
Niall Doherty
Niall Doherty is a writer and editor whose work can be found in Classic Rock, The Guardian, Music Week, FourFourTwo, on Apple Music and more. Formerly the Deputy Editor of Q magazine, he co-runs the music Substack letter The New Cue with fellow former Q colleagues Ted Kessler and Chris Catchpole. He is also Reviews Editor at Record Collector. Over the years, he's interviewed some of the world's biggest stars, including Elton John, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Robert Plant and more. Radiohead was only for eight minutes but he still counts it.
Latest articles by Niall Doherty

Watch The Cure take on The Beatles' Hello Goodbye
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Robert Smith & co. took on the very chirpy and unCure-like Hello Goodbye for a Paul McCartney tribute album

The story of The Offspring's global smash Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
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Inspired by a baseball-capped server at a dive-thru, the song brought the band a UK No.1 single, lifted them out of the doldrums and set them up for the next period of huge success

Finger Eleven have made an album that sounds like it's from both the past and the future
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Multi-platinum Canadians Finger Eleven will release their first album in a decade next year - we asked what they've been doing in the meantime

Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on what the mammoth success of their debut taught him
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The grunge-rockers' multi-million selling debut turned 30 this month and the singer says success was a long time coming

Watch a drunk U2 taunt Phil Collins
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The Genesis frontman was tasked with presenting to an inebriated Bono & co. in 1992 and they were in a cheeky mood

Watch footage from David Bowie's last ever live performance
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The rock'n'roll icon drew a line under his live career with a charity gig performance in New York in 2006

Stone Temple Pilots on how Interstate Love Song came together
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Written in a parking lot, titled on a tour bus, Scott Weiland & co.’s biggest hit truly was one for the road

The ever-humble Billy Corgan on how he was the best songwriting foil for Courtney Love
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The Smashing Pumpkins frontman also looked back to working with the Hole singer on some of her band's biggest hits

Soft Play’s Laurie Vincent on how the reaction to their first single showed them what they needed to be
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The punk pair wrapped up a hugely successful 2024 with a riotous Halloween show in London last week

The story of Spin The Black Circle, the song where Pearl Jam turned away from what was expected of them
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The lead single from Vitalogy turns 30 this week and now appears to be a line in the sand for the Seattle giants

Gavin Friday on what being U2’s Creative Director entails
By Niall Doherty published
The former Virgin Prune and solo artist has been U2’s official Tell It Like It Is Correspondent since the mid-80s

The story of the 1993 single that Radiohead want you to forget about
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If you thought they didn’t like Creep, wait til you hear what Thom Yorke & co. make of Pop Is Dead

Iggy Pop announces big London show for 2025
By Niall Doherty published
The punk trailblazer will be heading to Alexandra Palace next May

“I don’t know who caught me but thank you so much”: Watch Coldplay’s Chris Martin fall through a stage trapdoor in Melbourne
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The Coldplay frontman was thankful that an alert crew member broke his fall

Dave Gahan on the record where Depeche Mode became the band they always wanted to be
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The electro trailblazers moved away from their poppy beginnings on their fifth record, and the singer says it set them up for everything that happened next

Juliette Lewis on The Cure song that helped her out of a difficult time in her life
By Niall Doherty published
The Cape Fear star and singer was drawn to a Robert Smith classic from 1989 in the wake of her own troubles

James Dean Bradfield on how the Manics’ 2011 Best Of made him want to reconsider what they were all about
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The band capped off one glorious era with a Best Of and huge arena show in 2011 but it left their singer and guitarist feeling like they’d lost their way

Simon Neil on why Biffy Clyro’s early days are so important to them
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The Scottish trio recently celebrated their first three records with a series of special gigs in London and Glasgow

Kelley Deal tells the tragi-comic, drug-addled tale of when she first joined The Breeders
By Niall Doherty published
The guitarist gave up a cushty job in the US Air Force to join her twin sister Kim in the band, but soon she was being packed off to rehab

Manics outline details of a brand new record, due out in January
By Niall Doherty published
The Welsh rockers will release Critical Thinking, their 15th record, in January and a tour will follow in the spring

Amyl And The Sniffers on finding hope in music, Timmy Mallet and those nepo baby accusations
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Amyl And The Sniffers hit the cover of Louder, where they discuss everything from new album Cartoon Darkness, to the best rumours they've ever heard about themselves and how to succeed in pub rap battles

Don’t remember Eighties Matchbox? Well here’s rowdy frontman Guy McKnight to remind you
By Niall Doherty published
Inside the making of Celebrate Your Mother, one of a string of ace singles the Brighton rabble released before calling it quits

Interpol frontman Paul Banks on what fans can expect from the band’s upcoming Antics tour
By Niall Doherty published
The Essex-born singer talks getting in the headspace to dip back into the NY trio’s 2004 indie-rock classic
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