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Kate Bush Records New Song

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Kate Bush Records New Song

Kate Bush has recorded a new song for the forthcoming film 'The Golden Compass'. The new track 'Lyra', named after the film's main character Lyra Belacqua will feature over the film's end credits and on the soundtrack album. The film, based on Phillip Pullman's book 'Northern Lights', is due for release on December 5. Kate Bush wrote and produced 'Lyra' in her own studio, with Oxford's Magdalen College Choir, apt as the novel is set in and around Oxford's Colleges. The soundtrack to the film will be available to download and buy from December 12. Bush's last new material was 2005's double album 'Ariel'. See the trailer for The Golden Compass here. More info about Kate Bush is available from her official website here: www.katebush.com.

Kate Bush has recorded a new song for the forthcoming film ‘The Golden Compass’.

The new track ‘Lyra’, named after the film’s main character Lyra Belacqua will feature over the film’s end credits and on the soundtrack album.

The film, based on Phillip Pullman‘s book ‘Northern Lights’, is due for release on December 5.

Kate Bush wrote and produced ‘Lyra’ in her own studio, with Oxford’s Magdalen College Choir, apt as the novel is set in and around Oxford’s Colleges.

The soundtrack to the film will be available to download and buy from December 12.

Bush’s last new material was 2005’s double album ‘Ariel‘.

See the trailer for The Golden Compass here.

More info about Kate Bush is available from her official website here: www.katebush.com.

Levon Helm – Dirt Farmer

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Levon Helm – Dirt Farmer

Levon Helm was the southern heart of that essentially Canadian group The Band, the drummer/singer/mandolinist who gave Robbie Robertson's songs their corn-starch authenticity. Helm it was who showed Robertson the ropes in his home state of Arkansas; Helm whose good-ole-boy yelp of a voice led Band classics as different as "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Thirty years after that august group hung up their rock'n'roll shoes, Helm finally delivers his first solo album proper. And about time too. We've heard Helm horsing merrily about with the post-Robertson Band, with Ringo's All-Starrs and his own RCO All-Stars. What we haven't heard is the true country soul of the tow-headed boy who grew up singing blues and bluegrass songs at the knees of his parents – the dirt farmer within, you might say. Then along comes Dylan sideman Larry Campbell and a contract with venerable folk label Vanguard and bingo, everything falls into place… Helm visited these places in The Band, of course: Dirt Farmer necessarily recalls the ragged mountain outings that were "Ain't No More Cane", "Don't Ya Tell Henry" and others. But it took Levon's daughter Amy to suggest they go back to the era of the Carter Family and the Stanley Brothers to tap the true roots of his musical heritage. Co-producing with Campbell, Amy sings and plays behind her old man on an album that mixes up "traditionals" with neo-trads such as Steve Earle's "The Mountain" and Paul Kennerley's "A Train Robbery". Joining the trio in the earthy-sounding troupe are Brian Mitchell (piano and accordion), Glenn Patscha (pump organ), George Receli (percussion) and bassist Byron Isaacs, author of the brooding gospel track "Calvary". Where drums are required they are mostly played by Helm himself. The conspicuous absence of The Band's Garth Hudson is the only thing that might be said to raise an eyebrow. The result is a collection that sounds like nothing so much as a modern-day Dock Boggs signed to the Lost Highway label. Helm was never as blue-eyed-soulful a singer as fallen companions Rick Danko or Richard Manuel but he was a great singer nonetheless, simply in the way he placed his consonants and shaped his southern vowel sounds. If that roustabout voice has been weakened by the throat cancer he suffered in the late '90s – and by 28 radiation treatments, no less – you'd hardly know it from the alternately lusty and baleful performances he gives on Dirt Farmer. ("My voice is over halfway back," he claims in the album's sleevenote.) On "The Mountain" he's a wounded animal baying at the moon. On J.B. Lenoir's "Feelin' Good" – a backwoods-blues diversion on an album that's predominantly Caucasian in its sources – he's a yowling roué who should know better, backed by a daughter who sounds like Bonnie Raitt's kid sister. The Catskills are not and never will be the Blue Ridge Mountains, but Helm has somehow recreated his own hickory holler in his adopted Woodstock. When the original RCO Studio barn burned to the ground, Levon simply built another on its ruins. Of late he's been hosting his own "Midnight Rambles" at "The Barn" (Levon Helm Studios to you), and it's the easy-rolling spirit of those gatherings that infuses these recordings. Dominated by fiddles and dobros and mandolins and mandolas – the default instrumentation of today's retro roots-rock – Dirt Farmer finally brings Helm into the realm of Lucinda Williams and her kind, with Larry Campbell serving as his white-knight Joe Henry. The thirteen tracks are well-sequenced. The jauntily Cajun-flavoured "The Girl I Left Behind" follows on the heels of the sparse, wheezy "Little Birds", an ancient Appalachian ballad Helm that sometimes sang with The Band and, he says, gave him his "first understanding of harmonies and how they should stack, parallel and support each other.") "Got Me a Woman", Kennerley's jolly ode to domestic bliss, cheers us up after Laurelyn Dossett's contemporary death ballad "Anna Lee", wherein father and daughter duet over Campbell's mournful sawing. "Feelin' Good" flows out of "The Blind Child", yet another of the high-lonesome singalongs Helm learned from mama Nell and pappy Diamond. By the time we reach Buddy and Julie Miller's "Wide River to Cross" – a fittingly elegiac finale, with Helm singing in a lower, richer register – we sense that we've reached the end of a musical journey. Okay, so Dirt Farmer ain't The Band, who will always overshadow the solo work of its five members, living or deceased. It isn't even the re-imagining of southern life that Lucinda Williams or Gillian Welch – a guest at one of the Midnight Rambles – offer. But then Levon Helm has never pretended to be an innovator. In The Band he provided the rhythmic and cultural anchor for Robertson's southern fantasies, poo-poohing fancy notions of artistry. In 2007 he's content to be a kind of newgrass revivalist, bringing this old mountain music up to date. "It gave us a chance to monkey up the rhythm of a traditional country beat," Levon writes of Dirt Farmer's infectiously skanky arrangement of the Carter Family's "Single Girl, Married Girl". The phrase is vintage Helm, summing up everything that's great about this weathered veteran of Americana. BARNEY HOSKYNS

Levon Helm was the southern heart of that essentially Canadian group The Band, the drummer/singer/mandolinist who gave Robbie Robertson‘s songs their corn-starch authenticity. Helm it was who showed Robertson the ropes in his home state of Arkansas; Helm whose good-ole-boy yelp of a voice led Band classics as different as “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”.

