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Watch Billy Corgan perform pre-Smashing Pumpkins songs and rarities

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Watch Billy Corgan perform pre-Smashing Pumpkins songs and rarities
Billy Corgan dusted off some of his pre-Smashing Pumpkins tracks during a run of intimate acoustic shows this month – check out the videos below. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Smashing Pumpkins perform “Quiet†for the first time in ...

Billy Corgan dusted off some of his pre-Smashing Pumpkins tracks during a run of intimate acoustic shows this month – check out the videos below.

As Stereogum reports, the frontman has performed at Madame ZuZu’s tea shop in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois over the previous two weekends (on October 2/3 and October 9/10).

Footage from Corgan‘s stripped-back gig on Saturday (October 9) has since emerged on YouTube. The first half of the set consisted of songs by the musician’s early goth-rock band Marked, including opener “Now That I Feel This Way”, “First Curse” and “The Dream”.

Appearing under the banner of William Patrick Corgan Early Years 1985-1990, the singer then treated those in attendance to a string of early Pumpkins material, playing “Pain”, “The Vigil”, “There It Goes”, “With You” and more.

You can see a selection of fan-shot videos from the show below, with the full set available to watch here.

William Patrick Corgan played:

“Now That I Feel This Way”
“Pictures Of Phillip”
“First Curse”
“Mao Say Tongue #1”
“Ring Of The Shadow”
“The Dream”
“Mao Say Tongue #2”
“Pain”
“The Vigil”
“There It Goes”
“Jennifer Ever”
“With You”
“La Dolly Vita”

Band Of Horses announce new album Things Are Great, their first in five years

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Band Of Horses announce new album Things Are Great, their first in five years
Band Of Horses have announced details of their first new album in five years, Things Are Great. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Band Of Horses – Why Are You OK review The new record, which will be released on January 21, 2022, is being...

Band Of Horses have announced details of their first new album in five years, Things Are Great.

The new record, which will be released on January 21, 2022, is being previewed by its first single “Crutch”, which you can hear below.

Speaking about the new track, frontman Ben Bridwell said: “I think like a lot of my songs, ‘Crutch’ starts with something from my real life. Obviously ‘Crutch’ means some of the things that I was dependent on. My relationship for one. I think I wanted to say, ‘I’ve got a crush on you,’ and I thought it was funny how relationships also feel like crutches.

“I feel like everybody has had a time when nothing goes right and you still have to carry on. I think that feeling hits you in this song even if you don’t know what the specifics are.”

Listen to “Crutch” and see the tracklist for Things Are Great below:

1. “Warning Signs”
2. “Crutch”
3. “Tragedy of the Commons”
4. “In The Hard Times”
5. “In Need of Repair”
6. “Aftermath”
7. “Lights”
8. “Ice Night We’re Having”
9. “You Are Nice To Me”
10. “Coalinga”

Band Of Horses‘ last full-length album, Why Are You OK, came out in the summer of 2016. The following year, two members of the band, guitarist Tyler Ramsey and bassist Bill Reynolds, both quit within a couple of hours of one another.

Writing on Instagram, Ramsey announced that he would be leaving Band Of Horses to release and tour a solo record, and that he would miss “the beautifully dysfunctional family we became.†He added, fondly: “We certainly had some good times.â€

Reynolds said he was moving in a slightly different direction, explaining to his Facebook followers that he wished to focus on record production and photography.

The Boo Radleys announce Keep On With Falling, their first new album in 24 years

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The Boo Radleys announce Keep On With Falling, their first new album in 24 years
The Boo Radleys have announced details of Keep On With Falling, their first new album in nearly 24 years. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue Tim Brown (bass/guitar/keyboards), Simon “Sice†Rowbottom (guitar/vocals) and Rob Cieka (drums) announced the...

The Boo Radleys have announced details of Keep On With Falling, their first new album in nearly 24 years.

Tim Brown (bass/guitar/keyboards), Simon “Sice†Rowbottom (guitar/vocals) and Rob Cieka (drums) announced their reunion in the summer, and last month released the EP A Full Syringe And Memories Of You.

The Boo Radleys are now set to release their first album of all-new music in nearly 24 years with Keep On With Falling, which is set to arrive on March 11, 2022 via their own Boostr label.

“The freedom of sharing files, comments, praise and concerns made it possible to quickly make music where the beauty of the songs shine through,” Brown said in a statement about the record.

The Boo Radleys
The Boo Radleys – ‘Keep On With Falling’ vinyl.

“As with all Boo Radleys music, there were no limitations on structure, instruments and sounds, but this time we all had freedom to express our thoughts about the music we were making.â€

You can see the tracklist for The Boo Radleys‘ Keep On With Falling below:

1. “I’ve Had Enough I’m Out” (album version)
2. “Keep On With Falling”
3. “All Along”
4. “I Say A Lot Of Things”
5. “Tonight”
6. “A Full Syringe And Memories Of You” (album version)
7. “Call Your Name”
8. “Here She Comes Again”
9. “You And Me”
10. “I Can’t Be What You Want Me To Be”
11. “Alone Together”

The band have also shared new single “I’ve Had Enough I’m Out”, with Rowbottom explaining that the track “is a statement on the disavowal of religion, using Catholicism as its exemplar”.

“It is harmonious and melodic, as The Boo Radleys always are, and harks back to our deep, alternative 80’s influences,” he added.

