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The Specials to auction stage placards for charity

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The Specials to auction stage placards for charity
Wherever The Specials have toured this year, the stage has been adorned with painted slogan placards created by the band's Horace Panter and Terry Hall. Now the band have revealed that they plan to auction off these placards in aid of charities including Save the Children, Shelter and Tonic Music (...

Wherever The Specials have toured this year, the stage has been adorned with painted slogan placards created by the band’s Horace Panter and Terry Hall.

Now the band have revealed that they plan to auction off these placards in aid of charities including Save the Children, Shelter and Tonic Music (details TBC, but keep an eye on The Specials’ official site).

In the meantime, you can purchase the paintings in the form of limited-edition prints, available from Horace Panter Art until November 21. You can see some of the placards above, and more can be viewed here. For a full list of available prints and prices, email hello@horacepanterart.com

Neil Young: “I could never do a retirement tour”

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Neil Young: “I could never do a retirement tour”
In a new interview with AARP, Neil Young has hinted at his touring plans for next year. Asked why he hadn't booked a Crazy Horse tour to support new album Colorado, he first revealed that he'd turned down "millions of dollars" for a Harvest tour. "Everyone who played on Harvest is dead," he said. "...

In a new interview with AARP, Neil Young has hinted at his touring plans for next year. Asked why he hadn’t booked a Crazy Horse tour to support new album Colorado, he first revealed that he’d turned down “millions of dollars” for a Harvest tour.

“Everyone who played on Harvest is dead,” he said. “I don’t want to do that. How about planting instead of harvesting? If I decide to go on the road, I’d like to do a democracy tour next year with different people that keep changing. Not right or left. Democracy is not you on this side and me on that side just to see who wins.”

Asked if he was planning to work indefinitely, Young replied: “I could never do a retirement tour. I’d feel like Cher. Don’t retire unless you really aren’t interested. I’m interested. It hurts a little to play now where it didn’t before. I don’t hear quite as well as I did before. My voice is not like it was before. Show me something that is like it was before. I feel good about the future. The idea is, do not stop moving.”

However, one item probably not on the agenda is a CSNY reunion, given the current frosty relationship between Young and David Crosby. “Crosby should write an introspective book: Why People Won’t Talk to Me Anymore,” said Young. “He made a lot of great music for a long time. I don’t know what happened with David. I got nothing to say. I love Stephen. I love Graham. If a reunion happens, it would be a surprise. I won’t close the door on anything. I can hold a grudge with the best of them but only if there’s a reason for it.”

This week, Neil Young also appeared on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend, where he talked about the making of Colorado, licensing his music for adverts, and of course, the importance of preserving sound quality. You can listen to the interview here.

Hear Graham Coxon’s new song, “She Knows”

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Hear Graham Coxon’s new song, “She Knows”
As with the acclaimed first series, Blur's Graham Coxon has provided the soundtrack to the second series of Channel 4 / Netflix drama The End Of The F***ing World, which starts this week. Coxon's soundtrack album will be released digitally on Friday (November 8), with a vinyl release scheduled for ...

As with the acclaimed first series, Blur’s Graham Coxon has provided the soundtrack to the second series of Channel 4 / Netflix drama The End Of The F***ing World, which starts this week.

Coxon’s soundtrack album will be released digitally on Friday (November 8), with a vinyl release scheduled for January 2020.

Hear a song from it, “She Knows”, below:

Send us your questions for Dave Vanian

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Send us your questions for Dave Vanian
The next living legend to generously submit to a friendly grilling from you, the Uncut readers, is the original punk vampire, Dave Vanian of The Damned. Having skippered the band through various iterations since they exploded onto the scene in 1976, helping to define punk in the process, Vanian suc...

The next living legend to generously submit to a friendly grilling from you, the Uncut readers, is the original punk vampire, Dave Vanian of The Damned.

Having skippered the band through various iterations since they exploded onto the scene in 1976, helping to define punk in the process, Vanian successfully resurrected – or should that be exhumed? – The Damned for last year’s comeback album Evil Spirits, produced by Tony Visconti.

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That was followed last week by a new 4xLP anthology Black Is The Night, charting the full 43-year career of this eccentric, pioneering British band.

