Just remembered: following the blog on Plush last week, Jon Dale has sent me a link to another new Liam Hayes song. You can find "I Sing Silence" here. Sounds as good as "Take A Chance", I think; I seem to remember Hayes playing both songs at a London solo show maybe three years ago. Anyway, let me know, as ever, what you think.
Just remembered: following the blog on Plush last week, Jon Dale has sent me a link to another new Liam Hayes song.
I was too busy last night to watch the Brits - well, OK, I was hooked on Masterchef and Grand Designs - and this excellent blog articulates perfectly the reasons why I can't bring myself to tune in, year after year. As one of the elite thousand or so who voted, however, I was pleased to see one of my ballot-spoiling choices, The Arctic Monkeys, win a couple of things. We should be getting a promo of Alex Turner's new project, The Last Shadow Puppets any day now. Good to see he still has a knack of coming up with ropey names; I already seem to be calling then The Sock Puppets by mistake. In the interim, have a look at this teaser. There's a snatch of music at the end - or at least some broiling strings that, I believe, were arranged by Owen Pallett, the guy who works as Final Fantasy and is some kind of satellite member of Arcade Fire. And while I'm stacking up the links, here's the new video from Erykah Badu. Pretty nice song, but even if you're not a fan, it's worth watching for all the fetishising of old record sleeves. "Maggot Brain"! I'm off to see Vampire Weekend tonight, which should be interesting. I'll post something when I get to the office tomorrow morning, all being well.
I was too busy last night to watch the Brits – well, OK, I was hooked on Masterchef and Grand Designs – and this excellent blog articulates perfectly the reasons why I can’t bring myself to tune in, year after year. As one of the elite thousand or so who voted, however, I was pleased to see one of my ballot-spoiling choices, The Arctic Monkeys, win a couple of things.
Paul Weller has been confirmed as one of the headliners for this year’s series of Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
The Modfather joins Muse who revealed earlier this week that they were lined-up to play a one-off show for the charity.
The Fratellis and The Mighty Boosh‘s Noel Fielding are also confirmed to headline a show each.
Weller’s show on April 10 will see the singer team up with Ocean Colour Scene‘s guitarist Steve Craddock for an acoustic show.
The current UK’s singles chart number one Duffy will also perform at the show.
The opening TCT show, the comedy night hosted by Noel Fielding will take place on April 9, The Fratellis headline on April 11, and Muse will close this year’s event on April 12.
More acts will be announced soon for the Teenage Cancer Trust shows, which are now in their eighth year. The shows take place annually and are co-organised by The Who’s Roger Daltrey, the charity’s patron.
Announcing this year’s line-up, Roger Daltrey said: “These shows, now in their eighth year, continue to help Teenage Cancer Trust raise essential funds to build specialist teenage cancer units within the NHS. The UK is a world leader in providing this support for teenagers with cancer and in 2008, the charity will open five new units and will start building work on a further two. This means that many more teenagers with cancer will have access to one of our units and will get the support they need to fight this disease.”
Previous years have seen artists such as The Who, Oasis, Coldplay, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, The Cure and Madness all perform.
Tickets for this year’s shows will go on sale tomorrow (February 22) at 10am from Teenagecancertrust.org
Pic credit: PA Photos
Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters and pop comeback kings Take That were all double-award winners at last night’s (February 20) Mastercard BRIT Awards ceremony.
The Arctic Monkeys won Best British Group and album, for the second year in a row for their second album Favourite Worst Nightmare. The band attended the BRIT Awards for the first time, and accepted their awards dressed up as fox hunters, and blew a horn onstage.
Foo Fighters won both Best International Group and Best Album for Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace.
In a video message to the audience, front man Dave Grohl said: “Hey everybody, thanks very much for the Brit Award,” he said. “It really is an honour to be recognised alongside the likes of Huey Lewis And The News, Culture Club, MC Hammer and Kula Shaker.
Pop comeback kings Take That also scooped two awards, they beat Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Klaxons and Muse to win Best Live Act and also Best Single for ‘Shine’ – which was decided by a public voting line.
