Thousands of you tuned in to last night's live stream of the NME Awards 2016 with Austin, Texas, but, of course, some of the action happened away from the stage. What does Coldplay's dressing room smell like? Who got their penis out? Find out here.
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Oli Sykes provided the NME Awards with Austin, Texas it's biggest talking point last night when he unceremoniously trashed Coldplay’s table during Bring Me The Horizon’s performance. The band were in the building to celebrate picking up NME’s Innovation Award and were kind enough to perform a song from their gigantic album, ‘That’s The Spirit’. During their rousing version of ‘Happy Song’, Sykes moved from the stage and into the VIP tables area and subsequently obliterated the nearest table.
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The incomparable Yoko Ono won the NME Inspiration Award at tonight's NME Awards 2016 with Austin, Texas. NME caught up with the legendary artist backstage, shortly after Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore had given her a crystal necklace as an 83rd birthday present.
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It was an utterly euphoric O2 Brixton Academy that greeted the six-song performance by NME’s Godlike Genius Award winners, Coldplay at the end of the award ceremony last night (February 17). As they ran through their set they struck bullseye on all the hallmarks of Coldplay shows we’ve come to know and love. ‘Viva La Vida’ opened with a curtain of confetti as drummer Will Champion pounded upon the song’s iconic bell.
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If Bring Me The Horizon set out to destroy the room - and specifically Coldplay's table - and Rat Boy tumbled through 'Move' like a band who really never believed they'd be playing their song directly to Yoko Ono and Kylie, The Maccabees looked for all the world like the real future stadium fillers of the night.
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Bring Me The Horizon did themselves proud and actually brought the horizon – plus loads, loads more – to the NME Awards 2016 with Austin, Texas tonight. No other act wore a hoodie throughout their entire performance. No other act jumped on Coldplay’s table and nearly broke the thing. No other act slammed their microphone into the ground with such force that the entire auditorium thought the building was starting to crumble. Consider our horizons properly broadened.
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Earlier today, at Rat Boy's soundcheck, the 19-year-old was dicking about with the cameras linked up to the two huge screens flanking each side of the stage, seeing what he could get away with showing on the two big screens. Then, prior to the awards ceremony, you could spy him standing on his table, drinking Red Stripe with his bandmates. His performance of new single 'Move' tonight at the NME Awards 2016 with Austin, Texas, was similarly cheeky. "You know I never say the same thing twice," he raps multiple times as he leaps about the stage.
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