A musical production based on Jeff Buckley's life will retell the story of Romeo And Juliet and is currently in development, according to reports.
The Guardian says that The Last Goodybe, named after one of Buckley's most popular songs, will be directed by Alex Timbers, with a series of workshops set to take place in New York in early 2013.
Peter Gabriel is to play his 1986 album, So, in its entirety.
Gabriel, who is currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album, is to bring to the UK next October his current Back To Front tour, featuring the original live band who toured So with him in the mid-Eighties. Gabriel will perform So in its entirely as well as material from his entire career.
Gabriel will play:
Monday 21st October 2013 : LONDON, THE O2
Tuesday 22nd October 2013 : LONDON, THE O2
Thursday 24th October 2013 : GLASGOW, THE HYDRO
Michael Haneke has often meted out cruel and unusual punishments to his characters. You might think of the middle class couple in Funny Games, an oppressed music professor in The Piano Teacher, or an entire town in The White Ribbon. Amour, however, provides a corrective of sorts.
Ahead of the release of his new album early next year, Joe Cocker is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature.
So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask him?
How did he come to record with Jimmy Page?
What are his memories of playing Woodstock?
What was it like recording the Mad Dogs And Englishmen album?
Kings Of Leon, members of The Black Keys and The Strokes joined forces for a Tom Petty tribute show in the US last night (November 14).
The concert at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre also saw acts such as Har Mar Superstar, Eagles Of Death Metal and Hollywood star Johnny Depp performing tracks by Petty and his band the Heartbreakers, reports Rolling Stone.
The deluxe reissue of The Jam’s final album, The Gift, is reviewed in the new issue of Uncut (December 2012, Take 187) – so for this week’s archive feature, we’ve stepped back to Uncut’s December 2008 (Take 139) issue, to spend a year by Paul Weller’s side, as he celebrates his 50th birthday. We are invited into the Guv’nor’s inner sanctum, to his star-studded birthday party, and into dressing rooms across Britain and America. And we learn that, like any good mod, Weller remains “more interested in the future than the past”. Words: Paul Moody
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Black Sabbath have announced plans to release a remastered vinyl back catalogue.
The metal veterans are to release a boxset of all nine of their albums, entitled 'The Vinyl Collection: 1970-1978', on December 12. The set also features posters and inserts, a hard-backed book containing all of the band's 1970s tour programmes, plus a seven-inch vinyl of debut single 'Evil Woman' and non-album B-side 'Wicked World'.
