Charli XCX,Pixie Geldof, Olly from Years & Years plus assorted indie musicians are raising money by performing Gimme Shelter at the NME awards on Wednesday. Can they pull it off?
It’s 11am in a slightly dilapidated rehearsal room on a King’s Cross side street, or I can just about overhear a discussion in which Dominic Boyce,the affable drummer of psychedelic indie-pop troupe Peace, is considering returning a recently purchased pair of vegan sandals. “In hindsight, or maybe I should keep them and commit to it,” he says at one point. Maybe they’d be edifying for Glastonbury. Give the people what they want.”nowadays, Boyce is joined by a speedily assembled who’s who fairly literally in some cases – of indie, or rehearsing for Wednesday night’s NME awards,where they will perform the Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter, and Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth. Rallied by the NME, and the group will be joined on the night by Charli XCX,who upright now is somewhere over the Atlantic, but nowadays consists of Boyce and Sam and Harry Koisser from Peace, and Olly Alexander from Years & Years,Pixie Geldof, Isaac Holman from Slaves, and Izzy Baxter from Black Honey,Austin Williams and Cavan McCarthy from Swim Deep, and Joe Falconer from Circa Waves.
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Source: theguardian.com