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Uncut at the Great Escape 2013

Allan Jones Tue, 16/04/2013 - 1:57pm

The full line-up for this year’s Great Escape festival in Brighton was announced today and along with it the line-up for the Uncut Stage at the Pavilion Theatre, where we’ll be hosting three nights of great music from May 16-May 18, with four bands each night. It’s probably our strongest-ever Great Escape bill and includes several of my own current favourites, among them Phosphorescent, Allah-Las, Lord Huron and Mikal Cronin, although there’s no one I’d really want to miss.

Armando Iannucci: "the CIA is just full of people who are a bit disorganised"

Michael Bonner Mon, 15/04/2013 - 11:09am

For the next issue of Uncut, I've reviewed Season 1 of Veep. In case you're not familiar with the show, it's basically Armando Iannucci's attempt to relocate The Thick Of It to the White House.

The 15th Uncut Playlist Of 2013

John Mulvey Thu, 11/04/2013 - 10:33am

A momentous week, one way or another, though I can’t help wishing the resonant and thought-through fury of “Tramp The Dirt Down” was heading into the Top Ten instead of “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead”.

Thee Oh Sees: "Floating Coffin"

John Mulvey Wed, 10/04/2013 - 10:56am

John Dwyer has the sort of discography so deep and complicated that one suspects even he must have trouble keeping up with himself. As a consequence, it might be a mistake to try and divine paths and trends in career which his encompassed Coachwhips, Pink and Brown, Landed, Yikes, Burmese, The Hospitals, Zeigenbock Kopf and Sword + Sandals (according to Wikipedia, anyway, if I can emphasise my spotty knowledge any more) as well as Thee Oh Sees.

Saying the unsayable: Elvis Costello, 'Tramp The Dirt Down' and Margaret Thatcher

Allan Jones Tue, 09/04/2013 - 1:32pm

“To make true political music,” the great American critic Greil Marcus wrote nearly 25 years ago, “you have to say what decent people don’t want to hear; that’s something that people fit for satellite benefit concerts will never understand, and that Elvis Costello understood before anyone heard his name.”

First Look - Beware Of Mr Baker

Michael Bonner Tue, 09/04/2013 - 11:56am

Hopefully, you'll have seen the new edition of Uncut by now. Among many, many good things in this month's issue, there's Nick Hasted's interview with Ginger Baker.

The 14th Uncut Playlist Of 2013

John Mulvey Thu, 04/04/2013 - 10:45am

A fairly eclectic selection here this week, including some great proto-Takoma guitarists from the 1920s, chamber music reimaginings of the Kompakt back catalogue, that lost Romanian kosmische record you’ve always been looking for, and Prince making a stoner jam out of “Let’s Go Crazy” (which you can hear below, along with a bunch of interesting other stuff).

Bridget St John on Kevin Ayers: "He was a lovely, beautiful human being"

Michael Bonner Tue, 02/04/2013 - 12:31pm

Hopefully, you'll have seen the new issue of Uncut by now, which includes a terrific cover story on The Who's early ascendancy, plus Cream, Matthew E White, Jeff Lynne, Kurt Vile, and more - including a piece by Allan on Kevin Ayers.

First Look - Olivier Assayas' Something In The Air

Michael Bonner Tue, 02/04/2013 - 10:45am

At the end of last week, I watched the new film by Olivier Assayas, which has been called Something In The Air in England, though its original French title – Après Mai – arguably feels a little more evocative.

The 13th Uncut Playlist Of 2013

John Mulvey Wed, 27/03/2013 - 1:02pm

In haste, and listening to an unexpected return to music from Douglas Hart as I type. Twenty-one items on the playlist this week, mostly approved. Special attention here, I think, for the new Oh Sees album (that’s the sleeve above), which very much builds on “Purifiers II”. Increasingly keen on the James Blake, too, especially the RZA track.