
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 time Gwen Stefani wrote a whole record about her bandmate dumping her and it made No Doubt huge
By Niall Doherty published
The ska-pop quartet went supernova with Stefani's heartbreak anthems

Jane's Addiction announce London club show in May
By Niall Doherty published
The rock legends will play London's Bush Hall ahead of a full UK tour

Eddie Vedder looks back on Pearl Jam's battle with Ticketmaster
By Niall Doherty published
It's three decades since the band went to war with the ticketing giant

Listen to Pearl Jam run through some Ten classics on a bootleg of their first ever British show in 1992
By Niall Doherty published
Eddie Vedder & co.’s first taste of live action in the UK took place on the Essex Riviera in 1992

The epic Smashing Pumpkins song that Billy Corgan wrote to close the chapter on one part of the group's sound
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Corgan said one Mellon Collie... cut was written to bid farewell to one aspect of the grunge giants' sound

Dave Grohl on the joy of getting behind the drumkit for a mini-Nirvana set at Cal Jam in 2018
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Grohl was joined by Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear and two guest vocalists to run through six Nirvana classics at his own festival

Listen to Caroline Polachek's new single Starburned And Unkissed
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Starburned And Unkissed is taken from the soundtrack to new A24 film I Saw The TV Glow

Sprints unveil two previously-unreleased tracks, share US, UK and Europe tours announcement
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The Dublin punks have released two songs recorded during sessions for their brilliant debut Letter To Self

You Me At Six frontman Josh Franceschi on his concerns about the pressures that are put on new bands
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The British rock group are calling time on their career and singer Franceschi shares some of the lessons he's learned on the way

“Every time I see him, he goes, ‘Am I still a Vampire?’”: Alice Cooper on initiating Paul McCartney into Hollywood Vampires
By Niall Doherty published
McCartney appeared on the supergroup's version of his 1969 track Come And Get It back in 2015

Alabama 3 on Woke Up This Morning, the song that became the theme tune for The Sopranos
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Don’t worry, the London country-blues rave crew did make some money eventually from soundtracking the show’s iconic opening sequence

Metallica manager Peter Mensch on why it's harder than ever for rock bands to launch a career
By Niall Doherty published
The Q Prime supremo also oversees the careers of Muse, Foals and more

Producer Alan Moulder on the album he and Trent Reznor would listen to driving round New Orleans whilst making The Fragile
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Moulder recalls the pair listening to a lot of hip-hop for inspiration when making Nine Inch Nails' third album

Robert Plant on the album that he likes to start his day with - even if no-one else in the house is a fan
By Niall Doherty published
The ex-Led Zep icon has a compilation that takes him back to early blues trailblazers

Doncaster pop-punk sensation Yungblud unveils his cover of a Kiss classic
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The Doncaster pop-punker has reworked the 1979 hit for the soundtrack of The Fall Guy

Smashing Pumpkins unveil their new guitarist after trawling through 10,000 hopefuls
By Niall Doherty published
Billy Corgan's crew put out an open call for a new member in January and they've found the latest addition to their line-up

The band that split-up every five minutes: Your essential guide to every album by The Verve
By Niall Doherty published
When they weren't splitting up on a monthly basis, The Verve made some fabulous records

“I don’t filter my opinions. I filter whether I’m being kind or not”: how David Crosby turned into a master of the Twitter putdown in his final years
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The iconic singer-songwriter had no problems dishing it out if he felt like his targets deserved it

“It might be as close as we came to being a four-piece rock band and I say that with no regret”: Michael Stipe on his favourite R.E.M. album
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The R.E.M. frontman has two records he holds closest from the 17 that the Athens, Georgia alt-rockers released

“Even Bowie must have thought, ‘Hang on, these guys have appeared out of nowhere, how did that happen?!’”: Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on the meteoric rise of the glam-rock trailblazers
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The group went from zero to heroes when their self-titled debut blew up big in 1972

“I remember seeing my first rock legend snorting cocaine in the bathroom, like, ‘Oh, I’ve heard about this’”: Foo Fighters’ Nate Mendel on the night they played at David Bowie’s epic 50th birthday bash
By Niall Doherty published
The Foos joined Robert Smith, Kim Gordon, Lou Reed and more for a triumphant night at Madison Square Garden

“I started watching people like the Pope - when he turns up you know he’s in the room!”: Skindred frontman Benji Webbe on how he became metal’s most flamboyant frontman
By Niall Doherty published
And it’s not just onstage, either – the singer says sometimes he’ll do the gardening in one of his sequinned jackets

"He was one of those people that I knew I would listen to”: Muse's Matt Bellamy on the time they worked with Mutt Lange
By Niall Doherty published
The Back In Black producer was behind the mixing desk for the trio's 2015 record Drones

"Carlos Santana told me I was like a shaman on stage and he wanted to do a band with me": Gavin Rossdale's stories of Keanu Reeves, David Bowie, Bono and more
By Niall Doherty published
He's been bitten by Shirley Manson, sung on stage with Alice In Chains, spent 15 hours a day for months with Tom Jones, and is pals with Robert Downey Jr. He’s Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, and these are his stories
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