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Sandy Pearlman, Blue Öyster Cult manager and producer, dies aged 72

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Sandy Pearlman, Blue Öyster Cult manager and producer, dies aged 72
Sandy Pearlman, the manager, songwriter, label executive and poet best known for his association with Blue Öyster Cult, has died aged 72. The news was broken by his friend Robert Duncan on Facebook: "Sandy Pearlman, poet, writer, songwriter, producer, manager, professor, polymath, visionary, pass...

Sandy Pearlman, the manager, songwriter, label executive and poet best known for his association with Blue Öyster Cult, has died aged 72.

The news was broken by his friend Robert Duncan on Facebook:

“Sandy Pearlman, poet, writer, songwriter, producer, manager, professor, polymath, visionary, passed peacefully, surrounded by love, at 12:30 am, July 26, 2016, in Marin County, California. A celebration of his exceptional life will be announced later.”

Pearlman’s work with Blue Öyster Cult was wide-ranging. He managed them and produced nine albums as well as their 1976 hit, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper“. He was immortalised in the Saturday Night Live sketch, “More cowbell”, where Christopher Walken played a fictionalized version of the producer.

He also produced The Dictators’ Go Girl Crazy!, The Clash’s album, Give ‘Em Enough Rope and Dream Syndicate‘s The Medicine Show.

Pearlman also managed several bands including Ronnie James Dio-era Black Sabbath, from 1979 – 1983. He was president of 415 Records and vice president of pioneering 1990s online music service e-music.

Pearlman was born on August 8, 1943. He also worked at early music magazine Crawdaddy, where he is often credited with coining the phrase ‘heavy metal’.

The September 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Tom Waits, plus Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Pink Floyd, Aaron Neville, Bat For Lashes, De La Soul, Chet Baker, Cass McCombs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ryley Walker, Kendrick Lamar, Lord Buckley, Sex Pistols, Brexit and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

Uncut: the spiritual home of great rock music.

David Bowie: hear a version of “Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me” unavailable since 1974

Michael Bonner
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David Bowie: hear a version of “Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me” unavailable since 1974
Following the exciting news earlier this week of David Bowie's latest box set, Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976), we're delighted to be able to preview one of the rare cuts featured inside. Scroll down to hear a single edit of the version of "Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me" from David Live, which was is...

Following the exciting news earlier this week of David Bowie‘s latest box set, Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976), we’re delighted to be able to preview one of the rare cuts featured inside.

Scroll down to hear a single edit of the version of “Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me” from David Live, which was issued as a promo 7” to American radio stations in September, 1974.

The track is taken from Re:Call 2 – a new compilation of single versions and non-album B-sides.

Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976) is the follow up to David Bowie Five Years (1969 – 1973). The box released on September 23 as a twelve CD box, thirteen-piece vinyl set and digital download featuring all of the material officially released by Bowie during the so-called ‘American’ phase of his career.

These include Diamond Dogs, David Live (in original and 2005 mixes), Young Americans, Station To Station (in original and 2010 mixes), Live Nassau Coliseum 76 and Re:Call 2.

The box will also contain the previously unreleased album from 1974, The Gouster.

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You can pre-order Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976) by clicking here.

The September 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Tom Waits, plus Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Pink Floyd, Aaron Neville, Bat For Lashes, De La Soul, Chet Baker, Cass McCombs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ryley Walker, Kendrick Lamar, Lord Buckley, Sex Pistols, Brexit and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

Uncut: the spiritual home of great rock music.

The Who to premier new acoustic presentation of Tommy

Michael Bonner
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The Who to premier new acoustic presentation of Tommy
The Who will unveil a new presentation of Tommy at next year's Teenage Cancer Trust shows. The shows will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday March 30 and Saturday April 1, 2017 where the band will play Tommy in full followed by a selection of other Who songs. The band have also annou...

The Who will unveil a new presentation of Tommy at next year’s Teenage Cancer Trust shows.

The shows will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday March 30 and Saturday April 1, 2017 where the band will play Tommy in full followed by a selection of other Who songs.

The band have also announced that the five UK dates scheduled for August /September 2016 – originally billed as ‘Greatest Hits’ shows – will be moved to 2017 to coincide with the Royal Albert Hall dates.

For the rescheduled Greatest Hits shows, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend will also include a new focused presentation of Tommy drawn from the Royal Albert Hall concerts, including a brand new video programme specially produced for these shows.

It’s not certain quite what the ‘acoustic presentation’ will consist of, however last year Townshend seemed ambivalent towards the idea of performing Tommy as an acoustic show during an interview with Uncut:

“Roger often sidles up to me and says, ‘I think Tommy would be so great done acoustic.’ I reply, ‘So what you’re saying, Rog, is that you want me to sit for an hour and a half and accompany you on my acoustic guitar? For an hour and a half, while you noodle on around on vocals? There’s a quick ‘Fuck off!’ to that idea. An unplugged show? I’ll save it for the charity gigs or the occasional solo shows.”

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday September 23.

The full set of dates for The Who’s Tommy And More tour is:

March 30: Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall, London
April 1: Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall, London
April 3: Liverpool Echo Arena
April 5: Manchester Arena
April 7: Glasgow SSE Hydro
April 10: Sheffield Arena
April 12: Birmingham Barclaycard Arena

The September 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Tom Waits, plus Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Pink Floyd, Aaron Neville, Bat For Lashes, De La Soul, Chet Baker, Cass McCombs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ryley Walker, Kendrick Lamar, Lord Buckley, Sex Pistols, Brexit and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

Uncut: the spiritual home of great rock music.

Morrissey announces world tour

Michael Bonner
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Morrissey announces world tour
Morrissey has announced a 23 date world tour, taking in America, Japan, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Australia. According to a post of the quasi-official website True To You, the new run of dates begins on September 20 in Louisville, Kentucky and ends in El Paso, Texas on November 23. ...

