Gonna get myself arrested …

When I was editing NME's gossip column, barely a week went by without a band ending up in the cells and using their one phone call to ring me instead of a lawyerThe phrase "they couldn't get arrested" can be applied to the vast majority of bands over the last decade. It was never meant literally of course – any errant member of the Indie Landfills could get Stella'd up and land themselves a night in chokey at the drop of a trouser. No, it referred to the potential to get press coverage ou...

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