In today’s edition, @interpolnyc frontman Paul Banks takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. We get into his earliest memory, getting older, his greatest achievement, worst habit and much more. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/thenewcue/…

In today's very bumper edition: details of the special TNC show @BRyderJones is playing in celebration of Iechyd Da being our album of the year + a chat with Bill, Q&As with Fionn Regan & tess parks, Reccie picks & much more (AND it's paywall-less!): thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

"Butterflies freak me out. Have you seen their face? It's very scary" Start your week with this very entertaining chat with arooj aftab, featuring Jon Hamm, smoking, bad dancing, freaky butterflies, Men In Black: International & much more. It's a freebie: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

Spoke with Naima Bock for today's Life & Times in The New Cue. Definitely one of my favourite albums of the year. Mondays are always free, but if you enjoy our endeavours please do take out a sub so we can pay our electricity bills. thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...

The title track to the new Manics album is so brilliant and very, very funny. Nicky Wire goes full Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

"Don't rest on your laurels, because your laurels are just a bunch of leaves" Brian Jonestown Massacre's anton newcombe takes on our Life & Times questionnaire, includes run-ins with Dylan and Ringo, why he'd like to talk to the England '66 team & more: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

realised just in the nick of time when I logged onto Zoom that there was a Radiohead T-shirt drying on the radiator behind me and managed to grab it and chuck it on the floor before Colin appeared, I'm a ninja

I spoke to The New Cue about the history of SC. Sign up to their excellent newsletter and have a read: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

Natasha Khan aka @batforlashes takes on our Life & Times questionnaire, includes chat about daydreaming, the school run, Björk, Madonna, The Wizard Of Oz, keeping the creative well full and more. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

In today's TNC, the first part of our special 24-4-24 editions, playlists from St. Vincent, Manic Street Preachers, Dorian Lynskey, @divorce_hq, James Skelly, John Mulvey, Sam Of Herlihy, Anna Doble and Roy. It's a feeling-festive no-paywall freebie!: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

Ding dong! That's the sound of part 2 of our Songs Of The Year editions being delivered, handpicked playlists by Felix White, James Acaster (Temps), Yannis Philippakis, Nicholas Littlemore, lucy rose, Miki Berenyi and many more. Paywall is down!: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

A Christmas cracker to end the year as Tony Mortimer tells us the story behind East 17's classic Stay Another Day. Niall asked Tony if he still had his white puffa jacket and he sent us this pic to go with the interview, what a fella: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

"I’m drawn towards people who aren’t doing it just for the sake of making some money or getting some kind of status" Mogwai's stuart braithwaite takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's a free edition, read it here: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

Do your best trying to get through Jan and then Mumford & Sons announce a new record. Not now lads

"My sister once told Julian Casablancas that our music is stadium-rock. I’ve never face-palmed so hard in my life… but it might be true." Inhaler frontman Eli Hewson takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

Which living person do you most despise? "Oh, that’s fucking impossible, there’s a long list. All I would say is they’re all fucking men." -- Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. Very entertaining. It's a free edition!: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

Ey up. I'm in The New Cue.

"When I was 17, I went to Aberdeen University to study Divinity, by mistake" Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos takes on our Life & Times queries. Contains an excellent Bowie & Lou Reed story, bit of Jaws, bit of Paris, some Dirk Bogarde and much more: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

""Every time I make a record, someone extremely close to me dies..." In one of his only interviews around the excellent new Doves record, Jimi Goodwin takes on our Life & Times questionnaire, talks sobriety, not being on the Doves tour & more. thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…

What do you consider your greatest achievement? "My pupils didn’t react in hospital and I was practically braindead... So, it’s surviving." A heart-warming (& hilarious) Life & Times interview with indie icon Edwyn Collins and Grace Maxwell. thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cue-…