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David Byrne To Play Big Chill

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David Byrne To Play Big Chill

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will headline this year’s Oxygen Festival. Headlining Sunday night (August 9), Byrne will join Friday night headliners Basement Jaxx, while Orbital top Saturday’s bill. Taking place between August 7 - 9 in Herefordshire, other acts confirmed for The Big Chill include Spiritualized, Friendly Fires, Lamb, Mr Scruff and Norman Jay. Early bird tickets for the festival are available until February 28. For more music and film news click here Pic credit: PA Photos

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will headline this year’s Oxygen Festival.

Headlining Sunday night (August 9), Byrne will join Friday night headliners Basement Jaxx, while Orbital top Saturday’s bill.

Taking place between August 7 – 9 in Herefordshire, other acts confirmed for The Big Chill include Spiritualized, Friendly Fires, Lamb, Mr Scruff and Norman Jay.

Early bird tickets for the festival are available until February 28.

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Simon And Garfunkel Reunite For Tour

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Simon And Garfunkel Reunite For Tour
Simon and Garfunkel are to reunite for a string of tour dates. Speaking after his surprise appearance on stage with Paul Simon last week (February 13), Art Garfunkel said the pair planned to work together again, although he added there were no plans as yet to play the UK. “Our plan to work toget...

Simon and Garfunkel are to reunite for a string of tour dates.

Speaking after his surprise appearance on stage with Paul Simon last week (February 13), Art Garfunkel said the pair planned to work together again, although he added there were no plans as yet to play the UK.

“Our plan to work together is coming together but it doesn’t go through England this time.”

Simon and Garfunkel have fallen out a number of times since the 1960’s. The duo split in 1970 before briefly reuniting in 1981, they did not play together again until a series of concerts in 1993. A performance at the 2003 Grammys and a world tour in 2004 marked their first collaboration in over a decade.

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Coldplay Leave BRIT Awards Empty Handed

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Coldplay Leave BRIT Awards Empty Handed

Despite being nominated in four categories, Coldplay failed to win a single award at last night’s Brit Awards (February18). The band lost both Best British Album and Best British Single to Duffy, while Iron Maiden won Best Live Act and Elbow were awarded Best British Group – both awards Coldplay were up for. "We've just got back from Japan, lost all the BRITs,” said a visibly disappointed Martin after the ceremony, “it's been a shit day frankly". Duffy won a total of four awards, including Best Breakthrough Act and Best British Female. Paul Weller, who was not present at the ceremony, won Best British Male, while Kings of Leon won Best international Album and Best International Group. The Outstanding Contribution To Music award was given to The Pet Shop Boys, while newcomer Florence and the Machine won the Critic’s Choice. For more music and film news click here Pic credit: PA Photos

Despite being nominated in four categories, Coldplay failed to win a single award at last night’s Brit Awards (February18).

The band lost both Best British Album and Best British Single to Duffy, while Iron Maiden won Best Live Act and Elbow were awarded Best British Group – both awards Coldplay were up for.

“We’ve just got back from Japan, lost all the BRITs,” said a visibly disappointed Martin after the ceremony, “it’s been a shit day frankly”.

Duffy won a total of four awards, including Best Breakthrough Act and Best British Female. Paul Weller, who was not present at the ceremony, won Best British Male, while Kings of Leon won Best international Album and Best International Group.

The Outstanding Contribution To Music award was given to The Pet Shop Boys, while newcomer Florence and the Machine won the Critic’s Choice.

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Adam Payne: “Organ”

