Throughout the decade, Morris wrote about electronic music for the NME, Mixmag, and i-D.

" John Harris wrote in an NME article just prior to the release of Modern Life is Rubbish, " timing has been fortuitously perfect.

NME magazine wrote in 1991, " are acceptable pretty face of a whole clump of bands that have emerged since the whole Manchester thing started to run out of steam.

An early NME article on the band wrote that The Cure " are like a breath of fresh suburban air on the capital's smog-ridden pub-and-club circuit " and noted " With a John Peel session and more extensive London gigging on their immediate agenda, it remains to be seen whether or not The Cure can retain their refreshing joie de vivre.

NME magazine wrote in 1991, " are acceptable pretty face of a whole clump of bands that have emerged since the whole Manchester thing started to run out of steam.

However, this new direction for the NME proved to be a commercial success and the paper brought in new writers such as Andrew Collins, Stuart Maconie, Mary Anne Hobbs and Steve Lamacq to give it a stronger identity and sense of direction, although Mark Sinker left in 1988 after the paper refused to publish a negative review he wrote of U2's Rattle and Hum.

John Mulvey of the NME, the journalist who first wrote about Suede was at the ULU gig.

The British music press spoke positively about the album, with Q giving it four out of five stars calling it " a surprising, playful collection " while the NME wrote that Debut was " an album that believes music can be magical and special.

NME wrote: " it's a rich and unsettling landscape of exotica ".

NME wrote: " Jackson has gone a long way in shaking off the experience of being a shadow Jackson child.

In 1986, Smith wrote the play Hey, Luciani based around the short-lived reign of Pope John Paul I. Smith has also periodically acted as guest contributor to publications including the NME.

In a glowing recommendation, NME staff member Simon Williams wrote " Slowdive have banished the barrier restricting creativity ...

NME reviewer Richard Grabel wrote, " Chronic Town is five songs that spring to life full of immediacy and action and healthy impatience.

Reviewing the show for the NME, Paul Du Noyer wrote:

The origin of the name The Seahorses has been the subject of various conspiracy theories after a pair of NME readers spotted it was an anagram of He Hates Roses, and wrote in to the paper.

Chris Dean wrote for NME magazine under the name X. Moore.

In July 2012, it was revealed in the NME magazine that Wolstenholme wrote and sang two songs on the album The 2nd Law, ' Liquid State ' and ' Save Me '.

NME wrote " Sleighbells, Cuban trumpets, half-inched Smiths lyrics and chasms of lovely echo all add to an insomnia-like reverie that clings on long after its mere half-hour is up.

" Ian Watson of NME wrote: "' The Scientist ' is a song inexorably linked with the endless night sky and the secret hopes and regrets of a hundred thousand strangers.

" Ted Kessler of NME wrote: " Over a pounding garage tattoo Martin poses a deep, mortality-based teaser (' where do we go from here?

NME wrote, “ Unconditional already has the time-worn feel of an indie classic .” The cover was taken from C. Finley ’ s oil on canvas named “ Colab .” “ Unconditional ” received heavy airplay on Radio 1 and XFM London.

Dan Martin of the NME wrote in his album review of Bionic, " Perhaps best of all is ‘ Monday Morning '.

The Music Industry got further behind the CFE when music magazines NME and Melody Maker revealed that members of the NUS wrote to the various artists asking them not to support the CFE in this way.

Peter Robinson of NME wrote, " in the video " Cry Me a River ", you get to see what Justin looks like after he ’ s had sex.

Coxon also stated that no further Blur activity was planned, telling NME. com that September, " We're in touch and we say ' Wotcha ' and all that but nothing has been mentioned about any more shows or anything else ".

In 1992 the NME declared The Cure had during the 1980s become " a goth hit machine ( 19 to date ), an international phenomenon and, yep, the most successful alternative band that ever shuffled disconsolately about the earth ".

However, days later, Melissa Auf der Maur, interviewed in Toronto where she was appearing at the North by Northeast music festival, said she had " no clue " about the band's reported reunion and denied the NME claim she had, or was asked to, contribute vocals to the album or had been asked to tour with the purportedly reunited band saying, " I actually don't know the reunion ... I arrived at music festival in Toronto and I heard that Hole were getting back together from people sending me links ," she said.

The pair rapidly became champions of the Punk scene and created a new tone for the paper ( Parsons ' time at NME is reflected in his 2005 novel Stories We Could Tell, about the misadventures of three young music paper journalists on the night of 16 August 1977, the night Elvis Presley died ).

The NME took to Grunge very slowly (" Sounds " was the first British music paper to write about grunge with John Robb being the first person to interview Nirvana.

The causes of these issues were frequently written about in the gossip columns of the music press of the time, NME, Melody Maker and Sounds.

After seeing the group perform at an NME show in January 1992, Saul Galpern approached the group about signing to his independent record label Nude Records.

In September 1977, the British music magazine, NME reported the following interview with Newman talking about his then-new release.

At the Shockwave NME Awards on 25 February 2009, Barât stated that the pair were still The Libertines, while Doherty admitted that he had tried to " twist arm " about a reformation, before saying " 2010 " for a possible date.

Ure moved to London and soon found himself immersed in a scene he had previously only read about in the pages of the NME.

The British popular music newspaper the New Musical Express ( NME ) carried a series of articles about famous members of bands whose musical contribution to their bandmates ' success was negligible.

Street later said in the NME: " Pete wasn ’ t in a very good state for the first couple of weeks of making the record for the reasons that people know about.

Jon Spencer was asked about this particular performance in a June 2010 issue of the UK music weekly NME:

* Video – Nicky Wire talks to the BBC about the early days of the manics, and receiving the NME Godlike Genius award

He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music.

" However, not everyone was complimentary about the change in musical style, with Robert Christgau of The Village Voice stating " If you thought they were bad when they were cute, or even that they were cute when they were good, believe me, you don't want to hear them mature ," and NME with the even harsher verdict: " But damn those cruel hormones – Hanson's collective balls have MmmDropped, and the giddy rush of adolescence seeks to mutate Mercury's finest investment into a trio of crack-voiced hulks.

In 1991, Half a Cow released the single Don't Want To Be Grant McLennan by Smudge ( about Go-Betweens co-founder Grant McLennan ), which was an indie hit, and single of the week in music magazine NME

* NME article about Bez v Dom Boxing match

Jamie Wednesday are responsible for the name of the band Pop Will Eat Itself, when an article about Jamie Wednesday in the NME, written by David Quantick, mentioned that pop music is ever-recycling its ideas and that eventually, ' pop will eat itself '.

It was released about a month after its two members Marc Almond and David Ball announced their breakup in a letter to various music magazines, including Melody Maker and NME, in the UK.

The NME Originals is a collection of magazine articles and reviews from the NME and Melody Maker magazines about one band or genre.