Now, fresh from The Damned’s sold-out Halloween spectacular at the London Palladium – for which he was carried onto the stage in a coffin and later shaved off his famous Dracula quiff in order to return for the second half as Nosferatu – Vanian will be answering your questions in the latest edition of our Audience With franchise.

So what do you want to ask a singer who helped invent both punk and goth, and who’s still pulling out all the stops on-stage today? Send your questions to audiencewith@www.uncut.co.uk by Thursday November 7 and Dave will answer the best ones in a future issue of Uncut.

Watch The National’s Matt Berninger cover Big Thief’s “Not”

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Watch The National’s Matt Berninger cover Big Thief’s “Not”
The National's Matt Berninger headlined Toronto's annual Dream Serenade benefit show on Saturday (November 2), to raise money and awareness for schools and services for children with developmental and/or physical disabilities and their caregivers. As part of his solo set, Berninger covered the song...

The National’s Matt Berninger headlined Toronto’s annual Dream Serenade benefit show on Saturday (November 2), to raise money and awareness for schools and services for children with developmental and/or physical disabilities and their caregivers.

As part of his solo set, Berninger covered the song “Not” by his 4AD labelmates Big Thief. Watch it below:

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Berninger recently announced a new solo album called Serpentine Prison, produced and arranged by Booker T Jones. You can read a interview with Booker T in the current issue of Uncut (with Bob Dylan on the cover), in shops now or available to order online by clicking here.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s ‘Fanfare For The Common Man’ – an oral history

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s ‘Fanfare For The Common Man’ – an oral history
Order the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home! Originally published in Uncut's March 2017 issue With their racks of modular Moogs and extended classical interpretations, Emerson, Lake & Palmer certainly embraced the decadence of progressive rock. Surprisingly, however, t...

PALMER: For it to be an instrumental and get to Number One in the charts in some magazines was quite amazing really. We then went on tour with the orchestra for about three weeks…

YOUNG: They were all dressed up formally in tuxedos, but it didn’t take very long before they all looked like they were rock’n’roll people. They got into it.

LAKE: ELP as a three-piece was a totally different thing. But when you hear it through the prism of an orchestra, it completely changes. We would be following the orchestra, whereas as a three-piece you were on your own, free-flying as it were.

YOUNG: The three Madison Square Garden shows were amazing. I still remember them. We had four trumpets doing the “Fanfare…”. It was fantastic.

LAKE: When we did “Fanfare…” live, we’d all play along and it would all sort of blend, as most things would. What you often get with bands when they play with orchestras is this terrible lagging of time and this delay, because orchestral instruments tend to speak late. And, of course, orchestras are not used to playing in time. They really couldn’t play in time at all with us, so in the end we had to play in time with them. We had to follow the conductor which was a bit unnerving. The whole of your life you’re used to coming in on time, and all of a sudden you find that beat number one is actually halfway to beat number two. And you have to sort of delay your instinct to play, which is very unnerving – I found it very difficult, personally. The conductor really did the very best that he could, but the thing is instruments like French horns, they just don’t react that quickly. Whereas the piano or guitar reacts straight away, no delay.

PALMER: It cost roughly at the time about $200,000 a week to keep the orchestra on the road, everything ticking over.

YOUNG: I think the shows were successful, but at a certain stage it was too expensive. I went to the band and said, “We’re going to have to cut the orchestra, it’s too big.” We had a meeting with the orchestra and told them about this, and everyone was quite upset, and a lot of them came to me and said they were having a fantastic time, and could they continue if we didn’t pay them. But there are union rules, and unfortunately you can’t do that in America.

LAKE: No-one really could predict the expenditure. You have 140 people on the road – we had our own doctor. I think we had 11 tractor trailers, one of which was only carrying spares – it was an enormous undertaking. So eventually, even though we were selling out the shows, we were losing a vast amount of our own money. So we decided to continue the tour as a three-piece. What we discovered was that, strangely enough, the public enjoyed the three-piece more. The shows were better and better with just the three of us.

PALMER: We did record a video for “Fanfare…” at the Montreal Olympic stadium, though.

