Urban Hat€monger ?

The point is a few years ago there were 3 weekly music papers all competing looking for new acts to break , you didn't like the acts one paper wrote about , you simply bought another. Now the NME are the only one around , if you don't like the acts they push , too bad thats all your getting. If the NME don't like you it's tough **** , that's basically all your exposure gone.

Same with Radio 1 , Radio 1 may play the same kind of crap any commercial station does during the day but because it didn't have the limitations of a commercial station during the evening it could break new acts & play music with a minority interest , and people like John Peel & Steve Lamacq did do that. Now that Peel has died & Lamacq has left they replaced them both with some faceless dance DJ & some reject from MTV thus cutting down exposure for new & minority acts down. This happened 3 to 4 years ago and now the result of it is very little of interest getting exposure. You can't cut off 2 of the main ways of getting an audience and expect things to be the same a few years down the line.

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