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NME RETURNS TO NEWSPAPER FORMAT…WITH ITS 2006 FESTIVAL GUIDE
May 24, 2006
NME, the biggest-selling music weekly in the world, is publishing a 2006 festival newspaper The Festival Times which will be free with this week's issue.
The 24-page guide, being produced in a 'Berliner' broadsheet format, is the first newspaper produced under the NME name for nearly twenty years!
The free guide includes everything readers need to know to get the best out of this year's biggest festivals including NME's tips for the 20 “must-see” new bands playing this summer. With Arctic Monkeys being last year's top tip this year's list is a must-have for all new music lovers.
The Festival Guide also features a huge “How To” section featuring summer survival secrets from the stars including festival fashion advice from the New York's Scissor Sisters and 'How To Get F***ed Up' by Primal Scream's Bobby Gilespie.
Extensive listings see NME preview every UK festival – around 70 this year! This section includes interviews with the stars of upcoming festivals – Foo Fighters (Isle of Wight), Arctic Monkeys (Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festivals), Razorlight (V Festival) and Franz Ferdinand (Tea in the Park).
The guide also includes amazing live photo poster pullouts of Red Hot Chili Peppers and ex-Libertine Carl Barat's new band, Dirty Pretty Things.
NME editor Conor McNicholas says: “We wanted to do something unique with this year's Festival Guide and producing a newspaper is a nod to NME's fantastic heritage. We've packed the paper with everything the festival-going fan needs. It's even big enough to keep the rain off if the heavens open!”
NME Festival Times will be bagged with this week's issue of NME, cover dated May 27.
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Notes to editors:
NME is the biggest-selling and most respected music weekly in the world. Every week it gives its readers the most exciting, wittiest, most authoritative coverage of the very best in music.
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