BLACK YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN 93NME18006137.pgs 20.02.2018 15:20 H ello... ANOTHER YEAR AND another outstanding VO5 NME Awards is behind us. I know I talked about this last week, but everyone has only just recovered and this is our first opportunity to stick all of the amazing photos we took in the magazine, so here we are again… Naomi flippin’ To the outside world it’s Campbell at the one perfect night of rock’n’roll VO5 NME Awards excess, but it’s the product 2018 p21 of months and months of planning and a lot of hard work from Team NME, and you know what, I think it might have been the best one ever. There’s a very small chance that I’m still hungover (I blame NME’s Leonie Cooper), but Liam Gallagher, our Godlike Genius, definitely wins the prize for being the most hardcore, tweeting three days after the awards that he was just getting home. Proof of his Godlike status if ever it was needed. The ceremony was livestreamed but what fans won’t have seen is what went on in the special backstage green room, where all the winners and presenters are 20 taken when they come off stage. It’s here that legendary The VO5 NME Awards 2018 snapper Dean Chalkley takes The full story of a bananas evening, featuring the most elegantly his iconic shots, which you wasted people the world has ever known can see in all their glory on pages 20-25. And if you want to relive the amazing live performances and speeches, head to NME.com. 5 29 34

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What are the arctic Monkeys up to? Maybe nothing. But probably something

As hAs been reported At this point, there are three in the Sheffield Star, among crucial pieces of information other newspapers, the other to bear in mind: day a man called nick bax spotted this licence 1 Arctic Monkeys, who are application and popped returning this year with it on the internet. their sixth album, are from sheffield. 2 they have announced tour dates around the world for this year, but only one is in the UK (trnsMt Festival in Glasgow on the last weekend of June and first weekend of July). they’re not playing reading & Leeds. 3 sJM Concerts Ltd have promoted Arctic Monkeys tours before.

so what we’re saying is: in september, Arctic Monkeys are What it tells us is that in probably putting on a four-day september this year, sJM event in sheffield. Concerts Ltd will be putting When approached by NME, on a four-day event at an AMs spokesperson declined hillsborough park in to comment. sheffield that will involve but still: exciting! alcohol being sold, and live music being played. p ho t o : g e y i m a ge s

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Did you expect Piers softly Morgan to respond to the Trump-Morgan sketch? No one cuts through You put forward important “i wasn’t surprised, given he so the bullsh**t quite like issues in a humorous way. often responds to things about Rachel Parris Do you think that helps him. it was interesting what he people understand why said, because he’s intelligent Rachel PaRRis, the 33- they’re so important? and has a way of explaining year-old star of the BBc’s “that’s the goal. the number things in order to stir up certain topical comedy show The one goal is to make people feelings. But i wouldn’t want to Mash Report , has brought laugh. the second goal is to respond to him [on twitter] as Tell me about your live charm, wit, humour and, make a point about it. like all i don’t think his followers, or the show, Keynote? crucially, awareness to satire, we’re trying to address people on twitter, are people “that’s all about me, in real life, important topics such as things. We want to sweep the i want to argue with. i’d be being asked last year to go sexual harassment – and she’s anger under the carpet and happy to speak to him more back to my old school in racked up over 27 million views present it in a funny way.” about it, i just don’t think loughborough and do an doing so. she even got Piers twitter is the place for it.” inspirational speech, which Morgan to tweet angrily about How do you pick what you i find hilarious. so i wrote the a piece she did on his Donald discuss on the show? When did you first discover show and performed it in trump interview, so she must “it varies from week to week. a love of comedy? edinburgh, before i had to be doing something right. the sexual harassment one “When i first started doing go back and do it. We go i pitched to the team. i went improv, at about 22. it wasn’t through the Women’s March, away and wrote it, [the writing until a couple of years later and sex, and drugs, and Did you ever imagine your team] wrote theirs, and we when i tried doing stand-up. feminism. so it’s got a lot of Mash Report segments kinda smushed them together. i did 20 minutes for my first different stuff in it. and now i’ve would be so popular? the trump-Morgan idea was ever gig, which is insane. rewritten it for the soho theatre. “Not even slightly! it’s been more from the team, but as When i got that first laugh it’s got songs in it and videos; a total shock. With the first soon as they said it i watched i thought, ‘this works!’” it’s got a bit of everything!” series, it did really well and the interview and was like, ‘i people seemed to like it. they have a lot to say about this.’” What’s your ultimate released a few things that went absolute career aim? a bit viral, but there’s been “Much like tim Minchin, i’d love nothing like this series. i’ve put to write and appear in a West things online before that have end musical. that’s the dream.” only got, like, 8,000 views in over five years or something, so Watch The Mash Report on

