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.
12 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. ...
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 ...
Review by Pat Long, New Musical Express, 21 April 2007
Picture perfect: South London romantics mine their childhood memories for art-rock gold ...
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. ...
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 ...
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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