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Uncut: Your fans tend to be a little bit crazy, but how do the British crowds compare to their American and European counterparts? JA: Culturally it’s different country by country. I don’t think it’s a Jimmy Eat World specific thing. European audiences just seem to have made up their mind when they go out where as American audiences are waiting to be blown away. There’s a lot more dancing at European shows. Could that be due to drinking age being lower in Britain and Europe? JA: Haha, maybe, didn’t think of that. You are playing two sets at Reading/Leeds festival in both cities. How will they differ? JA: “I think it’s just an opportunity to play some different songs. I wouldn’t say it will be like the tour we did in America where it was all kinda mellow songs but there will be some totally different sets, different songs. We’ll play some older songs that maybe we wouldn’t normally play at a festival on a main stage.” Will you be playing many of the songs from the upcoming album? Which ones? “We’ll play Big Casino and maybe a song called Carry You. We know what we’re doing on the Main Stage but we just don’t know totally what we’re doing on the [Lock Up] tent stage. We might add a few things.” The new album is a bit more upbeat, while keeping some of the broodier songs…but it’s a different sound, isn’t it? JA: “We’re all still the same people and we all have our over reaching ideas of what we like and then bring that to the band. To me that sounds like us. It’s hard for us to answer that. We don’t really think a whole lot about ‘us’. We never recorded songs thinking ‘should we be recording this? Does it sound like us’? We typically like to try out new things, and have a variety of songs. Nothing was calculated about it. I think it’s just where we are, and where our heads are as a band and what we count as challenging and fun to play, and if it ends up being categorized as more mainstream rock - so be it.” Butch Vig, who produced your new album is known for taking bands from their own sub-genre (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) and making them mainstream success stories. Is this one of the directions you wanted to take; move away completely from the ‘emo-core’ sound of Clarity and embrace mainstream rock? JA: “I think Butch got into the process of helping us to make our record. There was never a time we felt Butch was trying to make his record. He really didn’t come in and dictate how it should be. It was more like ‘this is working, this sounds good’, or maybe ‘this isn’t working, how can we make this different’. [His contribution was] feedback that’s usable for us to come to our conclusion and to implement in the way that we would as a band and in a way that’s natural.” Jimmy Eat World have always been labelled ‘emo’ or some other tag by the media, is that frustrating? JA: “I don’t think music can be put into such easy sound-bite description. ‘Emo’ or pick whatever subgenre, it’s a little bit of lazy journalism to say ‘check out this ‘emo’ band’ - it doesn’t describe anything and its not an academic description.” What does ‘Chase This Light’ mean for Jimmy Eat World? ZL: “I think in general all the songs have different lyrical things and meanings but as a whole I think the album represents the band sound of our “Futures” [album] era. Recording and touring for that record there was a lot of adjustments we had to make and difficulty getting through that and I think as a whole the record seems like a response or a natural bounce back to that more optimistic outlook and that’s kind of where I think we are as a band. More optimistic, healthier point view.” Big Casino is the next single from the album, why did you choose that song in particular? JA: “It’s kind of in the context of the record it’s doing its part and from a DJ perspective it just works as a good rock song to kick it off.” RB: Maybe the reason we wanted to put it first in the album is kind of the same reason we thought it might make a good first single. I think it’s definitely a new sound for us on that one.” What’s the most likely follow up to Big Casino? ZL: “I like Fire Fight a lot, I think it’s my favourite song lyrically. It could be the second single. It’s definitely a contender for the second single but lets wait and see.” In the past you have always toured very heavily to promote your albums. Can we expect any announcements soon? “The record [Chase This Light] is going to be released this October so we’re going to tour around the States in late September until the rest of the year pretty much, and then early next year we hope to be Europe side.”

Uncut: Your fans tend to be a little bit crazy, but how do the British crowds compare to their American and European counterparts?

JA: Culturally it’s different country by country. I don’t think it’s a Jimmy Eat World specific thing. European audiences just seem to have made up their mind when they go out where as American audiences are waiting to be blown away. There’s a lot more dancing at European shows.

Could that be due to drinking age being lower in Britain and Europe?

JA: Haha, maybe, didn’t think of that.

You are playing two sets at Reading/Leeds festival in both cities. How will they differ?

JA: “I think it’s just an opportunity to play some different songs. I wouldn’t say it will be like the tour we did in America where it was all kinda mellow songs but there will be some totally different sets, different songs. We’ll play some older songs that maybe we wouldn’t normally play at a festival on a main stage.”

Will you be playing many of the songs from the upcoming album? Which ones?

“We’ll play Big Casino and maybe a song called Carry You. We know what we’re doing on the Main Stage but we just don’t know totally what we’re doing on the [Lock Up] tent stage. We might add a few things.”

The new album is a bit more upbeat, while keeping some of the broodier songs…but it’s a different sound, isn’t it?

JA: “We’re all still the same people and we all have our over reaching ideas of what we like and then bring that to the band. To me that sounds like us. It’s hard for us to answer that. We don’t really think a whole lot about ‘us’. We never recorded songs thinking ‘should we be recording this? Does it sound like us’? We typically like to try out new things, and have a variety of songs. Nothing was calculated about it. I think it’s just where we are, and where our heads are as a band and what we count as challenging and fun to play, and if it ends up being categorized as more mainstream rock – so be it.”

Butch Vig, who produced your new album is known for taking bands from their own sub-genre (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) and making them mainstream success stories. Is this one of the directions you wanted to take; move away completely from the ‘emo-core’ sound of Clarity and embrace mainstream rock?

JA: “I think Butch got into the process of helping us to make our record. There was never a time we felt Butch was trying to make his record. He really didn’t come in and dictate how it should be. It was more like ‘this is working, this sounds good’, or maybe ‘this isn’t working, how can we make this different’. [His contribution was] feedback that’s usable for us to come to our conclusion and to implement in the way that we would as a band and in a way that’s natural.”

Jimmy Eat World have always been labelled ‘emo’ or some other tag by the media, is that frustrating?

JA: “I don’t think music can be put into such easy sound-bite description. ‘Emo’ or pick whatever subgenre, it’s a little bit of lazy journalism to say ‘check out this ‘emo’ band’ – it doesn’t describe anything and its not an academic description.”

What does ‘Chase This Light’ mean for Jimmy Eat World?

ZL: “I think in general all the songs have different lyrical things and meanings but as a whole I think the album represents the band sound of our “Futures” [album] era. Recording and touring for that record there was a lot of adjustments we had to make and difficulty getting through that and I think as a whole the record seems like a response or a natural bounce back to that more optimistic outlook and that’s kind of where I think we are as a band. More optimistic, healthier point view.”

Big Casino is the next single from the album, why did you choose that song in particular?

JA: “It’s kind of in the context of the record it’s doing its part and from a DJ perspective it just works as a good rock song to kick it off.”

RB: Maybe the reason we wanted to put it first in the album is kind of the same reason we thought it might make a good first single. I think it’s definitely a new sound for us on that one.”

