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The Police To Reform

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The Police To Reform

Andy Summers, guitarist with The Police, has talked about the possibility of a reunion on the web. In a recent podcast for Culturecatch, he has said that there have been rumblings about a band reunion, over 20 years after they split. He says of the mooted reunion: “There are always rumblings, kind of like this ongoing tremor.” He goes on to say that it is only frontman Sting who is holding up a reunion happening. “It’s Sting’s decision. He’s gotta do it when he feels ready, if he wants to do it.” Summers has published an autobiography, “One Train Later", and group drummer Stewart Copeland has made a documentary, “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out”, based on his time in The Police. Both came out this year. Meanwhile, Sting has just released a 16th century-styled classical album of lute music, “Songs From The Labyrinth”, to great acclaim. Summers believes that if The Police reformed today, “I think we’d sell out every stadium in the world!” To listen to Andy Summer’s Podcast – Click here

Andy Summers, guitarist with The Police, has talked about the possibility of a reunion on the web.

In a recent podcast for Culturecatch, he has said that there have been rumblings about a band reunion, over 20 years after they split.

He says of the mooted reunion: “There are always rumblings, kind of like this ongoing tremor.”

He goes on to say that it is only frontman Sting who is holding up a reunion happening. “It’s Sting’s decision. He’s gotta do it when he feels ready, if he wants to do it.”

Summers has published an autobiography, “One Train Later”, and group drummer Stewart Copeland has made a documentary, “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out”, based on his time in The Police.

Both came out this year.

Meanwhile, Sting has just released a 16th century-styled classical album of lute music, “Songs From The Labyrinth”, to great acclaim.

Summers believes that if The Police reformed today, “I think we’d sell out every stadium in the world!”

To listen to Andy Summer’s Podcast – Click here

First New 10cc Songs For 30 Years!

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First New 10cc Songs For 30 Years!

Two brand new tracks recorded by Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman of brilliant, underrated Mancunian prog-poppers 10cc are being made available on a Greatest Hits compilation, out this week. “Beautifulloser.com” and “Son of Man” are the first new tracks written and recorded by Godley and Gouldman since 1976's "How Dare You!", the last album made by the super-cerebral Manchester band as a four-piece. As well as the new songs, and the well-known hits including the Number 1s “Rubber Bullets”, “Dreadlock Holiday” and production landmark “I’m Not In Love”, the compilation also collates the talents of 10cc members away from the group. The album includes Eric Stewart's work with '60s beat group The Mindbenders and Gouldman's compositions for The Yardbirds, The Hollies and Herman's Hermits, as well as the pre-10cc novelty worldwide smash "Neanderthal Man" by Hotlegs and Godley's '80s hits with 10cc partner Lol Creme. 10cc - who split in 1976 with Godley & Creme forming a duo, leaving Gouldman and Stewart to carry on as 10cc - have recently enjoyed something of a critical rehabilitation. The Feeling - who were signed to Island Records by Gouldman's A&R son, Louis Bloom - have been name-checking them, The Flaming Lips put "I'm Not In Love" on a compilation of their favourite music called 'Late Night Tales', and Radio London DJ Sean Rowley recently admitted that he "started the whole Guilty Pleasures project because of 10cc" and his determination to win them the respect they deserve. “10cc. Greatest Hits… And More” is out now on UMTV.

Two brand new tracks recorded by Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman of brilliant, underrated Mancunian prog-poppers 10cc are being made available on a Greatest Hits compilation, out this week.

“Beautifulloser.com” and “Son of Man” are the first new tracks written and recorded by Godley and Gouldman since 1976’s “How Dare You!”, the last album made by the super-cerebral Manchester band as a four-piece.

As well as the new songs, and the well-known hits including the Number 1s “Rubber Bullets”, “Dreadlock Holiday” and production landmark “I’m Not In Love”, the compilation also collates the talents of 10cc members away from the group.

The album includes Eric Stewart’s work with ’60s beat group The Mindbenders and Gouldman’s compositions for The Yardbirds, The Hollies and Herman’s Hermits, as well as the pre-10cc novelty worldwide smash “Neanderthal Man” by Hotlegs and Godley’s ’80s hits with 10cc partner Lol Creme.

10cc – who split in 1976 with Godley & Creme forming a duo, leaving Gouldman and Stewart to carry on as 10cc – have recently enjoyed something of a critical rehabilitation.

The Feeling – who were signed to Island Records by Gouldman’s A&R son, Louis Bloom – have been name-checking them, The Flaming Lips put “I’m Not In Love” on a compilation of their favourite music called ‘Late Night Tales’, and Radio London DJ Sean Rowley recently admitted that he “started the whole Guilty Pleasures project because of 10cc” and his determination to win them the respect they deserve.

“10cc. Greatest Hits… And More” is out now on UMTV.

Borat Spoof Is Uncut’s Youtube Video Of The Day

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Borat Spoof Is Uncut’s Youtube Video Of The Day

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: Move Over Borat, here's Bruno

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: Move Over Borat, here’s Bruno

Nick Cave, Martyn Casey, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos form Grinderman

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Nick Cave, Martyn Casey, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos form Grinderman

Grinderman is the new demonic side project from Nick Cave and some of his musical Bad Seeds. Grinderman are Bad Seed and ex-Triffids member Martyn Casey (bass, acoustic, vocals), Bad Seed and ex-The Cramps/Sonic Youth man Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, vocals) and Dirty Three founder member Warren Ellis. Warren Ellis has previously collaborated with Cave on the musical score to 2005 film “The Proposition”. Grinderman are a free spirited mash-up of a group that has accidentally fallen together, described by themselves as sounding like “an instinctual yawlp” Within Grinderman, Nick Cave has taken to playing electric guitar, quite unusual for the singer-songwriter. “Having Nick on the guitar changed the whole dynamic,” says Ellis. That’s just one of the things that makes being in Grinderman more liberating for the musicians. Elliis goes on to say that they “push on relentless” with the musical direction where they would normally refrain. It sounds like a noisy and original offering from the Bad Seeds. Grinderman’s debut album is slated for release next March. The band will play as part of the line-up at The Dirty Three-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival next April. Nick Cave will play also play a headline show. For more information about next year’s ATP – Click here

Grinderman is the new demonic side project from Nick Cave and some of his musical Bad Seeds.

