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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.

The Who, Cream, Kevin Ayers, Matthew E White, Kurt Vile, Jeff Lynne in the new Uncut

Allan Jones Tue, 26/03/2013 - 5:28pm

When I first started reading what used to be Melody Maker, in a time now shrouded not so much in what are usually called the mists of time as they are in a fog as dense as anything that might gather over Dogger Bank, I used to accept its weekly delivery in the manner of some kind of jackal, cur or otherwise fanged and ravenous critter.

First Look - Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha trailer

Michael Bonner Tue, 26/03/2013 - 9:00am

The IMDB lists Noah Baumbach’s credits since 2010’s Greenberg as a TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections and a co-write on Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.

Matthew E White and the new Uncut

John Mulvey Mon, 25/03/2013 - 12:27pm

Three weeks and a few hours ago, I found myself on a small plane from Richmond, Virginia, to Washington DC. Most of the other passengers were members of the Harvard baseball team, who had spent the past three hours being harassed by schoolgirls making innumerable Harlem Shake videos. I, though, was sat next to a woman from Colorado, who was studying the use of horses in Gestalt therapy.

The 12th Uncut Playlist Of 2013

John Mulvey Thu, 21/03/2013 - 11:46am

Plenty to listen to here again this week, and less dubious content than there was in the 11th playlist. One off-the-scale stinker, though…

David Bowie Is... V&A, London

Michael Bonner Wed, 20/03/2013 - 5:07pm

Towards the end of the V&A’s terrific David Bowie Is… exhibition, tucked away on a wall next to the handwritten lyrics for “Heroes” and a postcard from Christopher Isherwood, are a set of door keys that have evidently seen better days.

Parquet Courts, London Highbury Garage, March 19, 2013

John Mulvey Wed, 20/03/2013 - 12:41pm

On their fine "Light Up Gold" album from the end of last year, Parquet Courts often come across like a kind of self-mythologising, self-effacing Brooklynish hipster band, allbeit one who are, of course, a) disdainful of the term 'hipster'; b) focused on a rather old-fashioned hipster sound that, until they became hip, was probably too hip, or not hip enough, for hipsters; c) snarky about self-mythologising, self-effacing Brooklynish hipsters; d) probably reflexively quite snarky about themselves.

Harry Taussig, Hiss Golden Messenger, Golden Gunn, Steve Gunn etc

John Mulvey Tue, 19/03/2013 - 1:36pm

Reading about the South By Southwest festival tends to produce, in me at least, a mix of empathetic fatigue and terrible envy, and last week’s bombardment of tweets, blogs, news stories was no different.