Foals - On The Road In Africa

NME joined Foals for the sixth Lake Of Stars festival in Malawi. This article originally appeared in the 15th October issue of the magazine It’s about 6am in Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta airport when the itching kicks in. We’re bleary eyed and jet-lagged and crowded into an endless corridor of flight gates, tat shops and international hubbub, and Yannis is flexing his forearms to show us a series of coaster-sized red patches. He’s been hit by the Malarone, a powerful anti-malarial drug whose...

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