A parliamentary committee has urged the UK government to expand on-site drug testing at festivals. In a newly published report, the Home Affairs Committee criticises drug laws as “outdated and in need of reform” and calls for a new legislative and funding framework that enables “practical, risk-reducing interventions such as establishing a pilot drug consumption […]
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Members of the UK parliament’s Home Affairs Committee have issued a new report that calls upon the government to establish drug-testing facilities at music festivals. The report, which can be read in full here, notes that “the main piece of legislation controlling drugs in the UK” is the Misuse of Drugs Act from 1971. The […]
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Dubai is set to gain its own edition of Untold, touted as the biggest festival the city has ever seen. Launched in Romania in 2015, the 100,000-capacity event is one of the largest festivals in Europe and has seen performances from artists including Imagine Dragons, Robbie Williams, Major Lazer, J Balvin, The Script, Jason Derulo […]
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A live edition of South Korea’s popular TV chart show, M Countdown, will take place in France later this year. The AEG Presents-promoted event, titled M Countdown France, will take place on 15 October at the 40,000-capacity La Défense Arena in Paris. The concert will “present a wide range of special programming with original content […]
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Bakar caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2023, to tell us about his love of Foals and going “back to his true indie rock roots” on new album ‘Halo’. Watch our full video interview above. READ MORE: Reading Festival 2023: the best moments from the Bank Holiday bash The London singer-songwriter spoke to us just […]
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Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn has spoken to NME about the success of Reading & Leeds 2023 – as well as teasing the line-up and site changes for next year’s edition of the event. This year’s twin-site festival saw massive headline performances from Foals, Sam Fender, The 1975, The Killers, Imagine Dragons and Billie Eilish, […]
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Jedward have been spotted at this year’s edition of Reading & Leeds, catching up with Soft Play and campaigning against climate change. The Irish duo – brothers John and Edward Grimes – are most famous for their appearance on talent show X Factor back in 2009, where they donned the group name Jedward and caught […]
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Reading & Leeds Festival took place over the weekend and Team NME were down at the very front, back and everywhere in-between to report on the all the goings-ons. Read all of our headliner reviews and interviews on the Reading homepage, and our writers’ most magnificent moments below. Words: Liberty Dunworth, Thomas Smith, Andrew Trendell, […]
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86TVs, the new band of The Maccabees’ Felix and Hugo White, have spoken to NME at Reading Festival 2023 about the “perfect heartbreak” of their old band never headlining the festivals. READ MORE: Reading Festival 2023 liveblog: all of the weekend’s action as it happens The group – comprising the White brothers and their third brother […]
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A string of festivals in Spain have reported positive attendance figures for 2023 as the summer season begins to draw to a close. Barcelona boutique event Festival Jardins Terramar, held from 28 July to 9 August, welcomed 24,220 spectators across 12 days for headline performances by the likes of Kraftwerk, Tom Jones, Malú and Niña […]
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