Readers' letters MM JAN—JUN

Left? It's not right War and peace Ilike , and, yes, Leaving music aside for amoment Ihave been enjoined byvarious even The Style Council's single. (let's have more TraceyThorn!), feckless boobies to dispatch an But ifyou print one more letter Iwonderwhetheryou're interested epistle to your organ containing from either mod-bashing New in the fact that Ifind yourleft-wing remarks of aderisory nature Barnet hipsters, or even outraged bias utterlyboring, too. You know concerning acollective of and defensive members of the New that old adage Ifyou're not socialist Hibernian upstarts who call Breed, then I'll stamp on my bythe timeyou're 20 you've got no themselves U2. Ever since the sad Paul Weller doll (with accessories). heart and if you're not Conservative defection of Monty Smith to the So there. bythe time you're 30 thenyou've got TVTimesyour organ has been LOVE, TRACIE no head'?It isn't true.The majority unable to unearth acinema writer ofmyfriends, including those on of similar ilk. Were Monty still in Is this the end ofa beautzful myPolitics and Government the land of the living he would have friendship?And what's tlzis about IOittle-Tecr- RIP IT UP-1 degree course at Polytechnic, are pointed out that "NewYear's Day" 'New Barnethipsters'? The only New {NAAR C. 88888 not Labour supporters and many bears more than afaint Barnetan we know isJohn Connolly, ÇÇÇ-vk IIIIITIAL WAY are Conservative-not because resemblance to the theme music and he's more gluteus maximus 1.1CLUO. we're blind, selfish, bigoted or Carpenter wrote forAssault On than hip. (NME Apr 16) ASO A ARR. AIWA. LOVIIII1C1( IVA) stupid, simplybecausewe've Precinct 13. As it is that shower of A SAD AMIDST arrived at certain political 1977 reprobates have escaped Earboxing viewpoints through thought, unscathed from the sort of To the mateywho was slagging off experience and instinct. criticism that The Jam received JoBoxers. For once we are on the Why is it that nearly all the NME when they released "Start". Ihope side ofAdrian Thrills. We too 0111D journalists who ever express this willredress the balance. believe that the "Boxer Boys" DAllLE apolitical preference take a WALLY TOMPKINS, Edinburgh deserve to make it big. Ifyou have SHIPS unilateralist and socialist stance, (POE March 5) ever seen them live, you would while any nationwide survey of Ican't imagine Monty bothering to realise that there is no fucking 'young people' would indicate listen to U2 in thefirst place. But pose about them, their clothes or awide range of views? Idon't mind worry notfeckless boobies, consider their music. Can't people for once reading things which Idisagree the balance redressed. stop being cynical and recognise a with (I buy the Guardian and The good thingwhen it happens? The Sun) but Imuch prefer to read IoBoxers are friggin' A! aspread of opinion, and I'm sure Max, Jax, Ver and Ger, Reading YELL most people do, too. (N/HE Ham) ILOVE YOU Ifyou're going to include party INAMAZING 3D politics among your (excellent) Flirting with disaster rtrIE.1375111"EE music coverage you've got to have How come there has always been some spread of opinion, otherwise someone or another from NME °.111fflin you lose credibility. accusing certain Factory groups of Your coverage of the music scene "flirting with fascism" when no ;41 caters for arange of intell igent and one has even commented on the interesting tastes, just as the music cover of The Birthday Party's "The industry as awhole does. The Bad Seed" EP, which is designed political content of NMEis around abloody swastika? concentrated in one area of the Havingjust listened to U2's Warfor M.S. STODDART, Liverpool political spectrum, and it's boring. the first time Iturned to Radio One (NME March 12) JEREMY HYE, London Eg for some light relief. On tuning in Okay, the sleeve sucics. Satisfied? Boring?A doctor writes: "You are Iwas convinced that Iwas hearing sufferingfrom terminal exposure to the polished tones of Dollar's China churls PartlySatirical Brocuicastsfrom the "Mirror Mirror". However, further NMEEXCLUSIVE!Pop star in CONservative Party." listening revealed it to be none naked sex romp. Outrageous pop other than OMD's "Genetic star David Bowie has filmed a Must have been on drugs... Engineering". video which recreates the lurid sex Forthose ofyou who tried to read Is this important? scene from the film From Here To my London Drugs Report (in NME) TREVOR, York (NME Mari2) Eternity. Next week: NMEBINGO. lastweek and wound up with a R. SHELDON (NMEJun 4) headache, don't blameyourself-or Co Respond-ents course Wrongagain -BINGO is on page 69 me. The last third of the piece Paul Weller and Respond Records as we've told you before. (starting "City Road is the only...", askyou to try Tracie and decide. and ending "... Alot of them are Half the nation's young stylists Just thought I'd drop you aline to going to need some serious help") converge on Basildon. Tracie's tell you that contrary to got transported into the middle mother is horror-stricken. Tracie expectations I'm all in favour of and made garbage of the totality. is ambivalent: she welcomes David Bowie having it off on the Isuppose Ishould come up with the experience and attention, beach! Ifhe gets really aquip about "someone must have but wonders whether she has adventurous he'll drown himself! been on drugs or something" -but the stamina. CHIP HAMER, Herne Bay, Kent I'm not in the mood. MARCUS CRASH, Stockwell Just the kind ofsensationalist trivia ANDREW TYLER, London (NME Apr 16) we need. Feelfree to write again. J

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