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...so my time at nme came to an end

And this makes me very sad (as I have repeated on my facebook status many a time).

My last day was fantastic, a great end to a great experience. I had a meeting with NME.COM's editor, David Moynihan, and i'll tell you what, this guy knows what he's talking about. He studied something random like ancient history at uni...he didn't study journalism! But he's gone on to work for FHM, Uncut and NME...now that's a CV for you.

Talking of CVs, during the meeting I asked him for some tips on creating an impressive media one and he told me exactly what companies like NME look for. He also gave me some great advice on how to become a successful journalist:

Write a blog. About anything. If you want to work in the media and have a blog, put it on your CV.
Get on twitter. For no particular reason, mainly because most journos are on there now and it's a great way to keep up-to-date with, well, everything and everyone.
Write your ass off and have the confidence and determination to send it everywhere.
Be cutting edge with your writing - look around for the different styles of writing and try your hand at them. See which style suits you best - don't just try to write like an NME journalist if you're obviously not.
Write for the student paper (okay I should probably look into this).
On the CV front - keep it to one page only and don't worry about putting all your education info (even if it is highly impressive) and past jobs on there if it isn't relative to the job you're going for. Employers don't care if you're "a highly interactive and friendly individual because you worked in a bar" (a quote from David himself) - it's just ridiculous waffle they can spot a mile off...
And basically get out there and experience life as much as possible, whether it be going to gigs, the cinema or just going to the pub, and you'll always have something to write about.

So hope that helps everyone - I know it helped me a lot.

David and the team at NME were "very impressed" with my work, YAY! He said that they would love to have me back, to keep in touch and let them know when I can come back to London! As I did this work placement for a module for uni, I had to ask him to complete a form for my tutor...basically just grading me on my work there...and I got 5 out of 5 for everything! He even said "maybe I should put 4 for something so it doesn't look like you did so well, but I can't find anything to put it against!" CHUFFED isn't the word.

I hope to go back over Summer, or whenever I can find somewhere to stay in London!

And I hope that this blog has been of some help and interest to the people reading it - I will be carrying it on and sticking up my general ramblings about, well, anything! So I hope you all continue reading...Oh and my last bit of celeb spotting during my time in London was bumping into Jimmi from Doves in the NME canteen and sitting opposite Matt from Teachers on the tube.

Goodtimes.

Over and out from NME.

...so here's the Rockarchive Gallery

HERE's the link to the photo gallery I captioned yesterday.

What a couple...i'm so glad I don't do drugs.

...so I did a video blog today AND I HAVE A BYLINE!!!

Okay so i'm very excited to announce that I have my first byline on NME.COM.

I was asked yesterday to have a gander online for some new music videos that could contribute to a blog - little did I know that this morning I would be writing and uploading this blog myself!

For the non-journos of you reading this, a byline is basically your name on a piece of published work...and to get one on NME is a pretty big thing for me, so i'm well happy!

Please, please, please go take a look at it now and leave lots of lovely comments about how amazing the post is (even if you don't like it...I actually think the video choices are pretty good, but then I chose them). READ IT HERE NOW and I will be eternally grateful!

This afternoon then consisted mainly of captioning photos of The Clash and Sid & Nancy - which should be up tomorrow, so I shall put the link up then.

I also got an email from the uber-cool David Moynihan (NME.COM's editor) asking if we could have a meeting tomorrow as it's my last day, to go over any questions etc I have.

Then, before I left the office I had a lovely 'pre-meeting' chat with him. Apparantly I've impressed him and his team and he'd like to discuss how he can help me with writing opportunities and where I can go from here...or something along those lines. I'm very scared but very excited, I just hope I get the opportunity to go back soon for more work experience!

It's my last day tomorrow - this saddens me :(

Over and out.

...as promised

HERE's a link to this week's NME photogallery, captioned by yours truly.

Phwoar (STARDEATH AND WHITE DWARFS)

Double Phwoar (CALEB FOLLOWILL - do I post too many pictures of him?)

Check back later for today's update.

Over and out.

...so it's almost quiz time

Sorry I didn't get around to posting yesterday...the uni deadline is upon us so I was working like a trooper (whilst being distracted by the likes of Hollyoaks and the Sex Education Show).

