NME Magazine

Oi! Irish people! NME has launched a special Ireland-only edition this week (October 21) featuring Irish news, reviews, new band exclusives and comprehensive gig listings, alongside all the normal contents of the NME. Pick up NME Ireland from all good Irish (obviously) newsagents.

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In this week's NME Ireland


- The Hard Working Class Heroes Tour tears Dublin a new asshole

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- Live: Director take Galway by storm and The Automatic come crashing back to Ireland


In the 'normal' magazine this week...

[cover]

- "This record is really opening up our insides and spilling them out." NME joins The Black Parade and watches in awe as My Chemical Romance take over Britain

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- Plus! NME goes to Hollywood to interview Luke from The Kooks, but ends up pissing on Woody Harrelson's toilet seat and spending the weekend partying with Courtney Love, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan

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[news]

- "The Fratellis have been bullying us." It properly kicks off backstage in the O2 NME Rock'n'Roll Riot Tour between The Horrors and The Fratellis, and a bar is trashed in Cambridge

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- "It's going to knock heads off." Kele Okereke talks to NME about the new Bloc Party album


- Damon Albarn debuts The Good, The Bad And The Queen material in the back room of a pub, and NME was there!


[features]

- Radar: NME hits Amsterdam with Sheffield's best new band Little Man Tate


- Crow-faced electro assassins The Knife unveil the dark side of new rave - and it's Swedish!

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- She was pissed on The Charlotte Church Show and her new single Rehab is brilliant: Amy Winehouse, you've changed - and we love it!

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[reviews]

- We slate The Magic Numbers' new album for being a bit boring and The Holloways' So This Is Great Britain is a cracker!


- This week's classic album review is Kraftwerk's The Man-machine
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- The gloomy post-punk posturing is gone, Technicolor fun is here! The Rapture come alive on stage - and it makes them so much better. Plus, LA rockers The Bronx rock so hard someone's eye falls out... seriously

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The Worst Band Name Of The Week Award goes to: Uk Vomit (playing at The Rhythm Factory, London on Wednesday, October 25). For information on 556 gigs (oooh, nearly beat last week's record) happening this week, go to page 64 of the magazine


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In NME next week: A corking interview between Mike Skinner and Pete Doherty. Notice we didn't say "cracking" there - grow up