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Nostalgia, anti-nostalgia, personal revisionism and one last sort-of review of Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories”

John Mulvey Tue, 21/05/2013 - 11:50am

A couple of months ago, I was staying with an old friend, whose teenage daughter was heading out to an ‘80s movie all-nighter. Before she went, she listed what they were going to watch; Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – the kind of John Hughes films that are now routinely used as exemplars of that decade. Her father and I were talking, and we realised we hadn’t actually seen any of them.

First Look - the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis

Michael Bonner Mon, 20/05/2013 - 12:07pm

Uncut contributor Damon Wise is at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Here's his first look review of the new Coen brothers film, set in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s: Inside Llewyn Davis...

Club Uncut at The Great Escape 2013 – Day Three

Tom Pinnock Sun, 19/05/2013 - 3:22pm

Before the doors of the Dome Studio Theatre even open tonight (Saturday, May 18), there's an excited queue stretching most of the way down the street. Not surprising considering one of the most hyped groups of this year, Irish band The Strypes, are first on the bill.

Club Uncut at The Great Escape 2013 – Day Two

Tom Pinnock Sat, 18/05/2013 - 1:10pm

While last night's Club Uncut at Brighton's Great Escape festival hosted bands with a definite Americana bent, Friday (May 17) sees the invasion of US-based (or -inspired) garage-rockers.

First Look - David Bowie: Five Years

Michael Bonner Fri, 17/05/2013 - 3:16pm

There are many delights on offer in David Bowie – Five Years, the BBC’s terrific new documentary focussing on five critical periods in Bowie’s career. Here’s a longhaired Bowie, sporting a natty fedora, at Andy Warhol’s Factory in 1971, miming being disembowelled. And here he is on The Dick Cavett Show in 1974, wearing a dark blue shirt, tartan tie and brown trousers, twirling a cane while he performs “Footstompin”, a cut that eventually became “Fame”.

Club Uncut at The Great Escape 2013 – Day One

Tom Pinnock Fri, 17/05/2013 - 1:15pm

Another year, another three days of fantastic music at Brighton's Dome Studio Theatre, curated by Uncut, as part of The Great Escape – this year promises perhaps the most high-energy lineup yet at Club Uncut, with highlights over the weekend including Mikal Cronin, White Fence and Allah-Las. But first, Thursday (May 16) sees Phosphorescent headlining.

Nick Cave - The Ultimate Music Guide, on sale this week!

Allan Jones Tue, 14/05/2013 - 1:03pm

“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. I wasn’t particularly influenced by my contemporaries. They weren’t very good.”

The 19th Uncut Playlist Of 2013

John Mulvey Tue, 14/05/2013 - 11:05am

Playing the Daft Punk album this morning (it’s streaming on iTunes if you haven’t found it yet), which is quite interesting. Bits of it are astonishing, I’d say (“Get Lucky” of course, “Contact”, “Giorgio By Moroder” especially). I am finding it hard, though, to completely sign up to a record that intermittently reminds me of Christopher Cross record. Evidently, I still carry traces of ‘80s indie militancy.

First Look - Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring

Michael Bonner Fri, 10/05/2013 - 12:13pm

Sofia Coppola always seem to have had an uneasy relationship with celebrity.

The Man Who Fell To Earth! The Hunger! SpongeBob SquarePants! Our guide to David Bowie on film

Michael Bonner Wed, 08/05/2013 - 12:32pm

The unveiling of Bowie's latest video earlier today prompted me to dig out this piece I originally wrote for our Bowie Ultimate Music Guide, about Bowie on film...