Fraternising with the NME
As you may have gathered from some of my previous writings, I’m no fan of Arctic Monkeys – they just sound like Libertines copycats to me. Even so, I’ve got great respect for any band that can get one over on the major record labels, so when I heard they’d reached Number 1 with a marketing budget of almost nothing, I was compelled write to New Musical Express with my thoughts, which they’ve published in this week’s edition.
woooohooooo!!
Well done!!
So here is Jonathan the journalist!
SuperAsianOnion
November 4, 2005 at 2:37 am
It’s odd – I don’t like NME but I do read it. The morose hyperbolics of every group from Vines to Voxtrot makes me want to vomit, especially when 6 months later they trounce them for being as famous as NME allowed them to be.
But you made a very valid point. And the ‘monkeys are a great group deserving of all the praise, but they’re so new, I can hardly call them “saviours”. Look what happened to the Stone Roses on the waves of premature praise.
- Robbie Fearless, spitfirepress
Rob
January 11, 2006 at 9:46 pm