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Ronnie James Dio Diagnosed With Stomach Cancer

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Ronnie James Dio, former vocalist with Black Sabbath and Rainbow, has been diagnosed with stomach cancer. The American singer, currently fronting Heaven And Hell with Sabbath members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler as well as his own band Dio, is to “start treatment immediately”, according to his ...

Ronnie James Dio, former vocalist with Black Sabbath and Rainbow, has been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

The American singer, currently fronting Heaven And Hell with Sabbath members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler as well as his own band Dio, is to “start treatment immediately”, according to his wife and manager, Wendy.

She added: “After he kills this dragon, Ronnie will be back on stage, where he belongs; doing what he loves best, performing for his fans.”

Dio was recruited by Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore in 1975 to form Rainbow. He then left to join Black Sabbath in 1979, following Ozzy Osbourne’s departure. He has fronted his band Dio since 1982.

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Paul McCartney Nearly Quit Beatles In Early 60s

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Paul McCartney has revealed that his stage fright was so bad at the beginning of Beatlemania, he nearly quit the band. Macca, speaking in London last night (November 25) at a screening of his new DVD, ‘Good Evening New York City’, remembered one such incident where the pressure almost got too m...

Paul McCartney has revealed that his stage fright was so bad at the beginning of Beatlemania, he nearly quit the band.

Macca, speaking in London last night (November 25) at a screening of his new DVD, ‘Good Evening New York City’, remembered one such incident where the pressure almost got too much.

“It was a couple of years into The Beatles’ career.” he said. “I remember being on the steps of Wembley Town Hall, literally getting ill with nerves, and thinking, ‘I’ve got to give this business up, this is no good’. It was quite nerve-wracking.”

During the Q&A session, Macca also said that his song ‘Here Today’, written about late Beatle John Lennon, is his most difficult to perform: “I realise I’m telling this man that I love him, and it’s like, ‘Oh my god’, like I’m publicly declaring it in front of all these people I don’t know! It’s a good thing to do, though.”

McCartney is to headline the Coachella festival in California next April, alongside The Cure and The Killers. His DVD, ‘Good Evening New York City’, is released on December 7, consisting of 33 live tracks recorded at New York’s Citi Field, formerly Shea Stadium, where The Beatles‘ played to record-breaking crowd in 1965.

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Beach Boys Inducted Into Grammy Hall Of Fame

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Beach Boys 1965 classic ‘California Girls’ has been inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame, alongside 25 other tracks and albums. The Doors’ ‘Riders On The Storm’, Janis Joplin’s ‘Pearl’ and Bob Marley And The Wailers' album ‘Catch A Fire’ are also to be included. All songs and...

Beach Boys 1965 classic ‘California Girls’ has been inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame, alongside 25 other tracks and albums.

The Doors’ ‘Riders On The Storm’, Janis Joplin’s ‘Pearl’ and Bob Marley And The Wailers‘ album ‘Catch A Fire’ are also to be included.

All songs and albums chosen for the Hall Of Fame must be at least 25 years old. Neil Portnow, president of The Recording Academy, said that the chosen recordings are “timeless staples that all greatly deserve to memorialised”.

Comedy is also recognised. George Carlin’s 1972 LP ‘Class Clown’, featuring his legendary “seven words you can never say on television” routine, is also honoured.

The 2010 Grammy Hall Of Fame inductees are:

• As Time Goes By – Dooley Wilson (1944)

• Birdland – Weather Report (1977)

• California Girls – The Beach Boys (1965)

• Catch A Fire – Bob Marley & The Wailers (1973)

• Class Clown – George Carlin (1972)

• Crazy He Calls Me – Billie Holiday (1949)

• Dippermouth Blues – King Oliver & His Jazz Band (1923)

• Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – Duke Ellington (1940)

• Ella and Basie – Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie (1963)

• Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano (1970)

• For Me And My Gal – Judy Garland & Gene Kelly (1942)

