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THIS WEEK...
BAND
INDEX
Arctic Monkeys 22
Babyshambles 6
NEWS Page 4
Be Your Own Pet 5, 44
Belle & Sebastian 28
Beth Orton 36
Blade 36 COVER
4 The Streets STORY
Bloc Party 35 COVER
Morrissey STORY
Breaks Co-Op 10
The Darkness 46
The Strokes
Das Wanderlust 17 Franz Ferdinand
COVER
Delays 40 6 Babyshambles STORY
COVER
Devics 35 8 Radiohead STORY
Dirty Pretty Things 8 Dirty Pretty Things
Eels With Strings 36 9 Hard-Fi
Euros Child 36 10 Breaks Co-Op
Franz Ferdinand 5 13 Peter Robinson Vs Maggot
Liam Frost 18 14 Letters
Galaxie 500 36
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly 19
Goldie Lookin Chain 13
Good Shoes 40, 42
Hard-Fi 9 PAGE RADAR Page 16
The Holloways 20
Hard-Ftit
The Hot Puppies 19 16 The Young Knives
Howling Bells 35 19 Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
The Jam 37 The Poppies
Jim Noir 40 The Hot Puppies
Richard: “Scarkle
The Kooks 31 Radio Luxembourg
Liars 35
Das Wanderlust
The Magic Numbers 40
on t oo a S at u rday 20 The Holloways
Johanss
Maximo Park 22, 41
Liam Frost
es and
Morning Runner 41
Morrissey 5
My Latest Novel 41
job in B oo ts in Sta in The Reverend And The Makers
Mystery Jets 22
I met her and nitow we’re

The On Offs 40
The Pistolas 41
li c a ffair !” FEATURES Page 22
The Poppies 19
Pulp 33 havin g a n il 22 ShockWaves NMEAwards Tour COVER
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Radiohead 8 28 Belle & Sebastian
Radio Luxembourg 19 31 The Kooks
The Rakes 35 33 Jarvis Cocker
The Reverend And The Michael Jackson
Makers 20
Snow Patrol 8
REVIEWS Page 34
Soledad Brothers 41
Some Girls 36
Stellastarr* 34
The Streets 4 34 Stellastarr*
The Strokes 5 35 Bloc Party
Tarantula AD 35 6 Babyshambles: “ I’ve 22 Arctic Monkeys: Howling Bells
Test Icicles 45 avoided jail because I’m “We found out it were
famous? What d’you think 13 Maggot: “I’m going Hear’Say’s record we 36 Beth Orton
We Are Scientists 22, 41
I’ve been doing the last to swim up the river broke! Could we not have 37 The Jam
SAM JONES
The Young Knives 16

12 days – picking tulips?” Thames and die” beaten someone good?” 40 Delays
We Are Scientists
Good Shoes
42 MTV2 NME Chart
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44 Be Your Own Pet
45 Test Icicles
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MIKE SKINNER
GOES INTO REHAB!
Wondering why the third album from The Streets has taken so long? Well, maybe
it’s because Mike Skinner’s been drying out.
Fortunately, though, these pictures are actually exclusive shots from the video
for The Streets’ comeback single, ‘When You Wasn’t Famous’, which is out
March 27. The clip is a satire on celebrities’ problems.
“I’ve been a bit quiet for a while because I’ve been working on my new album
and starting up my record label The Beats,” Skinner said. “This week’s been
harsh, I’ve recorded a choir on one of the tracks, been putting down vocals in
the shed and making the new video where I’m filmed in a rehab clinic. It’s the
first time I’ve been into rehab… honestly it is!”
The Streets’ third album, ‘The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living’, is out in April.
www.the-streets.co.uk
Metallica confirmed for Download Festival (June 9-11) Coldplay perform low-key show at Abbey Road studio in northwest London QOTSA frontman Josh Homme forms a new band,
4 NME 18 February 2006

NUL POINTS
FOR MORRISSEY
While in Rome, Morrissey recorded the video
for his long-awaited comeback single, ‘You
Have Killed Me’, which is out on March 27.
The video is a satire on the Eurovision Song
Contest, of which the Mozfather is something of
an expert: “The idea came from the Eurovision
Song Contests from 1969 to 1974,” he told NME,
“on which I could sit for Mastermind.”
Morrissey is now concentrating on preparing
for his forthcoming UK tour, which will visit
towns across the country.
“Wherever Ken Dodd goes, I go,” Morrissey
joked. “[I wanted] to prove that everywhere
counts – even London.”
The tour includes four nights in different
Manchester venues – a city that he didn’t play
for years before making his homecoming in 2004.
“I didn’t ever stop loving Manchester, although
the local media for a long time had me down as
a Moors Murderer,” he said. “As a matter of
fact, I’ve never murdered a moor.”
www.true-to-you.net
GET OFF THAT

MUCKY FLOOR!
Here’s Julian Casablancas taking a
break from filming the video for
The Strokes’ new single ‘Heart In
A Cage’. Recorded on a rainy New York
street, the band are keeping the plot
of the video a secret until it airs
next month, but those close to the
project are promising “something
very special”.
The second single from Number One
album ‘First Impressions Of Earth’ is
due for release on March 13.
www.thestrokes.com
ELLIS PARRINDER/GOFFINF.COM
FRANZ FERDINAND
HIT THE BIG TIME
After parodying debauched parties for ‘Do You Want
To’ and early British movies for ‘Walk Away’, the
video for Franz Ferdinand’s third single from ‘You
Could Have It So
Much Better’, ‘The
Fallen’, is a more
showbiz affair.
Directed by
Alexandre
Courtes and
Martin Fougerole
(who did U2’s
‘Vertigo’), the
clip sees the
band playing
live behind a
giant wall of
lights. If you
saw Franz play
in Edinburgh
recently, you might even make a cameo yourself.
‘The Fallen’ is out on March 27.
www.franzferdinand.co.uk
The 5.15ers The Killers plan “more American”-sounding second record Funeral For A Friend cancel UK tour Primal Scream to play Astoria on April 6, tickets on sale now

Babyshambles played a secret gig
at Club NME in London on Friday…
THE VERDICT
Pete was sentenced to a 12-month
community order and is required to
undergo a non-residential, 12-month
Pete saluted the assembled drug rehabilitation programme with
fans as he left court last week “a view to ending his dependency”.
Additionally, Pete
will take a drug test
once a month for
BABYSHAMBLES:
the next year. He
was ordered to pay
£129 in costs. The
situation will be
reviewed on March
“THERE ARE STILL SOME 8 at Thames

Magistrates’ Court,
and Pete was warned
if he broke the
CHALLENGING TIMES TO COME”

conditions of his
order he would be
“sentenced in a different way, and that
could include prison”. The prosecution
had asked for Pete to be disqualified
Band look forward with new gigs and secret from driving, but the magistrates
allowed him to keep his licence.
pub show after Pete Doherty escapes prison
ith Pete Doherty walking free two strings of rosary beads around his London pub The Boogaloo Bar (see panel) society, I’m not selling drugs to anyone’s
from court last week, neck, was watched by his Babyshambles and speaking later to Radio One, the singer children, I’m not encouraging and never
Babyshambles have vowed bandmates Adam Ficek and Drew insisted he could beat his drug addiction. will encourage anyone to take drugs.”
to get back on the road to McConell, who immediately pledged to get “As far as crack and heroin are concerned Along with the Boogaloo gig,
repay their fans’ support. the band back into action. [I’m determined to stay off the drugs],” he Babyshambles made an unscheduled live
Having pleaded guilty to a series of drugs “It’s brilliant,” drummer Ficek told NME explained. “I’m getting an [Naltrexone] appearance at Club NME in London on
charges, Pete was given a community order outside the court. “It was quite tense in implant in four days. As far as drugs are Friday (February 10), playing to thrilled
at Ealing Magistrates’ Court on February 8 there, but the judge seemed quite fair, so concerned, it’s simple: I’d rather be on the fans at the KOKO venue. It’s believed they
requiring him to undergo a 12-month rehab we were quite positive. There’s a outside with no smack than on the inside intend to play several more low-key shows
programme and submit to monthly drug challenging time to come now, I think.” with no smack.” ahead of the rescheduled tour dates.
tests – but crucially, he avoided prison. Pete had spent two weeks in prison on Pete added that his stint in prison on The rearranged UK tour dates are: London
GUY EPPEL/JAMES QUINTON/GETTY/SIMON PARRY/DAVID HARRIS/JAMES LOOKER
A custodial sentence had been a remand ahead of the hearing, forcing the remand had been particularly disturbing. Shepherd’s Bush Empire (February 20),
possibility after Pete had admitted to postponement of gigs in Glasgow, Bristol “What do you think I’ve been doing for the Bristol Carling Academy (21), Newcastle
multiple charges of possessing controlled and London’s Shepherd’s Bush. But with last 12 days, picking tulips?” he said. “I’ve Carling Academy (22), Glasgow
drugs, including heroin, crack cocaine and these being rescheduled for later on in been sat in a cell sweating it out, fully aware Barrowlands (24), Leeds University (25) and
cannabis, but instead of sending him down, February, the drummer said he was keen to of the circumstances, but I’ve also been with Manchester Academy (26). All original
magistrate Ann McLaughlin gave the singer get the band moving forward again. murderers and on occasion a couple of walls tickets are valid for the rescheduled shows
a chance to end his “drug dependency”. There had been nervous moments at the away from paedophiles. I’m not a threat to and there are also some extras available.
Pete, who appeared in the dock wearing west London courthouse for Pete and
around 50 fans who turned up to support
the former Libertine, his case being delayed THE FANS’ VERDICT
“We really want to for nearly an hour and the magistrates then
taking around 20 minutes to decide Pete’s
thank the fans for sentence. However, when he eventually
emerged – around an hour after learning
“I’m really pleased, it’s a lot
better than what I thought
“I thought this might be the
last time I’d get to see him
their support. It his fate – he saluted his fans with a smile.
“We really want to thank the fans for their
would happen. Hopefully now
he can just get on with the
which is why we skipped
school. I’ve got tickets for the
warms us” support, as always,” added Ficek. “It’s really
important to us, it warms us.”
music, he should be famous
for being a great musician.”
Shepherd’s Bush gig, so I’m
really looking forward to it.”
Adam Ficek Pete and the band celebrated his freedom
that night with an impromptu show at north
Iain Kerr, 18, Glasgow Robert Bimead, 15, London

HELP MAKE THE
CARLING WEEKEND:
READING AND LEEDS
EVEN BETTER
The Streets
The Hardest Way To Make An Easy
Living (679)
Mike’s drugs, death and rehab album
– only with the best tunes he’s ever
written and genuinely hilarious lyrics.
The Organ
Brother (Too Pure)
All-female Canadian quintet whose
bouncy new wave comes on like
Debbie Harry fronting Siouxsie And
The Banshees.
…two days after a surprise

show at the city’s Boogaloo Bar
DOWN THE FRONT

NME’s Paul Moody was at the London
Boogaloo Bar to see Pete’s ‘freedom’ gig
Just a few hours ago, Pete Doherty was standing in
the dock of Ealing Magistrates’ Court, the threat of
prison hanging over him. Eight hours later, he drifts Hot Chip
through the crowds at a buoyant Boogaloo Bar in The Warning (EMI)
a pale grey suit, clutching an acoustic guitar, and If you buy one indie-electro, hip-hop,
the sense of relief is overpowering. Hands up if you love the white funk, dance crossover album this
The 12-day Pentonville diet has produced strange Carling Weekend Festivals! year, we guarantee this will be it.
dividends: the haunted look is back, and he’s wearing
enough mascara to make a panda laugh. But his Panic! At the Disco
presence alone sends a shiver through the crowd.
We’re a long way from the euphoria of the Chatham
Have your say at a special fan forum… I Write Sins Not Tragedies
(Fuelled By Ramen)
Tap’n’Tin, when he played with The Libertines after rganisers of the Carling NME.COM will attend the forums to tell MCR-esque pomposity, Killers-sized
getting out last time, but he’s here: that’s enough. Weekend: Reading And Leeds you what has been discussed. For the choruses and power-punk bolero, all
“I’ve come to play you a few songs,” he says in a Festivals want to speak to fans chance to get in to the event, go to in just over three minutes. P!ATD: the
whisper. “Obviously I’m still a bit weirded out from about their experiences over NME.COM now, where you’ll be able to most unstoppable new US band.
what’s happened lately, so bear with me.” the last few years. email us up to five key points that you
With that, the band embark on an opening ‘Pipe Mean Fiddler are offering the would like to discuss. Don’t forget to WigWam
Down’. It’s raw and brittle, but when he launches into opportunity for NME readers who have specify which venue you can attend: WigWam (White label)
the ghostly “La, la-la, la la” chorus, the intensity in his gone to the festivals in recent times to Sheffield, Leeds, Oxford or Manchester. Eighties pop relic Betty Boo and Blur
voice could charge the national grid. Nirvana’s ‘Live discuss both the festival as it is and how The dates are: Sheffield Hubs (March 6), lothario Alex James do the do with this
And Unplugged’ is all you can liken it to. they would like it to be in the future. Leeds West Yorkshire Playhouse (7), perfect weird pop moment. Smash Hits
Songs come and go, self-combusting in traditional Four events are planned in Sheffield, Oxford Zodiac (8) and Manchester Living (RIP) would be proud.
fashion, but after a singalong ‘What Katie Did’, The Leeds, Manchester and Oxford in March. Room (9). All venues have been booked
Hope Of The States
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sprawling ‘Pentonville’. in forums in the company Left
Pete follows it with of Mean Fiddler’s (Sony)
‘Albion’ and a curious managing director, Franz at Reading First tracks from the follow-up to ‘The
thing happens. As an Melvin Benn, and other in 2004 Lost Riots’. More tunes, less noise.
army of well-wishers involved parties in the
arrive – each met with a festivals. Coldplay
bear-hug – he alters the A spokesperson for the Talk (Thin White Duke Remix)
lyrics to namecheck the festival said: “Mean (Parlophone)
hometowns of fans in the Fiddler are hosting these Jacques Le Cont works his mischief
Babyshambles (l-r) Drew, Adam, front row. It’s heartfelt events to find out how on the best tune from ‘X&Y’.
Pete: back together again and strangely affecting: festival goers feel this
a mockery of the ‘danger year’s Carling Weekend: The Pigeon Detectives
to society’ tag. Reading And Leeds I’m Always Right
‘Fuck Forever’ follows, but it’s not a night for Festivals can be made (Dance To The Radio)
nihilism, and with a curt, “That’s yer lot!” he pulls the even better and also to The double A of their debut double
plug after a minute. The spell broken, pandemonium discuss what festivals A-side, and the latest slice of juddering
breaks out. should be for you.” indie-pop perfection to fall from Leeds’
“Stay for a drink Pete!” yells one fan, but it’s too Space at the forums is seemingly limitless skies.
late: he’s headed for the door, lost in the crowds. limited, but NME and

Red Hot Chili Peppers:
T In The Park’s
opening headliners
ROCK GIANTS TAKE T

It’s the US Vs the UK at Scotland’s premier festival
ed Hot Chili Peppers and ‘Stadium Arcadium’, out on May 8. RHCP UK TOUR DATES
The Who will headline this year’s Arctic Monkeys will also play, after the
T In The Park festival, NME band told NME last month that they’d take If you can’t make it to T In The Park,
can exclusively reveal. their mates to the festival if they sold more Red Hot Chili Peppers will tour the UK
Both are officially confirmed to than 60,000 copies of their debut album! in July. The dates are:
play at the bash in Balado, near Kinross, Other bands already confirmed include
over the weekend of July 8-9. Rock legends Primal Scream, Kaiser Chiefs, Ipswich Portman Road (June 30)
The Who will close the event, and there’s The Ordinary Boys, Sigur Rós and Felix Coventry Ricoh Arena (July 2)
talk that a studio album from the band Da Housecat. Reading Madejski Stadium (3)
could also be released in the summer – the Organisers are currently working to Derby Pride Park (5)
long-awaited follow-up to 1982’s ‘It’s Hard’. confirm more bands, ahead of the official Sheffield Don Valley Stadium (6)
“There will be a tour. We have European announcement this week. Check NME.COM Manchester MEN Arena (11-12)
festival dates slotted in for June and July,” for the most up-to-date news. London Earl’s Court (14-15, 17-18)
guitarist Pete Townshend said recently. Tickets go on sale on February 17 at 9am, The rumours that the Kaisers are
only playing so Ricky can stuff his
As predicted in last week’s NME, the priced at £56.50 for day tickets, £97.50 All shows go on sale on Friday,
face with fried food are totally untru
festival’s opening night will be headlined by for weekend only and £115 for weekend e February 17 and are priced £40 each.
the Red Hot Chili Peppers (July 8), who are and camping. For more details, go to
touring in support of forthcoming album www.tinthepark.com.
Snow Patrol: the big Radiohead return for Massive names

sell out! charity show for NME Awards
Anthemic indie-rockers After an absence of over a year, A host of huge names will
Snow Patrol have sold out Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and play live at this year’s
their UK tour in 20 Jonny Greenwood are to make a ShockWaves NME Awards.
minutes. The band will hit low-key appearance in London. The Razorlight have confirmed
the road in April and May in pair will appear at KOKO in London they’ll be playing a new song
support of forthcoming at a charity show for Friends Of The at the event, which takes
album ‘Eyes Open’, with all Earth (May 1). The gig is part of ‘The place in London on February
the shows taking place in Big Ask Live’ – a series of dates 23, while it’ll also be the first
intimate venues. That aimed at publicising climate chance for British fans to see
marks a major change change. Yorke, the organisation’s Carl Barat’s new band Dirty
from their last gig in ambassador, said: “The best thing Pretty Things. Other acts
England – at Live8! “We’re about ‘The Big Ask…’ is the fact include Plan B and Ian
ANDY WILLSHER/EMPICS
going to play seven songs there’s no longer this sense of Brown, who will close the
off the new album,” powerlessness, which is what I had show after picking up the
drummer Johnny Quinn for so long about climate change.” award for Godlike Genius. The
told NME. “If we can afford For more information visit www. awards will be shown on E4
it we’re going to try and foe.co.uk. A full UK tour is planned that evening, with a repeat on
use a live string section.” for around the same time. Channel 4 on Friday (Feb 24).

