The Horrors - 'Best Thing I Never Had'
Defying expectation has long been The Horrors’ manifesto, but this latest twist is shocking even by their standards, as Faris Badwan covers Beyoncé in the Live Lounge for Fearne Cotton. The result? Undoubtedly the greatest song psychedelic...
The Horrors - 'Skying'
There’s nothing like sticking it to your naysayers. After being dropped from their record label and written off by critics, The Horrors had two options: they could have sacked off the music industry and cried blackened tears over their...
Live Review: Primavera Sound
A motorik thudding announces the arrival of The Horrors, like an ominous cloud over the Iberian coastline. Barcelona’s seafront is the perfect spot to witness the London-based quintet taking (occluding?) their place in the sun and dispatching...
Album review: The Horrors
At first sight, you could easily have dismissed The Horrors as haircuts, scenesters, talentless art-school chancers. Sure, after listening to the brilliant, bilious racket of their debut ‘Strange House’, you might have struggled a bit more....
Live Review: The Horrors
It’s a road-to-Damascus moment. An epiphany. A revelation. Or is it just a load of journalists stood in an arty east London cinema watching a massively hyped band get even more hyped? Well, the answer is all of the above and much, much more...
The Horrors
If ever there was a tune specifically made for strutting down the road looking like the coolest cat on God’s green earth, it would no doubt sound exactly like this. Quite possibly the best song from their debut album (Surely that’s a bit like...
The Horrors: Carling Academy 2, iverpool & Club...
Far be it from us to generalise about a nation of over 300million people, but America is a country full of easily scared, lily-livered wimps. If a bit of innocent bin-throwing and bar-trashing gets their hackles up, then God knows how they sleep...
The Horrors
Currently petrifying View fans on our indie rock tour, Southend’s skinniest goth ghouls get down to the grizzly business of selling records. Drooling and thrashing like Dracula in a blood bank, Faris hollers all manner of granny-frightening...
The Horrors: Strange House
From the moment Faris Rotter’s zombie claw burst from the ancient Indian burial ground beneath the Junk Club, grasped a rusting pot of Hades Hair: Psychopathic Pomade For The Coolest Cadaver On The Slab and led his spindly squadron into the RIP...
The Horrors: Harmony Palace Restaurant, New...
So, it’s the night after Halloween, and some things are still scary. Tonight Club NME is making its Manhattan debut, and there are five wraith-like fellows onstage, screeching through a belligerently raucous six-song set. Yes, The Horrors are in...