Morrissey has announced a 23 date world tour, taking in America, Japan, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Australia.

According to a post of the quasi-official website True To You, the new run of dates begins on September 20 in Louisville, Kentucky and ends in El Paso, Texas on November 23.

These dates are in addition to two European dates – in Berlin on August 16 and Manchester on August 20 – and a performance on September 17 at Riot Fest in Chicago.

Morrissey’s current run of dates is:

August
16 BERLIN, Tempodrom, Germany
20 MANCHESTER, Arena, England (UK)

September
17 CHICAGO, Riot Fest, Illinois (USA)
20 LOUISVILLE, Palace Theatre, Kentucky (USA)
22 PHILADELPHIA, Tower Theater, Pennsylvania (USA)
24 BROOKLYN, Kings Theatre, New York (USA)
28 TOKYO, Orchard Hall (Japan)
29 TOKYO, Orchard Hall (Japan)

October
1 YOKOHAMA, Bay Hall (Japan)
2 OSAKA, IMP Hall (Japan)
6 HONG KONG, MacPherson Stadium (China)
12 JAKARTA, Senayan Golf Driving Range (Indonesia)
15 SINGAPORE CITY, Marina Barrage (Singapore)
18 BANGKOK, Moonstar Studio (Thailand)
22 MELBOURNE, Festival Hall (Australia)
26 ADELAIDE, Thebarton Theatre (Australia)
28 CANBERRA, Royal Theatre (Australia)
29 WOLLONGONG, WIN Centre (Australia)
31 NEWCASTLE, Civic Theatre (Australia)

November
9 IRVINE, Bren Events Center, California (USA)
11 RENO, Grand Theatre, Nevada (USA)
14 BOULDER, Boulder Theater, Colorado (USA)
16 DALLAS, McFarlin Auditorium, Texas (USA)
17 SAN ANTONIO, Tobin Center, Texas (USA)
19 HOUSTON, White Oak Music Hall, Texas (USA)
23 EL PASO, Abraham Chavez Theatre, Texas (USA)

The September 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Tom Waits, plus Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Pink Floyd, Aaron Neville, Bat For Lashes, De La Soul, Chet Baker, Cass McCombs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ryley Walker, Kendrick Lamar, Lord Buckley, Sex Pistols, Brexit and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

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Welcome to the new Uncut

John Mulvey
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Welcome to the new Uncut
I guess many of us often turn to music as a consolatory balm, especially in times when chaos and anxiety engulf either our personal spaces or the broader world beyond. If you're in need of that sort of thing this month - and given the past few weeks, I'd be surprised if you weren't - it's hugely hea...

I guess many of us often turn to music as a consolatory balm, especially in times when chaos and anxiety engulf either our personal spaces or the broader world beyond. If you’re in need of that sort of thing this month – and given the past few weeks, I’d be surprised if you weren’t – it’s hugely heartening to welcome back Teenage Fanclub in the new issue of Uncut, which is officially out today (Tuesday July 26) in the UK.

The Fanclub’s music has soundtracked many good times I’ve had these past 25 years, and the way they’ve grown up with their audience, while retaining the ability to convey such warmth and joy in their music, is more cherishable than ever. “In your twenties and thirties, you fear middle age, you fear becoming older,” Gerry Love tells Michael Bonner for our lovely, in-depth feature. “Maybe you can fight it and try to stay as an eternal teenager. I like to think we play to our strengths, to our understanding of life.”

Teenage Fanclub are part of what I think might be one of my favourite Uncuts of 2016 thus far. Tom Waits is on the cover, and we’ve given him the treatment that worked so well for us with Van Morrison last year: namely, sending Graeme Thomson to interview Waits’ closest collaborators to find out how 10 of his best albums were made. From “Closing Time” to “Bad As Me”, we get a load of insights into the most mysterious of working practices, from Jerry Yester, Bones Howe, Carlos Guitarlos, Michael Blair, Ralph Carney, Marc Ribot, Tchad Blake, Charlie Musselwhite, Smokey Hormel, Colin Stetson, Augie Meyers and many more. A home smashed up on purpose? A 55-gallon drum full of sticks? A stray rooster? A foolproof method of making gold out of shit? It’s all here, plus some revelations about Waits family life from his cousin, violinist Dawn Harms.

We’ve also got a deep and weird interview with Cass McCombs (who’s on the free CD along with TFC, Ryley Walker, Hans Chew, Dinosaur Jr, Factory Floor, Scott Hirsch and even an unheard Judy Henske/Jerry Yester track), pieces on De La Soul and Aaron Neville, Tom Petty getting his old gang, Mudcrutch, back together again, and an amazing holiday read by Peter Watts, in which he tells the story of how a generation of questing souls found their way to the Balearic Islands. Decades before the ravers reached Ibiza, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Gong, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor were hunting for peace, creative inspiration and cosmic truths there and Formentera. With the help of Nick Mason, Robert Wyatt among other aspiring lotus-eaters, Pete returns to a place where fishermen’s huts and pigsties were turned into idyllic psychedelic temples. “There was a lot of nudity…”

Beyond such escapism, we’ve also felt it necessary to address the current situation in the UK post-Brexit, and how the concerned voices of British music are reacting to the prospect of life beyond the EU. “Cynicism is the enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place,” Billy Bragg tells Laura Snapes, “and the best antidote to that is activism. Songs can’t change the world, only the audience can do that…”

Jack White’s Third Man Records plans to play first record in space

Michael Bonner
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Jack White’s Third Man Records plans to play first record in space
Jack White's Third Man Records are attempting to play the first phonographic record in space. The company have custom-made a “space-proof” turntable - “the Icarus Craft” - which will be attached to a high-altitude balloon. The balloon will be launched into the stratosphere where it will pla...

