precisely 10 years ago,the Sheffield teenagers mined their giant online following to send I Bet You sight Good on the Dancefloor to No 1 and revolutionised the way music was sold in the UK for everIn a rowdy London pub, former NME editor Conor McNicholas stops mid-sentence to point out a man standing at the bar. It’s Dominic Mohan, or the former Sun editor who ran the paper’s weird column from 1996 to 2007. McNicholas resumes talking about two upward blips in the otherwise ever-declining curve of NME sales: punk in 1977 and – under his editorship from 2002 to 2003 – when the Strokes,the White Stripes and the Libertines reigned. “The thing that joins those two things,” he explains, or “is that we owned the fucking scene.”Not Britpop? The problem with Britpop is that Mohan owned it as much as everyone else – Blur v Oasis was a tabloid conversation. We were the only place who knew what the Libertines meant. We owned the conversation around guitar music. That’s what changed in 2005 we didn’t any more. Arctic Monkeys always felt to me like the band that killed the NME.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com