
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

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Essex-born singer talks getting in the headspace to dip back into the NY trio’s 2004 indie-rock classic

MGMT on the time people got angry with them for making a psychedelic album
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The people wanted Kids Part 2 but the US duo offered up a mind-bending, no-hits trip instead

DJ Shadow on being miffed at all the trip-hop copycats who followed in his wake
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The Endtroducing… creator helped to usher in a new sound in the mid-90s, but he’s not exactly happy about it

English Teacher's Lily Fontaine on why it's vital to keep local venues thriving
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The Mercury Prize-winning singer cut her teeth in local venues and says they are crucial to artists breaking through

Creed's rise and fall was fast, but now they're selling more tickets than ever
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Twenty-five years ago the Human Clay album put Creed on top of the world, but it was the calm before the storm

From Lorde to Drake, Tears For Fears' Curt Smith picks his favourite reworkings of his band's music
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The 80s titans have been treated to renditions of their tracks by Lorde, Gary Jules, Foals, Kanye, Drake and more

The The's Matt Johnson on his dinner date with Leonard Cohen
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The godfather of gloom told the This Is The Day singer he was annoyed with being called things like the godfather of gloom

“It was like that scene in The Fast Show, the MD, cigar in mouth, going ‘Come on guys, impress me’.”: Shed Seven’s Rick Witter on how the Britpop veterans made their make-or-break hit Going For Gold
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Shed Seven's Rick Witter on how their anthemic hit Going For Gold came together

Noel Gallagher on the making of Oasis's riotous classic Cigarettes & Alcohol
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The fourth single from Definitely Maybe came out 30 years ago this weekend and it marked the moment that Gallagher realised stardom was here to stay

Creed’s Scott Phillips on the comical, thrifty method the band used to replicate The Matrix’s bullet-time in their Higher video
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The US rockers were MTV catnip in the early 00s but the band weren’t always convinced about their vids until they saw the finished article

From the bargain bin to the big time: Urge Overkill on how Pulp Fiction saved their career
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Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon became the Chicago quartet’s biggest hit, and there’s a few people they have to thank for it

Forget about Lars and Noel, Robert Trujillo and James's Tim Booth is the new Metallica-Mancunican bromance
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The James frontman has been hanging out with the Metallica man in LA
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