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Pat Long

Pat Long

Pat Long was Assistant Editor of the NME and, later, Head Of News Development at The Times and Sunday Times. His book The History of the NME was published in 2012 by Portico Books. Pat passed away after brain cancer in August 2018.

11 articles

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Six By Seven: The Closer You Get

Review by Pat Long, Select, May 2000

Nottingham quintet's "fast, furious, angry" follow-up to 1998's underachieving The Things We Make album. ...

The Delgados: Glasgow Derangers

Profile and Interview by Pat Long, Select, June 2000

The Delgados have gone from mad to made-it. After much heartache, the cycle-pathic Chemikal Underground label boses have produced a psychedelic tour-de-force in new album ...

Graham Coxon: The Blur Switch Project

Profile and Interview by Pat Long, Select, July 2000

No more teen adulation for Blur's guitarist. On his new solo LP, Graham Coxon is going underground. ...

Grandaddy: Rising Gramp

Interview by Pat Long, Select, July 2000

Come to grandaddy and exult in their eccentric, heartfelt sounds ...

Humphrey Lyttelton, Radiohead: Radiohead recruit new member!

Report and Interview by Pat Long, Q, April 2001

Brit jazz veteran Humphrey Lyttleton helps out on new album's free-form epic. ...

Killing Joke: Jaz Coleman: Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark

Interview by Pat Long, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002

For the past 20 years, Jaz Coleman has caused mayhem with industrial-punk legends Killing Joke. Now he's about to turn the world of classical music ...

Black Lips: 200 Million Thousand

Review by Pat Long, New Musical Express, 14 March 2009

Even without all the pissing in each others' mouths, they still warrant your attention. ...

Devo: We Are Legend

Report and Interview by Pat Long, The Guardian, 2 May 2009

New wave oddballs Devo used to warn that consumerism was crumbling. Now they're back to say we told you so. Pat Long tips his funny ...

Reg King obituary

Obituary by Pat Long, The Guardian, 7 November 2010

Accomplished soul singer and frontman of mod band the Action ...

Broadcast: Trish Keenan: obituary

Obituary by Pat Long, The Guardian, 18 January 2011

TRISH KEENAN, who has died from pneumonia aged 42, was best known as the singer and songwriter for Broadcast, the cult band that she and ...

The Ghost of Roland Barthes is Suitably Perplexed: NME in the Post-Punk Era

Book Excerpt by Pat Long, Portico Books, March 2012

NOTE: In this excerpt from his History of the NME, published in the UK by Portico, Pat Long chronicles the decline of the world's top ...

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