Live Review: The Big Chill Festival
It may have a name that speaks of self-satisfied, smoothie-drinking mellowness, but be not fooled. Formerly a fuck-off rave-up known to insiders as ‘ Hippygeddon ’, this year’s Big Chill programme boasts a subtly brain-sizzling convoy of...
Live Review: Coachella 2011
There should be a law about bands only playing their hits at festivals. Your set is short, the beer tent is in no way near enough to where we are standing, and our friends are already muttering about going to see that other lot on that other...
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy...
Kanye West : douchebag, enemy of the state, incurable gobshite who’s annoyed more American presidents than Fidel Castro. A man with a head so unfeasibly smooth, it looks like he’s slowly evolving into a Madame Tussauds effigy of himself....
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week - Kanye...
The sounds rattling round the skulls of the NME staff this week 1. Kanye West - 'See Me Now' After the uncomfortable spectacle that was Penitent Yeezy post-VMAgate or the existential ego crises that befell him after having his Messiah...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week - Kanye...
The sounds rattling round the skulls of the NME staff this week 1. Kanye West – ‘Power’ Kanye West has done a very good job in recent times of making himself appear like a prize berk in a number of public forums and media. As a...
Live Review: Kanye West Wireless 2009
Just days after Blur’s triumphant Hyde Park comeback shows and you might have expected an air of hungover contemplation to settle over central London’s greenest acreage. Far from it. The Essex lads who chanted ‘Parklife’ all the way back...
Kanye West
So, at 6.30pm, NME is upstairs with about 30 others in the O2, listening to Kanye West himself playing his new album, ‘808s & Heartbreak’, off his iPod. He bugs out throughout, rewinding certain verses to which he wants us to pay particular...
Kanye West
Kanye’s 2008 has been a shitter. His ma, Donda, with whom he vocally shared an inseparable bond, passed away late last year. Then a split from fiancée Alexis sent him into something of an early-30s meltdown. Poor chap. It’d be odd then, for...
Kanye West
The sign above the stage says Global Gathering, but the shutter shades and diamond hand signs, not to mention the SWAT team of security guards patrolling the backstage compound, tell a different story: this is Kanyefest. All the other acts on...
Kanye West
In 2007, Kanye West finds himself in a strange place. He rose to fame back in the early noughties as one of hip-hop’s most successful production auteurs. Following a car accident that almost cost him his life, he picked up the microphone and...
