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Jarvis Cocker and Riton share new “sustainable banger” “Let’s Stick Around”

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Jarvis Cocker and Riton share new “sustainable banger” “Let’s Stick Around”
Jarvis Cocker and Riton have shared a new collaboration based around climate change and billed as "the world's first sustainable banger" – listen to "Let's Stick Around" below. ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT The song arrives to mar...

Jarvis Cocker and Riton have shared a new collaboration based around climate change and billed as “the world’s first sustainable banger” – listen to “Let’s Stick Around” below.

The song arrives to mark the end of the COP26 climate change conference, which has seen world leaders converging in Glasgow over the past month to tackle the environmental issues facing the planet.

“’Let’s Stick Around’ is the world’s first sustainable banger,” Cocker said of the song, with Riton adding: “I’m really excited this track is coming out during COP26. Jarv has been one of the most influential and distinctive artists to come from the UK, it’s wicked to work with him.

“We all need to be more conscious of the carbon emissions we create in our lives and I hope ‘Let’s Stick Around’ can help raise awareness.”

Listen to “Let’s Stick Around” below:

Leading up to and during the COP26 conference, a number of musicians have been urging leaders to create green new policies to tackle climate change.

Brian Eno recently spoke about Coldplay and The 1975‘s efforts to tackle climate change, while calling for “a revolution†in the wider music industry’s approach.

After Coldplay vowed to look at more “environmentally beneficial†ways of touring in 2019, they recently announced details of an eco-friendly world tour for 2022.

Nick Cave has written and illustrated a new children’s book

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Nick Cave has written and illustrated a new children’s book
The ever-prolific Nick Cave is entering into the world of children's publishing, having written and illustrated his very own children's book. ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT READ MORE: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on new B-Sides &...

The ever-prolific Nick Cave is entering into the world of children’s publishing, having written and illustrated his very own children’s book.

The Little Thing, available for pre-order now and due to ship on November 15, was initially written for Cave‘s three-year-old neighbour, Esme.

“It is the tale of a little thing that goes on an epic adventure to discover the true nature of its identity,” Cave said of the book in a statement on his website.

“‘What am I?’ asks The Little Thing. Along the way it meets cast of diverse characters including a tomato, a toilet roll, a showerhead, a cupcake, and a corn on the cob, that guide The Little Thing toward its final joyous realisation.”

Nick Cave's book
The Little Thing front cover. Credit: Nick Cave/Cave Things

Purchase of the book also comes with a free download of The Little Thing ‘talking book’, which is narrated by Cave and features music from both Cave and Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis.

Ellis recently released his own debut book, Nina Simone’s Gum, a memoir with its title taken from a moment in 1999 where Ellis acquired Simone‘s chewed gum when the music legend performed at London’s Meltdown Festival – which Cave curated that year.

Outside of literature, Cave recently appeared in the film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, where he portrayed science fiction author H.G. Wells. Cave, with the Bad Seeds, is also set to headline a string of European festivals next year, having recently been announced atop the bill for Ireland’s All Together Now.

Jack White announces two new albums, Fear Of The Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive

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Jack White announces two new albums, Fear Of The Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive
Jack White has announced two new studio albums, both of which will arrive in 2022. ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT READ MORE: Jack White: “I knew Boarding House Reach would be divisive†The former White Stripes frontman returne...

Jack White has announced two new studio albums, both of which will arrive in 2022.

The former White Stripes frontman returned last month with “Taking Me Back”, his first solo single in three years. It followed the 2018 record Boarding House Reach.

Yesterday (November 11) White confirmed that he will release his fourth album Fear Of The Dawn on April 8 ahead of its follow-up, Entering Heaven Alive, arriving on July 22. You can pre-order them in various formats here.

The first album features “Taking Me Back”, with its 12-song tracklist also including the cuts “The White Raven”, “Into The Twilight”, “Dusk”, “That Was Then (This Is Now)” and “Morning, Noon And Night”.

Entering Heaven Alive comprises 11 tracks, with titles such as “A Tip From You To Me”, “Love Is Selfish”, “If I Die Tomorrow”, “Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone” and “Taking Me Back (Gently)”.

You can see the tracklists and official artwork below:

Fear Of The Dawn:

1. “Taking Me Back”
2. “Fear Of The Dawn”
3. “The White Raven”
4. “Hi-De-Ho (W/ Q-TIP)”
5. “Eosophobia”
6. “Into The Twilight”
7. “Dusk”
8. “What’s The Trick?”
9. “That Was Then (This Is Now)”
10. “Eosophobia (Reprise)”
11. “Morning, Noon And Night”
12. “Shedding My Velvet”

Entering Heaven Alive:

1. “A Tip From You To Me”
2. “All Along The Way”
3. “Help Me Along”
4. “Love Is Selfish”
5. “I’ve Got You Surrounded (With My Love)”
6. “Queen Of The Bees”
7. “A Tree On Fire From Within”
8. “If I Die Tomorrow”
9. “Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone”
10. “A Madman From Manhattan”
11. “Taking Me Back (Gently)”

To mark the announcement, White has shared the self-directed official video for “Taking Me Back” – watch it below.

According to a press release, White has been busy writing and recording new music over the past few years – resulting in “two entirely different albums” that are “each defined by different inspirations, different themes [and] different moods”.