Okay, so the day started off with the usual scouring for festival news and line-ups to put on the website...not much to report on that side of things. However, it has now been confirmed that Reading and Leeds 09 has SOLD OUT. Ouch. Read the NME story HERE.

I was then asked to write this week's NME.COM quiz so remember to test your music knowledge against mine (okay i wasn't timed and could look around the website...) tomorrow, when it goes live HERE.

I then had to research for a forthcoming piece 'The Worst Ever Album Titles', on the back of deputy editor Luke Lewis' blog post titled 'The Most Ludicrously Overblown Album Titles Of All Time', which you can read HERE.

Here's some I found:

Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. Now i'm known to be a fan of squashing words together to be that little bit 'cooler' but this is just ridiculous. Even if the words had spaces between them, it still wouldn't make sense.
George Clinton - Hey Man Smell My Finger. That's just wrong.
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That. Prententious much? And no, we still don't know or care who you are.

I shall post a link to it when it's online.

And that was pretty much my day. Oh apart from listening to Buick McKane's 'Quentin Device' non-stop. This song gets me as excited as I was when I first heard Arctic Monkey's 'Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'.

Sadly the track isn't yet on their Myspace - I got it through a PR company I sometimes do reviews for so will stick the review up as soon as. In the meantime, check out their Myspace and listen to their still good but less impressive 'Systematic Anomaly'.

Over and Out.

...so today was all about this week's new issue

Following on from my earlier blog, here's an update on what I got upto today at NME.

It wasn't the most productive day I have at the website but I was of some use all the same.

After yesterday's buzz about the Reading and Leeds fest line-up announcement, I was asked to update the website with the new info, which didn't take too long. The most annoying thing about the CMA system is that I have to delete all of last year's previous line-ups before I can add the new ones. Because a lot of the dates were defaulted to running from 2008 to 2012, the system can take a ridiculous amount of time to load each day within this time frame before I can start deleting bands....which often results in the system crashing. Oh how I have come to hate Firefox!

But you get over it. And eventually I got the new line-up online - so take a look on the festival section of NME.COM now.

After this I then had to go through this week's issue of NME and write summary captions and quotes to accomany a photogallery, due to go live on Thursday, including the Kings Of Leon cover pic (swoonin'ell), the Shellac does ATP feature and Super Furry Animals' 'What Rock'nRoll Taught Us'.

I'll post the link to the gallery when it's online :)

I should be taking some pics of the offices to put up this week so watch this space...

Over and out.

...so in this week's NME you will find

Wow.

A world exclusive interview with the astoundingly beautiful Caleb Followill - talking about his feelings on headling Reading/Leeds fest this year and the new stuff Kings Of Leon have been writing...oooh, exciting stuff!

Melvin Benn, a happy chappy.

Reading/Leeds festival organiser, Melvin Benn, speaks exclusively to NME about the possibility of moving the main stage at Reading to a new location to overcome the sound restrictions that affected Bloc Party amongst others last year. He's also confirmed that gas canisters are BANNED from the sites this year and over-18 wristbands will be issued upon entrance for those buying alcohol.

Stardeath and White Dwarfs - my new favourite band

A SXSW 2009 music special - 11 bands including (one of my favs) Passion Pit and the intensely brilliant hillbillies Stardeath and White Dwarfs - seriously, listen to 'I Can't Get Away' on their Myspace NOW. I've played it about 17 times already today :)

Art Brut - too much hype and too little talent?

A seance with Art Brut - just take a look, it's not as interesting as it sounds, but then again i'm not their biggest fan.

There's also the usual album and live reviews as well as lots of other little tit-bits. So yeah, I'd buy it.

Over and out.

...so today was busy busy busy

I went in today expecting a lazy day updating festivals but oh how I was wrong.

The day did start out like this - updating, browsing for news, more updating...for about half an hour until I got an email from my deputy editor giving me the Reading and Leeds festival line-up and asking me to write captions for the website, detailing who, where and when.

Shelly loves Matt Tong <3

The office was buzzing with the news of the line-up. A lot of bitching and moaning balanced out with a lot more excitement. We even got a second play of Bloc Party's Remixed album (which I am totally in love with and would like played at my wedding) in support of their main stage slot. I can't help but feel a mixture of pride and pity for Bloc Party. Proud of the fact that this will be their fifth year at my favourite festival but pity that they still haven't grabbed that headliner status. It's a damn shame. They have been the highlight of every festival I have had the pleasure of seeing them play and I have no doubt that they will uphold that place in my heart this year too.