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Sad news this morning, inevitably overshadowed in the UK by all the Brits bullshit, that Touch & Go Records are to cease putting out new music (not sure where that leaves, say, the forthcoming Crystal Antlers album, for a start). A slight unhappy coincidence, in that this morning I was playing a new record which has distinct ties to the ‘80s post-hardcore from which Touch & Go emerged, allbeit closer ones to the SST sound of that time. The record is “Organ”, the first solo album by Adam Payne, who’s relatively better known as frontman of Residual Echoes, a super-gungy freak-out band from San Francisco. Residual Echoes are usually categorised as being in the psychedelic slipstream of Comets On Fire, and you could more or less classify “Organ” as being Payne’s equivalent to Howlin Rain, or at least the first Howlin Rain album, minus the Southern boogie – a cleaner, defuzzed sound. It begins with “The One After Eyes”, and a riff uncannily like that of The Only Ones’ “Another Girl, Another Planet”. Soon enough, though, it locks into something of a default tone: broadly, exuberant power-pop as played by The Meat Puppets. There are distinct echoes of early Dinosaur Jr too in songs like “Never See You Anymore”, thanks to Payne’s pinched vocals and his pugnacious, ambulatory solos – though the guitar sound throughout “Organ” is skinnier, much less laden with effects than that of J Mascis, or of Payne in his work with Residual Echoes. There’s another slightly weird affinity with Comets On Fire side projects on “In Hell”, which is a lop-sided piano number that recalls Utrillo Kushner’s Colossal Yes. Kushner has a new album, “Charlemagne’s Big Thaw”, incidentally, which is worth checking out, if not quite as good as the Colossal Yes debut. It was produced by Kelley Stoltz, whose own gnarly take on power-pop is probably quite a good analogue to Adam Payne’s record, too. Stoltz has never, to my knowledge, recorded anything like “Incidental Arrangement”, however, a lengthy guitar instrumental that begins as a fractious, unstructured jam and then gradually acquires shape and momentum. It reminds me a lot of those unravelling epics favoured by mid-period Yo La Tengo like “Blue Line Swinger” and “I Heard you Looking”: free, heady, ecstatic guitar freak-outs. Works for me, needless to say.

Sad news this morning, inevitably overshadowed in the UK by all the Brits bullshit, that Touch & Go Records are to cease putting out new music (not sure where that leaves, say, the forthcoming Crystal Antlers album, for a start). A slight unhappy coincidence, in that this morning I was playing a new record which has distinct ties to the ‘80s post-hardcore from which Touch & Go emerged, allbeit closer ones to the SST sound of that time.

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Tricky Joins Line Up For ATP

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Tricky Joins Line Up For ATP
Tricky has been added to the bill for this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties. Curated by The Breeders, the festival takes place at Butlins, Minehead between May 15-17. Other acts confirmed so far include Throwing Muses, Gang Of Four, Bon Iver, Teenage Fanclub, Kimya Dawson, Blood Red Shoes, Deerh...

Tricky has been added to the bill for this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties.

Curated by The Breeders, the festival takes place at Butlins, Minehead between May 15-17.

Other acts confirmed so far include Throwing Muses, Gang Of Four, Bon Iver, Teenage Fanclub, Kimya Dawson, Blood Red Shoes, Deerhunter, Shellac and CSS.

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The Rakes To Preview New Album At Intimate Gig

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The Rakes To Preview New Album At Intimate Gig
The Rakes will preview their third album ‘Klang!’ at an intimate gig at The Lexington in Islington, London next Friday (June 27). Recorded in Berlin with Les Savy Fav producer Chris Zane, ‘Klang!’ is the follow up to 2007’s Ten New Messages. "The album is raw, playful, exciting, complex ...

The Rakes will preview their third album ‘Klang!’ at an intimate gig at The Lexington in Islington, London next Friday (June 27).

Recorded in Berlin with Les Savy Fav producer Chris Zane, ‘Klang!’ is the follow up to 2007’s Ten New Messages.

“The album is raw, playful, exciting, complex and schizophrenic – much like the personality of Berlin itself,” said singer Alan Donohoe, “it couldn’t be more of a fitting place to record it.”

Tickets for The Lexington gig are priced at £10.

The band will tour the UK in April, the dates are:

Tue 21, Brighton, Concorde 2

Wed 22, Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms

Thu 23, Manchester, Club Academy

Fri 24, Dublin, The Button Factory

Sat 25, Glasgow, Oran Mor

Sun 26, Newcastle, The Cluny

Tue 28, Nottingham, Rescue Rooms

Wed 29, London, Koko

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Portishead Ask Fans For Ways To Release New Album

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Portishead Ask Fans For Ways To Release New Album
Portishead have appealed to fans for ideas on how to release their next album. Follow the release of last year’s ‘Third’, voted Uncut's Album of 2008, the band are now free from their contract with Universal Music. "We're free of a deal and free of commitment,” Geoff Barrow wrote on th...