I n te r vI e w : Han naH M y l a yeah, it’s amazing.” Piers BBC iPlayer. Rachel is touring Morgan’s It’s Fun To Pretend from narked September. Tickets are on tweet sale here: rachelparris.com 7

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i n te r vi e w : j o d an b a s t . p h c hal k l y You’re lying to the people!’” ‘BDL Bipolar’ will go from me being really happy to wanting to Winston cry in my boxer shorts and eat baked beans out of the tin.” Churchill”

Big Narstie’s ‘BDL Bipolar’ is due in August. He’s working on The Big Narstie Show right now

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Gus unGer- a tiny Alt-J gig? Hami lton alt-J keyboardist They’re playing the VO5 tHe De tails NME Awards Closing Date: Monday, february 26 What have you got Party, and we’ve got 50 Time: 7pm-midnight planned for your pairs of tickets for it Location: omeara, london latitude headline set? Playing live: “we’ve got a very big A week And A hAlf Ago Alt-J, winners of Best British production planned. our the Vo5 nMe Awards 2018 took Band supported by lighting guys won a major place at the o2 Academy at the Vo5 nMe award which was cool… Brixton, and were absolutely Awards 2018 we’re going to bring the mega. To celebrate, we’re Also on display: exclusive whole lot to latitude and it having another party. nikon photo exhibition of should be a really, really godlike genius liam gallagher dazzling show hopefully, in every sense.”

to Win one oF 50 Pairs oF tiCKets tell us about the Go to nme.Com/ComPetitions special show you’re

p h o t s : G A B R I EL EEN doing at new York’s Forest Hills stadium. Alt-J (l-r): “You can do some pretty gus Unger-hamilton, wild things now with Thom Sonny green, surround sound in gigs. In Joe newman Alt-J, we like to push boundaries and we are going to give it a go doing an immersive surround sound show in new York. It’s going to be great to come back for our biggest American show ever and if it goes well, who knows – we hopefully can take it back to the Uk and give it a go there.”

What can you tell us about your next album? “The fourth record is still very much a glint in our eye. It’s a definite glint, but we haven’t recorded anything yet. we’re slowly putting ideas together but we find it hard to focus on new material when we’re touring… we’ve got a few bits and pieces here and there that we’re looking forward to working on.” 13

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THIS WEEK Shooting survivor Emma González The revolution sticks it to Trump is here – and young women are leading the charge From ThE SiSTErS Saturday, Emma González – Uncut activism group storming a senior at marjory Stoneman the BAFTAs red carpet to call Douglas high School, where 17 nothing is going to be done out Theresa may’s domestic students were murdered by about it, i’m going to happily violence bill and its lack of a gunman last Wednesday ask him how much money he first surfaced in 2017. over support for survivors, to the – passionately addressed received from the National rifle 400 women in the teenage girls campaigning for crowds at a gun control rally. Association,” she said, cutting entertainment industry have tighter gun legislation in the US in front of the world’s media all the crap and directly signed the campaign’s open following a shooting at their she stood up to Donald Trump referencing the fact that letter, from Amy Schumer and school in Florida, it feels like and his seeming lack of action, Trump’s presidential campaign Zoë Kravitz to Greta Gerwig young women are leading the doing something that many was in part funded by the NrA. and Laverne Cox, pledging to charge when it comes to trying politicians have so far been As speeches go it was way seed a legal fund to help to make the world a better place unwilling to do. “if the president more moving than anything survivors of sexual assault right now. wants to come up to me and tell Trump has said since coming to and harassment. Since the it’s only been 100 years since me to my face that it was power at the start of 2017, and letter was published on certain women in the UK were a terrible tragedy and how it a hell of a lot more genuine. January 1, the movement has granted the vote and there’s still should never have happened meanwhile, in hollywood, it made countless headlines an unsettling disparity when it and maintain telling us how is young women who are and raised over $20 million. comes to the number of women spearheading one of the most After centuries of being in power – only 32 per cent of “ We’re making up visible activism movements of subjugated, young women mPs are women – but over the recent years – the Time’s Up are making a bold and past few months we’ve been for lost time and campaign against sexual powerful stand – let’s hope making up for lost time when it shouting loudly assault, kickstarted by the the world doesn’t just watch, comes to shouting loudly about years of allegations against but listens too.

