Andrew Trendell
Andrew Trendell is an experienced and award-winning music and culture jouranlist, with renowned for agenda-setting news and reviews, interviews with huge names and cutting-edge stars, red carpet coverage, helping to save grassroots venues and ensure artists are fairly paid, and all-round coverage from the underground up.
Page 6
UK artists invited to apply for “seriously game-changing” £125k fund to beat “the cost of touring crisis”
The Featured Artist Coalition tell NME about how and why artists should apply to the UKAT fund, with money supplied via the LIVE Trust from the likes of Sam Fender, Radiohead and Katy Perry donating from arena and stadium shows
Kim Gordon – ‘Play Me’ review: the godmother of alt-rock fearlessly turns to beats
Life begins at 72 as the Sonic Youth icon deconstructs these doom-scrolling times via a trip-hop driven nightmare
Garbage’s Shirley Manson on playing for Robert Smith with Placebo, beach balls, and the future of touring
The icon caught up with NME to tell us about losing her father, why Teenage Cancer Trust is a cause close to her heart, the "dream come true" of playing with Skunk Anansie, why headline tours are a thing of the past for the band, and "the power of coming together"
Alex James on revisiting Blur for ‘Britpop Classical’ – and if he’d ever return to Coachella
Ahead of the 'Britpop Classical' tour kicking off, the bassist turned cheese and wine maestro tells NME about his love of The Stone Roses and why Radiohead make him cry
James Ford talks us through the huge new War Child ‘Help(2)’ album – track-by-track
Get the lowdown of each and every song on the new history-making compilation, featuring Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines D.C., Olivia Rodrigo, Damon Albarn, Pulp, Foals, Cameron Winter, and loads more
Inside the ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ soundtrack: “All the artists are dirty, gritty and dangerous”
Score composers Martin Slattery and Antony Genn tell NME about their indie all-star new soundtrack featuring "edgy fucker" Grian Chatten along with Lankum, Girl In The Year Above, Nick Cave, Amy Taylor and more: "You’d want them with you in a bar room brawl"
Gorillaz – ‘The Mountain’ review: a world-building ode to death and starting over
Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett and their cartoon counterparts get deep on this spiritual tour of sound with guests from this world and the next
The 1975’s Ross MacDonald on his 1,000 mile charity bike ride: “Music therapy changes and saves lives”
The bassist tells NME about the essential work of Nordoff & Robbins, the inspiring story of Ruby, getting his training in for cycling the length of the UK with PVRIS' Brian MacDonald, and what The 1975 have been up to
Watch Deftones cap off ‘Private Music’ UK and European tour with epic sold-out London O2 show
Check out footage, photos, the setlist and more from Chino Moreno and co's epic tour closer – along with Paddy Considine's new 'White Pony' tattoo
Inside Bristol’s huge new Aviva Arena: “We’re building a new city with an arena at the heart of it”
The CEO of the new arena – with a changeable capacity of 4,000-20,000 – tells NME about changing the face of live music in the South West and feeding back into the grassroots
Temples tell us about their “Kylie Minogue meets Daft Punk” return on ‘Jet Stream Heart’ and euphoric new album ‘Bliss’
"This is our most forward-thinking record yet. No one can pigeon-hole us and say we’re a garage rock band or a psych band," frontman James Bagshaw told NME of their new album, inspired by '90s and early '00s dance music
Foo Fighters deliver the dopamine on the futureproof rock beast ‘Your Favorite Toy’
"Is that pressure hard enough?" Dave Grohl and co chrome plate their stadium rock machine on the first taster of album 12