WHAT ARE YOU
LISTENING TO
RIGHT NOW?
“There’s a freaky ba
nd
Francisco called De from San
erhoof, who
sound like The Jesus
Liz
with Yes. That could ard crossed
be terrible, but
it’s not. They’re rea
lly
Wayne Coyne, Th refreshing.”
e Flaming Lips
Richard Archer: form an
orderly queue, ladies
HARD-FI: “NME SHOW IS

A HOMECOMING FOR US” “Love Is All’s ‘Used
Go
new single from the ods’ – it’s the
Richard Archer celebrates his best ever year with an NME Awards fan
Gothenburg band wi tastic
th
vocals and the best pixie-female
Show and spills the beans on those Scarlett Johansson rumours percussion break ev
Casio-tone
er! Oh yeah!’”
Kate Jackson, Th
ard-Fi frontman Richard Archer guy who was 21 and just had a kid with at Christmas so she took a Saturday job at e Long Blondes
has said being asked to headline his girlfriend came up to me in Kansas Boots in Staines and I met her and have
a ShockWaves NME Awards Show City and said, ‘I just get it – you’re talking been having an illicit affair! (laughs) It’s
is one of the band’s live highlights about my life.’ This is a guy who’s the other absolutely crazy!” joked the singer. “Don’t
so far. side of the world from Staines. That was get me wrong, she’s hot, but what are
The group’s gig at the Hammersmith always the point.” people talking about? It was an eye-opener
Palais (February 13) marks the year as to how much
anniversary of the Staines group’s ascent as the band’s life has
a band – recently crowned by debut album
‘Stars Of CCTV’ scoring a Number One – and
“Scarlett Johansson? changed.
“Firstly, that
the singer admitted that returning to the
London venue is special.
She’s hot, but what people will go
as far as running
“I’m really pleased we’re doing it because
we played in the same venue a year ago. We
are people on about?” things about us like
that and secondly,
were first on for Graham Coxon and we had
no idea of what was to come,” he explained.
Richard Archer that I could be
knocking off Scarlett
“To go back to the same venue and headline Johansson – it’s “Wolf Parade! I do
n’t
it is great. I enjoyed playing there last time, really funny! I can about them but I he know much
ar they’re from
it was our first taste of a big gig. Also, it’s However, news of Hard-Fi’s American imagine [Johansson’s Montreal and are rel
ated to the
nice to have a show now because we don’t success caused some to jump the gun and, boyfriend] Josh Arcade Fire. I’m we
ll int
have any UK dates until the tour in May.” on his return to Britain last week, Archer Scarlett and Richard Har
d-Fi? Hartnett might have Blaine Harrison, My o them.”
About as likely as Maggot
GLC
stery Jets
The ShockWaves NME Awards Shows was surprised to read in some newspapers getting it on with a Bay been miffed, but
kicked off with dates from Clap Your that he’s dating Lost In Translation actress wat… oh what’s he worrying
Hands Say Yeah (February 10) and The Scarlett Johansson! about? He’s the one
Dead 60s (11) and Archer was quick to “What can I say? She was short of cash sleeping with her!”
praise the fans the gigs attract.
“Those NME shows are good because
the audience are always up for it,” he said. “I KNOW WE WON’T WIN A BRIT”
“People come along not just to see the
headline band, but thinking, ‘There Hard-Fi are also due at the staring at my pint?’, etc.
are four bands on here and they’re all Brits this week – so how do The Brits to me have
going to be pretty decent, let’s check they rate their chances? always been more about
’em out.’ I remember when we were Richard Archer: “We’re not economic rather than
first on – it wasn’t full by any means, but going to win, but we’re artistic success, but if we
the people there were really up for it going to go along, cause do win at least my aunt
and were appreciative.” trouble and have a laugh. can go, ‘Oh, my nephew
REX/ED MILES/TOM OXLEY
“‘Guero’ was a real

ret
Hard-Fi have also just returned from And on the off-chance we has won a Brit award!’ and for Beck, not that he urn to form
their American tour. “It’s nice to come
Rich
do win, the speech will be everyone knows what it really. It’s his best ever went off
home. It’s good to be able to go and Don’t be so pessimistic, a series of rants along the she’s on about. I’m not alb
and it’s always on my um in years
t…?
wash your pants,” smiled Archer. “But – aren’t you hard to bea lines of, ‘I told you so’, ‘I’ll saying we don’t want to Iwan Griffiths, Th CD player.”
America was really good. The crowds at take you all on’, ‘Are you win, but I know we won’t.” e Automatic
the gigs have been really responsive. A

UPCOMING
RELEASES
ZANE LOWE: FEBRUARY 27
Giant Drag
‘I’M IN A BAND TOO’

Hearts and Unicorns
(Kirkball/Interscope)
They made the NME Cool List and for
good reason. Singer Annie Hardy is
officially the funniest person in rock.
The Radio 1 DJ’s Who else meows when they’ve run
out of lyrics?
group, Breaks The Modern
The Modern (Mercury)
Co-Op, are set for Superstar DJ: The Zipper keeps With the Pet Shop Boys coming back
the Monkeys entertained
their UK debut and Pete Burns on everyone’s
trout-pout lips, it seems the right time
for The Modern to release their debut.
ane Lowe has revealed he’s in “If I sat down and analysed the energy nights and you’re tired and a little worried,” Mixing synths and style in a new
a band – and their album will be I put into my radio show and put that into he admitted. “Your mind starts to process romantic stylee. Just don’t call it
released in the UK next month. my album, I’d be sitting there wondering, all the wrong reasons you make music. electroclash.
The Radio 1 DJ is the guitarist in ‘How am I going to get my song on my radio The band are really good and there’s so
Breaks Co-Op, and their album ‘The show?’ and, ‘How’s it going to reflect on many people involved in Breaks Co-Op that MARCH 6
Sound Inside’ is set to be released in the UK everything else?’. I’m not a simple, one- if I was to sit there and continually worry Mystery Jets
on March 27. The album is actually the track-minded person. Getting on the radio about my involvement it would be Making
group’s second, and was initially released in is something I look forward to, but there’s arrogance beyond belief. It’s a great group Dens (WEA)
Lowe’s native New Zealand last year. sitting in the studio with an acoustic guitar of musicians and a deep soulful record. Bringing a whole new
However interest has slowly picked up too... that’s something that fulfils me. They want me onstage, but I’m committed meaning to Dadrock, it’s
around the world and this will be the first “I’m sure people will expect reference to finding new music as well and I don’t feel the debut from the
anyone outside of NZ has heard of his band. points to the songs I play on my show and I like it compromises my role in the band. ShockWaves NME
“The UK thing only started to happen last think there are. What you get in José Everyone’s happy with it.” Awards Tour crazy-
year. The record was out in New Zealand, González, in Jack Johnson, Shortwave Set proggers. Prepare to
and that was good enough for us,” Lowe and various artists like that, you can apply be weirded out… but
explained. “But people in other countries
started to say they liked it. I never expected
parallels with Breaks Co-Op. I like the fact
it’s going to floor a few people and better
“It’s a great group and in a nice way. MJs: the boys
den good
it. I never made the album with any
expectation of getting it released outside
that than people say, ‘It’s what I expected.’”
The trio are completed by Lowe’s friend
a really soulful record” Mogwai
Mr Beast (PIAS)
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In the band Zane does some singing too but the DJ stresses his band won’t capitalise Zane said the people at the BBC have been album finds them in fine,
– however, the group insist they are not a on his contacts in the music industry. “very supportive” of Breaks Co-Op, adding: epic form, with a career-peaking
rock band in the traditional sense; their “Those thoughts cropped up during the “I think most other musicians aren’t fifth album.
roots are based in hip-hop, old soul records, making of the record, when you have late surprised when they find out and I don’t
samples and acoustic guitar. think the BBC were surprised”. Morning Runner
A single, ‘The Otherside’ is set for release Wilderness Is Paradise Now (Polydor)
:
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He was on Celebrity Big Brother, you
know. No, don’t leave! Come back!
ello, Maggot. How are you? Are you sure?
“I’m not too well, I have a touch of “Well, we’ll find out when we’re on tour
the flu. But that’s what happens. and all the back-stabbing starts. But I did it
I’m having a bit of a rest this for the good of the band. Well, that and the
afternoon – I don’t think I’m up to fact that I had nothing else to do in January.
it! I have been running from pillar to post!” You know how it is, January’s always a
quiet month. And if I wasn’t on the show
Between which pillars and posts I would only have been watching it.”
have you been running?
“All sorts! I’ve had a dodgy magazine Are you impressed with the runaway
makeover! That was a bit of a laugh, wasn’t success of Arctic Monkeys? Sorry girls, you’ll have
it? I don’t think I’ll be adopting that style “I’ve heard the album. I didn’t think anyone to beat Traci Bingham
though. They put me on the cover next released albums in January, though? Is it to him now…
to the headline ‘Whose bum is this?’!” a stroke of genius to release an album
when there’s nothing else out?” names in a hat. And then we lost the hat. Ladies love a surprise.
I think what the world wants to know So the boys just said, ‘Send Maggot in.’” “They certainly do.”
now, Maggot, is: What next for GLC?
“Start a tour on February 14, write another Did they get up to mischief while you Your cat T-shirt is amazing.
album, keep plugging away. And before “CBB didn’t even ask were away? “The animal prints! I love those. There was
that, have some lunch. Just a small one, “They went to France, the bastards, on a Christmas market in Sweden when we
I have a sore throat, I can’t eat very much.” for me. We put all our a booze cruise! Unbelievable. It was some were over there last year and I bought
Sun promotion. I was furious! But they a job lot of them. It’s a good look, isn’t it?”
GLC was dying on its arse a bit before names in a hat. Then brought some nice wine back. Wine isn’t a
you went into the Big Brother house. snobby thing any more – you can get some Are there any other burning issues we
What was the mood like in the band? we lost the hat” good bottles down at Tesco. Anything more need to discuss right now, Maggot?
“The mood was buoyant. We’re all about than £56 and French, you’re laughing.” “Have you got enough to put in yet? I’m
having fun. There’s enough depressing shit losing my voice now. I’m just lying here.
out there and we’re the antidote to that.” Maybe if you’d released your album You didn’t have a single out during I feel like I’m lying in state. Lying in a state,
in January it would have sold 350,000 Big Brother, which was either very more like.”
Is there going to be new schtick for the in its first week. noble or a complete oversight.
next GLC album or more of the same? “Well the Christmas market was very busy, “I think it was a bit of both.” Are people going to queue up to
“More of the same – it’s still all about up against opera singers like Katherine see your corpse, like in Evita?
leisurewear. Still about being both Jenkins and so on. We hardly got a look-in!” The Ordinary Boys single went back “They certainly should do. Get ’em
comfortable and practical.” up the charts due to public demand. in. FORM A QUEUE! No, but seriously.
Despite the fact that you were barely Why didn’t ‘R&B’ do the same? I’m going to swim up the river Thames
As a band you are wacky and hilarious. a musician to start with, is it weird “I don’t know. I think we did very well with and die.”
Yet in the house you were unmasked being considered more of a celebrity the chart position the first time round,
as being quite normal and boring. Just
a fella sitting on a sofa.
than a musician now?
“Well, I still have sex. (Comedic pause)
considering only four people bought it.
Christmas market, see.” FYI
“Bad editing! They cut out all the good bits! Did you say celibate? I don’t think I’m • Maggot’s guide to arguments: “Don’t
There was a campaign in Wales to get me a celebrity.” When’s your fitness DVD out? be a dickhead.”
on screen more! Bad editing!” “We’re biding our time. It’ll be out for • The world turning indie has escaped
DEAN CHALKLEY
You went on Celebrity Big Brother! Christmas – there’s a few months left. Maggot’s attention. “Has it?” he says.
How do the rest of the band feel about “As I said early on, I was just there to make I need to get my marriage to Traci • He didn’t get a plaque or certificate
you being the most famous one in GLC? up the numbers. They didn’t even ask for [Bingham] out of the way first, but she from Big Brother. Shame.
“They’re cool with it. Totally enthusiastic.” me specifically – in the band, we all put our doesn’t know anything about that yet.”
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LETTERS FROM who missed out by one ticket. And if wasn’t
PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T for the scum selling them on eBay, I’d be
GET ARCTIC MONKEYS sitting here now a very happy monkey.
TICKETS Nina, Nottingham
Just a quick note to say: Arctic Monkeys?
Load of tosh! The music is very good A sad story, but the harsh truth is that
I admit, but this whole “band of the with a band as massive as the
people” tag just doesn’t quite fit when you Monkeys demand for tickets will
see tickets for their gigs on eBay before the always outstrip supply. You missed
gig even goes on sale. I really resent tickets out on tickets because of one reason –
going to corporate bodies and this is you started queuing too late. Do you
obviously how these have made their way have a tantrum when you miss the
on to eBay. I expected better. People were beginning of Hollyoaks because
queuing for several hours in very cold mummy didn’t pick you up from the
weather for these tickets and for the band Cwybaby Idiot Factory on time? You
to let things slip like this is unforgivable. know in Poland, people have to queue
I’m beginning to wonder whether it’s all up in the pouring rain for up to eight
been manufactured from the start. hours a day, just to go to the toilet!
Michael, Wolves (Charming – Ed) – AC
“This one’s for all the
I queued for five hours in the freezing cold LETTER DEMANDING corporate clients and
yesterday in the hope of getting Arctic COLDPLAY PORN people from eBay”
Monkeys tickets. Venue staff came round, Thank you so much for your article about
counting us and giving out numbered ‘Bandslash’ (NME, February 4). I’m a huge
vouchers to stop people pushing in (but fan of Coldplay and there’s an amazing being doing it all the time. Haven’t you
only after loads of people had). My voucher
number was 187 – 400 tickets for sale (so
piece of bandslash at this site: http://
geocities.com/xwhatawasterx/cwys01.
“Arctic Monkeys? I’m noticed? Jesus, catch up – AC
we were told) at two per person, I was safe

– just. So why, five hours later, when I
html. Unfortunately, it remains unfinished
and I was wondering whether you could
beginning to wonder if LETTER ABOUT MIKE
STERRY UPSETTING
finally got to the box office, was the last
ticket sold to the person in front of me?
help me petition the author to finish the
wonderful work they started. They’ve kept
it’s all manufactured” GIRLS
I must admit, there’s nothing worse than
Why were we then told they only had 370 us hanging on tenterhooks as to what the ‘vacuuming irony’ of reading a review
tickets? I don’t want to make accusations happens to the emerging ménage-à-trois about a band in the NME, only to find that
that I can’t prove, but it wouldn’t surprise between Jonny/Chris/Guy. Every time man he loved, and who he’d shared the reviewer can’t even be bothered to get
me if those tickets went walkies to the odd I read it, it makes me crazy that it’s not many thundering orgasms with on the his information right! So here’s some
backhander. Whatever it was that did finished. Please – can you help? tourbus, would never truly be his. advice for you, Mr Mike Sterry. If you’re
actually happen, the blow could have been Nettie, via email After the show that night the three of going to slate The Academy Is…, the least
softened by some simple communication them fingered each other’s tight you can do is do your research. The song’s
between venue staff and more information Hi Nettie, here I’ve finished it for you: buttocks while frenziedly caressing called ‘Season’ not ‘Sensation’. And before
for the crowd. Had staff come round and “As Chris danced around the stage, his and kissing each other’s penises. The comparing them to bands they sound
told us the situation at 2.30pm we could tight buttocks wiggled within his guitarist nobody remembers the name nothing like why not try actually listening
have prepared for the worst. As it sweaty black jeans. Jonny couldn’t of watched through the curtains in the to them! I’ve never heard such pretentious
happened we were led into believing we’d keep his eyes off it, imagining the safety of his bunk bed, massaging his tosh in all my life. How about, for just a
be OK. At 7.30pm it was, “Oh, this is the last endless possibilities and carnal huge, throbbing cock at the sight of his single second in your day, you refrain from
ticket!” – a true ‘computer says no’ delights that were contained within. bandmates’ unbridled carnality. Too bumming Arctic Monkeys and actually
moment. I’m convinced there weren’t As Guy ran his strong, masculine scared to join in for real, he dreamed open your ears to the bands you’re so quick
enough legitimate people in front of me for fingers up and down the long neck of of the day when one day he could pluck to put down. If you’d bothered to do so,
all the tickets to have sold out. My only his Fender bass guitar and the band up courage to get Chris to (sniiiip! – maybe the lyrics from ‘Black Mamba’
consolation is that I righteously swore at surged ever more steadily into the Ed).” What do you reckon? And what’s would have hit home a little: “Oh Mister
everyone and was led out of the box office. climatic ending to their song ‘Fix You’, the big deal about making up totally Magazine, I never wrote one single thing for
For the 100-200 people behind me, it must a love song written for Chris’ wife, the unbelievable stories about bands for you, or your so-called music scene, you don’t
have been devastating too. But I can’t handsome bassist couldn’t help but the writer’s own titillation. I’ve mean shit to me”.
believe that of all people, it had to be me shake his head in resignation that the worked for NME for years and I’ve Katy, Coventry
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The point is: who are The Academy Is… when you’re going to be hanging out in
and who cares what they sound like? the next 12 months and give us some When are you planning
I guarantee you that they will not exist idea of what kind of mood you’re going on dying? – AC
in a year. If they do, I will send you £50 to be in etc and we’ll nail it. Oh hang
in the post and a copy of my latest on, what I actually mean is, “Aren’t The bra which Paul
novel: How To Avoid Being A Loser Who emo kids all a bunch of self-important, Maximo Park described
Only Likes The Worst Indie Bands Ever. whinging mummy’s boys. God forbid as “large” when it landed
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bopper’s favourite band “glorious”? I’m reviewer of ‘Is It Just Me’ by The Darkness a lucky guy – AC
sorry, but in NME I look for something new. took the piss out of the song without
Something GOOD. Not a Is it just me, or does
song that has been Annie from Giant Drag
screamed in my face for
the lastseven months.
“Fall Out Boy are utterly look like a pillow?
Anon, via email
Not a song that is so
blatantly, sickeningly
talentless and manage Wahey! I’d have her in
poppy, crafted for
MTV’s pretty, acne-free
to sound like Green Day” my bed (or chair) any
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a vocalist who whines and wails to the Darkness, and they seem like such an easy lesbians snogging in The
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or singing. Fall Out Boy are utterly ‘One Way Ticket…’, which was unflattering look like Ricky from
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been back for a while, “kiddies”, over here. found that it was brilliant, far exceeding my Anon, Via email
Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back hopes and easily surpassing their first
Sunday, Bright Eyes – way before the album. Maybe if you took the time to listen Is it just me or does the
“prodigy” that is Fall Out Boy. And, wow, to the album you might be able to rate the old lady who has sex
they manage to sound exactly the same as songs better? Hmm? Just a thought. with the dog look like
Green Day – what a surprise. I understand The World Turtle, via email your mum? (That’s it.
that Fall Out Boy’s popularity here is You’re fired – Ed) – AC
equated with the Arctic Monkeys’ in Hmm. Just a thought – we were totally
England. But the difference is, our right, you are (rest of comment GIANT DRAG’S
mainstream music still sucks, while yours censored for taste reasons – Ed) – AC
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THE YOUNG KNIVES