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BLACK YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN 93NME18006113.pgs 20.02.2018 12:17 YOUR TOWN. YOUR MUSIC. YOUR STYLE DanIEl oMnES › 24, student

Listening to: DUa lIpa Be The One “It’s a bit cheesy but still amazing.”

Wearing: Vintage coat, THIS WEEK Cos jeans, Reebok trainers. Best thing about Brixton: “Brixton Market has a really good Japanese Brixton restaurant called Okan.” Best hairstyle in music: “Willow or Jaden Smith. “ Different people, Joint first place for both different food, of them.” always busy”

‹ GracE Warn 19, student

Listening to: ToM MIScH When You Want To Love “I saw him support Stevie Wonder at Clapham p h o t s : a n d y u g e Common. His basslines are always great.”

Wearing: Monki coat, Jigsaw trousers, Dr. Martens shoes Best thing about Brixton: “It’s so diverse, there’s always something to do.” Best hairstyle in music: “It’s got to be David Bowie”.

‹ caSpEr DarIa cHaMpIon MazzoccHIo › 22, stylist and model 19, student

Listening to: Listening to: B YoUnG MaSEGo Jumanji Tadow “I like the beat.” “It’s very chill and relaxes you a lot.” Wearing: H&M coat, Zara tracksuit, Nike trainers, Wearing: Vintage jacket, MCM bag. shirt, trousers and shoes Best thing about Brixton: from Italy. “It’s a great place to live. Best thing about Brixton: Different people, different “Franco Manca is the best food, always busy.” pizza place in Brixton.” Best hairstyle in music: Best hairstyle in music: “Lil Uzi Vert. His style is so “I always used to love different. He’s the man.” Patrick Wolf’s hair.”

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“ I’d take a friend TaMara MarTInS › to Pop Brixton” 22, waitress

Listening to: cHarlIE pUTH How Long “He’s one of my favourites. A great voice and he writes good songs.”

Wearing: H&M jacket and scarf, skirt from a charity shop, ASOS belt, TK Maxx bag. Best thing about Brixton: “The culture is great. You meet some really unique people.” Best hairstyle in music: “Matty Healy from The 1975 has a great look, but GaE Tano I’m not gonna lie – I’m SIGnorIlE › not a fan of his new, 25, photographer purple hair.” Listening to: GIGI D’aGoSTIno L’Amour Toujours “I love ’90s music. I’m from Italy and it was really fun there in the ’90s.”

Wearing: Levi’s jacket, Adidas trainers. Best thing about Brixton: “You have everything you could want right here.” Best hairstyle in music: “Elvis Presley, of course.”

JESSIca EDWarDS › 24, make-up artist

Listening to: prIncE ‹ InES HacKoU If I Was Your Girlfriend 20, graphic design intern “I’ve loved him since I was nine. My dad said that Listening to: responsible parenting was VaMpIrE WEEKEnD knowing about Prince.” Unbelievers “Their music videos are so Wearing: MissPap jacket, cool. I can’t wait for the ASOS blouse, Zara jeans, new music.” Kurt Geiger boots. Best thing about Brixton: Wearing: Vintage coat, “I like Blues Kitchen Reebok trainers. because of the brilliant Best thing about Brixton: live music.” “I’d definitely take a friend Best hairstyle in music: to Pop Brixton.” “Prince had cool hair.” Best hairstyle in music: “I don’t base my look on anyone. It changes all

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93NME18006114.pgs 20.02.2018 12:00 Godlike Genius Liam Gallagher takes his green parka to the red carpet

