You are the quarry: Morrissey to sue NME, play more shows

J Lo say "It's turkey time, gobble gobble". I think that'd just about make my day...

I abhor Conor McNicholas

but why did they devote three whole chapters to the review when it was clearly a load of wankamuffin?

People took Jonze's email to mean the NME sensationalised his interview, but according to Jonze, they toned it down. Both sides seem to be coming out of this quite badly.

He's playing Sunderland.

Biggest ticket in that town for years!

the legal ins and outs of this? i obviosuly dont i was just wondering whether these are grounds for sueing?

whats that old saying...'it's only slander/defamation if it's not true.'

bucket. If I hear one more sad, 35 year-old man declaim 'Oh the NME's not like it used to be, y'know', I shall drop a piano on myself.

It's not the passing of some halcyon magazine age you're mourning, chum, it's your own youth. If you're not a teenager, then why do you feel you have any franchise in whether it is or isn't any good anyway? Shut up your face and get back to dribbling incontinently over Beirut, or Dan Deacon, or Emmy The Great, or somesuch insufferably worthy act.

"Oh, I remember receiving a Jesus and Mary Chain cover-mount flexi-disc in 1985. Its been downhill ever since." Excuse me while I anaesthetise my frontal lobes.

There's a shop in Soho that sells back-issues from the 80s and 90s. Go down there and tell me whether the Tim Booth cover emblazoned "Are James ready for superstardom?" strikes you as eternally relevant.

The point is, its not mean to be. NME's a defiantly pop-music oriented weekly aimed at actual young people, not those who merely fantasise about an idealised youth.

Alternatively, if you want to be all snooty and grown-up, you can read Kev Kharas or Dom Passantino talking down to you and polishing their scenester credentials right here right now. Go do it!

Anyway, Conor may be a dick, but guys, have you ever actually met Sean Adams? Dick.

I certainly suspect that many people have become disillusioned with the NME as they have merely 'outgrown' it in some way. .And I really dont know why people would actually feel compelled to complain about the NME unless they had some sentimental attachment to it formed in their youth.

However, its role within the British music scene and general ethos has definitely shifted at various points during its existence. Major changes seem to have occurred at the start of this decade, prompted by the emergence of the internet, file sharing and sites of this nature, I imagine. It had to alter its approach in order to survive.

I was going to post pretty much this exact point. It's all very well saying "You don't like the NME now because you're old", but that ignores the fact that the quality and quantity of the writing has clearly, unarguably declined. And I speak as someone who actually does own boxes of NMEs from the 90s with which to do a valid comparison.