NEED TO KNOW
Who: Henry Dartnall (vocals/guitar),
his brother The House Of Lords (bass
/vocals) and Ollie Askew (drums)
What: Think Graham Coxon fronting
Gang Of Four at The Comedy Store.
Burn: ‘Kitchener’ is available from
the band’s website.
Buy: ‘Here Comes The Rumour Mill’
is out on Feb 27 on Trangressive.
Order it at www.transgressive.co.uk
Live: TYK are currently on a full
UK/Irish tour until mid-March.
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The Young Knives Say hello to Oxford’s angriest bunch of young men, doing
TW
TEREED-RO a great line in suburban pop satire and retro ’70s suits
ROR CK t was his boss at a Didcot One look at their thick-rimmed NHS specs
ISTS computer firm who first told and ’70s tweed suits and it’s clear that CUTTING EDGE
! Henry Dartnall that he was
a terrorist.
they’re certainly not fans of the fashion
pages either. Seven ways to get
“It’s management speak for “At gigs, if we don’t pick up our stage TYK’s bargain bin look
someone at work who says, passes quickly enough, bouncers don’t
‘Oh, fuck this, I don’t wanna be believe we’re in a band,” says Ollie. Get a rider
here – this is all fucking bollocks!’” swears “Or they say, ‘No suits mate,’” adds Henry. “We put socks on our rider,
the singer and guitarist from indie-pop “I got that at Notting Hill Arts Club. They so we get three pairs
voyeurs The Young Knives. That, in the told me to take my tie off. Why? I’m only wherever we turn up.”
open-plan office, is, apparently, as bad as going to put it back on when I go onstage.”
a mad bomber. The incident, along with Yet, rock’s best new contrarians thrive Avoid chain charity shops
a few others involving his tosser of an on being difficult. Take bassist The House “The bigger groups of charity
ex-supervisor, has since found its way into Of Lords, for example. Christened Thomas shops, like Oxfam, are getting
the lyrics of a Young Knives song, ‘She’s Dartnall by his parents, he was given his very dear. Try one run by an
Attracted To…’ – just one of many tunes on nickname by Henry and Ollie after he independent animal sanctuary.
their forthcoming album inspired by idiots. chose to veto everything from proposed You’re more likely to get a suit there
From Oxford via obscure Leicestershire song titles to drum sounds – much like for £3, rather than £20.”
market town Ashby de-la Zouche, Westminster’s stuffy second chamber.
The Young Knives are the greatest Then there’s the Knives’ counter-intuitive Shop in shitholes
purveyors of weird, beautiful, moron- choice of video producers. Shot on location “Try somewhere like
strewn suburban hate-pop this country in Wakefield Town Hall, their recent promo Bicester, 10 miles
has seen since Jarvis hung up his anorak. video for new single ‘Here Comes The north of Oxford. It’s
In fact, you could go as far as to call Henry’s Rumour Mill’ (a damningly dry, wonk-rock a bit scummy and
tongue-in-cheek witticisms and social satire of social politics) was shot by it’s got eight or nine
a Leeds firm which, to the Knives’ charity shops. No-one shops
delight, specialises in cheap double in them, because people who wear
“I was told to take my glazing ads. But being wilfully
belligerent buggers hasn’t harmed
Reebok Classics don’t want to be seen
going into charity shops.”
tie off at an arts club. The Young Knives’ reputation
yet. Having finally jacked in their Follow your nose
Why? I’ll only put it back nine-to-fives in June last year,
the trio have since been on tour
“If the shop smells of piss
and cabbage it’s going to
on when I’m onstage” with The Futureheads, signed on
the line with label of the moment
be good. Again, no-one
else will bother going in.”
Henry Dartnall Trangressive and had Gang Of
Four legend Andy Gill produce Check for old ladies
their debut album. Due for release “Make sure there are slightly
in May, expect more small-town insane old ladies behind the
criticisms the semi-posh South’s answer to tales of curtain-twitching and office tedium counter. Strike up conversation
Alex Turner’s. Except, rather than railing from Henry’s seemingly endless arsenal of with them; though avoid
against such Sheffield staples as scummy cringey anecdotes. the slightly desperate
men (Arctic Monkeys) and swingers (Pulp), “This guy once sold me a car CD player middle-aged women.”
the Knives are instead taking a swipe because it didn’t match the colour of his
at managerial jobsworths and Sunday new car’s dashboard,” he groans. “You Check your labels
supplements. can’t quite believe human nature when “100 per cent cotton
“Those papers sum up everything that’s you’re working with the IKEA generation. is always a good sign.
banal and bollocks,” spits drummer Ollie The Young Knives are about everything that As is Harris tweed.”
Askew, becoming visibly agitated. they aren’t.”
The Young Knives (l-r) Henry, “The worst bits are the lifestyle sections. Junior executives, nightclub Gestapo and And finally…
The House Of Lords and Ollie: not Are sun-dried tomatoes better than sun- Sunday supplement jerk-offs had better “Set your outfit off with a new badge.
shooting from the hip, for once blushed? Then Jenny Eclair talks about all watch out, lest they get cut down to size We recommend getting a Rumble
her lovely flat. I mean, isn’t she supposed during a night of The Young Knives this Strips one. They’re a great new band.”
to be left wing?” spring. Alex Rayner
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A lover of old school technology, Mr White would OK, Arcade Fire’s Bloke In The Crash Helmet, you may
probably be able to get down with his C60 and C90. have made it onto NME’s Cool List but frankly all that
Sadly, there are no adaptors for the eight-track versions head-banging is pretty darn dangerous! Perhaps
of ‘My Doorbell’ that are currently sitting in his red and you’d like to add these armbands to complement
white cellar (containing red and white wine, obviously!). your health and safety look!
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do those Arctic Monkeys listen to Go! Team get remixed by Simian.
when they’re at home? ‘Ladyflash(Simian Mix)’ is ready and
Check out the Music Store’s waiting on iTunes now.
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| He’s been called the male
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angel, Paul Weller has been Speakers (Altec Lansing in Motion iM11) Case (Apple iPod shuffle Sport case)
around for the key moments in Go! Team Ex-Blur bespectacled dude likes to make his solo CDs You may have heard he’s cut back on the partying and is
musical history for the last 25 years. – Go get ’em! in a headrush flash, so these portable, wireless speakers now attempting to get fitter and happier. So what better
Finally, The Modfather’s best are would be an ideal gift for him. On the go, in the studio, person to try out the shuffle Sport case on his daily jogs?
collected with his very own iTunes on your speakers, voilá! Now, can you imagine him in a tracksuit?
essentials.
| Speaking of retro rock, hotly-

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What Russell Brand is listening to at
various points of his busy working day
AND FINALLY…
Did you forget your loved
one on that oh so special I wake up to… “‘Lilac Wine’ by Jeff I’m Sheena’s baby, working hard to make
day of February 14? Don’t Buckley. It ensures that I begin the day our semi-detached house an impenetrable
want Valentine’s guilt weighed down with impossible melancholy fortress safe from our enemies who would
looming over your head for and longing!” do me and Sheena wrong.”
the whole of the coming I’m quite embarrassed when… “I do a I like to party to… “‘What Have I Done To
Lady iPod year? Well just click on www. lachrymose cover of Morrissey’s ‘Everyday Deserve This?’ by Pet Shop Boys featuring
lingerie is also iattire.net/index.php/ Is Like Sunday’ with piano backing!” Dusty Springfield. It makes me just break Russell dresses like a
available cPath/71 for some fantastic When I’m going to work I listen to… down and get on that dancefloor to shake black nano for an evenin
er, dressing up ideas. “‘9 To 5’ by Sheena Easton. I like to pretend some nifty moves!” g
Hot Puppies: can’t quite
afford a tourbus yet
NEW MUSIC IN
YOUR TOWN
SHEFFIELD
nce famous solely for its steel,
electro and Cockers Joe and
Jarvis, Sheffield is undergoing
a complete cultural revolution.
Although you’ll now find both Britain’s
biggest signed (you know who) and
unsigned (Long Blondes, The Harrisons,
Bromheads Jacket), there’s more going
on besides the Gangs Of New Yorkshire.
So here’s four of the Steel City’s lesser-
known finest:
Little Ze
(www.littleze.com)
Tumultuous guitars, razor-sharp
shards of electro and big-bollocked
swaggering belligerence, Little Ze
sound like Kasabian waging
apocalyptic digital war.
The Yell
(www.myspace.com/theyell)
Shambolic electro-punks whose Radio 1’s main man in Wales, Huw Stephens, Das Wanderlust: ist gut
, ya?
chaotic live shows (where lead yelper
Idle Hans convulses like his nads on the new bands making a splash this week
are wired up to the National Grid)
are totally unmissable.
Really, Get Cape. Wear big bands coming out of there. I’ve seen The
Cape. Fly (www.get Poppies (www.myspace.com/poppiesuk)
capewearcapefly.co.uk) has live loads and they’ve just released a single
got to be one of the best on a small label called King Dodd. They’re
names for a solo artist ever. I first heard of really energetic but there’s a real pop
him when he turned up to a One Music event sensibility to their songs too, a bit like The
I was hosting at In The City in Manchester last Libertines, I’d say. They’re three blokes
year. It was an open mic session and he was who’ve all just started college and moved into
the last to perform. He got out his laptop and a house together in Cardiff, so they’re the
acoustic guitar and just went for it – it was new Monkees (the ’60s ones, not the Arctic
Little Man Tate: big, we
brilliant! He gave me a demo afterwards of ones – Ed) and they’ve got a song called ‘Sex
rate electro-emo songs that he’s done. It’s quite Sells’ which has got one of the best riffs
political in places too. He came into Maida I think I’ve ever heard! Radio Luxemburg
Vale to do a session for us recently and one of (www.radiolux.org) make sort of scuzzy-prog
Little Man Tate the songs he recorded was an anti-racism pop not dissimilar to Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci,
(www.littlemantate.co.uk) song. It was with a trumpet player and sort of and The Hot Puppies (www.thehotpuppies
Brilliant, Kaisers-like shoutalong pop, sounded like a young, interesting Billy Bragg. .com) have recently released a single on the Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly:
shortly
over which LMT singer Jon Windle I’m not even sure exactly where he comes Fandango label. It’s really stylish, female- tipped to take off very
spouts voyeuristic tales of transvestite from but he’s always gigging all over the fronted, classy sort of music – try and
thugs in red suspenders and bisexuals place and he’s got a single coming in January track a copy down if you can.
called Marie. on a label called Big Scary Monsters, which is Das Wanderlust (www.daswanderlust Chalets. They’ve got an EP out on – now
almost as good a name as his. .co.uk) are a band from the North East of here’s a wicked name for a label – Don’t Tell
“One place I’m going across to quite a lot England who got in touch with me through Clare Records. I’ve booked them to come in
these days is Aberystwyth, ’cos there’s a MySpace. I’ve played their demo a few times for a Maida Vale session soon, where I’m
really cool scene there at the moment. It’s on air and it’s always had a massive, brilliant going to introduce them to the
kind of like a studenty Brighton on the west reaction. It’s really fast scruffy punk with rest of the world. It’s nice
coast of Wales. Radio Luxemburg, The both female and male vocals, but it’s a little having my job when you get
Poppies and The Hot Puppies are the three bit more raw than, say, The Research or The to do things like that!
r few weeks
65daysofstatic: anothe
y can go
of standing still and the
NEW BAND NEWS

65daysofstatic
(www.65daysofstatic.com) | St Helens’ bearded | It’s been a good week ‘Five Minutes With Arctic Kubichek!, iLiKETRAiNS
Instrumental post-rockers who mix beach boys The Loungs for unsigned Sheffield Monkeys’. ‘The Agent’ is and The Pigeon
thunderous guitarscapes with glitchy release a new single on upstarts Little Man Tate. self-released on Feb 20. Detectives. Fittingly,
drum’n’bass beats. February 27. Entitled ‘I’m Indie record distributors there’s also a DTTR
Gonna Take Your Girl’, Cargo have revealed | The new 22-track rotating line-up tour
and released on Manc- they’ve had more compilation from Leeds’ taking place right now
pop cubby-hole Akoustik enquiries about their indie stable ‘Dance To The (it finishes up at Leeds
By Rick Martin, the Anarkhy, they follow this forthcoming single, than Radio’ is released on Cockpit on March 10). ¡Forward, Russia!: dan
first person to ever up with a jaunt to the they’ve had about March 7 featuring More info, line-ups and cin’
into a town near you soo
n
TOM BEARD
tell NME about capital on March 4 anything else in the past exclusive tracks from dates at www.
Arctic Monkeys at Brixton Windmill. 12 months apart from ¡Forward, Russia!, dancetotheradio.com.
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On Every Wall
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Like a Scouse Oasis
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Some typical reside
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to like harmony-
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their drummer’s quite
irksome stick trickery,
t doesn’t matter that the individual but there’s something
members hail from Essex, Yorkshire, unquestionably good
Southampton and the Midlands: for going on at the heart
The Holloways, north London will of their snappy, sussed
always be home. With lyrics about Camden, beat pop.
King’s Cross and tonight’s gig location
Islington, The Holloways never stray far from
what they know – they’re even named after
a local stretch of road most famous for its
sex shops and sketchy pubs.
Sticking two fingers up to the New Cross
and Thamesbeat scenes, The Holloways
deliver tight ska-swathed punk that owes
as much to the boozed-up Irish folk of The
Pogues as it does to The Specials’ urban EES: “seedy”
skank. ‘Great Britain’ is a twisted national
anthem that ridicules the Beckhams, while
urging the rest of our good nation to sow Exotic Exotic
their wild oats (“Come on Great Britain, Seductive
let’s sleep around!”). When they climax Electrarousal Edit
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five-gigs-old Reverend And Thing is – and this is where everything gets reet
The Makers, Jon McClure was turned on its head – the Reverend’s groove is
already the most influential more freeform ’80s Madchester than noughties
figure in Sheffield. Wry Sheffield. ‘Conveyor’ sees funk-bass tangle with
Steel City lyrical observations? His previous bursts of electro gargles, while the ska-pop of
band 1984 perfected them while most of the ‘Abandoned’ ends with, of all things, a trombone
gangs of New Yorkshire were still pipe-dreams solo. Even a Mondays-style backing singer, Laura The Amateur
scribbled on the back of schoolbooks. The bloke Manuel (think a classier Lady Sov), pops up on Dramatics
on the Monkeys’ album cover? That’s his brother, ‘Bandits’. Trust us, before long you’ll be one of Television
Chris. Collaborators on his forthcoming debut the growing congregation worshipping at the God fact: A high-ranking www.myspace.com/
LP? Members of Bromheads Jacket, Milburn altar of the Reverend. Hallelujah! Rick Martin religious man can also be known theamateurdramatics
and ex-bandmate Alex Turner, no less. Make www.myspace.com/reverendmusic as a Primate. Coincidence? Brilliant nerd-pop
from Sunderland, with
reference points as
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punkers The Modern
Liam Frost And The Slowdown Family Lovers, NY art stars
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y 24 spoken-word grump
Alan Bennett. Needless
to say, the end result
is both whimsically
onely nights, sad songs, the bluegrass-inspired stomp of ‘She idiosyncratic and ever
bad whisky – being a singer- Painted Pictures’ could almost be Bright so slightly special.
songwriter isn’t exactly a party. Eyes rolling around in a kaleidescope. And James Jam
Perhaps that’s why Mancunian despite the dedication of ‘I Woke Up From
acoustic guitar-plucker Liam Frost has A Strange Dream’ to a recently lost friend, TESTING
roped in a full band to help him through his the song itself is much more of a hoe-down TESTING
month-long London residency. Like Arcade than a wake. Are you in a band? Are
TOM OXLEY/PHIL WALLIS
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in possession of banjos and a drummer Frost And The Slowdown Family are a free- your demos to Radar,
Liam Frost winces as he who looks bizarrely like Johnny Borrell, wheeling 21st century folk carnival. And, NME, 25th Floor, King’s
gets a facial hair caught in they certainly succeed in shaking stuff up. like good whisky, a very rare thing indeed. Reach Tower, Stamford
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NME gets on the bus and in the bar for three crazy days inside the tour of the year.
But who keeps slapping Arctic Monkeys? Which member of Maximo Park has blood
on his hands? Why don’t We Are Scientists allow dogs in their dressing room?
And which band want to throw Mystery Jets in a blender?
THE END OF THE demographics that have been to live up to, and their opening 30
BEGINNING planned out for us.” minutes, right from the opening
How have you all been interacting? And which ones are you? chants of “Zoo time!/Zoo time!” to
Paul Smith, Maximo Park: “It’s “Well, as the headliners we’ve been the baffling psyche-folk-tronic finale
probably a sociological thing. Maybe doing this for a year and our album’s of ‘Alas Agnes’, is making them new
you could have some important been out a long time and we haven’t friends in every city. If they don’t
philosophy professor analysing it sold as many records as Arctic find them first: they’ve already
and drawing graphs and stuff. Then Monkeys but we’ve been doing what buddied up with Arctic Monkeys,
we’d probably all slot into the we do for a while now. So maybe blowing all the money they made
we’re the reliable parents. But I’d from DJing after the Glasgow gig at
hope not, I’d hope we’re still a little a late-night casino together
bit young.” (“They’ve just got so much latent
energy!” says Jets guitarist Henry
Paul’s T-shirt softens the
blow for what he’s about
MAKING DENS Harrison). Bassmonkey Andy
to take out of his pocket WITH MYSTERY Nicholson gave Jets drummer Kapil
JETS Trivedi his woolly hat, which he’s
Nottingham’s Heavenly Social, and started sleeping in. As the tour
it’s the official aftershow. Our four progresses, the Jets’ dressing room
bands have conquered Rock City (shared, mostly, with the Scientists)
and are now concentrating on the will become the tour’s one-stop fun
serious business of getting drunk. shop. Though they fall short of
Iwan from The Automatic, who’s decorating it with beads, it’s like
dropped by after a support slot with their own corner of Eel Pie Island,
The Kooks, is trying to explain to their own little den – which, as
Paul Smith the intricacies of top TV Henry Harrison tells us, typifies
quantum physics gameshow Deal their whole approach. “That’s why
Or No Deal. He is, alas, having none our album’s called ‘Making Dens’,
of it, so we stroll past the We Are our music’s like a den. It’s the idea
Scientists (busy with girls) to sit that wherever you are, you can turn
down with Mystery Jets. it into your own space.” These
As the opening turn, the Jets have happy-go-hippy ways means it’s
Coldplay, Franz and Kaiser Chiefs barely noticed that Henry is

