"Women are making inroads in pop"

Od 1. września redaktorem naczelnym NME będzie Krissi Murison. Nic w tym dziwnego, poza tym że to pierwsza kobieta na tym stanowisku w 57-letniej historii tygodnika.

Na stronie guardiana pojawił się w związku z tym artykuł o kobietach w branży muzycznej, warty przeczytania choćby ze względu na symptomatyczną anegdotę na we wstępie:

"Camden, north London, 1993. Hundreds of people were thronging the streets, streaming past rows of brightly painted buildings, buying food from market stalls by the canal and bartering with traders.

Sitting in a noisy pub, Louise Wener, the lead singer of a then little-known band called Sleeper, clutched a pint and waited excitedly for a journalist to arrive. "It was our first interview with NME," she recalls. "This guy walked in with a big jacket - I remember he was bald. He sat down at the table, took one look at me and then turned to speak to the other guys. I was the main singer and writing the songs, but he did not ask me a single question.""

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