Okay okay, we say Corner”, James Bay and that every year. Professor Green discussed But it’s always true collaborations, Tom from Kasabian slagged off the Spice THE VO5 NME AWARDS 2018 Girls, Stefflon Don hung out with were the greatest ever, not least her mum and, as is tradition, because we finally got to give Glastonbury’s Michael Eavis Liam Gallagher the Godlike strode around in shorts, despite Genius award. “I always thought the freezing cold rain outside. I was Godlike from the day I was It was also a night for powerful Annie Mac takes f**king born,” he told us. statements. “I call upon any to the stage There were so many massive musician in this room to stand up names in the O2 Academy Brixton and really call out festivals for not that it was impossible not to representing women, in particular bump into someone who’d made women of colour, our black one of your favourite albums of all sisters,” Shirley Manson said as time. The legendary Kasabian, she picked up the NME Icon Muse, Alt-J, Garbage’s Shirley Award. “We need to make Manson and Craig David were all a change. It’s vital.” in the building, as was the iconic Best International Band Haim Naomi Campbell – who was also thanked “anyone that spotted snuggling up to Skepta. identifies as a girl. Whenever you Skepta bows down Well, it was Valentine’s Day. walk into a guitar shop or to the OG garage don Gin was drunk and pizza eaten a soundcheck or a recording Craig David as Big Narstie accidentally studio, do not let anyone that’s referred to Best British Solo Artist there intimidate you, or make you winner Loyle Carner as “Lyle feel like you don’t belong there, because you do belong there.” Greatest ever, no doubt.

Innovators Boy Better Know and Craig David

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BLACK YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN James Bay confounds reporters by not wearing a hat

Best Mixtape winner Avelino and Professor Green stick the boot in Tom Grennan was very much enjoying himself

Stefflon Don and Skepta show the crowd their ‘Ding-A-Ling’

J Hus and real-life supermodel Naomi Campbell

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93NME18006115.pgs 20.02.2018 16:46 Our gallant host, Radio 1’s Huw Stephens

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Kasabian and Haim hang out

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Haim hit the gin

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A night out with Gwilym Pugh, VO5 ambassador for the NME Awards 2018

PASS GO RED CARPET REALNESS Snazzy lanyard in hand, Gwilym is all set to join the other Gwilym gets the red carpet warmed up ahead of the night’s stars of the show at the VO5 NME Awards 2018. Let’s do this. guests – who include Naomi Campbell and Liam Gallagher.

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GODLIKE GENIUS Liam Gallagher’s set is an awards history highlight – he brings down the house with a six-song set of tracks old and new.

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E ffortlesslyc ool A grand step up from the underrated New Yorkers to get off the sofa and out on less-is-more approach the town. ‘Never enough’ tried here means doubling down reached the wider audience to race through as many ideas on the thrills. PUBLIC it deserved. as possible, fuelled by the giddy lyrically, the band offer ACCESS TV A mere 17 months later, the excitement of making a first up whip-smart societal Street Safari New Yorkers are back with its record, but one of the things dissections and endlessly follow-up, and they haven’t let ‘street safari’ does best is give quotable lines. “Can peace ★★★★ that injustice affect them. each of its parts space to shine. really come from a machine GROOVES NEW WAVE THRILLS ‘street safari’ everything feels clearer and gun?” eatherly questions on cherry-picks the more striking this time – from the Ramones-y army snapshot best bits of its the cinematic synth line on of ‘Rough boy’. “I was playing Public Access predecessor and ‘Meltdown’ to Max Peebles’ it cool / Left you read this TV might just be builds on them dominating bassline on the time”, from the aforementioned one of the most until it reaches R&b-tinged slow yearner ‘Told ‘Told You Too Much’, should underrated bands something You Too Much’. Taking the be mandatory in the dating of this decade. even better. app bio of every ghoster, After swindling their ‘Metrotech’, for while the sneer of “I find way to a major-label instance, picks them so f**king boring ” on deal, they quickly reneged on up where ‘evil Disco’ left off, ‘Ain’t No Friend Of Mine’ is their contract and found melding that old track’s a brilliantly snotty two freedom ahead of their 2016 strutting sensibilities into fingers up at the world. debut album, ‘Never enough’. a hypnotic, revolving groove There’s no danger of finding its hook-heavy, new wave- that, paired with frontman the same fault in ‘street indebted treasures might have John eatherly singing the safari’, a record even more won them a healthy amount of praises of staying out all THE CARS THE RAmONES loveable than PATV’s first. p h o t s : R e x F a u s, D n C l k y acclaim, but it never quite night, is the perfect convincer listen up. Rhian Daly p h o to s : 30

