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Comment on Nicky Campbell lol by Robin Brown

Robin Brown — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:52:13 +0000

ROFL

Comment on Nicky Campbell lol by Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:53:29 +0000

Hey David, I suggested he follow more people on Twitter – he was just following 34 – in the interests of seeing a window on a big wide world. Now he’s following @marpleleaf

We’re big fans of the breakfast show – I think he’s alright.

Comment on Whatever happened to The Devil Wears Primark? by adam

adam — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:40:55 +0000

thank god some one is asking the same question as me! I really wanted to watch this as im doing my dissertation on primark and sweatshops. I understand that the programme was originally pulled because it showed staff faces so primark mange to get it gagged till they ghose the faces out. But channel 4 still aint showing it!!!

Comment on Madchester deniers by Fat Roland

Fat Roland — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:14:19 +0000

Autechre, indeed.

Apparently the whole club smelled of fresh paint. They must have rushed to get it open.

Oh and you *totally* stole “Madchester deniers” from my brain. I was going to give my post that title, but I logged onto the tinternet only to discover you’d beaten me to it. Very bizarre coincidence. Great minds and all that…

Comment on Madchester deniers by Cookie

Cookie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:37:12 +0000

Spot on. Looking forward to the over-the-top, name-dropping, fawning review in a certain web-based magazine. My spies tell me a certain portly ‘publisher’ attended the opening party. Can’t wait

Comment on Madchester deniers by Kate Feld

Kate Feld — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:56:38 +0000

Ha, you’ve written the blog post I was going to write pretty much down to the letter. I can now simply point people to it and say yeah, what he said.

A friend forwarded me on the press release for the club’s big launch night and it had that quote on it from Tony Wilson: “This is Manchester… we do things differently here.” If only. We don’t do things differently at all, we just keep doing the same thing over and over and over.

Comment on Madchester deniers by Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:15:05 +0000

Presumably the end result of this is a music scene bereft of originality – certain Delphic’s “positioning” has fallen foul of this.

But how does any of this explain (or excuse) the success of Elbow and Doves? Just a thought. Not close enough to any scene to actually know the answer, by the way.

Comment on Manchester Confidential unveils paywall content and nauseating redesign by Cookie

Cookie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:25:58 +0000

I just received yet another e-mail from ManCon, telling me of exclusive offers at a couple of restaurants; heroes and friends to have first refusal for bookings. I managed to book both restaurants, stopping short of entering CC details. I am not a friend, or a hero but if I was I’d be pissed off at having paid £10 per month for access to ‘exclusive’ offers which are clearly available to all

Comment on Manchester Confidential unveils paywall content and nauseating redesign by John Mcr

John Mcr — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:24:49 +0000

I enjoy(ed) ManCon for what it was worth, a fleeting visit for a review or to see some offers… nothing more and nothing worth paying for. But I have used them in the past for advertising and last week I was sat with some marketing people who use ManCon a lot for advertising and this paywall has made them seriously consider whether it is worth putting money into them anymore. When you cull your readership like they have done into something more exclusive you really are putting off a lot of advertisers as the bottom line is there are many other mediums you can put your budget into.

Hats off for them to have the balls to try it but judging by how many emails they were sending over Christmas begging for people to join and the fact they have raised only 60k shows that its not such a big money making idea.

Comment on Manchester Confidential unveils paywall content and nauseating redesign by Kid Disco

Kid Disco — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:16:22 +0000

On a personal basis, probably not. But what if they decided to charge corporates for access; would companies pay for their group/fan pages? – I think they would.

Why so? Because there’s value in having them and it’s worth paying for. I actually read what the Heroes get (unlike most) and it’s not just content. There’s a bunch of restaurants I’ll get 20% off in whenever I visit which is great, and a few other discounts. The 20% got me, see I dine out quite a lot, and 20% off is worth at least £20 a meal to me, maybe a £100 extra in my pocket each month. I like the sound of that.

Seems worth it to me.