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IN CINEMAS 11111111111 NOW Hello... -&..di. AMERICA WAS WARNED. te; In aspeech in Nevada almost xactly ayear ago this week, '-;t7nie Hillary Clinton told the world precisely who Donald Trump is. "He's taking hate groups mainstream," she said, going on to accuse Trump of "reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering adog whistle to his most hateful supporters." As the events in Charlottesville and Trump's response highlight, Clinton was depressingly Kesha right here. This part of the speech is the most powerful, astark reminder that while we've been inspired by US music for decades, let us not be inspired by the hate and the division of Trump: "A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of

supermarket tabloids and FE AT URES the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government... London Grammar Kesha Off Bloom "Now, Iknow some people still want to give Trump the Beyoncé, Corbyn, Every badass thing she's done "Music is aform of therapy for benefit of the doubt. They killer bees, philosophy. in the last five years. Features us," say the trio. "Some hope that he will eventually Good interview. UFOs and Jerry Seinfeld. people do yoga, we do music." reinvent himself -that there's akinder, gentler, more responsible Donald Trump waiting in the wings... But the hard truth is, there's no other

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You can tually end up feeling more and more onely as it goes on." Reid hasn't fully onquered her stage fright. She had ypnotherapy that "didn't work" and he's since simply tried to "understand hy" she can experience such huge erves, even though most shows go ff without a hitch. "The more realisations we're all being controlled xhausted you get from touring, then if by a higher species. Instead, they ou do have stage fright, the less your apply their big-thinking hats to topics ody can cope with the adrenaline. But everyone frets over —falling in and out fwe do things sensibly, it's fine." of love, getting older but none the Rothman also experienced the wiser, the early-onset mid-life crises itfalls of being overworked. He wentysomethings tend to experience. emembers playing three radio sessions hey have an uncanny ability to make nthe same day of a gig, just to fill intimate subjects feel universal, like ommitments. "The more exhausted inner dilemmas are tormenting all of us about being one of the country's ou are, the more fractured your which is probably why they're selling biggest-selling bands, beyond just how elationship becomes. We all ended up ons of records when most bands overwhelming that must feel. And all haring a room for a while when we truggle to shift a handful. three members are forthcoming about began, and it did get a bit NME finds the trio bunched together one topic: touring, and how it almost moody," he says, specifically • • • in an east London studio, necking broke the band. down Chinese takeaways before "Sometimes when you're in a band having their photo taken. In between you go a bit mad," Major readily admits. `Truth...' mouthfuls of fried rice, they're "Everything is exactly the same — on tour scussing politics and Beyoncé. The waking up, hotels," he explains. He's ree met and formed at Nottingham not giving some cry-me-a-river, Catch London Grammar University, and despite graduating touring-is-bad anecdote — he's just touring the UK and years back and being on the road ever stressing how on the road, the days Ireland this autumn: since, you can picture them back in can blur into one. "It's the same student halls. If this was Freshers' simulation, but a recurring one," OCTOBER Week, guitarist Dan Rothman would be Rothman adds. "You have 12 déjà vus Tues 17 the instantly likeable one gathering the in a row and you do go a bit mad." 02 Apollo, Manchester troops to go to the pub, scruffy-haired 2013 debut album If You Wait' saw Weds 18 02 Academy, Leeds Major would be the elusive muso this somewhat shy trio thrown under Fri 20 blasting Pixies records from his room, the spotlight. Their strung-out singles, 02 Apollo, Manchester while Reid would be in charge of the such as 'Hey Now', became radio Sat 21 communal stereo. mainstays. 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'11,11111111 L.vrlUurl la MAMMA II LONDON GRAMMAR LONDON GRAMMAR LONDON GRAMMAR looking at Major. "I'd wake up in the each other. When you never see laughs. "I don't think it was purposeful, morning at 7am, and he'd be on his them, it can take atoll." [but] it's funny how art, music or BBC news app with his headphones On the surface at least, Reid's default literature can reflect the time without in so couldn't hear his own sniffing. mode as a songwriter is to explore even necessarily intending to do so." There'd be irrational anger!" relationships. 'Rooting For You' relates Back into diplomatic mode, Reid the feeling of "missing someone", and makes it clear the trio aren't a "political ollectively, they decided to could easily have been written when she band", saying, "I don't know enough to honour some previously was thousands of miles from home, away be able to preach about anything." cpostponed tour dates in early from her best mates. But these direct, Still, between being interviewed and 2015 before taking a proper, deserved not-exactly-revolutionary tales of love having their photo taken, they keep break. "We left the airport and were could also shadow as political cries. chatting about UK politics, their love like, 'BYE, GUYS!' and then after two Again, not something you'd expect from of Jeremy Corbyn, and fears for the days were like, 'What are you doing? London Grammar. But sticking to their future. After all, it's hard not to pick up