Amy Winehouse made her first live appearance since entering rehab at the Earls Court ceremony, performing with Mark Ronson for her cover version of the Zutons’ ‘Valerie’ – which was nominated for but did not win the Best Single category.
She later returned to the stage to perform ‘Love Is A Losing Game’ from her multiple Grammy winning album Back To Black.
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney closed the 2008 BRITS by performing a medley of hits from his longstanding career, including ‘Live and Let Die’, ‘Hey Jude’, ‘Lady Madonna’ and ‘Get Back’. after being awarded this year’s Outstanding Contribution to Music Award.
Collecting his award from BRIT Award hosts the Osbourne family, Sir Paul McCartney kept his thank you speech very brief, saying: “I’m gonna keep this short… I think British music is the best!”
Adele, Kate Nash, Kanye West, Mika, Mark Ronson and Kylie Minogue each picked up a BRIT Award each too.
Pic credit: PA Photos
This year's BRIT Awards take place at London's Earls Court tonight (February 20). Five time Grammy winning Amy Winehouse is expected to perform 'Valerie' and one other track from 'Back To Black', in her first live performance since entering rehab. She has been nominated in the Best Single category for 'Valerie', and will perform with Mark Ronson for whom she recorded the The Zutons' cover for. It is the only catergory she is eligible for as she won the awards for her album at last year's ceremony. Paul McCartney is to pick up the Outstanding Contribution to Music award, and will perform for fifteen minutes at the end of the show, despite his ongoing court divorce battle with Heather Mills the past two weeks. Kylie Minogue will be presenting the former Beatle with his award. Other highlights of tonight's show are expected to be the Klaxons backing Rihanna on her global smash 'Umbrella' and seeing Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne compere the whole show live (albeit with a 30 second time delay). The whole show is broadcast on ITV1 from 8pm. Check back to www.uncut.co.uk for the full list of award winners, gossip and photos from this year's event. The full nominees are: British Male Solo Artist Jamie T Mark Ronson Mika Newton Faulkner Richard Hawley British Female Solo Artist Bat For Lashes Kate Nash KT Tunstall Leona Lewis PJ Harvey British Group Arctic Monkeys Editors Girls Aloud Kaiser Chiefs Take That British Album Arctic Monkeys - 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' Leona Lewis - 'Spirit' Mark Ronson - 'Version' Mika - 'Life In Cartoon Motion' Take That - 'Beautiful World' British Breakthrough Act Bat For Lashes Kate Nash Klaxons Leona Lewis Mika British Live Act Arctic Monkeys Kaiser Chiefs Klaxons Muse Take That British Single The Hoosiers - 'Worried About Ray' Leona Lewis - 'Bleeding Love' Mark Ronson - 'Valerie' (featuring Amy Winehouse) Mika - 'Grace Kelly' Take That - 'Shine' International Male Solo Artist Bruce Springsteen Kanye West Rufus Wainwright Timbaland Michael Buble International Female Solo Artist Alicia Keys Bjork Feist Kylie Minogue Rihanna International Group Arcade Fire Eagles Foo Fighters Kings Of Leon The White Stripes International Album Arcade Fire - 'Neon Bible' Eagles - 'Long Road Out Of Eden' Foo Fighters - 'Echoes, Silence, Patience, Grace' Kings Of Leon 'Because Of The Times' Kylie Minogue - 'X' Outstanding Contribution Award Paul McCartney
This year’s BRIT Awards take place at London’s Earls Court tonight (February 20).
Five time Grammy winning Amy Winehouse is expected to perform ‘Valerie’ and one other track from ‘Back To Black’, in her first live performance since entering rehab.
She has been nominated in the Best Single category for ‘Valerie’, and will perform with Mark Ronson for whom she recorded the The Zutons‘ cover for. It is the only catergory she is eligible for as she won the awards for her album at last year’s ceremony.
Paul McCartney is to pick up the Outstanding Contribution to Music award, and will perform for fifteen minutes at the end of the show, despite his ongoing court divorce battle with Heather Mills the past two weeks. Kylie Minogue will be presenting the former Beatle with his award.
