Like freeze dried prophets walking out across the pollution-hardened Thames, the British duo of Dan Le Sac (DJ, effects – aka Dan Stephens) and Scroobious Pip (words – aka David Meads) want to tell us that we've lost our way. Aware of the challenge of raising cerebral matters with a dumbed down audience, it's an impassioned message that they're prepared to cloak – in a move Trojans will be familiar with – in the disguise of clattering Brit-hop.

Instead of a sandwich board in a rat-infested strip mall, their 2007 debut single "Thou Shalt Not Kill" recontemporised Moses' original precepts, creating a street pulpit from which to set out the laws according to their own nu-hippy belief systems; the cockney enclave of Stanford-Le-Hope became their Mount Sinai.

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Rage Against The Machine are set to headline the second day of the T In The Park festival tonight (July 12), after the likes of The Fratellis, Biffy Clyro and Kate Nash perform on the Main Stage. Kaiser Chiefs, meanwhile, head up the NME/Radio 1 Stage, with Ian Brown headlining the King Tut’s Wah Wah Tent. The Raconteurs, The Pigeon Detectives and The Courteeners are also set to appear on the NME/Radio 1 Stage, with Reverend And The Makers set to play in the King Tut’s Wah Wah Tent before Brown. Hotly-tipped new bands set to play on site today include Twisted Wheel, who play in the Futures Tent before White Lies perform on the same stage later in the afternoon.
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Maximo Park have topped the NME Chart tonight (August 26).

The band’s song ‘Girls Who Play Guitars’ has knocked The Cribs off the top spot with ‘Moving Pictures’.

The sole new entry on the chart is ‘The Angry Mob’ by Kaiser Chiefs at Number Three.

The Top 10 is:

1. Maximo Park – ‘Girls Who Play Guitars’
2. The White Stripes – ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is..’
3. Kaiser Chiefs – ‘The Angry Mob’
4. The Cribs – ‘Moving Pictures’
5. The Pigeon Detectives – ‘Take Her Back’
6. Peter, Bjorn and John – ‘Young Folks’
7. The Twang – ‘Two Lovers’
8. The Enemy – ‘You’re Not Alone’
9. Hard-Fi – ‘Suburban Knights’
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