• His Eye Is On The Sparrow – Mahalia Jackson

• I Feel Like Going Home – Muddy Waters

• It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World – James Brown (1966)

• Jazz Samba – Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (1962)

• Kansas City Stomps – Jelly Roll Morton (1928)

• Lazy River – Louis Armstrong (1931)

• …Plays WC Handy – Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars (1954)

• Mr Bojangles – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1970)

• Pearl – Janis Joplin (1971)

• Riders On The Storm – The Doors (1971)

• Twist And Shout – The Isley Brothers (1962)

• Who Do You Love – Bo Diddley (1956)

• You Made Me Love You – Harry James & His Orchestra (1941)

• Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – Johnny Mercer

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Paul Weller To Play Royal Albert Hall

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Paul Weller will hit the capital next year, performing for two nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The concerts, on May 24th and 25th, will see Weller and his full band play the 6000-capacity venue for the first time since 2004. The Modfather is currently polishing off his new album, due in s...

Paul Weller will hit the capital next year, performing for two nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

The concerts, on May 24th and 25th, will see Weller and his full band play the 6000-capacity venue for the first time since 2004.

The Modfather is currently polishing off his new album, due in spring 2010. A new track, ‘7&3 Is The Strikers Name’, featuring My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields is available as a free download now on Weller’s website. To download the song, Click Here

Tickets for the shows will go on sale from November 30th.

Paul Weller’s 2010 dates are:

24th May – London Royal Albert Hall

25th May – London Royal Albert Hall

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Historic London Venue Forced To Close

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One of the most famous independent live venues in London, The Halfmoon Putney, may have to close after nearly 50 years. The venue has hosted live music since 1963, seeing early performances by legendary artists The Rolling Stones, U2, The Small Faces and Kate Bush to name a few. It has also recently been a stepping stone to bigger things for acts like Kasabian, Imogen Heap and Newton Faulkner. Unfortunately, due to circumstances including the current economic climate, The Halfmoon will not be able to carry on after 31st January, 2010. Current tenant James Harris said: "We are at the grass roots of live music and The Halfmoon is an engine room for rising bands throughout the UK, who are now running out of quality venues to play." To help save The Halfmoon Putney, simply get down there. To see their gig listings Click Here Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk

One of the most famous independent live venues in London, The Halfmoon Putney, may have to close after nearly 50 years.

The venue has hosted live music since 1963, seeing early performances by legendary artists The Rolling Stones, U2, The Small Faces and Kate Bush to name a few. It has also recently been a stepping stone to bigger things for acts like Kasabian, Imogen Heap and Newton Faulkner.

Unfortunately, due to circumstances including the current economic climate, The Halfmoon will not be able to carry on after 31st January, 2010.

Current tenant James Harris said: “We are at the grass roots of live music and The Halfmoon is an engine room for rising bands throughout the UK, who are now running out of quality venues to play.”

To help save The Halfmoon Putney, simply get down there. To see their gig listings Click Here

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Spiritualized Begin Work On New Album

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Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce has announced that he is currently in the studio recording the follow up to 2008’s ‘Songs In A&E’. When asked about the album’s release, Pierce, who has recently worked on the re-issue of his seminal 1997 album ‘Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Sp...

Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce has announced that he is currently in the studio recording the follow up to 2008’s ‘Songs In A&E’.

When asked about the album’s release, Pierce, who has recently worked on the re-issue of his seminal 1997 album ‘Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space’, said it would hopefully be out next year.

He has also revealed that looking back on his past work is inspiring the new recordings, and that several songs were already finished.

Meanwhile, Spiritualized will play the following dates:

14th December – Manchester Apollo

16th December – London Barbican Centre

17th December – London Barbican Centre

19th December – Newcastle Sage Centre

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Field Music Confirm 2010 Dates

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Field Music, who are just coming to the end of a short UK tour, have confirmed four more dates for 2010. The Sunderland three-piece, formed by brothers David and Peter Brewis, will play the shows to coincide with their third album, ‘Measure’, released on February 15th. Since Field Music’s la...