Grinderman are Bad Seed and ex-Triffids member Martyn Casey (bass, acoustic, vocals), Bad Seed and ex-The Cramps/Sonic Youth man Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, vocals) and Dirty Three founder member Warren Ellis.

Warren Ellis has previously collaborated with Cave on the musical score to 2005 film “The Proposition”.

Grinderman are a free spirited mash-up of a group that has accidentally fallen together, described by themselves as sounding like “an instinctual yawlp”

Within Grinderman, Nick Cave has taken to playing electric guitar, quite unusual for the singer-songwriter. “Having Nick on the guitar changed the whole dynamic,” says Ellis.

That’s just one of the things that makes being in Grinderman more liberating for the musicians. Elliis goes on to say that they “push on relentless” with the musical direction where they would normally refrain.

It sounds like a noisy and original offering from the Bad Seeds.

Grinderman’s debut album is slated for release next March.

The band will play as part of the line-up at The Dirty Three-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival next April.

Nick Cave will play also play a headline show.

For more information about next year’s ATP – Click here

Life On The Road with Bob Dylan

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Life On The Road with Bob Dylan

Buck Baxter played guitar on the road with Dylan between 1992 and 1999. "You hear all sorts of stories about Bob but all I can say is that he always treated me good. We weren't close buddies or anything like that. It was always clear that I worked for him, but it was a good working relationship with a lot of respect. I never went to his house for Thanksgiving, or anything. I let him be and he let me be. Even on stage, he let you pretty much do your thing. You could play whatever you wanted within the framework of the set list and the songs. I've made it a rule not to talk too much about him. He doesn't like it and you have to respect his privacy. He's an interesting cat, I'll say that. But what he does when he's not putting himself up there on stage is his business. I know people want to know what he eats for breakfast but I've never understood why anybody would find that stuff interesting. He's just a regular guy, but there's all kinds of crazy rumours and misinformation about him out there. I first got to know him when I was playing with Steve Earle. We were supporting him on tour and he asked me to sit in with his band a few times. He was interested in steel guitar and he asked me to get him one, so I picked him one up in Nashville and gave him a few lessons. At the end of the tour, he asked for my phone number. I never heard anything for the next two years. Then when he finally rang, he said 'You've got to be here tomorrow because we're leaving for a tour of Australia in three days'. That's the way Bob is and I guess he knows it's not likely you're going to say 'no'. He's special to play with because they're such great songs. I already knew he was a great songwriter but the interesting thing was I got to like the songs more by playing them and hearing him sing them every night. And he kept it interesting by always changing the set list around so it was never the same. Sure I got sick of playing "All Along The Watchtower" night after night. But on the other hand, there are songs like "Tangled Up In Blue" that we played seven nights a week and I never got sick of at all. I had a good seven or eight years with him, I learned a lot and by the time I left, I'd played more gigs with him than anybody except Tony Garnier. I'm not one for statistics and any of that stuff but when I see it on the Dylan websites and in the books about Bob that I played 700-and-something times with him, I'm proud of that. I can't say that I ever thought of it as a 'never-ending tour', though. It was just playing gigs. And if you're a working musician, that's what you do, isn't it?” INTERVIEW: NIGEL WILLIAMSON For the full story of Bob Dylan's 'Never Ending Tour', get the December issue of Uncut, out now.

Buck Baxter played guitar on the road with Dylan between 1992 and 1999.

“You hear all sorts of stories about Bob but all I can say is that he always treated me good. We weren’t close buddies or anything like that. It was always clear that I worked for him, but it was a good working relationship with a lot of respect. I never went to his house for Thanksgiving, or anything. I let him be and he let me be. Even on stage, he let you pretty much do your thing. You could play whatever you wanted within the framework of the set list and the songs.

I’ve made it a rule not to talk too much about him. He doesn’t like it and you have to respect his privacy. He’s an interesting cat, I’ll say that. But what he does when he’s not putting himself up there on stage is his business. I know people want to know what he eats for breakfast but I’ve never understood why anybody would find that stuff interesting. He’s just a regular guy, but there’s all kinds of crazy rumours and misinformation about him out there.

I first got to know him when I was playing with Steve Earle. We were supporting him on tour and he asked me to sit in with his band a few times. He was interested in steel guitar and he asked me to get him one, so I picked him one up in Nashville and gave him a few lessons. At the end of the tour, he asked for my phone number.

I never heard anything for the next two years. Then when he finally rang, he said ‘You’ve got to be here tomorrow because we’re leaving for a tour of Australia in three days’. That’s the way Bob is and I guess he knows it’s not likely you’re going to say ‘no’.

He’s special to play with because they’re such great songs. I already knew he was a great songwriter but the interesting thing was I got to like the songs more by playing them and hearing him sing them every night. And he kept it interesting by always changing the set list around so it was never the same. Sure I got sick of playing “All Along The Watchtower” night after night. But on the other hand, there are songs like “Tangled Up In Blue” that we played seven nights a week and I never got sick of at all.

I had a good seven or eight years with him, I learned a lot and by the time I left, I’d played more gigs with him than anybody except Tony Garnier. I’m not one for statistics and any of that stuff but when I see it on the Dylan websites and in the books about Bob that I played 700-and-something times with him, I’m proud of that. I can’t say that I ever thought of it as a ‘never-ending tour’, though. It was just playing gigs. And if you’re a working musician, that’s what you do, isn’t it?”

INTERVIEW: NIGEL WILLIAMSON

For the full story of Bob Dylan’s ‘Never Ending Tour’, get the December issue of Uncut, out now.