Back in September, White delivered a surprise performance on a London rooftop to celebrate the opening of a new Third Man Records store in the capital. Prior to the roof appearance, the musician played in the blue basement of the Soho shop.

Inside Uncut’s Review Of The Year 2021

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Inside Uncut’s Review Of The Year 2021
The new issue of Uncut – in shops from today and also available to buy online by clicking here – features Bruce Springsteen on the cover, along with typically illuminating interviews with the likes of Jason Isbell, Jonny Greenwood, Ryley Walker and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. HAVE A COP...

The new issue of Uncut – in shops from today and also available to buy online by clicking here – features Bruce Springsteen on the cover, along with typically illuminating interviews with the likes of Jason Isbell, Jonny Greenwood, Ryley Walker and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss.

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But the bulk of this bumper issue is devoted to our Review Of 2021, in which we reveal the 75 best new albums, the 50 best archive releases, the 20 best films and 10 best music books of the year, as voted for by Uncut’s staff and contributors.

We speak to many of the artists whose terrific music helped us make sense of another strange and disorientating year, including The Weather Station, Mogwai, Yasmin Williams, Cassandra Jenkins and John Murry.

The Coral take their fabulous recent album Coral Island as a jumping-off point to look back at their entire discography, while The Beach Boys reflect on how the release of the complete Sunflower / Surf’s Up sessions has shed new light on an underrated period of their career. Plus Irmin Schmidt reveals what’s next in Can’s revelatory Live Series.

You can read more about the January 2022 issue of Uncut here, and buy your copy direct from us here.

Watch Bruce Springsteen tell jokes and play four songs at Stand Up For Heroes show

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Watch Bruce Springsteen tell jokes and play four songs at Stand Up For Heroes show
Bruce Springsteen performed four acoustic tracks at this year’s Stand Up For Heroes benefit gig on Monday night (November 8). ORDER NOW: Bruce Springsteen and the Review Of 2021 feature in Uncut’s January 2022 issue Performing at Alice Tully Hall in New York, The Boss performed "I’ll ...

Bruce Springsteen performed four acoustic tracks at this year’s Stand Up For Heroes benefit gig on Monday night (November 8).

Performing at Alice Tully Hall in New York, The Boss performed “I’ll Work For Your Love” from 2007’s Magic, the title track from last year’s Letter To You album, and classic tracks “Hungry Heart” and “Dancing In The Dark”.

Running since 2007, Stand Up For Heroes is an annual gig that benefits the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which supports charities and runs programs benefitting US veterans.

The show has been a regular event for Springsteen for many years, supporting US war veterans, with the 2020 edition being broadcast as a virtual event as he performed from an empty New Jersey bar.

The legendary songwriter shared the bill with comedians like Jon Stewart, Jim Gaffigan, and Nikki Glaser, and told a few crude jokes of his own between songs – you can watch the performance below.

Springsteen released his 20th studio album, Letter To You, last year. A film that accompanied the LP was also released.

Last week (November 3) it was revealed that Springsteen is reportedly in talks to sell his recorded catalogue to Sony Music.

According to sources (via Billboard), the deal between The Boss and the US global music company is almost complete. The musician is also looking to sell off his publishing catalogue.

It’s said that Springsteen has set his sights on upwards of $350million (£256.5million) for both the publishing and recorded masters.

Khruangbin announce 2022 UK and European tour dates

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Khruangbin announce 2022 UK and European tour dates
Khruangbin have announced a UK and European tour for 2022 – you can find all the details below. ORDER NOW: Bruce Springsteen and the Review Of 2021 feature in Uncut’s January 2022 issue The Texas trio will hit the road next spring in support of their third album Mordechai, which came ou...

Khruangbin have announced a UK and European tour for 2022 – you can find all the details below.

The Texas trio will hit the road next spring in support of their third album Mordechai, which came out in June 2020. Tickets go on general sale here at 9am GMT this Friday (November 12).

Kicking off in Paris on April 4, the stint also includes headline performances in Zurich, Cologne, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

Khruangbin are scheduled to make their UK return on April 14 when they’ll play Alexandra Palace in London. Gigs will then follow at the O2 Academy in Glasgow (April 15) and the O2 Apollo in Manchester (April 16).

Khruangbin‘s 2022 UK tour dates are as follows:

April
14 – Alexandra Palace, London
15 – O2 Academy, Glasgow
16 – O2 Apollo, Manchester

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Sinéad O’Connor to headline Ireland’s All Together Now Festival

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Sinéad O’Connor to headline Ireland’s All Together Now Festival
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Sinéad O'Connor have been announced as headliners of Ireland's All Together Now Festival next year. ORDER NOW: Bruce Springsteen and the Review Of 2021 feature in Uncut’s January 2022 issue READ MORE: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on new B-Sides & Ra...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Sinéad O’Connor have been announced as headliners of Ireland’s All Together Now Festival next year.

The multi-day festival, which has been cancelled the past two years due to the coronavirus pandemic, is set to take place across July 29-31, 2022 at Curraghmore House in County Waterford, Ireland.

Groove Armada and Underworld will headline alongside Cave and O’Connor. Other names on the line-up include: Jungle, Shame, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Denise Chaila, Girl Band, Ghostpoet, SHERELLE and more. See the full list below.