Here they are performing 'Banquet' on David Letterman's show...ahhhh

Before I got into writing the captions I was asked by Monica (who I believe is the picture editor at the website) to put the past two weeks' album reviews onto the CMA system, which would later go onto the website.

Now this task seemed pretty simple. I had to do the following:

Open the album sleeve picture in photoshop, change the colour format to RGB something or other, and re-size the picture to 300(w) by 184(h) in pixels
Upload the image to CMA version 2
Crop the image to thumbnail size
Upload the picture to the correct review in CMA version 1

Phew. I rattled through these for the last two issues of NME until I realised that the majority of last weeks' issues' reviews hadn't even been uploaded to the system! So I then had to create the reviews, create a load of artists etc...it was very boring and very long...but it needed to be done.

Whilst doing this I came across a MAJOR error on NME's part. If you have last week's issue, take a look. Basically they have used Swan Lake's 'Enemy Mine' album cover (page 42) for State Broacasters' 'The Ship & The Iceberg' (page 45) - oh dear. They weren't too happy when I pointed that out I can tell you.

Soooo that was my day. Oh and I totally forgot - Doves are in on Friday, not today!

Please have a quick vote on my poll to the right...I want to know what you think!

Over and out.

...so the end of my second week went like this

Sorry I've taken so long to update this!

Okay so last week I spent muchos of my time at NME uploading the festival info I gathered at the start of my first week (see previous blog posts)...

Wednesday

I spent most of the day being excited about going to the Instigate Debate at Boogaloo that evening.

My first task (as I haven't had to dish out post this week - apparantly I 'know' where everyone sits now. hmm) was to write about the four bands to perform at the NME Radar Tour in April/May this year - La Roux, Heartbreak, Magistrates and The Chapman Family - all of whom I am not terribly fond.

Take a look at the profiles and tour page HERE.

I then basically started the festival uploading. NME.COM are using a new content management system called CMA (version 3) - as I haven't had much experience using their previous systems, I found it relatively easy to get used to, despite it being the SLOWEST system I have ever used in my life. It's lucky my laptop is ridiculously slow and I'm used to being patient with it, otherwise I may have thrown their computer across the room...it's that slow.

Anyway so after work I went to the Instigate Debate with the rest of the 'workies', where the promise of eyeing Carl Barratt, amongst others was on the cards.

Alas we were faced with Ken Livingstone, X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene and Reverend and the Makers' Laura Manuel instead - not that this was a bad thing...just not the eye-candy I was hoping for to numb the pain of having to endure a two-hour debate about topics like war, the media, inequality and a LOT of politics. It was not the evening I had hoped for at all.

After what seemed like a lifetime the debate finally ended and we escaped out the back. We kind of missed the first performance (don't know who he was) and Get Cape. Wear Cape's too - but we caught Fionn Regan's set. It was amazing. He was amazing.

I have never before in my life seen hair that big on a man.

Anyway, after his set we kind of bumped into him (our intention was to pop over and speak to Get Cape's Sam) and had a lovely chat about how he got started, what his home was like...I think I even asked him about his volumous hair. A fantastic end to an otherwise dull evening.

Thursday and Friday

The rest of the week was literally spent uploading the festivals onto NME.COM's website. That's it.

Oh the Green Day photo gallery I wrote earlier this week is now up. Please have a gander HERE. Thank you :)

Last week next week...I never want to leaveeee.

Over and out.

...so today was all about Green Day (dear god)

A short one tonight...mega tired!

Right, so after a loooong night researching for 'The songs they tried to ban' and updating NME.COM's confusing picture system CMS, I uploaded the captions to the website this morning.

Take a look at them HERE.

After flicking through this week's issue of NME (teehee we get it a day early), I was then asked to research and write for a new gallery '30 Things You Never Knew About Green Day'. I found some pretty interesting stuff - here's a few for you:

The drummer Tres Cool went to clown school before joining the band. He also only has one testicle after a unicycle accident. Ouch.

The band started riots at their set at Woodstock 1994, during which the bouncers mistook bassist Dirnt for a stage-invading fan and knocked his teeth out!

