Tuesday, August 22, 2006

 

NME: 26.08.06

In this week's Reading And Leeds preview special...

[cover]

- NME has the build up to The Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival, including a special interview with Arctic Monkeys - one year on since they blew everyone away in The Carling Tent
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- Yep, they played it. NME looks at the highlights of V Festival, and how Radiohead saved their set with that song

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[news]

- We predict a classic! Kaiser Chiefs reveal details of their second album. Warning: there's no wooooaaahhs!

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- Debauchery! Fighting! Stolen Nissan Bluebirds! The Horrors, Maccabees and Fratellis sign up for the O2 NME Rock'n'Roll Riot Tour

- "Dude! Download that shit, I don't give a fuck!" Peter Robinson versus Will Francis of Aiden


[features]

- The Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival is here! NME looks forward to Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kaisers, The Raconteurs, Body Count with Ice T... erm, Municipal Waste, Send More Paramedics...


- More Reading And Leeds stuff! The 15 new bands you have to see at the festival, and the rock stars' picks of the NME/Radio 1 Stage line-up

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[reviews]

- "I'm just fuckin' Merlin with a wizard's hat on." Yep, you guessed it, Kasabian get their second album Empire reviewed. Plus The Dears second record is ace!

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- NME goes out for a drink and a dance at Junk Club - the night that spawned The Horrors and made Southend the new East End. Plus, Datarock do dead dirty disco-funk!

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The Worst Band Name Of The Week award goes to: French Car And The Bulimic Wizards (playing at The Bull And Gate, Kentish Town, London on Tuesday August 29). For more information on 369 gigs happening this week, go to page 72 of the magazine.


Reading/Leeds here we come - yeeeeeaaaaaahhhh!

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