LAKE: I remember we were rehearsing in a basement beneath the Olympic stadium. It was the only place large enough to fit the whole orchestra in to rehearse. A phone call came in and I had to go up and take it, and everybody took a coffee break. So during that break I took the elevator up to the ground floor, which actually took me to the Olympic stadium. We had just heard that they wanted to release it as a single. My initial reaction was like, ‘Well, no, we’re too busy doing the rehearsals with the orchestra.’ And I went up to the stadium and I was looking at this absolutely mind-blowing site, covered in virgin snow, with the Olympic rings lit up in neon lights at both ends. It was an eerie sight, begging for something to happen, and I thought, ‘Video.’ we got the crew to move the gear up to the stadium the next day to start recording. Of course, what we didn’t plan was for it to be way below zero. My fingers would literally slip through the strings. So we had to record it in fairly short bursts, but it was a lovely film in the end.

PALMER: It was something like 20 degrees below, it was extremely cold. We managed to shoot three times – a few cameras on one person, a whole take, the same on the next guy, the same on the next guy – and then one take of all of us playing together. But it was very, very cold. The music has lasted, though, it has endured and it’s been truly fantastic. I mean, quality always lasts, and I sincerely believe that we had a lot of quality going there – we weren’t just a prog band, we had pretty songs as well. So it was quite eclectic.

LAKE: I know I like “Fanfare…”, because at the time we loved it. We knew that was us, that was ELP. A classical influence, building up to this absolutely intense, innovative, almost out-of-control music that it developed into. It’s almost a definition of ELP.

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FACT FILE

Written by: Aaron Copland, arranged by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Produced by: Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer, Peter Sinfield

Performers: Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (bass), Carl Palmer (drums)

Recorded at: Mountain Studios, Montreux

Released: March 1977

Chart peak: UK 2; US –

 

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TIMELINE

 

1973-74

The group embark on an epic world tour, afterwards taking a long hiatus

 

1976

The band regroup at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland, recording the basis of “Fanfare…” while setting up their equipment

 

March 1977

After gaining Aaron Copland’s approval, “Fanfare…” is released on the fourth side of Works Volume 1

 

May 1977

ELP embark on a world tour with a full orchestra, later slimming down to three-piece format

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The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka

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Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka
Love & Hate, Michael Kiwanuka’s 2016 breakthrough and UK chart-topper, was the result of a uniquely inspired collaboration that teamed the London-based singer-songwriter with two fellow polymaths: studio auteur/music scholar Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton and emerging hip-hop producer/multi-i...

Love & Hate, Michael Kiwanuka’s 2016 breakthrough and UK chart-topper, was the result of a uniquely inspired collaboration that teamed the London-based singer-songwriter with two fellow polymaths: studio auteur/music scholar Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton and emerging hip-hop producer/multi-instrumentalist Inflo. Together, they built the tracks playing a variety of instruments, surrounding Kiwanuka’s strikingly soulful vocals and evocative guitar work with strings and female backing chorales. The LP’s centrepiece, “Black Man In A White World”, was Kiwanuka’s finest song to that point, while in the US, he went from virtual unknown to artist on the rise when “Cold Little Heart”’s captivating hook was used as the theme of HBO drama Big Little Lies.

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The songwriter and his two cohorts were delighted by what they’d achieved, Kiwanuka calling Love & Hate “perfect – 
I wouldn’t change a thing”, and Burton citing Pink Floyd and Isaac Hayes as reference points: “I actually can’t wait to try to do it again some point.” Reuniting to create this follow-up album, Kiwanuka, Burton and Inflo have dipped into the same expansive palette – the washes of strings, the purring choirs, Burton’s fixation with vintage film music and Inflo’s dexterity on drums and all manner of analogue and electronic keyboards, while drawing on Kiwanuka’s acknowledged late-’60s and ’70s inspirations: Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Isaac Hayes’ Hot Buttered Soul, Shuggie Otis’ Inspiration Information, Eddie Hazel’s Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs and, most prominently, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On.

Kiwanuka is structured in movements, like a classical symphony, with shape-shifting interludes connecting one track to the next. The album’s first movement begins with the beating of congas and what sounds like a lo-fi recording of a Caribbean beach party, soon erupting into the visceral groove of “You Ain’t The Problem”, on which Kiwanuka sets his thematic course, shifting his ruminations into a social context as he confronts a chaotic world. “Don’t hesitate/Time heals the pain/You ain’t the problem,” he sings in the chorus, seemingly reassuring himself as well as all those reeling from the uncertainties of present-day existence.