Portishead have appealed to fans for ideas on how to release their next album.

Follow the release of last year’s ‘Third’, voted Uncut’s Album of 2008, the band are now free from their contract with Universal Music.

“We’re free of a deal and free of commitment,” Geoff Barrow wrote on the band’s myspace blog. “With the world being the way it is there are lots of options open. But if you lot have any bright ideas of how we should sell our music in the future let us know”

One option the band reject however is a Radiohead-style free give away.

“I don’t think that were into giving out music away for free to be honest. It fuckin’ takes ages to write, and we have to heat our swimming pools!”

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Kasabian To Play Great Escape Festival

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Kasabian To Play Great Escape Festival
Kasabian have announced they will be playing Brighton’s Great Escape Festival this May. Taking place between May 14 – 16 across 34 venues, the band will join British Sea Power, Little Boots, Lightspeed Champion, The Black Lips, Metronomy, Esser, VV Brown, The Soft Pack, Golden Silvers and Ben K...

Kasabian have announced they will be playing Brighton’s Great Escape Festival this May.

Taking place between May 14 – 16 across 34 venues, the band will join British Sea Power, Little Boots, Lightspeed Champion, The Black Lips, Metronomy, Esser, VV Brown, The Soft Pack, Golden Silvers and Ben Kweller.

Uncut will be revealing the line-up for our stage very soon.

In other news, Kasabian will release their third album, produced by Gorillaz collaborator Dan The Automator, in June.

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Duran Duran Announced For Lovebox

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Duran Duran Announced For Lovebox
Duran Duran have been announced as headliners for London’s Lovebox Weekender on July 18. Groove Armada will headline the Sunday night (July 19) of the festival, which they organnise annually. This year's festival will take place on the weekend of July 18/19 at East London's Victoria Park. Other...

Duran Duran have been announced as headliners for London’s Lovebox Weekender on July 18.

Groove Armada will headline the Sunday night (July 19) of the festival, which they organnise annually. This year’s festival will take place on the weekend of July 18/19 at East London’s Victoria Park.

Other acts confirmed to play so far include N.E.R.D, Florence And The Machine, Ladyhawke, Friendly Fires and Simian Mobile Disco.

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The Killers To Headline Oxygen And T In The Park

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The Killers To Headline Oxygen And T In The Park
The Killers have been announced as headliners for the Oxygen and T In The Park festivals. Both Oxygen and T In The Park take place between July 10 -12. Other acts confirmed to play both festivals include Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol, Blur, Razorlight, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pete Doherty, Elbow...

The Killers have been announced as headliners for the Oxygen and T In The Park festivals.

Both Oxygen and T In The Park take place between July 10 -12. Other acts confirmed to play both festivals include Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol, Blur, Razorlight, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pete Doherty, Elbow, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and White Lies.

Oxygen will be held at Punchestown Racecourse, County Kildare, while T In The Park is taking place outside Kinross in Scotland.

Meanwhile, The Killers are to to perform an intimate gig at London’s newly renamed O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in aid of War Child tonight (February 18) – co-headlining with Coldplay.

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Spandau Ballet Bury Hatchet and Announce Reunion!

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Spandau Ballet Bury Hatchet and Announce Reunion!

80’s New Romantics Spandau Ballet are set to reform, their manager has confirmed. “It is true’” manager Steve Dagger told the Sunday Express, “we’re not making announcements yet but yes, the boys are back in town. Not just a nostalgic re-run of the old, but a fresh slant on what Spandau Ballet are about.” The band will announce the reunion at a launch party aboard the H.M.S Belfast – the venue for their launch gig 30 years ago. The announcement will be even more surprising given the acrimony surrounding singer Tony Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble’s decision to sue bassist and songwriter Gary Kemp for unpaid royalties in 1999. “Every band on the way down is a band on the way up, but I never thought I’d see this one,” said Roy Eldridge former head of the band’s old record label Chrysalis. “Once they couldn’t stand to be in the same room together, let alone play. But now they are older, fatter, poorer, there’s every reason to see if the magic still works.” For more music and film news click here

80’s New Romantics Spandau Ballet are set to reform, their manager has confirmed.

