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	NME - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In December 2005 accusations were made that the NME end of year poll had been edited for commercial and political reasons.
		[4] These criticisms were rebutted by McNicholas, who claimed that webzine Londonist.com had got hold of an early draft of the poll.
		These accusations have not affected the sales of the paper or stopped McNicholas from winning industry awards.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/NME (3037 words)

	Press Gazette - UK Journalism News and Journalism Jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But McNicholas claims the title is now relevant to the British music scene in a way that it hasn't been since the mid-90s Britpop era, when it managed to hit a peak readership of well over 100,000 despite the competing presence of its now-defunct sister title, Melody Maker.
		It was also, according to McNicholas, who freelanced on the newsdesk there briefly in the late 90s, "not a happy place", with a demoralised staff who didn't even bother to play music in the office.
		Back in 1994, Conor McNicholas was just another music fan, a philosophy student at Manchester University, reading both NME and Melody Maker from cover to cover every Wednesday, DJing at a local indie night and trying to get the student paper to give him a job.
	www.pressgazette.co.uk /article/020605/the_moment_you (1391 words)

	Conor McNicolas (Muzik & NME); Why UK Super Clubs Are Struggling :: TranZfusion.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Conor McNicholas (Muzik/NME): “The dance industry has experienced a bit of a dip recently, which has been a real pig for everyone but it's not like it hasn't happened before.
		Conor McNicholas: “Pop-commercial trance peaked in the summer of 2000.
		Conor McNicholas: “ If he did say that (and I only have your word for it, because it seems like a very strange thing to do) then he's very badly mistaken (Skrufff: he did, in DJ Magazine).
	www.tranzfusion.net /articles/shownews.asp?newsid=1335 (749 words)

	Time Warner - Newsroom - Print This
		And to make it an even better night for IPC Media, NME's Conor McNicholas was named as Editor of the Year in the Entertainment Magazines category — his second major industry award of the year.
		Conor's BSME award comes hot on the heels of his win at this years PPA Awards in May, where he was named Consumer Editor of the Year.
		NME publishing director Eric Fuller says: "Conor's win as PPA Editor of the Year in May was brilliant, but scooping the BSME and doing the double in one year is off the scale.
	www.timewarner.com /corp/print/0,20858,1136150,00.html (385 words)

	Conor McNicholas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conor McNicholas is the editor of IPC-run music magazine The New Musical Express, better known as the NME.
		McNicholas used to write for the dance press holding senior positions at both Ministry and Mixmag magazines before going on to edit Muzik shortly before the magazine's collapse.
		McNicholas is also the unsuspecting victim of rabid, irrational hatred.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conor_McNicholas (144 words)

	PPA \| News
		This year’s PTC editorial masterclass was in a new interactive format where, for the first time, student delegates drove the direction of the debate in an open question and answer format.
		McNicholas, PPA editor of the year 2005, urged the students to do something that stands out,: “There’s a lot of luck involved, but ultimately you make your own luck.” This was an argument echoed by Michael Harvey who stressed that “there are opportunities out there.”
		McNicholas said that he looked at every page of NME and worked out what price he thought each page was worth to the reader.
	www.ppa.co.uk /cgi-bin/go.pl/news/article.html?uid=10427 (374 words)

	A New Breed Of Rock Star - Quietly Christian
		Some argue that it is a personal decision while others feel that those in the public eye are missing an opportunity to make Christianity more credible among young people, and believe that bands are gagged by their management.
		The NME editor, Conor McNicholas, believes there is a simple reason why rock stars don't talk about their faith: "The problem with religion is it's never cool.
		Mr McNicholas reveals that the Killers' lead singer is another upcoming star committed to his faith but not keen to talk about it.
	www.rense.com /general62/breed.htm (1156 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| Disco drug use increases
		And as users search for different experiences - Ketamine, nicknamed "Special K" - which first became popular in the US - is now making a small but increasing appearance.
		Conor McNicholas, News Editor of Mixmag says: "It's not getting out of hand by any stretch but more and more people are experimenting with it and I think it's being brought over here simply because it is something new."
		Ketamine is a prescription drug used as an anaesthetic in human and animal surgery - those that take it as a recreational drug inject or swallow this liquid or evaporate it into powder or tablets.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/744067.stm (650 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Media
		Conor McNicholas: NME's editor has the best seat in the house
		You can't really complain if you're the editor of the 'NME', and Conor McNicholas wouldn't dream of doing so.
		Conor McNicholas is tired, though he isn't complaining.
	news.independent.co.uk /media/article296541.ece (327 words)

	Arctic Monkeys look good at NME Awards as double triumph outshines Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Conor McNicholas, the editor of NME magazine, said the band deserved their success but admitted he was surprised that his readers - who decide all winners - had chosen the Monkeys as best band given competition from Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and Oasis.
		The Monkeys' success might be considered to be at the expense of the Kaiser Chiefs, who secured only the best album prize for Employment despite arecord-breaking six nominations.
		Long Blondes, another band whose stylish female members claim to have fallen upon each other on the dance floor while at university in Sheffield, were tipped for success with the Philip Hall radar award, while Gorillaz secured the award for innovation named after the late BBC D J John Peel.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060224/ai_n16178037 (705 words)