Rod Stewart Announces Summer Stadium Shows

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Rod Stewart Announces Summer Stadium Shows

Rod Stewart has announced he will play some massive solo shows in the UK next summer. The legendary singer is currently enjoying success with his 35th album “Still The Same…Great Rock Classics Of Our Time” which debuted at Number 1 in the US and in the Top 5 here in the UK. Stewart played hits from his “Great American Songbook Series” at a sold-out string of shows at London’s Earls Court last year as part of a UK tour – he also played arena shows in Manchester, Newcastle and Birmingham. The stadium shows scheduled for next summer will be the singer’s largest yet. He will play at the following UK stadiums: Manchester, City of Manchester Stadium (June 28) London, Twickenham Stadium (30) Ipswich, Football Club (July 3) Glasgow, Hampden Park Stadium (5) Cardiff, Millennium Stadium (7) Coventry, Ricoh Arena (10) Tickets for the mammoth shows go on sale this Friday (November 10) at 9am. Prices range from £50-£65. Rod Stewart reveals all in ‘audience’ interview for Uncut – including his backside – get all the gossip in the December issue – available in shops now. For more information about the shows – Click here to go to Rod’s homepage

Rod Stewart has announced he will play some massive solo shows in the UK next summer.

The legendary singer is currently enjoying success with his 35th album “Still The Same…Great Rock Classics Of Our Time” which debuted at Number 1 in the US and in the Top 5 here in the UK.

Stewart played hits from his “Great American Songbook Series” at a sold-out string of shows at London’s Earls Court last year as part of a UK tour – he also played arena shows in Manchester, Newcastle and Birmingham.

The stadium shows scheduled for next summer will be the singer’s largest yet.

He will play at the following UK stadiums:

Manchester, City of Manchester Stadium (June 28)

London, Twickenham Stadium (30)

Ipswich, Football Club (July 3)

Glasgow, Hampden Park Stadium (5)

Cardiff, Millennium Stadium (7)

Coventry, Ricoh Arena (10)

Tickets for the mammoth shows go on sale this Friday (November 10) at 9am. Prices range from £50-£65.

Rod Stewart reveals all in ‘audience’ interview for Uncut – including his backside – get all the gossip in the December issue – available in shops now.

For more information about the shows – Click here to go to Rod’s homepage

Evil Dead Takes To The Stage

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Evil Dead Takes To The Stage

“Evil Dead-The Musical” a show based on Sam Raimi’s 80’s cult horror movies Evil Dead and Evil Dead II opened last night off-Broadway, New York. Based on the scripts from the 3 movies - Evil Dead, Evil Dead II and the third affilliated film Army of Darkness- the rock musical is full of blood, gore and clever musical numbers. Original songs scored for the new musical include "What the Fuck Was That", "Look Who's Evil Now" and "All The Men In My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons". The original horror movie pastiche hero ‘Ash’ will be played by a Bruce Campbell look-alike Ryan Ward. Directors of the musical Hinton Battle and Christopher Bond have got the backing of all original Evil Dead writers, producers and directors, including Sam Raimi. Bruce Campbell – the original Evil Dead-tamer actor from the 80's films will be holding a sold-out Q&A session after tonight’s performance. “Evil Dead – The Musical” is scheduled to run its camp gorefest until the end of the year. Plans to tour the musical to other major cities has been touted but have not been finalized as yet. For more information and to play in the interactive Evil Dead ‘cabin - Click here to go to the show’s website

“Evil Dead-The Musical” a show based on Sam Raimi’s 80’s cult horror movies Evil Dead and Evil Dead II opened last night off-Broadway, New York.

Based on the scripts from the 3 movies – Evil Dead, Evil Dead II and the third affilliated film Army of Darkness- the rock musical is full of blood, gore and clever musical numbers.

Original songs scored for the new musical include “What the Fuck Was That”, “Look Who’s Evil Now” and “All The Men In My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons”.

The original horror movie pastiche hero ‘Ash’ will be played by a Bruce Campbell look-alike Ryan Ward.

Directors of the musical Hinton Battle and Christopher Bond have got the backing of all original Evil Dead writers, producers and directors, including Sam Raimi.

Bruce Campbell – the original Evil Dead-tamer actor from the 80’s films will be holding a sold-out Q&A session after tonight’s performance.

“Evil Dead – The Musical” is scheduled to run its camp gorefest until the end of the year.

Plans to tour the musical to other major cities has been touted but have not been finalized as yet.

For more information and to play in the interactive Evil Dead ‘cabin – Click here to go to the show’s website

New Arctic Monkeys Album Imminent

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New Arctic Monkeys Album Imminent

Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner has exclusively told Uncut that he’s been working hard on new material despite the distraction of a whirlwind year, it’s been the “best year of our lives” he says. Turner has been writing lots of new songs, he says it’s like a compulsion, “I can’t stop writing songs, I don’t know what else I’m going to do.” Turner adds that the song tempo as illustrated on million-selling debut album “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” will be slower on the new one. The Monkey’s front man even contemplates that some of the songs will be played acoustically, he says “I’ve written quite a few slower ones- there’s 13 or 14 songs, maybe a few more, in different states.” He names one of the new Arctic Monkeys’ tracks as “Brain Storm” and head of Domino Records Laurence Bell who’s already heard the track, describes it as “very bright and metallic – it’ll shock a few people.” The Arctic Monkeys, our Hall of Fame New Band of the Year, are exclusively interviewed in the December issue of Uncut, on sale now.

Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner has exclusively told Uncut that he’s been working hard on new material despite the distraction of a whirlwind year, it’s been the “best year of our lives” he says.

Turner has been writing lots of new songs, he says it’s like a compulsion, “I can’t stop writing songs, I don’t know what else I’m going to do.”

Turner adds that the song tempo as illustrated on million-selling debut album “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” will be slower on the new one.

The Monkey’s front man even contemplates that some of the songs will be played acoustically, he says “I’ve written quite a few slower ones- there’s 13 or 14 songs, maybe a few more, in different states.”

He names one of the new Arctic Monkeys’ tracks as “Brain Storm” and head of Domino Records Laurence Bell who’s already heard the track, describes it as “very bright and metallic – it’ll shock a few people.”

The Arctic Monkeys, our Hall of Fame New Band of the Year, are exclusively interviewed in the December issue of Uncut, on sale now.

