Footage of Sex Pistols performing two shows at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall in 1976 has sold for £15,000 at auction. The two shows have gone down in music legend due to the amount of future musicians in the crowd, inspired by the shows to form bands of their own. Among the audiences of the two shows were future Joy Division bandmates Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Ian Curtis, The Fall‘s Mark E Smith, Buzzcocks‘ Pete Shelley, Howard Devoto and Steve Diggle, as well as Factory Records founder Tony Wilson. Advertisement A 17-year-old Morrissey also witnessed the gig, shortly...
Kings Of Leon have announced a run of UK arena shows in support of their latest album ‘When You See Yourself’. READ MORE: Kings Of Leon: “We’re happy and we love each other” Two of the shows, in Leeds and Newcastle, constitute rescheduled gigs that had previously been announced but delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Original tickets for those shows remain valid. The rest are entirely new dates that will mark the band’s first UK gigs since 2018. The full tour dates are below. Advertisement Kings Of Leon will play: JUNE 13 – Birmingham, Resorts World Arena 14 – Leeds,...
Biffy Clyro have shared the latest taste their forthcoming ninth studio album. You can take a listen to ‘A Hunger In Your Haunt’ below. READ MORE: Biffy Clyro at Reading Festival 2021: crowd-pleasing without compromise The punchy, hard-riffing track will appear on ‘The Myth Of The Happily Ever After’, which was announced along with six-minute lead track ‘Unknown Male 01’ earlier this month. ‘A Hunger In Your Haunt’ is the album’s first official single. Frontman Simon Neil described it as “A riff I’d had kicking around for a while.” Advertisement He continued: “It’s an expression of pure frustration. There were...
Previously unseen footage of Oasis performing ‘Champagne Supernova’ has been shared ahead of the release of feature-length documentary Oasis Knebworth 1996. READ MORE: ‘Oasis Knebworth 1996’ review: an era-defining gig that will live forever You can see the footage below, filmed at the second of the band’s legendary Knebworth shows and featuring a guest appearance from The Stone Roses guitarist John Squire. The seven-minute clip also features Noel Gallagher reflecting on comments made at the time that the performance saw a passing of the baton between The Stone Roses and Oasis, as well as first-hand accounts from fans who...
EA Sports have shared the full soundtrack for FIFA 22, featuring songs by Chvrches, Little Simz, Yard Act and many more. READ MORE: Yard Act – “‘Fixer Upper’ was kind of a joke that got out of hand” Set for release on October 1, the latest instalment in the long-running football video game series will be soundtracked by 47 artists. It includes the likes of Chvrches recent single ‘Good Girls’, Little Simz’s ‘Fear No Man’ and Yard Act’s ‘The Overload’. Advertisement Other acts on the soundtrack include Sam Fender, Jungle, Inhaler, Baby Queen and Easy Life. You can listen to...
Dave Grohl has announced a run of intimate live appearances in support of his forthcoming autobiography The Storyteller – Tales of Life and Music, including a London date next week. READ MORE: Foo Fighters: “Our connection is beyond music” The Foo Fighters frontman will appear onstage at the Savoy Theatre, which holds just over 1,000 people, next Monday (September 27). The exact nature of the shows isn’t yet clear, but it’s promised that they will “see (and hear) him bring his eagerly anticipated first ever book to life.” Tickets go on sale tonight (September 20) at 5pm BST, and are...
Machine Gun Kelly has hit out at Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor after he was recently criticised for switching genres again. Kelly dissed Taylor at Riot Fest in Chicago over the weekend, at which both artists appeared. It comes after Taylor appeared to speak about Kelly in a recent interview with Cutter’s Rockcast even though he didn’t name him directly, saying: “I hate all new rock for the most part. I the artists who failed in one genre and decided to go rock and I think he knows who he is. But that’s another story,” Taylor said. Advertisement Kelly hit...
With the release of her fourth album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, in late August, Halsey transformed into the kind of bold, forward-thinking artist her earlier work suggested she was trending toward. Aided by emphatically moody but never oppressive electronic and atmospheric orchestrations by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, one of the LP’s standouts remains the insurgent “I Am Not a Woman, I’m a God.” In the latest video for the energetic track — filmed live, directed by Dani Vitale, and released via YouTube on Saturday (September 18) — Halsey sings the track in a pretty...
St. Vincent has shared the soundtrack to her and Carrie Brownstein’s new mockumentary The Nowhere Inn – check it out below. The NME Big Read: St. Vincent: “I wanted to tell my story with humour and compassion” The film, which sees Annie Clark playing a fictionalised, satirical version of herself, was released on Friday (September 17), and the soundtrack has followed. The 19-song soundtrack, which was previewed by title track ‘The Nowhere Inn’ last week, features a number of full songs as well as a series of sketches and scores. Advertisement Referencing the film’s co-creator, song titles on ‘The Nowhere Inn’ include ‘Carrie...
Ice-T has paid tribute to Only Fools And Horses star John Challis who died yesterday (September 19) after suffering with cancer. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Ice-T The actor, known for playing second-hand car dealer Terrance Aubrey ‘Boycie’ Boyce in the BBC sitcom from 1981 to 2003 alongside David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, was 79. Following his death Ice-T paid tribute to Challis, revealing that he “somehow became a Twitter friend” with the late actor. Advertisement Posting on Twitter alongside Challis drumming to Motörhead‘s classic hit ‘Ace Of Spades’ the rapper wrote: “I just heard John passed away.. He...