The Boo Radleys will head out on tour later this month, marking their first live gigs since their 1997 Reading Festival appearance.

Exclusive! Hear a new song by outsider folk legend Michael Hurley

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Exclusive! Hear a new song by outsider folk legend Michael Hurley
Outsider folk artist Michael Hurley – a big influence on Will Oldham, Cat Power and Devendra Banhart, among many others – will release his first album in 12 years on December 10. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut's December 2021 issue The Time Of The Foxgloves is coming ou...

Outsider folk artist Michael Hurley – a big influence on Will Oldham, Cat Power and Devendra Banhart, among many others – will release his first album in 12 years on December 10.

The Time Of The Foxgloves is coming out on No Quarter, with cover art by Hurley himself. Listen to the lead track “Boulevard” below:

The Time Of The Foxgloves was recorded at Hurley’s own Bellemeade Phonics studio in Brownsmead Hill, Oregon, and the nearby Rope Room in Astoria; guests include Gill Landry and Josephine Foster.

Pre-order the album here.

Uncut – December 2021

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Uncut – December 2021
CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR David Bowie, Pink Floyd, REM, The Waterboys, Led Zeppelin, Modern Nature, Michael Chapman, Gil Scott-Heron, Dion, Dean Wareham and The Beatles all feature in the new Uncut, dated December 2021 and in UK shops from October 14 or available to buy on...

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David Bowie, Pink Floyd, REM, The Waterboys, Led Zeppelin, Modern Nature, Michael Chapman, Gil Scott-Heron, Dion, Dean Wareham and The Beatles all feature in the new Uncut, dated December 2021 and in UK shops from October 14 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music.

DAVID BOWIE: On the cusp of a new century, what does David Bowie do? Having plotted a dramatic course forward across four decades, he decides instead to revisit a number of songs from the earliest days of his career. But the album he records, called Toy, is consigned to Bowie’s vaults, where it has been the subject of much intense speculation ever since. To celebrate its imminent release – 21 years late! – we bring you the definitive account of David Bowie’s legendary lost album as told by Bowie’s closest collaborators and confidants. “It’s a ghost album,†Tony Visconti tells Peter Watts. “I’m so glad people are now getting to hear it, because I think some of David’s finest work is on Toy.â€

OUR FREE CD! CONVERSATION PIECES: 15 fantastic new tracks, including songs by Courtney Barnett, Modern Nature, Endless Boogie, Bedouine, Richard Dawson & Circle, Tobacco City, Damon Albarn, New Age Doom & Lee “Scratch†Perry 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:

PINK FLOYD: From Roger Waters’ kitchen table in the South of France to the cavernous soundstages of Pinewood Studios, stadia and beyond… With a new book featuring previously unseen artwork due out this month, Gerald Scarfe rebuilds Pink Floyd’s The Wall. “They thought I was ‘fucking mad’,†he tells Nigel Williamson.

THE WATERBOYS: Riding high on the creative momentum of Fisherman’s Blues, in 1989 The Waterboys reconvened at their new spiritual home on the west coast of Ireland to make the follow-up, with a seven-piece live band that had been hitting rare heights of roots rock rapture on tour. Mike Scott’s plan to broaden the sound didn’t quite go to plan, but as a new box-set reveals, Room To Roam was far from the misfire it was initially dismissed as. Graeme Thomson gets the whole story from the artists formerly known as “The Magnificent Sevenâ€.

GIL SCOTT-HERON: Poet, jazz musician, rap pioneer, radical activist… Gil Scott-Heron broke a lot of ground during the early ’70s. As his landmark album Pieces Of A Man turns 50, collaborators and eyewitnesses tell Sam Richards about Scott-Heron’s creative peak, the power of his songs and the importance of what he was saying: “He was serving the entire community, the entire world, by bringing these things to light…â€

MODERN NATURE: Zookeeper, garage-rock avatar, avant-garde explorer… Jack Cooper had already travelled long distances before he left the city for the right kind of quiet. But while this move has given Cooper fresh perspective, what does it mean for his band, Modern Nature? Tom Pinnock joins Cooper in a field in England: “I’m after openness and expansiveness now.â€

MICHAEL CHAPMAN: With Michael Chapman’s passing, we have lost a true original: an indefatigable singer-songwriter who bridged the gap between the visionary guitarists of the ’60s and their 21st century counterparts. In this interview from 2016 – much of it previously unpublished – Chapman talks Tom Pinnock through the many highlights of his remarkable and enduring career: “All there is, is freedom.â€

DION: The irrepressible rock’n’roller shares his stories of a life well lived, from riding rhinos in Bronx Zoo to watching Dylan go electric – and even getting on the good side of Lou Reed. “I’m tellin’ ya!â€

REM: The making of “Electroliteâ€.

LARAAJI: Album by album with the American multi-instrumentalist.

DEAN WAREHAM: First solo album from the man who gave us Galaxie 500 and Luna.

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In our expansive reviews section, we take a look at new records from Damon Albarn, Bedouine, Margo Cilker, Endless Boogie, Curtis Harding, Richard Dawson & Circle, and more, and archival releases from The Beatles, Radiohead, John Coltrane, Echo & the Bunnymen, Leo Nocentelli and others. We catch Genesis and New Order live; among the films, DVDs and TV programmes reviewed are Dune, Last Night In Soho, The French Dispatch and Look Away; while in books there’s Bobby Gillespie, Paul Morley and Shane MacGowan.

