00:04Hi, I'm Andrew Trendle. You're watching NME. We're here at Mad Cool 2026.
00:08What's the secret?
00:09Hello!
00:10Hola!
00:11Hola!
00:12Yes!
00:13How's your Spanish?
00:14Wait, como estas?
00:16Where is my sister where I need her?
00:18My sister has lived in Madrid for like 14 years.
00:20Oh, yeah.
00:20Yeah, she should have been here, but she's out bopping around.
00:23That's it, because you've been here for a while, right?
00:26You've been here...
00:27Yeah, I've been here a couple of days.
00:28Okay, what have you seen?
00:29I saw Sara Larsson yesterday.
00:31That was good.
00:32Epic!
00:33Best show I've seen in a really long time.
00:35It was so, so good.
00:36She's so talented.
00:37The whole production was great.
00:38We saw Lorde.
00:39That was sick.
00:40That was amazing.
00:41Really, really good.
00:43I think that was what we had time for.
00:46Yeah, but it was great.
00:48And then I've seen my family.
00:49Are you sticking around for the whole week?
00:50Are you going to be here till tomorrow?
00:51Going home tomorrow for...
00:55How are we feeling about tomorrow?
00:56Well, I was going to ask how you're feeling about it.
01:00I don't want to say anything, so...
01:03Not jinxing anything.
01:04We are talking about a certain football fixture.
01:08Certain one.
01:09Certain one.
01:10How are you feeling about this?
01:12I don't know, because I've also been supporting...
01:15We support Norway too in my household.
01:17Do you?
01:17Yes.
01:18So, they're just really fun to watch.
01:20Harland get his head down and just plow through everybody.
01:23So, yeah, I'm a bit torn about tomorrow.
01:26Mmm.
01:28So, yeah.
01:28I feel like no one wants to talk about it, because we're both, like, nervous to, like...
01:32Yeah.
01:32I mean, I don't know.
01:33What's the vibe in Norway?
01:35The vibes are great.
01:37The whole country is rowing.
01:40Can you row?
01:41Yeah.
01:42I went down to the castle in Norway the other day.
01:45Oh, I saw that.
01:45With my boyfriend and my friends, and yeah, it was really, really fun.
01:48I saw everyone outside the palace, really.
01:50Yeah, yeah, going for it.
01:51It was great.
01:52Have you met Harland?
01:53No.
01:54Oh, okay.
01:54Have you met any of the team?
01:56Barely.
01:57Okay, I was just going to say.
01:58So, where are you going to watch the match?
02:00I'm going to watch it in Oslo, somewhere.
02:04Well, good luck.
02:05Good luck.
02:06Oh, see?
02:06We don't have to fight.
02:08Everything will be okay.
02:10So, yeah.
02:11So, you have got the bangers and the energy to be the kind of, like, the perfect festival act.
02:15So, I was wondering, how have you found this summer being back on the circuit, being back in the flow
02:20of it?
02:20Muchas gracias.
02:22It's really good to be back.
02:24It's fun to be back with, like, new music.
02:27And we're bringing so much energy.
02:29I'm really excited for tonight.
02:30I really love performing and I feel like every time I'm away from performing, I always think, like, yeah, you
02:36have to get me back on the stage and it feels good to be here tonight.
02:39Can't wait to see everyone.
02:41So, we've been with, there's always more that I could say came out in October.
02:44How's it been living in the universe of that album?
02:47Yeah, cool.
02:48We took the album to Japan, Korea, China.
02:54We've been on a Europe tour.
02:55It was like Germany and Netherlands and France and the UK.
03:00It was such a fun round.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Loads of fun songs to sing.
03:05What are we going to see on stage tonight?
03:07Like, in terms of, like, living in the universe of the album and kind of fleshing it out?
03:11What are we going to see on stage?
03:13Yeah.
03:13Oh, loads of energy.
03:15I'm really, really excited to play these songs live.
03:19I've co-written and co-produced this album, so it's been so fun to sonically take it from an album
03:25to live production and to see my band and crew take it, like, fully out there on stage is really
03:31fun.
03:32So, yeah, I would be aware of solos and everyone getting to shine on stage.
03:37Yeah.
03:38And I've seen that, so you've got shows until the end of September.
03:41Yes.
03:42What's the plan after that?
03:43Is it downtime, studio time?
03:46It's my time.
03:48Yeah, so, um, I'll tell you when I'll tell you.
03:54Okay.
03:54No, it's interesting because I remember, like, obviously you've worked with Bring Me.
03:57I remember you saying...
03:58That was so fun.
03:59That was a really, really good song.
04:00And you said you're a big Muse fan, etc.
04:03Do you still, like, have the hunger to, like, get, like, go really heavy?
04:07I've got to say, it's such an honor to be playing on this day of Mad Cool.
04:10Yeah.
04:11I was here yesterday and I saw all these, I mean, pop acts, like, both, like, more pop-pop things,
04:19left alternative pop acts.