Noel Gallagher, Russell Brand and Co Rock Koko

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Noel Gallagher, Russell Brand and Co Rock Koko

Noel Gallagher was joined onstage by his idol Paul Weller at a charity gig featuring a host of Britpop stars past and present at Koko in Camden last night. The night was organised and compered by tabloid-friendly comedian Russell Brand to raise money for drugs charity Focus 12. Referring to his own drug-addled past, Brand said: “I used to get drugs off people, now I’m trying to get people off drugs. I won’t bore you with the fact that this is about raising money for charity, though, mainly because the room smells like cannabis and cocaine.” Wearing four-inch heeled boots and hair somewhere between Captain Hook and the Earl of Rochester, the flamboyant comic stayed unusually quiet all night, preferring to let the music take centre stage. But Noel’s notorious younger brother Liam threatened to steal the show before a note had been played. The chants of “Liam! Liam!” rang around the room when the side-burned singer appeared on a balcony, goading the crowd and throwing water and plastic cups onto the heads below. North London hopefuls The Holloways opened proceedings with their folky, tuneful pop, given a country lilt by some dextrous fiddle playing, but the chants of “Oasis” throughout their set made it clear what the crowd wanted. They were followed by Carl Barat’s Dirty Pretty Things, who were last-minute replacements for Kasabian. Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess, a long-time friend of the Gallaghers, joined them for raucous versions of “Deadwood” and “Bang Bang You’re Dead”. DPT returned the favour, accompanying Burgess on a lively run-through of The Charlatans’ 1997 hit “North Country Boy”. When he finally arrived onstage to deafening cheers, accompanied by bandmate Gem Archer on electric guitar, Noel opened with the rarely performed “(Its Good) to Be Free” and treated the faithful to an acoustic set of hits, album tracks and B-sides such as “Slide Away”, “Listen Up”, “Half the World Away” and a faithful rendition of the Beatles’ 1967 masterpiece “Strawberry Fields Forever”. Noel told the crowd Kasabian guitarist Serge Pizzorno was suffering from laryngitis or “something pretentious like that” before dedicating “Cast No Shadow” to him. Mod legend Weller appeared half-way through Noel’s set to sing his 2005 solo single “Come On/Let’s Go” and the classic Jam song “Thick as Thieves” from the band’s 1979 album Setting Sons, but the crowd’s reaction was only luke-warm. Noel clearly enjoyed playing with the modfather but cries for “Champagne Supernova”, the 1995 Oasis track on which Weller played lead guitar, went ignored. Noel stormed from the stage during the encore of “Married With Children”, frustrated by a technical problem, leaving a flustered Brand struggling to keep the throng happy (“it’s the machines, I tell you, they’re against us. You’ve all seen Terminator 2!”) but it was only minutes before the Mancunian’s rapturous return.

Noel Gallagher was joined onstage by his idol Paul Weller at a charity gig featuring a host of Britpop stars past and present at Koko in Camden last night.

The night was organised and compered by tabloid-friendly comedian Russell Brand to raise money for drugs charity Focus 12.

Referring to his own drug-addled past, Brand said: “I used to get drugs off people, now I’m trying to get people off drugs. I won’t bore you with the fact that this is about raising money for charity, though, mainly because the room smells like cannabis and cocaine.”

Wearing four-inch heeled boots and hair somewhere between Captain Hook and the Earl of Rochester, the flamboyant comic stayed unusually quiet all night, preferring to let the music take centre stage.

But Noel’s notorious younger brother Liam threatened to steal the show before a note had been played. The chants of “Liam! Liam!” rang around the room when the side-burned singer appeared on a balcony, goading the crowd and throwing water and plastic cups onto the heads below.

North London hopefuls The Holloways opened proceedings with their folky, tuneful pop, given a country lilt by some dextrous fiddle playing, but the chants of “Oasis” throughout their set made it clear what the crowd wanted.

They were followed by Carl Barat’s Dirty Pretty Things, who were last-minute replacements for Kasabian.

Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess, a long-time friend of the Gallaghers, joined them for raucous versions of “Deadwood” and “Bang Bang You’re Dead”.

DPT returned the favour, accompanying Burgess on a lively run-through of The Charlatans’ 1997 hit “North Country Boy”.

When he finally arrived onstage to deafening cheers, accompanied by bandmate Gem Archer on electric guitar, Noel opened with the rarely performed “(Its Good) to Be Free” and treated the faithful to an acoustic set of hits, album tracks and B-sides such as “Slide Away”, “Listen Up”, “Half the World Away” and a faithful rendition of the Beatles’ 1967 masterpiece “Strawberry Fields Forever”.

Noel told the crowd Kasabian guitarist Serge Pizzorno was suffering from laryngitis or “something pretentious like that” before dedicating “Cast No Shadow” to him.

Mod legend Weller appeared half-way through Noel’s set to sing his 2005 solo single “Come On/Let’s Go” and the classic Jam song “Thick as Thieves” from the band’s 1979 album Setting Sons, but the crowd’s reaction was only luke-warm.

Noel clearly enjoyed playing with the modfather but cries for “Champagne Supernova”, the 1995 Oasis track on which Weller played lead guitar, went ignored.

Noel stormed from the stage during the encore of “Married With Children”, frustrated by a technical problem, leaving a flustered Brand struggling to keep the throng happy (“it’s the machines, I tell you, they’re against us. You’ve all seen Terminator 2!”) but it was only minutes before the Mancunian’s rapturous return.

Oasis Exhibition To Open In London

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Oasis Exhibition To Open In London

Oasis are the subject of a new photo exihibition due to open on November 13. In celebration of the new Oasis Best of collection “Stop the Clocks”, an exclusive collection of images taken by Jill Furmanovsky will be on show at FOPP’s flagship store on London’s Tottenham Court Road. Rockarchive have selected images for the exhibition from Furmanovsky’s Oasis collection “Was There Then.” She captured Oasis candidly from their beginnings in Manchester key events in their career such as Maine Road in 1995 and to America. All images at the exhibition will be available for sale for the first time as limited edition signed prints. For sizes and pricing information, you can get in touch with fopp@rockarchive.com As previously reported, Oasis are releasing a retrospective 18 track best of “Stop The Clocks” on November 20. Uncut would like to know what your favourite Oasis track is… You can tell us by clicking here

Oasis are the subject of a new photo exihibition due to open on November 13.

