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John Martyn To Play Special Solid Air Shows

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John Martyn To Play Special Solid Air Shows

Blues and folk singer John Martyn has announced that he will be performing his brilliant album “Solid Air” for some special shows in January. “Solid Air” was described in Martyn’s Album by Album feature in last month’s Uncut as “the prototype ambient and trip hop album” with a “mix of blues, jazz and rock.” Martyn told Uncut that “looking back, I knew at the time it was a good album. People would come down to visit and I’d play them ‘May You Never’.” Martyn got the idea for the special shows after a highly acclaimed sell-out show performing the 1973 album in full at London’s Barbican Centre in September. Fuelled by his huge voice and staggering guitar playing, there is always a near-religious intensity to Martyn’s shows. Everyone from Paul Weller to Bright Eyes has feted this songwriting genius. Catch him at the following venues early next year: Cambridge Corn Exchange (January 21) Cardiff St. David’s Hall (22) Birmingham Symphony Hall (25) Salford Lowry (27) Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (29) Gateshead The Sage (30) For ticket availability – Click here to go to nme.com/gigs Pic credit: Elliot Franks

Blues and folk singer John Martyn has announced that he will be performing his brilliant album “Solid Air” for some special shows in January.

“Solid Air” was described in Martyn’s Album by Album feature in last month’s Uncut as “the prototype ambient and trip hop album” with a “mix of blues, jazz and rock.”

Martyn told Uncut that “looking back, I knew at the time it was a good album. People would come down to visit and I’d play them ‘May You Never’.”

Martyn got the idea for the special shows after a highly acclaimed sell-out show performing the 1973 album in full at London’s Barbican Centre in September.

Fuelled by his huge voice and staggering guitar playing, there is always a near-religious intensity to Martyn’s shows.

Everyone from Paul Weller to Bright Eyes has feted this songwriting genius.

Catch him at the following venues early next year:

Cambridge Corn Exchange (January 21)

Cardiff St. David’s Hall (22)

Birmingham Symphony Hall (25)

Salford Lowry (27)

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (29)

Gateshead The Sage (30)

For ticket availability – Click here to go to nme.com/gigs

Pic credit: Elliot Franks

Garbage announce new single

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Garbage announce new single

Garbage, the Shirley Manson led 90’s grunge-techno group, have confirmed a new single, to be released in March. The new track title is yet to be confirmed but will precede a greatest hits compilation “Absolute Garbage” out on the 19th of the same month. Led by the iconic figure of Manson, Garbage have sold 12 million albums worldwide. The hits round-up includes the breakthrough hits “Stupid Girl' and “Only Happy When It Rains.” No plans to tour in the UK around the time of release have been announced yet. For more information about Garbage – Go to their homepage here

Garbage, the Shirley Manson led 90’s grunge-techno group, have confirmed a new single, to be released in March.

The new track title is yet to be confirmed but will precede a greatest hits compilation “Absolute Garbage” out on the 19th of the same month.

Led by the iconic figure of Manson, Garbage have sold 12 million albums worldwide.

The hits round-up includes the breakthrough hits “Stupid Girl’ and “Only Happy When It Rains.”

No plans to tour in the UK around the time of release have been announced yet.

For more information about Garbage – Go to their homepage here

Michael Jackson To Make London Appearance

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Michael Jackson To Make London Appearance

Michael Jackson is set to recreate the promo film for “Thriller” live on stage at an awards ceremony in London week. The reclusive 48-year-old pop star has hardly been seen since his acquittal on child molestation charges in 2005. Jackson will perform at the World Music Awards when he accepts a Diamond Award for selling over 100 million records worldwide. His PR officer confirmed his appearance at the WMA, saying, “Yes, it's his first performance in a long time; it’s something of a comeback if you like." Jackson's record-breaking "Thriller" album is the biggest-selling album of all time - the Guiness Book of Records lists it as selling 51 million copies worldwide in 23 years. Jackson’s spectacular comeback performance will be a recreation of the 14-minute “mini movie” featuring a cast of werewolves and dancing zombies. The original John Landis-directed promo film in 1983 was the most expensive video ever made at the time, the total cost coming to £420,000. It started the trend for lavish pop videos throughout the ‘80s. Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan will host the World Music Awards show on November 15, and other artists performing on the night include Beyonce, Katie Melua, Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli.

Michael Jackson is set to recreate the promo film for “Thriller” live on stage at an awards ceremony in London week.

The reclusive 48-year-old pop star has hardly been seen since his acquittal on child molestation charges in 2005.

Jackson will perform at the World Music Awards when he accepts a Diamond Award for selling over 100 million records worldwide.

His PR officer confirmed his appearance at the WMA, saying, “Yes, it’s his first performance in a long time; it’s something of a comeback if you like.”

Jackson’s record-breaking “Thriller” album is the biggest-selling album of all time – the Guiness Book of Records lists it as selling 51 million copies worldwide in 23 years.

Jackson’s spectacular comeback performance will be a recreation of the 14-minute “mini movie” featuring a cast of werewolves and dancing zombies.

The original John Landis-directed promo film in 1983 was the most expensive video ever made at the time, the total cost coming to £420,000. It started the trend for lavish pop videos throughout the ‘80s.

Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan will host the World Music Awards show on November 15, and other artists performing on the night include Beyonce, Katie Melua, Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli.

Bob Dylan Musical To Close

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Bob Dylan Musical To Close

A Broadway musical based on the songs of Uncut ‘Man of the Year’ Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A-Changin’” is to close after only 28 performances. Conceived and choreographed by Tony award-winning Twyla Tharp, the musical, which is set in a circus, has been derided by the local press, including the New York Times, since it opened on October 26. Tharp was contacted by Dylan to work on the show after the success she had with “Movin’ Out” the musical based on the songs of Billy Joel. Sadly, she appears to have not got the formula quite right this time. Although “The Times They Are A-Changin’” fared well earlier this year during it’s run at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, its transfer to New York was met by hostile reviews. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the show “is so bad that it makes you forget how good the songs are”. Broadway has seen a couple of high profile musical flops in the last year, “Good Vibrations” based on the songs of the Beach Boys, and “Lennon” based on The Beatles, both closed swiftly after critics panned them. The show’s final New York performance will be on November 19, so if you’ve ever wanted to see trapeze set to “Like A Rolling Stone” or “Highway 61” – get down to Brooks Atkinson Theater quick. Dylan has previously been quoted as saying that the show “is the best presentation of my songs I have ever seen or heard.” Well, he would know.