the
We’d say The Beatles had
sown up
whole “pioneer” thing
trying
Paul, but full marks for
Alex practices his

strut’n’croon
y/
It’s the Mystery/Monke
WAS fan
Maximo mafia… and a
IN THE LADIES
WITH ARCTIC mention the shock at realising that Backstage at Liverpool Academy,
MONKEYS their lives have irrevocably changed. they’ve been given the downstairs
A little perspective: Arctic Monkeys’ In other words, a headfuck. So quite dressing room, the one the most
previous UK tour went on for 14 understandably, they’ve gone into out of the way. But with the
nights. The one before that, 13. shutdown; agreeing to do one NME dressing-floor bathrooms out of
singer Blaine’s father. This year’s ShockWaves interview on the first night in which use, their dressing room also
Do you have to keep an eye NMExtravaganza – the longest in they quite brilliantly eliminated the becomes a corridor to the only
on him on the road? “Well, its history – spans a month. And need to do any more (“We’re not available toilet for those with
he hates me pointing or with three other turns sharing the very good at them”). Humility has laminates. And this is a ladies’.
looking at him,” Henry says, limelight, it’s our boys’ biggest always been their middle name, but A party soon ensues. “They’re
peering over at his son, “so experience of fully-fledged touring while Alex’s hair is getting bigger just better aren’t they, the
I just keep an eye on him from to date. The day it began, their and bigger, he’s going to great northern gigs?” nods cheerful
afar. He likes to think he’s album was released to first-day lengths to make sure his head does guitarist Jamie Cook. “I know we
independent…” sales of 60,000; it ratcheted up to not – on the first night in Dublin, he get the northern thing all the
Along stagger Arctic Monkeys. 350,000 by the time the week was personally scoured the venue, time, but there’s definitely less
Congratulations on your record- out, making it the fastest-selling removing all the tour-branded people with their arms folded,
breaking success, NME tell them. British debut of all time, ever. And posters of himself from the waiting to be impressed, up here.”
“We found out it were Hear’Say’s with that, came the blanket Ambassador’s walls, out of sheer Half the country would kill for a
record we broke!” trills guitarist coverage of their every breath, the embarrassment. ticket to Arctic Monkeys’ dressing
Jamie Cook in mock indignation. paparazzi camped outside their But whoever decided to make the room, but apart from the man
“Could we not beat somebody good? parents’ homes, ex-girlfriends being Monkeys’ privacy sacred clearly from Deltasonic records
What did Oasis do?” stalked by reporters – not to wasn’t in charge of planning. telling a faintly pornographic

3 5 7 8 10 12 14
1 2 4 6 9 11 13 15 16
WHO’S WHO
1. Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys)
2. Andy Nicholson (Arctic Monkeys)
3. Duncan Lloyd (Maximo Park)
4. Jamie Cook (Arctic Monkeys)
5. Tom English (Maximo Park)
6. Keith Murray (We Are Scientists)
7. Henry Harrison (Mystery Jets)
8. Lukas Wooller (Maximo Park)
9. Paul Smith (Maximo Park)
the face of the storm, Alex, usually a
Cockerish raconteur onstage, keeps “The other day I slapped Michael [Tapper, drums]:
“They like to touch.”
10. Archis Tiku (Maximo Park)
11. Blaine Harrison (Mystery Jets)
banter to little more than some
town-on-town teasing about one of them he was Keith: “They like to touch,
not listen.”
12. Chris Cain (We Are Scientists)
13. Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys)
Sheffield in Leeds and about
Liverpool in Manchester. He and being so polite” Michael, Chris: “Arctic Monkeys!”
Keith: “Cordial to a fault. To a
14. Michael Tapper (We Are Scientists) Jamie do a bit of Beatles-like deep fault.”
15. Kai Fish (Mystery Jets) sharing of the mic. And, of course, it WAS, on Arctic Monkeys Michael: “The other day I slapped
16. Kapil Trivedi (Mystery Jets) goes without saying that the one of them, he was being so polite.”
audience are as rabid and rapturous Chris “You wanted to bring a little
as in the Fab Four’s early days. try to put a positive spin on this humanity out of the guy.”
story to a distinctly non-plussed whole America thing?’ And we said, Michael: “Just stop being so
Alex, it’s a fairly subdued affair. ‘Probably not, but we will do fucking polite!”
As ever, the songs do the talking, whatever we can.’ Frankly, the Chris: “The guy was like, ‘I’m
and the songs are on fire. The set’s money just wasn’t there.” sorry, we must have
been re-jigged, so that the all-crowd So you’re doing the opposite?
singalong of ‘When The Sun Goes “I wouldn’t say we are out to spite The Americans have lan
ded
Down’ comes first, followed up with America. But we are out to and Science is golden
‘…Dancefloor’. Two Number Ones represent our vision of America,
in under five minutes! This is the which is an America absorbed
Monkeys letting their album tracks by Canada.”
shine; ‘Dancing Shoes’ and In reality, our threesome have been
‘…Vampires’ getting the most love burning craters through the UK in
from a crowd new to the funk and much the same way as most US
proving that for all the fuss about exports worth their salt these days –
Alex as a poet, the rhythm section by sounding British. Onstage,
share an equal genius. True to the The NME pin-up. Who they’re smooth and no-nonsense,
policy of keeping his head down in needs Smash Hits? letting their thunderous new wave
riffs do the talking and making hits
out of ‘The Great Escape’ and, er,
ON THE COUCH ‘It’s A Hit’. Offstage, they’re the
WITH WE ARE touring party’s comic relief.
SCIENTISTS On the wall of their Leeds dressing
“We are ambassadors,” booms room is a flipchart booming, ‘WHY
Chris Cain, moustachioed DOGS! ARE NO LONGER!!
bassist with We Are Scientists, ALLOWED IN THE DRESSING
“of ill will!” ROOM!!!’ (chief among reasons:
Fair enough. Just weeks after ‘Dogs eat people’s shoes and then
NME declared all non-British reproduce them in a form both
music in 2006 officially dead, vulgar and soft’; ‘Dogs, when you
New York’s poppermost have honey on your face, will try to
soldiers of spidery punk-funk bite your face’). Discipline and The crowds gather in
are the tour’s sole American humour are plainly their deepest Nottingham on Jan 31
dignitaries – and thus out to held virtues, and as the ‘exotic’
make a good impression. contingent, their ears lie behind
“I think you’re right every wall. So what better place
ultimately,” he continues, “but than here, sweat dripping from their
we did get a call from the brows, to take a temperature check
secretary of state on the on how everybody is getting on.
mobile before we left while we “Mystery Jets,” demurs frontman
were at JFK airport. The Keith Murray, “deeply romantic,
secretary of state said to us, and veering heavily toward the
prepar e for tak e ‘Guys, guys, please.’ Miss carnal.”
The Jets
as openers of the nigh t Rice – Condi, as we call her – Chris: “Thoughtful, but only in
off
said, ‘Listen guys, can you sexual matters.”

Alex and co hit the stage
when the sun goes down
misunderstood each Cookie pleases the

other, I’m sorry…’ Sheffield crowd in
To find someone who’s a Wednesday shirt
essentially sitting on top of
the world so humble is a bit
maddening.”
Would you expect them to
act in a different way?
Keith: “We almost demanded
of them; we’d given them capes
and crowns and sceptres, we
were like, ‘MAKE US BOW
BEFORE YOU!’ And they won’t
do it! Whenever we pass them in
the halls we fall to our
knees and slap our palms
to the concrete and they
just walk up and gently
place their hand on our
shoulders and say, ‘Rise,
my son.’ I will be honest –
one time I did see the glint
of mad power in Andy
[Nicholson]’s eyes. I could
see, like, they were almost
like flames, ‘Yes! Yes!
I see!’ and Matthew
[Helders, drums] shook Kaiser Chief, Ricky push harder, I wonder where else bands and grabbing hold of it,
him and was like, ‘Andy! Wilson, who has I can go from here. You jump around waving it around their heads and
Please! Remember the puzzlingly turned like a fanny, but you’ve still got to zapping people with it like it’s a big
pact!!’ And he sort of Matt Monkey ready to up at catering for a sing the song. And ‘Apply Some whip made of fire.
juddered and nodded, ‘Yes, paint the town blue tour he was on last Pressure’ is like going to the gym.” The rest of the band have taken
yes of course.’” year. Home for a notice of Paul’s Looney Toons stage
Chris: “Maximo Park!” rare period of APPLYING SOME routines, Duncan [Lloyd, guitars]
Keith: “Now they are writing, they’re PRESSURE WITH and Archis [Tiku, bass] in
marshall in the extreme. enjoying only having MAXIMO PARK particular spending most of the
They rule with an iron fist.” to work for five hours In less than a year, Maximo Park show spinning round like they’re
Chris: “They demand that a day rather than the have gone from opening the NME trying to reach the optimum speed
everyone stay on a schedule. 25 they endured last New Music Tour to supporting for time travel. This stage is theirs.
They demand that everyone year. Last year they Kaiser Chiefs on the NME Paul’s hands are scarred from
have a good time.” were the tour’s Rock’n’Roll Riot Tour to headlining bleeding, he just found out his blood
Keith: “Yeah, they’re success stories, the daddy of them all. That’s pressure is up, his hearing is shot
benevolent dictators to be opening the show headlined above the band who’ve and he’s started to be charged for
sure. The borders are sort before The Killers and just sold 350,000 records inside a broken microphones, there’s been
of a paternal thing, going on to eat the week. Which would be pressure on so many of them. But he’s loving
everything’s in our best world. All five have its own, but ever since The Great every second.
interests. ‘Rock! Smile! turned up tonight to Extremo Walkout of 2001, where “It’s been exciting,” he grins, “it’s
Clap, dammit! Have fun! pay their respects or, nice to be back on the
Get drunk!’”
Chris: “Where your
Paul Maximo finds the
as Nick Hodgson puts
it, “to check out the “We just want to road. From a personal
point of view, I’m
parents might say, ‘All I
ever want from you is that
first mirror of the tour competition. Put that in
your magazine!” destroy the stage in a always thinking that if
we’ve made a good
you should achieve to your
potential and have a good
Whitey keeps up a lie
about the Monkeys’ progressive, fiery way” album then we need to
go out and play it to
time doing it,’ the Maximo Park manager pinching their demo for
Paul Smith, Maximo Park
people. We just want to
guys put in a little twist, they say, ‘Fake Tales Of San Francisco’ three destroy the stage in a
‘All that I should demand of you – at years ago for an impressive four progressive,
knifepoint – is that you achieve to minutes. He’s about 12 times as passionate, fiery way!”
your potential and have fun doing animated as we ever saw him on Academies-full of Lostprophets
it.’ That’s their pleasant little twist.” tour, though he’s probably just obsessives (who’d nabbed all the THE BEGINNING
pissed. And they all revert to the tickets) walked out on poor Andrew OF THE END
ON THE WRONG default expression of seeing the WK, all eyes have been on the How do you see this ending?
TOUR WITH Monkeys live for the first time: head headliners, and gangs of the more Keith Murray, We Are Scientists:
KAISER CHIEFS slightly cocked, mouth agape, bullysome Arctic Army have been “I’m gonna start instigating a
The Leeds leg also demonstrates in puzzled eyes screeching,‘Oh, putting it about online that ver Park trapdoor policy. What’s that? Well,
spectacular fashion the unity of our I seeeeeeee.’ have been playing to empty halls. we’re going to build a huge trapdoor
indie nation. It’s not even nightfall After the show, it’s Club NME and Untrue. “I think something was onstage and sit there with a little
before we come across our first New Yorkshire is out in force. Nick’s reported online,” says Paul, “I know trigger to activate it. Like, ‘Click!
downstairs’ neighbour is repeatedly that a few people had gone off to get Goodbye Kai! So long! Oh and you
mistaken for “his bodyguard”, and their last train as always happens at took Blaine with you…’ ‘Alex, you’re
neither of them, it turns out, can the end of a gig and especially after walking away from that mic, eh?
fathom how Deal Or No Deal works three bands, but it’s crazy to see Click! Whoosh!’ We’re gonna have a
either. Across the room is Whiskas lies in print.” grinder down there under the stage.
from ¡Forward, Russia!, plotting Still, this week might be the But we’re not gonna have it on, we
how they are going to sign their Monkeys’ trial by fire, but it’s don’t wanna harm them. ’Cos then
record deal (with themselves) up in Maximo’s coronation as part of the we’re gonna have a slide down to
the Arctic Circle (more on that soon). big league. Lesser bands would get a chocolate pool. A happy ending.”
Maximo singer Paul mans the bored with playing the same songs
decks, in-between wearing a blue
baseball cap and climbing about the
for 18 months, but like the Kaisers
before them, their stint on the road
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EASTENDERS-
TRASHING,
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ROYALTY-BASHING, 2
FRANZ SPAWNING
INDIE HEROES...
After 10 years of cultdom, Belle & Sebastian
are finally ready to delve into their hidden past
n their own quiet way, ever sacrifice artistic integrity for
Belle & Sebastian are cold, hard commercial success? 3
the greatest pop band “Absolutely,” replies Stuart firmly.
this country has “We’ve tried it all. We’ve signed to
produced since The a bigger label, we’ve tried to write
Smiths. Over the last proper singles, we even got in
decade they’ve released Trevor Horn to produce our last
seven albums and nine album! When I compare ourselves
EPs’ worth of peerless music; to really popular groups who’ve had
literate of lyric, joyful of tune and loads of hits, it just makes me feel
rife with the little things that make like we’ve done nothing, achieved B&S (l-r) Richard, Chris, Bob,
good songs great (handclaps, finger- nothing and are nothing. But that’s Sarah, Stuart, Stevie and Mick: the
clicks, female singers). Nevertheless, a way to drive yourself on.” band unveil their latest haul from
the charity shops of Glasgow
despite a few close calls, they’ve still He’s being modest, of course; Belle
to make the jump from a cult to a & Sebastian have achieved more in
commercial concern. Admittedly, their time together than most. As
not talking to the press for the vast considers Stuart, “I suspected that them. But I suppose, when the vast
majority of those 10 years hasn’t we’d appeal to a certain group of majority of your fans are four years
helped, but with new album ‘The
Life Pursuit’, they’re attempting to
“Would we sacrifice people, and I was right. I’d had ME
for seven years. It quite often affects
old, they’re not going to pick up a
phone to vote for you.”
redress the balance.
They won’t thank us for saying
artistic integrity for people in adolescence, and that’s a
time of your life when bad stuff can
“It was a great pop moment,”
concurs guitarist Stevie Jackson, “It
this, but ‘The Life Pursuit’ –
recorded in LA, and arguably their
commercial success? happen and maybe with guidance,
you can keep people from going off
was a wake-up call to the industry
with regards to the internet. At the
best record since 1996’s ‘If You’re
Feeling Sinister’ – is the sound of a
Absolutely! We’ve tried the rails. Maybe it’s a bit conceited
for us to think that we can make
time, I was dismissive of it, but
looking back, I’m really proud.”
band eager to dispel the myths that
surround them: namely that they’re
everything!” Stuart records to help people, but that was
the general feeling at the start.”
In 2004, their fans voted them the
greatest Scottish band of all time
a bookish bunch of pop elitists. On In return, people have been good to in a poll run by magazine The List.
‘We Are The Sleepyheads’, frontman patriarchs of the Glaswegian indie Belle & Sebastian; in 1999, when The band are predictably modest
Stuart Murdoch even goes so far as scene, they’ve won Brit Awards, they picked up a Brit nomination for about it: “They’ll do another vote
to sing, “People look at us and they essentially founded All Tomorrow’s Best Newcomer, the fans voted them next year and Franz Ferdinand’ll
think we’re doing fine/People look at Parties, been voted the greatest to victory ahead of Steps, much to win it,” is Jackson’s take. But Stuart
us as though they see us all the time/ Scottish band of all time and the chagrin of Pete Waterman, who Murdoch’s concise answer says it all:
But they never take to us/We’ve been inspired Morrissey-esque devotion accused them of vote-rigging. “We are the greatest, though.”
in this town so long we might as well among their small army of fans. “We’ve still never come face to face
be dead”. Add to that the glam rock Backstage at the ABC, NME meets with Pete Waterman,” smiles bassist
reinvention they’ve undergone on people who have moved to Glasgow Mick Cooke. “He’s written about us NME.COM
‘White Collar Boy’ and ‘The Blues from as far afield as Tokyo and New in his autobiography and he’s still Listen to exclusive tracks from Belle &
Are Still Blue’ and you’ve got a band Jersey because, in their own words, bitter and twisted about it. I think Sebastian’s new album ‘The Life Pursuit’
who, 10 years on, are still squirming “This band are my life.” that’s a good thing, because people on NME.COM now
out of their pigeonhole. Would B&S “When we started the band,” like him just expect it all to come to