Jack White‘s Third Man Records are attempting to play the first phonographic record in space.

The company have custom-made a “space-proof” turntable – “the Icarus Craft” – which will be attached to a high-altitude balloon. The balloon will be launched into the stratosphere where it will play a gold-plated master of the label’s 2010 single, Carl Sagan’s “A Glorious Dawn”.

The event will commemorate the label’s 3 millionth record pressed.

The Icarus Craft has been designed by Kevin Carrico, who is responsible for assisting in the restoration of many of Third Man’s machines, including the Third Man Recording Booth.

Launch parties will be thrown on July 30 at both Third Man locations in Nashville and Detroit and will featuring live bands, merchandise and limited edition gold vinyl copies of the Sagan record.

The September 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Tom Waits, plus Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Pink Floyd, Aaron Neville, Bat For Lashes, De La Soul, Chet Baker, Cass McCombs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ryley Walker, Kendrick Lamar, Lord Buckley, Sex Pistols, Brexit and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

Uncut: the spiritual home of great rock music.

Public Enemy action figure set announced

Michael Bonner
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Public Enemy action figure set announced
Public Enemy have been immortalised in a new action figure set. The figures of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and Terminator X have been designed by Ed Piskor - author of the comic series, Hip Hop Family Tree - and are due to ship in August/September. Articulated at the neck, shoulders, hip...

Public Enemy have been immortalised in a new action figure set.

The figures of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and Terminator X have been designed by Ed Piskor – author of the comic series, Hip Hop Family Tree – and are due to ship in August/September.

Articulated at the neck, shoulders, hips, elbows and knees, they are all approximately 4″ tall and can be pre-ordered by clicking here.

The figures were made by PressPop in Japan, and distributed in America by Arrgonautix, who specialize in musical action figures and ‘Throbbleheads’, including J Mascis, Roky Erickson and Debbie Harry.

The September 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Tom Waits, plus Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Pink Floyd, Aaron Neville, Bat For Lashes, De La Soul, Chet Baker, Cass McCombs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ryley Walker, Kendrick Lamar, Lord Buckley, Sex Pistols, Brexit and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

Uncut: the spiritual home of great rock music.

This month in Uncut

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This month in Uncut
Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty and Teenage Fanclub all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated September 2016 - which is now in UK shops and available to buy digitally. Waits is on the cover, and inside there's an access-all-areas investigation into the singer-songwriter's world, as a motley hor...

Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty and Teenage Fanclub all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated September 2016 – which is now in UK shops and available to buy digitally.

Waits is on the cover, and inside there’s an access-all-areas investigation into the singer-songwriter’s world, as a motley horde of his closest collaborators reveal how 10 classic albums were made. How should a clarinet sound? “Like a fat guy wearing a little hat.”

“Tom always played piano as he talked,” explains Bones Howe, “his hands dancing on the keys.”

In our special feature on the Balearics, Pink Floyd‘s Nick Mason, along with Robert Wyatt and many other artists, retrace their steps to the inspirational Spanish islands. “It was a magical empty island with incredible skies,” says Hipgnosis’ Aubrey Powell of the island of Formentera. “I was hugely influenced.”

Elsewhere, Uncut heads to New York to meet Tom Petty and his old band Mudcrutch, reconvened once again and keen to prove they “were better than anyone else”.

On the eve of the release of their brilliant new album, Here, Teenage Fanclub welcome us to Glasgow to reveal the secrets of their enduring brilliance.

Compelling American singer-songwriter Cass McCombs also talks music, the sacred lowlife, the tarot and his fantastic new album Mangy Love – “Have any of the wrong things made it onto a record? It’s mostly wrong things…”

Meanwhile, Bat For Lashes takes us through her albums so far, De La Soul reveal how they made their classic song “The Magic Number”, and soul great Aaron Neville answers your questions about Ray Charles, heroin and the Grateful Dead.

Elsewhere, we meet Anna Meredith, investigate Lord Buckley, look into Brexit’s possible impacts on music, and hear from Animal Collective‘s Avey Tare about the music that has shaped his life.

In our 40-page reviews section, we take on new albums from Ryley Walker, Wild Beasts, Thee Oh Sees and Lydia Loveless, and archive releases from the Sex Pistols, Betty Davis, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sonic Youth and Little Richard.

Live, we catch Kendrick Lamar and Kamasi Washington, and The Stone Roses, while Tim Burgess and David Bowie feature on our books page, and Bob Dylan appears in our DVD and film reviews.

This month’s free CD, Ones From The Heart, includes great new tracks from Teenage Fanclub, Ryley Walker, De La Soul, Dinosaur Jr, Wild Beasts, Cass McCombs, Cool Ghouls, Haley Bonar and more.

The new Uncut, dated September 2016: in UK shops and available to buy digitally.

September 2016

Jo Weakley
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September 2016
Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty and Teenage Fanclub all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated September 2016 which is in shops now and available to buy digitally. Waits is on the cover, and inside there's an access-all-areas investigation into the singer-songwriter's world, as a motley horde of...

Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty and Teenage Fanclub all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated September 2016 which is in shops now and available to buy digitally.

Waits is on the cover, and inside there’s an access-all-areas investigation into the singer-songwriter’s world, as a motley horde of his closest collaborators reveal how 10 classic albums were made. How should a clarinet sound? “Like a fat guy wearing a little hat.”

“Tom always played piano as he talked,” explains Bones Howe, “his hands dancing on the keys.”

In our special feature on the Balearics, Pink Floyd‘s Nick Mason, along with Robert Wyatt and many other artists, retrace their steps to the inspirational Spanish islands. “It was a magical empty island with incredible skies,” says Hipgnosis’ Aubrey Powell of the island of Formentera. “I was hugely influenced.”