Field Music, who are just coming to the end of a short UK tour, have confirmed four more dates for 2010.

The Sunderland three-piece, formed by brothers David and Peter Brewis, will play the shows to coincide with their third album, ‘Measure’, released on February 15th.

Since Field Music’s last effort ‘Tones Of Town’ in 2007, which comes highly recommended by Uncut, the Brewis brothers have both been busy on equally acclaimed solo projects.

David made an album under the name School Of Language, whilst Peter recorded as The Week That Was, with both albums released in 2008.

Field Music 2010 dates are:

7th January – London Hoxton Bar & Grill

25th February – Leeds Brudenell Social Club

26th February – Manchester Islington Mill

28th February – Sheffield University

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Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry Records With Radiohead And RHCP

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Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry has announced that his new album will feature collaborations with members of Radiohead and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Jonny Greenwood and Chili Peppers bassist Flea have been playing with Ferry on the album, due out in summer 2010, which is also being produced by legendary Chic...

Roxy Music‘s Bryan Ferry has announced that his new album will feature collaborations with members of Radiohead and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Jonny Greenwood and Chili Peppers bassist Flea have been playing with Ferry on the album, due out in summer 2010, which is also being produced by legendary Chic man Nile Rodgers.

It will be the singer’s first album to feature new material since 2002’s ‘Frantic’, which Greenwood also played on. Meanwhile, Ferry’s collaboration with DJ Hell, ‘U Can Dance’, is set for release is January.

Flea has recently been seen playing with Thom Yorke at the Radiohead singer’s solo US shows in October.

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The Necks: “Silverwater”

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When writing about The Necks, it’s easy to end up with more of a timetable than a review. Their pieces traditionally last for around an hour (“Silverwater” stretches to 67 minutes), and are slowly evolving improvisations where the Australian instrumental trio intuitively manoeuvre round each other, subtly adjusting their themes as they go. “Silverwater”, then, begins with a tremulous organ hum and some chimes. At six minutes, a disconcerting percussive rattle arrives. At seven and a half, piano and drum rolls. Ten: double bass. Thirteen: a brief and characteristically minimal drum solo. Fourteen and a half: the bass returns, with a repeating four-notes, and the piece begins to focus. Seventeen: cymbal. Around 18 minutes in, the organ’s back, and the beginning of a sequence of trademark, pensive piano flurries from Chris Abrahams. Here, there’s a sense that The Necks have found the melodic heart of the piece, though sometimes with their improvisations the preliminaries can last indefinitely, aligning the band with ambient music as much as jazz (I’ve written about them a couple of times previously: about a Dalston live show; and their last album, the live “Townsville”). “Silverwater”, though, is something of a departure, with substantially more overdubs than usual. The sound remains spacious and minimal, but Abrahams’ various keyboards are meticulously layered, and at 29 minutes the drummer, Tony Buck, also adds a janglingly propulsive guitar line, which flags up the band’s vaguely post-rocking air. Tortoise is maybe the closest analogue there, an idea compounded when a second guitar line is introduced after 36 minutes, a diffident, laidback one reminiscent of Jeff Parker. Anyway, about 41 minutes in, the melodic passage dissolves into insectoid digital noise and percussive rattle, before Lloyd Swanton’s double bass returns too. Forty-six minutes: the guitar returns, somewhat disconsolately, in the midst of unusually dynamic jazz workouts. The last of these ebbs away at 48 and a half minutes, leaving the synth to provide a Riley-ish loop of uneasy, ebbing ambience. Then, gradually intensifying waves of organ from 53 minutes, and at 57 minutes a stunned reprise of the guitar sound last heard around 29, which pushes “Silverwater” towards its sultry resolution. Maybe they should take a further leaf out of Morton Feldman's book, and keep it rolling for another hour ot two more next time?

