Self Esteem has expanded her I Tour This All The Time run of live dates, including a third show at London’s Eventim Apollo and an additional hometown performance. The UK and Ireland tour, which is in support of her Mercury Prize-nominated album ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (2021), marks her biggest headline gigs yet. “Can’t quite believe I’m typing this but due to popular demand popping off we’ve added a third Hammersmith, a third Manchester and an extra Sheffield. Advertisement “Limited early access tix available from tomorrow for anyone on my mailing list, general sale Friday 10am,” the artist wrote on social media,...
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has opened up on the band’s decision to part ways with Roadrunner Records after 22 years at the label. READ MORE: Slipknot: “Nobody created us except us – we have always drawn our own map” In a new interview for NME’s The Big Read, Taylor spoke on the group’s decision to leave Roadrunner in 2021 having fulfilled their contract, citing changes within the record label as the band’s main reason for leaving. “It’s such a different label than it was when we first signed with it,” he said. “Once you’re in the hands of people who don’t...
The Libertines have announced the launch of a special podcast to celebrate 20 years of their debut album ‘Up The Bracket’. READ MORE: Pete Doherty on life and new Libertines music at Glastonbury 2022: “I’ve been spearheading indie sleaze for years!” The podcast Up The Bracket: 20 Years of The Libertines will be made up of seven episodes featuring exclusive interviews with band members Carl Barât, Pete Doherty, John Hassall and Gary Powell, as well as the A&R who discovered them, James Endeacott, and their biographer and former NME journalist Anthony Thornton. The series will be hosted by Radio X’s Sunta...
When We Were Young Festival has announced its 2023 line-up, which includes Blink-182 and Green Day as headliners. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Green Day: “We live our lives as if we have nothing’ The 2022 festival, described as “an epic line-up of emo and rock bands from the past two decades”, was announced earlier this year with My Chemical Romance and Paramore topping the bill. It was the first new Paramore show to be announced since the group went on a hiatus in 2018. The 2022 festival is due to take place later this month in Las Vegas (October 22, 23...
Lizzo has opened up about the use of an ableist slur in one of her songs, explaining that she’d never heard it used in an offensive context before. The singer was criticised after her song ‘Grrrls’ – featured on her latest album ‘Special’ – included a slang abbreviation of ‘spastic’, a word use primarily to describe cerebral palsy, with derogatory connotations going at least as far back as the 1980s in the UK. The original line reads: “Hold my bag, bitch, hold my bag / Do you see this shit? I’ma sp*z.” Lizzo later changed the line in question...
Tom DeLonge has shared his reaction to the news of Blink-182 reuniting for a huge world tour and new music. The news, announced earlier today (October 11), was shared via a tongue-in-cheek video which confirmed that the band would be back with the classic line-up of DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker. Taking to his Instagram, DeLonge wrote: “What if I was to tell you we just made the best album of our career,” accompanied by a photo from the band’s earlier years. Advertisement Blink-182’s new single ‘Edging’ is set to arrive on Friday (October 14), and it marks...
The Music Venue Trust’s annual Venues Day will be returning next week, with appearances from Frank Turner and Steve Lamacq and NME once again acting as media partner. READ MORE: With Nambucca closing and The Leadmill under threat, campaigners call for venues to own their buildings Taking place at the newly-refurbished St John at Hackney Church in London on Tuesday October 18, the event will see delegates representing venues, promoters, agents, artists, government departments, funding bodies and more come together to “network, interact and share experiences”. NME will be acting as media partner for MVT’s Venues Day for the...
The Mayor of Liverpool, Steve Rotheram, has criticised “grossly inflated” accommodation prices in the city for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. READ MORE: Here’s what Liverpool would look like if they win Eurovision bid Last week, Liverpool was announced as the host city for Eurovision 2023, beating Glasgow to stage the contest on behalf of Ukraine, who organisers deemed unable to host the event due to their ongoing war with Russia. Over the weekend since the announcement, accommodation costs in Liverpool for the weekend of the contest (May 13, 2023) skyrocketed, with some reporting fees of up to £20,000 per...
The Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones has been given his own documentary – you can watch the trailer for it below. Titled Darryl Jones: In The Blood, the new film will explore the life and career of the musician, as well examining matters such as race, politics and growing up on the south side of Chicago. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all feature in the documentary, as does the late Charlie Watts in one of his last filmed interviews. Advertisement “In a band you have to get on with everyone, really,” Watts says in the film. “And...
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to be among the list of witness at the upcoming trial of Fugees member Pras Michel, according to reports. Michel is set to stand trial from November 4 in Washington, DC, accused of illegally lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of the Chinese government and illegally giving contributions to the Obama administration before it. Earlier this year, speculation circled that Fugees cancelled their 25th anniversary tour celebrating second album ‘The Score’ not due to COVID concerns, as originally stated, but Michel’s ongoing legal issues. Advertisement A story published on August 29 by Puck detailed Michel’s indictment for his...