In celebration of the new Oasis Best of collection “Stop the Clocks”, an

exclusive collection of images taken by Jill Furmanovsky will be on show at FOPP’s flagship store on London’s Tottenham Court Road.

Rockarchive have selected images for the exhibition from Furmanovsky’s Oasis collection “Was There Then.”

She captured Oasis candidly from their beginnings in Manchester key events in their career such as Maine Road in 1995 and to America.

All images at the exhibition will be available for sale for the first time as limited edition signed prints.

For sizes and pricing information, you can get in touch with fopp@rockarchive.com

As previously reported, Oasis are releasing a retrospective 18 track best of “Stop The Clocks” on November 20.

Uncut would like to know what your favourite Oasis track is…

You can tell us by clicking here

New White Stripes Album On Its Way

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New White Stripes Album On Its Way

Jack White, who is currently with side project The Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, has let slip that he is also working on new material for his original band The White Stripes, with Meg White. The singer/guitarist has told Uncut that his time is now split 50/50 between the two bands. White told Uncut, "My brain now has two options for songs that I write, and it's a really nice luxury to have as a songwriter." White went on to say, "I have so many songs now for another White Stripes record. Meg and I are working on songs during breaks from touring with the Raconteurs." This will be the follow up to 2005’s hugely successful “Get Behind Me Satan.” To read the full feature on ‘how to write a rock song’ by Jack White, get the December issue of Uncut, out now.

Jack White, who is currently with side project The Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, has let slip that he is also working on new material for his original band The White Stripes, with Meg White.

The singer/guitarist has told Uncut that his time is now split 50/50 between the two bands.

White told Uncut, “My brain now has two options for songs that I write, and it’s a really nice luxury to have as a songwriter.”

White went on to say, “I have so many songs now for another White Stripes record. Meg and I are working on songs during breaks from touring with the Raconteurs.”

This will be the follow up to 2005’s hugely successful “Get Behind Me Satan.”

To read the full feature on ‘how to write a rock song’ by Jack White, get the December issue of Uncut, out now.

Notorious Rock Groupie Dies

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Notorious Rock Groupie Dies

Former rock groupie Jo Jo Laine, ex-wife of The Moody Blues and Wings guitarist Denny Lane, has died of liver cancer at the age of 54. Laine announced she was ill in May 2006 when she vowed to battle the disease, but unfortunately she died on Sunday October 29 in a London hospital from complications after a fall at home. The former model, actress and singer was very well known on the rock scene in the 1960s and 1970s, and was romantically linked to Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Rod Stewart. She performed with her own band, Jo Jo Laine & The Firm, until 1985 when Led Zepellin’s Jimmy Page established The Firm from the same musicians. Laine also recorded with Wings and Sting and Andy Summers of The Police, performing on singles "Hulk" and "Dancing Man". An album of her diverse musical output will be available next year entitled “The Best of Jo Jo Laine” To check out Jo Jo Laine’s Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles Fansite – Click here

Former rock groupie Jo Jo Laine, ex-wife of The Moody Blues and Wings guitarist Denny Lane, has died of liver cancer at the age of 54.

Laine announced she was ill in May 2006 when she vowed to battle the disease, but unfortunately she died on Sunday October 29 in a London hospital from complications after a fall at home.

The former model, actress and singer was very well known on the rock scene in the 1960s and 1970s, and was romantically linked to Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Rod Stewart.

She performed with her own band, Jo Jo Laine & The Firm, until 1985 when Led Zepellin’s Jimmy Page established The Firm from the same musicians.

Laine also recorded with Wings and Sting and Andy Summers of The Police, performing on singles “Hulk” and “Dancing Man”.

An album of her diverse musical output will be available next year entitled “The Best of Jo Jo Laine”

To check out Jo Jo Laine’s Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles Fansite – Click here

Inspiral Carpets Announce UK Tour

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Inspiral Carpets Announce UK Tour

Madchester favourites Inspiral Carpets are to play a series of UK dates next March. Following up their highly successful comeback shows in 2003 – which included three sold-out Manchester shows as well as appearances at Glastonbury, V Festival and T-in the Park - the Inspiral Carpets are back again. Together with the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses, the Inspiral Carpets brought psychedelic indie-guitar "Madchester" kicking and screaming into the mainstream. The band will draw on material from their Top 20 albums including "Life" (1990), "The Beast Inside" (1991), "Revenge Of The Goldfish" (1992) and "Devil Hopping" (1994) at the shows. Catch the band live at the following venues: Birmingham Academy 2 (March 2) Glasgow ABC (3) Lincoln Engine Shed (4) Norwich Waterfront (5) Brighton Concorde (7) Leeds University Stylus (8) Manchester Academy (9) London Shepherd’s Bush Empire (10) Tickets for the Inspiral’s go on sale tomorrow morning at 9am To buy tickets – Go to Nme.com/Gigs here

Madchester favourites Inspiral Carpets are to play a series of UK dates next March.

Following up their highly successful comeback shows in 2003 – which included three sold-out Manchester shows as well as appearances at Glastonbury, V Festival and T-in the Park – the Inspiral Carpets are back again.

Together with the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses, the Inspiral Carpets brought psychedelic indie-guitar “Madchester” kicking and screaming into the mainstream.

The band will draw on material from their Top 20 albums including “Life” (1990), “The Beast Inside” (1991), “Revenge Of The Goldfish” (1992) and “Devil Hopping” (1994) at the shows.