When writing about The Necks, it’s easy to end up with more of a timetable than a review. Their pieces traditionally last for around an hour (“Silverwater” stretches to 67 minutes), and are slowly evolving improvisations where the Australian instrumental trio intuitively manoeuvre round each other, subtly adjusting their themes as they go.

Blur Venue To Be Awarded Blue Plaque

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The Colchester venue that housed the first ever gig by Blur, or Seymour as they were then known, is to be rewarded as part of a new Blue Plaque scheme. Set up by the Performance Rights Society For Music, the scheme celebrates venues that staged debut shows by seminal British bands, as voted for by the organisation’s 60,000 strong members. The 150-capacity goods shed at the East Anglian Railway Museum, near Colchester, is the first to be recognised. Seymour, who would change their name to Blur shortly after, played their first ever concert at the venue in December 1988. Damon Albarn and Co. returned to the venue and their humble beginnings earlier this year playing a sold-out show, their first in nine years with guitarist Graham Coxon, before triumphant headline slots at Glastonbury and Hyde Park, the latter voted the best gig of 2009 by Uncut. For more info on the scheme Click Here Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk

The Colchester venue that housed the first ever gig by Blur, or Seymour as they were then known, is to be rewarded as part of a new Blue Plaque scheme.

Set up by the Performance Rights Society For Music, the scheme celebrates venues that staged debut shows by seminal British bands, as voted for by the organisation’s 60,000 strong members.

The 150-capacity goods shed at the East Anglian Railway Museum, near Colchester, is the first to be recognised. Seymour, who would change their name to Blur shortly after, played their first ever concert at the venue in December 1988.

Damon Albarn and Co. returned to the venue and their humble beginnings earlier this year playing a sold-out show, their first in nine years with guitarist Graham Coxon, before triumphant headline slots at Glastonbury and Hyde Park, the latter voted the best gig of 2009 by Uncut.

For more info on the scheme Click Here

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Primavera 2010 Line-Up Grows Stronger

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Wilco, The Fall and The XX have been confirmed to play 2010’s San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival in Spain. They will join already announced acts Pixies and Pavement at the event, which takes place in Barcelona from May 27-29. The XX and Wilco both featured highly in Uncut's top 50 albums of 200...

Wilco, The Fall and The XX have been confirmed to play 2010’s San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival in Spain.

They will join already announced acts Pixies and Pavement at the event, which takes place in Barcelona from May 27-29.

The XX and Wilco both featured highly in Uncut‘s top 50 albums of 2009 (coming sixth and seventh respectively). Other acts confirmed for Primavera include Wild Beasts (who came fifth) and Noah Lennox, from our winners Animal Collective, who is playing under his solo-guise Panda Bear.

For more information on the festival Click Here

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Liars Announce New Album Details

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Experimental post-punk trio Liars have announced details of their new album, ‘Sisterworld’, which will be released on March 8th. The album is the American-Australian band’s follow up to their 2007 self-titled effort, and sees them recording in the USA for the first time since 2004’s ‘They Were Wrong, So We Drowned’. Los Angeles’ strange characters and subcultures seem to have had an inspiring effect. Say Liars, “We're interested in the alternate spaces people create in order to maintain identity in a city like LA. Environments where outcasts and loners celebrate a skewered relationship to society”. ‘Sisterworld’ was recorded by the band and Tom Biller, who has previously worked with Beck and recently scored the soundtrack to ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk

Experimental post-punk trio Liars have announced details of their new album, ‘Sisterworld’, which will be released on March 8th.

The album is the American-Australian band’s follow up to their 2007 self-titled effort, and sees them recording in the USA for the first time since 2004’s ‘They Were Wrong, So We Drowned’. Los Angeles’ strange characters and subcultures seem to have had an inspiring effect.

Say Liars, “We’re interested in the alternate spaces people create in order to maintain identity in a city like LA. Environments where outcasts and loners celebrate a skewered relationship to society”.