A Broadway musical based on the songs of Uncut ‘Man of the Year’ Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’” is to close after only 28 performances.

Conceived and choreographed by Tony award-winning Twyla Tharp, the musical, which is set in a circus, has been derided by the local press, including the New York Times, since it opened on October 26.

Tharp was contacted by Dylan to work on the show after the success she had with “Movin’ Out” the musical based on the songs of Billy Joel.

Sadly, she appears to have not got the formula quite right this time.

Although “The Times They Are A-Changin’” fared well earlier this year during it’s run at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, its transfer to New York was met by hostile reviews.

The Wall Street Journal wrote that the show “is so bad that it makes you forget how good the songs are”.

Broadway has seen a couple of high profile musical flops in the last year, “Good Vibrations” based on the songs of the Beach Boys, and “Lennon” based on The Beatles, both closed swiftly after critics panned them.

The show’s final New York performance will be on November 19, so if you’ve ever wanted to see trapeze set to “Like A Rolling Stone” or “Highway 61” – get down to Brooks Atkinson Theater quick.

Dylan has previously been quoted as saying that the show “is the best presentation of my songs I have ever seen or heard.”

Well, he would know.

John Peel Art Show To Open

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John Peel Art Show To Open

"FOR PEEL" – a celebratory art, music and photographic project - is to open in London this month. ”For Peel” features paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography from over 50 Peel fans as well as established artists. Each fan has made a work inspired by an artist that they loved and whom Peel also championed. As well as the exhibition, the first 2000 to attend the show will get a free CD of exclusive music. As well as six unsigned bands, in true Peel tradition the CD will also include six established Peel favourites. Artists who have contributed a track include Mick Harvey and Cornershop. As if that wasn’t enough, everyone will get a free fanzine that features images from the show as well as tributes from writers including Arthur Smith. "For Peel" is curated by Harry Pye who has previously organised more than a dozen art shows; in fact, the first exhibition he ever put together, "It May Be Rubbish But It's British Rubbish", was partly financed by John Peel himself. Harry Pye’s conclusion about the show is that "This exhibition is simple stuff: Artists who love John Peel making work about the bands John Peel loved. Happy Christmas." Admission to “For Peel” is completely free and runs from November 24- December 23. For more information about the show – Click here

“FOR PEEL” – a celebratory art, music and photographic project – is to open in London this month.

”For Peel” features paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography from over 50 Peel fans as well as established artists.

Each fan has made a work inspired by an artist that they loved and whom Peel also championed.

As well as the exhibition, the first 2000 to attend the show will get a free CD of exclusive music.

As well as six unsigned bands, in true Peel tradition the CD will also include six established Peel favourites.

Artists who have contributed a track include Mick Harvey and Cornershop.

As if that wasn’t enough, everyone will get a free fanzine that features images from the show as well as tributes from writers including Arthur Smith.

“For Peel” is curated by Harry Pye who has previously organised more than a dozen art shows; in fact, the first exhibition he ever put together, “It May Be Rubbish But It’s British Rubbish”, was partly financed by John Peel himself.

Harry Pye’s conclusion about the show is that “This exhibition is simple stuff: Artists who love John Peel making work about the bands John Peel loved. Happy Christmas.”

Admission to “For Peel” is completely free and runs from November 24- December 23.

For more information about the show – Click here

Check out Captain Beefheart in surreal TV footage

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Check out Captain Beefheart in surreal TV footage

Everyday, we bring you the best thing we've seen on Youtube -- a great piece of archive footage, a music promo or a clip from one of our favourite movies of TV shows. Today: Watch Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band perform “I’m Gonna Boogarize You Baby” – the opening track on the 1972 album “The Spotlight Kid.” This footage from the German music show Beat Club was first aired on June 24, 1972. There are some fantastic shirts on display – have to be seen to be believed. Check out the Captain’s fashion by clicking here

Everyday, we bring you the best thing we’ve seen on Youtube — a great piece of archive footage, a music promo or a clip from one of our favourite movies of TV shows.

Today: Watch Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band perform “I’m Gonna Boogarize You Baby” – the opening track on the 1972 album “The Spotlight Kid.”

This footage from the German music show Beat Club was first aired on June 24, 1972.

There are some fantastic shirts on display – have to be seen to be believed.

Check out the Captain’s fashion by clicking here

Pete Doherty Found Guilty of Assault

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Pete Doherty Found Guilty of Assault

Babyshambles and ex-Libertines singer Pete Doherty has been found guilty of assaulting a BBC reporter last March. Doherty pleaded guilty and was fined £750 at Thames Magistrates' Court for the attack. In a statement, the 27-year-old slightly repented by saying, "If I hurt this lady I'm sorry." However despite the apology, Doherty also added that the hurt Radio 1 reporter, Trudi Barber is a member of “harassing scrum press.” Magistrate Helen Skinner at the court responded to Doherty’s comments by saying, "Referring to the press as scum does no one any favours. You were obviously courting publicity judging by your somewhat extravagant behaviour outside the court. She concluded "People in public life have a responsibility to behave and be a good role model to others." The singer, who was recently being treated at the Priory for drug addiction, was also ordered to pay £250 compensation and another £200 in court costs, reported BBC News. Doherty told the court that he was unable to pay the fine on the day as he only had 27p on him. He has been given seven days to pay up.

Babyshambles and ex-Libertines singer Pete Doherty has been found guilty of assaulting a BBC reporter last March.

Doherty pleaded guilty and was fined £750 at Thames Magistrates’ Court for the attack.

In a statement, the 27-year-old slightly repented by saying, “If I hurt this lady I’m sorry.”

However despite the apology, Doherty also added that the hurt Radio 1 reporter, Trudi Barber is a member of “harassing scrum press.”