What’s the most likely follow up to Big Casino?

ZL: “I like Fire Fight a lot, I think it’s my favourite song lyrically. It could be the second single. It’s definitely a contender for the second single but lets wait and see.”

In the past you have always toured very heavily to promote your albums. Can we expect any announcements soon?

“The record [Chase This Light] is going to be released this October so we’re going to tour around the States in late September until the rest of the year pretty much, and then early next year we hope to be Europe side.”

R.E.M. Release First Live Album

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R.E.M. release their first ever live album on October 16. Titled with barnstorming simplicity, R.E.M. Live is a two-CD plus DVD set recorded on february 27 at Dublin's Point Theatre during the band's 116-date 2005 world tour. Content for the show spanned the band's 27-year career, although the bulk of the playlist was drawn from their then current Around The Sun album. The set also features the previously unreleased I'm Going To DJ. The full track listing for the album is: I Took Your Name So Fast, So Numb Boy In The Well Cuyahoga Everybody Hurts Electron Blue Bad Day The Ascent Of Man The Great Beyond Leaving New York Orange Crush I Wanted To Be Wrong Final Straw Imitation Of Life The One I Love Walk Unafraid Losing My religion What's The Frequency, kenneth? Drive (Don't Go Back To) Rockville I'm Gonna DJ Man On The Moon

R.E.M. release their first ever live album on October 16.

Titled with barnstorming simplicity, R.E.M. Live is a two-CD plus DVD set recorded on february 27 at Dublin’s Point Theatre during the band’s 116-date 2005 world tour.

Content for the show spanned the band’s 27-year career, although the bulk of the playlist was drawn from their then current Around The Sun album. The set also features the previously unreleased I’m Going To DJ.

The full track listing for the album is:

I Took Your Name

So Fast, So Numb

Boy In The Well

Cuyahoga

Everybody Hurts

Electron Blue

Bad Day

The Ascent Of Man

The Great Beyond

Leaving New York

Orange Crush

I Wanted To Be Wrong

Final Straw

Imitation Of Life

The One I Love

Walk Unafraid

Losing My religion

What’s The Frequency, kenneth?

Drive

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville

I’m Gonna DJ

Man On The Moon

First Look — David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises

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Regular readers of UNCUT will recall that Cronenberg's last film, A History Of Violence, was our Film Of The Year in 2005. This, set among the Russian mob relocated to London's East End, is something of a companion piece, and further proof that Cronenberg is enjoying a third act revival in his fortunes. The film's written by Steve Knight, who also wrote the script for Stephen Frears' film, Dirty Pretty Things. It's located in a roughly similar milieu, of immigrants in London. Eastern Promises also finds Cronenberg re-teaming with his A History Of Violence leading man, Viggo Mortensen, here playing Nikolai, a driver for the Russian crime organisation, Vory V Zakone, who're headed up by Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and his son, Kirill (Vincent Cassell), who's apparently channelling the same levels of volatility and belligerence last seen in Sonny Corleone in The Godfather. Our entry point into this world comes from Anna (Naomi Watts), a second-generation Russian who works as a nurse. She assists the delivery of a baby to a 14 year-old Russian girl, who dies giving birth. Anna takes it upon herself to trace the girl's relatives, via her diary, which eventually finds her encountering the Vory V Zakone. If A History Of Violence was a commentary on role of violence in American society and culture, an exploration on shifting identity and a cracking thriller, Eastern Promises riffs on similar themes. But it says something about the population churn in the capital that, 10 years ago, an East End crime thriller would have starred Vinnie Jones and a bunch of bullet-headed Krays wannabees. Now, it's the Russians. And they're pretty fearsome. Anna finds herself confronting sex trafficking, drugs and murder. Watching the poor teenage Russian girls, dead-eyed and listless, who're paraded in front of Kirill and Nikolai in one scene, I'm reminded of Lukas Moodysson's unforgettably bleak Lilya 4-Ever. Both A History Of Violence and Eastern Promises explore the impact of violence on the family unit -- here, it's the relationship between Anna, her mother and uncle, as well as Semyon and Kirill. Cronenberg and Knight also address notions of loyalty -- Vory V Zakone means thieves-in-law but, typically, there's very little honour to these men, and what binds them seems very easy to unravel. Viggo, of course, is excellent, as Nikolai -- stoical, calm, emotionally disengaged. As with a Cronenberg film, things are a little tricksy, so I won't explain further. There's moments of extreme violence -- throats are cut, a corpse has its finger tips removed to avoid identification, one poor unfortunate has a knife stabbed into his eye -- levened by some cruel, dark humour. In one scene, naked and tattooed, Nikolai has to fight off two hitman in a Turkish bath, which borders on the camp. Cronenberg shoots the whole thing in a grainy, understated palette, showing a hazy, nocturnal London, both frightening and strangely alluring. After faltering with Spider, he seems to have found his feet again. And that he seems to be happy proding and poking around the crime movie genre is no bad thing. After all, if it stops Guy Ritchie making another Right Royal Barrel Of Cockney Monkeys, we can only applaud. Eastern Promises opens this year's London Film Festival before it gets a full release on October 26.

Regular readers of UNCUT will recall that Cronenberg’s last film, A History Of Violence, was our Film Of The Year in 2005. This, set among the Russian mob relocated to London’s East End, is something of a companion piece, and further proof that Cronenberg is enjoying a third act revival in his fortunes.

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Hallam Foe

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DIR DAVID MACKENZIE ST JAMIE BELL, SOPHIA MYLES You'd be forgiven for thinking that Jamie Bell has slipped off the radar since his early success in Billy Elliot. Here's an actor who, aged 15, beat Russell Crowe, up for Gladiator, to win the Best Actor at the BAFTAS. But, despite starring in one of the most acclaimed feel-good Brit movies of recent years, Bell hasn't gone down the more predictable route of Richard Curtis' romcoms or BBC costume dramas. Instead, he's carved out a career for himself in mostly leftfield movies - David Gordon Green's Undertow, Lars Von Trier's Dear Wendy, The Chumscrubber - only occasionally coming up for air in more conventional pictures like King Kong or Flags Of Our Fathers. Hallam Foe, another creditable leftfield project, featuring music from the Domino label, is Bell's first British movie since Billy Elliot. Based on a novel by Peter Jinks, and directed by David Mackenzie, it's a fairy twisted story of obsession, fantasy and (possible) murder that owes a lot to the early novels of Iain Banks. Hallam lives in the remote Scottish highlands. His father Julius (Ciaran Hands), a widower, has since married his former secretary, Verity (Claire Forlani). Hallam, deeply troubled by his mother's death, spends most of his time roaming the forests and glens on the estate, holed up in a tree-house full of her belongings. He has a habit of painting his face and spooking the Bejesus out of the locals. He also suspects his mother was murdered by his step-mother. You'd be right to think he's not an entirely well-adjusted lad. Relocating to Edinburgh, he blags a job at a posh hotel, and develops an unhealthy crush on Human Resources manager Kate (Sophia Myles), who bears an uncanny resemblance to his late mother. He even moves into the empty space behind the hotel's massive clock face, so to spy on her from a chink in the clock face using a telescope. Hallam takes to clambering over rooftops to get a closer look, even peering down at her through her bedroom skylight while she has sex.Things, somewhat inevitably, go from bad to worse. Bell is a has a freewheeling, naturalistic charm that pulls you into the film, and crucially he makes Hallam's obsessional behaviour believable. Myles - last seen as Madame de Pompadour in the brilliant Doctor Who episode The Girl In The Fireplace - has beguiling warmth that masks the darker aspects of her personality, finally revealed as the film moves to its (admittedly rather questionable) resolution. MICHAEL BONNER