Our front section, meanwhile, features Led Zeppelin, The Wedding Present, Charles Lloyd, Dead Moon and Billy Nomates, while, at the end of the magazine, Nubya Garcia reveals the records that have soundtracked her life.

You can pick up a copy of Uncut in the usual places, where open. But otherwise, readers all over the world can order a copy from here.

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Jeff Tweedy releases two new tracks, “C’mon America” and “UR-60 Unsent”

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Jeff Tweedy releases two new tracks, “C’mon America” and “UR-60 Unsent”
Jeff Tweedy has released two new tracks for the Sub Pop Singles Club series, "C’mon America" and "UR-60 Unsent". ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Jeff Tweedy – Love Is The King review "C’mon America", the A-side on the seven-inch ...

Jeff Tweedy has released two new tracks for the Sub Pop Singles Club series, “C’mon America” and “UR-60 Unsent”.

“C’mon America”, the A-side on the seven-inch vinyl release, is a slacker-influenced number plucked “from an unreleased group of songs with mostly sci-fi lyricsâ€. Meanwhile, “UR-60 Unsent” was described by Sub Pop as “a pitiful tale of an unsent lovesick mixtape, taken from a separate batch of unreleased songs with mostly pitiful lyrics”.

Listen to the two tracks below:

The sixth volume of Sub Pop’s Singles Club will also include contributions from TV Priest, Hand Habits and Porridge Radio, among other acts. The vinyl collection is released December 7.

Tweedy released his latest solo album Love is the King in 2020, a year after Wilco released their 11th LP, Ode to Joy. The band are currently celebrating the release of Ode to Joy with a US tour, following on from their It’s Time co-headline tour with Sleater-Kinney back in August.

Since the release of Love is the King, Tweedy has performed a number of covers including Japanese Breakfast‘s “Kokomo, IN”, Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten‘s “Like I Used To” and the Ted Lasso theme. He also contributed to the debut album of the Parks and Recreation fictional band Mouse Rat.

Queen unveil limited seven-inch vinyl releases for London’s Carnaby Street pop-up store

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Queen unveil limited seven-inch vinyl releases for London’s Carnaby Street pop-up store
A new Queen pop-up store, Queen The Greatest, has unveiled a line of limited seven-inch vinyl soon for sale at London’s Carnaby Street. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Introducing Queen: The Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide The vinyl seri...

A new Queen pop-up store, Queen The Greatest, has unveiled a line of limited seven-inch vinyl soon for sale at London’s Carnaby Street.

The vinyl series will comprise four unique editions, each release dedicated to the work of a Queen band member.

The tracks were personally curated by Brian May and Roger Taylor, with each A-side representing a hit song and the B-side a deep cut written by a respective band member. Each vinyl copy is individually numbered and comes with a member’s printed signature.

Its first – for drummer Taylor – was released last Friday and has since sold out. It features “Radio Ga Ga” on its A-side and “I’m In Love With My Car” on the B-side on blue vinyl.

As revealed in a press release, the remaining seven-inch releases will be issued weekly, with one for Freddie Mercury releasing this Friday (October 15). Mercury’s release features “Somebody To Love” and “You Take My Breath Away” on yellow vinyl.

John Deacon’s release, due October 22, will feature “Spread Your Wings” and “One Year of Love” on green vinyl. The series will conclude with a release for May on October 29, featuring “We Will Rock You” and “Sail Away Sister”.

All four editions have been printed at 1,000 copies – 500 available at the pop-up store, and 500 online at its official website.

Queen The Greatest opened at Carnaby Street last month (September 28) and also features a range of exclusive merchandise for sale.

Last week, it was revealed that May had begun working on a new Queen song but then “suddenly lost interestâ€, according to Taylor.

Ringo Starr says The Beatles turned down reunion concert offer in 1973

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Ringo Starr says The Beatles turned down reunion concert offer in 1973
Ringo Starr has opened up about a bizarre reunion offer made to The Beatles in 1973, which they turned down. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Famous fans revisit Revolver at 55: “I believed it was everybody’s favourite Beatles record†...

Ringo Starr has opened up about a bizarre reunion offer made to The Beatles in 1973, which they turned down.

In a New Yorker profile on Paul McCartney yesterday (October 11), it was revealed that McCartney had flown to Los Angeles to visit John Lennon that year, after his breakup with Yoko Ono.

The duo’s brief time together – which reportedly involved studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Harry Nilsson – sparked rumours of a Beatles reunion.

Starr is featured in the profile talking about the band turning down “a fortune†to reunite for a concert, which proposed an opening act of a man wrestling a shark.

“We called each other and said no,†Starr said. “We were taking our own roads now.â€

Ringo Starr in 1973
Starr in 1973. Credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images.

The profile had focused on The Beatles: Get Back, the upcoming three-part documentary series due November by director Peter Jackson.

The limited series proposes a different look into the making of the band’s 1970 album Let It Be, which was originally captured in the film of the same name.

Starr is quoted earlier in the profile about his reaction after a private screening of the series. “They put some joy in!†Starr told the writer. “That was always my argument – we were laughing and angry.â€

Earlier this week McCartney dispelled long-held rumours about the band’s breakup in a BBC interview, stating that Lennon was responsible for their split.

