Topic: NME owner says pandemic wasn't all negative

[dr beat]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54138180

A PR piece, but once again the corpse of the NME 'brand' is reanimated, this time to stalk the globe. 

Would be interested to hear the Chart Music Podcast team's take on this.

[dr beat]

For comparison?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/29/conor-mcnicholas-interview-nme-top-gear

[Norton Canes]

"Even as plummeting advertising revenues and circulation numbers force increasing numbers of publications to abandon print, NME has recently restarted physical publishing with a monthly magazine in Australia, its only current regular print edition"

One for the desolation thread there.

[BlodwynPig]

"Even as plummeting advertising revenues and circulation numbers force increasing numbers of publications to abandon print, NME has recently restarted physical publishing with a monthly magazine in Australia, its only current regular print edition"

One for the desolation thread there.

They've got an interview with Viva Brother and a review of The Strokes Greatest Greatest Hit

[imitationleather]

This reminds me of how every few years you see an article about how someone has just bought MySpace and is about to relaunch it.

[icehaven]

This reminds me of how every few years you see an article about how someone has just bought MySpace and is about to relaunch it.

Had a real "Christ I'm old" moment a few years back when Myspace deleted a load of old profiles and there were cries from thousands of people saying their entire teenage memories had gone etc. I did use Myspace for a year or so in my mid 20s but it would never occur to me to use any website as an archive or that they're necessarily permanent. It's bizarre to think there's adults now who can't really remember not having any social media platforms at all.

[The Mollusk]

Yeah thankfully all my childhood memories are up here *taps head* like, uh... hmm

[Sebastian Cobb]

I can't be arsed reading it but I'm guessing they're chuffed Q folded.

[boki]

"Even as plummeting advertising revenues and circulation numbers force increasing numbers of publications to abandon print, NME has recently restarted physical publishing with a monthly magazine in Australia, its only current regular print edition"

Still a penal colony after all these years.

[kngen]

Had a real "Christ I'm old" moment a few years back when Myspace deleted a load of old profiles and there were cries from thousands of people saying their entire teenage memories had gone etc. I did use Myspace for a year or so in my mid 20s but it would never occur to me to use any website as an archive or that they're necessarily permanent. It's bizarre to think there's adults now who can't really remember not having any social media platforms at all.

MySpace, somehow, did seem to be the only place I'd stored a picture of me meeting Ice -T, so I can relate to their pain a little bit.

[thenoise]

One relationship in my early twenties was documented entirely by photos on bebo (remember bebo?) Good job that never worked out I guess.

[imitationleather]

One relationship in my early twenties was documented entirely by photos on bebo (remember bebo?) Good job that never worked out I guess.

Bebo!? How old was she, then? Thirteen?!