Magistrate Helen Skinner at the court responded to Doherty’s comments by saying, “Referring to the press as scum does no one any favours.

You were obviously courting publicity judging by your somewhat extravagant behaviour outside the court.

She concluded “People in public life have a responsibility to behave and be a good role model to others.”

The singer, who was recently being treated at the Priory for drug addiction, was also ordered to pay £250 compensation and another £200 in court costs, reported BBC News.

Doherty told the court that he was unable to pay the fine on the day as he only had 27p on him.

He has been given seven days to pay up.

Watch The Beatles in the studio in Today’s vintage clip

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Watch The Beatles in the studio in Today’s vintage clip

Everyday, we bring you the best thing we've seen on Youtube -- a great piece of archive footage, a music promo or a clip from one of our favourite movies of TV shows. Today: Watch The Beatles in the studio performing the Lennon-McCartney track “Hey Bulldog” – originally from the 1969 “Yellow Submarine” album. This entertaining promo clip is worth watching because it’s the first time the correct song has been played over the visuals of the band. Originally the promo made by the band had no audio, as film recording equipment was banned from the studio. The song was recorded for inclusion on the soundtrack for “Yellow Submarine” but was not included in the original version of the film. Watch The Beatles in action in the studio by clicking here

Everyday, we bring you the best thing we’ve seen on Youtube — a great piece of archive footage, a music promo or a clip from one of our favourite movies of TV shows.

Today: Watch The Beatles in the studio performing the Lennon-McCartney track “Hey Bulldog” – originally from the 1969 “Yellow Submarine” album.

This entertaining promo clip is worth watching because it’s the first time the correct song has been played over the visuals of the band.

Originally the promo made by the band had no audio, as film recording equipment was banned from the studio.

The song was recorded for inclusion on the soundtrack for “Yellow Submarine” but was not included in the original version of the film.

Watch The Beatles in action in the studio by clicking here

Christopher Walken To Play Ozzy Osbourne

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Christopher Walken To Play Ozzy Osbourne

Christopher Walken is to take on the role of the dark rock lord Ozzy Osborne in the forthcoming Larry Charles directed film “The Dirt” about excessive LA rock group Motley Crue. Vince Neil, front man of Motley Crue announced that Oscar-winning actor Walken would play the cameo role of Ozzy on US radio show ABC News. Neil thinks having Walken on board will be perfect casting, saying "How funny is that going to be?!" In the book of “The Dirt”, tales of Osbourne on the road with Motley Crue, include snorting a line of live ants poolside and taking LSD every day for a year 'just to see what would happen.' Neil also said that other stars are planned to appear in the film as rock stars, including former Batman, Val Kilmer as Van Halen’s ‘Diamond Dave’ - David Lee Roth. Kilmer is experienced at playing famously excessive rock stars. He has previously played the roles of Elvis Presley in 1993’s “True Romance” and Jim Morrison in the Oliver Stone 1991 biopic “The Doors.” The actors chosen to play Motley Crue themselves will be unknowns. "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band" had no limits with it’s gritty confessionals, describing in dirty detail - the drink, the drugs and the sex-fuelled rock star behaviour of Vince Neil and Crue band mates Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx. The film made by Paramount and MTV is now in preproduction and is expected to be completed in 2008.

Christopher Walken is to take on the role of the dark rock lord Ozzy Osborne in the forthcoming Larry Charles directed film “The Dirt” about excessive LA rock group Motley Crue.

Vince Neil, front man of Motley Crue announced that Oscar-winning actor Walken would play the cameo role of Ozzy on US radio show ABC News.

Neil thinks having Walken on board will be perfect casting, saying “How funny is that going to be?!”

In the book of “The Dirt”, tales of Osbourne on the road with Motley Crue, include snorting a line of live ants poolside and taking LSD every day for a year ‘just to see what would happen.’

Neil also said that other stars are planned to appear in the film as rock stars, including former Batman, Val Kilmer as Van Halen’s ‘Diamond Dave’ – David Lee Roth.

Kilmer is experienced at playing famously excessive rock stars. He has previously played the roles of Elvis Presley in 1993’s “True Romance” and Jim Morrison in the Oliver Stone 1991 biopic “The Doors.”

The actors chosen to play Motley Crue themselves will be unknowns.

“The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band” had no

limits with it’s gritty confessionals, describing in dirty detail – the drink, the drugs and the sex-fuelled rock star behaviour of Vince Neil and Crue band mates Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx.

The film made by Paramount and MTV is now in preproduction and is expected to be completed in 2008.

Oasis Road Movie World Premiere

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Oasis Road Movie World Premiere

“Lord Don’t Slow Me Down” the new Oasis documentary made it’s world premiere at the CMJ festival in New York on Saturday (November 4). Noel Gallagher made a special appearance at the screening to take questions in a special session after the film. Around 400 fans queued from as early 3am to make sure they could attend the screening. Film director Bailie Walsh captures Oasis on their “Don’t Believe The Truth” world tour, with a collection of intimate band interviews and backstage footage. Walsh previously worked with the band when he directed the Oasis promo video for the single “Let There Be Love” in 2005. At the Q&A session, Noel Gallagher answered questions on subjects varying from The Beatles, his relationship with sibling Liam Gallagher and the group's forthcoming best of collection 'Stop The Clocks'. When asked by a fan why he claims Oasis are ‘the greatest band in the world’ Noel responded by saying, "I only go by what's on the charts, I'm not interested in what's hip to music critics”. He added that he’d been misinterpreted saying Oasis were the “greatest thing since Elvis Presley” he was actually saying, 'I think I'm the best thing in the Top 40 and I think anybody whose from England would probably agree with that!." Oasis release “Stop The Clocks” on November 20, whilst “Lord Don't Slow Me Down” will be screened in the UK later this month. To watch the Bailie Walsh directed Oasis video “Let There Be Love – Click here

“Lord Don’t Slow Me Down” the new Oasis documentary made it’s world premiere at the CMJ festival in New York on Saturday (November 4).

Noel Gallagher made a special appearance at the screening to take questions in a special session after the film. Around 400 fans queued from as early 3am to make sure they could attend the screening.

