Subject: Re: (15/8/98) Issue!!! Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:28:55 +0100 From: "Old Fart!!!" Organization: Senior Dads To: your_shout@ipc.co.uk Dear Melody Maker.... Bllleeeuurrghaaarrgghh!!! That was me just reading Melody Maker Aug 15 1998!!! I had a very nice lunch at the cafe down the road, and I've now just lost it due to the insensitivity of your photo editors in assembling the most unnerving collection of "images" ever seen in a single publication!!!!! Including: * A reject from "Grange Hill" on the front cover!! * The Manic Street Preachers apparently suffering from hay fever!! * Ewan MacGregor in a "70's" style- presumably a Martian 70's style!!! * Martin Rossiter of Gene wearing earmuffs after an argument with a lawnmower!!! * Some incredibly smug looking Jazz Club type, who turns out to be Michael Wells, formerly of Technohead and "I Wanna Be A Hippy" fame!!! (Nurse!!) * Gorky's Zygotic Minic, who need a trip to the chiropodists as well as the hairdressers!!! * Flick- the pic even had a space for a "Holly's Crap Snap" logo to go on it!!! * Huey from Fine Young Criminals- just add a sweatband and he's Mark Knopfler!!! * Puressence- when kids are taking the piddle out of you in your own flippin' photo, you know something's wrong!!!! * And finally, how on earth did you get such a bad piccy of the Beach Boys!??! They look like a flippin' 70s folk band- there's even a dog in the pic!!! Was this a complex ruse to make the Mansun photos look reasonable by comparision!??! If so, it's succeeded!!! But only by turning MM into the rock music journalism equivalent of "Saving Private Ryan"!!!!!! Like the Kylie song, I'm "Shocked"!!!!!!!! Yours blah blah, Old Fart! -- =Old Fart of the SENIOR DADS!!! **** =http://seniordads.home.ml.org/ ** ** /----------------\ ******* |If it's TOO OLD,| * * * |You're TOO LOUD!| * * \----------------/ ** * \-------------- ****** (No, we're not a musical group!!)