“We can’t wait to welcome festival-goers and music lovers back after three long years,” organisers said in a statement. “We thank those of you who have continually supported us. Without you, the festival would not be possible. Our team has and will continue to work tirelessly to create a special festival for our return.

“Festivals are places of escape, discovery, and celebration. They give us the space to dance, laugh, sing, and give us all a sense of belonging and togetherness, something we are longing to get back to.”

The All Together Now added: “We have plenty up our sleeves, but for now, we are incredibly excited to announce our music line-up.”

Tickets bought for 2020’s cancelled event are still valid. Remaining tickets go on sale at 8am on November 18 – get them here.

Sinéad O’Connor‘s appearance comes after she confirmed her retirement from the music industry, weeks after making similar claims and later retracting them.

The Irish singer said on social media that she had been in “two minds†about retiring, but confirmed that she will now begin a new career as a writer.

“This is to announce that having been in two minds about retiring I have now, in consultation with my medical team, and on their advice, decided to go ahead and retire so that I may now focus on my new career as a writer,†wrote O’Connor.

Meanwhile, Nick Cave has opened up about moving to Los Angeles because Brighton became “too sad†following his son’s death.

Arthur Cave died aged 15 after he fell from a cliff in Ovingdean, East Sussex in 2015. Nick first spoke of the tragedy during One More Time With Feeling, the 2016 film that delved into “the deeply personal circumstances surrounding the making of Skeleton Tree.â€

For the latest entry into his fan Q&A site Red Hand Files, Cave was asked why he decided to move away from his home in Brighton. In response, the musician spoke of revisiting the Bad Seeds track “Heart That Kills You”, which he said was “clearly written after Arthur’s deathâ€.

Beatles biopic Midas Man shuts down mid shoot following director exit

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Beatles biopic Midas Man shuts down mid shoot following director exit
The biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Midas Man, has shut down mid-shoot. ORDER NOW: Bruce Springsteen and the Review Of 2021 feature in Uncut’s January 2022 issue READ MORE: How The Beatles became movie stars: “They were quite skilled in the process of making films†The fo...

The biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Midas Man, has shut down mid-shoot.

The forthcoming film has hit a snag as director Jonas Akerlund is “taking a break” from the shoot and could be “unlikely to return”, according to Deadline.

Midas Man will tell the story of Epstein, the Liverpudlian record shop manager who signed the biggest band of all time. Epstein also discovered other popular acts including Cilla Black, Billy J Kramer, Gerry And The Pacemakers, and helped promote acts including Jimi Hendrix.

“The director of Midas Man Jonas Akerlund is taking a break from the film,†a quote from the production reads.

“Until some matters become clearer, we are not able to add any further comment to this statement. In the meantime, we can confirm that filming of Midas Man will continue in London in November before breaking for Christmas. Filming will restart in early January in Los Angeles.â€

Akerlund’s departure reportedly concerns other work commitments as opposed to health issues – the filmmaker’s team is yet to respond for comment.

The filmmaker is best known for his work on Madonna‘s Grammy-winning music video for “Ray Of Light”, and has also worked with artists including Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Rammstein and The Prodigy.

Earlier this year, The Queen’s Gambit actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd was confirmed to play Epstein in the film. He previously played chess prodigy and journalist Townes in the Netflix miniseries.

Jason Isbell shares his journey of self-discovery on his latest album, Georgia Blue

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Jason Isbell shares his journey of self-discovery on his latest album, Georgia Blue
“I’m in Nashville, I’m close to home,†Jason Isbell tells Uncut. “But I just finished my residency at the Ryman Auditorium last night, so I haven’t driven out to the house yet. We did eight shows. The openers were amazing, the audiences were great and my voice held up. So yeah, a huge su...

“I’m in Nashville, I’m close to home,†Jason Isbell tells Uncut. “But I just finished my residency at the Ryman Auditorium last night, so I haven’t driven out to the house yet. We did eight shows. The openers were amazing, the audiences were great and my voice held up. So yeah, a huge success!â€

Isbell has other reasons to celebrate. He’s just released Georgia Blue – a covers album of songs by Georgia artists ranging from REM to the Allmans, Otis Redding to Cat Power. Recorded to celebrate the state’s contribution to ousting Donald Trump by turning Democrat blue, its proceeds will benefit civil rights groups including Black Voters Matter. As you might imagine, the guest artists Isbell invited to join him and his band The 400 Unit on the record are suitably diverse, with ex-Black Crowe Steve Gorman alongside Adia Victoria and self-described “gay sober Christian†Julien Baker. Like Isbell’s own songwriting, first in the Drive-By Truckers and then in the searching character studies and confessionals of his solo records, they paint a nuanced, modern picture of the American South.

Fresh from the Ryman shows, Isbell is also naturally thrilled to be touring again. “Last fall we did a few shows where everybody was in pods and socially distanced, which was better than nothing,†he says. “But to actually play regular venues in almost regular ways was pure pleasure. I started requiring a Covid test or vaccine cards and had some arguments about that.†He’s unperturbed by the anti-vaxxer outrage. “Most of them would never have come to one of my shows in the first place. But the people who did were really excited to be able to see a show and feel relatively safe.â€

This taste of musical freedom follows months under lockdown with his family. “We were pretty much in the house for a year,†he says. “We had probably the best version of a quarantine lockdown situation that you could have, but it was still really emotionally taxing on all of us.†Isbell characteristically dealt with his lockdown blues by heading out to his barn and making a fearsome electric racket. “Yeah, I played guitar a lot,†he laughs. “We’ve got a six-year-old daughter, so I spent a lot of time with her. I also spent a lot of time with guitars, with really loud amps. That was good for me.