At the four-minute mark, the instrumentation and backing vocals drop away, isolating a delicate keyboard carrying the melody into the next track, “Rolling”, its hammering, Stax-like groove bringing additional urgency to the refrain, “Rolling with the times/Don’t be late”. A guitar figure provides the bridge to “I’ve Been Dazed”, which sets the tone and structure for the meat of the album. It begins with Kiwanuka’s hushed voice, at once vulnerable and determined; other elements – drums, choir and string section – enter one by one, until this intimate ballad almost imperceptibly blossoms into full-on grandeur, like a cautiously optimistic orchestral 
update of Thunderclap Newman’s “Something In The Air”.

Kiwanuka is loaded with memorable songs, but the best way to experience them is by listening to the album from start to finish. Each successive movement follows a similar pattern, aiming for immersiveness and effect, mirroring the approach of psychedelic landmarks from the Floyd’s A Saucerful Of Secrets to Tame Impala’s Currents. “Piano Joint (This Kind Of Love)”, ornamented like a lush Tin Pan Alley standard, resolves into a rapturous melodic payoff, as Kiwanuka sings, “All I know is/My, oh my, this kind of love/It’s taken me from my enemies/Don’t let the pressure get to me”, his yearning vocal gliding over opulent strings. Meanwhile, the crack of a gunshot is followed by an emphatic snare hit, introducing the propulsive groove of “Living In Denial”, the backing chorale mimicking a sprightly horn section, à la Swingle Singers.

The questioning, mid-tempo “Hero” features an intensely emotional extended guitar solo from Kiwanuka, before a Morricone-like transition leads into the seven-minute opus “Hard To Say Goodbye”, its eerie, Portishead-recalling guitar lick juxtaposed with siren-like backing vocals straight out of a ’40s Hollywood fantasy. The album ends with the double-decker finish of the shimmering ballad “Solid Ground” and swirling technicolor panorama “Light”; but best of all may be “Final Days” which, equal parts Marvin and Massive Attack, sums up Kiwanuka’s beguiling, brave nature.

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

Sorry We Missed You

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Sorry We Missed You
Ken Loach is 83 now, and if he stopped making movies tomorrow, Sorry We Missed You probably wouldn’t make the Top 10 of his best. Nevertheless, he remains one of the few British filmmakers who try to make a difference. With Sorry We Missed You, he addresses the subject of the gig economy and the i...

Ken Loach is 83 now, and if he stopped making movies tomorrow, Sorry We Missed You probably wouldn’t make the Top 10 of his best. Nevertheless, he remains one of the few British filmmakers who try to make a difference. With Sorry We Missed You, he addresses the subject of the gig economy and the injustice of zero-hours contracts.

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It begins innocuously enough with family man Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a former builder, making plans to take his wife and children out of their mildewed rented digs and buy their own home. To this end, he finds work as a driver for a delivery company and ploughs the family savings into a van, as opposed to renting one for an extortionate daily rate. It seems too good to be true – and it is.

Before long, Kris starts to fall foul of all the dangers lurking in the small print. Delays, losses and minor infractions all incur sizeable fines, reaching a head when he is assaulted on the job. In the meantime, family tensions are slowly simmering. It might lack the angry urgency of I, Daniel Blake, and the cast isn’t one of Loach’s strongest, but Sorry We Missed You shows that Loach is still acutely aware of the way unfairness manifests itself in the modern world.

It’s a shame, though, that he focuses on the white van man of the house and not Ricky’s wife, Abbie (Debbie Honeywood). A selfless home carer, Abbie is the one hardest hit by her husband’s entry into self-employment and her visits to the elderly are a sad reminder of the human cost of cuts to social services.

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

The 24th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2019

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The 24th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2019
Apologies -- it's been a while since I've posted a Playlist, but a number of factors, both work and otherwise, have kept me busy elsewhere. The good news is, there's a ton of good stuff below: new Spain, Frazey Ford, Six Organs Of Admittance, the continued unfolding brilliance of the Bonny Light Hor...

Apologies — it’s been a while since I’ve posted a Playlist, but a number of factors, both work and otherwise, have kept me busy elsewhere. The good news is, there’s a ton of good stuff below: new Spain, Frazey Ford, Six Organs Of Admittance, the continued unfolding brilliance of the Bonny Light Horseman album plus some Lambchop I wasn’t expecting. Anyway, please – fill your boots, folks.