I'm bored... - Reid jokes. Getting back student roots, they manage to relate the afront page these days without getting into the swing of things wasn't as anxiety of growing up into an increasingly slightly anxious about tyrannical simple as Reid suggests. After uncertain world. leaders or nuclear Armageddon. Final suffering burnout and then spending The album title, 'Truth Is A Beautiful studio sessions for the album took time apart, they didn't immediately Thing', could be perceived as a retort to place when Donald Trump was being rekindle the magic of the debut when the era of fake news, but that's something inaugurated — "Cheery times," as returning to the studio in 2015. "That they deny. "It's funny how it's coinciding, Rothman jokes. Even subconsciously, was the most upsetting thing," people keep asking about that!" Rothman a sense of fear rubs off on the record. Rothman admits. "To lose that itch to There's so much more going on than get back into the studio. It wasn't quite emotive break-up bangers. as strong as it could've been. It just took a couple of months." The touring he reason why London Grammar life can "give you everything," Dot can never be pigeonholed: says, except your close friends. "The Tthere's always something else thing that's missing is the people." bubbling under the surface. And it's The trio needed time to readjust easy to misunderstand what they're to life back home and rewire. Reid about. They're in the pop sphere, but caught up with her best mates — "my they don't write wall-to-wall hits. girlfriends", as she often calls them They're signed to dance label Ministry —to "talk about our feelings". "I'm such of Sound, but they don't soundtrack agirl's girl," she admits. "I used to live Ibiza club nights. "We're in the middle," with several other girls at uni and Imiss vocalist Reid astutely admits. The that a bit on the road. Not that we don't in-between is often a risky space to talk about our feelings, but it's not the work in, and it's why many are still same. It's missing those friendships trying to figure out this band. Reid when you've known people since you looks at their place in the world — not were 11, and those people know you pop, not dance, just somewhere so well — you build your lives around in-between — and calls it "the hardest ame of chess ever". The trio are more than happy to fill heir own niche, but staying there is the "WE GOTA ough part. The challenge with 'Truth Is A Beautiful Thing' was twofold —to BIT MOODY eep their heads and not get turned 4111. y success, and to stay in their own ON TOUR" nique lane while finding out who they eally are. It's atest they've passed th flying colours, so far. If Elon Musk s right and the world really is a mulation, here's hoping a game- hanging next chapter is 'ready written in the sand. NME

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THEY'RE GAMERS DAVID CAMERON 0) THEY HATE BEING )1 PEOPLE DON'T THEY'RE NOT IN When they got signed 2IS A FAN. SADLY. COMPARED TO 'I' RECOGNISE THEM 5THE ILLUMINATI o Ministry of Sound, The former PM called THE XX So Hannah Reid claimed Reid had to quash Reid celebrated by the trio "brilliant" in 2014, Don't even think about in 2014, telling NME: rumours they'd joined buying iPhone game which amazingly wasn't saying they sound the "We're not a band in the secret organisation lash Of Clans, parting the kiss of death for same. "It's the fact that the spotlight. I'm glad in 2014, after they ith £2.99 of her their career. there's three of us, as two of that." posed in front of an hard-earned cash. girls and aboy — it's just eerie-looking pyramid lazy," Dan Rothman says. tLollapalooza.

19 • veer- CAMPED IT UP WITH KESHA AND THE EVERY BADASS CREEPIES 2016-2017 HAT HAPPENED: Although often ositioned as an EDM-influenced pop THING KESHA "ASCII; tar, Kesha's always been more at ome as a sassy country rock gal. ake her short US tour around toilet DID IN THE PAST g enues in Las Vegas and beyond, as he performed with a scuzzy covers band called Kesha And The Creepies. FIVE YEARS It was dubbed the F— kThe World tour, he flyers carried campy, '60s garage The US singer has been unable to release music since 2012 due ock-style imagery (her mouth dripping to atraumatic legal battle with producer Dr Luke. That hasn't lood, atiger roaring the background) stopped her being awesome, though, says Jordan Bassett and the setlist included a rendition of Britney Spears' The World's End', which she co-wrote. Highlight: Kesha tp il belting out Your Love Is My Drug'