Thirty years after that august group hung up their rock’n’roll shoes, Helm finally delivers his first solo album proper. And about time too. We’ve heard Helm horsing merrily about with the post-Robertson Band, with Ringo’s All-Starrs and his own RCO All-Stars. What we haven’t heard is the true country soul of the tow-headed boy who grew up singing blues and bluegrass songs at the knees of his parents – the dirt farmer within, you might say. Then along comes Dylan sideman Larry Campbell and a contract with venerable folk label Vanguard and bingo, everything falls into place…

Helm visited these places in The Band, of course: Dirt Farmer necessarily recalls the ragged mountain outings that were “Ain’t No More Cane”, “Don’t Ya Tell Henry” and others. But it took Levon’s daughter Amy to suggest they go back to the era of the Carter Family and the Stanley Brothers to tap the true roots of his musical heritage. Co-producing with Campbell, Amy sings and plays behind her old man on an album that mixes up “traditionals” with neo-trads such as Steve Earle‘s “The Mountain” and Paul Kennerley‘s “A Train Robbery”.

Joining the trio in the earthy-sounding troupe are Brian Mitchell (piano and accordion), Glenn Patscha (pump organ), George Receli (percussion) and bassist Byron Isaacs, author of the brooding gospel track “Calvary”. Where drums are required they are mostly played by Helm himself. The conspicuous absence of The Band’s Garth Hudson is the only thing that might be said to raise an eyebrow.

The result is a collection that sounds like nothing so much as a modern-day Dock Boggs signed to the Lost Highway label. Helm was never as blue-eyed-soulful a singer as fallen companions Rick Danko or Richard Manuel but he was a great singer nonetheless, simply in the way he placed his consonants and shaped his southern vowel sounds. If that roustabout voice has been weakened by the throat cancer he suffered in the late ’90s – and by 28 radiation treatments, no less – you’d hardly know it from the alternately lusty and baleful performances he gives on Dirt Farmer. (“My voice is over halfway back,” he claims in the album’s sleevenote.) On “The Mountain” he’s a wounded animal baying at the moon. On J.B. Lenoir’s “Feelin’ Good” – a backwoods-blues diversion on an album that’s predominantly Caucasian in its sources – he’s a yowling roué who should know better, backed by a daughter who sounds like Bonnie Raitt’s kid sister.

The Catskills are not and never will be the Blue Ridge Mountains, but Helm has somehow recreated his own hickory holler in his adopted Woodstock. When the original RCO Studio barn burned to the ground, Levon simply built another on its ruins. Of late he’s been hosting his own “Midnight Rambles” at “The Barn” (Levon Helm Studios to you), and it’s the easy-rolling spirit of those gatherings that infuses these recordings. Dominated by fiddles and dobros and mandolins and mandolas – the default instrumentation of today’s retro roots-rock – Dirt Farmer finally brings Helm into the realm of Lucinda Williams and her kind, with Larry Campbell serving as his white-knight Joe Henry.

The thirteen tracks are well-sequenced. The jauntily Cajun-flavoured “The Girl I Left Behind” follows on the heels of the sparse, wheezy “Little Birds”, an ancient Appalachian ballad Helm that sometimes sang with The Band and, he says, gave him his “first understanding of harmonies and how they should stack, parallel and support each other.”) “Got Me a Woman”, Kennerley’s jolly ode to domestic bliss, cheers us up after Laurelyn Dossett’s contemporary death ballad “Anna Lee”, wherein father and daughter duet over Campbell’s mournful sawing. “Feelin’ Good” flows out of “The Blind Child”, yet another of the high-lonesome singalongs Helm learned from mama Nell and pappy Diamond. By the time we reach Buddy and Julie Miller‘s “Wide River to Cross” – a fittingly elegiac finale, with Helm singing in a lower, richer register – we sense that we’ve reached the end of a musical journey.

Okay, so Dirt Farmer ain’t The Band, who will always overshadow the solo work of its five members, living or deceased. It isn’t even the re-imagining of southern life that Lucinda Williams or Gillian Welch – a guest at one of the Midnight Rambles – offer. But then Levon Helm has never pretended to be an innovator. In The Band he provided the rhythmic and cultural anchor for Robertson’s southern fantasies, poo-poohing fancy notions of artistry. In 2007 he’s content to be a kind of newgrass revivalist, bringing this old mountain music up to date.

“It gave us a chance to monkey up the rhythm of a traditional country beat,” Levon writes of Dirt Farmer’s infectiously skanky arrangement of the Carter Family’s “Single Girl, Married Girl”. The phrase is vintage Helm, summing up everything that’s great about this weathered veteran of Americana.

BARNEY HOSKYNS

Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre

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Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre

As last year’s 'Only After Dark' compilation of postpunk synthpop suggested, DD have belatedly concluded that they’re really more Arcadia than Power Station, and with this – their first album since guitarist John Taylor split – they’d like to come across as godfathers of avant-pop. If you’re willing to overlook Simon Le Bon’s always peculiar lyrics and occasionally strained singing, 'Red Carpet Massacre' is actually pretty impressive. The three Timbaland/Timberlake hookups are effective rather than embarrassing, and with the slinky “Nite Runner” they’ve produced their best single since 1986’s “Skin Trade”. STEPHEN TROUSSÉ

As last year’s ‘Only After Dark’ compilation of postpunk synthpop suggested, DD have belatedly concluded that they’re really more Arcadia than Power Station, and with this – their first album since guitarist John Taylor split – they’d like to come across as godfathers of avant-pop.

If you’re willing to overlook Simon Le Bon’s always peculiar lyrics and occasionally strained singing, ‘Red Carpet Massacre’ is actually pretty impressive. The three Timbaland/Timberlake hookups are effective rather than embarrassing, and with the slinky “Nite Runner” they’ve produced their best single since 1986’s “Skin Trade”.

STEPHEN TROUSSÉ

Fabriclive36: James Murphy And Pat Mahoney / LCD Soundsystem – 45:33

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Fabriclive36: James Murphy And Pat Mahoney / LCD Soundsystem – 45:33

James Murphy’s out to make you sweat. His Fabric mix, co-compiled with LCD Soundsystem drummer Pat Mahoney, is a mix of unashamed disco glitz (Chic, Daniel Wang, New York’s ZE Records) seemingly designed to confuse up post-punk stragglers hoping for The Fall. Meanwhile, LCD’s “45.33” finds its way to CD for the first time. Commissioned by Nikeas an exercise mix for iPods, this euphoric, largely electronic set finds Murphy adapting DJ dynamics for the running machine. The checkerboard sleeve, meanwhile, hints at one key influence – the pulsing, layered synthetic Krautrock of Manuel Gottsching’s “E2-E4”. LOUIS PATTISON

James Murphy’s out to make you sweat. His Fabric mix, co-compiled with LCD Soundsystem drummer Pat Mahoney, is a mix of unashamed disco glitz (Chic, Daniel Wang, New York’s ZE Records) seemingly designed to confuse up post-punk stragglers hoping for The Fall.