Elsewhere, Uncut heads to New York to meet Tom Petty and his old band Mudcrutch, reconvened once again and keen to prove they “were better than anyone else”.

On the eve of the release of their brilliant new album, Here, Teenage Fanclub welcome us to Glasgow to reveal the secrets of their enduring brilliance.

Compelling American singer-songwriter Cass McCombs also talks music, the sacred lowlife, the tarot and his fantastic new album Mangy Love – “Have any of the wrong things made it onto a record? It’s mostly wrong things…”

Meanwhile, Bat For Lashes takes us through her albums so far, De La Soul reveal how they made their classic song “The Magic Number”, and soul great Aaron Neville answers your questions about Ray Charles, heroin and the Grateful Dead.

Elsewhere, we meet Anna Meredith, investigate Lord Buckley, look into Brexit’s possible impacts on music, and hear from Animal Collective‘s Avey Tare about the music that has shaped his life.

In our 40-page reviews section, we take on new albums from Ryley Walker, Wild Beasts, Thee Oh Sees and Lydia Loveless, and archive releases from the Sex Pistols, Betty Davis, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sonic Youth and Little Richard.

Live, we catch Kendrick Lamar and Kamasi Washington, and The Stone Roses, while Tim Burgess and David Bowie feature on our books page, and Bob Dylan appears in our DVD and film reviews.

This month’s free CD, Ones From The Heart, includes great new tracks from Teenage Fanclub, Ryley Walker, De La Soul, Dinosaur Jr, Wild Beasts, Cass McCombs, Cool Ghouls, Haley Bonar and more.

The new Uncut, dated September 2016, is out on July 26.

Fleetwood Mac – Mirage

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Fleetwood Mac – Mirage
By the end of the Tusk world tour in August 1980, Fleetwood Mac were in meltdown. The separate limos were just one example of the lengths to which they would go to avoid each others’ company. Ironically, it was that very extravagance – and, perhaps, a sense of loyalty to their bearded leader Mic...

By the end of the Tusk world tour in August 1980, Fleetwood Mac were in meltdown. The separate limos were just one example of the lengths to which they would go to avoid each others’ company. Ironically, it was that very extravagance – and, perhaps, a sense of loyalty to their bearded leader Mick Fleetwood – that forced them back together less than a year later to begin work on a new album that would placate the accountants still counting the cost of giant inflatable penguins and hotel suites furnished with white pianos.

With Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in the process of launching ambitious solo careers, it was inconceivable that they would reserve their best songs for Mirage. Christine McVie recently confessed to Uncut that the album lacked passion, while Buckingham admitted he was “treading water”. And yet the fact that its principals had one eye elsewhere only seems to enhance Mirage’s flimsy, diaphanous charm.

Nicks’ response at being cajoled back into the studio with two of her ex-lovers was to retreat, profitably, into nostalgia. “Gypsy” wistfully invokes her pre-fame existence of second-hand lace and mattresses on the floor, creating a powerful affirmation of the Nicks brand. The melody may be slight but it’s kept airborne by some classic Mac magic: sighed harmonies, a chiming riff and Nicks’ stunning vocals contoured by a decade of arena tours and emotional turmoil.

Indeed, if a Fleetwood Mac album wasn’t beset by emotional turmoil then they would endeavour to create some. Christine McVie duly turned up to recording sessions in Hérouville, France, having recently ended her tempestuous relationship with Dennis Wilson; the bittersweet punch of “Hold Me” was her consolation, with “Only Over You” bearing a direct dedication to the wayward Beach Boy who was to drown the following year.

Ultimately there is just enough underlying pain to make to prevent Mirage from floating away. It sounds immaculate, but there is no edge; no equivalent of “Tusk” or “The Chain”. The album’s biggest curveball is Buckingham’s weedy Roy Orbison tribute “Oh, Diane” – a flop single in the States but a Top 10 hit over here where its faux-rockabilly stylings evidently resonated with Shakin’ Stevens fans.

Elsewhere, however, Buckingham’s 50s fetish is actually a boon. The way the doo-wop verses of “Book Of Love” submit to its biting powerpop chorus is inspired, and there is a lightness of touch throughout – brisk, classically-structured songs; solos restricted to the fade-out – that has prevented Mirage from dating too badly. They even get away with the potentially hokey country stroll of “That’s Alright”, a couple of shrewd chord shifts providing the faintest waft of melancholy.

Mirage is an apt title for an album that glistens and shimmers alluringly before evaporating without leaving too much of a lasting impression. It never does more than it needs to, a state of affairs easily attributed to burnout and the distraction of solo careers. But in the long term, this air of languid passivity has worked in Mirage’s favour. Look at those other ’70s rock dinosaurs who were shifting units in 1982: Foreigner, Asia, Dire Straits. Compared to their overblown efforts, Mirage is a model of restraint and tasteful pop songwriting, a way to combine faintly rootsy rock’n’roll elements and synthetic studio gloss in a way that (“Oh Diane” aside) isn’t too corny.

As such, you can detect its faint influence on everyone from REM to Prefab Sprout. When modern-day folk-pop acts like Bat For Lashes or Vampire Weekend want to add a little ’80s sparkle to their music, this is the album that they plunder. Even on autopilot, Fleetwood Mac’s brilliantly unique permutation of singers and players were able to spin gold from the barest of ingredients.

EXTRAS: The bonus material doesn’t do much to dispel the notion that was an album whose prime cuts had already been hived off to various solo ventures. “If You Were My Love” is the exception: a gorgeous Stevie Nicks slow-burner, brimming with thwarted passion, that has mystifyingly failed to make it on to an album, despite several attempts. “Goodbye Angel” is a cursory Buckingham cast-off, while “Smile At You” is a caustic Nicks rocker that sounds out of place here (it eventually resurfaced on 2003’s Say You Will). All the other unfamiliar songs are either studio jams or covers knocked out for fun.