Other highlights of tonight’s show are expected to be the Klaxons backing Rihanna on her global smash ‘Umbrella’ and seeing Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne compere the whole show live (albeit with a 30 second time delay).
The whole show is broadcast on ITV1 from 8pm.
Check back to www.uncut.co.uk for the full list of award winners, gossip and photos from this year’s event.
The full nominees are:
British Male Solo Artist
Jamie T
Mark Ronson
Mika
Newton Faulkner
Richard Hawley
British Female Solo Artist
Bat For Lashes
Kate Nash
KT Tunstall
Leona Lewis
PJ Harvey
British Group
Arctic Monkeys
Editors
Girls Aloud
Kaiser Chiefs
Take That
British Album
Arctic Monkeys – ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’
Leona Lewis – ‘Spirit’
Mark Ronson – ‘Version’
Mika – ‘Life In Cartoon Motion’
Take That – ‘Beautiful World’
British Breakthrough Act
Bat For Lashes
Kate Nash
Klaxons
Leona Lewis
Mika
British Live Act
Arctic Monkeys
Kaiser Chiefs
Klaxons
Muse
Take That
British Single
The Hoosiers – ‘Worried About Ray’
Leona Lewis – ‘Bleeding Love’
Mark Ronson – ‘Valerie’ (featuring Amy Winehouse)
Mika – ‘Grace Kelly’
Take That – ‘Shine’
International Male Solo Artist
Bruce Springsteen
Kanye West
Rufus Wainwright
Timbaland
Michael Buble
International Female Solo Artist
Alicia Keys
Bjork
Feist
Kylie Minogue
Rihanna
International Group
Arcade Fire
Eagles
Foo Fighters
Kings Of Leon
The White Stripes
International Album
Arcade Fire – ‘Neon Bible’
Eagles – ‘Long Road Out Of Eden’
Foo Fighters – ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience, Grace’
Kings Of Leon ‘Because Of The Times’
Kylie Minogue – ‘X’
Outstanding Contribution Award
Paul McCartney
'Hardcore Troubadour' Steve Earle wound up his UK tour at London's Roundhouse this Monday (February 18). The short UK tour which started in Cambridge on January 24, saw Earle support his recent Grammy awarded album 'Washington Square Serenade'. His tour continues across North America from February 28, see his website for more details. Click here for the full live review from London's Camden Roundhouse. www.steveearle.com www.myspace.com/steveearlemusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AoysLSHNSo
‘Hardcore Troubadour’ Steve Earle wound up his UK tour at London’s Roundhouse this Monday (February 18).
The short UK tour which started in Cambridge on January 24, saw Earle support his recent Grammy awarded album ‘Washington Square Serenade’.
His tour continues across North America from February 28, see his website for more details.
Click here for the full live review from London’s Camden Roundhouse.
Where likeminded practitioners of synthesiser pop – from Ladytron to Rachel Stevens – have fallen by the wayside, the retro-futurist workmanship of Goldfrapp continues to sell by the truckload. They pack out arenas, they have proper hit singles, they soundtrack student discos and thirtysomething dinner parties, and find their music being used to accompany TV adverts and Goal Of The Month footage. Now, just as Mute records were ready to push them into Depeche Mode-style stadium rock territory, Alison Goldfrapp and her accomplice Will Gregory have suddenly gone all minimalist and folky. Seventh Tree is Goldfrapp unplugged. It is a digital folk album. It is hand-knitted synth pop played around a campfire on dulcimers and autoharps and harmoniums. It leaves you grasping for surprisingly arcane references. “Clowns” is all Bert Jansch guitars, Edward Lear lyrics and Nick Drake strings. “Little Bird” is a wonky nursery rhyme, accompanied by digital harps and cut-up drum loops, that slowly transforms into a dreamy Cocteau Twins ballad. “Happiness” recalls one of Goldfrapp’s Glitter Band-style songs, like “Strict Machine”, but played acoustically against a barrage of Peter Skellern-style brass bands, recorders and medieval vocal harmonies. “Eat Yourself” is the sound of Oliver Postgate meets the Neptunes. The album loses momentum midway with a couple of dreary ballads, but