Sinister: Swells slaggers in NME

[Simon Gooch]

Hmmn,

Yeah, crabby old Marxist that Swells is, I though that Panda boy 
Williams gave a pretty fair responce. Sure, the Belles aint Swells 
cuppa, but at least he wrote eleoquently and amusingly. He's the sort 
of old fool that loves the attention. As for accusations of sour 
grapes at the NME I'm not so sure. I felt those letters painted B&S 
fans as rather foolish, petty and silly. The reply that Simon 
Williams gave made a lot of sense (not to bring up any good/bad gig, 
professionalism/ineptness deabte again). Its no conspiracy. One guy 
hated the band. The rest of the paper (belatedly) seem to love them, 
despite the fact they don't "play the game". 

See Jason Pierce's comments in that Awards round up for fair comment 
about where the majority of the NME staffers heads are at the moment. 
Sad to say, its the best indie-based mainstream mag around, now we've 
lost the MAker up its own Smash Hits obsessed arse (at least Pricey 
and Taylor liked pop for pops sake, not idiotic irony manifesting 
itself wank-led piss-poor writing..).

Oh well. Some people always have to be petty.

Simon

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               ***  Luv, hugs and kisses from Simon ***
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                      simon.gooch at zetnet.co.uk

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