Film director Bailie Walsh captures Oasis on their “Don’t Believe The Truth” world tour, with a collection of intimate band interviews and backstage footage.

Walsh previously worked with the band when he directed the Oasis promo video for the single “Let There Be Love” in 2005.

At the Q&A session, Noel Gallagher answered questions on subjects varying from The Beatles, his relationship with sibling Liam Gallagher and the group’s forthcoming best of collection ‘Stop The Clocks’.

When asked by a fan why he claims Oasis are ‘the greatest band in the world’ Noel responded by saying, “I only go by what’s on the charts, I’m not interested in what’s hip to music critics”.

He added that he’d been misinterpreted saying Oasis were the “greatest thing since Elvis Presley” he was actually saying, ‘I think I’m the best thing in the Top 40 and I think anybody whose from England would probably agree with that!.”

Oasis release “Stop The Clocks” on November 20, whilst “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down” will be screened in the UK later this month.

To watch the Bailie Walsh directed Oasis video “Let There Be Love – Click here

Genesis Reform To Play The World

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Genesis Reform To Play The World

As previously reported on Uncut.co.uk Phil Collins is to re-join Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford in a reformed Genesis. Collins is to re-join the prog-rock giants for an international tour, announced officially this morning at a press conference. The “Turn It On Again” tour will begin a decade after the singing drummer left the group to pursue a successful solo career. The mammoth tour will see the band play a series of stadium concerts in Europe next summer kicking off in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki on 11 June, ending in Rome on 14 July after playing 12 countries in between. The full tour dates are as follows: Helsinki, Finland Olympic Stadium (June 11) Herning, Denmark Messecenter (14) Hamburg, Germany AOL Arena (15) Berne, Switzerland Stade de Suisse (17) Linz, Austria Gugglestadium (18) Budapest, Hungary Puskas Ferenc Stadium (20) Katowice, Poland Slaski Stadium (21) Hannover, Germany AWD Arena (23) Dusseldorf, Germany LTU Arena (26) Stuttgart, Germany Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium (29) Paris, France Parc Des Princes (30) Amsterdam, Holland Arena (July 1) Berlin, Germany Olympiastadion (3) Leipzig, Germany Zentralstadion (4) Frankfurt, Germany Commerzbankarena (5) London, UK Twickenham Stadium (7) Manchester, UK Old Trafford (8) Munich, Germany Olympiastadion (10) Monaco Louis II Stadium (12) Rome, Italy Telecomcerto at Colosseo (14) Tickets for the UK dates go onsale on November 24. Other onsale dates are yet to be announced. Collins became lead singer of Genesis when Peter Gabriel, the original front man, left in 1975 to go solo. Collins had previously been the group’s drummer and backing singer. The group had several immensely successful albums in the late '70s and '80s, selling upwards of 150 million longplayers. To coincide with the Genesis tour, EMI Records will be re-issuing all 14 Genesis studio albums throughout 2007. All the releases will be SACD/DVD double disc sets featuring newly re-mastered 5.1 surround sound and stereo mixes. Phil Collins' return to Genesis for an international tour has been speculated about for some time. Original Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett has congratulated his former band mates, saying, “I would like to congratulate Tony, Mike and Phil for flying the flag once again. Good luck to them and I really hope they have a very successful tour." Hackett also further speculates that Peter Gabriel was indeed asked to be part of the reunion. The guitarist told Uncut that he “was originally approached to discuss the possibility of a five piece which would have included Peter Gabriel, but since Peter’s schedule precludes this, it makes sense for the other three to celebrate the band in their ‘own special way’ ." Hackett recently released a new solo record, 'Wild Orchids', and is planning a series of UK shows early in 2007. For previous Genesis reunion news – Click here

As previously reported on Uncut.co.uk Phil Collins is to re-join Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford in a reformed Genesis.

Collins is to re-join the prog-rock giants for an international tour, announced officially this morning at a press conference.

The “Turn It On Again” tour will begin a decade after the singing drummer left the group to pursue a successful solo career.

The mammoth tour will see the band play a series of stadium concerts in Europe next summer kicking off in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki on 11 June, ending in Rome on 14 July after playing 12 countries in between.

The full tour dates are as follows:

Helsinki, Finland Olympic Stadium (June 11)

Herning, Denmark Messecenter (14)

Hamburg, Germany AOL Arena (15)

Berne, Switzerland Stade de Suisse (17)

Linz, Austria Gugglestadium (18)

Budapest, Hungary Puskas Ferenc Stadium (20)

Katowice, Poland Slaski Stadium (21)

Hannover, Germany AWD Arena (23)

Dusseldorf, Germany LTU Arena (26)

Stuttgart, Germany Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium (29)

Paris, France Parc Des Princes (30)

Amsterdam, Holland Arena (July 1)

Berlin, Germany Olympiastadion (3)

Leipzig, Germany Zentralstadion (4)

Frankfurt, Germany Commerzbankarena (5)

London, UK Twickenham Stadium (7)

Manchester, UK Old Trafford (8)

Munich, Germany Olympiastadion (10)

Monaco Louis II Stadium (12)

Rome, Italy Telecomcerto at Colosseo (14)

Tickets for the UK dates go onsale on November 24. Other onsale dates are yet to be announced.

Collins became lead singer of Genesis when Peter Gabriel, the original front man, left in 1975 to go solo.

Collins had previously been the group’s drummer and backing singer.

The group had several immensely successful albums in the late ’70s and ’80s, selling upwards of 150 million longplayers.

To coincide with the Genesis tour, EMI Records will be re-issuing all 14 Genesis studio albums throughout 2007.

All the releases will be SACD/DVD double disc sets featuring newly re-mastered 5.1 surround sound and stereo mixes.

Phil Collins’ return to Genesis for an international tour has been speculated about for some time.

Original Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett has congratulated his former band mates, saying, “I would like to congratulate Tony, Mike and Phil for flying the flag once again. Good luck to them and I really hope they have a very successful tour.”

Hackett also further speculates that Peter Gabriel was indeed asked to be part of the reunion.