“I didn’t instigate the split. That was our Johnny,†he said. “This was my band, this was my job, this was my life, so I wanted it to continue.â€

Liam Gallagher adds headlining dates in hometown Manchester and Glasgow

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Liam Gallagher adds headlining dates in hometown Manchester and Glasgow
Liam Gallagher has announced new headlining dates in Manchester and Glasgow. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Liam Gallagher reveals injuries after he “fell out of a helicopter†following Isle of Wight set Gallagher revealed yesterday...

Liam Gallagher has announced new headlining dates in Manchester and Glasgow.

Gallagher revealed yesterday (October 11) that he will perform at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium on June 1, 2022 and Glasgow’s Hampden Park on June 26 to support his recently announced album C’MON YOU KNOW.

“I’m super proud to announce I’m doing a gig in my hometown of Manchester on 1st June 2022 – home of the champions of English football Manchester City,†he tweeted.

“Also can’t wait to play Glasgow’s famous Hampden Park on 26th June 2022, C’MON YOU KNOW LG xâ€

The headline dates will see Gallagher return to these venues for the first time since Oasis’ 2005 stadium tour. The Streets will open in Manchester, and Kasabian in Glasgow. Goat Girl will open on both dates.

The announcement follows up the news that his two dates in Knebworth on June 3 and 4 – touted as “the biggest show of his solo career” – had sold out quickly. “Absolutely blown away by the love and support,†he wrote to fans.

Fans who pre-order C’MON YOU KNOW on Gallagher’s official website by 3pm on Wednesday (October 13) will receive access to a pre-sale for tickets that opens at 9.30am on Thursday (October 14).

The remaining tickets will then go on general sale on Friday (October 15) via Ticketmaster, Gigs And Tours, and Live Nation. For Glasgow, tickets will also be available via Gigs In Scotland and Scottish Event Campus.

C’MON YOU KNOW, his third studio album, is set for release on May 27, 2022.

While a tracklist has yet to be released, Gallagher has revealed two song titles: “Better Days” and “I Wish I Had More Power”, the latter apparently dedicated to his brother and former bandmate Noel Gallagher.

This summer, Gallagher headlined Reading & Leeds, the Isle of Wight Festival and TRNSMT. He also performed a free gig for NHS workers in London.

A David Bowie special, Pink Floyd, The Waterboys, REM and more star in the new issue of Uncut

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A David Bowie special, Pink Floyd, The Waterboys, REM and more star in the new issue of Uncut
By now most of us, I guess, will have a view on ‘lost’ albums. Should an album that has been deliberately withheld from release – in some instances for several decades – finally be given its moment in the sun? Does the excitement of hearing, say, Neil Young’s Homegrown – only 45 years la...

By now most of us, I guess, will have a view on ‘lost’ albums. Should an album that has been deliberately withheld from release – in some instances for several decades – finally be given its moment in the sun? Does the excitement of hearing, say, Neil Young’s Homegrown – only 45 years late! – somehow rob it of its mystique? Or, with hindsight, can a once lost album now help us understand more clearly the motives of an artist during a certain period in their career? There are tantalising counter-narratives to consider – what if Springsteen had released the electric band version of Nebraska instead of the sparse, haunted acoustic one? There’s a lot of thinking to be done, in other words.

David Bowie’s Toy, from 2001, is remarkable for several reasons. Most obviously: it is a rare instance of this most forward-looking artist reconnecting with his early, pre-fame self. But what does Toy say about Bowie at the start of the second millennium, staring back through the decades to his young, hungry self? And once he’d reckoned with his past, how did Toy’s disappearance from the schedules affect him?

More significantly, perhaps, Toy represents one of the last substantial pieces of unreleased work from Bowie. Some kind of soundtrack for The Man Who Fell To Earth exists – but how extensive it is and in just what shape the material is seems uncertain. But Toy is the whole thing – an actual album by a genuinely great artist recorded during a period of transition. You can read about it on page 90, in Peter Watts’ deep dive into its genesis, creation and afterlife. As long-serving Bowie guitarist Earl Slick tells Peter, “Even now he’s gone for five years or more, the surprises keep coming.â€

Our Bowiefest doesn’t stop there. Subscribers and purchases of the bagged newsstand edition will also receive our latest Bowie Bulletin – an A1-sized posterzine featuring new interviews with the musicians who played on Toy’s original ’60s counterparts – and a glorious Collector’s Cover.

There’s much more than Bowie in this issue, of course. We cover a lot of ground: from Dion to Modern Nature, Gil Scott-Heron to REM, Laraaji to The Waterboys, Pink Floyd to Michael Chapman, plus Charles Lloyd, Dead Moon and Nubya Garcia. There’s definitive reviews of The Beatles, Radiohead, Damon Albarn, Richard Dawson and Endless Boogie, an exclusive on the new Led Zeppelin documentary and a brilliant story involving Martin Sheen’s dentist. Dig in!

Courtney Barnett on new album Things Take Time, Take Time: “I ended up making calm, simple, repetitive, meditative music”

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Courtney Barnett on new album Things Take Time, Take Time: “I ended up making calm, simple, repetitive, meditative music”
The last place Courtney Barnett visited before a global pandemic destroyed her plans, along with everyone else’s, was a picturesque spot in the Mojave Desert named Sunfair. “Looking back, it seems like a moment hovering in time,†she says. “It’s beautiful, boundless and mysterious out ther...