DIR DAVID MACKENZIE

ST JAMIE BELL, SOPHIA MYLES

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Jamie Bell has slipped off the radar since his early success in Billy Elliot. Here’s an actor who, aged 15, beat Russell Crowe, up for Gladiator, to win the Best Actor at the BAFTAS. But, despite starring in one of the most acclaimed feel-good Brit movies of recent years, Bell hasn’t gone down the more predictable route of Richard Curtis’ romcoms or BBC costume dramas. Instead, he’s carved out a career for himself in mostly leftfield movies – David Gordon Green’s Undertow, Lars Von Trier’s Dear Wendy, The Chumscrubber – only occasionally coming up for air in more conventional pictures like King Kong or Flags Of Our Fathers.

Hallam Foe, another creditable leftfield project, featuring music from the Domino label, is Bell’s first British movie since Billy Elliot. Based on a novel by Peter Jinks, and directed by David Mackenzie, it’s a fairy twisted story of obsession, fantasy and (possible) murder that owes a lot to the early novels of Iain Banks.

Hallam lives in the remote Scottish highlands. His father Julius (Ciaran Hands), a widower, has since married his former secretary, Verity (Claire Forlani). Hallam, deeply troubled by his mother’s death, spends most of his time roaming the forests and glens on the estate, holed up in a tree-house full of her belongings. He has a habit of painting his face and spooking the Bejesus out of the locals. He also suspects his mother was murdered by his step-mother. You’d be right to think he’s not an entirely well-adjusted lad.

Relocating to Edinburgh, he blags a job at a posh hotel, and develops an unhealthy crush on Human Resources manager Kate (Sophia Myles), who bears an uncanny resemblance to his late mother. He even moves into the empty space behind the hotel’s massive clock face, so to spy on her from a chink in the clock face using a telescope. Hallam takes to clambering over rooftops to get a closer look, even peering down at her through her bedroom skylight while she has sex.Things, somewhat inevitably, go from bad to worse.

Bell is a has a freewheeling, naturalistic charm that pulls you into the film, and crucially he makes Hallam’s obsessional behaviour believable. Myles – last seen as Madame de Pompadour in the brilliant Doctor Who episode The Girl In The Fireplace – has beguiling warmth that masks the darker aspects of her personality, finally revealed as the film moves to its (admittedly rather questionable) resolution.

MICHAEL BONNER

Breach

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Breach

DIR: BILLY RAY ST: CHRIS COOPER, RYAN PHILLIPPE, LAURA LINNEY PLOT SYNOPSIS Eric O'Neill (Phillippe) is assigned by the FBI to shadow Robert Hanssen (Cooper), who is suspected of being a double agent, but Hanssen is a complex, manipulative character, who seems to lead a blameless life. O'Neill has to get close to Hanssen to win his trust, but the closer he gets, the more his own life unravels. *** In the US, director Billy Ray's treatment of the true story of FBI operative Robert Hanssen has been praised for avoiding sensationalism, and for maintaining tension, despite the fact that most of the audience would have known the outcome. Fair comment, but it also means that non-American audiences, less familiar with the case, will see a different film. And it's true - until the final third, when events harden into the kind of bleak bitterness you might find in a Cold War thriller, it's not quite clear whether Hanssen is - as the FBI suspects - an ice-hearted spy, or - as you find yourself hoping - a brilliant, bitter man, being edged into oblivion by a system he's learned to despise. Ray has been down this road before. His first feature, Shattered Glass, told the story of Stephen Glass, who was fired by The New Republic after the magazine discovered his brilliant journalism was fiction. That story had obvious echoes of All The President's Men, but Breach is thematically closer in its forensic depiction of the cat-and-mouse game between the Feds' and Hanssen. A more contemporary comparison is Zodiac, but Ray is a less flashy director than David Fincher, and his drama plays out in the blue-grey light of anonymous striplit offices. Ostensibly, the hero is the ambitious, cocky Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe), promoted from surveillance duties to shadow Hanssen, in a new department dedicated to protecting the integrity of classified intelligence. At first, O'Neill is given a false brief, and believes he's watching Hanssen for sexual irregularities, and resents being stuck with such a petty assignment. Hanssen (Chris Cooper), a stern father-figure with deep religious convictions, insinuates his way into his life, while also boasting that he can always tell when he is being lied to. Their relationship is based on mutual deception, with each man taking turns to play on the insecurities of the other. Hanssen tells O'Neill that the Intel side of the FBI is "Siberia: the rubber gun squad," and that as he nears retirement he's looking forward only to getting his photo on the wall reserved for those with 25 years service. "Doesn't really matter much," he says flatly. "The judgments of other men. I know what I've done." Breach doesn't quite have the poetry of The Conversation, but as an examination of paranoia and ambition, it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Coppola's film. At the centre of it is a chilling performance from Cooper, who's entirely plausible as a hunted, lonely man, staring down the barrel of his conscience. ALASTAIR McKAY

DIR: BILLY RAY

ST: CHRIS COOPER, RYAN PHILLIPPE, LAURA LINNEY

PLOT SYNOPSIS

Eric O’Neill (Phillippe) is assigned by the FBI to shadow Robert Hanssen (Cooper), who is suspected of being a double agent, but Hanssen is a complex, manipulative character, who seems to lead a blameless life. O’Neill has to get close to Hanssen to win his trust, but the closer he gets, the more his own life unravels.

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In the US, director Billy Ray’s treatment of the true story of FBI operative Robert Hanssen has been praised for avoiding sensationalism, and for maintaining tension, despite the fact that most of the audience would have known the outcome. Fair comment, but it also means that non-American audiences, less familiar with the case, will see a different film. And it’s true – until the final third, when events harden into the kind of bleak bitterness you might find in a Cold War thriller, it’s not quite clear whether Hanssen is – as the FBI suspects – an ice-hearted spy, or – as you find yourself hoping – a brilliant, bitter man, being edged into oblivion by a system he’s learned to despise.

Ray has been down this road before. His first feature, Shattered Glass, told the story of Stephen Glass, who was fired by The New Republic after the magazine discovered his brilliant journalism was fiction. That story had obvious echoes of All The President’s Men, but Breach is thematically closer in its forensic depiction of the cat-and-mouse game between the Feds’ and Hanssen. A more contemporary comparison is Zodiac, but Ray is a less flashy director than David Fincher, and his drama plays out in the blue-grey light of anonymous striplit offices.