quickly recovers for a rousing finish: “Cologne Cerrone Houdini” could be Nico singing a Bond theme and “Caravan Girl” sounds like Belle & Sebastian making a glam rock album in 1967 using Paul McCartney’s Mellotron. It’s a brave, bonkers, often beautiful, sometimes haunting and occasionally ridiculous album. But full dibs to Goldfrapp as they steam through the space-time continuum in their glitter-plated time machine. It’s a pleasure to hear them retreat from a futuristic utopia of anti-gravity scooters and orgasmatrons and head for rural idyll in 13th century Albion. JOHN LEWIS UNCUT Q&A: Will Gregory UNCUT: Did you use real guitars? WILL GREGORY: Neither Alison nor I play guitar, so we’d play sampled guitars on keyboard. Then we’d ask friends to replay them on guitar, and realise that they’d need a million fingers. So sometimes the sampled guitar made it to the final round. What were you listening to when you made the album? Nick Drake, early Pink Floyd, the soundtrack to The Wicker Man. We spent a while discussing definitions of psychedelia – dreamy, mesmeric, hypnotic, out-of-its-head, woozy, with a little bit of space in it. Are you going to tour folksy versions of your entire back catalogue? We might. We want to use more acoustic instruments. It’d be nice to reorchestrate some old stuff, but you don’t want to get too Jeff Lynne. Before you know it you have Nelson Riddle-does-“Strict Machine”. Actually, that might be quite good... INTERVIEW: JOHN LEWIS
Where likeminded practitioners of synthesiser pop – from Ladytron to Rachel Stevens – have fallen by the wayside, the retro-futurist workmanship of Goldfrapp continues to sell by the truckload. They pack out arenas, they have proper hit singles, they soundtrack student discos and thirtysomething dinner parties, and find their music being used to accompany TV adverts and Goal Of The Month footage.
Now, just as Mute records were ready to push them into Depeche Mode-style stadium rock territory, Alison Goldfrapp and her accomplice Will Gregory have suddenly gone all minimalist and folky. Seventh Tree is Goldfrapp unplugged. It is a digital folk album. It is hand-knitted synth pop played around a campfire on dulcimers and autoharps and harmoniums.
It leaves you grasping for surprisingly arcane references. “Clowns” is all Bert Jansch guitars, Edward Lear lyrics and Nick Drake strings. “Little Bird” is a wonky nursery rhyme, accompanied by digital harps and cut-up drum loops, that slowly transforms into a dreamy Cocteau Twins ballad. “Happiness” recalls one of Goldfrapp’s Glitter Band-style songs, like “Strict Machine”, but played acoustically against a barrage of Peter Skellern-style brass bands, recorders and medieval vocal harmonies. “Eat Yourself” is the sound of Oliver Postgate meets the Neptunes.
The album loses momentum midway with a couple of dreary ballads, but quickly recovers for a rousing finish: “Cologne Cerrone Houdini” could be Nico singing a Bond theme and “Caravan Girl” sounds like Belle & Sebastian making a glam rock album in 1967 using Paul McCartney’s Mellotron.
It’s a brave, bonkers, often beautiful, sometimes haunting and occasionally ridiculous album. But full dibs to Goldfrapp as they steam through the space-time continuum in their glitter-plated time machine. It’s a pleasure to hear them retreat from a futuristic utopia of anti-gravity scooters and orgasmatrons and head for rural idyll in 13th century Albion.
JOHN LEWIS
UNCUT Q&A: Will Gregory
UNCUT: Did you use real guitars?
WILL GREGORY: Neither Alison nor I play guitar, so we’d play sampled guitars on keyboard. Then we’d ask friends to replay them on guitar, and realise that they’d need a million fingers. So sometimes the sampled guitar made it to the final round.
What were you listening to when you made the album?
Nick Drake, early Pink Floyd, the soundtrack to The Wicker Man. We spent a while discussing definitions of psychedelia – dreamy, mesmeric, hypnotic, out-of-its-head, woozy, with a little bit of space in it.