‘Sisterworld’ was recorded by the band and Tom Biller, who has previously worked with Beck and recently scored the soundtrack to ‘Where The Wild Things Are’.

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Massive Attack Confirm New Album And Tour

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Massive Attack have announced that their fifth studio album, ‘Heligoland’, will be released on February 8th. The album, their first since 2003’s ‘100th Window’, will feature guest vocals from Damon Albarn, Elbow’s Guy Garvey and TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe, amongst others. ...

Massive Attack have announced that their fifth studio album, ‘Heligoland’, will be released on February 8th.

The album, their first since 2003’s ‘100th Window’, will feature guest vocals from Damon Albarn, Elbow’s Guy Garvey and TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe, amongst others.

It will also feature the return of old accomplice Horace Andy, and collaborations with Portishead’s Adrian Utley.

Coinciding with the album’s release are some UK dates, with a percentage of ticket money being donated to the HOPING Foundation Charity. Tickets are available to order now.

Massive Attack 2010 UK dates are:

8th February – Newport Centre

9th February – Brighton Dome

11th February – Hammersmith Apollo

The Tracklisting for ‘Heligoland‘ is:

Pray For Rain (feat Tunde Adebimpe)

Babel (feat Martina Topley-Bird)

Splitting The Atom (feat Robert del Naja, Grant Marshall and Horace Andy)

Girl I Love You (feat Horace Andy)

Psyche (feat Martina Topley-Bird)

Flat Of The Blade (feat Guy Garvey)

Paradise Circus (feat Hope Sandoval)

Rush Minute (feat Robert del Naja)

Saturday Come Slow (feat Damon Albarn)

Atlas Air

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Animal Collective: “Fall Be Kind”

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As you might have seen by now, Animal Collective’s “Merriweather Post Pavilion” has done rather well in Uncut’s Best Of 2009 poll. “MPP” came out in early January, and a continuously active year has now climaxed with a reissue for “Campfire Songs” and this, “Fall Be Kind”, a fairly extraordinary new EP. Apologies for having teased about this for the past few weeks: there’s been an embargo on early reviewing imposed by the band, presumably as a response to the pre-release feeding frenzy which introduced “Merriweather Post Pavilion” to the world. If one of the stories preceding “MPP” - that it would reflect Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox’s “Person Pitch” solo jam – turned out to be not quite true, the outstanding track on “Fall Be Kind” does, a little, being a lush and intricate web of loops, rooted in a snatch of Phil Lesh’s vocal from The Grateful Dead’s wonderful “Unbroken Chain”. This is “What Would I Want? Sky”, one of the very best songs in Animal Collective’s increasingly substantive catalogue. Like much of “Fall Be Kind”, it’s mellower and more reflective than the ecstatic flurries of “MPP”, but every bit as catchy. The overt dance influence has been toned down, too: if “MPP” was an early harbinger of spring, it’s easy to take the “Fall” reference in the EP title very literally, with all the moods it traditionally signifies. That said, when the opening “Graze” begins with a distant Disney fanfare and (I think) Avey Tare intoning, “Let me begin, feels good ‘cos it’s early,” the atmosphere is dewy and tentative rather than melancholy. Tare has never sounded calmer and less fervid, and the spaciousness which surrounds his unusually mature vocal, the faintly orthodox songcraft, all combine to remind me a bit of Grizzly Bear circa “Yellow House” – until, that is, a typically capricious, jittery panpipe jig arrives to break up the reverie. As the EP progresses into its heart, though, the mood does become glassier, dreamer, more disorienting; reminiscent, perhaps, of some of the “Water Curses” EP. “Bleed” is one of Panda Bear’s almost sacred, aerated sighs-as-songs, while “On A Highway” is a dazed, albeit very catchy standby of the overworked band, the song about touring. Even by the standards of that genre, though, Avey Tare’s lyrics are pointedly banal and confessional, as he admits being neurotic, distracted, stoned, sick from too much reading and jealous of “Noah’s dreaming”. There are times here when AC’s old habit of submerging their vocals has its attractions: “On a highway there are some workers pissing/ It starts my bladder itching/ Can I wait for the exit?” He’s rarely sounded more like Jonathan Donahue, too. Finally, “I Think I Can”, an overlapping chant (shades of “Sung Tongs”, electrified, maybe) that would’ve fitted pretty neatly into the middle section of “Merriweather Post Pavilion”. “Will I get to move on soon?” it ends, with that curious combination of yearning and euphoria that increasingly seems to be an Animal Collective trademark. Incredible music, anyhow, available now I think: let me know what you think when you’ve had a listen. Watch out, too, for the Pantha Du Prince album that’s just arrived, featuring Lennox, which I'll write something about soon.