Ostensibly, the hero is the ambitious, cocky Eric O’Neill (Ryan Phillippe), promoted from surveillance duties to shadow Hanssen, in a new department dedicated to protecting the integrity of classified intelligence. At first, O’Neill is given a false brief, and believes he’s watching Hanssen for sexual irregularities, and resents being stuck with such a petty assignment.

Hanssen (Chris Cooper), a stern father-figure with deep religious convictions, insinuates his way into his life, while also boasting that he can always tell when he is being lied to. Their relationship is based on mutual deception, with each man taking turns to play on the insecurities of the other. Hanssen tells O’Neill that the Intel side of the FBI is “Siberia: the rubber gun squad,” and that as he nears retirement he’s looking forward only to getting his photo on the wall reserved for those with 25 years service. “Doesn’t really matter much,” he says flatly. “The judgments of other men. I know what I’ve done.”

Breach doesn’t quite have the poetry of The Conversation, but as an examination of paranoia and ambition, it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Coppola’s film. At the centre of it is a chilling performance from Cooper, who’s entirely plausible as a hunted, lonely man, staring down the barrel of his conscience.

ALASTAIR McKAY

Richard Hawley Support Act Revealed To Be Kate Walsh

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Richard Hawley Support Act Revealed To Be Kate Walsh

Internet sensation Kate Walsh has been revealed as the support act on Richard Hawley’s forthcoming UK Tour. Walsh – who grabbed the top spot on iTunes downloads chart despite being unsigned – will be supporting Hawley on 12 UK tour dates in September, followed by a string of her own headline dates. The alluring voice and the subtle lyrics of her self-released “Tim’s House” album has been critically acclaimed with many music journalists applauding the originality of her heart-warming, precarious tales. The success of “Tim’s House” – which was released on Walsh’s own record label, Blueberry Pie – has also led to a solo 18-date tour of the UK. Walsh is on tour with Richard Hawley on the following dates: Brighton Dome (Sept 4) London Roundhouse (5) Birmingham Symphony Hall (7) Liverpool Philharmonic (8) Nottingham Rock City (9) Bristol Colston Hall (10) Sheffield City Hall (12) Edinburgh Queens Hall (14) Glasgow City Halls (15) Gateshead Sage (17) Bradford St Georges Hall (20) Manchester Bridgewater Hall (21) Kate Walsh headline tour dates are as follows: Dublin Sugar Club (September 30) Belfast Auntie Annie’s (October 1) Milton Keynes The Stables (2) Oxford Jericho Tavern (3) Brighton Komedia (4) Portsmouth The Cellars (6) Exeter Phoenix (7) Penzance Acorn Theatre (9) Bristol Trinity Centre (11) Manchester RNCM (12) London Union Chapel (16) Birmingham Glee Club (17) Coventry Herbert Gallery (19) Stoke Sugarmill (21) Newcastle The Cluny (22) Nottingham The Maze (24) Glasgow ABC2 (25) The Plug Sheffield (26)

Internet sensation Kate Walsh has been revealed as the support act on Richard Hawley’s forthcoming UK Tour.

Walsh – who grabbed the top spot on iTunes downloads chart despite being unsigned – will be supporting Hawley on 12 UK tour dates in September, followed by a string of her own headline dates.

The alluring voice and the subtle lyrics of her self-released “Tim’s House” album has been critically acclaimed with many music journalists applauding the originality of her heart-warming, precarious tales.

The success of “Tim’s House” – which was released on Walsh’s own record label, Blueberry Pie – has also led to a solo 18-date tour of the UK.

Walsh is on tour with Richard Hawley on the following dates:

Brighton Dome (Sept 4)

London Roundhouse (5)

Birmingham Symphony Hall (7)

Liverpool Philharmonic (8)

Nottingham Rock City (9)

Bristol Colston Hall (10)

Sheffield City Hall (12)

Edinburgh Queens Hall (14)

Glasgow City Halls (15)

Gateshead Sage (17)

Bradford St Georges Hall (20)

Manchester Bridgewater Hall (21)

Kate Walsh headline tour dates are as follows:

Dublin Sugar Club (September 30)

Belfast Auntie Annie’s (October 1)

Milton Keynes The Stables (2)

Oxford Jericho Tavern (3)

Brighton Komedia (4)

Portsmouth The Cellars (6)

Exeter Phoenix (7)

Penzance Acorn Theatre (9)

Bristol Trinity Centre (11)

Manchester RNCM (12)

London Union Chapel (16)

Birmingham Glee Club (17)

Coventry Herbert Gallery (19)

Stoke Sugarmill (21)

Newcastle The Cluny (22)

Nottingham The Maze (24)

Glasgow ABC2 (25)

The Plug Sheffield (26)

Robert Wyatt To Appear In London

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Robert Wyatt To Appear In London

Original 60s art rocker Robert Wyatt is to appear 'in conversation' at a special one-off event in October. The talk at London's Southbank Centre Purcell Rooms on October 15 will see the musical genius discuss his new album 'Comicopera' as well as take questions from fans in the audience. Commenting on the new LP, Wyatt has said: "It's really about the unpredictable mischief of real life - it's sort of chaotic our life. It's about humans and the things we turn to, and looking for fun and stimulus and meaning and stuff." Throughout his long career, Wyatt has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Henry Cow, Carla Bley and Brian Eno. Tickets for the event are £6. Click here for more information from the Southbank Centre's website.

Original 60s art rocker Robert Wyatt is to appear ‘in conversation’ at a special one-off event in October.

The talk at London’s Southbank Centre Purcell Rooms on October 15 will see the musical genius discuss his new album ‘Comicopera’ as well as take questions from fans in the audience.

Commenting on the new LP, Wyatt has said: “It’s really about the unpredictable mischief of real life – it’s sort

of chaotic our life. It’s about humans and the things we turn to, and looking for fun and stimulus and meaning and stuff.”

Throughout his long career, Wyatt has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Henry Cow, Carla Bley and Brian Eno.

Tickets for the event are £6.

Click here for more information from the Southbank Centre’s website.