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1.
LAMBCHOP
“So Modern So Tight”
(City Slang)

2.
FRAZEY FORD
“The Kids Are Having None Of It”
(Arts & Crafts)

3.
ITASCA
“Only A Traveler”
(Paradise Of Bachelors)

4.
THURSTON MOORE
“Leave Me Alone”
(Cargo Records UK)

5.
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
“Two Forms Moving”
(Drag City)

6.
BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN
“Deep In Love”
(37d03d Records)

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7.
SPAIN
“Night Crawling”
(Diamond Soul Recordings)

8.
MOUNT EERIE/JULIE DOIRON
“Love Without Possession”
(P.W. Elverum & Sun)

9.
TAME IMPALA
“It Might Be Time”
(Fiction Records)

10.
SQUIRREL FLOWER
“Red Shoulder”
(Polyvinyl)

11.
WOLF PARADE
“Against The Day”
(Sub Pop)

12.
PEDRO KASTELIJNS
“Olhos da Raposa” [Live at Cami’s Living Room]
(OAR)

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

Ronnie Wood documentary due in cinemas next month

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Ronnie Wood documentary due in cinemas next month
Following its premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, Somebody Up There Likes Me – Mike Figgis's documentary about Ronnie Wood – will be screened at select cinemas across the UK and Ireland in November. For a full list of cinemas and information on how to buy tickets, go here. Order the late...

Following its premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, Somebody Up There Likes Me – Mike Figgis’s documentary about Ronnie Wood – will be screened at select cinemas across the UK and Ireland in November.

For a full list of cinemas and information on how to buy tickets, go here.

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Watch a trailer for Somebody Up There Likes Me, which features brand new interviews with Wood’s Rolling Stones bandmates Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts – as well as his old Faces mucker, Rod Stewart – below:

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

NME Gold: The Best Of NME 1990-1994

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NME Gold: The Best Of NME 1990-1994
Latest in our Best Of NME series is The Best Of NME: 1990-1994. Featuring classic interviews from the archives of the world’s best music title, and new insights from our issue godfather Bobby Gillespie, the issue plots the success of PJ Harvey, the rise and tragic fall of Nirvana, as well as all t...

Latest in our Best Of NME series is The Best Of NME: 1990-1994. Featuring classic interviews from the archives of the world’s best music title, and new insights from our issue godfather Bobby Gillespie, the issue plots the success of PJ Harvey, the rise and tragic fall of Nirvana, as well as all the most pivotal news events, albums and singles as grunge turned into Britpop. Also features an exclusive afterword from Tim Burgess.

Wilco and The Waterboys for Black Deer 2020

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Wilco and The Waterboys for Black Deer 2020
Wilco and The Waterboys have been unveiled as the first major names to play 2020's Black Deer Festival, taking place at Eridge Park, Kent, on June 19-21. They'll be joined by Courtney Marie Andrews, The Felice Brothers, The Milk Carton Kids, Jack Broadbent and more. Order the latest issue of Uncut...

Wilco and The Waterboys have been unveiled as the first major names to play 2020’s Black Deer Festival, taking place at Eridge Park, Kent, on June 19-21.

They’ll be joined by Courtney Marie Andrews, The Felice Brothers, The Milk Carton Kids, Jack Broadbent and more.

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Early bird tickets for Black Deer 2020 are on sale now from the official festival site.

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

Tame Impala announce new album, The Slow Rush

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Tame Impala announce new album, The Slow Rush
Tame Impala have announced that their new album The Slow Rush will be released by Fiction Records on February 14. Listen to latest single “It Might Be Time” below: Order the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZ_wTx_kWg&feature=you...

Tame Impala have announced that their new album The Slow Rush will be released by Fiction Records on February 14.

Listen to latest single “It Might Be Time” below:

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The Slow Rush was recorded between Los Angeles and Kevin Parker’s studio in his hometown of Fremantle, Australia. The twelve tracks were recorded, produced and mixed by Parker himself.

You can pre-order the album here, including limited edition coloured vinyl versions.