It wasn’t the same as playing with my band, but it was in a lot of ways the same as I was when I was 14 years old. Back to being a teenager wishing I could be in a rock band going on tour? That’s not so bad. Playing the guitar always has been the most obvious outlet for me.â€

Watch members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo and more team up for Big Star tribute concert

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Watch members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo and more team up for Big Star tribute concert
Members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo and the dB’s came together over the weekend to pay tribute to Big Star. ORDER NOW: Bruce Springsteen is on the cover of Uncut’s January 2022 issue READ MORE: Michael Stipe and Mike Mills reveal the secrets of R.E.M.’s “Electrolite†The group of mus...

Members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo and the dB’s came together over the weekend to pay tribute to Big Star.

The group of musicians – which included R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan, the dB’s’ Chris Stamey, Skylar Gudasz, Brett Harris, Charles Cleaver, Crispin Cloe and original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens – gathered at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn on Sunday night (November 7) to play a concert celebrating the Memphis band.

The self-described “one-of-a-kind acoustic, orchestrated performance” follows a series of tribute concerts in 2016, which featured some of the same musicians, surrounding Big Star’s never-completed third album.

The setlist for the Brooklyn show included “September Gurls”, “Back Of A Car”, “In The Street” and many other classics from the acclaimed band.

You can watch clips from the show below:

In R.E.M. news, Michael Stipe has put an end to any suggestions that the band could reunite, insisting that the group’s break-up 10 years ago was permanent.

During an interview with radio station WNYC to discuss a recent Velvet Underground tribute compilation, Stipe responded to a 2019 Rolling Stone article that speculated over the likelihood of R.E.M. reforming, describing it as “wishful thinking at bestâ€.

“We will never reunite. We decided when we split up that that would just be really tacky and probably money-grabbing, which might be the impetus for a lot of bands to get back together. We don’t really need that, and I’m really happy that we just have the legacy of the 32 years of work that we have,†he told All Of It host Alison Stewart.

Meanwhile, Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, who’s also played with Big Star and R.E.M., has been accused of sexual misconduct by three women. He has denied the allegations.

The Posies, the Washington power-pop band he co-founded 35 years ago, are “in the process of breaking up†as a result of the allegations, Stringfellow’s former bandmates say.

Beach House announce new album Once Twice Melody and spring UK tour

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Beach House announce new album Once Twice Melody and spring UK tour
Beach House have announced the release of a new album called Once Twice Melody as well as a spring UK and European tour. ORDER NOW: Bruce Springsteen is on the cover of Uncut’s January 2022 issue The Baltimore duo – comprised of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally – last released a full-l...

Beach House have announced the release of a new album called Once Twice Melody as well as a spring UK and European tour.

The Baltimore duo – comprised of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally – last released a full-length record in 2018 with 7. Their forthcoming eighth studio album will arrive on February 18 via Bella Union. It comes after Scally confirmed in September that a new record was on the way.

Produced entirely by Beach House themselves, Once Twice Melody was mixed by Alan Moulder, Caesar Edmunds, Trevor Spencer, and Dave Fridmann. It was recorded at studios in Cannon Falls, Los Angeles and Baltimore.

Ahead of the 18-track LP’s physical release, Once Twice Melody will be presented in four chapters with lyric animations for each song. The first four-song chapter will be available on all streaming services at midnight EST on November 10. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.

See the full tracklist and release schedule for the individual chapters below:

Chapter 1: November 10, 2021
1. “Once Twice Melody”
2. “Superstar”
3. “Pink Funeral”
4. “Through Me”

Chapter 2: December 8, 2021
5. “Runaway”
6. “ESP”
7. “New Romance”
8. “Over And Over”

Chapter 3: January 19, 2022
9. “Sunset”
10. “Only You Know”
11. “Another Go Around”
12. “Masquerade”
13. “Illusion Of Forever”

Chapter 4 (full album release): February 18, 2022
14. “Finale”
15. “The Bells”
16. “Hurts To Love”
17. “Many Nights”
18. “Modern Love Stories”

Beach House perform live
Beach House perform live, 2019. Credit: Getty Images

In addition to the album, Beach House have also announced a UK and European tour set to kick off in Dublin on May 21, taking in Glasgow, Manchester and London. It will finish in Copenhagen on June 9. The dates sit in the middle of a North American tour.

Tickets go on sale on November 19 at 10am local time here – see the UK and European dates below.

May 2021

21 – The National Stadium, Dublin
23 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
24 – Manchester Academy, Manchester
26 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
28 – De Roma, Antwerp
30 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
31 – L’Olympia, Paris

June 2021

2 – Paloma, Nimes
4 – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona
7 – Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne
8 – Columbiahalle, Berlin
9 – Falkoner Centre, Copenhagen

Beach House are already scheduled to perform at next summer’s Primavera Sound in Barcelona. They appear on the stellar line-up alongside the likes of The Strokes, Tame Impala and Lorde.

Beach House will take to the stage on the first of two Primavera weekends in June 2022.