Meanwhile, LCD’s “45.33” finds its way to CD for the first time. Commissioned by Nikeas an exercise mix for iPods, this euphoric, largely electronic set finds Murphy adapting DJ dynamics for the running machine. The checkerboard sleeve, meanwhile, hints at one key influence – the pulsing, layered synthetic Krautrock of Manuel Gottsching’s “E2-E4”.

LOUIS PATTISON

Gorillaz – D-sides

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Gorillaz – D-sides

Testament to the astonishing fecundity of the project, Gorillaz’ second round-up of offcuts, noodles and sketches still has an excellent strike rate. Highlights? The War Child-commissioned “Hong Kong” (featuring some sublime Chinese zither), the hiphop Ian Dury of “The Rockit” and the twinkly, blurry Icelandic protest ballad “Stop The Dams” (complete with typically oddball cameo from Einar Sugarcube). The additional disc of remixes - particularly Jamie T’s “Kids With Guns” farrago - is less essential, but still includes a terrific “Chinese NY” take on “Dirty Harry”. STEPHEN TROUSSÉ

Testament to the astonishing fecundity of the project, Gorillaz’ second round-up of offcuts, noodles and sketches still has an excellent strike rate.

Highlights? The War Child-commissioned “Hong Kong” (featuring some sublime Chinese zither), the hiphop Ian Dury of “The Rockit” and the twinkly, blurry Icelandic protest ballad “Stop The Dams” (complete with typically oddball cameo from Einar Sugarcube).

The additional disc of remixes – particularly Jamie T’s “Kids With Guns” farrago – is less essential, but still includes a terrific “Chinese NY” take on “Dirty Harry”.

STEPHEN TROUSSÉ

PJ Harvey New Single Revealed

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PJ Harvey New Single Revealed

PJ Harvey's next single to be released will be 'The Piano' on November 26. The second single to be taken from the singer's eight studio album 'White Chalk' is to also feature a track 'Heaven' recorded in 1988, during one of Harvey's first ever recording sessions. 'The Piano' will be released on download and limited edition 7” vinyl. Harvey's first White Chalk single 'When Under Ether' was released on September 17 also backed by a previously unreleased 80's-recorded track 'Wait'. You can read Uncut's review of 'White Chalk' here.

PJ Harvey‘s next single to be released will be ‘The Piano’ on November 26.

The second single to be taken from the singer’s eight studio album ‘White Chalk’ is to also feature a track ‘Heaven’ recorded in 1988, during one of Harvey’s first ever recording sessions.

‘The Piano’ will be released on download and limited edition 7” vinyl.

Harvey’s first White Chalk single ‘When Under Ether’ was released on September 17 also backed by a previously unreleased 80’s-recorded track ‘Wait’.

You can read Uncut’s review of ‘White Chalk’ here.

Bloc Party To Play Tiny Secret Gig

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Bloc Party To Play Tiny Secret Gig

Bloc Party are to play a very exclusive gig at a secret UK location soon, and the only way to get tickets is by grabbing a copy of the special NME Bloc Party single giveaway. The band's latest single 'Flux' - which shows off the band's new dancier direction is being released in two parts - the first of which is free with Uncut's sister publication NME this week (November 14). The CD features four exclusive mixes of the single and comes with access to a private website through which you can enter the draw to buy tickets for the gig. There is also a host of other download content available. CD2 of the single, featuring the original version of the song, is available to buy in shops from November 12.

Bloc Party are to play a very exclusive gig at a secret UK location soon, and the only way to get tickets is by grabbing a copy of the special NME Bloc Party single giveaway.

The band’s latest single ‘Flux‘ – which shows off the band’s new dancier direction is being released in two parts – the first of which is free with Uncut’s sister publication NME this week (November 14).

The CD features four exclusive mixes of the single and comes with access to a private website through which you can enter the draw to buy tickets for the gig.

There is also a host of other download content available.

CD2 of the single, featuring the original version of the song, is available to buy in shops from November 12.

Iron Maiden Cause Ticket Mayhem In Scandinavia

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Iron Maiden Cause Ticket Mayhem In Scandinavia

Iron Maiden's Somewhere Back In Time world tour is continuing to sell amazingly well, and the latest countries to go Maiden mad are Sweden and Finland - with the band selling 123, 500 tickets yesterday alone. An extra concert at Finland's 30,000 capacity Ratina Stadium has today been announced for July 19, after the show Helsinki's 41, 500 Olympic Stadium was inundated with requests yesterday. Tickets for the added show will go on sale this Friday, November 16 at 9am. The tour's Scandinavian promoter Thomas Johansson of EMA Telstar said: “We said when we announced this tour that is was the biggest Nordic Tour by any rock band ever and that we wanted to ensure that as many fans as possible could get to see this amazing band. You must appreciate that Helsinki has a population of half a million so this is equivalent to selling out a dozen Wembley Stadiums before lunch." Tickets also went on sale yesterday for Maiden's Columbia concert and also broke records for sales in the South American country. Phil Rodriguez, the promoter for Simon Bolivar Stadium in Bogota said: “Box Office records were broken from the very start and Maiden mania is sweeping Columbia. We sold over 12,000 on just the first day. Nobody has ever done this, it’s fantastic – this is usually a “slow” market for ticket sales.” The Somewhere Back In Time tour will see Iron Maiden resurrect their 80s Powerslave Tour, with the stage production based on the same Egyptian theme. Iron Maiden are also releasing DVDs of their classic Live After Death and Maiden England shows from the mid-80s, previously only available on VHS, on February 4, 2008. The tour kicks off in India in February. UK dates are expected to be in the Summer. World tour dates so far confirmed are as follows – tickets for India, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina are yet to go on sale. See www.ironmaiden.com for info. Mumbai, India - Bandra Kurla Complex (February 1) Perth, Australia - Burswood Dome (4) Melbourne, Australia - Rod Laver Arena (6/7) Sydney, Australia - Acer Arena (9/10) Brisbane, Australia - Entertainment Centre (12) Yokohama, Japan - Pacifico Yokohama (15) Tokyo, Japan - Messe (16) Los Angeles, USA -The Forum (19) Guadalajara, Mexico - Auditoria Telmex (21) Monterrey, Mexico - Arena Monterrey (22) Mexico City, Mexico - Sports Palace (24) San Jose, Costa Rica - Saprisa Stadium (26) Bogota, Columbia - Simon Bolivar Park (28) Sao Paulo, Brazil – Alhembi Stadium (March 2) Porto Allegre, Brazil - Gigantinho (5) Buenos Aires , Argentina - Ferrofcarril Oeste Stadium (7) Santiago, Chile - Pista Atletica (9) Puerto Rico - San Juan Coliseo (12) New Jersey, USA - Izod Centre (14) Toronto, Canada - Air Canada Centre (16) Stockholm, Sweden - Stockholm Stadium (July 16) Helsinki, Finland - Helsinki Olympic Stadium (18) Trondheim, Norway - Lerkendalstadium (22) Oslo, Norway - Valle Hovin (24) Gothenburg, Sweden - Ullevi Stadium (26) Horsens, Denmark - Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen (27) Wachen Open Air Festival, Germany (August 1-3)

Iron Maiden‘s Somewhere Back In Time world tour is continuing to sell amazingly well, and the latest countries to go Maiden mad are Sweden and Finland – with the band selling 123, 500 tickets yesterday alone.