From the early and alternate versions, we learn that “Gypsy”’s signature recurring riff was originally played solely on glockenspiel and that it underwent a small but vital tweak before emerging as the radiant earworm we all know and love. The crunchier demo version of “Empire State” also makes more sense than the throwaway jingle that ended up on the album.

The deluxe edition includes an audio transfer of the Mirage tour video, recorded over two nights at the LA Forum in late 1982. The featherlight Mirage songs don’t translate particularly well to the live arena, but there is a stunning eight-minute version of “Sisters Of The Moon” that climaxes with Nicks jabbering furiously over Buckingham’s majestic riffage, a different sort of Mac magic.

The September 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Tom Waits, plus Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Pink Floyd, Aaron Neville, Bat For Lashes, De La Soul, Chet Baker, Cass McCombs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ryley Walker, Kendrick Lamar, Lord Buckley, Sex Pistols, Brexit and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

Uncut: the spiritual home of great rock music.

Listen to Thom Yorke’s ‘Radiohead Bedtime Mix’

Michael Bonner
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Listen to Thom Yorke’s ‘Radiohead Bedtime Mix’
Thom Yorke has put together a special "Radiohead Bedtime Mix" for BBC Radio 1. Yorke's playlist of "tunes to fall asleep to" was compiled for Phil Taggart's show and features a solo version of the Radiohead song "Bloom" which Yorke performed at a charity gig in Paris last year. Listen to the playl...

Thom Yorke has put together a special “Radiohead Bedtime Mix” for BBC Radio 1.

Yorke’s playlist of “tunes to fall asleep to” was compiled for Phil Taggart’s show and features a solo version of the Radiohead song “Bloom” which Yorke performed at a charity gig in Paris last year.

Listen to the playlist, which also includes tracks by Laurie Spiegel, Luke Abbott and James Holden, via iPlayer below.

The September 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Tom Waits, plus Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Pink Floyd, Aaron Neville, Bat For Lashes, De La Soul, Chet Baker, Cass McCombs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ryley Walker, Kendrick Lamar, Lord Buckley, Sex Pistols, Brexit and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

Uncut: the spiritual home of great rock music.

Tracklist revealed for new David Bowie box set, Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)

Michael Bonner
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Tracklist revealed for new David Bowie box set, Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)
The tracklist has been revealed for David Bowie's latest box set, Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976). The follow up to David Bowie Five Years (1969 – 1973), this new set will be released on September 23 and will contain the previously unreleased album from 1974, The Gouster. The twelve CD box, th...

The tracklist has been revealed for David Bowie‘s latest box set, Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976).

The follow up to David Bowie Five Years (1969 – 1973), this new set will be released on September 23 and will contain the previously unreleased album from 1974, The Gouster.

The twelve CD box, thirteen-piece vinyl set and digital download feature all of the material officially released by Bowie during the so-called ‘American’ phase of his career from 1974 to 1976.

The box set, which is named after a track recorded in 1974 but not officially released until the 1990’s, includes Diamond Dogs, David Live (in original and 2005 mixes), Young Americans, Station To Station (in original and 2010 mixes), as well as The Gouster, Live Nassau Coliseum 76 and a new compilation, RE:CALL 2, which collects single versions and non-album B-sides.

All of the formats include tracks that have never before appeared on CD/vinyl/digitally as well as new remasters.

The Gouster was recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia in 1974 and produced by Tony Visconti. The album was mixed and mastered before David decamped to New York to work with John Lennon and Harry Maslin on what became the Young Americans album. The Gouster contains three previously unreleased mixes of “Right”, “Can You Hear Me” and “Somebody Up There Likes Me”.

For the 2016 release, Tony Visconti has overseen the mastering from the original tapes and photos taken by Eric Stephen Jacobs have been put together for the sleeve based around one of David’s original concepts for the album.

The box set’s accompanying book, 128 pages in the CD box and 84 in the vinyl set, will feature rarely seen and previously unpublished photos by photographers including Eric Stephen Jacobs, Tom Kelley, Geoff MacCormack, Terry O’Neill, Steve Schapiro, and many others as well as historical press reviews and technical notes about the albums from Visconti and Maslin.

The CD box set will include faithfully reproduced mini-vinyl versions of the original albums and the CDs will be gold coloured rather than the usual silver.

DAVID BOWIE WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974-1976)

LP Box Set:
84 Page hardback book
Diamond Dogs (remastered) (1 LP)
David Live (original mix) (remastered) (2 LP) *
David Live (2005 mix) (remastered) (3 LP)
The Gouster (previously unreleased as an album) (1 LP) *
Young Americans (remastered) (1 LP)
Station To Station (remastered) (1 LP)
Station To Station (Harry Maslin 2010 mix) (1 LP) *
Live Nassau Coliseum ’76 (2 LP)
Re:Call 2 (Single versions and non album B-sides) (remastered) (1 LP) *

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)’

CD Box Set:
128 Page hardback book
Diamond Dogs (remastered) (1 CD)
David Live (original mix) (remastered) (2 CD) *
David Live (2005 mix) (remastered) (2 CD)
The Gouster (previously unreleased as an album) (1 CD) *
Young Americans (remastered) (1 CD)
Station To Station (remastered) (1 CD)
Station To Station (Harry Maslin 2010 mix) (1 CD) *
Live Nassau Coliseum ’76 (2 CD)
Re:Call 2 (Single versions and non album B-sides) (remastered) (1 CD) *

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)’

Digital download 192kHz/24bit box set:
Diamond Dogs (remastered)
David Live (original mix) (remastered) *
The Gouster *
Young Americans (remastered)
Station To Station (remastered)

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)’

Digital download 96kHz/24bit box set:
Diamond Dogs (remastered)
David Live (original mix) (remastered) *
The Gouster *
Young Americans (remastered)
Station To Station (remastered)

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)’

Digital download standard/MFiT box set:
Diamond Dogs (remastered)
David Live (original mix) (remastered) *
David Live (2005 mix) (remastered)
The Gouster (previously unreleased as an album) *
Young Americans (remastered) (1 CD)
Station To Station (remastered) (1 CD)
Station To Station (Harry Maslin 2010 mix) *
Live Nassau Coliseum ’76 (non MFiT)
Re:Call 2 (Single versions and non album B-sides) (remastered) (non MFiT) *

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)

Full details of the tracklist can be found on the official David Bowie website.