04:22And it's really, really inspiring to be playing on the same lineup.
04:26I'm so honored to be here.
04:27But also so incredibly honored to be playing on the more rock day.
04:30Yeah, yeah.
04:31Where I feel like I've found myself, sonically, for the last 10 years.
04:35Like, somewhere in between.
04:37Like, I make pop songs.
04:38I'm so proud to be calling myself an artist that do make a lot of pop music, but I've always
04:45been influenced by so many different genres.
04:47And I try to cram in as many different inspirations in the studio as possible.
04:52On this last record, we drew a lot of inspiration.
04:56Me and Ashul, the executive producer on this last album, who's, like, one of my best friends from, like, Scandi
05:03indie pop, French music.
05:06And, like, it is pop music, but way more guitars than I've used before.
05:13And I'm not, like, it can be a song, it can be a snare drum that I heard in a
05:18song once, but point is, sorry, rambling, but it is an honor to be playing on the rock day to
05:24feel like I can have a foot in different camps, per se.
05:28Yeah.
05:28Like, festivals.
05:29And that's what I love about playing festivals as well.
05:31I obviously love doing my own shows, my headline shows, but to be playing on a festival where there's so
05:39many different acts and to see my music be in that context is really cool.
05:43I've seen people mosh too, Don't Kill My Vibe, I've seen it.
05:45It happens.
05:46I've seen people mosh pit to Dynamite, my ballad.
05:50That was at, like, a student festival in Norway, so they were mosh-pitting to, like, literally any song.
05:55They're the best crowd in the world, probably.
05:57But, yeah, that was pretty epic.
05:59You look into the crowd and you see lots of hair, tattoos, leather, studs.
06:02I've seen, like, metal people, like, tearing up to ballads.
06:09So, yeah.
06:09Do you think you get a row going?
06:11Music.
06:11That would be cool.
06:12Which song would you row to?
06:14I don't know.
06:15Maybe, like, Don't Kill My Vibe is a good row song.
06:18What else have you, like, what's been going on?
06:20What are you listening to at the moment?
06:21Ooh!
06:23Um, where's my phone?
06:25It's not here.
06:26What am I listening to at the moment?
06:27I really like the Turnstyle album.
06:31Oh, yeah.
06:31Thought Never Enough was really good.
06:34Mmm, I really like the new Rodrigo album.
06:38Oh, yeah.
06:38Rodrigo.
06:39I think that's great.
06:40Really good.
06:42Um, it's just amazing songwriting.
06:45Amazing production.
06:46Um, what else have I been listening to?
06:50Loads of things.
06:51Like, a bunch of, like, Norwegian acts.
06:54I love the new Holly Holmbristen record.
06:55Oh, yeah.
06:56So good.
06:57That's on repeat.
06:59Yeah.
06:59That Tamora record.
07:00Yes!
07:01That was really, really, really good.
07:02So cool.
07:02I wish I was here to see it live.
07:03Yeah.
07:04I'm gonna try and see it.
07:05Catch it live somewhere.
07:06Oh, so you've done some amazing collabs.
07:08Is there anyone, like, you're itching to, like, dream collabs bucket list?
07:12Yeah, but I wouldn't dare saying it on camera.
07:15Look down and get them.
07:16Get it.
07:17No, but I am going on, like, my dream tour in a week.
07:21So I'm going to the States on Wednesday.
07:24Um, wait, maybe I should, yeah, whatever.
07:27If I should have said that.
07:28But I'm going next week on tour with Ed Sheeran.
07:31Oh, wow.
07:31That's gonna be great.
07:32You can get there moshing for sure.
07:34Yeah, maybe I'll try that.
07:35Um, I'm really excited for that.
07:37That's gonna be so cool to be able to be support act for a stadium tour of that size.
07:43Like, I've never done anything that big before.
07:45So, yeah, can't wait.
07:46Amazing.
07:47And how are you gonna celebrate tonight in Madrid when the set's over?
07:49What are you gonna do?
07:51Have a beer.
07:53See my family who's here.
07:55My, my sister who I mentioned earlier is like, she's lived here for 14 years.
07:58So, um, yeah, loads of friends and family and yeah, it'll be great.
08:03Donde esta la fiesta?
08:04Oh, wow.
08:05There you go.
08:06You can have that.
08:06What does that mean?
08:07Where is the party?
08:08Again?
08:09Donde esta la fiesta?
08:11Donde esta la fiesta.
08:13Maybe I'll say that from stage.
08:15Do it, do it.
08:15And I can claim credit.
08:17Yeah, yeah, great.
08:19Yeah, yeah.
08:20I'm sure he does.
08:22Thank you, seasonedă or
08:25any of you guys, because hundreds of people come together, right will produits.
08:25Okay, medical care.
08:26You're doing all that again.
08:26To get there.
08:26You're doing all that.
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