	NME Chief Sides With Satan :: TranZfusion.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		NME's editor Conor McNicholas launched a shamelessly wicked crusade against God-fearing music makers this week, telling the Guardian "the problem with religion is it's never cool'.
		McNicholas' evil comments appeared in a feature examining the rise of "quietly Christian' artists like R&B crooners Daniel and Natasha Bedingfield and matched the kind of treatment that born-again dance don Moby had to endure during the early part of his career.
		The famously puritanical producer was ridiculed relentlessly until Play turned him into a massive pop star 1999, at which point both the media and Moby radically reconsidered their positions.
	www.tranzfusion.net /articles/shownews.asp?newsid=4925 (316 words)

	Sony Radio Academy Awards \| the judges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Conor McNicholas is Editor of NME, a position he has held for three and a half years.
		He has also worked on internet mags, videogame mags, worked in videogames PR and has regularly appeared on national TV and radio.
		In 2005 Conor won both the PPA Consumer Magazine Editor of the Year Award and the BSME Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year Award for his work on NME.
	www.radioawards.org /judges/c.mcnicholas.htm (139 words)

	NME.COM - News - INTERVIEW NME EDITOR CONOR MCNICHOLAS IN THE NME LOUNGE! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the week the NME AWARDS take place, NME editor CONOR McNICHOLAS will be dropping into the NME LOUNGE tomorrow (February 10), giving you the chance to quiz him.
		The man himself will be in a live text chat from 4pm tomorrow, and we need you to send in your questions.
		So whether its about the Awards shows, the tour, or even who HE thinks should win at this year's ceremony, he'll be on hand to tell you exactly what he thinks.
	www.nme.com /news/107467.htm (375 words)

	www.myspace.com/conormcnicholas
		Well Mr McNicholas, you have got to hook us up with a slot playing that show when club NME Chicago launches!
		Ay up Conor, we are playing London on Sat Nov 11th at the Archway Tavern, we are on at 11.30pm if you wanna check us out.
		Hey Conor McNicholas, hope you are well and we'd love to see you down at one of our gigs.
	www.myspace.com /conormcnicholas (1402 words)

	`Real music lovers' give Radiohead a shot at five awards Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But close behind are the surprise stars of 2003, the Darkness, also in the battle for best single and best video against the Detroit duo the White Stripes.
		The shortlists were announced by Conor McNicholas, the magazine's editor, based on more than 25,000 votes by NME readers.
		He said the magazine offers the only music award to be nominated by real music lovers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200401/ai_n9689942 (482 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International
		The American star, heart-throb to millions of teenage fans, has won both critical and pop chart acclaim for his album Justified and is now in line for four top prizes at tomorrow night’s MTV Europe Awards.
		“What Justin has managed to do is have the Holy Grail of maintaining credibility and cool but also have a massive crossover album,” said Conor McNicholas, editor of NME (New Musical Express).
		“If he doesn’t walk out laden down with awards, there is something wrong,” McNicholas said.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031106/asp/foreign/story_2540779.asp (401 words)

	Sound Bites: NME Best of 2005 Controversy!
		Londonist claims claims that the published list of Best Albums has been doctored by NME higher-ups (EIC Conor McNicholas is implied but not named), and that it differs wildly from "real" list they had gotten their hands on previously.
		That said, NME has gone steadily downhill since Conor McNicholas took over as Editor in Chief in the early '00s and turned it into a much more generic rock mag.
		Someone claiming to be McNicholas in the Londist post's comments responds to the article.
	soundbites.typepad.com /soundbites/2005/11/nme_best_of_200.html (644 words)

	Pierre J. Mejlak's Blog: Glum rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Then there's Keane, Snow Patrol, Embrace and Athlete, whose latest album should by now be sizzling in my hi-fi.
		NME editor Conor McNicholas said that imitation is the inevitable result of Coldplay's runaway commercial success.
		Call it empty rhetoric with a vague recurring motif of being done wrong by ladies.
	www.maltamedia.net /pjm/2005/05/glum-rock.shtml (434 words)

	TrusttheDJ - SKRUFFF NEWS :: News
		DJ Magazine launched a ferocious attack on New Musical Express editor Conor McNicholas this week accusing the former Muzik and Mixmag writer of bandwagon (genre) jumping.
		DJ was apparently enraged by comments Conor made about dance music dying because it lacked the ‘meaning’ of soft rock bands like Coldplay, though the former Muzik editor’s pronouncements increasingly appear to be ironic jokes.
		Making his name initially by championing then trying to kill progressive house during his Muzik days, he next plugged hopeless Toff rockers The Strokes going on to eulogise Robbie Williams equivalent Justin Timberlake last November, by placing him top of NME’s ‘Cool List for 2003' (ahead of The Strokes and Christine Aguilera).
	www.trustthedj.com /SKRUFFF/news_article.php?news_id=2962 (323 words)