“It is true’” manager Steve Dagger told the Sunday Express, “we’re not making announcements yet but yes, the boys are back in town. Not just a nostalgic re-run of the old, but a fresh slant on what Spandau Ballet are about.”

The band will announce the reunion at a launch party aboard the H.M.S Belfast – the venue for their launch gig 30 years ago.

The announcement will be even more surprising given the acrimony surrounding singer Tony Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble’s decision to sue bassist and songwriter Gary Kemp for unpaid royalties in 1999.

“Every band on the way down is a band on the way up, but I never thought I’d see this one,” said Roy Eldridge former head of the band’s old record label Chrysalis. “Once they couldn’t stand to be in the same room together, let alone play. But now they are older, fatter, poorer, there’s every reason to see if the magic still works.”

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The Seventh Uncut Playlist Of 2009

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It’s beginning to look as if, in certain online circles, there’s going to be quite a fuss around the new Grizzly Bear album, “Veckatimest” – comparable perhaps to the heat around the Animal Collective record at the end of last year. Security’s comparably tight around “Veckatimest” – ironic considering it was Grizzly Bear themselves who benignly leaked a couple of “Merriweather Post Pavilion” tracks – but we did manage to sneak one listen yesterday. A lot to take in on one listen, so I’ll hold off a proper preview until I get hold of my own copy, but first impressions suggest that if you enjoyed the breadth and atmospherics of “Yellow House”, the delicately-threaded melodies, a sort of grandeur and otherness that remains magically subtle and unself-conscious, then you’ll be fine with “Veckatimest”. I guess a few people will be expecting more compacted, shaped songs in the vein of the Department Of Eagles album, but that’s not really the case. Lovely stuff – and no, before you ask, I’m not going to leak it, stream it, post MP3s or anything like that. Some more good new arrivals among this lot, along with a couple of donkeys. 1 The Hold Steady – A Positive Rage (Rough Trade) 2 The Rockingbirds - The Rockingbirds (Heavenly) 3 Rodriguez – Coming From Reality (Light In The Attic) 4 Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp) 5 Cluster – Grosses Wasser (Water) 6 Peter Walker – Spanish Guitar (Birdman) 7 Royal Bangs – We Breed Champions (City Slang) 8 Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean (Secretly Canadian) 9 Love Is All – A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (What’s Your Rupture) 10 Part Chimp – Thriller (Rock Action) 11 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! (Polydor) 12 Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love (Jagjaguwar) 13 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp) 14 Wildbirds & Peacedrums – The Snake (Leaf) 15 The Juan Maclean – The Future Will Come (DFA) 16 Omar-S – Detroit: Fabric 45 (Fabric) 17 Alasdair Roberts – Spoils (Drag City)

It’s beginning to look as if, in certain online circles, there’s going to be quite a fuss around the new Grizzly Bear album, “Veckatimest” – comparable perhaps to the heat around the Animal Collective record at the end of last year. Security’s comparably tight around “Veckatimest” – ironic considering it was Grizzly Bear themselves who benignly leaked a couple of “Merriweather Post Pavilion” tracks – but we did manage to sneak one listen yesterday.

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Coldplay Up For Four Awards At Tonight’s BRITs

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Coldplay Up For Four Awards At Tonight’s BRITs
Coldplay and Duffy lead the field for tonight's (February 18) BRIT Awards, with both artists shortlisted in four categories each, including Best Album and Best Single. Elbow are also in contention for two BRITs, one for Best Album and for Best British Group, hoping to follow up their Mercury Musoc...

Coldplay and Duffy lead the field for tonight’s (February 18) BRIT Awards, with both artists shortlisted in four categories each, including Best Album and Best Single.

Elbow are also in contention for two BRITs, one for Best Album and for Best British Group, hoping to follow up their Mercury Musoc Prize win for ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ album.

If confirmation were needed of a heavy rock return to the mainstream, AC/DC and Iron Maiden have also both been shortlisted. AC/DC are up for two awards, Best International Album for Black Ice and for Best International Group. Whilst Iron Maiden are up for Best Live Act, for their Somewhere Back In Time Tour which kicked off last year.

Kings Of Leon, Girls Aloud, Take That, Coldplay, Duffy and U2 are to perform at this year’s BRIT Awards.