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Meanwhile, Lazarus – the musical written by David Bowie and Enda Walsh – opens in London at Kings Cross Theatre, Kings Boulevard, London, N1C 4BU.

It runs from October 25 106 to January 21, 2017.

Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Lazarus focuses on Thomas Newton, played by Michael C Hall. The project features songs from Bowie’s back catalogue as well as three new tracks, “No Plan”, “Killing A Little Time”, “When I Met You”.

Tickets from £15 can be bought from: 0333 320 1663 / lazarusmusical.com

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Unreleased David Bowie album due to come out in new box set

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Unreleased David Bowie album due to come out in new box set
An unreleased David Bowie album will appear in a new archival box set, due later this year. The Gouster, recorded in 1974, eventually morphed into Young Americans. It will be included in Who Can I Be Now? (1974 - 1976), the follow-up to last year's Five Years (1969 - 1973) box set. The news of the...

An unreleased David Bowie album will appear in a new archival box set, due later this year.

The Gouster, recorded in 1974, eventually morphed into Young Americans. It will be included in Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976), the follow-up to last year’s Five Years (1969 – 1973) box set.

The news of the album’s release was broken on Bowie’s official website, which promises more information on the box set soon.

Here’s the tracklisting for The Gouster:

Side 1
1. John, I’m Only Dancing (Again)
2. Somebody Up There Likes Me
3. It’s Gonna Be Me

Side 2
1. Who Can I Be Now?
2. Can You Hear Me
3. Young Americans
4. Right

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The 25th Uncut Playlist Of 2016

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The 25th Uncut Playlist Of 2016
I guess the tagline says plenty about the riches in the list this week, but also spare some time for the private press gem trailing the new Imaginational Anthems set, the very fine Itasca track (strongly recommended if you were keen on The Weather Station's album last year) and, though I've probably...

I guess the tagline says plenty about the riches in the list this week, but also spare some time for the private press gem trailing the new Imaginational Anthems set, the very fine Itasca track (strongly recommended if you were keen on The Weather Station’s album last year) and, though I’ve probably flagged it up before, the new Noura Mint Seymali. She’s great. I don’t have a link for The Double, but it’s an epic Bo Diddley drone-out by Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White etc) and The Cairo Gang, and I can’t recommend it enough.

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1 Wilco – Schmilco (dBpm)

2 Dylan Golden Aycock – Church Of Level (Scissortail)

3 Matt Berry – The Small Hours (Acid Jazz)

4 Drive-By Truckers – American Band (ATO)

5 Health & Beauty – No Scare (Wichita)

6 Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds (New West)

7 Adam Torres – Pearls To Swine (Fat Possum)

8 Psychic Temple – Plays Music For Airports (Joyful Noise)

9 Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like A Levee (Merge)

10 Itasca – Open To Chance (Paradise Of Bachelors)

11 Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band – Wede Harer Guzo (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

12 King Creosote -Astronaut Meets Appleman (Domino)

13 Goat – Try My Robe (Rocket)

14 The Frightnrs – Nothing More To Say (Daptone)

15 Great Speckled Bird – Great Speckled Bird (Ampex)

16 Mike & Rich – Expert Knob Twiddlers (Planet Mu)

17 Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina (Glitterbeat)

18 The Grateful Dead – Red Rocks 7/8/78 (Rhino)

19 Drugdealer – The End Of Comedy (Weird World)

20 Donny McCaslin – Beyond Now (Motema)

21 Joan Shelley – Cost Of The Cold/Here And Whole (No Quarter)

22 Biosphere – Departed Glories (Smalltown Supersound)

23 Kool Keith – World Wide Lamper (Feat. B.a.R.S Murre & Dirt Nasty) (Mello Music Group)

24 Robert Stillman – Time Of Waves (Orindal)

25 Various Artists – Imaginational Anthem Vol 8 (Tompkins Square)

26 The Double – Dawn Of The Double (In The Red)

Paul McCartney named UK’s most successful albums act of all time

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Paul McCartney named UK’s most successful albums act of all time
Paul McCartney has been named the UK's most successful albums act of all time, according to the Official Charts Company. Since The Beatles' debut #1 in May 1963 with Please Please Me, he's racked up a total of 22 #1 albums to date: 15 with The Beatles, 2 with Wings, 4 with Paul McCartney solo proje...

Paul McCartney has been named the UK’s most successful albums act of all time, according to the Official Charts Company.

Since The Beatles’ debut #1 in May 1963 with Please Please Me, he’s racked up a total of 22 #1 albums to date: 15 with The Beatles, 2 with Wings, 4 with Paul McCartney solo projects and one with Linda McCartney.

Additionally, Please Please Me is the longest-running Number 1 debut album in chart history at 30 weeks, while Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the biggest selling studio album of all time in the UK, having sold 5.1 million copies.

Reacting to the news, Paul McCartney told OfficialCharts.com, “Okay, you know how it really feels? It feels unbelievable, because when you write your songs you don’t count how well they’re doing. I remember when Please, Please Me went to Number 1, that was our first Number 1 record, and it’s a beautiful feeling to suddenly get this [award], I mean it’s amazing. So thank you to the people for giving it to me, I love you. And thank you to everyone who made it possible by buying the records, we love you too!”