An extra concert at Finland’s 30,000 capacity Ratina Stadium has today been announced for July 19, after the show Helsinki’s 41, 500 Olympic Stadium was inundated with requests yesterday.

Tickets for the added show will go on sale this Friday, November 16 at 9am.

The tour’s Scandinavian promoter Thomas Johansson of EMA Telstar said: “We said when we announced this tour that is was the biggest Nordic Tour by any rock band ever and that we wanted to ensure that as many fans as possible could get to see this amazing band. You must appreciate that Helsinki has a population of half a million so this is equivalent to selling out a dozen Wembley Stadiums before lunch.”

Tickets also went on sale yesterday for Maiden’s Columbia concert and also broke records for sales in the South American country.

Phil Rodriguez, the promoter for Simon Bolivar Stadium in Bogota said: “Box Office records were broken from the very start and Maiden mania is sweeping Columbia. We sold over 12,000 on just the first day. Nobody has ever done this, it’s fantastic – this is usually a “slow” market for ticket sales.”

The Somewhere Back In Time tour will see Iron Maiden resurrect their 80s Powerslave Tour, with the stage production based on the same Egyptian theme.

Iron Maiden are also releasing DVDs of their classic Live After Death and Maiden England shows from the mid-80s, previously only available on VHS, on February 4, 2008.

The tour kicks off in India in February. UK dates are expected to be in the Summer.

World tour dates so far confirmed are as follows – tickets for India, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina are yet to go on sale. See www.ironmaiden.com for info.

Mumbai, India – Bandra Kurla Complex (February 1)

Perth, Australia – Burswood Dome (4)

Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena (6/7)

Sydney, Australia – Acer Arena (9/10)

Brisbane, Australia – Entertainment Centre (12)

Yokohama, Japan – Pacifico Yokohama (15)

Tokyo, Japan – Messe (16)

Los Angeles, USA -The Forum (19)

Guadalajara, Mexico – Auditoria Telmex (21)

Monterrey, Mexico – Arena Monterrey (22)

Mexico City, Mexico – Sports Palace (24)

San Jose, Costa Rica – Saprisa Stadium (26)

Bogota, Columbia – Simon Bolivar Park (28)

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Alhembi Stadium (March 2)

Porto Allegre, Brazil – Gigantinho (5)

Buenos Aires , Argentina – Ferrofcarril Oeste Stadium (7)

Santiago, Chile – Pista Atletica (9)

Puerto Rico – San Juan Coliseo (12)

New Jersey, USA – Izod Centre (14)

Toronto, Canada – Air Canada Centre (16)

Stockholm, Sweden – Stockholm Stadium (July 16)

Helsinki, Finland – Helsinki Olympic Stadium (18)

Trondheim, Norway – Lerkendalstadium (22)

Oslo, Norway – Valle Hovin (24)

Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi Stadium (26)

Horsens, Denmark – Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen (27)

Wachen Open Air Festival, Germany (August 1-3)

Cut Of The Day: Black Crowes Do Dylan

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Cut Of The Day: Black Crowes Do Dylan

Cut of the day: November 13 Check out this live performance by the Atlanta rock band The Black Crowes covering Bob Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women #12 and 35'. The footage was filmed at Moscow's Monsters of Rock festival in 1991. The band are currently mixing a new sixteen track studio album in New York, their first since 2001's 'Lions' - due for release early next year. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtMPlY3duz4&rel=1 If you have any trouble viewing the embedded video above, click here.

Cut of the day: November 13

Check out this live performance by the Atlanta rock band The Black Crowes covering Bob Dylan‘s ‘Rainy Day Women #12 and 35’.

The footage was filmed at Moscow’s Monsters of Rock festival in 1991.

The band are currently mixing a new sixteen track studio album in New York, their first since 2001’s ‘Lions’ – due for release early next year.

Check it out here:

If you have any trouble viewing the embedded video above, click here.

Radiohead Sign To US Record Label

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Radiohead Sign To US Record Label

Radiohead have now confirmed that their latest album 'In Rainbows' is to get a physical release in the US after the band signed another record deal. The band are now signed to Dave Matthews' ATO label, currently being distributed through SonyBMG in the States, though 'In Rainbows' will be put out through ATO's TBD Records imprint on January 2. The label is also home to psychedelic rockers My Morning Jacket. As previously reported, Radiohead have signed to British independent label XL in the UK, who will release a physical format of 'In Rainbows' on December 31. Radiohead's seventh album, their first since 2004, and the end of their deal with EMI Records, was released on October 10 as a download only release through their own website. 'In Rainbows' is currently only available exclusively through Radiohead.com.

Radiohead have now confirmed that their latest album ‘In Rainbows’ is to get a physical release in the US after the band signed another record deal.

The band are now signed to Dave Matthews‘ ATO label, currently being distributed through SonyBMG in the States, though ‘In Rainbows’ will be put out through ATO’s TBD Records imprint on January 2.

The label is also home to psychedelic rockers My Morning Jacket.

As previously reported, Radiohead have signed to British independent label XL in the UK, who will release a physical format of ‘In Rainbows’ on December 31.

Radiohead’s seventh album, their first since 2004, and the end of their deal with EMI Records, was released on October 10 as a download only release through their own website.

‘In Rainbows’ is currently only available exclusively through Radiohead.com.