Presenting the ceremony will be Kylie Minogue appearing alongside James Corden and Matthew Horne.

Pet Shop Boys are to receive the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award, whilst Florence And The Machine are named this year’s Critic’s Choice.

The whole ceremony is being broadcast live on ITV1 from 8pm.

The full list of nominees for the BRIT Awards 2009 is:

MasterCard British Album

Coldplay – ‘Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends’

Duffy – ‘Rockferry’

Elbow – ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’

Radiohead – ‘In Rainbows’

The Ting Tings – ‘We Started Nothing’

British Group

Coldplay

Elbow

Girls Aloud

Radiohead

Take That

British Single

Adele – ‘Chasing Pavements’

Alexandra Burke – ‘Hallelujah’

Coldplay – ‘Viva La Vida’

Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome – ‘Dance Wiv Me’

Duffy – ‘Mercy’

Estelle ft Kanye West – ‘American Boy’

Girls Aloud – ‘The Promise’

Leona Lewis – ‘Better in Time’

Scouting for Girls – ‘Heartbeat’

‘The X Factor’ Finalists – ‘Hero’

British Male Solo Artist

Ian Brown

James Morrison

Paul Weller

The Streets

Will Young

British Female Solo Artist

Adele

Beth Rowley

Duffy

Estelle

M.I.A.

British Breakthrough Act

Adele

Duffy

The Last Shadow Puppets

Scouting For Girls

The Ting Tings

British Live Act

Coldplay

Elbow

Iron Maiden

Scouting For Girls

The Verve

International Album

AC/DC – ‘Black Ice’

Fleet Foxes – ‘Fleet Foxes’

The Killers – ‘Day & Age’

Kings of Leon – ‘Only By The Night’

MGMT – ‘Oracular Spectacular’

International Group

AC/DC

Fleet Foxes

The Killers

Kings Of Leon

MGMT

International Male Solo Artist

Beck

Neil Diamond

Jay-Z

Kanye West

Seasick Steve

International Female Solo Artist

Beyonce

Gabriella Cilmi

Katy Perry

Pink

Santogold

British Producer of the Year

Bernard Butler

Brian Eno

Steve Mac

Outstanding Contribution Award

Pet Shop Boys

Gerry Rafferty Found Living In Hiding

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Gerry Rafferty Found Living In Hiding

After his disappearance six months ago, singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty has been discovered living in hiding in the south of England. Fears had been growing in recent months for the safety and whereabouts of Rafferty after he disappeared from St Thomas’ Hospital last Summer. Rafferty has battled alcoholism for years and trashed his London hotel room last August, before checking out of St Thomas’ where he was being treated for liver problems. Friends and family of the singer were alarmed after his disappearance, especially as Rafferty left his clothes and personal belongings at the London hospital. The proprietor of the London hotel Rafferty had previously been staying at reported to the press that the carpets, bedframe and curtains in Rafferty’s room had to be removed and incinerated. "He has damaged quite a lot of his room, because he has been incontinent for four days,” said Alex Huggan, “there was blood and urine everywhere." Last month the website ultimate-guitar.com reported that Rafferty may have been kidnapped. However, the story prompted a response from one of the site’s users. "Don't worry. He's fine,” read the post, “I served him in a restaurant just off Piccadilly Circus tonight, then helped him to his hotel. Thought he looked familiar, so I went back and asked the porter his name.” Earlier this month another reader reportedly spotted Rafferty at a hotel in Bournemouth, it is believed he is currently being looked after by a friend. "I spoke to him two weeks ago and he's fine," Rafferty's spokesperson, Paul Charles, today told The Independent . "There's no album, there's no tour, so he's not coming out in public.” The Paisley-born singer formed the Humblebums with Billy Connolly and fronted Stealers Wheel before having an international smash with “Baker Street” in 1978. "I was extremely worried when I heard that he had walked out of hospital in the middle of the night and that he left clothes and belongings behind,” said former Stealers Wheel member Tony Williams, now a councillor in Blackpool. “As a councillor I am the chair of BSafe Blackpool and through police contacts tried to see if there were any reports of him - but there weren't." Rafferty retired from music in 1983 to spend more time with his family, he is reasoned to earn a steady income from the royalties for “Baker Street” and Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck In The Middle With You”. In 2005, he collapsed at his home in Hampstead, London, issuing denials that he had overdosed on prescription drugs. For more music and film news click here

After his disappearance six months ago, singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty has been discovered living in hiding in the south of England.