Earlier this year, the duo provided the soundtrack to a new short film called Marin’s Dreams.

Paul McCartney says he’s “only just got over” dealing with the “misconception that he split up The Beatles”

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Paul McCartney says he’s “only just got over” dealing with the “misconception that he split up The Beatles”
Paul McCartney has spoken of how he's "only just got over" dealing with the "misconception" that he was the one who split up The Beatles. ORDER NOW: Bruce Springsteen is on the cover of Uncut’s January 2022 issue READ MORE: Paul McCartney sets record straight on who broke up The Beatles: â...

Paul McCartney has spoken of how he’s “only just got over” dealing with the “misconception” that he was the one who split up The Beatles.

Speaking at an event on Friday night (November 5) to launch his new book The Lyrics at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, Sir Paul was posed an audience question by host and journalist Samira Ahmed about what biggest misconception was about “being Paul McCartney“.

“I think the biggest misconception at the end of The Beatles was that I broke The Beatles up, and I lived with that for quite a while,” he replied. “Once a headline’s out there, it sticks. That was a big one – and I’ve only finally just gotten over it.â€

Heightening in tensions in the final years of The Beatles rendered their split seemingly inevitable. John Lennon privately informed his bandmates that he was leaving the Beatles in September 1969, before the following year saw McCartney famously announce his self-titled debut solo album with a press release that stated he was no longer working with the group – breaking their split to the world.

Despite all the stories and half-truths, McCartney told the audience last week that â€you kind of have to let it go†when it comes to existing within a mythology.

Paul McCartney
‘The Lyrics: Paul McCartney in Conversation’ event at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. Credit: Mark Allan

Another point in the evening saw the icon asked “what it had cost to be Paul McCartney“, to which he replied: “Your privacy, that’s what you have to give up – but I made that decision early on when I could see what was coming for The Beatles“.

“We had gone on holiday to Greece, and nobody there knew who we were and we’d only just started to get famous in England,” he revealed. “I used to listen to the hotel band and they were really good. I used to hang out with them everywhere like a groupie. I was talking to them one night and I said, ‘I’m in a group in England and we’re getting quite big, you know’, they were like, ‘Oh, OK…’”

McCartney continued: “I couldn’t really persuade them, so I thought, ‘Oh, I’ve got anonymity here, so I can always come to Greece and be fine’. That didn’t work, because they year after, they knew!

“To me, I then had to make a decision: Are you getting out of music, or are you going to live with this thing called fame? I decided I was going to live with it, I had to learn to cope. That’s what I’m still doing: coping.â€

The evening also saw McCartney speak of how he “never got round” to telling his late friend John Lennon that he loved him, as well as responding to Rishi Sunak’s controversial £2million bid for Liverpool to look into getting yet another Beatles museum.

The Lyrics is a career-spanning book that tells the story of McCartney’s life through 154 songs from his back catalogue and archive photos. It is out now.

Meanwhile, Peter Jackson’s new The Beatles: Get Back documentary about the making of the band’s last two albums will be presented as three separate episodes on Disney+ on November 25, 26 and 27.

Courtney Barnett shares new single “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight”, plots 2022 Australian tour

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Courtney Barnett shares new single “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight”, plots 2022 Australian tour
Courtney Barnett has shared a cruisy new single titled "If I Don't Hear From You Tonight", announcing alongside it a suite of tour dates for her native Australia. ORDER NOW: Bruce Springsteen is on the cover of Uncut’s January 2022 issue READ MORE: Courtney Barnett on new album Things Take...

Courtney Barnett has shared a cruisy new single titled “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight”, announcing alongside it a suite of tour dates for her native Australia.

Leaning further into her folk and country influences, the new track shines with twangy lead guitars and soaring vocal harmonies, a dry and punchy bassline thumping along in the background. It arrives with a video fittingly set in the Californian desert, with Barnett and her band playing the song on an idyllic ranch studded with cacti.

Check out the video for “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight”, directed by Claire Marie Vogel, below:

In a press release, Barnett explained that her latest single was written after she’d had a change of heart towards the tried-and-true concept of the love song.

“I think my stance in the past was like, ‘There’s so many love songs and they don’t mean anything,’ but there’s something really special about zooming in on a moment and capturing it,” she said. “[The song] comes from the state of where my head was at – trying to communicate honestly instead of keeping [my feelings] guarded.â€

“If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight” comes as the fourth single from Barnett’s third solo album, Things Take Time, Take Time, joining “Rae Street”, “Before You Gotta Go” and “Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To”. The album is slated to land this Friday (November 12) via Marathon Artists.

In an effort to get her fans more involved with the album’s release, Barnett launched an interactive stem mixer for Things Take Time, Take Time, allowing fans to “listen & play around†with tracks from the album. Built and designed by Raphael Ong and Sean Lim, it operates similarly to Kanye West‘s previously announced ‘DONDA’ stem player.

Barnett will launch her new album live shortly after its release, with a sprawling North American tour starting at the end of this month and running until mid-February. She announced today (November 10) that her US run will be followed by a string of dates in Australia – come March, she’ll hit stages in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

Tickets for the new set of Australian tour dates are on sale from 10am local time this Friday, with a presale running from 9am tomorrow (November 11).

