NME Festival Guide 2008
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NME Festivals 2008 Guide featuring news, interviews, videos, photos, reviews, ticket information, line-ups, dates and more...

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NME writers off the leash: reviews, rants and gossip direct from the festival front-line...

Montreal Day Two: John Lennon VS The Beast

Minus 16 degree cold can’t stop the rock at the M For Montreal festival. Actually, it could if we had to walk anywhere, but clever festival organisers have put all six acts on tonight’s boutique line-up in two separate rooms the Just For...

Introducing M For Montreal

Greetings from French Canada. We’ve travelled here as part of a contingent of British music types for a cool event called M For Montreal, a kind of miniature South By Southwest designed to showcase the best new music from Quebec and beyond....

Amazing Baby Are – Yes! – Amazing At Swn

Lordy, how many hand-weaved headbands can one take? If MGMT’s free love psych-pop wasn’t enough to melt our brains with its melodic brilliance, it looks like Amazing Baby are here to make sure our grey matter can well and truly ooze out of our...

Guitar Smashing At Swn In Cardiff

Swn is brilliant. It’s great. If you don’t know what Swn is, you should. And you should be here. [...] Read more!

Iceland Airwaves - Radio Free Reykjavik

Saturday 18 October Not much could impress after a day spent gawping at huge, roiling waterfalls, erupting geysers and rugged rift valleys, but watching the usual festival suspects of the last summer go through the motions, (with honourable...

Iceland Airwaves - These New Puritans, The Mae Shi and more

Friday 17 October Watching These New Puritans in Nasa, one of the festival’s main venues, we feel slightly embarrassed and hope no one can tell from the outside that we come from the same country as them. Their by-the-book...

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