Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Melody Maker - Romo


An astonishingly desperate moment of barrel scraping in the history of British Music Journalism. At pretty much the height of Brit Pop Melody Maker chose to feature a scene they might as well have invented themselves, an apparent attempt to revive the New Romantic movement of the early eighties. Nothing came of it. Seriously, what did they expect? Melody Maker effectively folded less than five years later.



Here's Katie Puckrick at the time offering appropriate scorn.

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