Is Morrissey racist? NME firefight resumes

The bloke out of MCR has done a comic!

a weasal faced prick

conor mcnicholas is such a twat.

i may have to buy his trash rag just to read this spurious nonsense.

to make music in the UK completely and utterly shit than this man.

THESE COLOURS DON'T RUN.

ETC.

much as I think Morrissey is a tossbag, I'm sure this is just a desperate attempt by the NME to plug their sinking ship with a bit of publicity.

That magazine sort of reminds me of a 58 year old cabaret singer dancing in the office of a cruise ship booking agent, desperately trying to get a job.

but looking at that solicitor's letter, the balance does seem to be tilting in a particular direction, and it's not NME's. If that letter has been so carefully legally worded, the fact that they explicitly state there was a 'Get Morrissey' campaign is eye-opening.

Ever since the Keith Richards (not) snorting his dad thing, which unexpectedly got NME tons of publicity, McNicholas has gotten even worse with his desire to be seen to be 'agenda setting' (it's even in the mission statement on their website now). This one could potentially undo him. We shall see...

What I'm not saying in the above is whether or not I agree with Morrissey. I haven't read the article.

...when is the Pele album out?

England does seem to have something of an identity crisis (big can of worms right there <<<) and perhaps immigration is a contributing factor. But what I really got from that is he doesn't want to move 'home' because it has changed so much it wouldn't be the 'home' he remembered

but I think it has very little to do with immigration and much more to do with how england is turning into one big tesco.

wales doesn't have this problem nearly as much. it still looks and feels like its own country.

....spitting in the face of common sense and musical integrity since, well, whenever he was born. A man that has achieved nothing. A waste of oxygen. A carbon footprint for no purpose. The symptom of the downfall of western civilisation as we know it.

Yep, I don't like him.

and why is it now a tabloid which seems to have the sole aim of appearing in other tabloids.

The speed at which NME promotes and then disowns them is shocking, and the way they make unimportant new bands that will be forgotten in 10 years time out to be saviours of music is also disgraceful. The NME is a music scene's equivalent of the Sun with their over-blown and sensationalist stories. It's pathetic as it's plain to see the NME tried to dig out this old debate to sensationalise and boost sales, they took a gamble and they lost as Morrissey is still a powerful figure in pop culture and the music industry.

I have to disagree with Morrissey and say the loss of British identity is not due to immigration. A MORI survey in 2002 found most people thought 1 in 6 or 7 people in Britain were foreign-born, when the reality is it's more like 1 in 25. The issue is more the import of foreign, e.g. American culture in terms of TV, magazines, cultural trends. The problem does not lie with actual foreigners, it's more to do with people born in England not embracing their past. Then again some would say the past of England is despicable and steeped in colonialism and the exploitation of others. What Morrissey said isn't strictly racist but I would have to disagree with his nationalistic ideas.

What he is saying there is still over nationalistic in the old fashioned Tory sense. The key is not to forbid or control foreign influx. Anyone studying the motives of the WTO or global economics will know globalisation has benefits for global productivity. The focus should be on the British government to promote and maintain British culture. BBC job cuts is an example of failure in such an area. This whole block out the rest of the world thing Morrissey seems insistent on I just totally disagree with.

that deserves its own thread.

conor macnicholas is a wanker though. i picked up a copy of the nme the other week and i couldn't believe how it was written, it was like it was aimed at 15 year olds (i guess it is). it was actually pretty sad.

... and so should you

I was born in Germany and have lived there on 3 separate occasions, they have more of a sense of self that us.

The more idiots like McNicholas cry wolf over 'racist' non events in order to drum up publicity for failing endeavours like the NME the less there is on real racism.

I'm 15 and I haven't read the NME since I was about 13, it is actually complete toss.

which should be a shock to no one.

I'm opposed to the level of immigration there is in this country completly. I wouldn't consider myself racist, ignorant, or prejudiced but believe that I should at least be allowed to say this without being branded thus. We have a number of problems in this country, one of which is increasing amounts of overcrowding. I have no doubt Morrisseys article was pissed about with by the NME to sensationalise things, but I hate even more that Morrissey (or anyone else) is not allowed to express rational, considered doubts about our country's policy on immigration.

I always thought 'NME wasn't so bad in my first year of Uni 2001-2002, really. But then it just went tits up during that summer of 2002. Or am I mad?'

The shift? Conor McNicholas. Appointed 2002. Gone were the covers with Aphex Twin or At The Drive-In. Enter Doherty, Von Bondies.

I never really saw it. I guess I forgive myself for buying the rag up to 2001 now.