Mark Beaumont

Nickelback: all the times they’ve been banned, hounded and weaponised

Nickelback. Just reading the word is enough to send some sane and reasoning individuals grasping for the nearest knitting needle to gouge out their own...

Watch old ravers play Faithless hit ‘Insomnia’ on their child’s toy octopus

Until now you’d either have to be extremely adept at armpit squelches or perfectly retune at least six toy car horns to entertain your...

Biffy Clyro’s War Child gig in pictures

Aware that Paul Weller had supported Richard Hawley at one of the earlier War Child gigs for Brits Week – a series of shows...

Pet Shop Boys: Exclusive interview with VO5 NME Awards 2017 Godlike Geniuses

As kaleidoscopic orbs spin overhead, the duo sit stoically, barely flinching, one in a gold-lined showman’s blazer, the other wearing a helmet resembling a...

Behind the scenes at the VO5 NME Awards 2017

Ever wondered what happens when award winners have finished thanking their make-up people, dissing the haters, rousing rock’n’roll rebellion and wandered off backstage with...

Overheard at the VO5 NME Awards 2017

The VO5 NME Awards 2017, as a bizarre melting pot of popular culture, always throws up the oddest snippets of overheard conversation, surreal Instagram...

What we learned from schmoozing at the VO5 NME Awards 2017

As the liggers chugged Lynchberg Lemonades at the door and starving indie rock bands hungrily devoured the stacks of Dominos on the tables knowing...

Kasabian’s 2017 album: everything we know so far

Having stepped into Oasis’ loafers as the festival-conquering rock behemoths of the age, Kasabian are set to follow-up their none-more-pink 2014 album ’48:13’ with a...

Estrons: “We don’t want to be a band that sounds like something that’s existed before”

“It’s lazy journalism to call us a punk band,” says Estrons singer Tali Källström, long before NME has got its slack arse in gear...

Elbow – ‘Little Fictions’ Review

It’s unfortunate that the cover art for Elbow’s seventh album reflects the cartoonish sci-fi aesthetic of 2016 video game No Man’s Sky, a near-endless...
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