Earlier this year, Barnett teamed up with Vagabon to cover Tim Hardin’s “Reason To Believe” and Sharon Van Etten’s “Don’t Do It”. August also saw her drop a cover of “I’ll Be Your Mirror” by The Velvet Underground, and last month, she released “Smile Real Nice”, an original theme song for a new animated adaptation of Harriet The Spy.

Courtney Barnett’s 2022 Australian tour dates* are:

March
Thursday 10 – Perth, The Astor
Thursday 17 – Melbourne, The Forum
Saturday 26 – Brisbane, The Tivoli

* A show in Sydney was also announced, though its details are yet to be announced

Bruce Springsteen and our Review Of 2021 in the new Uncut

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Bruce Springsteen and our Review Of 2021 in the new Uncut
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Welcome to Uncut’s annual Review Of The Year. Across a special 31-page section in the magazine, we’ll run down our Top 75 New Albums, Top 30 Archive Releases, Top 30 Films and Top 20 Books. I’m pleased to report that the 49 contributors who took part i...

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Welcome to Uncut’s annual Review Of The Year. Across a special 31-page section in the magazine, we’ll run down our Top 75 New Albums, Top 30 Archive Releases, Top 30 Films and Top 20 Books. I’m pleased to report that the 49 contributors who took part in this year’s poll voted for a total of 431 new albums and 198 archival releases. These feel like remarkably healthy statistics – indicating that despite the challenges of the past 12 months, a lot of good music has made its way into the wild. Tied up with the poll, you’ll find new interviews with The Weather Station, Cassandra Jenkins, John Murry, Mogwai, Can’s Irmin Schmidt, Ryley Walker, The Beach Boys, Dry Cleaning and The Coral – all of whom have enjoyed a productive 2021.

Without too many spoilers, I’m especially pleased to welcome Tamara Lindeman back into the pages of Uncut. After gifting our subscribers a unique Weather Station CD at the start of the year around the release of Ignorance, it’s deeply satisfying to revisit Tamara and her exquisite album again at the year’s close.

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What else? We hear from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss as they prepare to Raise The Roof, witness Feist debuting new music, catch up with Jonny Greenwood’s latest projects and discover the secrets of Jason Isbell’s new studio album. There’s also the small matter of our cover star: Bruce Springsteen, who returns this month with two very different releases. Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted by now that this issue comes in a bag housing three gifts: a map of Springsteen’s America, a Springsteen Collector’s Cover and a 15-track Best Of 2021 CD. Huge props to Peter Watts and to our art editor Marc Jones for the brilliant job they made of the map and to Tom Pinnock – who I fear I don’t thank enough for his consistently excellent work every month on our free CDs.

Meantime, enjoy the issue. And let us know what you think of our end-of-year polls. What were your favourite albums of 2021, then? What did we miss out from our lists? Please drop us a line at letters@www.uncut.co.uk and let us know what you think.

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HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Bruce Springsteen, Uncut’s Review Of 2021, Jason Isbell, Yasmin Williams, Jonny Greenwood, The Weather Station, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, the Beach Boys, The Coral, and Marvin Gaye all feature in the new Uncut, dated January 2022 and in UK shops f...

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Bruce Springsteen, Uncut’s Review Of 2021, Jason Isbell, Yasmin Williams, Jonny Greenwood, The Weather Station, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, the Beach Boys, The Coral, and Marvin Gaye all feature in the new Uncut, dated January 2022 and in UK shops from November 11 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 of the best tracks from 2021.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Bruce Springsteen contains multitudes: activist, balladeer, bandleader, rock star and more. Many of these different Bruces align in his landmark No Nukes concert performance – which is finally given a full release this month, 40 years on. With help from some of Springsteen’s closest allies, Stephen Deusner examines how in 2021 the Boss is still searching for ways to reconcile these different sides of himself.

OUR FREE CD! BEST OF 2021: 15 of the year’s finest music, including songs by RosaLi, Yasmin Williams, The Coral, Dry Cleaning, Sleaford Mods, Mogwai, Mdou Moctar, Black Country, New Road, The War On Drugs and more.

This issue of Uncut is available to buy by clicking here – with FREE delivery to the UK and reduced delivery charges for the rest of the world.

Inside the issue, you’ll find:

THE REVIEW OF 2021: We count down the year’s top 75 new albums, top 30 archival releases, 20 films and 10 books.

JASON ISBELL: With his new album Georgia Blue, Jason Isbell hymns the rich and diverse musical history of the Peach State, from Otis Redding to REM, Vic Chesnutt and Cat Power. But, as Nick Hasted discovers, this collection of Southern rock operas also say much about Isbell himself. “Sometimes when you’re trying to live as free as the music that you make, it doesn’t work out too well for you,†he explains.

YASMIN WILLIAMS: Released in January, Yasmin Williams’ mesmerising album Urban Driftwood respected the old traditions of folk music but simultaneously made fresh currency out of them. Stephen Deusner meets Williams in Nashville to map the course of her incredible year since – and her plans for 2022. “I’m pretty optimistic about the future,†she says. “At least, way more than I was a year ago…â€

THE WEATHER STATION: Tamara Lindeman talks snowy forests, mirrored suits and getting mistaken for Weather Report.

FEIST: A daring performance of all-new songs in Toronto brings the audience onto the stage.