Catch the band live at the following venues:

Birmingham Academy 2 (March 2)

Glasgow ABC (3)

Lincoln Engine Shed (4)

Norwich Waterfront (5)

Brighton Concorde (7)

Leeds University Stylus (8)

Manchester Academy (9)

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire (10)

Tickets for the Inspiral’s go on sale tomorrow morning at 9am

To buy tickets – Go to Nme.com/Gigs here

The Rolling Stones To Be Directed By Martin Scorsese

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The Rolling Stones To Be Directed By Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese has been given the go-ahead to direct a concert movie about the Rolling Stones. As previously reported, the Stones were on the New York leg of their Bigger Bang world tour and were filmed as they performed at former US president Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday party. Filming was also due to take place at the band’s small club date at New York’s Beacon Theatre, but that date as well as others scheduled to take place this month have been postponed. Mick Jagger has been given doctor’s orders to rest his throat after gaining an infection. The singer has to be especially cautious after a bout of laryngitis in July. Footage from the concerts was expected to form a major part of the film, along with behind-the-scenes moments, interviews and historical footage of the band. Scorsese has yet to talk publicly about making the film. Scorsese has enlisted the help of Albert Maysles who along with his brother David, were behind the classic film footage of the Rolling Stones- when they played in front of 300,000 people at Altamont Speedway in 1969- for the documentary “Gimme Shelter.” Scorsese’s previous music-related films include1978’s “The Last Waltz”, the farewell gig by The Band and 2005’s highly acclaimed “No Direction Home” documenting Bob Dylan. Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards are all equal executive producers of the new film, and it is expected to be released mid-2007 through Paramount/ Fortissmo.

Martin Scorsese has been given the go-ahead to direct a concert movie about the Rolling Stones.

As previously reported, the Stones were on the New York leg of their Bigger Bang world tour and were filmed as they performed at former US president Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday party.

Filming was also due to take place at the band’s small club date at New York’s Beacon Theatre, but that date as well as others scheduled to take place this month have been postponed.

Mick Jagger has been given doctor’s orders to rest his throat after gaining an infection. The singer has to be especially cautious after a bout of laryngitis in July.

Footage from the concerts was expected to form a major part of the film, along with behind-the-scenes moments, interviews and historical footage of the band. Scorsese has yet to talk publicly about making the film.

Scorsese has enlisted the help of Albert Maysles who along with his brother David, were behind the classic film footage of the Rolling Stones- when they played in front of 300,000 people at Altamont Speedway in 1969- for the documentary “Gimme Shelter.”

Scorsese’s previous music-related films include1978’s “The Last Waltz”, the farewell gig by The Band and 2005’s highly acclaimed “No Direction Home” documenting Bob Dylan.

Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards are all equal executive producers of the new film, and it is expected to be released mid-2007 through Paramount/ Fortissmo.

The Cure To Release Live DVD

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The Cure To Release Live DVD

The Cure will complete another busy year of touring with the release of a live DVD in December, made with a little help from their fans. “Festival 2005” follows the '80s gothic rockers on their nine-date European tour last year when band members, crew and some lucky competition-winner fans were given hand-held cameras to capture each night’s action. The finished film, co-mixed by frontman Robert Smith, features professionally shot footage mixed with the fans’ hand-held clips. The career-spanning 30-track set list includes live favourites such as “Disintegration”, “A Forest” and “Just Like Heaven”. This is not the first time a concert film has been made by fans of a band. “Awesome: I f****** Shot That” is the feature length film of New York rappers The Beastie Boys 2004 Madison Square Garden. The concert filmed by 50 fans was released earlier this year. “Festival 2005” is out on Suretone/Geffen Records on December 5.

The Cure will complete another busy year of touring with the release of a live DVD in December, made with a little help from their fans.

“Festival 2005” follows the ’80s gothic rockers on their nine-date European tour last year when band members, crew and some lucky competition-winner fans were given hand-held cameras to capture each night’s action.

The finished film, co-mixed by frontman Robert Smith, features professionally shot footage mixed with the fans’ hand-held clips.

The career-spanning 30-track set list includes live favourites such as “Disintegration”, “A Forest” and “Just Like Heaven”.

This is not the first time a concert film has been made by fans of a band.

“Awesome: I f****** Shot That” is the feature length film of New York rappers The Beastie Boys 2004 Madison Square Garden.

The concert filmed by 50 fans was released earlier this year.

“Festival 2005” is out on Suretone/Geffen Records on December 5.

Sufjan Stevens Turns Film Critic On Eve of UK dates

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Sufjan Stevens Turns Film Critic On Eve of UK dates

Hugely talented musician Sufjan Stevens, who famously promised to write an album for all 50 American states and whose album “Come On Feel The Illinoise” was released to great acclaim last year, has taken on yet another role. In celebration of Halloween this week, the singer has spoken about what films he loves at this time of the year. Posting on his record label’s website www.asthmatickitty.com, Stevens explains his love of the horror genre. He explains, “I grew up on horror films. I saw 'The Exorcist' when I was five. Disney’s 'The Black Hole' struck me as light fare, even though my older brother left the theatre crying.” He picks classic zombie movie “Night of the Living Dead” as his number one scary flick, which despite its “bad acting, cheap make-up and clumsy camera work” still makes him “sick to my stomach”. Stevens’ most recent film pick is the environmental documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”. He describes presenter Al Gore as “Darth Vader with a Power Point presentation. Yikes.” “The Avalanche”, an album compiled from outtakes of “Come On Feel The Illinoise”, is in the Top 10 of our favourite 50 albums of 2006. Find out what the other 49 great albums of the year were, in the December edition of Uncut, out now. The Brooklyn-based artist kicks off the British leg of his European tour in support of “The Avalanche” at Manchester Academy 2 tonight (November 2). He plays London Barbican Arts Centre tomorrow. To read Sufjan Stevens full list of favourite scary movies – Click here

Hugely talented musician Sufjan Stevens, who famously promised to write an album for all 50 American states and whose album “Come On Feel The Illinoise” was released to great acclaim last year, has taken on yet another role.

In celebration of Halloween this week, the singer has spoken about what films he loves at this time of the year.

Posting on his record label’s website www.asthmatickitty.com, Stevens explains his love of the horror genre.

He explains, “I grew up on horror films. I saw ‘The Exorcist’ when I was five. Disney’s ‘The Black Hole’ struck me as light fare, even though my older brother left the theatre crying.”

He picks classic zombie movie “Night of the Living Dead” as his number one scary flick, which despite its “bad acting, cheap make-up and clumsy camera work” still makes him “sick to my stomach”.

Stevens’ most recent film pick is the environmental documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”. He describes presenter Al Gore as “Darth Vader with a Power Point presentation. Yikes.”