The compelling sex life of Aidan John Moffat

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Just looking at the booklet which comes with the new Aidan John Moffat (out of Arab Strap) CD. Opposite the page which begins, in big letters, “PART ONE: POOP”, there’s something that isn’t a disclaimer, more a claimer, I suppose. “The characters portrayed in this work are non-fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is entirely intentional.” Moffat is one of those artists that, you suspect, it might be difficult to be friends with, let alone lovers, given the likelihood that your basest instincts and most human frailties would probably end up on a record sooner or later. For the past year or two, it’s seemed as if he’s been suppressing that instinct to expose a little, thanks to some pleasant but inconsequential instrumental records released under the predictably saucy name, Lucky Pierre. But now that Arab Strap have been put out of their misery – a band, I think, who started to become a bit boring around the time they started trying to be more of a band, and less of a spoken-word-odyssey-with-accompanying-post-rock – it seems as if Moffat can happily return to his greatest strength: droll and explicit narratives about sex and incompetence and dreadful intoxication and stains and so on. This is the gist of “I Can Hear Your Heart”, a sort of audio novel, a spoken-word narrative set to various snippets of music – mainly the sort of grainy, looped easy listening samples that are familiar from Lucky Pierre records, rather than the Slint/New Order hybrids so often favoured by Arab Strap (and in part perpetuated by Moffat’s old henchman Malcolm Middleton on his somewhat overpraised solo records). It’s not a perfect album. There’s some fairly grating mucking-about in the middle (a collapsing version of Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart” is one of the more coherent snatches), and a notably poor poem called “All The Love You Need” which tries to invert a bunch of racist terms and fails, perhaps inevitably. The sort of people who actually worry about Political Correctness might find this a breath of fresh air; I didn’t. But at its best, “I Can Hear Your Heart” shows what a compelling writer Moffat remains. You’re tempted to see him as a novelist in denial, and the CD begins with a stern warning from Moffat to read the (very fine) short story in the CD booklet first. But as the highlights of the album unravel, it’s Moffat’s bleary, oddly romantic delivery which adds much to his sordid story about various girlfriends, threesomes, random shags and such. Reading that short story, “Poop”, first, you discover Moffat having a line in a pub toilet on a night out with his girlfriend and his ex. He notices a telephone number on the wall of the cubicle, prefaced by the line “For Free Sex Phone”, and feeds it into his phone, saved as “4Sex”. On the CD, it gradually becomes clear that the irate Glaswegian on the phone is the unfortunate recipient of the drunkenly curious Moffat’s 4Sex calls. I won’t give away the whole story, though it’s worth pointing out that it takes a few listens to work it out. The climax is a straight, unaccompanied tale called “Hilary And Back” which, in ten minutes, finds Moffat in stripey pyjama trousers and laden down with beer, gatecrashing a party and getting off, after a fashion, with the 16-year-old birthday girl. There’s something really poignant about the writing, and a crisp atmosphere which pulls you into Moffat’s morally indeterminate, generally slightly grubby universe. It’s the sort of track you can only imagine playing once, but end up playing again and again. It’s on again now, putting me off my writing, actually. . .

Just looking at the booklet which comes with the new Aidan John Moffat (out of Arab Strap) CD. Opposite the page which begins, in big letters, “PART ONE: POOP”, there’s something that isn’t a disclaimer, more a claimer, I suppose. “The characters portrayed in this work are non-fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is entirely intentional.”

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Smashing Pumpkins Announce UK Tour

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Smashing Pumpkins Announce UK Tour

Smashing Pumpkins have announced that they are heading to the UK for an arena tour in February 2008. The band's only comeback shows in the UK last year were headlining the Carling Reading and Leeds festival in August, and an intimate show at London's Shepherds Bush Empire around the release of their first album since 2000, 'Zeitgeist.' The band, comprising original Pumpkins members Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain, now also includes bassist Ginger Reyes (The Halo Friendlies), guitarist Jeff Schroeder (The Lassie Foundation), and keyboardist Lisa Harriton. Tickets for the UK shows go on sale this Friday, November 16 at midday. The Smashing Pumpkins will play: Glasgow SECC (February 12) Nottingham Arena (14) Manchester MEN Arena (15) London O2 Arena (16) Pic credit: Lubrano/ Live pix

Smashing Pumpkins have announced that they are heading to the UK for an arena tour in February 2008.

The band’s only comeback shows in the UK last year were headlining the Carling Reading and Leeds festival in August, and an intimate show at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire around the release of their first album since 2000, ‘Zeitgeist.’

The band, comprising original Pumpkins members Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain, now also includes bassist Ginger Reyes (The Halo Friendlies), guitarist Jeff Schroeder (The Lassie Foundation), and keyboardist Lisa Harriton.

Tickets for the UK shows go on sale this Friday, November 16 at midday.

The Smashing Pumpkins will play:

Glasgow SECC (February 12)

Nottingham Arena (14)

Manchester MEN Arena (15)

London O2 Arena (16)

Pic credit: Lubrano/ Live pix

Today’s playlist

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Mild frenzy at Uncut today as we put the finishing touches to our end-of-year issue. As a consequence, I've not had a chance to do the full blog, but here's the music we've played in the office. Favourites? "Bummed", which has aged much better than the simultaneously reissued "Pills 'N' Thrills & Bellyaches", and the compelling return to form of Aidan Moffat from Arab Strap. I'll get round to doing a full write-up on this one in the next day or two, in theory. 1 Various Artists - Monopoly Of Brilliance (Southern) 2 Various Artists - Rarities From The Bob Hite Vaults (Sub Rosa) 3 Various Artists - Soma Compilation 2007 (Soma) 4 Soulja Boy - Tellem.com (ColliPark Music/Interscope) 5 Quinn Walker - Laughter's An Asshole (Voodoo Eros) 6 Metronomy - LP Sampler (Because) 7 One More Grain - Isle Of Grain (White Heat) 8 Happy Mondays - Bummed (Collector's Edition) (Rhino) 9 Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart (Chemikal Underground)

Mild frenzy at Uncut today as we put the finishing touches to our end-of-year issue. As a consequence, I’ve not had a chance to do the full blog, but here’s the music we’ve played in the office. Favourites?

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Write a Christmas song for Sufjan Stevens!

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Not content with releasing a box set of Christmas songs this time last year, Sufjan Stevens is busy writing and recording another one for Christmas 2007. The catch is, this time, only one person may ever hear it! Asthmatic Kitty, Stevens' label is advertising on its website for fans to send in their own Christmas songs. The best one, according to Stevens, will win Stevens' own new song - theirs to use how they like! We think that's what is happening, anyway: it all seems kind of cute but complicated. Here's what it says over at Asthmatic Kitty, anyway: "Write an original Christmas song, record it, and email the song to us. Asthmatic Kitty will pick a winner, and that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan's song. "Just like a gift exhange, Sufjan's song becomes your song. You can hoard it for yourself, sell it to a major soft drink corporation, use it in your daughter's first Christmas video, or share it for free on your website. No one except Sufjan and you will hear his song, unless you decide otherwise. You get the song and all legal rights to it. We get the same rights to your song. "By submitting your song, you also give us permission to stream it online." Ho ho ho.

Not content with releasing a box set of Christmas songs this time last year, Sufjan Stevens is busy writing and recording another one for Christmas 2007.

The catch is, this time, only one person may ever hear it! Asthmatic Kitty, Stevens’ label is advertising on its website for fans to send in their own Christmas songs. The best one, according to Stevens, will win Stevens’ own new song – theirs to use how they like!

We think that’s what is happening, anyway: it all seems kind of cute but complicated. Here’s what it says over at Asthmatic Kitty, anyway:

“Write an original Christmas song, record it, and email the song to us. Asthmatic Kitty will pick a winner, and that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan’s song.

“Just like a gift exhange, Sufjan’s song becomes your song. You can hoard it for yourself, sell it to a major soft drink corporation, use it in your daughter’s first Christmas video, or share it for free on your website. No one except Sufjan and you will hear his song, unless you decide otherwise. You get the song and all legal rights to it. We get the same rights to your song.