Countdown To Carling Weekend: Arcade Fire

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Countdown To Carling Weekend: Arcade Fire

This weekend sees the start of the annual Carling Weekend – a three day festival of some of the biggest and the best of the world’s rock bands. Starting tomorrow (Aug 24) the event’s headliners include Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails and Razorlight. Throughout the week, Uncut will be previewing some of the must-see bands. Uncut will be bringing you festival news, blogs and pics all weekend live from the Carling Weekend: Reading, so take a look at Uncut’s festival blog from tomorrow. ******** When the prestigious ‘Time’ magazine had Arcade Fire on its front cover in 2005; the band was a world phenomenon. Their debut album “Funeral” – which was given its name as several family members of the band died during the recording – was the darling of the music world. Critics loved it; fans bought it. Playing the Reading Main Stage on Saturday and in Leeds on Sunday, Arcade Fire will be showcasing tracks from their new album, “Neon Bible”, in tandem with earlier hits such as “Power Out” and the brilliantly unique “Rebellion (Lies)”. Arcade Fire’s meteoric rise from obscurity had often been accredited to the use of unusual instruments by the Canadian octet: xylophone, French horn, accordion, hurdy gurdy, harp and mandolin are amongst many used in “Neon Bible” and “Funeral.” However, it’s the capricious voice of lead singer and band co-founder Win Butler hovering over the epic pitch that makes their sound transcend musical tastes and endear them to the ear. If “Funeral” – contrary to its name – was a vehicle of dreams and life’s greatness, then “Neon Bible” is a far darker affair. In the end however, the wonderfully jittery “The Well And The Lighthouse” and the calamitous epic “Windowswill” contradict morose tracks such as “Black Wave/Bad Vibrations” and “Keep The Car Running”. Arcade Fire are a band with a lot to say, and their musical expression is art at its finest. Be it gloomy intensity or the uproar of life, their performances burst with energy infrequently seen on stage. Their festival performances this weekend should be special, and definitely worth a look to waken the senses. Arcade Fire will be joined on the Main Stage in Reading on Sunday and Leeds on Saturday, by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bloc Party, Panic! At The Disco, Angels and Airwaves, The Shins, Eagles of Death Metal, Dead 60’s and Paramore.

This weekend sees the start of the annual Carling Weekend – a three day festival of some of the biggest and the best of the world’s rock bands.

Starting tomorrow (Aug 24) the event’s headliners include Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails and Razorlight.

Throughout the week, Uncut will be previewing some of the must-see bands.

Uncut will be bringing you festival news, blogs and pics all weekend live from the Carling Weekend: Reading, so take a look at Uncut’s festival blog from tomorrow.

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When the prestigious ‘Time’ magazine had Arcade Fire on its front cover in 2005; the band was a world phenomenon. Their debut album “Funeral” – which was given its name as several family members of the band died during the recording – was the darling of the music world. Critics loved it; fans bought it.

Playing the Reading Main Stage on Saturday and in Leeds on Sunday, Arcade Fire will be showcasing tracks from their new album, “Neon Bible”, in tandem with earlier hits such as “Power Out” and the brilliantly unique “Rebellion (Lies)”.

Arcade Fire’s meteoric rise from obscurity had often been accredited to the use of unusual instruments by the Canadian octet: xylophone, French horn, accordion, hurdy gurdy, harp and mandolin are amongst many used in “Neon Bible” and “Funeral.” However, it’s the capricious voice of lead singer and band co-founder Win Butler hovering over the epic pitch that makes their sound transcend musical tastes and endear them to the ear.

If “Funeral” – contrary to its name – was a vehicle of dreams and life’s greatness, then “Neon Bible” is a far darker affair. In the end however, the wonderfully jittery “The Well And The Lighthouse” and the calamitous epic “Windowswill” contradict morose tracks such as “Black Wave/Bad Vibrations” and “Keep The Car Running”.

Arcade Fire are a band with a lot to say, and their musical expression is art at its finest. Be it gloomy intensity or the uproar of life, their performances burst with energy infrequently seen on stage. Their festival performances this weekend should be special, and definitely worth a look to waken the senses.

Arcade Fire will be joined on the Main Stage in Reading on Sunday and Leeds on Saturday, by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bloc Party, Panic! At The Disco, Angels and Airwaves, The Shins, Eagles of Death Metal, Dead 60’s and Paramore.

Scorsese’s Rolling Stones Doc Trailer Goes Online

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Scorsese’s Rolling Stones Doc Trailer Goes Online

The first trailer for Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert doc, Shine A Light, is now online. The documentary, shot last October at New York's Beacon Theater, features the Rolling Stones, plus cameos from Jack White, Christine Aquillera and Bill Clinton - as well as Scorsese himself. Filming captures the band - at the peak of their worldwide spectacular 'A Bigger Bang' tour - at the end of a year which included many band related mishaps, including Keith Richards 'falling out of a tree.' The film, originally due for release in the UK in September, is now scheduled to open next Spring. You can watch the trailer here.

The first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones concert doc, Shine A Light, is now online.

The documentary, shot last October at New York’s Beacon Theater, features the Rolling Stones, plus cameos from Jack White, Christine Aquillera and Bill Clinton – as well as Scorsese himself.

Filming captures the band – at the peak of their worldwide spectacular ‘A Bigger Bang’ tour – at the end of a year which included many band related mishaps, including Keith Richards ‘falling out of a tree.’

The film, originally due for release in the UK in September, is now scheduled to open next Spring.

You can watch the trailer here.

CUT of the Day: Brian May Rocks With The Best Of Queen

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CUT of the Day: Brian May Rocks With The Best Of Queen

Brian May is today (Augut 23) sitting his final aural exam, the Viva, to complete his theses “Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud"- finally completing his Phd 36 years after he started it. The guitarist and co-leader of rock legends Queen, stopped working on his theses when rock 'n' roll took over back in the early 70s. The result is due this afternoon just after 5pm, after which Brian May intends on going out drinking. From Brian May's online blog: "The next thing I will do is call my dear friend Patrick [Moore], and then give our Phil Symes a statement, and then I will be drinking!! The Department have offered to give me a celebration beverage, so hopefully there will something to celebrate. Right now, I'm reading my thesis one more time, so it's fresh in my mind, and, like the "Roof" thing, the rest is out of my control. It's one of those times, to relinquish control to the Higher Power. I hope my Higher Power will smile upon my efforts. But in any case, I sure have good friends ... thanks, all." Check out this video compilation of Queen highlights, Brian's 'We Will Rock You': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFv89XTsSo This story got us going with the puns combining May's astronomy with Queen titles, can you do better? Email us at competitions@ipcmedia.com, we'll send the best one a prize from the Uncut cupboard. Sun-body to love White Dwarf (As It Began) Seven Seas of Aurorae We Will Hale -Bopp You Gamma to fall Bohelial-moon rhapsody Albums: A Night At The Observatory News of the Worlds

Brian May is today (Augut 23) sitting his final aural exam, the Viva, to complete his theses “Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud”- finally completing his Phd 36 years after he started it.

The guitarist and co-leader of rock legends Queen, stopped working on his theses when rock ‘n’ roll took over back in the early 70s.

The result is due this afternoon just after 5pm, after which Brian May intends on going out drinking.

From Brian May’s online blog:

“The next thing I will do is call my dear friend Patrick [Moore], and then give our Phil Symes a statement, and then I will be drinking!! The Department have offered to give me a celebration beverage, so hopefully there will something to celebrate. Right now, I’m reading my thesis one more time, so it’s fresh in my mind, and, like the “Roof” thing, the rest is out of my control. It’s one of those times, to relinquish control to the Higher Power. I hope my Higher Power will smile upon my efforts. But in any case, I sure have good friends … thanks, all.”

