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Listen to Alfie Templeman’s soaring new song ‘Colour Me Blue’

Alfie Templeman has today (April 13) shared a new song – listen to ‘Colour Me Blue’ below. READ MORE: Alfie Templeman announces debut album ‘Mellow Moon’: “It’s a place to get away from anxieties” It’s taken from his upcoming debut album, ‘Mellow Moon’, which is set for release on May 27 via Chess Club Records/AWAL. It follows on from, ‘Leaving Today’, which arrived earlier this month, and the previously released cuts ‘Broken’ and ‘3D Feelings’, the latter of which was produced by Will Bloomfield and The Vaccines’ frontman Justin Young. Speaking about the new track, which he co-produced with Kieran Shudall...
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Brix Smith unveils new band for tour with Public Image Ltd

Brix Smith has announced details of a tour with Public Image Ltd, for which she’ll be joined by an all new band. READ MORE: Brix Smith at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: Liam Gallagher’s free gig for NHS workers “was absolutely fantastic” The musician, who has been a member of The Fall and a host of other punk bands across her decades in music, will play a series of shows in June alongside John Lydon’s PiL. At the shows, she will launch an all-new, all-female band announced recently, including My Bloody Valentine‘s Deb Googe and Jen Macro – on...
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Björk plays a scary seeress in ‘The Northman’ exclusive clip

A new clip of Björk in The Northman has just been shared exclusively with NME – take a look above to watch it. The musician and actor stars in Robert Eggers’ viking epic as a whispering Seeress predicting the future of Alexander Skarsgård’s Amleth. The film follows Amleth as he seeks revenge for the murder of his father, played by Ethan Hawke, and aims to save his mother Queen Gudrún, played by Nicole Kidman. Advertisement Anya Taylor-Joy also stars in the film as Olga, alongside Claes Bang as Fjölnir, Amleth’s uncle, and Willem Dafoe as Heimir the Fool. Eggers co-wrote...
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Shack’s Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band share new single ‘Broken Beauty’

Shack’s Michael Head has shared his new single with The Red Elastic Band, ‘Broken Beauty’ – you can view the video for it below. READ MORE: “If I wrote songs thinking about how they’ll be received, I’d be The 1975”: Bill Ryder-Jones on his accidental new album The track is lifted from their new album ‘Dear Scott’, which is due for release on May 27, via Modern Sky UK. The follow-up to 2017’s ‘Adiós Señor Pussycat’ has been produced by Bill Ryder-Jones. Advertisement The title refers to a postcard F. Scott Fitzgerald, addressed to himself upon checking in at...
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Richard Hawley adds extra show to help support Sheffield Leadmill

Richard Hawley has added an extra date to his forthcoming run of gigs at the Sheffield Leadmill. READ MORE: If Sheffield’s Leadmill – the venue that helped break Arctic Monkeys – closes, we all lose something The singer-songwriter unveiled details of two concerts earlier this week taking place on August 8 and 9 to help the venue after news that is under threat of closure. Now, the venue has announced a third date due to “phenomenal demand” on August 11. Tickets are available for the show now here. Advertisement The trio of concerts will be Hawley’s first headline shows at...
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Florence + The Machine are slowly revealing their ‘Dance Fever’ tracklist

Florence + The Machine are slowly revealing the tracklist to their forthcoming new album ‘Dance Fever’. Florence Welch and her band’s fifth album is set for release on May 13 via Polydor, and has been previewed so far by the singles ‘My Love’, ‘King’, and ‘Heaven Is Here’. READ MORE: The story of NME in 70 (mostly) seminal songs On the band’s official website, a series of playing cards are slowly being turned over with song titles on them. Advertisement Along with the previously released singles, ‘Dance Fever’ is set to feature the songs ‘Free’, ‘Choreomania’, ‘Back In Town’, Girls Against God’,...
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Ariana Grande gig Manchester Arena bomb attack victims’ families feel “failed” by MI5

The family of a victim of the Manchester Arena terrorist attack have said they feel “badly failed” by the MI5. Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the foyer at the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017. Martyn Hett, 29, was among those who died and his father Paul Hett has now said he “can’t understand” why the attacker Salman Abedi was not classed as a person of interest by the security services prior to the attack. Mr Hett told BBC Breakfast that when the bombing happened,...
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Jessi releases fierce music video for new single, ‘Zoom’

Jessi has released a music video for her latest digital single, ‘Zoom’. READ MORE: OH MY GIRL on their beautiful new album ‘Real Love’, seventh anniversary and ‘Queendom’ advice In the dynamic visual released today (April 13), the Korean-American singer and rapper is the subject of a photoshoot, taking viewers through a wide variety of photography sets and backdrops. The video also features scenes of her performing eye-catching choreography with a team of backup dancers. “I see you lookin’ at my P-I-C / You can stretch it, stretch it, stretch stretch it out, I know you like what you...
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Partygate protesters outside Number 10 are blasting ‘Fight For Your Right’ and ‘I Fought The Law’

Protesters outside Number 10, Downing Street last night (April 12) blasted out Beastie Boys and The Clash – see footage below. Protests broke out after Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were given fines referred by the Metropolitan Police for breaking COVID lockdown rules by attending parties at Downing Street and Whitehall. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, along with Johnson’s wife Carrie, have been notified about the fixed penalty notices, which are the latest conclusions from the Met Police’s investigation. Advertisement Labour has called for both Johnson and Sunak to resign, while Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey...
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Lil Durk and Gunna pay homage to Virgil Abloh in ‘What Happened To Virgil’ music video

Rappers Lil Durk and Gunna have paid tribute to the late Virgil Abloh with a new music video for ‘What Happened To Virgil’. READ MORE: 10 song lyrics that honour the late, great Virgil Abloh The music video – released on Tuesday, April 12 – was directed by Cole Bennett and features multiple sets that were inspired by the work of the late Louis Vuitton artistic director and Off White founder. The video also pays respects to Lil Durk’s late brother D Thang and the rapper King Von, who was shot dead in 2020. The video opens with a...
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