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

Paul Weller announces 2020 UK tour

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Paul Weller announces 2020 UK tour
Following his Forest Live dates in the summer, Paul Weller has announced his first proper UK tour since 2017. He'll play 12 shows across the country in May, full dates below: Order the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home! 01 – CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange 02 – NORWICH UEA 0...

Following his Forest Live dates in the summer, Paul Weller has announced his first proper UK tour since 2017.

He’ll play 12 shows across the country in May, full dates below:

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01 – CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
02 – NORWICH UEA
04 – MARGATE Winter Gardens
05 – SOUTHEND Cliffs Pavillion
06 – OXFORD New Theatre
08 – ABERDEEN Music Hall
09 – GLASGOW Barrowland
10 – MIDDLESBROUGH Town Hall
12 – LLANDUDNO Venue Cymru
13 – LIVERPOOL Olympia
14 – STOKE Victoria Hall
16 – PORTSMOUTH Guildhall

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday (November 1) from the usual outlets.

According to the press release, “Paul has recently been in the studio writing and playing new songs. The fruits of these labours will surface in the new year… watch this space.”

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

Little Feat guitarist Paul Barrere has died, aged 71

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Little Feat guitarist Paul Barrere has died, aged 71
Little Feat guitarist Paul Barrere has died, aged 71. He passed away at UCLA Hospital on Saturday morning (October 26), according to a statement on the Little Feat website. A member of the band since the early 70s, he was forced to sit out their current tour due to side effects from his ongoing tre...

Little Feat guitarist Paul Barrere has died, aged 71. He passed away at UCLA Hospital on Saturday morning (October 26), according to a statement on the Little Feat website.

A member of the band since the early 70s, he was forced to sit out their current tour due to side effects from his ongoing treatment for liver disease.

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Barrere initially auditioned for Little Feat as a bassist, before eventually joining the band on guitar (and occasional lead vocals) prior to the recording of 1973’s Dixie Chicken. His songwriting credits for the band included “Skin It Back”, “Hi Roller” and “Down On The Farm”. Barrere was instrumental in putting the band back together in the 80s, following the death of original frontman Lowell George.

“As the song he sang so many times put it, he was always “Willin’,” but it was not meant to be,” said the band statement. “Paul, sail on to the next place in your journey with our abiding love for a life always dedicated to the muse and the music. We are grateful for the time we have shared.”

Fellow musicians paid tribute on social media. Bonnie Raitt called Barrere, “A brilliant guitarist, singer and songwriter -a cornerstone of one of the greatest bands of all time.”

“Rest In Peace my friend,” wrote Nils Lofgren. “You’ve blessed us all with a lifetime of inspired, soulful music.”

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

The Beach Bum

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The Beach Bum
It’s staggering that gonzo director Harmony Korine was given money to make a film again after 2009’s near-unwatchable Trash Humpers, but the unexpected critical success of 2012’s Spring Breakers salvaged his reputation. The Beach Bum follows in a similar vein, being a surprisingly enjoyable st...

It’s staggering that gonzo director Harmony Korine was given money to make a film again after 2009’s near-unwatchable Trash Humpers, but the unexpected critical success of 2012’s Spring Breakers salvaged his reputation. The Beach Bum follows in a similar vein, being a surprisingly enjoyable stoner comedy with a ridiculously eclectic Hollywood cast and an even more promiscuous soundtrack, mixing Jimmy Buffett, gangster rap, Christian metal 
and The Cure.

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Matthew McConaughey stars as Moondog, a once-great writer who has gone to seed, having a wild time in the Florida Keys while his rich wife, Minnie (Isla Fisher), lives in their Miami mansion. Just when it seems the film is going to have no plot whatsoever, Moondog is called back for their daughter’s wedding. After which, tragedy strikes – Minnie is killed in a car crash – and Moondog is thrown onto the streets, with one proviso: if he writes another book, he’ll be reinstated as Minnie’s heir. However, Moondog doesn’t like to be told what to do, and when faced with a year in rehab, he goes on the run with the heavy-metal-loving Flicker (Zac Efron).