B&S: A LIFE
IN OBJECTS
5 A career guide in memorabilia.
What price this lot on eBay?
Grosvenor Café T-shirt and

1 mug: This is the place in
Glasgow’s West End where Stuart
Murdoch put the band together.
Charlie Brown book: The book

8 2 Chris is holding is a reference to
the track from the album ‘A Charlie
Brown Christmas’, which the band
6 played at John Peel’s Christmas Party
at Maida Vale in 2002.
3 ‘The Boss Is In’ sign: Taken

from the Confessions Of… style
video to the 2003 single ‘Step Into My
Office, Baby’, which was directed by
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan.
4 Tickets: In her hand Sarah has

a bunch of tickets from the Café
Soma show in 1996, only the band’s
second ever gig. There are eight
versions of the tickets – each
featuring individual drawings of the
7 band members of the time.
The Scottish Sun: A blow-up of

5 the newspaper the day after
Belle & Sebastian received their
unexpected Brit Award in 1999.
6 The Trial: The Franz Kafka novel

features on the cover of the
band’s second LP, 1996’s ‘If You’re
Feeling Sinister’.
The List: A commemorative

7 plaque awarded to the band
after they were voted best Scottish
band ever in 2005. They left the
trophy in the pub. Incidentally, they
can’t find the Brit Award either.
Cut-out: These Marc Baines

8 illustrations were made for
2004’s ‘School’s Out’ gigs at Glasgow
Botanic Gardens. This one is holding
a copy of 2003’s ‘Dear Catastrophe
Waitress’ LP. Alan Woodhouse
IF YOU’RE FEELING TRIVIA Stuart Murdoch was a caretaker, y’know…
1 They made their first album as part of 4 They hate the press 6 They insulted Prince Charles 8 They had an inter-band
a college course At the first All Tomorrow’s Parties festival At a tribute concert to their romance
An embryonic line-up of the band recorded B&S banned all photographers from their producer Trevor Horn at Stuart met his belle Isobel
the band’s debut album, ‘Tigermilk’, in Sunday night headline slot. Not to be Wembley Arena in 2004, Campbell on New Year’s Day
1996 as part of a music course at Stow outwitted, NME took pictures from the when Stuart sang, “I’ve got no 1996 at a party, penning ‘My
College in Glasgow. Original vinyl copies crowd with the roll of film being claims to your crown” from Wandering Days Are Over’ the
are as rare as Gallagher brother humility. surreptitiously smuggled out of the hall in ‘I’m A Cuckoo’, he realised he next day in homage. The two
the knickers of an NME staffer. was singing them at special then began a feisty, on-off
2 Singer Stuart Murdoch was a caretaker guest Prince Charles. When relationship which lasted
For the first few years of the band’s 5 They were chased off the set the two met afterwards, it pretty much until Isobel
existence Murdoch worked at Hyndlands of EastEnders was noted: “Charles left quit the band in 2002.
Parish Church in Glasgow’s West End, After their first appearance on Top Of The pretty sharpish.”
where he still worships, and indeed takes Pops in 2000 (for ‘Legal Man’), B&S 9 They’re better than
his place in the choir. Rock’n’roll! drunkenly decided to go for a pint in The 7 They do bizarre cover The Proclaimers!
Queen Vic (the soap’s set was next door). versions live Readers of Scottish mag
3 They won a Brit Award in 1999 They made it, but were arrested for These include AC/DC’s The List placed them at
Despite being on their third album and trespassing, bar drummer Richard ‘Problem Child’, Madness’ the summit of Caledonian
thanks to their incredibly loyal fans, B&S Colbourn and manager Neil Robertson, ‘Embarrassment’, rock last year, ahead of
sensationally beat Pete Waterman’s pop who were having a slash beside Arthur Europe’s ‘The Final Isobel Campbell: no Texas, The Proclaimers,
puppets to the Best Newcomer Brit in Fowler’s bench. The invasion led to a Countdown’ and Sly & The Family longer Stuart Murdoch’s Wet Wet Wet and the Bay
1999. Waterman was apoplectic. scandalous exposé in The Sun. Stone’s ‘Everyday People’. belle. Or his Sebastian City Rollers. AW

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PHOTOGRAPHS: DAVID ELLIS THE KOOKS
The Kooks (l-r) Paul, Luke,
Hugh, Max: they’re a white
bunch of jokers, this lot
uke Pritchard, singer with “exhaustion” usually means “Max was completely tangled up,”
of The Kooks, should that they can’t speak because their Luke says. “He’s got to sort out his
by rights be clinking crack-pipe has become lodged in own demons. We sent him to a place Five LPs that made The Kooks
glasses and putting their oesophagus, it’s easy to where he could get some help, but he
the ska-rock coloured question Luke’s explanation. But it left because it was horrible.” The Beatles
bunting up. After all, seems he’s telling the truth. It sounds as if Max’s “demons” are The Beatles (1968)
his band has recently scored a Top “Touring is so fun and at the same very much in the present tense. Luke: “It’s so diverse. It’s just
20 single (‘You Don’t Love Me’), a time so weird,” Luke says. “It’s not What if they forced him to leave the real classic songwriting.”
slot on TOTP and an album that has because you’re travelling a lot, but band permanently?
“been selling more than the Arctic more because you’re out every night. “Max will never leave,” Luke says, David Bowie
Monkeys” (in their hometown of “he’s at the creative heart of our Hunky Dory (1971)
Brighton). But something heavy
“It’s a whirlwind of band, he’s a genius songwriter. He “We listen to it all the time. Our
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girls and drinking. But

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Pritchard, normally a bundle of out. It could take a week, it could

enthusiasm, is pausing to ponder the take a year, but he will never leave.” The Rolling Stones
Out Of Our Heads (1965)
absence of bassist Max Rafferty, who
temporarily left The Kooks at the you can’t do it for too The band ambled on with
temporary bassist Pete Denton “It’s the Stones at their best.
It’s got a real R&B influence.”
end of last year. After a night of
partying, Max left an apologetic note long” Luke Pritchard joining Luke, guitarist Hugh Harris
and drummer Paul Garred. But the
BRMC
on Luke’s bed explaining that he pressure of dealing with this three-
Howl (2005)
would be exiting the band at the end It’s like nothing you’ve ever legged dog combined with a history
“I just got this a few days ago,
of their tour. So what’s up? experienced.” And the perks of of respiratory problems got to Luke.
but it blew me away!”
“Max had to take some time off playing under bands like Editors and He was close to collapsing at the
because he’s a bit of an animal,” says The Dead 60s also became apparent. aftershow of their victorious gig at Fleetwood Mac
Luke. It seems that the two years of “When you’re a support band you London’s Garage in late 2005. Rumours (1977)
non-stop touring had worn the have it, man! You get off early “In the future, I think we’ll do less “‘Dreams’ is one of my favourite
bassist down. “I was sleeping in the and you can do whatever. It’s a touring,” he sagely admits. songs ever, it warms my heart.”
same room as him and woke up and whirlwind of girls, drinking and Later on that day, NME witnesses
found the note. But by the time he got everything. But you can’t do it for their album launch at the Audio club
to the train station, he had a change
of heart and said that he wanted to
too long. You think you’re
invulnerable, but you’re really not.”
in Brighton. As the band launch into
a joyfully shambolic version of NME.COM
stay on the tour. But he was too Inevitably, Max’s fragile personality ‘Eddie’s Gun’ on bass is… Max. He Hear The Kooks’ album ‘Inside In
exhausted and had to go home.” cracked under the combination of may only be back for one night, but Inside Out’ in full on the NME.COM
In these Defamer-gorging times too much pot and partying and not behind his dripping golden-brown Media Player now
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Awards: these days he might
find it more difficult to find so
many willing participants
y 1996, Britpop was at its kind of Christ-like figure with the power of
peak with Blur, Oasis and ‘‘My actions healing. The music industry allows him to
Pulp forming a trinity of indulge his fantasies because of his wealth
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pop legends that we now know, and with his following night at a Pulp gig in Cardiff,
sharp lyrics and geek-chic appearance, sees himself as a Cocker told the crowd: “I haven’t got a Album: This Is
skinny singer Jarvis Cocker was always an personal crusade against Michael Jackson. Hardcore (1998) Pulp’s
unlikely pin-up. But with the 1996 Brit Christ-like figure I’m not even religious. But when someone post-‘Different Class’
Awards, Cocker was about to be appears onstage and wants to be Jesus, release was described as
transformed into a national hero by pulling with the power I think it’s a bit off.” an “operatic opus of
a legendary and controversial stunt. Epic Records said that Jackson was staggeringly bleak refrain”
While Pulp were becoming famous for of healing’’ “sickened, saddened, shocked, upset, (NME, March 28, 1998).
singing about supermarkets and cheated, angry...”, while tabloids across the Dark and dirty, it remains
middle England, on the other Jarvis Cocker world reported on the “screaming” and their most impressively
side of the Atlantic, “bleeding” kids huddling in “terror”. ambitious album.
Michael was in the Although the footage was edited out of the
Jackson audience, television broadcast of the Brits, it Book: Truth & Beauty
was an decided to transpired that nobody was hurt. As for by Mark Sturdy (2003)
untouchable register disapproval Jarvis, he would go down in history for This comprehensive history,
global superstar. by storming the stage and waggling his rump at the world’s most written by fan Mark Sturdy,
Jackson’s self- shaking his bottom in paranoid and deluded popstar. is the story of Pulp from
promotion had already seen Jackson’s direction. “He formation to semi-
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1996, the King Of Pop was by a security guard, but eluded Franz Ferdinand DVD: Live Forever
miming an outrageously indulgent him and ran back to centre stage. A “Pulp were fantastic. Jarvis (2003)
performance of ‘Earth Song’ with heavy security guard dressed as one of Jacko’s was an expert at turning the John Dower’s hilarious
religious overtones. Surrounded by kids, dancers made a grab for the Pulp singer, mundane and everyday into retrospective on the rise
Jackson struck a Christ-like pose and attempting to push him away. Cocker then something special without too and fall of Britpop features
appeared to be healing the children of the ran offstage. He was arrested, questioned much fuss; their songs struck a interviews with Liam,
world, as well as kissing a Rabbi (in an until 3am and released on bail without universal chord. Not only was Damon and Jarvis, whose
attempt to discredit accusations of anti- charge”. Bob Mortimer, half of the comedy Jarvis one of the best lyricists of his dry observations on drugs,
Semitism after remarks he made in an duo Vic & Bob, Brit attendee and a former generation, but they also had an uncanny music and the celebrity of
interview). As NME reported at the time, defence lawyer, sprang to Jarvis’ aid. knack of being able to write some Pulp are delivered from a
Jackson was even “hoisted aloft on a crane Jarvis Cocker later released a statement: tremendously catchy and effective pop single bed in Sheffield.
with a wind machine blowing his hair”. “My actions were a form of protest at the tunes. They are sadly missed.” Unmissable.
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Channel’), while the anti-folk, anti-Blunt
band that started all that post-Romantic
Canuck brilliance – are represented by the
contain avant- something oddly
garde content heartening about Liars’
Beneath The Surface contingent makes a great showing in the mournful new demo ‘There Goes My Outfit’. near-suicidal trajectory
Volume 2: A Bella form of arty sleazers Tilly And The Wall With more eyelid fluttering and wrist from the mainstream. On ‘Drum’s Not Dead’,
Union Sampler (‘Nights Of The Living Dead’) and Beck-ites flashing than two cowboys on Brokeback these tranced-out New York art freaks slip
(Bella Union) 6 Sukpatch (‘Bottom Of The Well’). Meanwhile, Mountain, the rest of ‘Beneath The Surface’ into another plane entirely, hammering
the ‘ones to watch’ box is ticked by LA’s flirts with alt.country. Texan quintet out PiL percussion-scapes that, for all their
Record label compilations are notoriously Foreign Born – their ‘We Had Pleasure’ is Midlake come on Wilco-like with ‘Roscoe’ eerie distance, happen on some beautiful
hit-and-miss affairs. Designed to show how the Psychedelic Furs-riddled ’80s power (yawn), while Fionn Regan does his best moments. Out there, sure – but this is the
‘eclectic’ (translation: “We signed an acid sort of experimentalism Radiohead
7
anthem that Delays dream about writing ‘Heartbreaker’-era Ryan Adams impression
jazz act in 1994 and can’t get rid of them, every night on their Multi-Coloured Swap on ‘The Underwood Typewriter’ (excellent, scoop plaudits for. Louis Pattison
but they’re still big in Germany”) the label Shop pillowcases. Ending with Yeti’s but surely one musical progeny who shits out
is, they tend to oscillate widely between an delightful ‘Never Lose Your Sense Of records faster than you can say “No. Really.
ace remix of a track you already know and Wonder’, ‘Can You Hear Me Clearly’ is a Stop. I haven’t listened to the concept album
a ropey track by a ridiculously named band rarity – a compilation that doesn’t force you about the afternoon you spent playing
who were possibly signed for a bet. to grimace and reach for the skip button billiards with The Strokes yet” is enough?).
DIY label Moshi Moshi began life as labour once, and for that we should be grateful. ‘Beneath The Surface’ does not have the
of love, formed by record biz bods who Bella Union was founded by Cocteau same thread of brilliance running through it
wanted to work with non-mainstream acts. Twin Simon Raymonde and, tellingly, the that ‘Can You Hear Me Clearly’ does. Though
Consequently, ‘Can You Hear Me Clearly’ label’s most high-profile act, the excellent the dour undercurrent may make it easy
has the feel of a house party – heartfelt, Howling Bells, retain some elements of the winter listening, it’s not quite Moshi Moshi’s
homespun and ever so slightly crazy. In fact, Twins’ ethereal bluster, showcased here essential party mix. But since it’s the price Liars: they really
it feels like the best compilation tape your on ‘Setting Sun’. However, as ‘Beneath The of a single, think of it as Howling Bells with prefer Krispy Kremes…
bezzie never made you. When the biggest Surface’ shows, the label is not just about a surfeit of bonus tracks. Priya Elan

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The Boston-based of Beth’s sunlight. Tsk
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otherworldy pop was
criminally ignored
during their short
lifespan, but now with
Rare radio a box-set, live album
recordings and DVD all readily
reissued available there’s no
excuse. These much
sought-after recordings were originally
made for the late John Peel in 1989 and
1990 and tracks such as ‘When Will You
Come Home’ are a masterclass in why
Galaxie were such a great band; at once wild
and untamed, but beautiful and perfectly
crafted. It’s on the cover versions that they
really excel, with acts as diverse as Buffy
Sainte-Marie, Young Marble Giants and
Jonathan Richman getting the treatment.
The highlight, however, is a sub-aquatic
version of the Sex Pistols’ ‘Submission’
that sounds more like it was recorded
in the Mariana Trench rather than
Maida Vale. Nathaniel Cramp
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Live At Town Hall (Vagrant)
Mark ‘E’ Oliver Everett
is the Les Dennis
of rock’n’roll. The
frontman of Virginia
downer-popsters Eels,
Everett’s had it so bad,
so often, he’s come to
In the comfort zone