Check out this video compilation of Queen highlights, Brian’s ‘We Will Rock You’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFv89XTsSo

This story got us going with the puns combining May’s astronomy with Queen titles, can you do better?

Email us at competitions@ipcmedia.com, we’ll send the best one a prize from the Uncut cupboard.

Sun-body to love

White Dwarf (As It Began)

Seven Seas of Aurorae

We Will Hale -Bopp You

Gamma to fall

Bohelial-moon rhapsody

Albums:

A Night At The Observatory

News of the Worlds

Dylan Biopic Trailer Goes Online

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Dylan Biopic Trailer Goes Online

The first teaser trailer for Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan "biopic", I'm Not There, has gone online. The film stars six actors as Dylan Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett (pictured above), Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw. "I'm Not There" debuts at this year's Venice Film Festival on September 4. We'll be bringing you our first look report immediately after. Check out the trailer here.

The first teaser trailer for Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan “biopic”, I’m Not There, has gone online.

The film stars six actors as Dylan Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett (pictured above), Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw.

“I’m Not There” debuts at this year’s Venice Film Festival on September 4. We’ll be bringing you our first look report immediately after.

Check out the trailer here.

Win Guest Tickets to the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival

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Win Guest Tickets to the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival

If you’ve missed out on tickets to the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals, then don’t worry because www.uncut.co.uk has got two pairs of exclusive Guest tickets for the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival, kicking off this Friday (August 24) to give away in conjunction with Nokia Rock Up & Play. Nokia also have a Nokia 5300 XpressMusic mobile phone up for grabs for a lucky runner-up. To be in with a chance of going to the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival as a guest, just answer the following question: What is the title of The Hold Steady’s last UK album release? Send your answer, along with your name, phone number and email address to uncutcompetitions@ipcmedia.com Competition closes at 12pm, Thursday 23 August. Winners will be notified on Thursday afternoon, with tickets to arrive by Friday 9am. The Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 features headliners Smashing Pumpkins, Razorlight and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as Uncut favourites Arcade Fire, The Hold Steady and Devendra Banhart. For more information on the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals, go to www.readingfestival.com or www.leedsfestival.com. Nokia is bringing Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival goers closer to the music they love this summer. • Ask top festival bands your questions courtesy of Nokia’s exclusive artist Q&A sessions including The Enemy, The Maccabees, Noisettes, and Shiny Toy Guns and listen to exclusive live acoustic sets. • Get up and perform live on Nokia’s Rock Up & Play stage. Play solo, with friends, or with the house band to share your musical passions with festival-goers. (All backline instruments and equipment are provided) • Download Nokia’s free*, interactive mobile festival guide – receive all the Reading festival information straight to your mobile phone – including final line-ups, personal schedule maps and stage update messages. For more information, go to www.nokia.co.uk/rockupandplay - Nokia’s virtual community website which gives music lovers everywhere the chance to ‘rock up and play’ anytime. Sign up now for exclusive content and competitions. T&Cs • The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic Black Edition comes without network connection or SIM card. • *Festival Guide is free to download and use - standard network rates may apply • Usual Uncut rules apply.

If you’ve missed out on tickets to the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals, then don’t worry because www.uncut.co.uk has got two pairs of exclusive Guest tickets for the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival, kicking off this Friday (August 24) to give away in conjunction with Nokia Rock Up & Play.

Nokia also have a Nokia 5300 XpressMusic mobile phone up for grabs for a lucky runner-up.

To be in with a chance of going to the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival as a guest, just answer the following question:

What is the title of The Hold Steady’s last UK album release?

Send your answer, along with your name, phone number and email address to uncutcompetitions@ipcmedia.com

Competition closes at 12pm, Thursday 23 August. Winners will be notified on Thursday afternoon, with tickets to arrive by Friday 9am.

The Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 features headliners Smashing Pumpkins, Razorlight and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as Uncut favourites Arcade Fire, The Hold Steady and Devendra Banhart. For more information on the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals, go to www.readingfestival.com or www.leedsfestival.com.

Nokia is bringing Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival goers closer to the music they love this summer.

• Ask top festival bands your questions courtesy of Nokia’s exclusive artist Q&A sessions including The Enemy, The Maccabees, Noisettes, and Shiny Toy Guns and listen to exclusive live acoustic sets.

• Get up and perform live on Nokia’s Rock Up & Play stage. Play solo, with friends, or with the house band to share your musical passions with festival-goers. (All backline instruments and equipment are provided)

• Download Nokia’s free*, interactive mobile festival guide – receive all the Reading festival information straight to your mobile phone – including final line-ups, personal schedule maps and stage update messages.

For more information, go to www.nokia.co.uk/rockupandplay – Nokia’s virtual community website which gives music lovers everywhere the chance to ‘rock up and play’ anytime. Sign up now for exclusive content and competitions.

T&Cs

• The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic Black Edition comes without network connection or SIM card.

• *Festival Guide is free to download and use – standard network rates may apply

• Usual Uncut rules apply.

PJ Harvey Confirms First Single From White Chalk

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PJ Harvey Confirms First Single From White Chalk

PJ Harvey has confirmed details of the first single to be taken from her highly anticipated eigth studio album 'White Chalk.' 'When Under Ether' is to be released on September 17 on 7" vinyl and download only. The B-side will be 'Wait' - one of the earliest tracks ever recorded by the singer in 1988, the song is previously unreleased. Harvey has also confirmed that she will be appearing at Bristol's Colston Hall on September 24 ahead of her sold-out show at London's Royal Festival Hall on September 29. Tickets for the Bristol show are on sale now from the Colston Hall Box Offfice here.

PJ Harvey has confirmed details of the first single to be taken from her highly anticipated eigth studio album ‘White Chalk.’

‘When Under Ether’ is to be released on September 17 on 7″ vinyl and download only. The B-side will be ‘Wait’ – one of the earliest tracks ever recorded by the singer in 1988, the song is previously unreleased.

Harvey has also confirmed that she will be appearing at Bristol’s Colston Hall on September 24 ahead of her sold-out show at London’s Royal Festival Hall on September 29.

Tickets for the Bristol show are on sale now from the Colston Hall Box Offfice here.

Rolling Stones Are Sensational As They Kick Off London Dates

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Rolling Stones Are Sensational As They Kick Off London Dates

The Rolling Stones' opening London show at the 02 Arena last night (August 21) was a sensational success. The first of three nights at the mammoth venue - Jagger, Richards (pictured above) and Wood looked better than ever, as they played through a 2 hour set of classic Stones' hits. The show was a slightly stripped down back-to-basics affair, but only in comparison to the massive stadiums they've been playing on this European leg of the tour. The Stones played only one track; 'Rough Justice' from the most recent album 'A Bigger Bang', when they've most typically been playing three or four. 'Rocks Off', 'Satisfaction' and 'Paint It Black' were all part of the super-hit laden set. The Stones play 02 again tomorrow (August 23) supported by Jet, and again on Sunday (August 26) supported by The Enemy. They played: Start Me Up You Got Me Rocking Rough Justice Rocks Off Let It Bleed Beast Of Burden Can't You Hear Me Knocking I'll Go Crazy Tumbling Dice --- Introductions You Got The Silver (Keith) I Wanna Hold You (Keith) It's Only Rock'n Roll (to B-stage) Respectable (B-stage) Satisfaction (B-stage) Honky Tonk Women (to main stage) Sympathy For The Devil Paint It Black Jumping Jack Flash Brown Sugar (encore)

The Rolling Stones’ opening London show at the 02 Arena last night (August 21) was a sensational success.