JONNY GREENWOOD: How did a member of Radiohead end up soundtracking a Princess Di biopic? It’s “weirdly like a horror filmâ€, explains Jonny Greenwood.

THE BEACH BOYS: The making of “Don’t Go Near The Waterâ€.

THE CORAL: Album by album with the psychedelic Scousers.

ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS: Finally, the follow-up to Raising Sand.

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In our expansive reviews section, we take a look at new records from Springtime, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Pye Corner Audio, Aeon Station, Houeida Hedfi, and more, and archival releases from Marvin Gaye, Pretenders, Air, The Doors, Bush Tetras, Bola Sete and others. We catch Patti Smith and Scritti Politti live; among the films, DVDs and TV programmes reviewed are Drive My Car, The Power Of Dog, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time and The Many Saints Of Newark; while in books there’s Led Zeppelin and Lenny Kaye.

Our front section, meanwhile, features Feist, Jonny Greenwood, Fanny, Alan Walden and Dry Cleaning, while, at the end of the magazine, Ryley Walker reveals the records that have soundtracked his life.

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Dave Gahan announces intimate London performance of new album Imposter with Soulsavers

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Dave Gahan announces intimate London performance of new album Imposter with Soulsavers
Dave Gahan & Soulsavers have announced an intimate live performance of their new covers album Imposter in London next month. ORDER NOW: Read the full feature on David Bowie in Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Electronic Pop – Ultimate Genre Guide The Depeche Mode frontman a...

Dave Gahan & Soulsavers have announced an intimate live performance of their new covers album Imposter in London next month.

The Depeche Mode frontman and longtime collaborator Rich Machin will make an appearance for an intimate show at the Coliseum venue on December 5. Tickets, which you can purchase here, go on sale at 9am this Friday (November 12), the same day the record is released.

“To get to play this special album on a stage in front of people, with the same group of musicians who recorded the album, that’s really important to me,” Gahan said. “I’m incredibly excited to present it live.â€

It comes after the pair recently shared the song, “The Dark End Of The Street” from the forthcoming album, which was originally written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn in 1966, and has been covered by Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, Elvis Costello and Frank Black over the years.

They also recently shared their rendition of Cat Power’s “Metal Heart”.

Imposter was recorded and produced by Gahan and Machin in November 2019 at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studios in Malibu, California. Dave Gahan & Soulsavers will release Imposter on November 12 via Columbia.

George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool goes up for auction

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George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool goes up for auction
George Harrison's childhood home in Liverpool, where he, John Lennon and Paul McCartney rehearsed as teenagers, is set to be auctioned off. ORDER NOW: Read the full feature on David Bowie in Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: George Harrison – All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary ...

George Harrison‘s childhood home in Liverpool, where he, John Lennon and Paul McCartney rehearsed as teenagers, is set to be auctioned off.

The late Beatles guitarist moved with his family to 25 Upton Green in the Speke area of the city in 1949 when he was six years old.

The house was the site of many rehearsals for the Beatles members’ former band The Quarrymen, which they formed when they were teenagers. It was also where Harrison learned to play the guitar, before he and his family left the house in 1962, just as the Beatles began to gain worldwide success.

After being bought by a Beatles fan for £156,000 in 2014, the house is now up for auction again, with auctioneer Paul Fairweather calling the estimated price of between £160-200,000 a “steal”. It will go under the hammer on November 30.

“George will have learned to play the guitar in this house and the photos of the group gathering there in the early 1960s are amazing to see,” the auctioneer added.

Earlier this year, a special box set edition of the late Beatles guitarist’s third solo record All Things Must Pass arrived to mark its 50th anniversary. The collection boasts demos of 30 tracks from the album sessions, including a handful of songs that didn’t make the final cut.

Released on August 6, the 50th anniversary edition of All Things Must Pass was executive produced by George’s son Dhani Harrison. The classic album has been completely remixed from the original tapes by engineer Paul Hicks.

The cover art for the classic album was also recreated in the form of a large gnome installation this summer.

Joining forces with floral artist Ruth Davis, Harrison‘s widow Olivia and son Dhani created “a massive gnome†at Duke Of York Square in Chelsea, London.

Hear Johnny Marr’s two new singles “Tenement Time” and “Sensory Street”

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Hear Johnny Marr’s two new singles “Tenement Time” and “Sensory Street”
Johnny Marr has released two new singles, "Tenement Time" and "Sensory Street". The songs are both set to appear on Marr's Fever Dreams Pt 2 EP, which is released on December 17. ORDER NOW: Read the full feature on David Bowie in Uncut’s December 2021 issue Watch the official music vid...

Johnny Marr has released two new singles, “Tenement Time” and “Sensory Street“.

The songs are both set to appear on Marr’s Fever Dreams Pt 2 EP, which is released on December 17.

Watch the official music video for “Tenement Time” below:

and the new lyric video for “Sensory Street” here:

Marr previously released the Fever Dreams Pt 1 EP in August. Both EPs will be released alongside two further instalments on Marr’s forthcoming double album, Fever Dreams Pts 1 – 4 which is due for release on February 25, 2022.

