NME

[Rectified]

Never take any notice of a review in NME, it is only one persons view and we are all different are we not.

Never take any notice of Reviews in any magazine.

[joe]

A band I was a member of in 1998 ish got a bad review from NME after quite a big gig in London. I never read the bloody thing and certainly didn't change after that review. Unambitious rock is how we were described . Never take any notice of a review in NME, it is only one persons view and we are all different are we not.

'Re: Our gig at Deptford Abyss
Who the hell does Jeff Dreadnought think he is?
Was he even there? (I ask myself)
Does he even care? (don’t kid yourself)
Wait ’til our PR men hear of this
It’s a bad review, we got a bad review …oh Lord
It’s a bad review – what are we gonna do? …oh Lord
I can’t walk down the street ‘cos other groups I might meet, and they’ll smirk
Oh, it’s a rum old do, is a bad review …oh Lord
And my girlfriend’s fuming

You hacks don’t know where it’s at
You can’t appreciate the master of the Strat
Not that I’m concerned (‘course you’re not)
Your paper’s full of crap (‘course it is)
I only read the gig guide anyway
It’s a bad review, a b-b-b-bad review …oh Lord
We got a bad review, I can’t believe its true …oh Lord
Well I know what you look like, so don’t ever come near Stroud,
Page 32, it’s a bad review …oh Lord
My girlfriend’s fuming

OK – let’s go to chapel

Oo-oo – what’s to do? It’s a bad review
Oo-oo – what’s to do? It’s a bad review

The fearsome hollow boom of the older boys in the deep end
The green shoots of recovery shrivelled up in harsh tomorrows
Left to pick dry sticks and mumble to myself
A melancholy emblem of parish cruelty

'Bad Review' by the mighty Half Man Half Biscuit.

[savvypaul]

Crispy Ambulance got a good review...

[joe]

So did the four skinny Indie kids, not to mention “Thank God Cardigan”, “Laugh Crash Sunday School” “Kiss Cream Carnival” and “Lime Sky Spooky Pill” .

[savvypaul]

They all had a theremin...

[joe]

Unlike Liquid Greek. Derided by the mainstream as ‘shoe-gazing also-rans’, the band have nevertheless persevered with their off-kilter-or-nothing policy in the hope that someone like your good self will eventually realise, and thus promote, this violent yet ultimately beautiful genre which we have dubbed ‘new noise’. The first track is based upon the high-pitched lamentations of an unbalanced Lincoln woman, who nurses injured buzzards back to health inside her dead child’s wardrobe.

[savvypaul]

Kick Out The Jams...

[joe]

CND, CND? We're not going on after Chas 'n Dave!

[savvypaul]

Well, obviously I don't care, I don't care...but it's sure to irk the purists.

[savvypaul]

http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/breaking-news/