The guitarist told Uncut that he “was originally approached to discuss the possibility of a five piece which would have included Peter Gabriel, but since Peter’s schedule precludes this, it makes sense for the other three to celebrate the band in their ‘own special way’ .”

Hackett recently released a new solo record, ‘Wild Orchids’, and is planning a series of UK shows early in 2007.

For previous Genesis reunion news – Click here

Brian Jones In Action – Today’s Classic Youtube Video

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Brian Jones In Action – Today’s Classic Youtube Video

Everyday, we bring you the best thing we've seen on Youtube -- a great piece of archive footage, a music promo or a clip from one of our favourite movies of TV shows. Today: It has been announced that the ‘mysterious’ death of Rolling Stone Brian Jones is to be the subject of an inquest. Jones' body is to be exhumed for thorough post-mortem tests on the grounds that his cause of death was not properly verified at the time of his death. A founding member of The Rolling Stones, Jones is said to have drowned in 1969, during a midnight swim at his mansion in Hartfield, East Sussex. Many people, including his former girlfriend Anna Wohlin, claim that Jones was murdered. Evidence will be presented to the Attorney-General in the coming months. In the meantime, our YouTube video choice of the day is this seven-minute live Rolling Stones performance from the 1964 NME Pollwinners Awards, held at the Empire Pool, Wembley. The group are in exhuberant form in this clip, playing three songs to a baying crowd. Check out Brian’s fine harmonica playing here

Everyday, we bring you the best thing we’ve seen on Youtube — a great piece of archive footage, a music promo or a clip from one of our favourite movies of TV shows.

Today: It has been announced that the ‘mysterious’ death of Rolling Stone Brian Jones is to be the subject of an inquest.

Jones’ body is to be exhumed for thorough post-mortem tests on the grounds that his cause of death was not properly verified at the time of his death.

A founding member of The Rolling Stones, Jones is said to have drowned in 1969, during a midnight swim at his mansion in Hartfield, East Sussex.

Many people, including his former girlfriend Anna Wohlin, claim that Jones was murdered.

Evidence will be presented to the Attorney-General in the coming months.

In the meantime, our YouTube video choice of the day is this seven-minute live Rolling Stones performance from the 1964 NME Pollwinners Awards, held at the Empire Pool, Wembley.

The group are in exhuberant form in this clip, playing three songs to a baying crowd.

Check out Brian’s fine harmonica playing here

The Waterboys Are Back

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The Waterboys Are Back

The Waterboys are currently in the studio and a new album is in the final stages of production, Uncut has learned. The new material is expected to be released next spring, 25 years since Mike Scott first formed The Waterboys. Insiders say that the new songs “promise to be his finest work to date.” To support the launch of the album The Waterboys will perform dates all across Europe, starting in Holland on March 7 2007, then going onto Ireland and Scandinavia. The Waterboys will then play a full UK tour including a special performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall on May 11. The Waterboys’ current line-up features Steve Wickham (violin) whose first involvement in the band dates back to 1985, Richard Naiff (keyboards), Brady Blade and Jeremy Stacey (drums), Mark Smith (bass), Leo Abrahams (guitar) and long-time Waterboys alumni Roddy Lorimer (trumpet) and Chris Bruce (guitar). The Waterboys have signed a record deal with W14 Music – the new Universal Music Group imprint headed by MD John Williams. Mike Scott is upbeat about the new record deal, saying: “It's great to be back on a major label, and doubly great to be with John Williams, a true music man, and the guy who produced a few of The Waterboys' best-ever recordings.” Mike Scott formed The Waterboys in 1982 and has been the driving force of the group throughout its various incarnations, exploring a variety of musical styles. Mike Scott won a prestigious Ivor Novello Award in 1991 for writing his most well-known song to date, ‘The Whole of the Moon’.          For more information about the new Waterboys album and forthcoming shows – Click here

The Waterboys are currently in the studio and a new album is in the final stages of production, Uncut has learned.

The new material is expected to be released next spring, 25 years since Mike Scott first formed The Waterboys.

Insiders say that the new songs “promise to be his finest work to date.”

To support the launch of the album The Waterboys will perform dates all across Europe, starting in Holland on March 7 2007, then going onto Ireland and Scandinavia.

The Waterboys will then play a full UK tour including a special performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall on May 11.

The Waterboys’ current line-up features Steve Wickham (violin) whose first involvement in the band dates back to 1985, Richard Naiff (keyboards), Brady Blade and Jeremy Stacey (drums), Mark Smith (bass), Leo Abrahams (guitar) and long-time Waterboys alumni Roddy Lorimer (trumpet) and Chris Bruce (guitar).

The Waterboys have signed a record deal with W14 Music – the new Universal Music Group imprint headed by MD John Williams.

Mike Scott is upbeat about the new record deal, saying: “It’s great to be back on a major label, and doubly great to be with John Williams, a true music man, and the guy who produced a few of The Waterboys’ best-ever recordings.”

Mike Scott formed The Waterboys in 1982 and has been the driving force of the group throughout its various incarnations, exploring a variety of musical styles.

Mike Scott won a prestigious Ivor Novello Award in 1991 for writing his most well-known song to date, ‘The Whole of the Moon’. 

  

  

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Ronnie Wood’s Brother Dies

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There are murmurs that The Rolling Stones’ “Bigger Bang” world tour is cursed after another devastating blow. Ronnie Wood’s brother Art has sadly died after fighting a six-month battle with cancer aged 69. The Rolling Stones’ world tour has been fraught with problems throughout the year. Keith Richards suffered brain injuries after falling from a tree in Fiji and singer Mick Jagger had laryngitis forcing dates to be cancelled in Spain in July. The tour previously scheduled to be taking place this month in the US is also temporarily on hold while Jagger’s throat condition improves. Ronnie Wood has flown back to the UK to be with family at this sad time. It is expected that he will rejoin the group soon.

There are murmurs that The Rolling Stones’ “Bigger Bang” world tour is cursed after another devastating blow.

Ronnie Wood’s brother Art has sadly died after fighting a six-month battle with cancer aged 69.