Fears had been growing in recent months for the safety and whereabouts of Rafferty after he disappeared from St Thomas’ Hospital last Summer.

Rafferty has battled alcoholism for years and trashed his London hotel room last August, before checking out of St Thomas’ where he was being treated for liver problems.

Friends and family of the singer were alarmed after his disappearance, especially as Rafferty left his clothes and personal belongings at the London hospital.

The proprietor of the London hotel Rafferty had previously been staying at reported to the press that the carpets, bedframe and curtains in Rafferty’s room had to be removed and incinerated. “He has damaged quite a lot of his room, because he has been incontinent for four days,” said Alex Huggan, “there was blood and urine everywhere.”

Last month the website ultimate-guitar.com reported that Rafferty may have been kidnapped. However, the story prompted a response from one of the site’s users. “Don’t worry. He’s fine,” read the post, “I served him in a restaurant just off Piccadilly Circus tonight, then helped him to his hotel. Thought he looked familiar, so I went back and asked the porter his name.”

Earlier this month another reader reportedly spotted Rafferty at a hotel in Bournemouth, it is believed he is currently being looked after by a friend. “I spoke to him two weeks ago and he’s fine,” Rafferty’s spokesperson, Paul Charles, today told The Independent . “There’s no album, there’s no tour, so he’s not coming out in public.”

The Paisley-born singer formed the Humblebums with Billy Connolly and fronted Stealers Wheel before having an international smash with “Baker Street” in 1978.

“I was extremely worried when I heard that he had walked out of hospital in the middle of the night and that he left clothes and belongings behind,” said former Stealers Wheel member Tony Williams, now a councillor in Blackpool. “As a councillor I am the chair of BSafe Blackpool and through police contacts tried to see if there were any reports of him – but there weren’t.”

Rafferty retired from music in 1983 to spend more time with his family, he is reasoned to earn a steady income from the royalties for “Baker Street” and Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck In The Middle With You”. In 2005, he collapsed at his home in Hampstead, London, issuing denials that he had overdosed on prescription drugs.

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Elton John To Make Sci-Fi Horror Film

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Elton John To Make Sci-Fi Horror Film
Elton John is set to make a sci-fi horror film in which aliens invade a Jane Austin-style period drama. The singer will act as executive producer and oversee the music for ‘Pride and Predator’, which is being made by his own Rocket Pictures. "It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart th...

Elton John is set to make a sci-fi horror film in which aliens invade a Jane Austin-style period drama.

The singer will act as executive producer and oversee the music for ‘Pride and Predator’, which is being made by his own Rocket Pictures.

“It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama,” John’s partner and co-producer David Furnish told Variety magazine. “He stalks and slashes to horrific effect.”

Rocket Pictures also have an animated Shakespearean spoof

in production called Gnomeo and Juliet, starring James McAvoy as a lovelorn gnome.

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Withnail and I Cottage Preserved For Fans

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Withnail and I Cottage Preserved For Fans

A Cumbrian farmhouse made famous by the film Withnail and I has been bought by a local businessman who promises to restore it for fans to visit. Sleddale Hall near Shap was used as the location for Uncle Monty’s cottage in the cult 1987 film, starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. It is believed Cumbrian landlord Seb Hindley beat offers from Kate Moss and Chris Evans to acquire the property at auction. "I have paid a high price for Sleddale Hall with no planning permission,” said Mr Hindley, who owns a pub six miles from the hall. "However, I want to preserve its heritage which has been greatly increased by the iconic film. I will be glad to welcome everyone, from local people to fans of the film, to those who would like to spend some quality time in tranquility.” The cottage became famous as the place where McGann and Grant’s struggling actors escape 1960s London for a doomed break in the countryside. For more music and film news click here

A Cumbrian farmhouse made famous by the film Withnail and I has been bought by a local businessman who promises to restore it for fans to visit.

