Love them or hate them, they're still an obsessionBefore The 1975's Saturday night headlining set, the band joined Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham, festival organisers and emergency staff who dealt with the aftermath of last month's terror attack to honour those whose lives were lost. “We didn’t want to do a moment of silence, we wanted to do a moment of noise,” said frontman Matt Healy, urging the crowd to go “fucking mental.”Stripping his top off to screams, Healy quipped: “He's taking his top off. Is it because he thinks he's a rock star? Is it because he is a rock star? Is it because he's too hot?”“Parklife, it's going to go off!” pledged Healy, before the band tear into euphoric set-closer 'The Sound'. “Manchester that was our best ever show,” he tweets the next day. “You are the greatest city in the world. I am so proud to be one of you.”Going full Snarklife, Healy delivered a sucker-punch to the Conservatives. Before tearing into the song ' ‘Loving Someone’, he railed “Theresa May needs to resign. She needs to stop squatting in Number 10 with a coalition that sounds like an STI. It does – I don’t want DUP.”There’s a wave of indie-pop that, if you listen hard enough, you can hear in the air as lovingly-curated ‘BBQ …Continue reading »The post Get to know Healywave – the scene indebted to The 1975’s signature sound appeared first on NME.