The Rolling Stones’ world tour has been fraught with problems throughout the year.

Keith Richards suffered brain injuries after falling from a tree in Fiji and singer Mick Jagger had laryngitis forcing dates to be cancelled in Spain in July.

The tour previously scheduled to be taking place this month in the US is also temporarily on hold while Jagger’s throat condition improves.

Ronnie Wood has flown back to the UK to be with family at this sad time.

It is expected that he will rejoin the group soon.

Yusuf Islam – An Other Cup

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Yusuf Islam’s first batch of new songs in nearly 30 years sounds astoundingly like an album from his ‘70s heyday. As Cat Stevens, he was always melodic and philosophical, characteristics in abundance here. Having been hauled off an aeroplane as a terrorist suspect, Islam needs no reminding of the fraught state of the world, and most of these songs are gentle pleas for tolerance, harmony and divine guidance. In "Maybe There‘s A World" he dreams of a peaceful Utopia without borders, while "Whispers From A Spiritual Garden" was inspired by a 13th century Sufi mystic. Can’t see the jihadists queuing up to download it, though . By Adam Sweeting

Yusuf Islam’s first batch of new songs in nearly 30 years sounds astoundingly like an album from his ‘70s heyday. As Cat Stevens, he was always melodic and philosophical, characteristics in abundance here. Having been hauled off an aeroplane as a terrorist suspect, Islam needs no reminding of the fraught state of the world, and most of these songs are gentle pleas for tolerance, harmony and divine guidance. In “Maybe There‘s A World” he dreams of a peaceful Utopia without borders, while “Whispers From A Spiritual Garden” was inspired by a 13th century Sufi mystic. Can’t see the jihadists queuing up to download it, though .

By Adam Sweeting

Neil Young – Live At The Fillmore East

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Neil Young – Live At The Fillmore East

In the continuing absence of Neil Young’s "Archives", we clutch at any morsels dispensed from the great man’s table. Long a live bootleg classic – as well as being the source of "Tonight’s The Night"’s "Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown" – Neil’s March 1970 sets at the Fillmore East showcased the rising star of grungy country rock in the company of the band that helped him find his musical feet on 1969’s cracklingly great "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere". The title track of "Everybody Knows" is the opening one here and immediately sets the tone for "Live at the Fillmore East": the loosely funky 4/4 groove patented by drummer Ralph Molina and bassist Billy Talbot, the wiry guitar interplay between Young and junkie henchman Danny Whitten, the half-assed barrelhouse piano contributed by the curmudgeonly Jack Nitzsche (introduced by Young as hailing from New Mexico rather than his native Michigan). "Fillmore East" is most famous for the long jams on two "Everybody Knows" epics. "Down By The River" consists pretty much of two chords in the service of heads-down trance – imagine Hendrix’s "Hey Joe" fused with the horns-locked CSNY intensity of "Long Time Gone". The difference here is that Whitten simply complements Young’s livid, splayed extemporizations rather than (a la Steve Stills) attempting to upstage and drown them out. "Cowgirl In The Sand" can also be whittled down to two lopingly grungy chords and similarly offers a vehicle for long, needly guitar lines that wind their way round Whitten’s rhythm strumming. If you love Young’s playing, you could listen to his intense sustain and sputtering attack all night. "Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown", sung by its co-author Whitten with a blue-eyed-soul larynx that could be Stephen Stills fronting Moby Grape, is a smack classic that prefigures the unfortunate demise of the former Rocket. Young and Billy Talbot yelp along in a manner more akin to Flo & Eddie than Danny & the Memories. Young included it on "Tonight’s The Night" as a kind of memorial plaque to the guitarist he’d axed on the eve of the "Time Fades Away" tour. That leaves "Winterlong", unreleased in its studio incarnation until 1976’s "Decade", and "Wonderin’", introduced by Young as a track from "our new album" but unreleased in studio form until 1983’s "Everybody’s Rockin'". The former is a cult favourite among Neilheads but to these ears remains melodically banal; the latter has a clipped country feel that did not survive its metamorphosis into a Shocking Pinks track. Nevertheless, live ‘70s rock doesn’t come much better than NY in NYC. An album of rough beauty and electric density, "Fillmore East" captures the formerly frail troubadour at his most fired up. By Barney Hoskyns

In the continuing absence of Neil Young’s “Archives”, we clutch at any morsels dispensed from the great man’s table. Long a live bootleg classic – as well as being the source of “Tonight’s The Night”’s “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown” – Neil’s March 1970 sets at the Fillmore East showcased the rising star of grungy country rock in the company of the band that helped him find his musical feet on 1969’s cracklingly great “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere”.

The title track of “Everybody Knows” is the opening one here and immediately sets the tone for “Live at the Fillmore East”: the loosely funky 4/4 groove patented by drummer Ralph Molina and bassist Billy Talbot, the wiry guitar interplay between Young and junkie henchman Danny Whitten, the half-assed barrelhouse piano contributed by the curmudgeonly Jack Nitzsche (introduced by Young as hailing from New Mexico rather than his native Michigan).

“Fillmore East” is most famous for the long jams on two “Everybody Knows” epics. “Down By The River” consists pretty much of two chords in the service of heads-down trance – imagine Hendrix’s “Hey Joe” fused with the horns-locked CSNY intensity of “Long Time Gone”. The difference here is that Whitten simply complements Young’s livid, splayed extemporizations rather than (a la Steve Stills) attempting to upstage and drown them out. “Cowgirl In The Sand” can also be whittled down to two lopingly grungy chords and similarly offers a vehicle for long, needly guitar lines that wind their way round Whitten’s rhythm strumming. If you love Young’s playing, you could listen to his intense sustain and sputtering attack all night.

“Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown”, sung by its co-author Whitten with a blue-eyed-soul larynx that could be Stephen Stills fronting Moby Grape, is a smack classic that prefigures the unfortunate demise of the former Rocket. Young and Billy Talbot yelp along in a manner more akin to Flo & Eddie than Danny & the Memories. Young included it on “Tonight’s The Night” as a kind of memorial plaque to the guitarist he’d axed on the eve of the “Time Fades Away” tour.

