Tag: NME
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Drenge – Live at The NME Award Show: The Scala
It was somehow fitting that Drenge should play their biggest headline gig so far, in the week that the country watched the Reverend Alex Turner at The Brit Awards musing in a stoned statesman-like way “That rock’n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into…
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The Greatest Album Of All Time Revealed…
Danny Baker’s Great Album Showdown is looking to identify the Finest Album of All Time. Starting on 5th February and continuing over three episodes on BBC4 Danny and his team of experts will decide which were the best Rock, Pop and R&B albums ever made. This sounds to me like a Thoroughly Good Idea. I…
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Are Blue Öyster Cult Rock’s Most Barking Mad Band (Or Just The Shortest?)
In my last article, I introduced you to some of Rock’s Greatest Song Titles – all by Blue Oyster Cult. 1988’s Imaginos was my first full BÖC album – an entirely bonkers concept album about… I have no idea – twenty five years later. It’s proper barking. We’re talking Katie Price levels of madness here.…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top Ten
2012 marks the 60th Anniversary of the day the NME produced the first list of best-selling songs in the UK. Topping the charts that day – effectively the first number one hit in the UK – was Al Martino. Prior to this chart of record sales, there was a music chart – but one which…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top Ten
This is just a quick word about the BBC4 Documentary Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top Ten. Regular readers may recall that I am set to feature in this documentary which looks at the romance of the charts on the 60th anniversary of the very first NME chart. Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years…
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Palma Violets: Mr Jack’s Birthday Show Live at The Leadmill, Sheffield
“The best new band in Britain” screams the NME’s front cover this week which features a chaotic interview with Palma Violets – a South London four piece who played a secret show at Sheffield’s Leadmill last night as part of Mr Jack’s birthday celebrations. The article is great fun, as the band explain: How they live…
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NME Awards 2012 – Noel Gallagher receives much-needed boost to his modest ego
The NME awards 2012 made for an entertaining spectacle. It’s like a cooler and more foul-mouthed older brother of the Brits, and with a better record collection to boot. It was also notable for making some good choices for the awards ( i.e. I found myself agreeing with the decisions – something that is rare…
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This Man has the Greatest Job In The World
Dean Chalkley is a rock photographer par excellence. I promise I’ll get back to talking about my mundane early life soon, but it isn’t every day you meet someone in your home town who has the best job in the world… It’s probably just as well. If you constantly met a stream of people who…
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