The first of three nights at the mammoth venue – Jagger, Richards (pictured above) and Wood looked better than ever, as they played through a 2 hour set of classic Stones’ hits.

The show was a slightly stripped down back-to-basics affair, but only in comparison to the massive stadiums they’ve been playing on this European leg of the tour. The Stones played only one track; ‘Rough Justice’ from the most recent album ‘A Bigger Bang’, when they’ve most typically been playing three or four.

‘Rocks Off’, ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Paint It Black’ were all part of the super-hit laden set.

The Stones play 02 again tomorrow (August 23) supported by Jet, and again on Sunday (August 26) supported by The Enemy.

They played:

Start Me Up

You Got Me Rocking

Rough Justice

Rocks Off

Let It Bleed

Beast Of Burden

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

I’ll Go Crazy

Tumbling Dice

— Introductions

You Got The Silver (Keith)

I Wanna Hold You (Keith)

It’s Only Rock’n Roll (to B-stage)

Respectable (B-stage)

Satisfaction (B-stage)

Honky Tonk Women (to main stage)

Sympathy For The Devil

Paint It Black

Jumping Jack Flash

Brown Sugar (encore)

Countdown To Carling Weekend: Smashing Pumpkins

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Countdown To Carling Weekend: Smashing Pumpkins

This weekend sees the start of the annual Carling Weekend – a three day festival of some of the biggest and the best of the world’s rock bands. Starting this Friday (Aug 24) the event’s headliners include Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails and Razorlight. Throughout the week, Uncut will be previewing some of the must-see bands. Uncut will be bringing you festival news, blogs and pics all weekend live from the Carling Weekend: Reading, so take a look at Uncut’s festival blog from this Friday, August 24. *** SMASHING PUMPKINS Rising from the ashes of heroin addiction and bitter slandering that ensued their highly publicised break up, American rock legends The Smashing Pumpkins reformed last year to record a new album, “Zeitgeist”. With a new line-up; D’arcy Wretzky replaces bassist Ginger Reyes and guitarist Jeff Schroeder steps into James Iha’s shoes – the Smashing Pumpkins will headline the Main Stage on Sunday in Reading and perform in Leeds on Saturday. “Zeitgest” is a quintessential Pumpkins album – despite the loss of two former band members. Ultimately, the band was always the brainchild of its perfectionist founder and lead singer Billy Corgan who remains on top form. The incredible goth-metal-shoegaze sound that made them the giants of rock in the 1990’s remains intact, in spite of Corgan’s unashamed politicisation. The infinite energy and haunting lyrics that became synonymous with The Smashing Pumpkins of old are still evident in “Zeitgeist”. Recent shows have seen the band plunder gloriously through the back catalogue of old too, everything from 'Silverfuck' to '1979' to 'Zero' have all got outings in massively long shows in Europe. The Smashing Pumpkins will perform on the Main Stage on Sunday in Reading and in Leeds on Saturday alongside Nine Inch Nails, LostProphets, Fall Out Boy, Funeral For A Friend, +44, The Used, Billy Talent, Hello Goodbye and Gym Class Heroes.

This weekend sees the start of the annual Carling Weekend – a three day festival of some of the biggest and the best of the world’s rock bands.

Starting this Friday (Aug 24) the event’s headliners include Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails and Razorlight.

Throughout the week, Uncut will be previewing some of the must-see bands.

Uncut will be bringing you festival news, blogs and pics all weekend live from the Carling Weekend: Reading, so take a look at Uncut’s festival blog from this Friday, August 24.

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SMASHING PUMPKINS

Rising from the ashes of heroin addiction and bitter slandering that ensued their highly publicised break up, American rock legends The Smashing Pumpkins reformed last year to record a new album, “Zeitgeist”.

With a new line-up; D’arcy Wretzky replaces bassist Ginger Reyes and guitarist Jeff Schroeder steps into James Iha’s shoes – the Smashing Pumpkins will headline the Main Stage on Sunday in Reading and perform in Leeds on Saturday.

“Zeitgest” is a quintessential Pumpkins album – despite the loss of two former band members. Ultimately, the band was always the brainchild of its perfectionist founder and lead singer Billy Corgan who remains on top form. The incredible goth-metal-shoegaze sound that made them the giants of rock in the 1990’s remains intact, in spite of Corgan’s unashamed politicisation.

The infinite energy and haunting lyrics that became synonymous with The Smashing Pumpkins of old are still evident in “Zeitgeist”.

Recent shows have seen the band plunder gloriously through the back catalogue of old too, everything from ‘Silverfuck’ to ‘1979’ to ‘Zero’ have all got outings in massively long shows in Europe.

The Smashing Pumpkins will perform on the Main Stage on Sunday in Reading and in Leeds on Saturday alongside Nine Inch Nails, LostProphets, Fall Out Boy, Funeral For A Friend, +44, The Used, Billy Talent, Hello Goodbye and Gym Class Heroes.

CUT of The Day: Nick Drake Sings Kids TV Anthem

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CUT of The Day: Nick Drake Sings Kids TV Anthem

CUT of the day: Wednesday August 22 YouTube truly does throw up some of the most bizarre 'lost' tapes, and today is no exception. A 1971 session featuring an uncredited Nick Drake singing the theme song to cult British kids TV show Rainbow. The session vocals have been added to the programme's title sequence just for fun. Watch the re-made show's opening sequence, featuring Nick Drake here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvsTMgfVnfg

CUT of the day: Wednesday August 22

YouTube truly does throw up some of the most bizarre ‘lost’ tapes, and today is no exception.

A 1971 session featuring an uncredited Nick Drake singing the theme song to cult British kids TV show Rainbow.

The session vocals have been added to the programme’s title sequence just for fun.

