Heavy Discipline

Why HEAVY DISCIPLINE? 
 
 
May 2005 
Dear NME,
    
The recent decline of NME from an independent music newspaper to being incapable of independent thought is surely enough to suggest that maybe THINGS HAVE GONE TOO FAR. 

This blissfully egocentric reader seems to have missed when exactly rock and roll became more about corporate Topman, Shockwaves and iPod cocksucking than the righteous powers of music as a force for good, but it is clear NME is slowly becoming a bit-part of the “music industry” (music industry is an oxymoron, stoned scenesters) that it should always remain an outsider to.   

Since the ball and chain relationship between yourselves and your sponsors dictates this letter will probably get no further than NME Tower’s memory holes, I think I’ll publish it in MY OWN FANZINE, where MUSIC fans can wank over it without THE MAN (ie you) telling them what is and what isn’t rock and roll.
 
 
And so HEAVY DISCIPLINE was born.   
 
 
NB- HEAVY DISCIPLINE is named after a line from '(Under) Heavy Manners' by (70s reggae artist) Prince Far I:  ("heavy discipline is what the world needs today baby, heavy heavy discipline") and NOT after a GBH song, as some have suggested.

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