tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post7763269220376065725..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: NME Awards 2008: Oh, the Arctic Monkeys won.Simon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-59021478011382025902008-02-29T08:37:00.000+00:002008-02-29T08:37:00.000+00:00Glasvegas are very good though.Glasvegas are very good though.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05868536366343632097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-67465731055436419352008-02-29T01:20:00.000+00:002008-02-29T01:20:00.000+00:00I wonder how many people who voted for Britney had...I wonder how many people who voted for Britney had actually heard it. If it said "Ladytron" on the cover and sounded exactly the same they'd be lapping itup.Marc Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16169814783520809238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-52570353673422165912008-02-29T00:43:00.000+00:002008-02-29T00:43:00.000+00:00You forgot the "John Peel Award for Innovation" (u...You forgot the "John Peel Award for Innovation" (urgh) - Radiohead.<BR/><BR/>Apparently a band putting their music on the internet is still considered innovative.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-51144360381543766382008-02-29T00:27:00.000+00:002008-02-29T00:27:00.000+00:00I find it utterly hilarious that the NME now again...I find it utterly hilarious that the NME now again has a section called 'Radar' (I'm guessing that this is what was catchily called 'On' in the mid-90s). In an entirely different universe, 'Radar' was the section of the paper overseen by Stuart Cosgrove which tried its hardest to bring cultural studies to the masses (and might have succeeded were it not for the political problems and internal conflicts affecting the NME at the time).<BR/><BR/>Chris Bohn on the obsolescence of the Dock Green lineage, Jane Root sounding far more proto-Blairite than she actually was as controller of BBC2 (and channelling a lot of the Martin Jacques / 'New Times' clique at Marxism Today ideas on popular culture and the Left) ... it says a lot that this title now heralds bands who (whether posh or prole) are entirely a product of the reactionary legacy of the class system and the inverted snobbery it has led to, the antithesis of what the NME was at its best.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-70000107534487276702008-02-28T22:34:00.000+00:002008-02-28T22:34:00.000+00:00Glasvegas are on an NME writer's label...Glasvegas are on an NME writer's label...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com