That leaves “Winterlong”, unreleased in its studio incarnation until 1976’s “Decade”, and “Wonderin’”, introduced by Young as a track from “our new album” but unreleased in studio form until 1983’s “Everybody’s Rockin'”. The former is a cult favourite among Neilheads but to these ears remains melodically banal; the latter has a clipped country feel that did not survive its metamorphosis into a Shocking Pinks track. Nevertheless, live ‘70s rock doesn’t come much better than NY in NYC. An album of rough beauty and electric density, “Fillmore East” captures the formerly frail troubadour at his most fired up.

By Barney Hoskyns

Jarvis – Jarvis

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Jarvis Cocker’s solo debut is not so much a curate’s egg as a game of two halves. The first "side" triggers a sinking sensation reminiscent of hearing Morrissey’s "Kill Uncle" for the first time in 1991: has our hero truly lost his touch? From the cursory intro-instrumental "Loss Adjuster", through the '70s plod-rock of "Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time" to the clumsy corn of "Heavy Weather" (Jarvis in "timeless power of cliché" mode) and "I Will Kill Again" (Jarvis in "MOR with a heart of darkness" mode), it’s all dismayingly unconvincing and lacklustre in execution – even though the band features Pulp’s Steve Mackey on bass and Richard Hawley on guitar. Aiming for third Big Star-style wrecked majesty but ending up closer to half-finished Nilsson, "Black Magic" does at least feature some clever production touches. Whereas the plinky, glockenspiely arrangement of "Baby’s Coming Back To Me" is worthy of, ooh, Side Two of "'Til The Band Comes In". Then something changes. "Fat Children" is the pivot. Unpromising at first, with its club-footed indie stomp-rock and opaque lyric about psycho youth (redolent again of shite-period Moz), the song blossoms with the dreamy coda’s wordless wails and incandescent guitars. A hilariously mordant whinge at humanity’s worthlessness, "From A To I" predicts the fall of Western civilization and points the finger at every last one of us: "Evil comes from I know not where/But if you take a look/Inside yourself/ Maybe you’ll find some in there." Its shimmery epic-ness not a million miles from the Verve’s "The Drugs Don’t Work", "Tonite" also argues that change starts with the individual: "You cannot set the world to rights/But you could stop being wrong/Oooh, tonight" - this wracked "oooh", mingling contempt and compassion, anguish and hope, being something of a Cocker trademark. "Disney Time" recalls Milan Kundera’s contention that kitsch is "the refusal to admit shit exists". It’s the shittiness of the world, Cocker notes, that makes us take shelter in feelgood movies and infantile happy endings. "Julie" is prefaced by the opening sentences of Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding, a novel about a 12-year-old girl undergoing an existential-sexual crisis triggered by the wedding of her elder brother (who just happens to be named Jarvis, an unlikely moniker for the 1940s South). In Cocker’s "remix", a troubled teenager with a developing body fends off sweaty lads and lecherous adults, protected by the feeling of invincibility granted her by pop music. The best comes last, with "Quantum Theory", which sounds exactly how everyone, deep down, wishes "The Drift" did: "Scott IV - the Sequel". A lambent ambient-orchestral arrangement, teeming with tingling sublimimals, frames Cocker’s dream of a parallel-dimension paradise where "Everyone is happy… fish do not have bones… gravity can not reach us anymore… you are not alone." When he croaks the closing refrain, "Everything is gonna be alright", Jarvis sounds broken but a believer despite himself; the cynicism and misanthropy, tinged with shame and self-loathing, that’s belched forth elsewhere on the record evaporated clean away. There’s such a distance, such a journey, between the first song and this luminous closer, it’s almost like two different albums, two different artists even. By Simon Reynolds

Jarvis Cocker’s solo debut is not so much a curate’s egg as a game of two halves. The first “side” triggers a sinking sensation reminiscent of hearing Morrissey’s “Kill Uncle” for the first time in 1991: has our hero truly lost his touch?

From the cursory intro-instrumental “Loss Adjuster”, through the ’70s plod-rock of “Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time” to the clumsy corn of “Heavy Weather” (Jarvis in “timeless power of cliché” mode) and “I Will Kill Again” (Jarvis in “MOR with a heart of darkness” mode), it’s all dismayingly unconvincing and lacklustre in execution – even though the band features Pulp’s Steve Mackey on bass and Richard Hawley on guitar.

Aiming for third Big Star-style wrecked majesty but ending up closer to half-finished Nilsson, “Black Magic” does at least feature some clever production touches. Whereas the plinky, glockenspiely arrangement of “Baby’s Coming Back To Me” is worthy of, ooh, Side Two of “‘Til The Band Comes In”.

Then something changes. “Fat Children” is the pivot. Unpromising at first, with its club-footed indie stomp-rock and opaque lyric about psycho youth (redolent again of shite-period Moz), the song blossoms with the dreamy coda’s wordless wails and incandescent guitars. A hilariously mordant whinge at humanity’s worthlessness, “From A To I” predicts the fall of Western civilization and points the finger at every last one of us: “Evil comes from I know not where/But if you take a look/Inside yourself/ Maybe you’ll find some in there.”

Its shimmery epic-ness not a million miles from the Verve’s “The Drugs Don’t Work”, “Tonite” also argues that change starts with the individual: “You cannot set the world to rights/But you could stop being wrong/Oooh, tonight” – this wracked “oooh”, mingling contempt and compassion, anguish and hope, being something of a Cocker trademark. “Disney Time” recalls Milan Kundera’s contention that kitsch is “the refusal to admit shit exists”. It’s the shittiness of the world, Cocker notes, that makes us take shelter in feelgood movies and infantile happy endings.

“Julie” is prefaced by the opening sentences of Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding, a novel about a 12-year-old girl undergoing an existential-sexual crisis triggered by the wedding of her elder brother (who just happens to be named Jarvis, an unlikely moniker for the 1940s South). In Cocker’s “remix”, a troubled teenager with a developing body fends off sweaty lads and lecherous adults, protected by the feeling of invincibility granted her by pop music.