As you might have seen by now, Animal Collective’s “Merriweather Post Pavilion” has done rather well in Uncut’s Best Of 2009 poll. “MPP” came out in early January, and a continuously active year has now climaxed with a reissue for “Campfire Songs” and this, “Fall Be Kind”, a fairly extraordinary new EP.

Rolling Stones Re-Release ‘Wild Horses’

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Rolling Stones have re-released their song ‘Wild Horses’ after Susan Boyle’s rendition on The X-Factor was viewed by approximately 15 million viewers last night. The track, originally featured on the Stones’ 1971 album ‘Sticky Fingers’, has been released as a digital package featuring t...

Rolling Stones have re-released their song ‘Wild Horses’ after Susan Boyle’s rendition on The X-Factor was viewed by approximately 15 million viewers last night.

The track, originally featured on the Stones’ 1971 album ‘Sticky Fingers’, has been released as a digital package featuring the aforementioned album version and a live cut taken from their ‘Voodoo Lounge’ Tour in 1995.

‘Wild Horses’ is released today on all major download sites, whilst Boyle’s version appears on her debut ‘I Dreamed A Dream’, which became the most pre-ordered album of all time.

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The Dirty Three To Play The Capital

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Legendary Australian instrumentalists The Dirty Three will be playing their only London concert of the year next month. The band, led by Bad Seed and Grinderman violinist Warren Ellis, are to take the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday 7th December, with former Lift To Experience frontman Josh T Pearson in support. Since releasing the critically acclaimed Dirty Three album ‘Cinder’ in 2005, Ellis has been busy providing soundtracks to ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford’ and the forthcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ with Nick Cave, whilst fellow member Jim White has kept busy playing drums with Bonnie Prince Billy and Bill Callahan, amongst others. Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk

Legendary Australian instrumentalists The Dirty Three will be playing their only London concert of the year next month.

The band, led by Bad Seed and Grinderman violinist Warren Ellis, are to take the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday 7th December, with former Lift To Experience frontman Josh T Pearson in support.

Since releasing the critically acclaimed Dirty Three album ‘Cinder’ in 2005, Ellis has been busy providing soundtracks to ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford’ and the forthcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ with Nick Cave, whilst fellow member Jim White has kept busy playing drums with Bonnie Prince Billy and Bill Callahan, amongst others.

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Amy Winehouse Takes On Sam Cooke Classic

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Amy Winehouse’s exclusive cover of Sam Cooke's 'Cupid', recorded to support Artists Project Earth (APE), is set to become one of last non-X-Factor related hits of the year. The track, recorded earlier this year for the ‘Rhythms Del Mundo Classics’ compilation, hopes to raise funds and drive a...

Amy Winehouse’s exclusive cover of Sam Cooke‘s ‘Cupid’, recorded to support Artists Project Earth (APE), is set to become one of last non-X-Factor related hits of the year.

The track, recorded earlier this year for the ‘Rhythms Del Mundo Classics’ compilation, hopes to raise funds and drive awareness for the charity ahead of the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 7-18, where APE will be voicing the concerns of the world’s leading musician’s on the issue.

