Next Big Thing 2016
Here's the lowdown.
Richard Hawley
"If you want to impress me, don’t be a dick."
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
"Anything goes on tour!"
Fun Lovin' Criminals
"We’re very sexy people!"
Beach Slang
"Energy, danger and healing"
The Qemists
"We had a dressing room between Lady Gaga and Beyonce!"
Jeffrey Lewis
"I’m still a very simple guitar player."
Inspiral Carpets
"Rick Witter sang Chasing Rainbows at my wedding ceremony!"
Ash
"We stayed at Skywalker Ranch a couple times!"
Ho99o9
"I'm inspired by colours, shapes, crackheads and sound"
Five minutes with Newton Faulkner
"The challenge isn’t just to make an album, it’s to try and make a really good one."
The Darkness
"People have forgotten that rock 'n' roll is very much about kicking arse and having fun"
Slaves
"We live for the live shows!"
Public Service Broadcasting
"I have to make this music or else I get terribly depressed."
The Maccabees
"The new songs feel like both the best and most challenging songs to play."
Kagoule
"Fugazi forever though, right?"
Happy Mondays
"Fleetwood Mac probably took more drugs than us lot."
Eska
"I stood there and I started crying! GRACE JONES!"
Blanck Mass
I never thought I’d make workout music!
Jeru the Damaja
"All you’ve got to do is come with a seatbelt; it’ll be a crazy ride."
Meat Wave
"Immediately after we get home I'm going to wolf down a griddle burger."
PINS
"The drummer from Babes in Toyland gave us a massive piece of cheese."
Glenn Hughes
"The KLF are Glenn Hughes fans"
Harry Edwards
"Beck wants me to work on a song personally for him"
Leftfield
"I feel like we’re relevant and that’s why it’s been worth doing it again"
Cradle of Filth
"I used to go to Wraith at the Waterfront back in the day"
Palma Violets
"We’re a swirling mass, just kind of charging forward"
Ride
"We’re having an absolute ball playing live again."
Spring King
"I think our sound has grown with time. I’m not sure what it is though."
Lucy Rose
"Lyrics are the bane of my life sometimes"
Chris Wood
“I’m trying to articulate something closer to the truth than the spin we are fed”
The Icicle Works
“I’m proud that I’ve lasted so long and I'm still getting better”
The Wombats
"I don't think any of us knew that Let's Dance to Joy Division would still be the last song of our set seven years on!"
The Picturebooks
"We got lost in the desert and built choppers, went skating, hung out with rad people, or we rode on our bikes."
Scratch Perverts
"It was quite a surprise to find out the dude with a ponytail from Soul Jazz was an animal on the decks!"
Public Image Ltd
"I’m a wide awake kind of fella!"
LoneLady
"I spend a lot of time in my head."
Barrence Whitfield
"I always wanted to emulate James Brown but I didn’t have the footwork going!"
MC Devvo
"If you weren’t MC Devvo, what would you be doing? Probably working down the mines"
Flogging Molly
“It’s great playing small venues or pubs when you can jump down from the stage after and share a drink with people”
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