444 while a dude waved a rainbow flag. WHAT SHE SAID: "We have come GOT LOUCHE WITH here to impregnate you with the ir:/1114/ NASHVILLE BAND sweet glory of rock'n'roll... Anything YEAST INFECTION outside of these four walls, it has no 1Fr' IFR 2015 / business here tonight... Homework? BECAME AN WHAT HAPPENED: You cannot F— kit for tonight!" ORDAINED MINISTER keep Kesha down. If she couldn't (FOR REAL!) 2012 I- make new music, she was determined WHAT HAPPENED: She's long been to hit the stage instead. She did just a champion of LGBT+ rights, but that in Nashville with a local band Kesha proved her commitment to the called —yes, that's right — Yeast cause when she became an ordained Infection. Their raffish set included an minister so she could officiate her utterly fabulous lounge version of her riends' same-sex wedding in 2012. own 'Timber', and without Pitbull to She helped asecond gay couple to yap over the track, it sounded the way 'e the knot in 2015. it was always meant to: like ajoyful HAT SHE SAID: "It was such an hoedown, the aural equivalent of mazing experience to help two dancing at the end of the world, beautiful women cement their tequila in hand, smile intact. ommitment to each other through WHAT SHE SAID: "I am Kesha! marriage... Isaw how much it meant And we are... Yeast Infection!" othem, and Ican't understand why ny person or any law would stand in between that kind of love."

WORKED ON AN ALBUM WITH THE FLAMING LIPS r WHAT HAPPENED: Magic, that's what. One track, the clatteringly weird 'You Must Be Upgraded', appeared on The Flaming Lips' 2012 album The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends. An entire collaborative album, billed under the name LipSha, was announced in C 2013 but — heartbreakingly — Kesha's legal dispute meant the record was indefinitely canned. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has offered to leak the music. "It'll be great [even] if it akes five years to come out," he said. HAT SHE SAID: "[Wayne and I] etwo weirdos that get together and make noise... it's just an experimental musical adventure every time we •et together." 7M 0} WIg

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SPOTTED UFOS AT THE JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK WHAT HAPPENED: Kesha was kicking it on a rock in the Californian desert when, lo and behold, she noticed the sky was dancing with extraterrestrial aircraft. There were "five to seven" of the things, she claimed in an interview, and they hovered above her. The spaceships TAUGHT JERRY then disappeared, only to reappear SEINFELD HOW in adifferent formation. She was TO HUG %WI= zu17 unable to take asnap of the UFOs, WHAT HAPPENED: She approached but the experience influenced the the comedian at aswanky Hollywood new track 'Spaceship', on which she event and asked for a hug. Seinfeld's croons, "I'm waiting for my spaceship response was as deadpan as his '90s to come back to me... Ibeen living in sitcom: "No thanks!" The debacle was alonesome galaxy but in my dreams caught on camera and became a Isee them come and rescue me". meme, even inspiring a mural on a WHAT SHE SAID: "I think people wiglfflMelbourne wall. He later explained, would be like, She was on acid', or "I don't hug atotal stranger." Now, something. Iwasn't. Iwas on nothing. though, he's embraced the joy of the Iwas atotally sober Sally, just a lady cuddle and tweeted asnap in which nthe desert." he embraces his manager with the mural in the background. Like so many good things in life, it wouldn't have happened without Kesha. WHAT SHE SAID: "Oh, f**k me, somehow Iended up in my very own mini episode of Seinfeld, for, like, five seconds... He's not a huggy guy; that's fine... Ilike hugging. Hugging is magical, hugging is beautiful, it's this exchange of wonderful soul energy."

RECORDED HER BRILLIANT DEFIANT NEW ALBUM 2012-20 WHAT HAPPENED: Kesha Rose Sebert went through a bitter court battle (now dropped) in which she accused her former producer Dr Luke of "mental manipulation, emotional abuse and sexual assault". As he owned the rights to her contract, she was prevented from releasing music, but now —finally —we have her defiant third record 'Rainbow'. Created in

"a tiny little studio", the -1collection draws on her country lineage "THE S'TSTORM'S and opens with the gee-whiz acoustic OVER. THIS IS THE guitar of 'Bastard', on which she tells us, "Don't let the bastards take you down". BEGINNING OF WHAT SHE SAID: "I would pour my THE GOOD STUFF" f— king guts out [in the studio]... that is how Imade it through the past four years. That, and with the support of my ans... The s**tstorm's over. This is the beginning of the good stuff."

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