It’s a simple, wilfully naïve premise and yet Korine still finds a way to make it debauched: there’s gratuitous nudity and reckless violence, drug-taking is venerated, and for some reason Moondog dresses almost exclusively in women’s clothing. For all that, though, it’s quite a sweet film, with a rich vein of offbeat comedy. Snoop Dogg is good value as Moondog’s friend Lingerie, and Jonah Hill is a hoot as his snarky agent. But the real scene-stealer is Martin Lawrence as Captain Wack, a fiercely eccentric Vietnam vet who finds out the hard way the difference between dolphins and sharks.

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

Pink Floyd in 1986: “David was determined… to carry on”

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Pink Floyd in 1986: “David was determined… to carry on”
As Pink Floyd gear up for the release of The Later Years box set, the new issue of Uncut – in UK shops now or available to order online by clicking here – features a fresh look at Pink Floyd's post-Roger Waters years, with contributions from band members and associates. In the feature, Tom Pinn...

As Pink Floyd gear up for the release of The Later Years box set, the new issue of Uncut – in UK shops now or available to order online by clicking here – features a fresh look at Pink Floyd’s post-Roger Waters years, with contributions from band members and associates.

In the feature, Tom Pinnock talks to David Gilmour, Nick Mason, creative director Aubrey Powell and long-time engineer Andy Jackson about regrouping following Waters’ departure in December 1985.

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“By 1984, Roger had very obviously decided that enough was enough for him,” Gilmour said, “and I hadn’t decided that enough was enough for me. So I imagine I thought, ‘Yes, we’ll go back to doing [Floyd].’”

In December 1985, Waters announced his departure, but Gilmour was keen to begin a new album. The legal wrangling escalated throughout 1986, until Waters took his fight to the High Court in October. As Mason recalls, “I think David led on the idea [of continuing]. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to carry on – I did – but I don’t think I cared as much as David did. We’d be partly in the studios and partly in the lawyers’ office – ‘Was Roger going to injunct?’ And the answer was, of course he couldn’t, because he’d left the band, and 
the one thing clear in all our contractual arrangements was that if someone left, they left, and the band continued without them… That gave David and me the authority to carry on.”

In the spirit of continuity, the duo had enlisted The Wall producer Bob Ezrin and begun work at the Astoria in early 1986. It was a risky move, for more than just legal reasons: Waters’ solo tours, featuring a good helping of prime Floyd material, had performed much better than Gilmour’s About Face shows.

“The whole thing was a bit of a gamble,” says Aubrey Powell. “It was naturally daunting to 
have the responsibility of carrying on Pink Floyd. I think financially it was an anxious time, too… but David is a very confident person.”

“David was very determined not to be told that he can’t do it any more,” explains Andy Jackson. “In some ways you could interpret Roger saying, ‘There is no more Pink Floyd’ as [from David’s point of view], ‘Well, you can’t tell me that…’ He had the desire to carry on as a band, so he had to make that work really.”

“We were trying to make something that sounded very much of the time,” Jackson continues, “which means of course that as time progresses it ends up sounding dated. As Bob Ezrin was prone to do, at the start of the album 
he came in with a stack of CDs and said, ‘This is what’s happening now.’ In ’86, digital was very much at the forefront. [Dire Straits’] Brothers In Arms had just come out and that had a very particular sound, and that was one bar Bob said we should be aiming for.”

“We sort of laid everything 
on it,” says Mason. “There was a sense of trepidation over what it would be like without Roger, so we slightly over-egged the pudding 
in terms of lots of session players. Some of it’s overproduced, far too much stuff on it…”

“I thought it didn’t really sound like a Pink Floyd record,” says bassist Guy Pratt, who joined the band in 1987 for their live work, “but it was a very good record. It’s very of its time – Floyd were suited to ’80s bombast.”

You can read much more from Pink Floyd in the new issue of Uncut, in shops now with Bob Dylan on the cover.

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

The Who’s film Tommy is being reissued – here’s an exclusive look at the mind-boggling new trailer…

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The Who’s film Tommy is being reissued – here’s an exclusive look at the mind-boggling new trailer…
The Who's exhilarating rock opera Tommy is back in cinemas soon. To celebrate this momentous event, we're thrilled to bring you a first look at the new trailer, cut exclusively for this reissue. Starring the band alongside Jack Nicholson, Elton John, Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret and Tina Turner - Tomm...

The Who‘s exhilarating rock opera Tommy is back in cinemas soon.

To celebrate this momentous event, we’re thrilled to bring you a first look at the new trailer, cut exclusively for this reissue.

