NOT the NME or Melody Maker, although I read both until quite recently, but
I couldn't take their sinking to the lowest common denominator.
Not quite sure if this is common knowledge or not but due to the fact it's circulation is going down the toilet Melody Maker is going to be relaunched at some point in October as an A4 magazine that will apparently bridge the gap between Smash Hits and the NME! So they won't even have to pretend they're being ironic when they have All Saints or Mel C on the cover.
It's sad, because I used to cherish the Maker for precisely the same reason my Oasis-loving, NME / Select-reading friends hated it, its relative intellectualism and fairly high aspirations. But as soon as Mark Sutherland came in, the decline was inevitable. robin ------- "He who prides himself on giving the public what he thinks it wants is often creating a fictitious demand for lower standards which he will then satisfy" - Lord Reith +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+