Singer Billie Joe had the nickname 'Two Dollar Bill' in high school for selling spliffs to fellow students at the bargainous price of, you got it, $2!

It's not online yet but I will post it as soon as. And that's what I did today.

Doves are in the NME Radio studio next week - will try and sneak a peek!

Going to the Instigate Debate tomorrow night - cannee wait! Carl Barratt, Babyshambles' Drew McConnell, and John 'Reverend' McClure are playing an intimate gig at London's Boogaloo, as well as Get Cape Wear Cape and Fionn Regan...so yeah, that's gonna be sweet!

Over and out.

...the start of week two at NME goes like this

Okay so this morning I was set more photo captioning - I think this is basically my job there now! I don't mind, it's quite fun.

PJ Harvey at SXSW 09 - what a beaut...(no, that is not the caption I wrote for this one!)

As South By Southwest fest 2009 has now ended, there were a fair few pics to be captioned, including Metallica's 'secret' gig there and backstage with Johnny Borrell and LOTP - oh how I long to have been there for all the chaos in the Texan sun...

Johnny Borrell (with his top on for a change...) backstage at SXSW with LOTP's synth master Sam

Take a look at the full gallery HERE.

After this, my next job was to write biogs for the four bands playing the NME Radar Tour, kicking off at the end of April - La Roux, The Chapman Family, Heartbreak and Magistrates. Can't say I'm a fan of any of these acts but meh I'd have a wiggle to em. The biogs aren't on the website yet, so I will post the link on here as soon as it goes up for you lovely readers.

Now, onto the more exciting stuff!

BBC3 were in the office all day sticking cameras in everyone's face. They were filming for a documentary 'How to be a music journalist' - interviewing editors and writers alike. It was quite nerve-wracking...I was trying to ignore the camera in my eyeball whilst writing the biogs and attempting to look all cool and 'wordy'...when I was really concentrating on not laughing and looking incredibly STUPID. I think it worked...

Not sure when this documentary is going on TV...no-one really knew. As soon as I know, you will know.

And then another dream of mine came true...meeting the wonderfully witty (and beautiful...i'm not gonna lie) ALEX ZANE!!!

Yes girls, he is even more stunning in the flesh, and full of banter about being a "very unfulfilling lover" (after getting a marriage proposal from fellow 'workie' Charli) and his passion for the awful J-Lo rom-com 'Maid in Manhattan' - he's seen it 5 times, oh dear.

I'm now doing overtime - gotta caption some more pics for a forthcoming gallery 'The songs they tried to ban' - watch this space.

Over and out.

....so Metric blew me away today

So this morning I went in with an evil plan. Well, not so much evil...or a plan. More of a wish, and that wish came true!

I got into the office and was assigned more picture captioning. I'm getting the hang of this. It's also a great way to find out more about bands I don't really like or follow.

As you all (should) know, the festival of the mo is most definitely South By Southwest, held in Austin, Texas. A festival I would literally sell my soul to go to. Jamie Fullerton, NME's assistant news editor, has been avidly covering SXSW (follow him on Twitter for all the goss) and I basically had to caption the pictures sent over by his photographers. Take a look at them HERE.

I then cheekily asked the lovely Carol if she could sort out me going down to NME Radio and watch Metric perform live in the studio....which she managed!

Apparantly, a couple of weeks ago, when Little Boots did a live session for NME Radio, one of the work experience students got the chance to watch her live...and then 'harassed' poor Victoria Hesketh. So they now tend not to let students down there but Carol assured them I was a nice girl and would not try to maul Metric.

Soooo off I went down to the studio and kind of sat there for a while, eagerly awaiting my first glimpse of the beautiful Emily Haines, whilst being forced to listen to some awful Duran Duran sounding noise on air at the time. And then in she came with guitarist Jimmy Shaw. Wow. A pair of beauties, I tell ya.

After an interview with host Neil Cole, they then performed a heavenly acoustic version of 'Gimme Sympathy', which, no word of a lie, silenced everyone in the studio. It was surreal to see all these important radio people staring at the duo in awe, almost holding their breath for fear of missing a note. I could not believe the perfection in dainty Haines' voice as she sang sat down the whole time. Possibly the most magical performance I've seen in my life.

