Hard Life (FKA Easy Life) face an uncertain future on new single 'Othello'
It's the group's first new music since they released 'Tears' last June
Music industry welcome Labour to government with "a resounding mandate for change"
"The real work begins now"
easyGroup lawyers say Hard Life's new single 'Tears' is "disparaging and defamatory"
One lyric makes reference to the group's owner Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, asking him to give them "air miles or a fair trial"
Hard-Fi respond to Easy Life changing their name to Hard Life
The band announced their name change yesterday (June 12) due to a now-settled dispute with easyGroup
FKA Easy Life tell us about returning as Hard Life with 'Tears': "This is the energy I want to put out into the world”
Check out the new single that spits back at their easyGroup legal battle, as frontman Murray Matravers tells us about his positive look to the future – and if they'll be boycotting a certain orange airline...
"What good is it keeping venues open if artists can’t afford to perform in them?" ask the FAC
Featured Artists Coalition CEO David Martin argues that while the battle to save venues is essential, work is also needed for the ecosystem to tend to the needs of young artists and new audiences
Easy Life "don’t have a band name or a band, but we’re still here"
Frontman Murray Matravers told NME about the upside of their legal battle with EasyGroup and their plans for the future
Artists on the challenges of 2023 and hopes for 2024: "I just want to see us getting paid for selling records"
Members of Blur, the band FKA Easy Life, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, plus Cherise and LVRA told NME at the recent of the FAC AGM how issues around payment, fairness, race, education and venues closing needed fixing for the year ahead
NME to support Featured Artists' Coalition 2023 AGM once more
Members of Blur, Wolf Alice, the band formerly known as Easy Life along with LVRA and Cherise will all be speaking to reflect on the challenges of 2023 and the opportunities of the year ahead
Easy Life live in London: an emotional farewell amid legal drama
The band’s last-minute final gig is emotionally fraught but manages to be heaps of fun too.