“The Avalanche”, an album compiled from outtakes of “Come On Feel The Illinoise”, is in the Top 10 of our favourite 50 albums of 2006.

Find out what the other 49 great albums of the year were, in the December edition of Uncut, out now.

The Brooklyn-based artist kicks off the British leg of his European tour in support of “The Avalanche” at Manchester Academy 2 tonight (November 2).

He plays London Barbican Arts Centre tomorrow.

To read Sufjan Stevens full list of favourite scary movies – Click here

Bob Dylan and Dave Stewart get Funkadelic

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Bob Dylan and Dave Stewart get Funkadelic

Key Parliament-Funkadelic member and co-founder of Bootsy Collin’s Rubber Band, Gary ‘Mudbone’ Cooper is back on tour in support of his debut solo album “Fresh Mud” Uncut described the debut release as “a rollicking affair that mashes up blues with funk, hip hop and gospel” and it also includes contributions from some diverse musicians. Bob Dylan adds his blues piano playing talents to a track called “Home” and another pianist, Jools Holland also helps out on the album. Ex-Eurythmic Dave Stewart co-wrote forthcoming funk-gospel single “Freedom’s Coming.” The single is released on November 26 to raise awareness for Nelson Mandela’s “46664” initiative. Other contributors on the album are original Funkadelic bassist Billy “Bass” Nelson and Jamaican ‘rap queen’ Nadirah X – they will also play live with Mudbone on his UK shows. Mudbone will strut his funky stuff next month after supporting P!ink on a national arena tour. He will play: London Metro (December 4) Birmingham Barfly (6) Cardiff Barfly (7) Brighton Pressure Point (8) Manchester Roadhouse (12) Glasgow ABC 2 (13) Nottingham Rock City (14) For more information about the album and shows– Click here to go to Mudbone’s website

Key Parliament-Funkadelic member and co-founder of Bootsy Collin’s Rubber Band, Gary ‘Mudbone’ Cooper is back on tour in support of his debut solo album “Fresh Mud”

Uncut described the debut release as “a rollicking affair that mashes up blues with funk, hip hop and gospel” and it also includes contributions from some diverse musicians.

Bob Dylan adds his blues piano playing talents to a track called “Home” and another pianist, Jools Holland also helps out on the album.

Ex-Eurythmic Dave Stewart co-wrote forthcoming funk-gospel single “Freedom’s Coming.” The single is released on November 26 to raise awareness for Nelson Mandela’s “46664” initiative.

Other contributors on the album are original Funkadelic bassist Billy “Bass” Nelson and Jamaican ‘rap queen’ Nadirah X – they will also play live with Mudbone on his UK shows.

Mudbone will strut his funky stuff next month after supporting P!ink on a national arena tour. He will play:

London Metro (December 4)

Birmingham Barfly (6)

Cardiff Barfly (7)

Brighton Pressure Point (8)

Manchester Roadhouse (12)

Glasgow ABC 2 (13)

Nottingham Rock City (14)

For more information about the album and shows– Click here to go to Mudbone’s website

Hank Williams’ Stolen Lyrics Located

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Hank Williams’ Stolen Lyrics Located

Hank Williams’ stolen notebook containing up to 20 unpublished songs, and worth an estimated £130,000, has been found in the hands of two memorabilia collectors in Tennessee. The book, which contains lyrics written between 1947 and 1949, has been missing for nearly 60 years. Owners of the notebook, Sony/ATV Publishing, only realised the country legend’s book was missing in September this year when a news report in the Chicago Sun-Times alleged that Steven Shutts and Robert Reynolds, memorabilia collectors had it. The pair, who run a travelling exhibition called the “Honky Tonk Hall of Fame”, are not accused of stealing the book but could be charged by Sony/ATV Publishing for possessing stolen goods. Hank Williams, a huge influence on Bob Dylan, died in 1953 after achieving fame with songs like “Your Cheating Heart”.

Hank Williams’ stolen notebook containing up to 20 unpublished songs, and worth an estimated £130,000, has been found in the hands of two memorabilia collectors in Tennessee.

The book, which contains lyrics written between 1947 and 1949, has been missing for nearly 60 years.

Owners of the notebook, Sony/ATV Publishing, only realised the country legend’s book was missing in September this year when a news report in the Chicago Sun-Times alleged that Steven Shutts and Robert Reynolds, memorabilia collectors had it.

The pair, who run a travelling exhibition called the “Honky Tonk Hall of Fame”, are not accused of stealing the book but could be charged by Sony/ATV Publishing for possessing stolen goods.

Hank Williams, a huge influence on Bob Dylan, died in 1953 after achieving fame with songs like “Your Cheating Heart”.

Magic Numbers – Those The Brokes

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Magic Numbers – Those The Brokes

Of the words that spring to mind when you think of The Magic Numbers - country, cartoon, cuddly, harmony, heavenly, hammock - none have remotely negative connotations. Detractors are put off by this perceived bonhomie, and are unlikely to be converted by the quartet’s second album, recorded in Woodstock and produced by the band’s Romeo and Michele Stodart. Yet if The Magic Numbers ditched all aspects of their music apart from the middle-eights, they’d probably have the saddest album in the world right here. The opening "This Is A Song"’s lengthy piano and bells intro is pure Christmas. The lyric is a love triangle, once again - so happy, so sad. But after the second chorus it dips into one of the melancholy mid-sections that characterise the Magic Numbers’ work, as predictable in its own rather complex way as Nirvana. And as with their very best songs, the vocal interplay is heartstopping, a waterfall of harmonies reminiscent of the coda to the Go Betweens' "Cattle And Cane". As befitting a group who have spent two years on the road, though, there are a couple of rock shockers on Those The Brokes, chiefly "Runnin' Out", driving along recklessly, careering down chicanes of minor chords where you least expect them. "Burn all the money you earn," suggests a sly Romeo Stodart. "There's a chance you might learn who you are." Elsewhere, "Boy", with its strings, harps, and wheezing melodica, is steeped in the American baroque soul of Teddy Randazzo and Thom Bell. You half expect a mandolin player to burst in, with a beseeching look on his face, and go down on one knee. "Take A Chance" rather lets the side down, sounding like an out-take from the first album. Quite how this ended up as the curtain-raising single is a mystery. The other problem, and it's a big one, is the bone-dry production: "Those The Brokes" sounds, in places, like it was recorded in a fridge. Rather than producing themselves, they could benefit from a wise head adding a touch of reverb, a sting of echo. Otherwise The Magic Numbers will never make the stone classic they are, on this evidence, most capable of. By Vivian Mackay

