover would sometimes feature youth-oriented issues rather than a musical act. The paper took an editorial stance against political parties like the National Front. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 saw the paper take a broadly socialist stance for much of the following decade.
 

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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)