The August 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Neil Young, plus the Small Faces, Jeff Beck, Arthur Lee and Love, Jimmy Webb, Ultravox!, Radiohead, Steve Gunn, Mick Harvey, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, William Burroughs, Bat For Lashes, Bruce Springsteen and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

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Neil Young plays Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and solo deep cuts live

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Neil Young plays Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and solo deep cuts live
Neil Young played deep cuts from his back catalogue - including songs from his Buffalo Springfield and CSNY years - at his July 20 show in Germany. Performing with Promise Of The Real at the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, Young played American Stars'n'Bars track, "Saddle Up The Palomino", which...

Neil Young played deep cuts from his back catalogue – including songs from his Buffalo Springfield and CSNY years – at his July 20 show in Germany.

Performing with Promise Of The Real at the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, Young played American Stars’n’Bars track, “Saddle Up The Palomino“, which has only ever appeared before now in the 1984 International Harvesters tour; the Leipzig show was only the 11th appearance ever.

He also played “Hawaiian Sunrise” for only the ninth time, and the first since CSNY’s Wembley Stadium show of September 14, 1974.

Buffalo Springfield‘s “I Am A Child” also received its tour debut.

The set list for Neil Young and Promise Of The Real’s July 20 show at Völkerschlachtdenkmal, Leipzig:

After The Gold Rush
Heart Of Gold
The Needle And The Damage Done
Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)
Out On The Weekend
Saddle Up The Palomino
Hawaiian Sunrise
I Am A Child
Razor Love
Someday
Unknown Legend
Alabama
Words
Winterlong
Love To Burn
Powderfinger
Mansion On The Hill
Western Hero
Don’t Be Denied
Seed Justice
Change Your Mind
Like A Hurricane
Love And Only Love
Rockin’ In The Free World

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Monsters Of Folk: “We all have My Morning Jacket envy”

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Monsters Of Folk: “We all have My Morning Jacket envy”
Take Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, and M Ward. Lock them in a ranch house on Zuma Beach, Malibu. And watch, amazed, as they transform into a supergroup, Monsters Of Folk. A 21st-century CSNY? Nope… “Our harmonies,” reckons James, “are a littl...

Take Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, and M Ward. Lock them in a ranch house on Zuma Beach, Malibu. And watch, amazed, as they transform into a supergroup, Monsters Of Folk. A 21st-century CSNY? Nope… “Our harmonies,” reckons James, “are a little better.” Words: Marc Spitz. Originally published in Uncut’s September 2009 issue (Take 148).

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“I slept within three feet of Jim for 10 days straight while we were making this record,” says Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst of his new bandmate Jim James, moonlighting from My Morning Jacket. “Down on the beach in Malibu. I felt like we could have crossed arms.” At present, Oberst and James are both squeezed together on a green velvet couch in a suite at Lafayette House, a Victorian pied-à-tierre turned Lower Manhattan boutique hotel. Possibly the worse for wear after a night drinking at a nearby bar – Saint Dymphna’s, formerly Café Sin-é, where Jeff Buckley was discovered – Oberst is dressed in an expensive-looking cream-coloured sweatshirt and vintage zip-up boots. James, meanwhile, resembles a petrol-station attendant. Across the coffee table sit Matt Ward, greying, bespectacled and stoic, and Mike Mogis, an owlish, behind-the-scenes genius whose credits as de facto in-house producer at Oberst’s Saddle Creek label include Rilo Kiley, Bright Eyes and The Faint. Today, all four are Monsters Of Folk, a Traveling Wilburys of sorts, finally united on record and on tour this autumn, after five years of foreplay and fan speculation.

In some circles, the notion of a collaboration between these guys, all of them now indie heavyweights, has taken on the air of a storied bootleg, like the Lennon/McCartney/Stevie Wonder jam session circa ’74. Some green tea and coconut water arrives, coffee is made, and with elecotrolytes restored, this million-dollar indie-rock ‘bromance’ is deconstructed.

“You bring that easy breezy West Coast vibe,” Oberst tells Ward, when Uncut inquires about the band’s chemistry. “Mike and I have the work ethic and Jim brings that Southern spice.”

While indeed geographically disparate, they have still managed to play on each others’ records over the years, and even went out together in 2004 on a tour billed as An Evening With: Jim James/M Ward/Conor Oberst. Monsters Of Folk, it seems, is a nickname given to them by a crewmember in cheeky reference to Monsters Of Rock, the 1988 stadium tour headlined by Van Halen and featuring The Scorpions and a young Metallica.

“We tried to make a real name,” James says. “But it all just kept coming back to Monsters Of Folk.”

You know The Blasters’ Dave Alvin had an album called Monsters Of Folk?

“Yeah, they didn’t know, but we already had the name in the future,” deadpans Oberst.

Author: The JT Leroy Story

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Author: The JT Leroy Story
In the late Nineties, JT Leroy published his first novel, Sarah, which introduced 12 year-old Cherry Vanilla, an underage transvestite prostitute who worked diner car parks with his drug-addicted mother. Leroy’s celebrity blossomed overnight. Soon, Tatum O’Neal, Gus Van Sant, Courtney Love and B...

In the late Nineties, JT Leroy published his first novel, Sarah, which introduced 12 year-old Cherry Vanilla, an underage transvestite prostitute who worked diner car parks with his drug-addicted mother. Leroy’s celebrity blossomed overnight. Soon, Tatum O’Neal, Gus Van Sant, Courtney Love and Billy “the Corgan-ator” Corgan were all leaving Leroy voicemail. But by 2005, Jeremiah ‘Terminator’ Leroy – the AIDS-afflicted, emotionally damaged transgender son of a prostitute – had been unmasked as Laura Albert – a fortysomething Brooklyn-born mother.