Sleddale Hall near Shap was used as the location for Uncle Monty’s cottage in the cult 1987 film, starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann.

It is believed Cumbrian landlord Seb Hindley beat offers from Kate Moss and Chris Evans to acquire the property at auction.

“I have paid a high price for Sleddale Hall with no planning permission,” said Mr Hindley, who owns a pub six miles from the hall. “However, I want to preserve its heritage which has been greatly increased by the iconic film. I will be glad to welcome everyone, from local people to fans of the film, to those who would like to spend some quality time in tranquility.”

The cottage became famous as the place where McGann and Grant’s struggling actors escape 1960s London for a doomed break in the countryside.

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Flaming Lips To Headline Rock Ness

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Flaming Lips To Headline Rock Ness
The Flaming Lips have been announced as Friday night headliners at this year’s Rock Ness Festival (June 14). Other acts so far confirmed for the festival, which takes place outside Inverness, include The Prodigy, Super Furry Animals, Placebo, Orbital, Basement Jaxx, Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal and...

The Flaming Lips have been announced as Friday night headliners at this year’s Rock Ness Festival (June 14).

Other acts so far confirmed for the festival, which takes place outside Inverness, include The Prodigy, Super Furry Animals, Placebo, Orbital, Basement Jaxx, Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal and The Wombats.

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Dinosaur Jr, British Sea Power, Editors Cover The Cure

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Dinosaur Jr, British Sea Power, Editors Cover The Cure
Dinosaur Jr, British Sea Power, The Futureheads and The Mystery Jets are among the artists to have recorded cover versions of Cure songs for next week’s NME covermount CD. On sale February 25, the issue comes as a special Shockwaves NME Awards souvenir box set including a giant Kings Of Leon tour...

Dinosaur Jr, British Sea Power, The Futureheads and The Mystery Jets are among the artists to have recorded cover versions of Cure songs for next week’s NME covermount CD.

On sale February 25, the issue comes as a special Shockwaves NME Awards souvenir box set including a giant Kings Of Leon tour poster and a 20% off at Bench voucher.

The CD tracklisting is:

1. Robert Smith spoken word intro

2. Mystery Jets & Esser – In Between Days

3. Lostprophets – Boys Don’t Cry

4. Marmaduke Duke – Friday I’m In Love

5. Dinosaur Jnr – Just Like Heaven

6. The Big Pink – Love Song

7. Editors – Lullaby

8. British Sea Power – A Forest

9. Dandy Warhols – Primary

10. The Get Up Kids – Close To Me

11. The Futureheads – Love Cats

12. Art Brut – Catch

13. Metronomy – Fascination Street

14. Alkaline Trio – Cut Here

15. Get Cape Where Cape Fly – In Between Days

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Tom Waits Book Readings In London and Liverpool

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Tom Waits Book Readings In London and Liverpool

Regular UNCUT contributor Barney Hoskyns will be reading extracts from his new Tom Waits biography ‘Lowside of the Road: A Life Of Tom Waits’ in London and Liverpool next month. Hoskyns will be appearing at Waterstones on Gower Street London on March 4, and at The Bluecoat on School Lane, Liverpool on March 12. Lowside of the Road is currently available from Faber publishers. For more music and film news click here

Regular UNCUT contributor Barney Hoskyns will be reading extracts from his new Tom Waits biography ‘Lowside of the Road: A Life Of Tom Waits’ in London and Liverpool next month.

Hoskyns will be appearing at Waterstones on Gower Street London on March 4, and at The Bluecoat on School Lane, Liverpool on March 12.

Lowside of the Road is currently available from Faber publishers.

For more music and film news click here

Nick Cave Announced For T In The Park

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Nick Cave Announced For T In The Park
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have been added to the bill for this year’s T In The Park. Taking place between July 10-12, Cave joins a line up that so far includes Blur, Elbow, Kings Of Leon, Snow Patrol, Razorlight, Pete Doherty, White Lies and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. For more music and film news cl...

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have been added to the bill for this year’s T In The Park.

Taking place between July 10-12, Cave joins a line up that so far includes Blur, Elbow, Kings Of Leon, Snow Patrol, Razorlight, Pete Doherty, White Lies and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

For more music and film news click here

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