The last place Courtney Barnett visited before a global pandemic destroyed her plans, along with everyone else’s, was a picturesque spot in the Mojave Desert named Sunfair. “Looking back, it seems like a moment hovering in time,†she says. “It’s beautiful, boundless and mysterious out there. Properly out in the desert. I happened to be staying in Joshua Tree, having a break after my solo tour. I went to Stella’s [Mozgawa, Warpaint drummer] birthday party. I was feeling particularly socially anxious that day, so I felt unnecessarily insecure meeting new people. By the time I fell asleep early the next morning, all those fears and insecurities had faded. That same day, I started writing a song.â€

Sunfair Sundown appears as the second track on Barnett’s new album, Things Take Time, Take Time. “It centres around a mutual friend,†she explains. “She had just bought a house that day, so we were celebrating that, musing on life, existence, the art of getting lost, all those kinds of things.â€

“The sunsets are ever-changing and always mind-blowing in the desert,†says Stella Mozgawa. “It’s a very special place; it makes a huge effect on people, especially artistic people. Everyone there that night has acknowledged that it was kind of the last party of our lives, because then immediately the Covid spike emerged and everyone flew back home. That was our final memory of a different world, I think.â€

After that celebration – its poignancy akin to something from a doomsday sci-fi novel – Barnett flew back to Melbourne to begin a period of enforced isolation. Living on her own, in a new apartment, she found herself undergoing cold turkey after seven years of manic activity, travel and expanding fame.

“It’s been one of the quietest periods of my life, I guess,†says Barnett on a video call from Melbourne, her music room dim in the light of the Australian winter. “But I’ve been rolling with it. I’m lucky enough to be able to work from home, which is a real privilege. It’s been quiet, but I think it’s been a nice reflective time, catching up on all the books you should read and the movies you should watch.â€

Of course, Barnett is no slacker – even if some still misguidedly call her one. Her time in isolation has produced her third solo album, the title “a lesson in patience, a gentle reminderâ€, according to its creator. In many ways it’s her boldest yet, a loose stew of drum machines, percussion, droning guitars and expansive keyboards. Primarily featuring only Barnett and Mozgawa on a huge array of instruments, mostly old and cranky, Things Take Time, Take Time finds Barnett stretching herself as an artist, the new sonic textures setting her evocative songs in even deeper relief.

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger reveal why The Rolling Stones don’t play “Brown Sugar” anymore

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Keith Richards and Mick Jagger reveal why The Rolling Stones don’t play “Brown Sugar” anymore
The Rolling Stones have discussed why they haven't been playing their hit "Brown Sugar" on their current US tour. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue READ MORE: The Rolling Stones’ producer Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts: “It’s all in the sty...

The Rolling Stones have discussed why they haven’t been playing their hit “Brown Sugar” on their current US tour.

The band’s No Filter tour kicked off in St Louis, Missouri on September 26, which the band dedicated to their late drummer Charlie Watts, who died at the age of 80 in August.

In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were asked about the omission of “Brown Sugar” from the setlist so far, and whether it’s related to its slavery-referencing opening line: “Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields.â€

“You picked up on that, huh?” Richards answered. “I don’t know. I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it.

“At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this shit. But I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track.”

The Rolling Stones perform the 2021 'No Filter' Tour
The Rolling Stones perform the 2021 ‘No Filter’ Tour opener in St. Louis at The Dome at Americas Center on September 26, 2021 Credit: Getty

Jagger added: “We’ve played ‘Brown Sugar’ every night since 1970, so sometimes you think, ‘We’ll take that one out for now and see how it goes.’ We might put it back in. The set list in a stadium show, it’s kind of a tough one. We did ‘Let It Bleed’ last night, which I managed to play on 12-string guitar.”

Paul McCartney sets record straight on who broke up The Beatles: “I didn’t instigate the split”

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Paul McCartney sets record straight on who broke up The Beatles: “I didn’t instigate the split”
Paul McCartney has set the record straight on who instigated the break-up of The Beatles, claiming that it was actually John Lennon. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue READ MORE: Famous fans revisit Revolver at 55: “I believed it was everybodyâ...

Paul McCartney has set the record straight on who instigated the break-up of The Beatles, claiming that it was actually John Lennon.

Probably the most analysed break-up in rock history, the Fab Four split over 50 years ago, prompting McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all to go their separate ways.

For years it was believed that McCartney was unilaterally behind the band disbanding after he answered a question from a journalist in 1970 with the claim that The Beatles no longer existed. However, in an upcoming episode of new BBC Radio 4 interview series This Cultural Life, he claims this isn’t the case.

“I didn’t instigate the split. That was our Johnny,” he tells interviewer John Wilson (per The Guardian). “This was my band, this was my job, this was my life, so I wanted it to continue.”

Asked about his decision to go solo during the candid chat set to be broadcast later this month, McCartney says: “Stop right there. I am not the person who instigated the split. Oh no, no, no. John walked into a room one day and said, ‘I am leaving the Beatles‘. Is that instigating the split, or not?”

Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney. Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage.

McCartney goes on to explain that confusion about who actually caused the break-up came about because the group’s new manager, Allen Klein, had told the band to keep quiet about the split while he concluded some business deals.