Are you going to tour folksy versions of your entire back catalogue?
We might. We want to use more acoustic instruments. It’d be nice to reorchestrate some old stuff, but you don’t want to get too Jeff Lynne. Before you know it you have Nelson Riddle-does-“Strict Machine”. Actually, that might be quite good…
INTERVIEW: JOHN LEWIS
“Good to see you up there Stevie” yells a fan from the crowd. “Well, it’s better than the alternative” snarls Steve Earle back. This is how the great Americana survivor began his sold-out show in London Monday night.
Singing stories about war, drug-taking and alcoholism, Earle has the look and tone of someone who has obviously stared oblivion in the face and lived to tell the tale. Albeit in a semi-cautionary, I’ve-been-married-seven-times and I still have to go to AA and NA, but I’ve bagged two Grammys and a bit-part on The Wire kinda way.
Long before even Damon Albarn fetched up in Bamako, Toumani Diabaté was an astute and dignified ambassador for the griot musical tradition of Mali. He added the voluptuous flutter of his kora to jazz, blues and flamenco records, as well as ones by Albarn and, most recently, Björk. Superficially, The Mandé Variations seems to be a retreat from such eclecticism, being a solo record where no other instruments distract from Diabaté’s mildly terrifying virtuosity. Casually dipping into the eight long tracks sometimes makes that virtuosity come over like self-indulgence. But concentrated listening pays dividends. This isn’t a traditional record, by any means, more a display of how Diabaté has seamlessly absorbed a global swarm of influences (a playful quote from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly opens “Cantelowes”). If anything, bizarrely, it reminds me of a late ‘60s John Fahey album: stately, intricate, meditative, rooted in a culture, but never afraid to transcend it. JOHN MULVEY
Long before even Damon Albarn fetched up in Bamako, Toumani Diabaté was an astute and dignified ambassador for the griot musical tradition of Mali. He added the voluptuous flutter of his kora to jazz, blues and flamenco records, as well as ones by Albarn and, most recently, Björk.
Superficially, The Mandé Variations seems to be a retreat from such eclecticism, being a solo record where no other instruments distract from Diabaté’s mildly terrifying virtuosity. Casually dipping into the eight long tracks sometimes makes that virtuosity come over like self-indulgence. But concentrated listening pays dividends.
This isn’t a traditional record, by any means, more a display of how Diabaté has seamlessly absorbed a global swarm of influences (a playful quote from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly opens “Cantelowes”). If anything, bizarrely, it reminds me of a late ‘60s John Fahey album: stately, intricate, meditative, rooted in a culture, but never afraid to transcend it.
JOHN MULVEY
Before he yoked folk to rock with woozy masterpiece Solid Air, John Martyn was just another bearded minstrel on the U.K folk circuit, albeit armed with cherubic good looks and an acid tongue. The Battle Of Medway, recorded live in Kent in between sessions for Solid Air and Inside Out could change your mind about that. Granted, fans may baulk at the opportunity of owning yet another acoustic rendition of “May You Never”, but hearing Martyn's feverish delivery on “I'd Rather Be The Devil” in such audio verite is still enough to send a shiver down the spine. PAUL MOODY
Before he yoked folk to rock with woozy masterpiece Solid Air, John Martyn was just another bearded minstrel on the U.K folk circuit, albeit armed with cherubic good looks and an acid tongue.
The Battle Of Medway, recorded live in Kent in between sessions for Solid Air and Inside Out could change your mind about that. Granted, fans may baulk at the opportunity of owning yet another acoustic rendition of “May You Never”, but hearing Martyn’s feverish delivery on “I’d Rather Be The Devil” in such audio verite is still enough to send a shiver down the spine.
PAUL MOODY
Sebastien Tellier is the amorous Frenchman who tasted success with the billowing cult hit “La Ritournelle”. Not wishing to repeat the experience, he has recruited Daft Punk‘s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo to produce the ornate electronic pop of Sexuality, a gentle erotic adventure as tasteful as Emmanuelle.