“By submitting your song, you also give us permission to stream it online.”

Ho ho ho.

Norman Mailer Dies – 1923 – 2007

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NORMAN MAILER 1923 – 2007 It’s a rather grim inevitability that the greats of American literature are now beginning to pass away. In April this year, we lost Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast Of Champions, at the age of 85. Now, Norman Mailer has died a few months shy of his 85th birthday. Mailer wasn't just a novelist, he was a tough guy in the tradition of Hemingway; a drinker who battled with all manner of addictions during his life, a womaniser who stabbed his second wife during a row, a pugilist who commentated on the Ali-Frazier “Rumble In The Jungle” and once head-butted Truman Capote. Mailer's first book, The Naked And The Dead, was published in 1948 and based on his own experiences in World War 2. It immediately established him as a major force in literature, and he would continue to hold that position across the next half century years, twice winning the Pulitzer Prize (in 1968 for Armies Of The Night and in 1979 for The Execution's Song) and turning in another masterpiece, the epic CIA thriller Harlot's Ghost, in 1991. Mailer had defined himself as a provocative counter-culturalist and a commentator during the 1950s and Sixties. He wrote plenty of political nonfiction, was arrested on anti-Vietnam demonstrations and once ran for mayor of New York. But Harlot’s Ghost found him still inspired by the churn of politics and history, and able to keep firm grip of a 1,300 page narrative. Like most of his generation – Roth, Bellow, Updike, Vidal, Didion, Pynchon, Wolfe– Mailer lived through the War, and had seen the fall of Kennedy’s Camelot. These things you imagine, tend to stick with you. He wrote a play about Marilyn Monroe and after Harlot’s Ghost came a biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mailer’s last book, The Castle In The Forest, published this year, theorised that Hitler had been the product of incestuous union, brought about by Satanic intervention. He was reportedly working on a follow-up. Mailer’s life, certainly, was famously as controversial as his writings. “What’s the use of being a writer if you can’t irritate a great man people?” he said. But, despite the brilliance of his writing, you can’t help but question the litany of fights, marriages (six) and, perhaps worst of all, his lobbying for the parole of convicted killer Jack Abbott in 1980 that saw Abbott, once freed, kill again. One of the Sunday colour supplements interviewed Mailer around the publication of The Castle In The Forest. When asked what his favourite novel was, Mailer replied: “Moby Dick.” Much was subsequently made in the article that Mailer, like Captain Ahab, was obsessively searching for his own great white – the Great American Novel. In fact, Mailer wrote at least two books that are strong contenders for the title: The Naked And The Dead and Harlot’s Ghost. MICHAEL BONNER

NORMAN MAILER

1923 – 2007

It’s a rather grim inevitability that the greats of American literature are now beginning to pass away. In April this year, we lost Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast Of Champions, at the age of 85.

Now, Norman Mailer has died a few months shy of his 85th birthday.

Mailer wasn’t just a novelist, he was a tough guy in the tradition of Hemingway; a drinker who battled with all manner of addictions during his life, a womaniser who stabbed his second wife during a row, a pugilist who commentated on the Ali-Frazier “Rumble In The Jungle” and once head-butted Truman Capote.

Mailer’s first book, The Naked And The Dead, was published in 1948 and based on his own experiences in World War 2. It immediately established him as a major force in literature, and he would continue to hold that position across the next half century years, twice winning the Pulitzer Prize (in 1968 for Armies Of The Night and in 1979 for The Execution’s Song) and turning in another masterpiece, the epic CIA thriller Harlot’s Ghost, in 1991.

Mailer had defined himself as a provocative counter-culturalist and a commentator during the 1950s and Sixties. He wrote plenty of political nonfiction, was arrested on anti-Vietnam demonstrations and once ran for mayor of New York. But Harlot’s Ghost found him still inspired by the churn of politics and history, and able to keep firm grip of a 1,300 page narrative.

Like most of his generation – Roth, Bellow, Updike, Vidal, Didion, Pynchon, Wolfe– Mailer lived through the War, and had seen the fall of Kennedy’s Camelot. These things you imagine, tend to stick with you. He wrote a play about Marilyn Monroe and after Harlot’s Ghost came a biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mailer’s last book, The Castle In The Forest, published this year, theorised that Hitler had been the product of incestuous union, brought about by Satanic intervention. He was reportedly working on a follow-up.

Mailer’s life, certainly, was famously as controversial as his writings. “What’s the use of being a writer if you can’t irritate a great man people?” he said. But, despite the brilliance of his writing, you can’t help but question the litany of fights, marriages (six) and, perhaps worst of all, his lobbying for the parole of convicted killer Jack Abbott in 1980 that saw Abbott, once freed, kill again.

One of the Sunday colour supplements interviewed Mailer around the publication of The Castle In The Forest. When asked what his favourite novel was, Mailer replied: “Moby Dick.” Much was subsequently made in the article that Mailer, like Captain Ahab, was obsessively searching for his own great white – the Great American Novel. In fact, Mailer wrote at least two books that are strong contenders for the title: The Naked And The Dead and Harlot’s Ghost.

MICHAEL BONNER

McLaren causes Anarchy in the Jungle

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McLaren causes Anarchy in the Jungle

Never one to avoid a fuss, Malcolm McLaren has pulled out of ITV's "I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here!" before the gruelling reality show has even begun. McLaren flew to Australia with his fellow contestants - some of whom Uncut has even heard of - but changed his mind about eating bugs, wearing khaki, sharing camps with minor EastEnders actors and so on at the very last moment. In so doing, he outperformed his old charge John Lydon, who lasted a few days in the jungle before walking out a couple of years ago. Should you still want to watch the show, it kicks off on ITV1 tonight (November 12) at 9pm. In the absence of Malc, rock interest is provided by the reliably feisty Cerys Matthews and some bloke who used to be in Five.

Never one to avoid a fuss, Malcolm McLaren has pulled out of ITV’s “I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here!” before the gruelling reality show has even begun.

McLaren flew to Australia with his fellow contestants – some of whom Uncut has even heard of – but changed his mind about eating bugs, wearing khaki, sharing camps with minor EastEnders actors and so on at the very last moment.

In so doing, he outperformed his old charge John Lydon, who lasted a few days in the jungle before walking out a couple of years ago.

Should you still want to watch the show, it kicks off on ITV1 tonight (November 12) at 9pm. In the absence of Malc, rock interest is provided by the reliably feisty Cerys Matthews and some bloke who used to be in Five.