The tracklisting for Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 is
Spirit Power & Soul
Receiver
All These Days
Ariel
Lightning People
Hideaway Girl
Sensory Street
Tenement Time
The Speed of Love
Night and Day
Counter-Clock World
Rubicon
God’s Gift
Ghoster
The Whirl
Human

Meanwhile, Marr will livestream Live At The Crazy Face Factory – taking place at Marr’s custom-built studio, where he will discuss his creative process, life in song writing and play a full band set. The event premiers on Wednesday November 10 in venues globally and is then available on-demand until Sunday, November 14. You can get tickets to the livestream by clicking here.

Following the release of Fever Dreams Pts 1 – 4, Marr will join Blondie as a special guest on their Against The Odds headline tour through April and May.

Tour dates are:

April 2022
Friday 22: The SSE Hydro Glasgow
Saturday 24: Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
Tuesday 26: The O2 Arena London
Thursday 28: The Brighton Centre
Friday 29: Bonus Arena Hull

May 2022
Sunday 1: AO Arena Manchester
Monday 2: Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
Wednesday 4: First Direct Arena Leeds
Thursday 5: Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
Saturday 7: Birmingham Utilita Arena

Michael Stipe and Mike Mills reveal the secrets of R.E.M.’s “Electrolite”

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Michael Stipe and Mike Mills reveal the secrets of R.E.M.’s “Electrolite”
Ten years to the day since REM announced they were splitting up, it seems fitting that Mike Mills and Michael Stipe are on the line from Athens, Georgia to discuss a song about endings. The elegiac closing track on their 1996 album New Adventures In Hi-Fi, Electrolite is suffused with the kind of f...

Ten years to the day since REM announced they were splitting up, it seems fitting that Mike Mills and Michael Stipe are on the line from Athens, Georgia to discuss a song about endings. The elegiac closing track on their 1996 album New Adventures In Hi-Fi, Electrolite is suffused with the kind of fin-de-siècle wistfulness which defined earlier
REM classics Perfect Circle and Nightswimming.

Based around a lilting piano motif which Mills composed in his girlfriend’s apartment while “goofing aroundâ€, Electrolite viewed the coming millennium through the lens of Los Angeles, the quintessential 20th-century city. A happy-sad hymn to the notion of LA as an avatar of surface brilliance and inner emptiness, Stipe’s lyrics reference Mulholland Drive and three shining lights of Hollywood: James Dean, Steve McQueen and Martin Sheen.

“The title of the song references what I’d refer to as the electrolyte blanket, looking out at Los Angeles at night from the hills, or looking down from an airplane,†says the singer. “The idea that, particularly in the American west, if you took a giant, universe-sized steam shovel and just scraped away the surface of the place, all that would be left is earth. Our impact is actually quite shallow. LA represents that very well as a relatively new place, as the last place to be colonised in America, but also as somewhere that represents hope.â€

The last REM record made with drummer Bill Berry, New Adventures In Hi-Fi was a return to rootsy, rocky spontaneity, the songs written and recorded during the 1995 US tour for Monster. “When you go on a long tour, soundchecks are this perfunctory thing,†says Mills. “Peter [Buck] decided it would be interesting to make the afternoons creative and fun, instead of playing songs we already knew.†The bones of Electrolite were taped during a soundcheck in Phoenix, the rhythmic rasp of the guiro ushering in Mills’ hyper-melodic piano, Buck’s plangent banjo and one of Stipe’s loveliest vocals.

The result is Thom Yorke’s favourite REM track, although it transpires that he, and we, were lucky to hear Electrolite at all. “I didn’t think that it was worthy of being on an album,†says Stipe. “The guys convinced me. I capitulated and said, ‘We’ll just bury it somewhere near the end’ – and it turned out to be one of our best songs ever. It just goes to show: sometimes you don’t or can’t see what you are doing when you’re in the thick of it. I love the song now.â€

808 State’s Andrew Barker has died

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808 State’s Andrew Barker has died
808 State bassist and keyboard player Andrew Barker has died, according to a social media statement from the band. Posted on Twitter Sunday (November 7), the band said: "Its with a heavy heart to inform you of the passing of Andrew Barker." The statement from his family reads: "His family and fri...

808 State bassist and keyboard player Andrew Barker has died, according to a social media statement from the band.

Posted on Twitter Sunday (November 7), the band said: “Its with a heavy heart to inform you of the passing of Andrew Barker.” The statement from his family reads: “His family and friends asks that people respect their privacy at this time but remember him for the joy he brought through his personality and music. You’ll be sadly missed.”

Barker was one half of the acid house pioneers, initially formed by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson in 1988. Andrew Barker and Darren Partington, known as the Spinmasters, joined the group in 1989 following Simpson‘s departure to start his solo project, A Guy Called Gerald. Partington left the band after being jailed for 18 months in January 2015 for drug dealing.

808 State released their debut album Newbuild in 1988 and went on to release a further five studio LPs, which also included collaborations with artists like Guy Garvey, Bernard Sumner, James Dean Bradfield and Björk. The group are renowned for hits including “Pacific State”, “In Yer Face” and “The Only Rhyme That Bites” and their last album, Transmission Suite, was released in 2019.

Tributes have begun to be paid online following the news of Barker‘s death.

Happy Mondays singer Rowetta tweeted: “Absolutely heartbreaking news. Love you & will miss you Andy Barker”

“So sad to hear this about Andy Barker of 808 State,” author and DJ Dave Haslam said. “I first met him 35 years ago. He was a bringer of joy, a totally delightful fella.”

See more tributes below.

 

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