Despite ‘Rhythms Del Mundo Classics’ being released in July, ‘Cupid’ has received huge radio support recently. The compilation also features covers by Rodrigo Y Gabriela and Cat Power.

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U2 Confirmed To Headline Glastonbury 2010

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U2 will be headlining Glastonbury for the first time next year, after being rumoured to appear many times in the past. Festival organiser Michael Eavis has said: "At last, the biggest band in the world are going to play the best festival in the world. Nothing could be better for our 40th anniversar...

U2 will be headlining Glastonbury for the first time next year, after being rumoured to appear many times in the past.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis has said: “At last, the biggest band in the world are going to play the best festival in the world. Nothing could be better for our 40th anniversary party. And there are even more surprises in the pipeline…”

U2 are following in the footsteps of other legends Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, who both played fantastic career-spanning sets last year.

The band will headline The Pyramid Stage on Friday 25th June, flying in for the weekend before heading back to America to resume their tour. Tickets for the festival sold out in 24 hours last month, with an expected crowd of 177,500.

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The 43rd Uncut Playlist Of 2009

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After a slight lull last week, another clutch of good new 2010 things here, overshadowed slightly by the news at the Durtro website that Bill Fay’s new album – and featuring his first released recordings from the past three decades, more or less – is just about ready to go. Favourites in this lot are the new Necks album – a slight departure, which I’ll write about later in the week – and the lovely “Ali & Toumani” set, dating from 2005 sessions. 1 The Necks – Silverwater (RER) 2 Citay – Dream Get Together (Dead Oceans) 3 Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM (Because) 4 Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté – Ali & Toumani (World Circuit) 5 Hot Chip – One Life Stand (Parlophone) 6 Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind (Domino) 7 Various Artists – The Best Of 2009 (Uncut) 8 PIL – Metal Box (EMI) 9 Steve Mason – All Come Down (Black Melody) 10 Real Estate – Real Estate (Woodsist) 11 The Imagined Village – Empire And Love (ECC) 12 Various Artists – Fire In My Bones: Raw + Rare + Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007 (Tompkins Square) 13 Beach House – Teen Dream (Bella Union) 14 Wooden Veil – Wooden Veil (Dekorder) 15 Four Tet – There Is Love In You (Domino) 16 Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (Interscope) 17 Cluster – Qua (Klangbad/Broken Silence) 18 Spectre Folk- Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo (Arbitrary Signs) 19 Tommy James – Tommy James (Rev-Ola)

After a slight lull last week, another clutch of good new 2010 things here, overshadowed slightly by the news at the Durtro website that Bill Fay’s new album – and featuring his first released recordings from the past three decades, more or less – is just about ready to go.

Paul McCartney To Appear On X-Factor?

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Rumours are circulating that Paul McCartney is the next superstar earmarked for a slot on The X-Factor. McCartney will allegedly grace the final of the talent show on December 13, when the remaining contestants are expected to grapple with Beatles songs for a Fab Four-themed show. The appearance would crown a busy Beatles-related year for Sir Paul. The Beatles Box - all of the band's remastered albums - was chosen as the best Compilation/Boxset of 2009 in the new issue of Uncut. And last week it was revealed that McCartney guests on Ringo Starr's latest solo album, "Y Not", due in early 2010. Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk

Rumours are circulating that Paul McCartney is the next superstar earmarked for a slot on The X-Factor.

McCartney will allegedly grace the final of the talent show on December 13, when the remaining contestants are expected to grapple with Beatles songs for a Fab Four-themed show.

The appearance would crown a busy Beatles-related year for Sir Paul. The Beatles Box – all of the band’s remastered albums – was chosen as the best Compilation/Boxset of 2009 in the new issue of Uncut. And last week it was revealed that McCartney guests on Ringo Starr‘s latest solo album, “Y Not”, due in early 2010.

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