I then left the studio (as I was told not to 'bug Metric') and went to the lift to go back to the office. In the three minutes I waited for the lift, who should stroll out but Metric themselves, asking me to hold the lift! I'm not gonna lie, I didn't speak to them at length but did say hi to Emily and praised her performance, to which she replied 'Thank you sweetie!' The duo then talked about how the lifts in the Blue Fin building were 'huge compared to BBC Radio 6!'

When my knees stopped their wobbling I went back to the reality of work.

This afternoon I then went on to the pretty mundane task of copying the album, single and live reviews out of this week's issue and trawling through SXSW videos to find news stories.

Black Lips "think" they're playing Reading and Leeds fest this year and Little Boots is CONFIRMED!!! I sent quotes and info over to a writer, who has now put them up on the website HERE and HERE

By the way, the NME.COM quiz I wrote the other day is now online! Click HERE to test your music news knowledge.

Marry me Metric

Over and out.

...so the fourth day was all about the captions

Firstly, a big thank you to the Dooley brothers (New Education) for getting me guestlist to The Rifles last night. A sweeeeet night indeed.

I'd never been to The Roundhouse before and for some reason I'd made up in my head that it would be a dirty little intimate venue with battered stickers hanging off the wall and sweat constantly flying in my eye. Oh how wrong I was...

Firstly, it was huuuuge. And round (yeah, yeah, I know). And it even has a seated balcony, which is where I sat. The view was amazing - looking down onto a sea of waving hands and a misty rainbow-coloured stage. My night peaked when headliners The Rifles belted out 'Repeated Offender' and 'Peace and Quiet'. Good times.

Back to NME.

Soooo I finished the Prodigy captions this morning, which are now on the website. Take a look HERE

I was then asked to write captions for the Howling Bells, Everything Everything and Little Boots JD Sessions pictures, and upload them to the NME.COM system. A system that I had never seen in my life.

Luckily the girl next to me is too lovely for words and helped me out a LOT today.

The first task was finding the pictures I needed to caption. Could I find them? Hell no. The lovely Carol did.

We came across a Howling Bells gallery for their NME Presents gig first, and assumed I was to write these captions. So off I went, typing away and adding bits and bobs to their system.

I felt incredibly accomplished at this point. Accomplished until I came across the actual Howling Bells pictures I was supposed to caption. MIGHTY OOPS!!!

I fretted all lunchtime about cocking up at my dream work place and so returned early and bashed out the three galleries' captions. It was okay in the end.

Click HERE to see my 'accidental' work and HERE to see my actual work.

And that was pretty much my day. Oh I'm in tomorrow's NME.COM newsletter, by the way (awful picture of me with some stolen salt and pepper shakers!) - something about what I'm listening to and watching at the mo. But you can only see this if you subscribe to it online - so get subscribing people! Orrrr I'll try and find a way of getting it on here.

Also, the best bit of goss today.....Metric, yes METRICwill be coming into the NME Radio studio tomorrow morning to perform 'Help I'm Alive', their new single, live on air. So fingers-crossed I should be watching that. If I had the energy, I would squeal with excitement!

I shall be putting the Jukebox songs up soon so check back later!

Over and out.

...so third day and time to prove myself

Phew, I've just got in from a seriously hectic day.

This is going to be a short one as I need to sort myself out before The Rifles tonight.

Okay, so I got in half an hour early and left an hour late...that's dedication for you!

I FINALLY finished my festival band list wheyyyy. I think it ended up being about 56 pages long...in size 12 text in Word (ouch, I wouldn't want to edit that!) and after twiddling my thumbs for all of about three minutes, the deputy editor (Luke Lewis) gave me a new assignment, in for the morning.

As The Prodigy are featured in this week's issue and there's a ridiculous amount of hype about them at the mo, I need to pick and write about their top ten singles. Sounds easy, right? Wrong.

I not only have to try and describe the songs, but include an interesting or 'unknown' fact about them...all in 60 words each! So you can imagine this is quite difficult. And this will be my first bit of 'journalism' for NME so I'm working my ass off to try and produce something amazing!

After only researching and writing about three songs, Luke came over to me and asked how I was doing etc....and then said he'd sent some more work over to me.

So at 4 o'clock I checked my email only to find that he'd asked me to write this week's NME.com quiz!!! I couldn't believe my luck....but the email said that he'd like it in by 4.30pm, if possible.