Of the words that spring to mind when you think of The Magic Numbers – country, cartoon, cuddly, harmony, heavenly, hammock – none have remotely negative connotations. Detractors are put off by this perceived bonhomie, and are unlikely to be converted by the quartet’s second album, recorded in Woodstock and produced by the band’s Romeo and Michele Stodart. Yet if The Magic Numbers ditched all aspects of their music apart from the middle-eights, they’d probably have the saddest album in the world right here.

The opening “This Is A Song”’s lengthy piano and bells intro is pure Christmas. The lyric is a love triangle, once again – so happy, so sad. But after the second chorus it dips into one of the melancholy mid-sections that characterise the Magic Numbers’ work, as predictable in its own rather complex way as Nirvana. And as with their very best songs, the vocal interplay is heartstopping, a waterfall of harmonies reminiscent of the coda to the Go Betweens’ “Cattle And Cane”.

As befitting a group who have spent two years on the road, though, there are a couple of rock shockers on Those The Brokes, chiefly “Runnin’ Out”, driving along recklessly, careering down chicanes of minor chords where you least expect them. “Burn all the money you earn,” suggests a sly Romeo Stodart. “There’s a chance you might learn who you are.” Elsewhere, “Boy”, with its strings, harps, and wheezing melodica, is steeped in the American baroque soul of Teddy Randazzo and Thom Bell. You half expect a mandolin player to burst in, with a beseeching look on his face, and go down on one knee.

“Take A Chance” rather lets the side down, sounding like an out-take from the first album. Quite how this ended up as the curtain-raising single is a mystery. The other problem, and it’s a big one, is the bone-dry production: “Those The Brokes” sounds, in places, like it was recorded in a fridge. Rather than producing themselves, they could benefit from a wise head adding a touch of reverb, a sting of echo. Otherwise The Magic Numbers will never make the stone classic they are, on this evidence, most capable of.

By Vivian Mackay

Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home

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Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home

The long-running press campaign on the Long Blondes’ behalf spoke to a cherished critical fantasy. If we’re determined to run with BritPop II - with the Kaiser Chiefs as Blur, and the Monkeys as Oasis - then can we at least have a new Pulp? The Blondes certainly seemed to fit the bill: rakish heirs to Sheffield’s shabby chic, classy aspirants to the standards of Bacharach, articulate pop swots in a stage school world. But with their debut album, the campaign promises end and the reckoning begins. "I just want to be a sweetheart!" yelps Kate Jackson, invoking Edie Sedgwick and Anna Karina on opening track "Lust In The Movies". She’s a fabulous frontwoman, with no time to play anyone’s muse. Across 12 tracks she casts herself as desperate housewife ("Company Of Women"), louche agony aunt ("Once And Never Again") and jealous also-ran ("You Could Have Both") and fair tears up the scenery: urgent, passionate, determinedly defiant. So much so that her bravura performance threatens to overwhelm the band. At times here it feels like Debbie Harry took a wrong turn on the way to Studio 54 and wound up with Shed 7. Like Human League and Pulp before them, the Blondes aim to skip lightly from the kitchen sink to the sublime, but they often struggle to make the leap. In this context, "Giddy Stratospheres" – along with "Weekend Without Make-Up" one of the strongest songs here – seems like harsh self-diagnosis: "She’ll never take you higher than her attic room". Within the context of Razorlight or Kasabian, "Someone To Drive You Home" is clearly the work of lively, stylish minds. What’s frustrating is that they are evidently aiming so much higher. To make good on their ambitions it may be that they need to hook up with a properly ruthless pop producer, one who can coax them out of their indie-pop dowdiness - like Blondie needed Mike Chapman, like ABC needed Horn. Otherwise, the Long Blondes may have to be content to be this season’s Elastica. By Stephen Trousse

The long-running press campaign on the Long Blondes’ behalf spoke to a cherished critical fantasy. If we’re determined to run with BritPop II – with the Kaiser Chiefs as Blur, and the Monkeys as Oasis – then can we at least have a new Pulp? The Blondes certainly seemed to fit the bill: rakish heirs to Sheffield’s shabby chic, classy aspirants to the standards of Bacharach, articulate pop swots in a stage school world.

But with their debut album, the campaign promises end and the reckoning begins. “I just want to be a sweetheart!” yelps Kate Jackson, invoking Edie Sedgwick and Anna Karina on opening track “Lust In The Movies”. She’s a fabulous frontwoman, with no time to play anyone’s muse. Across 12 tracks she casts herself as desperate housewife (“Company Of Women”), louche agony aunt (“Once And Never Again”) and jealous also-ran (“You Could Have Both”) and fair tears up the scenery: urgent, passionate, determinedly defiant.

So much so that her bravura performance threatens to overwhelm the band. At times here it feels like Debbie Harry took a wrong turn on the way to Studio 54 and wound up with Shed 7. Like Human League and Pulp before them, the Blondes aim to skip lightly from the kitchen sink to the sublime, but they often struggle to make the leap. In this context, “Giddy Stratospheres” – along with “Weekend Without Make-Up” one of the strongest songs here – seems like harsh self-diagnosis: “She’ll never take you higher than her attic room”.

Within the context of Razorlight or Kasabian, “Someone To Drive You Home” is clearly the work of lively, stylish minds. What’s frustrating is that they are evidently aiming so much higher. To make good on their ambitions it may be that they need to hook up with a properly ruthless pop producer, one who can coax them out of their indie-pop dowdiness – like Blondie needed Mike Chapman, like ABC needed Horn. Otherwise, the Long Blondes may have to be content to be this season’s Elastica.

By Stephen Trousse

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