A bold move, perhaps: its smooth, highly stylised ‘80s synth-funk seems tailored for those who entertain on leopard-skin-print silk sheets. Poised between Jarvis Cocker and Serge Gainsbourg, he laces “Kilometer” and “Pomme” with oily spurts of Hall & Oates. It is a curious album that leaves the listener, like Tellier, aroused but unsatisfied.
PIERS MARTIN
The Hold Steady have been added to this year’s Wireless Festival bill, and will play on Sunday July 6.
The Delays who this Summer return with their third studio album have also been added to the line-up for the day headlined by the Counting Crows.
Other artists so far confirmed for Wireless Sunday are Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals and Aussie rockers Powderfinger.
Fat Boy Slim aka Norman Cook headlines the London festival on July 5, with support coming from Bootsy Collins and Underworld.
Further artists for the Hyde Park festival are expected to be announced soon.
Wireless takes place July 3-6 and tickets are on sale now.
See the festival’s official website here for more details: www.o2wirelessfestival.co.uk
Elbow have created a new website to let fans check out tracks from their forthcoming album The Seldom Seen Kid.
Based on the artwork for their fourth album, Elbow have created a 3D Rubiks type cube which you can find tracks from the new album within.
You can check it out by clicking here: www.theseldomseenkid.com
Elbow release their first single since 2005 on March 17. ‘Ground For Divorce’ will be available for one week only, on two CDs and 7″.
Guy Garvey and co. are also about to head out on tour. They will play the following venues:
Glasgow ABC (April 4)
Newcastle Academy (5)
Leeds Metropolitan University (6)
Oxford Academy (8)
Bristol Colston Hall (9)
Birmingham Academy (10)
Sheffield Octagon (12)
Manchester Academy (13)
Nottingham Rock City (14)
London Brixton Academy (15)
Pic credit: Kevin Westenberg
Carter USM have announced that they will play two further gigs this year, after saying they would ‘quit’ playing live after two one-off shows late last year.
Jim Bob and Fruitbat will now play Birmingham Carling Academy on November 21 and London’s Brixton Academy on November 22.
After their ‘farewell’ shows in Glasgow and London in October and November last year, which were Carter’s first shows in a decade, fans deluged the band with letters and emails asking for more.
The band then sent an email to the Carter USM mailing list asking for opinions, reportedly 97% responded positively.
The show in London coincides with Jim Bob’s birthday and he hopes “the audience will be partying like it’s 1992.”
Tickets for the shows go on sale this Friday (February 25) at 9am.
Yeasayer have announced some brand new UK shows for May, along with details of their album reissue.
The hotly-tipped New Yorkers will be playing the Uncut stage at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival on May 15 as part of the newly added shows which follow Yeasayer’s appearances at SXSW and All Tomorrow’s Parties.
The band’s debut All Hour Cymbals is also set to be reissued on March 24, and this time will also be released on vinyl.
Yeasayer have re-recorded one of the album tracks ‘Wait For The Summer’ for release as a brand new single which will be available for download on March 10 and released on limited edition red 7″ vinyl on March 17.
You can see the video for ‘Wait For The Summer’ by clicking here.
Yeasayer play the following dates in March and May:
Birmingham, Bar Academy (March 5)
London, ICA (6)
Glasgow, King Tuts (8)
Manchester, Night & Day (9)
London, ICA (10)
Camber Sands, ATP vs. Pitchfork (May 10)
London, ULU (12)
Dublin, Whelans (13)
Belfast, Speakeasy (14)
Brighton, Great Escape/Uncut Stage (15)
Brighton, Great Escape/Club NME Stage (16)
Leeds, Nasty Fest IV @ Faversham (17)
Van Morrison is to perform on the opening night of this year’s South By Southwest Music conference in Austin, Texas.
Playing at the La Zona Rosa venue on March 12, Morrison will be previewing songs from his new album Keep It Simple.
The new eleven track album, is Van Morrison’s first record of all new material since 2005’s Magic Time, and is scheduled for release through Polydor records on March 17.