	GIGWISE.com \| Music Forum - the adventures of conor mcnicholas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Music Forum - the adventures of conor mcnicholas
		The NME was good when it had decent writers given a certain amount of freedom.
		The championing of mediaocre bands that look cool of course.
	www.gigwise.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=45442 (73 words)

	Clubland Crisis: Mix Mag, Muzik & DJ Editors Blame Nu Metal :: TranZfusion.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The rising popularity of nu metal is causing more problems for dance labels than giveaway CDs on magazines, according to three of the editor’s of Britain’s leading dance titles Mix Mag, Muzik and DJ Magazine.
		The situation is part of a bigger picture where the market is flooded with compilations,” said DJ magazine’s chief Lesley Wright.
		Dance music has become mainstream, the new generation are more interested in nu-metal than some boring old DJ,” she added.
	www.tranzfusion.com /articles/shownews.asp?newsid=1381 (469 words)

	Hip Hop Didn't Stop And Now It's Taking Over; Is Hip Hop the New Blues?
		Meanwhile Rapper 50 Cent's most recent album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', was the fastest-selling debut album ever, with a little less than a million records sold in its first week of release.
		"[Hip hop's] influence is all over the place now," says Conor McNicholas, editor of NME.
		Hollywood films these days don't look fully cast without at least one rapper among the actors, and products from trainers to soft drinks are marketed by hip hop stars - a Jay-Z edition of some 10,000 pairs of Reeboks sold out in hours last month.
	news.modernrock.com /2180 (741 words)

	:: ak13 :: Post-Petridis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From the resurgence in live rock gigs to the supposed death of dance music, 2004 saw passions fly in the international music scene and there is nothing like a fight to get sales going.
		In one corner, there was Alexis Petridis at the Guardian saying dance music was dead, and, in the other corner, DJ mag threw punches at the likes of Petridis and NME’s Connor McNicholas for being “scabs”:
		"Just like that other turd Conor McNicholas, you [Petridis] seem to take great pleasure in pissing over a culture that helped launch your career in journalism.
	www.ak13.com /article.php?id=280 (953 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Legalise Heroin, Says Former Police Chief
		The 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act had created a form of "pyramid selling" whereby users sold drugs to their friends and smoked the profits, thus spreading it rapidly through towns and villages as well as big cities.
		In contrast to witnesses who spoke of the hopelessness of heroin addicts, often victims of poverty abuse and unresolved bereavement, Conor McNicholas, editor of Muzik Magazine, said ecstasy and its successors among designer drugs are being used by "very bright, very able, young consumers" in the dance culture of contemporary Britain.
		They know what they want when clubbing and how to offset the side effects - "they treat their bodies as chemistry sets," said Mr McNicholas.
	cannabisnews.com /news/11/thread11278.shtml (1170 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| The taste-makers
		Nevertheless, he has reversed NME's post-Britpop decline, and cemented its reputation as the most influential UK magazine for breaking new guitar bands - via its pages and the annual NME Brats package tour - Razorlight, Kasabian, the Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers among them.
		"It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy," McNicholas says, "we're really great at picking bands that go on to be big, but if we didn't pick them in the first place, they wouldn't go on to be big."
		While he has a clear idea of who his ideal reader is - "There's a big sofa supermarket by Doncaster train station.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /filmandmusic/story/0,16373,1580828,00.html (2201 words)

	My MP3.TV - News
		The NME Awards, one of the biggest award ceremonies in the UK music calendar took place Thursday night in London.
		NME editor Conor McNicholas said of the awards, voted for by music lovers: "2004 was an amazing year for British music, 2005 is going to be even better."
		The winners in the other categories as voted for by NME readers included:
	www.mp3.tv /articles/article_popup_with_history.php?id=1094 (97 words)

	stereogum: Dylan, Ninja, Kanye Appear On List Together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The site claimed to have seen evidence that NME's list of the top 50 albums of the year had been doctored, with less commercial stuff slipping down/off the list to make way for Oasis and Babyshambles.
		Then the real fun began: NME's editor, Conor McNicholas, joined the discussion, claiming bloggers are "highly subjective" and have no claims whatsoever to the "code of journalistic conduct." It then degenerated into a musical Watergate, with people weighing on the merits of protecting unnamed sources.
		If you missed Londonist pretty much said "NME may have chosen to publish a doctored version of the aforementioned poll." I would have expected editorial control but to have Connor McNicholas mouth of about blogs and journalistic integrity made me resent his awful excuse for a music magazine even more.
	www.stereogum.com /archives/002137.html (1088 words)

	Secular Blasphemy
		He now faces fierce criticism for failing to understand that music reflects society, it does not create it.
		However, furthest went Conor McNicholas, editor of New Musical Express, who called the statement "deeply racist."
		I don't know who is the biggest idiot here.
	blogs.salon.com /0001561/2003/01/06.html (1363 words)

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