Oft-bereaved embody the perennial
Prozac loser. Captured here
bluesman strips without band, as if to
it down accentuate the spirit-
crushing loneliness, here E tarries sadly
through laments like ‘Suicide Life’ backed by Hip ’90s folkie edges ever closer to the coffee table
violin and the chime of xylophone. But just
when you’re starting to worry some of the
cancer vibes might rub off, he’ll crack that
Beth Orton nostalgia act, while credibility-wise Radio
2 has bucked up its ideas sufficiently since
turns all over the shop, while you somehow
doubt that a song called ‘Absinthe’ would
underdog grin and knock out a number like Comfort Of the mid-’90s to now provide an audience ever permeate a Katie Melua tracklist. But
‘Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living)’, backed Strangers (EMI) for folkie singer/songwriters who are the sad fact is that elsewhere, on the likes
by a bunch of cheerleaders. Goddamn Harsh though they may trendier than Tunstall yet not quite as of the title track and ‘Safe In Your Arms’
right. Louis Pattison 6 seem, the whispers are that barmy as Banhart. there’s simply too much finger-picking and
10 years on from her debut Of course, aside from her voice’s lyrics that concern relationship ‘issues’ of the
album, ‘Trailer Park’, Beth undeniable, slightly husky-yet-soothing adult-shopping-in-IKEA variety. Maybe Beth
Blade Orton has now become a
kind of Dido it’s OK to like. Maybe not such
quality, Orton’s songwriting has always
been left of centre and her fourth album
Orton, unlike some of her still-desperate-for-
kudos contemporaries, is merely growing
Guerrilla Tactics (691 Influential) a bad thing: her previous badge-of-cool is no exception. Wistful opener ‘Worms’ old gracefully, but clearly gracefully aging
After 17 years in hip- collaborators (The Chemical Brothers) borrows its rhythm from, of all things, doesn’t necessarily make for great
hop, Blade deserves are now nothing more than a washed-up Queen’s ‘Killer Queen’; ‘Rectify’ twists and records. Hamish MacBain 6
a lifetime achievement
award. He’ll not get
one, of course. Best
known for earlier
collaborations with
Euros Childs Various Artists Some Girls
UK hip-hop Mark B, ‘Guerrilla Chops (Wichita) Strange Folk (Albion) Heaven’s Pregnant Teens (Epitaph)
veteran with Tactics’ is no Euros Childs should So you’ve been Comprised entirely
best effort yet quantum be more of a (great) getting the jester’s of musicians from
shift, just Blade continuing household name shoes over Circulus’ established American
his tradition for than he is. He is, after medieval jiggery, hardcore/thrash
enervating lyrics allied all, the songwriter but you don’t know bands (the best
to smart, head-nodding and frontman of where to go for your known of whom are
music. The latter is perhaps Disappointing prog-poppers Gorky’s Where nu-folk next fix of whimsy. Noise terrorism masked-mentalists
the album’s USP. At the risk of solo debut from Zygotic Mynci, the meets the auld Let ‘Strange Folk’ be gets its own The Locust), the five
sounding like a Ronnie Corbett Gorky’s man most underrated folk your guide: 18 tracks supergroup members of Some Girls
monologue, Blade’s producer, British group of recent of hemp-woven have a vicious sonic
Baby J, opts for a Kanye-style years. But after never quite managing to fingerpicking that date from the mid-’60s pedigree akin to that of musical pit bulls.
soulful musicality that hints at a break through, the band are currently on (Donovan, Pentangle, the divine Vashti Indeed, by their own admission, the band’s
fine career ahead. See ‘Four Walls’ an indefinite hiatus and Euros has decided Bunyan) to the present day (Devendra, reason for existence revolves around the
– a horn-stabbing, bluesy waltz. to go it alone. But delve into this solo debut Joanna Newsom, honey-voiced Scots laird charming desire to “brutalise people” and
Like System Of A Down, Blade is and, sadly, he only briefly reaches the King Creosote), but spiritually, all hail it’s something they do with an unrelenting
of Armenian descent and at times dizzy heights of his best Gorky’s work. from the same spooked, pagan Wicker amount of power. The 13 songs fly by in 25
shares their love of bombast. But Epic highpoint ‘First Time I Saw You’ has Man hamlet. There’s one duff track, in the minutes, each a more glorious violation of
while the beardy, operatic rockers a sparkle which characterises his greatest shape in ‘Streets Of Arklow’ by honking the senses than the last and by the time
go home to Californian mansions, love songs, while the playful, Casio-driven Irish bore Van Morrison, but a wealth it’s over, you feel like someone’s ripped
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Blade is holed up his London flat. single ‘Donkey Island’ is endearingly silly. of curios, not least Barry Dransfield’s your head off and used an electric sander
on your lugholes. Yes, it’s that good.
You suspect he likes it like that.
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‘Nearer Than Heaven’ – the Southampton-based quartet
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shadow of Jeff Buckley, before tripping over their own
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they hinted at on 2004’s one-off single ‘Lost In A Melody’
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otherworldly – not to mention slightly unnatural – sound
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sodden Beirut on Saturday nights. Which fashion, is no exception. Beneath a sea of Badly Drawn Boy used to specialise in sat like the Matterhorn in the questionable new LP.
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Claims by Paul Smith’s ex-flatmate that the lyrics No gloves on a video shoot
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The Rakes singer Alan Donohoe penned this of some other work The Rifles on set
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builders responsible for the band’s massive shot but the background stays the same
loft extension. Between tea breaks, for and so the whole thing comes together.
cash, obviously. It’s very intense and laborious but the
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Be Your Own Pet/Good Shoes
Harrisons/Jeffry Novak
| Bush Hall, London
“
| Wednesday, February 1
NME feels like a grandad as Tennessee’s finest play for their own age group. And sell ’em T-shirts
onight, Jemina Pearl Unashamedly retro mop-tops Harrisons way Karen O is? Exactly. The famed onstage-
starts the evening maintain the excellent reputation of puker would be too busy wiping the stage
selling T-shirts to
underage fans. The
Sheffield bands with the mod-punk of
recent single ‘Blue Note’. Sarf-London four
Jemina is an hilarious clear of her vomit or selling her own T-shirts
to check out the winter collection.
17-year-old nymphet
singer of Be Your Own
piece Good Shoes are announced by their
MC chucking the contents of their rider
ball of punky, peroxide Like a cat gently clawing your ankles to
buggery, Jemina is an hilarious ball of
Pet is working on the
merch stand, taking time before their first
(oranges, water bottles, a pizza box) at the
audience. Singer Rhys Jones might look like
mania underpinned by punky, peroxide mania underpinned by
sweetness and light, and an exhilarating
all ages show to meet her fellow under-18s.
“We wish we could play every show all
a geography teacher in training, but their
post-Bloc take on geekoid Talking Heads
sweetness and light combination of John Lydon, Giant Drag’s
Annie Hardy and (thin) Britney. Meanwhile,
ages,” says Pearl, between signing seven- pop soon charms the audience. From the screwy guitar work from Jonas Stein, f-f-f-
inch singles for adoring scenesters. “A lot of artdisco pop of ‘Small Town’ and faster, faster, faster beats from drummer
our fans are the same age as us or younger ‘Nazanin’ to, um, ‘Happy Birthday’ Jamin Orral and cruising bass work
and we wanted them to get a chance to see (sung to bassist Joel Cox), it’s a sprightly from Nathan Vasquez create a fevered
us.” The atmosphere at the usually geriatric dance party come to life. Clap Your atmosphere. As the suitably titled
Bush Hall is duly transformed, and you can’t Hands Say “Hmmmm!” ‘Fuuuuuun’ spills out from the
just blame the alcopops. Nashville quartet “We’re called the Sugababes!” Jemina speakers, their chaotic no-wave
BYOP’s spunk’n’junk, elastic chords and Pearl lies before Be Your Own Pet onslaught is blinding.
boundless bounciness has attracted a launch into a ferocious psychobilly “Dance, motherfuckers!” she warns
crowd who are defiantly Up For It. version of ‘Bicycle Bicycle, You Are My as ‘Wildcat!’ causes the audience to
Jemina’s Memphis-bred boyfriend Jeffry Bicycle’. And it’s clear that they are not erupt into several little earthquakes
Novak provides their first support. Like the band we thought they were. If around the hall. Before Jemina
PHIL WALLIS/GUY EPPEL
Tom Vek after being repeatedly hit in the you were thinking these deep-fried disappears into a sea of hands during a
face with a sequencer, he’s the most Nashville teens were the Minipops tightly chaotic encore of ‘Bunk Trunk
exciting one-man band since Dan Sartain. version of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, then think “Wha Skunk’, she says, “Thanks for being our
t do you want, grandad?”:
Mixing punky lo-fi production with hi-fi again, dufus. Can you imagine Bonnie NME’s Priya (second left) tries his pet.” As the awestuck young audience
songs, he wins the crowd over with his John Langford-like Jemina being hailed as luck with Jemina at the merch stall squeals in delight, it’s clear that the
Lydon meets Bo Diddley sneer. a Sevigny-type high fashion icon in the pleasure was all ours. Priya Elan

BYOP’s onstage Test Icicles: they’ve
vomit wiper-upper really got balls
springs into action
BEST GIG
YOU’VE SEEN
RECENTLY?
“I went to see Klax

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they were the best s and
ba
seen in maybe two nd I’ve
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Jamie, The Rakes ars.”
to get
They might not be able
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served at the bar, but the
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can sure invade the sta
Test Icicles
|Rock City, Nottingham
|Saturday, January 28
London noise merchants find their niche

in a mid-afternoon youth explosion “Test Icicles at the
Lo
Calling festival in Am ndon
“ can already guarantee you all
Teen dream:
They really were lik
sterdam.
e no
I’d ever heard; the Ra thing
that this will be soooo much
better than the show tonight!”
Dev Icicle with an iPod, or a so mones
rt
grins guitarist Rory Atwell, rave-Slayer. Insane of
an
prompting a chorus of screams brilliant at the same d
time.”
that is both ecstatic and glass-shatteringly Matt, Infadels
high. Taking to the stage for the first of their
two shows today at the super-ungodly hour
of four o’clock on a Saturday afternoon,
Test Icicles are facing a matinée crowd and
man, are this soda pop-charged, stupidly
young 600 pleased to see them.
Good Shoes: they’ve got the
blues (well, clothes-wise)
There may have been whispers recently
of a potential split after their South By
SouthWest appearance this April, but
onstage the London trio look like they’re
having the time of their lives. It’s not hard to
see why: Test Icicles are about excitement, “Horsebox are a we
noise, sarcasm, showing off, short attention ird
experience. They pla
y
spans and a complete contempt for London quite a lot, around
alt
seriousness. And, today, their schizophrenic with yet more screams. Though this is they haven’t really hough
disco thrash-punk racket has found its mainly because he’s playing to people got
noticed yet. Go see
the
perfect home, being taken at gloriously who realise just how oh-mi-god gorgeous if they’re not too dru m, and
ridiculous face value by a bunch of 14 and he is. Guitarist/keyboardist Dev asks how nk you’ll
get a great show.”
15-year-olds with just one thing on their many people present are members of Max, GoodBooks
minds: having fun. “the global phenomenon that is MySpace”
So this afternoon, ‘Circle Square Triangle’ and the uproarious reaction says it all.
is met less with self-aware industry Test Icicles are here playing to the ultimate
mutterings such as, “Hmmm, this is like home crowd, a bunch of kids who think
WHAT YOU Gang of Four being played by a more
fashion-conscious Cramps with Robert
that name is bloody brilliant, actually, who
have the same obsessions as them and who
THOUGHT Smith on vocals,” and more with the
screech-along and fit of group pogoing
completely understand that there’s nothing
to ‘get’ here – no ‘message’, no ‘concept’,
it deserves. Elsewhere, ‘Your Biggest just a total disregard for anything that is in
Taz, 16, Southend Mistake’ is bludgeoned to death and ‘What’s any way boring.
“It was amazing. I love what Jemina Your Damage?’ tossed off with genuine “Oh my God that was AMAZING!”
was wearing!” don’t-give-a-shit abandon. No-one’s after gasps one girl of no more than 14 years
perfection here, and floppy-fringed Icicle- afterwards, throwing her arms around
Matt, 16, Leigh-On-Sea in-chief Sam Mehran is in his element her friend, who she no doubt lost in the
“Be Your Own Pet were awesome!” – his every between-song-goofaround, moshpit about 10 seconds in. If these three
(involving comedy riffs on Michael beautifully odd young men do split up then “We all went to see
Be
Stefanie Blake, 18, Milton Keynes Jackson’s ‘Black Or White’, getting the she may well have forgotten them in two Sebastian on our nig lle &
“I fucking loved it!” band’s iPod operator to play snippets of months. But that’s kind of the point: for Test Manchester and it wa ht off in
great show.” s a really
Creed and telling his disciples that they’ll Icicles and all who follow them, there really
“all be getting an A+... in ROCK!”) greeted is no time like now. Hamish MacBain Adam, Shout Out
Louds

Ex-rock star Justin Hawkins (right)
displays his physical ‘charms’ and (inset)
proves his worth as a human being
The Darkness
| Alexandra Palace, London
WHAT YOU
THOUGHT
| Tuesday, February 7 What did you
think?
“It was horrible.
Snapping at the crowd, exposing his beer belly and turning up Justin is such
a cock.”
for his own gig. Justin Hawkins’ mistakes just roll on and on What made you
come to the gig?
“My boyfriend
K little Johnny, so you’re Justin himself. And he’s determined to take bought me a ticket.
thinking of going into his bitterness out on his own fans. I’m going to dump
music journalism. Well,
how about some friendly
Excitement and youth “Are you still alive?” he snaps at one point,
when the crowd fail to get excited by his
him.”
Helen Jane, 23
advice first? DON’T EVEN
FUCKING THINK ABOUT IT.
culture couldn’t be comedy rendition of ‘We All Stand Together’
[The Frog Chorus]. During the ‘ballad What did you
Oh, sure, you get your
good days – the days where you get sent
further from here section’ he whimpers, “I can see people
going to the bar. That’s encouraging. Maybe
think?
“It was cool – they
free Rapture T-shirts or get to “hang” with
that Preston off Celebrity Big Brother. But
if David Cameron was we should shut it next time.”
Then he finally cracks: “Oh come on for
could be big!”
Are you a big
then you get the days where you get told to
review The Darkness. The days where
at the sound desk fuck’s sake!” he yells when the crowd don’t
cheer loudly enough. One song later, the gig
Darkness fan?
“No. I’m here for
you’re politely informed that the band are crumbles to an end and the band walk off. personal reasons.”
still so miffed about a live review written in What really crippled my soul was the Does this review sound harsh? Listen: Chris, 35
about 1943 that they’d sooner you propped immense sadness that lurked in the air. you weren’t there. You didn’t see what
up the piddling ticket tout trade outside the For the people gathered here tonight are I saw. You never witnessed Justin warning What did you
gig (only a tenner each!) than put you on the ones who haven’t realised this joke isn’t us he’d got fat before revealing a gigantic think?
the guestlist. And the horror hasn’t even funny any more. They’re the misfits of the beer belly and making the crowd cheer “It was OK but I’m
started yet. world who never discovered The Smiths, whenever he bloated it out. The horror! not a rock fanatic.”
I’m not talking about the awful music, the but found Star Trek instead. And deep down The horror! Is it all over for
Alan Partridge-style ‘banter’ or the kiddy- they’re really lonely. All around is despair. Justin Hawkins, with all his splendidly The Darkness?
KISS attempt at pyrotechnics. I’m not even One woman stands on her own, crying. revolting physical features, is responsible “I can’t really say.
talking about the moment that snaggle- Rebellion, excitement and youth culture for everything bad that festers in the I’m only here
RETNA/EVAN O’LEARY
toothed gristle-brain paraded his sexual couldn’t be further from the building if pits of the human soul. You heard all that because I work
insecurities by floating over the crowd on David Cameron was manning the sound little Johnny? in the ice rink
a wobbly podium shaped like – titter! desk. And as they watch The Darkness Temp agency Reed currently have 24,288 next door.”
snigger! – a pair of woman’s breasts. God circus show come crashing down, the only office jobs going in accountancy. See you Canece Ahmed, 33
no, I was expecting all of that. person who seems aware of the failure is down there. Tim Jonze

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WEDNESDAY
February 15
BEXHILL ON SEA White Lie Plan B 08701 165421
The Modern De La Warr Zero Cipher Highbury Corner
Pavilion 01424 787900 Upstairs At The Garage N5
BIRMINGHAM 020 7607 1818
A Day Called Desire Barfly MANCHESTER
0870 907 0999 Aphrodisiacs/Kevin Duffy/The
Broken Social Scene Carling Juliana Down/Montez Le
Academy 2 0121 262 3000 Bateau Roadhouse
Sunn O)))/Earth Custard 0161 228 1789
Factory 0121 604 7777 Club NME Presents… The
BRIGHTON Whip/This Et Al University
Beth Orton Dome 0161 8321111
PICK OF THE WEEK