Albert/Leroy’s story is its own hall of mirrors, artfully navigated by director Jeff Feuerzeig. At the height of Leroy’s fame, for instance, Albert’s sister-in-law, Savannah Koop, began making public appearances as the author accompanied by Albert as his friend and handler, Speedie. “It’s like Mark Twain’s ‘The Prince And The Pauper’,” says Albert. “I could try to prove that I am really the writer, I am Leroy – the real king – and no one would believe me.”

Interviews with Albert provide the film’s focus. She explains that she suffered her own abusive upbringing, ending up in a group home where she regularly called suicide hotlines, always posing as someone else: “It never occurred to me to call as myself.” One persona, ‘Terminator’, eventually evolved into Leroy and, at the encouragement of a San Francisco therapist, begins to write down his ‘experiences’. Albert is at the very least an unreliable narrator – none of her claims are ever verified or challenged – though the remarkable hoax she and Koop perpetrated is brilliantly underscored by Albert’s substantial archive of taped phone conversations with celebrities, therapists and book publishers.

The footage from the Cannes festival, where the film adaptation The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things launched, is astonishing, as players including Harvey Weinstein queue up to meet Leroy. “It wasn’t a game,” says Albert. “This wasn’t a joke. We know it as JT’s true story life. But we also know it as fiction.” This is the crux of Feuerzeig’s film. While JT Leroy might well have caused a scandal by duping the literary, Hollywood and music scenes, should this diminish the books themselves? “The book says clearly on the jacket ‘’fiction’,” says Albert. “The rest is extra.”

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The The’s Matt Johnson interviewed: “I was hallucinating giant spiders!”

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The The’s Matt Johnson interviewed: “I was hallucinating giant spiders!”
Following the exciting news that the ICA are to screen The The's Infected The Movie in September, I thought I'd post my Album By Album interview with Matt Johnson from April last year. It involves the clash of civilisations, "strange, quite dense soundscapes" and a cameo from Tom Waits. Incidentall...

Following the exciting news that the ICA are to screen The The’s Infected The Movie in September, I thought I’d post my Album By Album interview with Matt Johnson from April last year. It involves the clash of civilisations, “strange, quite dense soundscapes” and a cameo from Tom Waits.

Incidentally, you can read another interview I did with Matt in 2014, around the re-issue of Soul Mining, by clicking here.

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For over 30 years now, Matt Johnson has been pursuing a brilliant if idiosyncratic career in his guise as The The. There have been experimental electronic records, chart hits, social and political polemics, Hank Williams covers and, most recently, a spate of soundtrack projects. “I’d like to leave a nice body of work that is relatively unsullied,” admits Johnson. As he prepares to talk Uncut through his splendid career highs – including his latest score for the British crime thriller Hyena – he reveals that work is currently underway on a new The The LP proper. “The important thing is getting yourself in the frame of mind for it,” he explains. “Everything else follows from that. Having been away for so long, I have almost forgotten who I used to be. I almost forgot I was a songwriter in the first place, which is a horrible thing to say. But if it all goes to plan, the album will have freshness to it. It’ll be a new start for my career.”

BURNING BLUE SOUL
[4AD, 1981]
The son of an East London publican, Johnson proved to be a prolific songwriter: technically, this was his second album. Contains tape-collages and sonic experimentation.
I’d been in bands since the age of 11 and working full-time in a recording studio at 15, so I almost felt like a bit of a veteran by the time I released Burning Blue Soul. I already had a lot of recordings, including an album, See Without Being Seen, which was seven tracks I recorded between a little home studio that I built in the cellar of my parents’ pub and the studio that I worked at in Soho. The relationship with 4AD had started with the single “Controversial Subject”. I was operating a solo career and The The as a band at the same time, although it became a solo operation. Between “Controversial Subject” and Burning Blue Soul, I recorded a single for Some Bizzare, “Cold Spell Ahead”. This was all pretty much taking place during the same 18-month period. I think the first tracks recorded for Burning Blue Soul were “Time Again For The Golden Sunset” and “The River Flows East In Spring”, with Bruce and Graham from Wire. Around about this time, Ivo said, “You’ve got plenty of ideas yourself. How do you feel about producing yourself?” So they were recorded in pairs, I think. I did “Red Cinders In The Sand” and “Delirious” with an engineer called Pete Maben in Forest Gate. I went to Cambridge with Ivo to a studio, and did “Icing Up” and “Another Boy Drowning”. It was done piecemeal in different studios with different engineers. The whole thing was done for £1,800.

The The’s Infected – The Movie to be screened publicly for the first time in almost 30 years

Michael Bonner
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The The’s Infected – The Movie to be screened publicly for the first time in almost 30 years
The The's Infected – The Movie is to be screened at London's ICA in September. The film has not been screened in public for almost 30 years. The ICA will show the film on three consecutive nights - September 2, 3 and 4 - with each screening followed by a Q&A with Matt Johnson. You can find ...

The The‘s Infected – The Movie is to be screened at London’s ICA in September.

The film has not been screened in public for almost 30 years.

The ICA will show the film on three consecutive nights – September 2, 3 and 4 – with each screening followed by a Q&A with Matt Johnson.

You can find more information about the screenings by clicking here.

The The’s album Infected was released in 1986. It featured a video for each track on the album. These were filmed in Peru, Bolivia, New York and the UK by four directors, including Tim Pope and the late Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson.

You can find more information about the screenings by clicking here.

The August 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Neil Young, plus the Small Faces, Jeff Beck, Arthur Lee and Love, Jimmy Webb, Ultravox!, Radiohead, Steve Gunn, Mick Harvey, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, William Burroughs, Bat For Lashes, Bruce Springsteen and more plus 40 pages of reviews and our free 15-track CD

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