The best comes last, with “Quantum Theory”, which sounds exactly how everyone, deep down, wishes “The Drift” did: “Scott IV – the Sequel”. A lambent ambient-orchestral arrangement, teeming with tingling sublimimals, frames Cocker’s dream of a parallel-dimension paradise where “Everyone is happy… fish do not have bones… gravity can not reach us anymore… you are not alone.”

When he croaks the closing refrain, “Everything is gonna be alright”, Jarvis sounds broken but a believer despite himself; the cynicism and misanthropy, tinged with shame and self-loathing, that’s belched forth elsewhere on the record evaporated clean away. There’s such a distance, such a journey, between the first song and this luminous closer, it’s almost like two different albums, two different artists even.

By Simon Reynolds

Depeche Mode – The Best Of – Volume One

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Depeche Mode – The Best Of – Volume One

Of the bands to emerge at the dawn of the ‘80s, Depeche Mode are matched only by New Order and U2 in chart terms, with an astonishing strikerate of 42 Top 30 hits in 25 years. This "Best Of" includes 18 of them, ranging from 1981’s "Just Can’t Get Enough" to "Martyr" (left off last year’s "Playing The Angel"), and presents them in non-chronological order, a job effectively done by the previous The "Singles 81-85" and "86-98" sets. Occasionally, they’re lyrically banal, with a tendency towards platitudes and/or predictable quasi-religious love-as-redemption/salvation imagery. They offer, too, a sort of easily digestible Top Shop techno - albeit one that exerted an influence on Detroit’s Juan Atkins and Derrick May. Nevertheless, a rearranged Playlist of these tracks provides an impressive narrative, as they morph from frilly-shirted synthpop kids to S&M-flirting industrial-lite merchants to debauched purveyors of stadium electro-rock. By Paul Lester

Of the bands to emerge at the dawn of the ‘80s, Depeche Mode are matched only by New Order and U2 in chart terms, with an astonishing strikerate of 42 Top 30 hits in 25 years. This “Best Of” includes 18 of them, ranging from 1981’s “Just Can’t Get Enough” to “Martyr” (left off last year’s “Playing The Angel”), and presents them in non-chronological order, a job effectively done by the previous The “Singles 81-85” and “86-98” sets. Occasionally, they’re lyrically banal, with a tendency towards platitudes and/or predictable quasi-religious love-as-redemption/salvation imagery. They offer, too, a sort of easily digestible Top Shop techno – albeit one that exerted an influence on Detroit’s Juan Atkins and Derrick May. Nevertheless, a rearranged Playlist of these tracks provides an impressive narrative, as they morph from frilly-shirted synthpop kids to S&M-flirting industrial-lite merchants to debauched purveyors of stadium electro-rock.

By Paul Lester

Graham Coxon gets arty with new track

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Graham Coxon gets arty with new track

Graham Coxon has unveiled an exclusive new track, “Meryon”, at London’s Tate Modern art gallery. “Meryon” is inspired by Franz Klines’ 1960 painting by the same name. The track will only be available to listen to for one month on a listening post in front of the artwork. After that, the track will also be made available for a further month on December 1, exclusively through the www.tatetracks.org.uk website. Coxon’s “Meryon” is part of the 12-month Tate Tracks project launched by Tate Modern to match inspirational visual art with inspirational new music. The project has previously hosted exclusive tracks inspired by art with The Chemical Brothers’ interpretation of Jacob Epstein’s “Torso in Metal from The Rock Drill” and Anish Kapoor-inspired “Searching” by East London grime collective Roll Deep. Graham, commenting on why he chose to undertake this project, said, “It was Kline and de Kooning that made me want to explore why I had such a dramatic response to abstract art....these painters made me see and wish to enter through a door that was quite hidden to me when it came to painting... a different type of seeing, a more internal journey... they spark responses from the depths...I love them very much indeed.” “Meryon” is on display at Tate Modern on Level 3 Material Gestures in Room 2. Visitors to the gallery will be able to listen to the track from now until November 30. Future Tate Tracks on the cards include the Klaxons and The Long Blondes.

Graham Coxon has unveiled an exclusive new track, “Meryon”, at London’s Tate Modern art gallery.

“Meryon” is inspired by Franz Klines’ 1960 painting by the same name.

The track will only be available to listen to for one month on a listening post in front of the artwork.

After that, the track will also be made available for a further month on December 1, exclusively through the www.tatetracks.org.uk website.

Coxon’s “Meryon” is part of the 12-month Tate Tracks project launched by Tate Modern to match inspirational visual art with inspirational new music.

The project has previously hosted exclusive tracks inspired by art with The Chemical Brothers’ interpretation of Jacob Epstein’s “Torso in Metal from The Rock Drill” and Anish Kapoor-inspired “Searching” by East London grime collective Roll Deep.

Graham, commenting on why he chose to undertake this project, said, “It was Kline and de Kooning that made me want to explore why I had such a dramatic response to abstract art….these painters made me see and wish to enter through a door that was quite hidden to me when it came to painting… a different type of seeing, a more internal journey… they spark responses from the depths…I love them very much indeed.”

“Meryon” is on display at Tate Modern on Level 3 Material Gestures in Room 2.

Visitors to the gallery will be able to listen to the track from now until November 30.

Future Tate Tracks on the cards include the Klaxons and The Long Blondes.

Joanna Newsom To Play Special Show

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Joanna Newsom To Play Special Show

Classical harpist and singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom is to play a special show in London in January. The spellbinding performer’s classic storytelling on current Uncut album of the month “Ys” will be brought to life at London’s Barbican Hall on January 19. Newsom will be backed by a full London Symphony Orchestra to try and re-create the ethereal feel of the album. As on her album, Van Dyke Parks will arrange the music. For more information about the Barbican show – Click here

Classical harpist and singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom is to play a special show in London in January.

The spellbinding performer’s classic storytelling on current Uncut album of the month “Ys” will be brought to life at London’s Barbican Hall on January 19.

Newsom will be backed by a full London Symphony Orchestra to try and re-create the ethereal feel of the album.

As on her album, Van Dyke Parks will arrange the music.

For more information about the Barbican show – Click here

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