...

An hour and a half later (5.30pm) I'd finished it. My masterpiece. This week's NME quiz.

So basically if you're reading this, please do the quiz when it goes up (I will let you know when and post the link)! And let me know how you do....it's pretty hard I must admit (but all answers can be found on the website news bit as usual). I'm sure some of you will be able to do it.

So tonight I'm going to see The Rifles and New Education, can't wait!

But then I have to come back and work on The Prodigy article ahhhhh!

I heart this.

Over and out.

(wow, wasn't as short as I thought!)

...so it's day two and i never want to leave!

Today was the day of first impressions....I know, I know, I started yesterday.

After sorting out the post (which was heavily reduced from yesterday's mound!) I visited NME Radio. It wasn't quite as exciting as I expected...and we didn't actually get to go into the studios but i'm going to work on that (mwahahaha).

On the way back up to the office, who should I bump into but my boss, the editor of NME.com, David Moynihan. In the confined space of the lift I thought 'this is my chance' so I casually (on the outside...nervously on the inside!) offered him a (rather manly) handshake and said "You're David, aren't you?"

Thankfully, David is possibly THE most amazing guy in power i've ever met and he even knew who I was. Well, not by name but he certainly knows it now!

Whilst weaving in and out of the journos wandering about, he explained to me that I would be focussing on the festival part of the website for the first two weeks. So I should be one of the first to find out all the juicy goss. He also said to come to him with ideas and input for the website...better work on that.

After he dashed away in his battered converse (the king of cool that he is) I got down to the festival list again...and no, I STILL haven't finished it.

And that was basically my day.

Radio 6 was on most of the afternoon and I have a vague recollection of hearing Two Door Cinema Club (YES!) and The Decemberists (NOOOO!)

Check out today's issue of NME - it's in my favourite colour, supergreen, featuring The Prodigy, The Horrors (LOL at the bit about Pret A Manger), and 3oh!3 - they will make you dance. Oh, and some gay posters of MGMT, The Last Shadow Puppets, and the dirrrrty Pete Doherty.

The Rifles and New Education at The Roundhouse tomorrow night...could get messy.

Over and out

...so about my first day at NME

NME is in the Bluefin Building in Southwark, London. This building is HUGE. There's a hell of a lot of glass...this scares me.

Sorting the post out was the first job of the day...I cannot believe the amount of CDs they receive in one day's worth of post - it's literally hundreds. There's no way they all get reviewed, which is a shame as there are at least 30 freelance reviewers who could do the job. I feel quite sorry for the bands that spend so much time writing to NME and sending CDs that may not even get played (I will check this out tomorrow...) but I guess they wont' get anywhere if they don't try.

The office full of trendy thirty-somethings is not what I expected at all. They're all very laidback - busy yet approachable. There's not one suit in sight. Being a work experience student really does put you in your place though.

Music is played non-stop - today included Future Of The Left's new album, which I highly recommend for those partial to a bit of old-school punk-cum-indie-dance. Crystal Stilts' album was also on the stereo....let's not go there.

So I was given the task to basically to find out the line-ups for about 30 festivals this year and make an extensive list....and extensive it is.

The festival that took up most of my time today is SXSW Festival (South By Southwest), held on 18th - 22nd March 2009 in Texas, USA. It's not only a music festival, there's an interactive and film week too....but I can't even bear to look that up to tell you more. I have spent about 4 hours on that website and STILL haven't finished the list.

Did I mention there's over 1,800 acts playing?

This ridiculously huge number includes the following bands:

Ida Maria
Primal Scream
Calvin Harris
Peter, Bjorn and John
Echo & The Bunnymen
Chairlift
Ladyhawke
Attack! Attack!
The Von Bondies
Glasvegas
Pete & The Pirates

...the list does go on...at length!

I'm tempted though.

Ohhhh and gossip of the day (I'm not sure if i'm allowed to say this....) but Caleb Followill (Kings Of Leon for those who don't love him like I do) confirmed in a telephone interview that they will be headlining Reading and Leeds Festival this year....I'm there.

Check back tomorrow for the next installment!

Over and out

...so will working for nme be my dream job?

Let's find out

So i'm off to NME in London for work experience on Monday. I'll be there for three weeks and will try and get the insider goss for everyone here!

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