Belle & Sebastian have announced plans to reissue the majority of their back catalogue on vinyl.
The reissues will be given an umbrella title, It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career, a reference to their single The Boy With The Arab Strap.
The list of albums to be reissued on vinyl are:
Tigermilk
If You’re Feeling Sinister
The Boy With The Arab Strap
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
Dear Catastrophe Waitress (with alternate art)
Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
The Life Pursuit
The BBC Sessions
The Gene Clark No Other Band - featuring members of Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Beach House and Fairport Convention - have been announced as the third headliner for this year's End Of The Road festival.
They will join previously announced headliners The Flaming Lips and Wild Beasts at the festival, which runs from August 29 - 31 at Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset.
Other acts confirmed today for this year's festival are: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, St Vincent, tUnE-yArDs, Jenny Lewis, Felice Brothers and Black Lips.
Sometime last autumn, maybe, an EP called “Artorius Revisited” by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band was quietly released in limited quantities. Last time he surfaced around 2006/2007, in a quixotic, thwarted and mostly transcendent musical career that now stretches back some three decades, Head and his longest-lasting configuration, Shack, were signed to Noel Gallagher’s Sour Mash label. It didn’t last.
I don’t know about you, but I’m still reeling from final episodes of Top Of The Lake and Southcliffe on television over the weekend. Both, I suppose, had a loose thematic link - they were studies of tragedy in small communities - and I think in the end I preferred Southcliffe’s open-endedness to Top Of The Lake’s flurry of final act revelations; but that said, they were both brilliant TV, easily among the best things I've seen this year.
David Byrne and St Vincent are giving away a free EP entitled 'Brass Tactics'.
The EP, which features unreleased, live and remixed material is available to download here. David Byrne and St Vincent's Annie Clark released their acclaimed debut collaborative album, Love This Giant, last year.
The 'Brass Tactics' EP tracklisting is:
'Cissus' [previously unreleased album track]
'I Should Watch TV' [M. Stine Remix]
'Lightning' [Kent Rockafeller Remix]
'Marrow' [live]
David Byrne and St Vincent have announced a trio of headline UK shows, set to take place in August.
The pair will play London's Roundhouse on August 27, Birmingham Symphony Hall on August 28 and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on August 29.
The shows will take place as part of a wider European tour. David Byrne and St Vincent will also join Sigur Ros and Belle And Sebastian in headlining this summer's End Of The Road festival following their stand-alone shows.
All Tomorrow's Parties is set to return to its original venue, Pontins in Camber Sands, after Butlins in Minehead ended its contract with the festival.
The past few days I’ve been reading, on Rob Young’s recommendation, Alexandra Harris’ Romantic Moderns, an excellent survey of how British artists and writers in the mid-20th Century tried to reconcile a modernist impulse with the residual lure of English cultural traditions.
