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Andrew Trendell

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Music Journalist at Freelance

@NME News Editor | Journalist (NCE/NQJ) | Ex-consultant + producer for @SomethinElse + @BBC6Music | Ex-@Gigwise Editor. Views mine

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  • 4 days ago | nme.com | Andrew Trendell

    Mt. Joy have shared new single ‘In The Middle’ as well as telling NME about what went into their huge new album ‘Hope We Have Fun’ – via hanging out with Mumford & Sons‘ Ben Lovett and a pre-fame Noah Kahan. Friday (May 30) saw the release of the billion-streaming Philadelphia Americana giants’ fourth album ‘Hope We Have Fun’ – as well as the epic new single ‘In The Middle’, which features frontman Matt Quinn teaming up with Gigi Perez.

  • 1 week ago | nme.com | Andrew Trendell

    Let’s start at the end for this one. As we’re wrapping up our interview with Matt Berninger and saying our goodbyes to depart this basement bunker in his favourite fancy West London hotel, The National frontman signs and hands over the piece of paper he’s been scribbling on throughout our chat. A maid would have thrown away this doodle-covered piece of hotel stationery, but its sketches, patterns, numbers and faces actually work as a map for us to retrace our conversation.

  • 1 week ago | eventindustrynews.com | Sam Hyland |Andrew Trendell

    Music Venue Properties have announced plans to save and secure the future of a further seven UK grassroots gig spaces through community ownership – and you can be part of it. Last year saw the UK lose one music venue every fortnight, with recent warnings that the rate would increase to one per week in 2025 without urgent government action – only adding to regional areas suffering from what’s been called “the complete collapse of touring”.

  • 1 week ago | nme.com | Andrew Trendell

    To warm up for LIDO Festival, London Grammar have shared a stripped-back live video of fan favourite ‘Darling Are You Gonna Leave Me’ from London’s Victoria Park. See it first on NME below. READ MORE: London Grammar: “We wanted longevity from the beginning… What it looks like now is pretty fucking great”The UK art-pop trio will be playing their biggest UK gig to date with a London festival exclusive, headlining LIDO Festival on Sunday June 15.

  • 1 week ago | nme.com | Andrew Trendell

    Police Scotland have spoken out about the reasoning behind Kneecap being removed from the TRNSMT 2025 line-up, after “safety concerns” were said to be behind it. READ MORE:Kneecap on the cover – giving peace, protest and partying a chanceYesterday saw the controversial Belfast rap trio take to social media to revealed that they’d no longer be playing the Scottish festival, and announced a replacement headline gig at Glasgow’s O2 Academy on Tuesday July 8 instead.

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