This week’s NME (12 November 2008)

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Sky Larkin were born in the heart of Yorkshire and have been an active indie concern there for well over a year now, but it was when they made their pilgrimage to the grunge HQ of Seattle that it all clicked. How? Get this weekâ

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MC Rut (Middle Class Rut)

This week’s Radar stars Middle Class Rut are a duo that have survived battered egos and battered dreams, but all this has just made their relationship stronger. As the name suggests they feel it’s pretty much them against the world. "A lot of our generation are finding themselves in that place" tells Zack, "when you spend your life chasing a job and when you get there, you realise it wasnâ

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mighty boosh

Three TV series’, two tours, their third NME cover, their own best-selling book and a whole world of tabloid attention. Where next for The Mighty Boosh? Get this week’s issue of NME for the full story.
Pic: Ed Miles

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The Virgins: style-over-substance fashion band or the saviours of rock n’roll? Check out our encounter with the band in NME, on sale now.
Pic: Pieter M Van Hattem

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Glasvegas will headline the Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2009, with Friendly Fires, White Lies and Florence And The Machine joining them on the road next year. Tickets are available from NME.COM/gigs or the NME Ticketline on 0871 230 1094 now.
Pic: Andy Willsher

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Scottish indie legends Belle And Sebastian are given the royal thumbs up in this week’s NME with their new release ‘The BBC Sessions’. The release sees the band once more provide us with an essential compilation of rarities.

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Coldplay

Coldplay’s ‘Prospekts March’ is being sold as "an EP of eight previously unreleased tracks". The EP is set to be simultaneously teamed with the album and released as ‘Viva La Vida Prospekts March Edition’ this month. But is this release more than a crazy reshuffle of tracks? Find out in this week’s NME.
Pic: Tom Oxley

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Anthony and the Johnsons live with the London Symphony Orcestra at the Barbican, 30.10.08.

The angelic Antony Hegarty of Antony And The Johnsons onstage with the London Symphony Orchestra at London’s Barbican Centre. New York’s gentle giant showcased tracks from the latest EP ‘Another World’, as well as the forthcoming new LP ‘The Crying Light’.
Pic: Richard Johnson

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The Last Shadow Puppets, pictured onstage at the Grand Ballroom, New York City. Performing every song from their debut album ‘The Age of the Understatement’ as well as a fearless version of The Beatles’ ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’, the Puppets brought the curtain down on their collaboration – for now. Read the review in the new issue of NME.
Pic: Pieter M Van Hattem

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