“So for a few months we had to pretend,” McCartney tells Wilson. “It was weird because we all knew it was the end of The Beatles but we couldn’t just walk away.” Eventually, McCartney, who became unhappy with the secrecy, “let the cat out of the bag” because “I was fed up of hiding it”.

Remembering the unpleasant atmosphere at the time, McCartney says: “Around about that time we were having little meetings and it was horrible. It was the opposite of what we were. We were musicians not meeting people.”

Paul McCartney and John Lennon
Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Credit: Getty Images

McCartney believes a split became inevitable because Lennon “wanted to go in a bag and lie in bed for a week in Amsterdam for peace. And you couldn’t argue with that.”

If Lennon had not quit The Beatles, their musical journey could have been a lot longer, McCartney agrees. “It could have been. The point of it really was that John was making a new life with Yoko,” he says in the upcoming interview series. “John had always wanted to sort of break loose from society because, you know, he was brought up by his Aunt Mimi, who was quite repressive, so he was always looking to break loose.”

McCartney‘s This Cultural Life interview airs October 23, followed by his biography The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present, which is set for release on November 2.

Next month, Peter Jackson will release his Disney+ Beatles documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. The film will focus on the making of Let It Be and will showcase their final concert as a band, on London’s Savile Row rooftop, in its entirety.

Disney+ has confirmed the documentary will arrive in three separate parts on November 25, 26 and 27. Each episode is approximately two hours in length.

Watch Bruce Springsteen perform “Sherry Darling” from unreleased Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts film

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Watch Bruce Springsteen perform “Sherry Darling” from unreleased Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts film
A performance of "Sherry Darling" from Bruce Springsteen's Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts has been shared ahead of the concert film's worldwide release next month. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts, is a concer...

A performance of “Sherry Darling” from Bruce Springsteen‘s Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts has been shared ahead of the concert film’s worldwide release next month.

Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts, is a concert film of Springsteen and The E Street Band containing never-before released performances from the band’s Madison Square Garden MUSE benefit concerts and full footage of the band’s entire setlist.

The concerts were held between September 21-22, 1979 at the iconic New York venue when The Boss was between his fourth and fifth studio albums, Darkness On The Edge Of Town and The River. “Sherry Darling”, a clip of which you can watch below, was unreleased at the time of the recording but later featured on The River.

In the video Springsteen, who was aged 31 at the time, is seen shaking his hips and leaning in to address the crowd in the front rows.

Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts was edited by longtime Springsteen collaborator Thom Zimny from the original 16mm film alongside remixed audio from Bob Clearmountain.

It’s released worldwide digitally in HD on November 16, followed by physical formats (CD and DVD, CD with Blu-Ray and vinyl) on November 23. Pre-order here.

Zimny said of the work: “A few years ago, I started re-examining the filmed archives for Bruce and the Band’s appearances at the No Nukes concerts of 1979. I quickly realised that these were the best performances and best filming from the Band’s legendary Seventies, and dedicated myself to bringing out the full potential of the footage.

“Having worked as Bruce’s principal director and editor for the last 20 years, I can say without reservation that this newly re-edited, re-mixed and restored ninety minute film is the gold standard for Bruce and the Band live during one of their greatest creative periods.”

Meanwhile, handwritten lyrics to Springsteen songs “Thunder Road”, “For You”, and “Night” are set to go under the hammer at auction later this month.

Joy Division announce 40th anniversary vinyl edition of Still

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Joy Division announce 40th anniversary vinyl edition of Still
Joy Division's Still is getting a 40th anniversary reissue. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue READ MORE: Joy Division / New Order – Ultimate Music Guide The compilation record will be re-released on February 11, 2022 and follows on from pr...

Joy Division‘s Still is getting a 40th anniversary reissue.

The compilation record will be re-released on February 11, 2022 and follows on from previous anniversary releases for the band’s Unknown Pleasures and Closer.

Still will be a limited edition reissue with a ruby red sleeve and pressed on crystal clear vinyl. It will only be available to buy via New Order’s official store here.

You can see the vinyl here:

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Joy Division Still reissue. Credit: Press

Still is a compilation album that was first released in 1981 after the death of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.

The record featured previously unreleased studio material, two non-album tracks (“Dead Souls” and “Glass”) and a live recording of Joy Division’s last-ever concert at Birmingham University.

The show featured the band’s only live performance of “Ceremony”. The track was later released by New Order as their debut single in 1981.

You can see the full tracklist for the Still reissue below:

Side A
“Exercise One”
“Ice Age”
“The Sound Of Music”
“Glass”
“The Only Mistake”

Side B
“Walked In Line”
“The Kill”
“Something Must Break”
“Dead Souls”
“Sister Ray”

Side C
“Ceremony”
“Shadowplay”
“Means To An End”
“Passover”
“New Dawn Fades”
“Twenty Four Hours”

Side D
“Transmission”
“Disorder”
“Isolation”
“Decades”
“Digital”

New Order recently returned to live performing with a homecoming show at Manchester’s Heaton Park. They are playing a further show at The O2 in London on November 6.

New Order will also be celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut album Movement on November 13 with the release of their Taras Shevchenko film – which was filmed live at the Ukrainian National Home in New York City on November 18, 1981 – on YouTube.

A second series of the official Joy Division/New Order podcast Transmissions: The Definitive Story is also in the works, with more information expected soon.