BLACK YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN 93NME18006123.pgs 20.02.2018 17:15 ‘Heavenly’ also dates back to that period and there’ve been a few production tweaks here to Cowabunga! make it trimmer and punchier. this isn’t just a nostalgia One of Britain’s best Pale Waves really Want out, the indie-pop belter exercise, mind: their more new bands give us to make you cry. speaking to ‘television romance’. now, to recent singles have pushed the a taster of 2018 NME last year, singer Heather keep things ticking over until band’s sound into daring new Baron-Gracie recalled their debut album, the group ground. Festive heartbreaker something that drummer Ciara have paired a couple of recent ‘new year’s eve’ sees Baron- Pale Waves Doran had said when the band singles with some re-recorded Gracie refine her knack for All The Things I Never first started out. “she said, ‘I bangers to make a vivid wistful choruses to scream Said EP want to make people dance at 15-minute scrapbook of their along to on your best pals’ our shows and not kinda just journey thus far. shoulders (“I don’t wanna be ★★★★ cry: they can cry and dance.’” ‘the tide’, for example, was alone on New Year’s Eve / Do IndIe Tears Bangers they got us dancing; now it’s originally released as a demo in you even wanna be with me? ”), time to turn the waterworks on. mid-2015 and though it’s been while ‘My Obsession’ is a totes the release comes after given a shiny makeover, it emosh rock ballad that would a pretty marvellous 2017 for retains its naïve charm: “ You sound at home on the the Manchester group. they look so cool, standing there / soundtrack to any of John released first single ‘there’s With your baggy jeans and silky Hughes’ ’80s coming-of- ALBUM a Honey’ last February, played hair / We can live for nothing / age flicks. new york’s iconic Madison Baby, I don’t care”. eP closer ‘all the things I never said’ OF THE square Garden with has prompted the first tear to labelmates the 1975 in June roll down the cheek, then, so WEEK and bagged their first NME catch us bawling our eyes cover last October. In that out by debut album time. time only one new song came Thomas Smith Their fans have already given themselves a collective nickname: The Honeys, after their debut single, of course.

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BLACK YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN 93NME18006124.pgs 20.02.2018 17:21 Margot robbie as olympic figure skater tonya harding

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BLACK YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN 93NME18006126.pgs 20.02.2018 18:26 Do you find that hardcore shows are more unleashed than the standard? “i don’t like the standard of You recently invited a load ‘band stands here, bouncers of Syrian refugees to a show here and crowd here’. we like in Berlin. Did they enjoy it? blurring those lines in any way. Tu rnstile “the promoter emailed us and sometimes people jump on said that it was going to be stage, unplug guitars – Hardcore gang who’ll What’s your favourite a free entry for refugees and whatever happens, you gotta make your head feel thing about the they must have heard about it. embrace that. we also played like a moshpit hardcore community? they came, had a good time an outside festival in Berlin and “i think the live environment of and got in the moshpits. there this woman came up to the front not quite two months a show. it’s the most expressive was definitely a huge language and she’d turned up naked. it into 2018 and we’ve got a scene and very open-minded. it barrier, but at the same time the was pretty wild. she had to contender for the heaviest gives a really good platform for body language was the biggest leave though.” Thomas Smith album of the year. it’s from bands to play but also for connector and it brought them Baltimore band turnstile who people to come to shows and into the show.” have signed to cult record express themselves – whether label Roadrunner for their they want to just dance or new album ‘time & space’. completely freak out. Also it Pairing crunching guitar shows respect to each other, From: Baltimore, maryland parts and thumping rhythms, something we value.” Social: @turnstilehC it’s got all the potential to Buy: ‘time & space’ is out now become a crossover hit. with a year full of gigs on the horizon, singer Brendan Yates talks their utterly wild live shows and beyond. see you down the front. You might not hear it

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