But if the cover’s striking, the story behind it is even more dramatic. The Strokes’ first NME cover depicts the band huddled together in second-hand jackets under dishevelled hair on a sidewalk in Manhattan with the words “why New York’s finest will change your life forever!” emblazoned across them in big bold red letters. Leading up to the screening, we’re looking back at some of the NME covers from that era, highlighting the bands, stories, and music that shifted and shaped rock music as we know it forever. Find out more details about the event here. While the world waited with bated breath to see if the five Manhattan friends and the new batch of bands coming up behind them would live up to the hype, NME was there for the ride.Īs part of the inaugural NME Screens event, fans will have an exclusive opportunity at London’s Rich Mix to relive those moments live before the film officially premieres in the UK. In 2001, the year the second coming of rock was at its fever-pitch, The Strokes graced the cover of NME twice, not to mention the countless live reviews, album explainers, and recounts of their debauched nights out on both sides of the Atlantic that made up the rest of the mag. Spliced between scenes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ first performances, The Strokes roughing each other up at the airport on the way to their first UK gig, and Interpol walking in downtown Manhattan debris on September 11, are bold bright covers of NME. One of the most pivotal storytellers in Lizzy Goodman’s oral-history-cum-music-documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom, isn’t a journalist, or a scrappy New York City band from the early ‘00s, but a magazine.

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