Radiohead cover The Smiths and New Order

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Radiohead's independent-minded multi-media assault continued last Friday (November 9) with a lengthy webcast on their channel, radiohead.tv. The show was titled 'Thumbs Down' and featured the band making thumbs-down signals throughout. "This is 'Thumbs Down',"explained singer Thom Yorke helpfully. "This is our way of celebrating the fact that we finished a record. We've been doing some stupid stuff really for a couple of weeks, knocking some stuff together. Don't expect any quality level cos there is none, except when of course when the professionals are involved and there are a couple here because frankly we need 'em." Radiohead performed a bunch of songs from their excellent "In Rainbows", plus cracking covers of New Order's "Ceremony" and The Smiths' "The Headmaster Ritual". Most of the action took place in their studio, though a clip for the track "15 Step" used an extended clip from the David Fincher movie "Se7en", replacing Gwyneth Paltrow's head in the box with that of a cheerfully singing Thom Yorke. The band also DJed throughout the broadcast. Here's their playlist: Burial: "Near Dark" M.I.A.: "Pull Up the People" Tomas Anderson: "Happy Happy" !!!: "Heart of Hearts" Kings of Leon: "My Party" Asian Dub Foundation: "Model Apprentice" Jorge Ben: "Take It Easy My Brother Charlie" Les Baxter: "The Ancient Galleon" The First Edition: "Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Condition Was in)" Iggy Pop: "Nightclubbin'" Squarepusher: "My Red Hot Car" Bauhaus: "Bella Lugosi's Dead" Iron and Wine: "Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car" Captain Beefheat: "Sun Zoom Spark" Bonnie Prince Billy: "Lessons From What's Poor" Asian Dub Foundation: "Naxalite" Ray Charles: "It Should've Been Me" Juana Molina: "Micael" Fela Kuti & the Africa 70: "Alu Jon Jonki Jon"

Radiohead‘s independent-minded multi-media assault continued last Friday (November 9) with a lengthy webcast on their channel, radiohead.tv.

The show was titled ‘Thumbs Down’ and featured the band making thumbs-down signals throughout.

“This is ‘Thumbs Down’,”explained singer Thom Yorke helpfully. “This is our way of celebrating the fact that we finished a record. We’ve been doing some stupid stuff really for a couple of weeks, knocking some stuff together. Don’t expect any quality level cos there is none, except when of course when the professionals are involved and there are a couple here because frankly we need ’em.”

Radiohead performed a bunch of songs from their excellent “In Rainbows”, plus cracking covers of New Order‘s “Ceremony” and The Smiths‘ “The Headmaster Ritual”.

Most of the action took place in their studio, though a clip for the track “15 Step” used an extended clip from the David Fincher movie “Se7en”, replacing Gwyneth Paltrow‘s head in the box with that of a cheerfully singing Thom Yorke.

The band also DJed throughout the broadcast. Here’s their playlist:

Burial: “Near Dark”

M.I.A.: “Pull Up the People”

Tomas Anderson: “Happy Happy”

!!!: “Heart of Hearts”

Kings of Leon: “My Party”

Asian Dub Foundation: “Model Apprentice”

Jorge Ben: “Take It Easy My Brother Charlie”

Les Baxter: “The Ancient Galleon”

The First Edition: “Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Condition Was in)”

Iggy Pop: “Nightclubbin'”

Squarepusher: “My Red Hot Car”

Bauhaus: “Bella Lugosi’s Dead”

Iron and Wine: “Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car”

Captain Beefheat: “Sun Zoom Spark”

Bonnie Prince Billy: “Lessons From What’s Poor”

Asian Dub Foundation: “Naxalite”

Ray Charles: “It Should’ve Been Me”

Juana Molina: “Micael”

Fela Kuti & the Africa 70: “Alu Jon Jonki Jon”

Eels Go Hits And Rarities Crazy!

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Eels Go Hits And Rarities Crazy!

Mark 'E' Everett's ever-changing Eels project are celebrated on two hefty compilations, scheduled for release on January 21, 2008. "Meet The EELS: Essential EELS Vol. 1, 1996-2006" features 24 of their most famous tracks - though it also includes a previously unreleased take on Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On". The package also includes a DVD with 12 of the band's promo videos. Meanwhile, "EELS Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006" has 50 tracks sprawling across two CDs, and promises to be something of the motherlode for hardcore Eels fans. Cover versions on this one include Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put A Spell On You”, James Carr’s “Dark End of The Street” and Prince’s “If I Was Your Girlfriend.” It comes with a six-track DVD filmed at their Lollapalooza Festival show in 2006. Here are the tracklistings for both packages: MEET THE EELS: Essential EELS Vol. I, 1996-2006 (CD+DVD): 01 novocaine for the soul 02 susan's house 03 my beloved monster 04 your lucky day in hell 05 3 speed 06 last stop: this town 07 climbing to the moon (jon brion remix)* 08 flyswatter 09 i like birds 10 mr. E's beautiful blues 11 it's a motherfucker 12 souljacker part 1 13 that's not really funny 14 fresh feeling 15 get ur freak on* 16 saturday morning 17 love of the loveless 18 dirty girl (live at town hall) 19 i need some sleep 20 hey man (now you're really living) 21 i'm going to stop pretending that i didn't break your heart 22 trouble with dreams 23 railroad man 24 losing streak EELS VIDEO COLLECTION DVD: 01 novocaine for the soul 02 susan's house 03 rags to rags 04 your lucky day in hell 05 last stop: this town 06 cancer for the cure 07 flyswatter 08 souljacker part I 09 saturday morning 10 hey man (now you're really living) 11 trouble with dreams 12 dirty girl (live at town hall) EELS USELESS TRINKETS: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD) DISC 1: 01 novocaine for the soul (live from hell) 02 fucker 03 my beloved monster (live from tennessee) 04 dog's life 05 susan's apartment 06 manchester girl (BBC) 07 flower (BBC) 08 my beloved mad monster party (BBC) 09 animal 10 stepmother 11 everything's gonna be cool this christmas 12 your lucky day in hell (michael simpson remix)* 13 altar boy 14 novocaine for the soul (moog cookbook remix) 15 if i was your girlfriend (live)* 16 bad news 17 funeral parlor 18 hospital food (BBC) 19 open the door (BBC) 20 birdgirl on a cell phone 21 vice president fruitley 22 my beloved monstrosity 23 dark end of the street (live)* 24 the cheater's guide to your heart (live)* 25 useless trinkets* DISC 2: 01 mr. E's beautiful remix 02 souljacker part I (alternate version)* 03 dog faced boy (alternate version)* 04 jennifer eccles 05 rotten world blues 06 can't help falling in love 07 christmas is going to the dogs 08 mighty fine blues 09 eyes down 10 skywriting 11 taking a bath in rust 12 estranged friends* 13 her 14 waltz of the naked clowns 15 i like birds (live)* 16 sad foot sign 17 living life 18 the bright side 19 after the operation 20 jelly dancers 21 i could never take the place of your man (live at Town Hall) 22 mr. E's beautiful blues (live at Town Hall) 23 i want to protect you* 24 i put a spell on you (live)* 25 saw a ufo* EELS LOLLAPALOOZA 2006 DVD: 01 saturday morning 02 eyes down 03 my beloved monster 04 a magic world 05 not ready yet 06 souljacker part I *previously unreleased

Mark ‘E’ Everett’s ever-changing Eels project are celebrated on two hefty compilations, scheduled for release on January 21, 2008.