01273 709709 Corbieres/Freely Moving/The
The Reveals/Daze One Whole Picture/The Emetics
Concorde 2 01273 673311 Academy 2 0161 275 2930
BRISTOL Broken Social Scene, ¡Forward, Russia! Night And Day
ShockWaves NME Jack Rose/Chris Corsano Academy 2, Birmingham Café 0161 236 1822
Awards Shows Pt II Cube Cinema 0117 907 4190
The Q Fleece 0117 945 0996
NEWCASTLE
The Catweasels/South Street/
While the Maximo-headed NME Tour circles Simple Plan Carling Academy LONDON People Of Santiago The Other
the country, London plays host to a second 0870 771 2000 Carina Round Hoxton Square Bar Rooms 0191 261 9755
week of talent. So, is it Streets or Strokes? CAMBRIDGE and Kitchen N1 0207 613 0709 The Cribs/Giant Drag
Joining the NME staff at Ian Brown? Or Me Against The World Portland Chop Chop Bear Touch Putney University Of Northumbria
doing the funky worm with Maggot at GLC? Arms 01223 357268 Half Moon SW15 020 8780 9383 0191 232 6002
Where: London Astoria, KOKO, Brixton The Young Knives/The Envelopes/Belarus Camden Nine Black Alps Carling Academy
Academy, Hammersmith Palais Holloways The Soul Tree Barfly NW1 0870 907 0999 0870 771 2000
01223 477900 Fay Ray/The Vitamins Notting NORTHAMPTON
CARDIFF Hill Arts Club W11 020 7460 4459 Jim Noir Soundhaus
DON’T MISS
The Dirty Looks/Souldriver Husky/Girls Girls Girls/Kyshera/ 01604 250898
Dempseys 029 2025 2024 Kid Captain Angel Lark In The NOTTINGHAM
Louie/Echomind/Dogzuki Barfly Park N1 020 7278 5781 Elbow/Liam Frost & The
029 2066 7658 Ivy York/Whitestar Oxford Street Slowdown Family Rock City
Larrikin Love CHELTENHAM 100 Club W1 020 7636 0933 0115 941 2544
The newest kids on the Thamesbeat block Komakino/Transit Cop/Century Junkyard Choir/In Shadow From The Shards Of Comets/
are a bunch of carnival-starting gyppo ska- Man Hub 01242 238001 Bethnal Green Pleasure Unit E2 Plans And Apologies Junktion 7
punks with an odd taste in hand-me-downs. DERBY 020 7729 0167 0115 911 6959
Their tour starts this week, and they’re Howling Bells/Meandervent The Mobsters Highbury Corner Gordon Macintyre/The One Who
Victoria Inn 01332 740091 Garage N5 020 7607 1818 Flew Rescue Rooms
looking for someone to get up and play EDINBURGH The Most Terrifying Thing 0115 958 8484
the spoons… Nikitome/Countervayl/Lunatic Purple Turtle NW1 020 7383 4976 PORTSMOUTH
Where: Harlow Square (Saturday), Fusion Bongo Club 0131 558 7604 My Architects Islington Carling Arrowshy/A Stranger In
Northampton Soundhaus (Monday), Union Of Knives/Quinn Cabaret Bar Academy N1 0870 166 3663 Moscow/9 Months Waiting/Your
London Astoria (Tuesday) Voltaire 0131 220 6176 Nately/The Woodin Shades/ Heart Kills Wedgewood Rooms
EXETER Violet Walls Camden Dublin Castle 023 9286 3911
RADAR BAND
Morning Runner Cavern Club NW1 020 7485 1773 ShockWaves NME Awards
01392 495370 Niall Connolly/Mark Greville/ Tour 2006 Presents… Maximo
GLASGOW Fiona Bevan 12 Bar Club WC2 Park/Arctic Monkeys/We Are
Little Man Tate/The Suffrajets/ 020 7916 6989 Scientists/Mystery Jets Guildhall
Jim Noir Roland Shanks/The Fridays Pete Duggan Slaughtered Lamb 023 9282 4355
The ever-so-slightly deranged lo-fi Barfly 0870 907 0999 020 8682 4080 SHEFFIELD
troubadour recently compiled his much- Ryan Adams Carling Academy Scanners/7:21s King’s Cross Water The Crimea/Clearlake/Manic
sought-after early EPs into a quirky debut 0870 771 2000 Rats WC1 020 7336 7326 Boardwalk 0114 279 9090
album and now tours the UK in support of We Start Fires King Tut’s Wah Wah Shady Bard The Luminaire NW6 SOUTHAMPTON
Hut 0141 221 5279 020 7372 7123 Beyond All Reason/Days In
a single – ‘Key Of C’ – that sings the praises LEEDS ShockWaves NME Awards December/First Born/Tight Like
of a guitar chord. Club NME Presents… The Shows 2006 Presents… Ian Strings/Bury Tomorrow Joiners
Where: Northampton Soundhaus Research/Pistolas Faversham Brown/Scratch Perverts/ 023 8022 5612
(Wednesday), Bristol Cube Cinema (Friday), 0113 245 8817 Big Arm Camden KOKO NW1 Money Tree Rhino Club
Glasgow King Tut’s (Tuesday) Dave Clough/David Paterson 020 7388 3222 023 8063 0171
Cockpit 0113 244 3446 ShockWaves NME Awards STOCKTON
FUTURE STARS
Isobel Campbell Brudenell Social Shows 2006 Presents… Nickel Creek Georgian Theatre
Club 0113 243 5866 Goldie Lookin Chain/Infadels/ 01642 674115
Wintermute/Semperfire/Dakota The Rifles/The Maccabees STOKE
Vine 0113 203 1821 Charing Cross Road Astoria WC2 Mew Sugarmill 01782 214991
Boy Kill Boy LEICESTER 020 7434 0403 SWINDON
They may look like little punk-rock Action The Oracleboy Shed Tilly & The Wall Old Street Old Shaped By Fate/Architects/
Men, or The Cooper Temple Clause Juniors, 0116 262 2255 Blue Last EC1 020 7613 2478 Azriel/By My Hands Furnace
but these east Londoners sure do know how Orson Charlotte 0116 255 3956 The Tumbling Dice/Listen Lisse/ 01793 534238
to rawk. LIVERPOOL Sunset Gun Betsy Trotwood TAUNTON
The Go! Team/The Grates Carling 020 7336 7326 The Feeling Aura 01823 256 161
Where: Stoke Sugarmill (Friday), Academy 0870 771 2000 The Underground Velvets/ TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Newcastle Academy (Saturday), Glasgow Milburn/The Veras/The Fuzzface/Holly Lowe/Ruby Blue Moorwater/Spearhead Forum
King Tut’s (Sunday), Aberdeen Moshulu Coronation Barfly Loft @ Masque Old Street 333 EC1 020 7739 5949 08712 777101
(Monday), York Fibbers (Tuesday) 0151 707 6171 The Wailin Jennys Charing YORK
Nick Harper Cavern Club Cross Road Borderline WC2 Humanzi/Dirty Perfect Fibbers
0151 236 1964 020 7734 5547 01904 651 250
INDIE LEGEND IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT TO A GIG...

Isobel Campbell
As Belle & Sebastian continue their crusade to Dream Ticket Dig!
keep jingle-jangle indie alive, their old flame 10pm, BBC 6Music 10pm, FilmFour
Isobel hits the road on her own, plugging her This Glasto ’04 set from the The rumble in the indie-rock jungle
‘Ballad Of The Broken Seas’ album. Liverpudlian quintet prompts the between The Brian Jonestown
question: who did kill The Zutons? Massacre andThe Dandy Warhols.
Where: Leeds Brudenell Social Club
(Wednesday), Norwich Arts Centre Brit Awards 06 The Rakes
(Thursday), Nottingham Social (Friday), 9pm, BBC Radio 2 9.30pm, MTV2
Dublin Sugar Club (Saturday), Brighton BJM: “Does my face Dermot O’Diddly brings live There’s no haughty culture here,
Komedia (Mon), London Bush Hall (Tuesday) look big in this?” coverage with Kanye, Coldplay, as Alan and friends perform a live
the Kaisers and Gorillaz. set for their hoes.
471 GIGS ACROSS THE UK AND IRELAND THIS WEEK

THURSDAY FRIDAY
February 16 February 17
ABERDEEN LEICESTER ShockWaves NME Awards Shows ABERDEEN Alice Texas The Luminaire NW6 The Veez Camden KOKO NW1
Papa Mojo Café Drummond Kapowski/Retro Today Charlotte 2006 Presents… The Magic Red Man Walking/Short Notice 020 7372 7123 020 7388 3222
01224 624642 0116 255 3956 Numbers/The Concretes/Shout Café Drummond 01224 624642 Burst/Just One Fix Camden The Young Knives Farringdon
BATH Souls Vibrating In The Universe/ Out Louds/Morning Runner BEDFORD Underworld NW1 020 7482 1932 Fabric EC1 020 7336 8898
The Chalets/The Hot Puppies Ribcage Attik 0116 222 3800 Brixton Carling Academy Brixton The Chalets/Hot Puppies/The Club NME Presents… The Veez/ MANCHESTER
Moles 01225 404445 LIVERPOOL SW9 020 7771 3000 Antec Sonata Angel 01234 340251 The Pistolas KOKO 020 7387 0428 The Cribs/Giant Drag Academy 3
BELFAST Charm Offensive/The Past ShockWaves NME Awards Shows BIRMINGHAM Econoline/An Emergency Buffalo 0161 275 2930
Gemma Hayes Spring & Airbrake Cavern Club 0151 236 1964 2006 Presents… The Ordinary 21 cm Line/Dirty Soul Flapper & Bar N1 020 7359 6191 The Real Dolls/Dirty Years
028 9032 5968 The Idiot Rate/Day With Mary Boys/Lady Sovereign/Jamie Firkin 0121 236 2421 Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta/ Night And Day Café 0161 236 1822
BIRMINGHAM Barfly @ Masque 0151 707 6171 T/Captain Charing Cross Road Riot Barfly 0870 907 0999 North Sea Navigator Aldgate East Simple Plan Academy
Dog Tired/Insanity Project Roland Shanks University, Astoria WC2 020 7434 0403 That Fucking Tank Hare And Spitz E1 020 7392 9032 0161 275 2930
Flapper & Firkin 0121 236 2421 Academy 3 0151 256 5555 Trans-Mission/Figure 6 Piccadilly Hounds 0121 444 2081 Glassframe/Great White Hope/ NEWCASTLE
First Floor Suicide Carling Bar Two Gallants/Desert Rain Barfly Circus Comedy SW1 020 7839 7261 BRISTOL Lo Fuzz Angel Lark In The Park N1 The Rifles Carling Academy
Academy 0121 262 3000 Loft @ Masque 0151 707 6171 Wherewithal/David Best Jim Noir Cube Cinema 020 7278 5781 0870 771 2000
Hidden In Plain View Carling Voodoo 7:2 Zanzibar Highbury Corner Upstairs At The 0117 907 4190 Hook/Ice Cold In Alex Camden NORTHAMPTON
Academy 2 0121 262 3000 0151 707 1558 Garage N5 020 7607 1818 BURY Dublin Castle NW1 020 7485 1773 Two Gallants Soundhaus
Humanzi/Dirty Perfect Barfly LONDON MANCHESTER The Past/Dave Domminney Hark Jude Edwin Scott/Dave And 01604 250898
0870 907 0999 Barry Martyn & The Young Bobbie Peru/Gabriels Wish Late To Towler 01204 883856 Patricia Islington Hope’n’Anchor NOTTINGHAM
BRIGHTON Bloods Oxford Street 100 Club W1 Room 0161 833 3000 CARDIFF N1 020 7354 1312 Isobel Campbell/Jeniferever
The Aphrodisiacs Freebutt 020 7636 0933 Howling Bells Roadhouse Panel/The Donde Stars/Juliet Liam Gerner/Dariush Rashidi The Social 0115 950 5078
01273 603974 Battles/Semifinalists The 0161 228 1789 Clwb Ifor Bach 029 2023 2199 12 Bar Club WC2 020 7916 6989 Love Ends Disaster/The 721’s/
Jakokoyak Pavilion Theatre Luminaire NW6 020 7372 7123 Kanye West Evening News Arena Vincent Vincent And The Villains The Longcut/Ivory Old Street The Little Kicks Trent University
01273 700747 Chris Brokaw/Alice Texas Aldgate 0161 950 5000 Barfly 029 2066 7658 Cargo EC2 020 7613 7731 0115 848 6200
ShockWaves NME Awards East Spitz E1 020 7392 9032 Liam Frost & The Slowdown CARLISLE Majik Junktion 7 0115 911 6959
Tour 2006 Presents… Maximo The Delaners Highbury Corner Family/Fear Of Music Night And The Crimea Richmond Hall, Mardous Old Vic, Cabaret
Park/Arctic Monkeys/We Are Garage N5 020 7607 1818 Day Café 0161 236 1822 Brickyard 01228 512220 0115 958 2139
Scientists/Mystery Jets Dome Julian Cope Camden KOKO NW1 NEWCASTLE GLASGOW Ryan Adams Royal Centre
01273 709709 020 7388 3222 Astro & Prism/Le Lupe The Broken Social Scene Arts School 0115 948 2525
Orson Concorde 2 01273 673311 Cooperage 0191 233 2940 0141 353 4500 OXFORD
BRISTOL We Start Fires Red Rooms The Go! Team/The Grates Chris Brokaw/The Jesus
Laura Veirs Fleece NORWICH Barrowlands 0141 552 4601 Years Wheatsheaf
0117 945 0996 Beth Orton UEA 01603 505401 Humanzi/Dirty Perfect Barfly 01865 721156
CAMBRIDGE Isobel Campbell Arts Centre 0870 907 0999 Coldcut Zodiac 01865 420042
Elbow Corn Exchange 01603 660352 Kanye West SECC Quench Upstairs at the Zodiac
01223 357851 NOTTINGHAM 0141 248 3000 01865 420 042
CARDIFF Club NME Presents… Lan Formatique/Kink Upstairs PETERBOROUGH
Frizbee/Nathan Williams Infadels/Tiny Dancers Stealth At The Barfly 0870 907 0999 Roland Shanks/
Clwb Ifor Bach 029 2023 2199 0115 958 0672 Logan ABC2 0141 204 5151 Ctrl Alt Delete Met Lounge
COVENTRY Get Amped/Nex/Epoche The Mode/The Merchants 01733 566100
Jack Rose/Chris Corsano Junktion 7 0115 911 6959 Nice’n’Sleazy 0141 333 9637 The Research, 53 PRESTON
Tin Angel 07970 176881 Grain/Dirty Backbeats/Liner Toob Arches 0141 221 4001 Degrees, Preston The Research/The Superkings
DERBY Social 0115 950 5078 ¡Forward, Russia!/Kubichek! 53 Degrees 01772 893 000
Blacktop/Chaser Victoria Joe Bonamassa Rescue Rooms King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut SHEFFIELD
Inn 01332 740091 0115 958 8484 0141 221 5279 Courtney Pine Leadmill
The Minnesota Fats Ryan’s The Ordinary Boys, OXFORD HERTFORD ShockWaves NME Awards 0114 221 2828
Bar 01332 345577 Astoria, London The Paddingtons/5 O’Clock Prankster/Karma Truffle/ Tour 2006 Presents… Maximo Little Man Tate/Chuck Boardwalk
EDINBURGH Heroes/Ripchord Upstairs at the Shrugged Marquee Club Park/Arctic Monkeys/We Are 0114 279 9090
The Hustlers Bongo Club Zodiac 01865 420 042 01992 414242 Scientists/Mystery Jets Brixton Vasquez/Nine More Lies Grapes
0131 558 7604 Regina Spektor/Only Son Zodiac LEEDS Carling Academy Brixton SW9 0114 249 0909
¡Forward, Russia!/Drive By Kalev/The Social Old Street Old 01865 420042 The Cut/Aeon Scream Vine 020 7771 3000 SOUTHAMPTON
Argument Cabaret Voltaire Blue Last EC1 020 7613 2478 PORTSMOUTH 0113 203 1821 Monkey Trip/Beatsix Kingston The Pleasant Sounds/Semper
0131 220 6176 Kirsty Hawkshaw/Tom Schmante/The Kennedy Suite LEICESTER Peel 020 8546 3516 Fire Joiners 023 8022 5612
GLASGOW Greenwood/Shawn Lee 12 Bar Wedgewood Rooms 023 9286 3911 No Offence/Hired Goons Namaste/Exit Stage Left STOKE
David Ford/Duke Special Barfly Club WC2 020 7916 6989 PRESTON Charlotte 0116 255 3956 Highbury Corner Garage N5 Boy Kill Boy Sugarmill
0870 907 0999 Money Can’t Buy Music/ The Envelopes/Star 27 53 Sons Of Itto/The Smears/The 020 7607 1818 01782 214991
Endrick Brothers ABC2 Tilly & The Wall Brixton Windmill Degrees 01772 893 000 Shannons Attik 0116 222 3800 Peter & The Test Tube Babies SWANSEA
0141 204 5151 SW2 020 8671 0700 SHEFFIELD LIVERPOOL Croydon Cartoon 020 8239 1616 The Feeling Escape Club
Nine Black Alps ABC Monic/Sunflies/Cop On The Edge Carvin Jones Boardwalk Infadels/Voodoo 7:2 Barfly Loft @ Roll Deep/Shitdisco Barfly (Club 01792 652854
0870 903 3444 Bethnal Green Pleasure Unit E2 0114 279 9090 Masque 0151 707 6171 Night) 0870 907 0999 TUNBRIDGE WELLS
The Rifles/Milburn King Tut’s Wah 020 7729 0167 The Modern University The Ivories Barfly Bar The Rough Ensemble Betsy Furniture Sound/Songs Of My
Wah Hut 0141 221 5279 Motel Hero/Barfly/Rising Times 0114 222 8777 0151 707 6171 Trotwood 020 7336 7326 Lap Forum 08712 777101
HERTFORD King’s Cross Water Rats WC1 The Streets Leadmill The Love Bites/Same Day Running With Scissors Piccadilly WAKEFIELD
Symbo Marquee Club 020 7336 7326 0114 221 2828 Service/Tokyo Adventures Barfly Circus Comedy SW1 020 7839 7261 Envelopes Escobar
01992 414242 One Dead/The Debrettes SHREWSBURY @ Masque 0151 707 6171 Semifinalists/Kalev/Tilly & The 01924 332000
HUDDERSFIELD Angel Lark In The Park N1 The Open/Envy & Other Sins Nine Black Alps Carling Academy Wall New Cross Venue SE14 WARWICK
Redshed/Gerry And The Atrics 020 7278 5781 Buttermarket 01743 241455 0870 771 2000 020 8692 4077 Beth Orton Arts Centre
University 01484 538156 The Opera House Kingston Peel SOUTHAMPTON LONDON ShockWaves NME Awards Shows 024 7652 4524
LEEDS 020 8546 3516 Dive Dive/The Marble Index Duels/The Motorettes/The 2006 Presents… The Strokes/ WINCHESTER
Broken Social Scene Faversham The Perishers Camden Barfly NW1 Joiners 023 8022 5612 Puzzle Islington Carling Bar Adam Green/White Rose Your Sister Disco Railway Inn
0113 245 8817 0870 907 0999 The Young Knives/The Academy N1 0870 166 3663 Movement Hammersmith Carling 01962 867795
The Crimea Cockpit Rosemary/The Sofa Club/ Holloways University 7 Seconds Of Love/Delusions Of Apollo W6 0870 606 3400 WOLVERHAMPTON
0113 244 3446 Marcheys House Islington 023 8059 5000 Grandeur Tottenham Court Road South/The Tamborines/Polar The Modern Little Civic
The Go! Team Metropolitan Hope’n’Anchor N1 020 7354 1312 TUNBRIDGE WELLS Metro Club W1 020 7437 0964 Remote King’s Cross Water Rats 01902 552121
University 0113 283 2600 The Shaker Heights/Megan Rising Sun Forum 08712 777101 Alexander Tucker/Duke WC1 020 7336 7326 YORK
Silverlode/Authors Of Malicious Goodwin Betsy Trotwood YORK Garwood/Tenebrous Brixton Trabant/Sunplayer Camden Howling Bells/I Am Jack
Code Carpe Diem 0113 243 6264 020 7336 7326 Kid Ego Fibbers 01904 651 250 Windmill SW2 020 8671 0700 Barfly NW1 0870 907 0999 Fibbers 01904 651 250
Evening Sequence David Gray The Mighty The Great

ANDY WILLSHER/TOM OXLEY/JAMES LOOKER/LIAM
7pm, BBC 6Music 11.05pm, Channel 4 Boosh Hunger

SWEENEY/ED MILES/SIMON JAMES/LULA CAMUS
Son of the Fairport Conventionalists, Video exclusive worth watching 1.30am, BBC3 10pm, BBC4
Teddy Thompson strives for just to see his head do that funny Razorlight pop by to help Vince Get the whole tooth about the life
musical success in his own right. shaking thing. and Howard. and songs of Shane MacGowan.
Music Response Shake, Rattle Between The Classic Albums

