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Ben Wheatley's Sightseers

Michael Bonner Mon, 26/11/2012 - 10:12pm

Apart from a rather undignified search on secondary ticketing websites for Rolling Stones tickets, I spent part of my weekend listening to Jim Williams’ folktronic score for Sightseers, a terrific black comedy from Ben Wheatley.

The 47th Uncut Playlist Of 2012

John Mulvey Wed, 21/11/2012 - 2:15pm

The new issue of Uncut should be with subscribers imminently, and in UK shops on Friday. Of some interest, I suspect, will be our Top 75 new albums of 2012 rundown; feel free to talk to me here about that when you’ve had a look (or before, if you like).

Bruce Springsteen, Black Keys, Bryan Ferry, Paul Weller, Ty Segall plus The Top 75 Albums Of The Year in the new Uncut

Allan Jones Tue, 20/11/2012 - 4:38pm

The new issue of Uncut will be on sale from Friday. Subscribers, of course, those sensibly organised people who plan ahead and have their lives in probably perfect order, may already have started receiving their copies. Lucky them! We’re actually still waiting for ours, but not yet fretting that they’ve been re-routed, sent via some staging post on a distant tundra where passing yaks may end up feasting upon them, the chomp-chomp-chomp of their distracted munching the only sound in that vast space, the hairy ruminants quite indifferent, of course, to what’s actually in the issue. Which is a lot, and includes in the grand annual tradition of these things, our review of the year, a 30-page special, featuring our Top 75 Albums Of 2012, plus the best reissues and box sets, films, DVDs and books, as voted for by over 40 Uncut contributors.

Wes Anderson: A Life Galactic

Michael Bonner Tue, 20/11/2012 - 12:36pm

I've given up pretending I'm not interested in watching a new Stars Wars movie.

Roger Waters. November 15, 2012, London. "The descent into tyranny is a very steep and slippery one.”

Michael Bonner Thu, 15/11/2012 - 6:00pm

“Why so glum?” asks Roger Waters with a smile as he strides into a conference room in an elegant Mayfair hotel.

The 46th Uncut Playlist Of 2012

John Mulvey Wed, 14/11/2012 - 3:51pm

Just finishing the Ultimate Music Guide on The Kinks while listening to Gurdjieff’s harmonium improvisations from 1949. There are, though, a bunch of interesting newer things here as well. Have a listen to the new Mark Kozelek song, for a start (he played a really compelling gig in London last Friday, incidentally, which I haven’t had a chance to write about).

The John Lennon Lettters

Allan Jones Tue, 13/11/2012 - 3:45pm

Hunter Davies, who in 1968 wrote the first authorised biography of The Beatles and now more than 50 years on has compiled and edited The John Lennon Letters, admits in his introduction that he has for the purposes of the book ‘rather expanded the definition of the word letter’, which immediately sounds bit slippery, especially when he also describes some of the material he has unearthed as ‘notes and lists and scraps’. This sounds rather unpromising, as if Davies is preparing the reader for disappointments to come.

Interview: Crossfire Hurricane director Brett Morgen

Michael Bonner Mon, 12/11/2012 - 12:17pm

As part of our current Rolling Stones cover story, I interviewed director Brett Morgen about his Stones' film, Crossfire Hurricane.

Argo and the return of Ben Affleck

Michael Bonner Fri, 09/11/2012 - 1:34pm

Ben Affleck. Who'd have thought..? I remember going to a sparsely attended screening of Jersey Girl, Kevin Smith's laugh-free 2004 romcom with Affleck cast alongside his then girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, and wondering what had happened to derail such a promising career.

The 45th Uncut Playlist Of 2012

John Mulvey Thu, 08/11/2012 - 11:11am

Quite tempting yesterday to play nothing but “Signed Sealed Delivered I’m Yours”, but here’s this week’s playlist, with quite a few new clips (Broadcast, Jessica Pratt, Hiss, Ty!), links and new entries.