Morrison will also be playing a short tour of the US, playing the following venues:
Austin Music Hall, Austin (March 11)
La Zona Rosa/SXSW, Austin (12)
Ryman Auditorium, Nashville (13)
Wang Theatre, Boston (14)
United Palace, New York (15)
Morning all, here's the latest rundown. I guess the most significant new arrival this week is from Spiritualized: "Songs In A&E" just arrived. We're on Track Five right now. 1. Kelis - The Hits (Virgin) 2. Boris - Smile (Southern Lord) 3. Portishead - Third (Island) 4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (4AD) 5. 5ive - Hesperus (Tortuga) 6. Various Artists - New Folk Routes (Rev-Ola) 7. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair (DFA/EMI) 8. Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling (Environ) 9. Diskjokke - Staying In (Smalltown Supersound) 10. John Stewart - California Bloodlines (Capitol) 11. No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop) 12. Lights - Lights (Twisted Nerve) 13. Ersen - Ersen (Finders Keepers) 14. Various Artists - More Dirty Laundry: The Soul Of Black Country (Trikont) 15. Kurt Weisman - Spiritual SciFi (Important) 16. Mason Proffit - Wanted! (Wooden Bird) 17. Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman And The Ravens (Island) 18. Steve Reich - Daniel Variations (Nonesuch) 19. Spiritualized - Songs In A&E (Spaceman)
Morning all, here’s the latest rundown. I guess the most significant new arrival this week is from Spiritualized: “Songs In A&E” just arrived. We’re on Track Five right now.
The Charlatans have announced a twelve date UK tour taking place in May.
Tim Burgess and co. are hitting the road in support of their tenth studio album ‘You Cross My Path’, which is due out on May 19, but will be available as a free download from Xfm.co.uk from March 3.
As previously announced, The Charlatans are also playing Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire on June 29, as part of the Forestry Commisions series of events.
Tickets for the Charlatans UK tour go on sale this Friday (February 22) at 9am.
They are set to play:
Leicester Leicester University (May 10)
Liverpool Carling Academy (11)
Oxford Carling Academy (12)
Bristol Carling Academy (13)
London Forum (15)
Southampton Guildhall (16)
Lincoln Engine Shed (17)
Aberdeen Music Hall (19)
Glasgow Carling Academy (20)
Newcastle Carling Academy (22)
Sheffield Carling Academy (23)
Manchester Academy (24)
New York-based singer-songwriter and sometime sound engineer for Ryan Adams and Phillip Glass - Dawn Landes is to headline the first Club Uncut next month! Our new monthly gig nights in the capital launch with Landes at the Borderline venue on March 20 -- with support coming from hotly-tipped Swedish folk singer Peter Von Poehl and singer Liz Green. Club Uncut will be bringing you our favourite new artists, once a month at London's intimate Borderline -- more artists for future gigs will be announced very soon! Keep checking www.uncut.co.uk for info. Tickets are on sale now: click here for the exclusive ticket link. For more information on the artists, and to hear audio clips, check: www.myspace.com/dawnlandes www.myspace.com/petervonpoehl http://www.myspace.com/lizgreenmusic
New York-based singer-songwriter and sometime sound engineer for Ryan Adams and Phillip Glass – Dawn Landes is to headline the first Club Uncut next month!
Our new monthly gig nights in the capital launch with Landes at the Borderline venue on March 20 — with support coming from hotly-tipped Swedish folk singer Peter Von Poehl and singer Liz Green.
Club Uncut will be bringing you our favourite new artists, once a month at London’s intimate Borderline — more artists for future gigs will be announced very soon!
Keep checking www.uncut.co.uk for info.
Tickets are on sale now: click here for the exclusive ticket link.
For more information on the artists, and to hear audio clips, check:
Graham Nash is taking part in UNCUT’s monthly An Audience With… feature very soon and we’re after your questions to put to him.
So, is there anything you’ve ever wanted to ask Nash? About his time in The Hollies? Hanging in Laurel Canyon with Crosby and co? Or what it’s like being part of the biggest supergroup in the world – CSNY.
Send your questions to: uncutaudiencewith@ipcmedia.com by Friday, February 29.
Include your name and location. The best questions (and Nash’s answers will appear in a future edition of UNCUT magazine).