Nick Mason “flabbergasted†that Roger Waters felt bullied within Pink Floyd

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Nick Mason “flabbergasted†that Roger Waters felt bullied within Pink Floyd
Nick Mason has said he is "flabbergasted" by Roger Waters saying that he felt bullied by members in Pink Floyd. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue READ MORE: Pink Floyd in 1986: “David was determined… to carry on†The former Floyd drumme...

Nick Mason has said he is “flabbergasted” by Roger Waters saying that he felt bullied by members in Pink Floyd.

The former Floyd drummer said in a new interview that he was surprised to hear Waters claim last month that ex-guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour and ex-keyboardist Richard Wright were “always trying to drag me down”.

“I’m slightly flabbergasted by it,” Mason told journalist Jim DeRogatis of The Coda Collection. “But I think that’s a slightly over emotional way of putting that there was some sort of division within the band about.

“Because Roger was always looking beyond the music, in a way. I think it was artificial, but I think possibly there was the side that wanted to do inflatables and films, as well as music, and those who just wanted to do music. But, I don’t think they were mean to him, particularly. It’s hard to imagine being mean to Roger. Stalin was the bullied.”

In September, former Pink Floyd bassist/vocalist Waters claimed on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast that the band had a “toxic environment” [quotes transcribed by GuitarWorld].

“I was in a very toxic environment. I was around some people, well, David and Rick mainly, who were always trying to drag me down. They were always trying to knock me off whatever that perch was,” alleged Waters.

When asked how that manifested in actuality, he answered: “By claiming that I was tone deaf and that I didn’t understand music.

Roger Waters
Roger Waters. Credit: Raphael Dias/Getty Images.

“[They’d thought] ‘Oh he’s just a boring, kind of, teacher figure who tells us what to do, but he can’t tune his own guitar.’ Stuff like that.

“They were very snotty or snipe-y because they felt very insignificant at that point.”

Later on the WTF podcast Waters said: “I’m not putting them down, but those years we were together, whatever it was like socially, there is no question that we did some really good work together and we all contributed.”

Pink Floyd have reunited for short periods in recent years but remain disbanded.

Meanwhile, Gilmour recently shared a demo version of “Yet Another Movie” ahead of the reissue of Pink Floyd‘s 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason.

The album, which was the band’s first following the departure of Waters in the mid-1980s, will be reissued on October 29 via Sony and feature a “Remixed and Updated†edition on vinyl, CD, DVD and more.

It will also be available in 360 Reality Audio, described as “a new immersive music experience that closely mimics the omni-directional soundscape of live musical performance for the listener using Sony’s object-based 360 Spatial Sound technologies”.

Pete Townshend moves house, leaving home studio behind

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Pete Townshend moves house, leaving home studio behind
Pete Townshend has moved from his Richmond home of 26 years, leaving behind the home studio but taking with him the console he used for many recordings by The Who. The Richmond Hill residence – once owned by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood – sold the 18th-century, Grade I listed Georgian...

Pete Townshend has moved from his Richmond home of 26 years, leaving behind the home studio but taking with him the console he used for many recordings by The Who.

The Richmond Hill residence – once owned by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood – sold the 18th-century, Grade I listed Georgian house for £15million in August.

“Moving house is never fun,” the musician said on Instagram. “But with it went the home studio (which I helped build for Ronnie Wood when he lived in the house before me in 1973) where I have produced a lot of my songs and quite a bit of commercial music.”

His Neve BCM10 console, which he is taking with him, was used to mix Live at Leeds, the piano part of “Love Reign O’er Me” and more. “I did all the synthesizer backing tracks for Quadrophenia, the music for Ken Russell’s Tommy movie, and ‘Baba O’Riley’, ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’, Townshend‘s post continued.

“This console has so much mojo for me. I truly love it. I’ve rarely managed to get a bad sound out of it.” The guitarist said he was relocating his studio to the countryside.

Despite holding on to the console, Townshend said last month that he is “reluctant” to record any new music with The Who, saying the “old fashioned way that [the band] work” is a stumbling block.

“A lot of artists now are writing songs at home, recording them at home and putting them out within weeks,” he said at the time. “But our process is the old-fashioned way, and it does take a lot of time.

“So I don’t know, but I am optimistic. And I’m certainly full of ideas.â€

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds share live version of “Push The Sky Away” with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds share live version of “Push The Sky Away” with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared a new live version of their 2013 track "Push The Sky Away", which was recorded with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – listen to it below. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue READ MORE: Nick Cave & T...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared a new live version of their 2013 track “Push The Sky Away”, which was recorded with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – listen to it below.

The song, which was recorded live in 2019 as part of the Film Music – Nick Cave & Warren Ellis event at the Hamer Hall in Melbourne, will appear on the band’s B-Sides & Rarities Part II album which is set to come out on October 22.

“I never had more fun on stage than with the MSO…” Cave said of the experience, while Ellis called the event “one of the best shows of my life”.

Listen to the new live version of “Push The Sky Away” with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra below:

The upcoming compilation album, compiled by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, is the follow-up to 2005’s lauded B-Sides & Rarities album. The record features 27 rare and unreleased tracks from 2006-2020, including the first recordings of “Skeleton Tree”, “Girl In Amber” and “Bright Horses”.

Set for release on double vinyl, double CD, deluxe double CD and all digital platforms on October 22, B-Sides & Rarities Part II was previewed in August by the release of the 2006 song “Vortex”, while a Ghosteen-era outtake called “Earthlings” was shared last month.