“Meet The EELS: Essential EELS Vol. 1, 1996-2006” features 24 of their most famous tracks – though it also includes a previously unreleased take on Missy Elliott‘s “Get Ur Freak On”. The package also includes a DVD with 12 of the band’s promo videos.

Meanwhile, “EELS Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006” has 50 tracks sprawling across two CDs, and promises to be something of the motherlode for hardcore Eels fans.

Cover versions on this one include Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put A Spell On You”, James Carr’s “Dark End of The Street” and Prince’s “If I Was Your Girlfriend.” It comes with a six-track DVD filmed at their Lollapalooza Festival show in 2006.

Here are the tracklistings for both packages:

MEET THE EELS: Essential EELS Vol. I, 1996-2006 (CD+DVD):

01 novocaine for the soul

02 susan’s house

03 my beloved monster

04 your lucky day in hell

05 3 speed

06 last stop: this town

07 climbing to the moon (jon brion remix)*

08 flyswatter

09 i like birds

10 mr. E’s beautiful blues

11 it’s a motherfucker

12 souljacker part 1

13 that’s not really funny

14 fresh feeling

15 get ur freak on*

16 saturday morning

17 love of the loveless

18 dirty girl (live at town hall)

19 i need some sleep

20 hey man (now you’re really living)

21 i’m going to stop pretending that i didn’t break your heart

22 trouble with dreams

23 railroad man

24 losing streak

EELS VIDEO COLLECTION DVD:

01 novocaine for the soul

02 susan’s house

03 rags to rags

04 your lucky day in hell

05 last stop: this town

06 cancer for the cure

07 flyswatter

08 souljacker part I

09 saturday morning

10 hey man (now you’re really living)

11 trouble with dreams

12 dirty girl (live at town hall)

EELS USELESS TRINKETS: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and

Unreleased 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD)

DISC 1:

01 novocaine for the soul (live from hell)

02 fucker

03 my beloved monster (live from tennessee)

04 dog’s life

05 susan’s apartment

06 manchester girl (BBC)

07 flower (BBC)

08 my beloved mad monster party (BBC)

09 animal

10 stepmother

11 everything’s gonna be cool this christmas

12 your lucky day in hell (michael simpson remix)*

13 altar boy

14 novocaine for the soul (moog cookbook remix)

15 if i was your girlfriend (live)*

16 bad news

17 funeral parlor

18 hospital food (BBC)

19 open the door (BBC)

20 birdgirl on a cell phone

21 vice president fruitley

22 my beloved monstrosity

23 dark end of the street (live)*

24 the cheater’s guide to your heart (live)*

25 useless trinkets*

DISC 2:

01 mr. E’s beautiful remix

02 souljacker part I (alternate version)*

03 dog faced boy (alternate version)*

04 jennifer eccles

05 rotten world blues

06 can’t help falling in love

07 christmas is going to the dogs

08 mighty fine blues

09 eyes down

10 skywriting

11 taking a bath in rust

12 estranged friends*

13 her

14 waltz of the naked clowns

15 i like birds (live)*

16 sad foot sign

17 living life

18 the bright side

19 after the operation

20 jelly dancers

21 i could never take the place of your man (live at Town Hall)

22 mr. E’s beautiful blues (live at Town Hall)

23 i want to protect you*

24 i put a spell on you (live)*

25 saw a ufo*

EELS LOLLAPALOOZA 2006 DVD:

01 saturday morning

02 eyes down

03 my beloved monster

04 a magic world

05 not ready yet

06 souljacker part I

*previously unreleased

Sex Pistols Kick Off Residency In The Capital

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Last night (November 8), the original line-up of the Sex Pistols began their five-date run at London's Brixton Academy. Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones and Paul Cook have reunited to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their album, Never Mind The Bollocks. In the audience at the gig were documentary maker Julien Temple, comedians Adrian Edmondson and Mark Lamarr as well as England under 21 football team manager, Stuart Pearce. The complete set list for last night's show was: "Pretty Vacant" "17/Lazy Sod" "No Feelings" "New York" "Did You No Wrong" "Liar" "Holidays In The Sun" "Submission" "Stepping Stone" "No Fun" "Problems" "God Save The Queen" "EMI" Encore: "Bodies" "Anarchy In The UK"

Last night (November 8), the original line-up of the Sex Pistols began their five-date run at London’s Brixton Academy.

Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones and Paul Cook have reunited to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their album, Never Mind The Bollocks.

In the audience at the gig were documentary maker Julien Temple, comedians Adrian Edmondson and Mark Lamarr as well as England under 21 football team manager, Stuart Pearce.

The complete set list for last night’s show was:

“Pretty Vacant”

“17/Lazy Sod”

“No Feelings”

“New York”

“Did You No Wrong”

“Liar”

“Holidays In The Sun”

“Submission”

“Stepping Stone”

“No Fun”

“Problems”

“God Save The Queen”

“EMI”

Encore:

“Bodies”

“Anarchy In The UK”

How A Beatle Saved Python

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How A Beatle Saved Python

The ex-Python and Oscar-nominated film director Terry Gilliam has revealed how George Harrison came to the rescue on the controversial classic, Monty Python's Life Of Brian. "We had pop stars who were our friends, rich pop stars like George Harrison and record companies who made a lot of money, and they liked us, and they gave us money," he says in a documentary about his work to be screened on Turner Classic Movies on November 24. "Just as the crew was heading out to Tunisia to go to work, EMI, who were backing at that point, pulled out, leaving us high and dry. "Thank God George Harrison came to the rescue, and thank God he liked what we had done, and we were able to make the film without any Hollywood involvement or anything, just private pop star money." Harrison set up Handmade Films in 1979 to finance Life Of Brian. The company subsequently went on to make other British classics including The Long Good Friday and Withnail & I.

The ex-Python and Oscar-nominated film director Terry Gilliam has revealed how George Harrison came to the rescue on the controversial classic, Monty Python’s Life Of Brian.

“We had pop stars who were our friends, rich pop stars like George Harrison and record companies who made a lot of money, and they liked us, and they gave us money,” he says in a documentary about his work to be screened on Turner Classic Movies on November 24.

“Just as the crew was heading out to Tunisia to go to work, EMI, who were backing at that point, pulled out, leaving us high and dry.

“Thank God George Harrison came to the rescue, and thank God he liked what we had done, and we were able to make the film without any Hollywood involvement or anything, just private pop star money.”

Harrison set up Handmade Films in 1979 to finance Life Of Brian. The company subsequently went on to make other British classics including The Long Good Friday and Withnail & I.

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