Sinister: New things on Banchory

[Paul Arathoon]

Wow..Everett True. i remember him from the Good Old Days where the Melody 
Maker was king despite the ink that came off in your hands.
It had a great system for reviewing albums. One symbol for "bloody 
Essential", another for "recommended" and that was it. I could never make 
head nor tail of albums without these symbols because the reviews were so 
odd and usually not about the albums itself at all. In fact even some albums 
with the aforesaid symbols had reviews that slagged them off

Everett was good mates with Kurt and the MM christmas specials were always 
uber-cool. he once did a review of Tad where the first letter of each 
paragraph created the legend "JAMES DEAN (or someones name anyway) IS A 
C***)"
And the interviews were always interesting. And it was all good.

and then all the good journos left. Mr True, Kulkarni, and the others whose 
names I can't remember.

Now look at it. MM was reduced to being Smash Hits but with Slipknot on the 
cover and had to give away shit posters and stickers to try and stop the 
slippage of readers. it failed and it died.

and the NME went downhill fast with little competition on the 25th floor of 
IPC towers.

basically- if E. True and Mr Gullick are behind Careless Talk cost Lives, 
you should buy it.

hope you all had good new years
paul



>From: "Neil Robertson" <neil at xxx.net>
>Reply-To: "Neil Robertson" <neil at banchory.net>
>To: "sinister" <sinister at missprint.org>
>Subject: Sinister: New things on Banchory
>Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:37:37 -0000
>
>For anyone short of a bit of reading matter, www.banchory.net is selling
>copies of the new music magazine "Careless Talk Costs Lives".
>The magazine, created by former Melody Maker journo Everett True and top
>photographer Steve Gullick, is intended as a bit of an alternative to, 
>ahem,
>other current music publications. The first issue contains Stuart Murdoch's
>Brazilian Tour Diary, as well as the biggest Mogwai interview ever
>conducted, pieces with Calvin Johnson, Le Tigre, Electralane and literally
>hundreds of reviews of the sort of shit yous lot like to listen to.
>
>It's under "Fancy Goods" in the B&S Merch section.
>
>Enjoy.
>
>Neil
>
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