Reeves Gabrels

@reevesgabrels.bsky.social

Musician. 🎸 The Cure, David Bowie, solo. Genre-free improv with Gabrels, Kane, Parker Wells trio 2024-2026. Susan Gabrels assists with this skyline. 🦋 @thecure.com

The pre-edited rough cuts for the History of The Pop Press doc I researched compiled edited scripted and all but presented for R1 in 1995. That honour went to Steve Lamacq. We wanted Neil Tennant but he was busy with his pop group. There's some lovely soundbites on here. archive.org/details/pop-...

R1 Pop Press doc. : Rob Chapman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Cue sheet for who speaks when. ROY CARR (NME. VOX) how you get your first gig.RICHARD WILLIAMS (MELODY MAKER) evolution of the pop press.ANNE NIGHTINGALE...

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There were some politics as you can imagine. I'd pretty much written NME out of the story by the glossy monthly 80s but as loads of NME ex-staffers were working for R1 by then, they ditched several of my contributors (including A Nightingale) and crowbarred a whole chunk of 90s NME into the script.

I got a fab interview out of Sheryl Garratt too when she was Face editor. Harsh editorial choices were made bcos Face wasn't a music mag. SG told me how Face was the only mag that would say fuck off we'll put an unknown model on there instead if a record company got bolshie about front cover rights

My editorial line by mid 90s was that the weekly inkies were pretty much done (I still think that) and the rock emphasis has shifted to Q Mojo Select etc. I included the eds of MixMag and Kerrang to show that agendas had moved on too and not everyone subscribed to rock's canonical idea of itself.