Starring the band alongside Jack Nicholson, Elton John, Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret and Tina Turner – Tommy is Pete Townshend’s ode to teenage spirit, given suitably outlandish treatment by director, Ken Russell.

You can watch the trailer below.

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TOMMY is released by the BFI in selected cinemas UK-wide from November 22. Click here for more information.

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

Watch a video for new Leonard Cohen song, “Happens To The Heart”

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Watch a video for new Leonard Cohen song, “Happens To The Heart”
"Happens To The Heart" is the latest single to be taken from Leonard Cohen's posthumous album Thanks For The Dance, due out on November 22. It has been matched with a new video by Daniel Askill, which draws inspiration from Cohen’s experience as a Buddhist monk. Watch it below: Order the latest...

“Happens To The Heart” is the latest single to be taken from Leonard Cohen’s posthumous album Thanks For The Dance, due out on November 22.

It has been matched with a new video by Daniel Askill, which draws inspiration from Cohen’s experience as a Buddhist monk. Watch it below:

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The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

John Lydon announces new book and spoken word tour

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John Lydon announces new book and spoken word tour
John Lydon has announced the publication of a new book called I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right in Autumn 2020, coinciding with a 54-date UK spoken word tour of the same name. According to a press release, "Lydon will reflect on the Sex Pistols, Public Image Limited (PiL), his art and his life’s...

John Lydon has announced the publication of a new book called I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right in Autumn 2020, coinciding with a 54-date UK spoken word tour of the same name.

According to a press release, “Lydon will reflect on the Sex Pistols, Public Image Limited (PiL), his art and his life’s story during informal evenings of conversation and audience questions.”

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Lydon himself adds: “I could be sh*t. I could be sh*te. I’m left-handed.”

Signed limited edition copies of I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right will be available at venues – only 5,000 numbered copies will be printed.

Check out the full list of tourdates below. Tickets go on sale on Friday November 1, with a limited number of pre-release tickets for fans available from Monday October 28. VIP meet & greet packages will also be available.

22 September Camberley Theatre
23 September Hertford Theatre
24 September Hastings White Rock Theatre
25 September Clacton-On-Sea West Cliff Theatre
26 September Watford Colosseum
27 September Basingstoke Anvil
29 September Bristol St. George’s
30 September Bournemouth International Centre
1 October Carmarthen – The Lyric
2 October Porthcawl Grand Pavilion
3 October Yeovil Westlands
4 October Exeter Corn Exchange
6 October Lincoln New Theatre Royal
7 October Hull City Hall
8 October Stafford Gatehouse
9 October Leeds City Varieties
10 October Chesterfield Winding Wheel
11 October Loughborough Town Hall
13 October Wrexham William Aston Hall
14 October Shrewsbury Theatre Severn
15 October Birmingham Town Hall
16 October Leicester De Montfort Hall
17 October Cheltenham Pump Room
18 October Crewe Lyceum
20 October Newport Riverfront
21 October Dudley Town Hall
22 October Worthing Pavilion
23 October Dorking Halls
24 October Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
25 October Kingston Rose Theatre
27 October Port Sunlight Gladstone Theatre
28 October Durham Gala Theatre
29 October Yarm Princess Alexandra Auditorium
30 October Lytham St. Annes Lowther Pavilion
31 October Lancaster Grand
1 November Burnley Mechanics
3 November Dundee Rep
4 November Greenock Beacon Arts Centre
5 November Glasgow Pavilion Theatre
6 November Falkirk FTH Theatre
7 November Glenrothes Rothes Hall
8 November Kilmarnock Grand Hall
10 November Bury St. Edmunds – The Apex
11 November Bedford Corn Exchange
12 November Wimborne Tivoli
13 November London Union Chapel
14 November Ipswich Corn Exchange
15 November Crawley – The Hawth
17 November Whitley Bay Playhouse
18 November Bradford St. Georges Hall
19 November Warrington Parr Hall
20 November Northallerton Forum
21 November Scarborough Spa
22 November St. Albans – The Alban Arena

The December 2019 issue of Uncut is on sale from October 17, and available to order online now – with Bob Dylan on the cover and an exclusive unreleased Dylan track on our free CD. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s Robert Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Lynne, Booker T, Tindersticks and much more.

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