Gary Ryan, Author at NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs

Features

Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Jake Shears

1: In the 2007 Doctor Who episode ‘Last of the Time Lords’, which character dances to the Scissor Sisters song ‘I Can’t Decide’? “I’ve...

Gary Ryan - 25th February 2020

Live Reviews

Kim Petras live in Manchester: larger-than-life pop star wows with parallel universe mega-hits

Kitsch, colourful and in-yer-face

Gary Ryan - 18th February 2020

Features

Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Lee Ranaldo

1: You appear on The Cribs’ 2007 track ‘Be Safe’. Name three things you hate according to its lyrics. “Let me see – parking...

Gary Ryan - 18th February 2020

Awards 2020

Tales from the tables: What you might have missed at the NME Awards 2020

Taylor Swift hailed them as the “craziest awards” ever

Gary Ryan - 14th February 2020

Music Interviews

Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Stephen Malkmus

1: According to the title of her 2019 single, who wishes she was Stephen Malkmus? “Beabadoobee.” CORRECT. The song is called 'I Wish I Was Stephen...

Gary Ryan - 4th February 2020

Features

‘Man Like Mobeen’ star Guz Khan: “Anyone can make a generic sitcom – but we want to present real issues”

Inside a Birmingham food bank, actors Tez Ilyas and Dúaa Karim are playing Jenga with a tower of tins of baked beans. They’re here,...

Gary Ryan - 28th January 2020

Album Reviews

Pet Shop Boys – ‘Hotspot’ review: astutely observed social commentary in the form of absolute mega bangers

14 albums in, PSB lost none of their magic touch

Gary Ryan - 24th January 2020

NME Blogs

The Skeleton Clique’s best fan theories about Twenty One Pilots’ next album

Strap in, as the Skeleton Clique go deep

Gary Ryan - 23rd January 2020

Music Interviews

Weyes Blood on ‘Titanic Rising’, her vital climate change wake-up call: “It’s not music that’s going to save us – it’s activism”

When Natalie Mering – aka Weyes Blood – released ‘Titanic Rising’ last April, it already felt like one of the most vital albums of...

Gary Ryan - 20th January 2020

Features

Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Dave Clark, The Dave Clark Five

1: An easy one to begin with: which band did your 1964 single ‘Glad All Over’ knock off the top of the charts? “The...

Gary Ryan - 20th January 2020

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