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This photo had to be altered Tonight My Architects build their 9pm, BBC Radio2 9pm, BBC4 Apparently the baby on the cover of
so his head wasn’t blurred The mighty Razorlight
musical careers with an oh-so-live Mark Lamarr returns with more More about folking Brits, featuring Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ grew up to
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ABERDEEN Junipers/Greenspace/Whitestar Salvage/The Heartwear Process ABERDEEN
No Quarter Café Drummond Magic Sumo 0116 285 6536 King’s Cross Water Rats WC1 The Feeling The Tunnels
01224 624642 Laura Veirs/Pure Horsehair 020 7336 7326 01224 211121
BATH Charlotte 0116 255 3956 ShockWaves NME Awards Shows BIRMINGHAM
The Girls Moles 01225 404445 LIVERPOOL 2006 Presents… The Streets/ Laura Veirs/Pure Horsehair Glee
BEDFORD The Concretes University, The Mitchell Brothers/Prof Club 0870 241 5093
Dive Dive/Cool Ethan Esquires Academy 3 0151 256 5555 Green/The Beats DJs Charing Louie Carling Bar Academy
01234 340120 LONDON Cross Road Astoria WC2 0121 262 3000
BEXHILL ON SEA Actress Hands/The Pop Gang 020 7434 0403 The Darkness/Juliette & The
Coldcut De La Warr Pavilion The Luminaire NW6 020 7372 7123 ShockWaves NME Awards Licks/The Ark NEC
01424 787900 Adultress/Sweet Black Angels/ Shows 2006 Presents… 0870 909 4133
BIRMINGHAM The Remedies Camden Barfly NW1 The Strokes/Adam Green/747s BRIGHTON
Little Man Tate/The Suffrajets 0870 907 0999 Hammersmith Carling Apollo W6 Morning Runner Komedia
Barfly 0870 907 0999 All American Rejects Shepherds 0870 606 3400 01273 647100
Orson Carling Bar Academy Bush Empire 0870 771 2000 Sparks Kentish Town Forum NW5 BRISTOL
0121 262 3000 Black Sanchez Oxford Circus 020 7344 0044 The Infadels Fleece
Shady Bard/Augustine/Project 7 Social W1 020 7636 4992 MANCHESTER 0117 945 0996
Flapper & Firkin 0121 236 2421 The Boyfriends/Luxembourg The Crimea Academy 3 CARDIFF
BRISTOL Tottenham Court Road Metro Club 0161 275 2930 The Modern/Roland Shanks
Sheldon King Folk House W1 020 7437 0964 The Go! Team/The Grates Barfly 029 2066 7658
0117 926 2987 Bring Me The Horizon/Her Academy 0161 275 2930 Whitehouse/Aidswolf/
That Fucking Tank Louisiana Words Kill Highbury Corner Goldfrapp Carling Apollo Gindrinker Clwb Ifor Bach
0117 926 5978 Garage N5 020 7607 1818 0870 401 8000 029 2023 2199
CAMBRIDGE The Cosmics/Urban Voodoo The Darkness/Juliette & The CORK
The Shivers/The Mutts Portland Machine Jamm SW9 Licks/The Ark MEN Arena Gemma Hayes Cyprus Avenue
Arms 01223 357268 020 7274 5537 0161 950 5000 00 35321 427 6165
CORK The Dancing Bears/The Logans NEWCASTLE EDINBURGH
King Creosote Cyprus Avenue Kingston Peel 020 8546 3516 Blackflower/The One Who Flew The Rushes/The Acute/Little
00 35321 427 6165 Bridge Hotel 0191 232 6400 Kicks Cabaret Voltaire The Concretes, Civic
COVENTRY Boy Kill Boy Carling Academy 0131 220 6176 Hall, Wolverhampton
The Research Coliseum 0870 771 2000 EXETER
02476 554473 NORTHAMPTON The Love Bites/The Hookers
Sonic Boom Six/Weeble David Ford/The Duke Spirit Cavern Club 01392 495370
Jailhouse 024 7622 1274 Soundhaus 01604 250898 GLASGOW Ludes/Lewis Eraserhead Brixton Broken Family
DERBY NOTTINGHAM Boy Kill Boy King Tut’s Wah Wah Windmill SW2 020 8671 0700 Band/Francois/Jones Of
Element 104 Victoria Inn Darren Hayman/We Show Up Hut 0141 221 5279 Morton Valence/Mon Fio/The Colorado Social 0115 950 5078
01332 740091 On Radar Junktion 7 Buck Brothers/Absinthe ABC2 Society Of Imaginary Friends Coldcut Rescue Rooms
DONCASTER 0115 911 6959 0141 204 5151 Oxford Circus Social W1 0115 958 8484
The Most Terrifying Thing Trabant/Black Daniel Rescue The Colts/Lin/Tornbrae Barfly 020 7636 4992 OXFORD
Leopard 01302 363054 Rooms 0115 958 8484 0870 907 0999 Operation Monday/Norton/ The Boy Least Likely To/BC
DUBLIN Two Gallants/Jamie T Social LEEDS Oneyesblue/My Rocket 88/ Camplight/Will Burns Zodiac
Isobel Campbell Sugar Club 0115 950 5078 The Guild/Joff Whitten Lahayna Angel Lark In The Park N1 01865 420042
00 3531 678 7188 OLDHAM Faversham 0113 245 8817 020 7278 5781 PETERBOROUGH
DUNDALK Club NME Presents… Envelopes Johnny Truant/Penknife Picturebox/The Chandeliers/ The Ruined/Destructors
Gemma Hayes Spirit Stores The Strokes, Castle 01706 882759 Lovelife/ADI Cockpit Matt Dolphin/Rebel Jane The 666/Radicus Met Lounge
00 35342 935 2697 Apollo, London OXFORD 0113 244 3446 Luminaire NW6 020 7372 7123 01733 566100
EDINBURGH The Young Knives/The The Nothing/Stars Over ShockWaves NME Awards PORTSMOUTH
Amplifico Cabaret Voltaire Holloways Zodiac 01865 420042 Broadway/Turn The Sky/ Shows 2006 Presents… Broken Social Scene Wedgewood
0131 220 6176 PORTSMOUTH I Admit Defeat Fenton The Cribs/The Automatic/ Rooms 023 9286 3911
GLASGOW Earnest Cox/Monkey Rope/Delta The Cribs/Giant Drag Wedgewood 0113 245 3908 Giant Drag/The Long Blondes Nine Black Alps Pyramids Centre
Azzuri/Tiny Montgomery/The Mainland Islington Hope’n’Anchor Rooms 023 9286 3911 The Sunday Glutton Carpe Diem Charing Cross Road Astoria WC2 023 9235 8608
Valor ABC2 0141 204 5151 N1 020 7354 1312 REDDITCH 0113 243 6264 020 7434 0403 READING
Club NME Presents… This Et Al/ Frank and Walters Islington Sunset Cinema Club/Man LIVERPOOL Sixtoes/Mindfold/The Vanity Stellastarr*/The Morning After
The Pistolas School Of Art Carling Bar Academy N1 Overboard Golden Cross Courtney Pine Stanley Theatre, Score/Spectrum 7 Camden Dublin Girls/The Heights Fez Club
0141 353 4530 0870 166 3663 01527 63711 Academy 2 0151 709 9108 Castle NW1 020 7485 1773 0118 958 6839
Simple Plan Carling Academy James Blunt Brixton Carling SHEFFIELD The Front/Gina Dootson/ Sonic Boom Six/Failsafe/Same SHEFFIELD
0870 771 2000 Academy Brixton SW9 The Paddingtons Leadmill Monkfish/Jamside Down Cavern Day Service/The Outer Limits/ The Yardbirds/Durban
The Tommys/Trap 6 King Tut’s 020 7771 3000 0114 221 2828 Club 0151 236 1964 Piper Saint Camden Underworld Boardwalk 0114 279 9090
Wah Wah Hut 0141 221 5279 King Kurt/The Grit/Viva Las SOUTHAMPTON Little Man Tate/The Suffrajets/ NW1 020 7482 1932 SOUTHAMPTON
Uncle John & Whitelock/The Vegas Camden Underworld NW1 The Boy Least Likely To/BC Brubeck Barfly Loft @ Masque MANCHESTER Karmakops/Jarvis Fields/
MoneyshotsBarfly 0870 907 0999 020 7482 1932 Camplight Joiners 023 8022 5612 0151 707 6171 Orson Academy 3 0161 275 2930 Preacher Joe/The Plymouths
HARLOW Kingsize/Rusty Springfield Betsy STOKE ON TRENT LONDON Two Gallants Night And Day Café Joiners 023 8022 5612
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The Ordinary Boys:
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FILTHY LITTLE HABITS,

WORTHING
Apart from being the place that gave us The Ordinary Boys,
Worthing is a town with exceedingly low indie credentials – well,
apart from this night. It mixes local bands and up-and-coming acts
from across the country with a club that’s a perfect alternative
lucky dip; cheap, sweet, and very, very tasty. A filthy little habit at
What music do they play? It’s an indie-rock melting pot, with a Filthy Little Habits
playlist far more diverse – ie ‘far better’ – than most. As club
promoter and DJ Tony informs us, “You’ll hear Fugazi next to The
Housemartins, Squarepusher next to The Lemonheads and
Arcade Fire after NWA.”
What’s been the club’s best night? Bass boy Jamie T and
acoustic angel Emmy The Great popped down for a live night
recently, slaying the baying crowd with their urban folk tales.
What goes down on the dancefloor? Wannabe male strippers
look no further: “The other night a guy removed his underpants
without taking off his jeans,” says Tony. “He literally ripped
them up his arse and off, I’ll never forget it.”
Anthem of the night? Take your pick between Madness’
‘Night Boat To Cairo’ and Tom Waits’ ‘Ice Cream Van’. Which is Hat Indoors’
Dave ‘Wears A
a pretty good choice, if you ask us.
is a legend at FLH
Wilson
Come to Worthing: where one
When: Weekly Thursdays, 10pm-2am piercing just isn’t enough of an
Venue: The Liquid Lounge, 31 Chatsworth Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1LY anti-establishment statement
Cost: £1.50/£3 Website: www.filthylittlehabits.co.uk
DJ PROFILE EVENTS THIS WEEK Email club listings to [email protected]
THE FREELANCE HELLRAISER

BOGNOR REGIS CARDIFF GLASGOW Kingsland Road, 9pm-2am, free £1/£3/£4
Wednesday Wednesday Sunday A hotch-potch of funk, punk Enjoy your indie delivered to
Goo at The Mud Club Popscene at Clwb Ifor Bach Optimo at The Sub Club and early ’90s rave classics. you by three women dressed
The Esplanade, 8pm-late, £3 9.30pm, 2.50/£3 Jamaica Street, 11pm-3am, £5/£6 www.slashclub.co.uk as air hostesses.
Victor and Hector Goo get Classic indie from Blur to Franz The most fun you can have
grubby at tonight’s tasty punk, and a bit of funk and disco for if without laughing. Dirty Water Club at Boston Tuesday
indie, hip-hop and electro you want to dance properly. www.optimo.co.uk Arms White Heat at Madame JoJos
mash-up. www.clwb.net Junction Road, 8.30pm-3am, £6 Brewer Street, 8pm-3am, £4/£5
www.goonight.com LEEDS Billy Childish and his Buff Serena-Maneesh, The Jesus
DUBLIN Wednesday Medways do their monthly Years and Kyote play live.
BATH Wednesday Rebellious Jukebox at Wire garage-punk thang. www.whiteheatmayfair.
Thursday Antics at Crawdaddy Call Lane, 10pm-2.30am, www.dirtywaterclub.com com
Go Ape at Moles Club Harcourt Street, 11pm-3am, £2.50/£3/£3.50
George Street, 10pm-late, ¤4/£5 Boogie the night away at Saturday Boom at The Fez
£4.50/£5 Worship at the altar of indie Leeds’ naughtiest disco. Karate Boots at The Upper Richmond Road,
An excellent line up tonight, and dance to everything www.rebelliousjukebox. Phoenix 8.30pm-2am, £4/£5
with The Chalets, Hot Puppies from Franz to DFA 1979 if the co.uk Cavendish Square, 9pm-3am, £5 The Fray, The Requiems and
Roy, aka The Freelance Hellraiser: and 586 rocking the Ape stage. moment takes you. Konrad, Dirty Omar and Stiletto The Origins play live.
no, Roy doesn’t really fit, does it? www.myspace.com/goape www.anticsindienight.com Saturday play straight up rock’n’roll, with www.boomboomboom.
Bad Sneakers at The The Masonics, live. co.uk
BRISTOL EDINBURGH Faversham
Who are you? Thursday Thursday Springfield Mount, 7.30pm- Bugged Out! at The End MANCHESTER
“I’m Roy, The Freelance Hellraiser. I DJ because it beats Club Stutter at Manhattan The Goulag Beat at Cocteau 3am, £4 West Central Street, 11pm-7am, Saturday
working at the post office. I’ve been doing it since 1990. It Bar Lounge The Rifles, Milburn and Trap2 £12/15 Smile at Star & Garter
WORDS: LEONIE COOPER/VICTORIA CONWAY PHOTOS: DANNY NORTH/DREW FARRELL
started off as a hobby, but when I got to uni, me and my mates St Nicholas Street, 10pm-2am, Picardy Place, 11pm-3am, £3 shake it around live. The template for all good 9pm-3am, £3/£4
were frustrated with the local offerings. You had hardcore £3/£4 A dirty, messy, scuzz-punk www.thefaversham.com electro parties tonight features Your classic no-frills messy
rave or chart pop and nothing in between. We started our own Alternative anthems and garage haven with bands and Erol Alkan and Tiga. indie night. Be prepared to get
night and it progressed from there.” record shop secrets make for cheap booze. LIVERPOOL www.buggedout.net scraped off the floor at the end.
Strangest thing that’s happened when you’ve been a tip-top night. www.myspace.com/ Friday www.starandgarter.co.uk
DJing? www.club-stutter.co.uk thegoulagbeat Evol at Korova Feeling Gloomy at Bar
“Once I put on a tune, looked up and everyone had become Fleet Street, 10pm-4am, £4/5 Academy SOUTHAMPTON
invisible. Weird.” Friday Born to be Wide at The LA’s Virgin treat you to a DJ set, Parkfield Street, 10pm-3am, £5/7 Thursday
Most exotic gig? Ramshackle at Bristol Street while The Whip! play live at this The perfect place for a Long Live Rock and Roll! at
“At a Russian presidential palace in St Petersburg, for Academy Picardy Place, 9pm-1am, free mutant electro disco. Grrr. miserable Saturday night. Lennons
Paul McCartney’s birthday party.” Frogmore Street, 10pm-3am, A self-confessed ‘iPod of the www.clubevol.co.uk www.feelinggloomy.com Onslow Road, 9pm-2am, £3
Top three records at the moment? £3/£4/£5 arts and music scene’. Eclectic, Come and find indie old and
“‘Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco mix)’ – The Go! Team; A mosh-tastic punk and rock to say the least. LONDON Monday new, good and great.
‘Waters Of Nazareth’ – Justice; ‘Pound For Pound’ – night. www.borntobewide.co.uk Wednesday Trash at The End www.longliverockandroll.
The Freelance Hellrasier. My favourite album of all time www.ramshackle.org.uk Death Disco at The Notting West Central Street, 10pm- com
is ‘Screamadelica’ by Primal Scream.” Sunday Hill Arts Club 3am, £5
How do you prepare for a gig? CAMBRIDGE I Fly Spitfires at Cabaret Notting Hill Gate, 6pm-1am, £7 Older than the hills, but with YORK
“Roll lots of ciggies in advance.” Wednesday Voltaire Fay Wray and The Vitamins a playlist fresher than a Fairy- Saturday
What’s your best DJ trick? Club Goo at The Soul Tree Blair Street, 8pm-late, £4 play live, Danny Watson and Liquid enema. Grammar at The Junction
“Making it look like a real job.” Guildhall Place, 8pm-2am, £5 The Acute, The Rushes and The Alan McGee take to the decks. www.trashclub.co.uk Leeman Road, 9pm-1.30am,
The Young Knives and Little Kicks play this edgy Scots www.deathdisco.co.uk £3.50/£4
When: The Freelance Hellraiser is DJing the current ShockWaves Sleepwalker art-punk things indie bash. Monday Fresh and wild indie, alt.rock
NME Awards Shows 2006 in London. up, plus the resident Goo DJs. www.myspace.com/ Friday Airport at The Roxy and clever, clever art rock.
www.clubgoo.co.uk iflyspitfires Slash at Catch Rathbone Place, 10pm-3am, www.clubgrammar.co.uk

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Wednesday, February 15
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BACKSTAGE KOKO, 1a Camden High Street, NW1
Friday, February 17
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Meg, 21 “‘Chec
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” The Modern + Howling Bells
GLASGOW
School of Art, Renfrew Street, G3
Saturday, February 18
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record”
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MANCHESTER, JANUARY 30 what he does Wednesday, February 15
The Whip + This Et Al
How was Club NME for you?
Matty (guitars): “It was wicked. We prefer these MIDDLESBROUGH
alternative indie clubs to the dance clubs; we’re
not into that purist thing. The DJs at Club NME The Empire, Corporation Road, TS1 2RT
play a great mix of electronic and indie hits.” Thursday, February 16
How do you warm up for gigs? TBC
“Last night we had a great game of football with
Lethal Bizzle in the dressing room.” HUDDERSFIELD
Any tour calamities? Tokyo, The Old Court House, Queens
“At Bournemouth the venue was half-built, people
were screwing lights in as we soundchecked. We Street, HD1
If this is how sw
thought it was going to be awful but people went ea
get on the deck ty Infadels Tuesday, February 21
s, ju
bananas. Then Richey headbutted the keyboard what they’re lik st imagine Envelopes
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and we had to take him to A&E.”
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The Castle, 38 Union Street, Oldham, OL1
Saturday, February 18
Envelopes
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Monday, February 20
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