Speaking about the new album, Cave said: “I always liked the original B-Sides & Rarities more than any of our other albums. It’s the only one I’d listen to willingly. It seems more relaxed, even a bit nonsensical in places, but with some beautiful songs throughout. There is something, too, about the smallness of certain songs that is closer to their original spirit.”

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are currently on a UK tour in support of their joint lockdown album CARNAGE, which came out in February.

Björk announces new Cornucopia US tour dates for 2022

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Björk announces new Cornucopia US tour dates for 2022
Björk has announced that she'll be bringing her immersive theatrical tour Cornucopia to Los Angeles next year for a trio of dates. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue Cornucopia is based on the singer’s 2017 album Utopia and is her first offic...

Björk has announced that she’ll be bringing her immersive theatrical tour Cornucopia to Los Angeles next year for a trio of dates.

Cornucopia is based on the singer’s 2017 album Utopia and is her first official theatrical concert tour. It’s directed by Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, with designer Chiara Stevenson’s stage designed to resemble fungi.

The newly announced shows are scheduled for early 2022 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on January 26, 29 and February 1. Tickets go on sale next Friday (October 15) at 10:00am – you can get them here.

The first Cornucopia shows came in May 2019, with an eight-night residency at New York venue The Shed. The 19-song setlist in New York included the first time Björk had performed her songs “Venus As A Boy”, “Hidden Place” and “Show Me Forgiveness” for over a decade.

The show features a 50-piece Icelandic ensemble The Hamrahild Choir, a seven-piece flute band, a harp and several instruments specially designed for the tour. The show also features a speech by climate activist Greta Thunberg, which is shown on a video screen before the encore. Costumes for the tour were designed by fashion chain Balmain.

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Björk. Credit: Santiago Felipe/Getty Images

Björk also recently announced new dates for her livestreamed orchestral shows, following multiple delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Orkestral series will see the musician perform with different collaborators over each of the four dates, including members of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Flute Septet Viibra and Hamrahlíð Choir.

The gigs, performed at Reykjavik’s Harpa Hall to a live audience and livestreamed to fans worldwide, were first due to take place in August 2020, but have been delayed multiple times.

Great Noises That Fill the Air: Music, Poetry and Performance on Film

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Great Noises That Fill the Air: Music, Poetry and Performance on Film
“The English excel in dancing and music for they are active and lively. They are vastly fond of great noises that fill the air, such as the firing of cannon, drums and the ringing of bells. So that it is common for a number of them when drunk to go up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours ...

“The English excel in dancing and music for they are active and lively. They are vastly fond of great noises that fill the air, such as the firing of cannon, drums and the ringing of bells. So that it is common for a number of them when drunk to go up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together.†So wrote the German lawyer Paul Hentzner in 1598 in his Travels In England During The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth, quoted in Simon Reynell’s short 1988 film about the scrapheap orchestra Bow Gamelan Ensemble.

This grab bag of Arts Council Of England arts documentaries from the late ’70s to the mid-’90s aspires to capture the great noises of the second Elizabethan era. From Linton Kwesi Johnson filmed in Brixton in 1979, to John Cooper Clarke in Manchester in 1982, via the radical compositions of Cornelius Cardew, the cultural fusion of Asian Dub Foundation and the brass band fantasia of Mike Westbrook, the collection looks, on the face of it, like a testament to a gloriously various lost age of state-funded arts programming, capturing the moment of punk cabaret, early Channel 4 and arts centre metal bashing.

In practice the quality is highly variable: Franco Rosso’s Dread Beat An’ Blood remains a fascinating document of LKJ in his time and place, touring with the sound systems, strolling through the market and visiting Tulse Hill schools, vividly capturing black British culture in a country on the cusp of Thatcherism, just a few months before the Brixton uprising. Meanwhile, Cooper Clarke in Nicky May’s 10 Years In An Open Neck Shirt is reliably entertaining, leading a troupe of ranting people’s poets, including a youthful Steven Wells, on a whistle-stop tour performing for earnestly pensive early-’80s students.

Elsewhere there are interesting curios: Steve Shaw’s Steel ’n’ Skin documents a 1979 community arts project, bringing steel drum culture to inner city Liverpool while Phillipe Regniez contributes a useful if paradoxically dull account of the fascinating career of composer Cornelius Cardew.

But some of the additional features feel cursory. Following Asian Dub Foundation to a church fête-style festival at the Open University in 1995 sounds like an idea with at least some comic potential, but the results feels like watching someone’s home video. Ruppert Gabriel’s Bristol Vibes is pitched as a “symphony of the city’s black history, a story of resistance, through music and imageâ€, but feels like a student project and fails to provide much context. While valuable in themselves, in this context, Margaret Williams’ diligent Omnibus-style documentaries on composers Steve Reich and Elizabeth Maconchy seem to belong to a very different collection altogether.

More germane and the most charming discovery here is Charles Mapleston’s 1978 film about Mike Westbrook, following his eccentric big band as they bring their curious jazz compendium of William Blake, Bertolt Brecht and Billie Holiday to shopping centres and concert halls across Europe. Like Robert Wyatt or John Peel, Westbrook and his band feel like one of those uncanny confluences of postwar English culture, bringing together pop, prog, avant-garde, folk and jazz in way that feels uniquely, beautifully of its time and place.

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