Watch the re-made show’s opening sequence, featuring Nick Drake here:

Beatles Inspired Scuplture Unveiled In Liverpool

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Beatles Inspired Scuplture Unveiled In Liverpool

A sculupture celebrating the 'special' relationship between the Beatles and Russia has today (August 21) been unveiled at the Beatles Story museum in Liverpool. The artwork (pictured) by renowned Russian artist Nikolay Rogatnev is subtitled “The Music of The Beatles Unites The Earth”. Rogatnev hopes that similar sculptures will eventually be exhibited across the world in important Beatles-related locations such as Hamburg, New York too. Russian journalist, Valentin Bayoukansky, who originally came up with the concept for the sculpture explained, “There were four Beatles and we want to place a sculpture in four different counties to show how the people of the world were united by their wonderful music. Liverpool was number one on our list as it is the Beatles hometown.” The Beatles were hugely popular in Russia during Soviet times, when fans braved official disapproval from the Communist Party to collect records of Western rock groups. Sir Paul McCartney played his first gig in Russia in 2003 and said at the time, “We were chuffed in the 60s when we heard The Beatles were big in Russia. We thought. ‘Wow! The power of music! We’ve even got behind the iron curtain.’” Jerry Goldman, Managing Director of the Beatles Story said “It’s wonderful that we can welcome our Russian friends to Liverpool. The importance of the Beatles to so many Russian music fans can never be understated. In the last few years we have seen the number of Russian visitors rise with the introduction of our Russian audio guide.” The Beatles Story museum, on the Albert Docks in Liverpool is expanding it's exhibits next year; to include rooms that focus on the solo careers of George Harrison and Ringo Starr, alongside existing displays on John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

A sculupture celebrating the ‘special’ relationship between the Beatles and Russia has today (August 21) been unveiled at the Beatles Story museum in Liverpool.

The artwork (pictured) by renowned Russian artist Nikolay Rogatnev is subtitled “The Music of The Beatles Unites The Earth”. Rogatnev hopes that similar sculptures will eventually be exhibited across the world in important Beatles-related locations such as Hamburg, New York too.

Russian journalist, Valentin Bayoukansky, who originally came up with the concept for the sculpture explained, “There were four Beatles and we want to place a sculpture in four different counties to show how the people of the world were united by their wonderful music. Liverpool was number one on our list as it is the Beatles hometown.”

The Beatles were hugely popular in Russia during Soviet times, when fans braved official disapproval from the Communist Party to collect records of Western rock groups. Sir Paul McCartney played his first gig in Russia in 2003 and said at the time, “We were chuffed in the 60s when we heard The Beatles were big in Russia. We thought. ‘Wow! The power of music! We’ve even got behind the iron curtain.’”

Jerry Goldman, Managing Director of the Beatles Story said “It’s wonderful that we can welcome our Russian friends to Liverpool. The importance of the Beatles to so many Russian music fans can never be understated. In the last few years we have seen the number of Russian visitors rise with the introduction of our Russian audio guide.”

The Beatles Story museum, on the Albert Docks in Liverpool is expanding it’s exhibits next year; to include rooms that focus on the solo careers of George Harrison and Ringo Starr, alongside existing displays on John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Reading Festival Site Badly Affected By Rain, Still

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Reading Festival Site Badly Affected By Rain, Still

Reading Festival organisers have abandoned some of the campsites for this year’s event starting on Friday (August 24), as recent floodwaters in the area have failed to recede. Situated next to the river Thames, Reading was severely affected by last month’s floods and some of the site remains under water. “We have recovered to a large extent but not fully and a fair amount of the site is still not campable today,” festival organiser Melvin Benn warned the fans on the official website. He added: “It has been a challenge. The summer has been bloody awful.” Main stage and all the arenas where the Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Arcade Fire will play, should be “fine” according to the organisers but some campsites are ‘boggy’ and others will remain “unusable” throughout the weekend. To counter the lack of camping space, Orange car park has now become a campsite for the fans. But festival goers need not fret about the weather during the bash. Weekend forecasts have been quite favourable, some sun is expected, and organisers are adamant that the festival will pass without a hitch despite the difficulties. Organiser Melvin Benn optimistically concluded: “We will be able to stage the world’s greatest rock festival despite what climate change and the weather have thrown at us.” “I always said the festival was more important than the weather!” To see what campsites are unusable and are being rearranged, visit the official Carling Reading/Leeds Festival Weekend website here.

Reading Festival organisers have abandoned some of the campsites for this year’s event starting on Friday (August 24), as recent floodwaters in the area have failed to recede.

Situated next to the river Thames, Reading was severely affected by last month’s floods and some of the site remains under water.

“We have recovered to a large extent but not fully and a fair amount of the site is still not campable today,” festival organiser Melvin Benn warned the fans on the official website.

He added: “It has been a challenge. The summer has been bloody awful.”

Main stage and all the arenas where the Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Arcade Fire will play, should be “fine” according to the organisers but some campsites are ‘boggy’ and others will remain “unusable” throughout the weekend. To counter the lack of camping space, Orange car park has now become a campsite for the fans.

But festival goers need not fret about the weather during the bash. Weekend forecasts have been quite favourable, some sun is expected, and organisers are adamant that the festival will pass without a hitch despite the difficulties.

Organiser Melvin Benn optimistically concluded: “We will be able to stage the world’s greatest rock festival despite what climate change and the weather have thrown at us.”

“I always said the festival was more important than the weather!”

To see what campsites are unusable and are being rearranged, visit the official Carling Reading/Leeds Festival Weekend website here.

Kill Bill’s Diary Set For Release

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David Carradine, 'Bill' in the classic Tarantino movie Kill Bill, is set to reveal all about filming in a diary to be published next month. Writing behind the scenes whilst making Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Carradine tells of the grueling training, conversations with Quentin Tarantino and falling in love with Uma Thurman while 'swinging a steel-tempered Samurai sword at her head.' On and off set over the course of the two year filming process, Carradine also reveals his admiration of acting alongside martial arts heroes Sonny Chiba and Chia Hui Liu. The first UK edition of the diary is published on September 17 by Methuen Drama, A&C Black. Check out David Carradine's official mySpace page here; full of funny video clips and samples of his record 'As Is' here.

David Carradine, ‘Bill’ in the classic Tarantino movie Kill Bill, is set to reveal all about filming in a diary to be published next month.

Writing behind the scenes whilst making Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Carradine tells of the grueling training, conversations with Quentin Tarantino and falling in love with Uma Thurman while ‘swinging a steel-tempered Samurai sword at her head.’

On and off set over the course of the two year filming process, Carradine also reveals his admiration of acting alongside martial arts heroes Sonny Chiba and Chia Hui Liu.

The first UK edition of the diary is published on September 17 by Methuen Drama, A&C Black.

Check out David Carradine’s official mySpace page here; full of funny video clips and samples of his record ‘As Is’ here.

Morrissey Announces US Residencies

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Morrissey Announces US Residencies

Morrissey has revealed plans for an extensive US concert tour starting this September. The iconic indie songsmith will play several nights in Las Vegas, San Francsico, Washington DC and Los Angeles over a six week period between September 21 and November 8. The newly announced shows include multiple nights at San Fracisco's Fillmore auditorium and ten nights at LA's Palladium. The US stint comes after the singer was forced to cancel several dates due to illness during his 40 date tour that started in April this year. Morrissey contracted a viral throat infection and was forced to cancel gig that included New York's immense Madison Square Gardens. Morrissey's most recent album, 'Ringleader of the Tormentors'has been one of the former Smith's founders most successful album of recent years, entering the UK charts at number one in 2006. Support for all of Morrissey's dates will come from the same alternative singer as played on his US tour earlier this year, Kristeen Young. Morrissey will play: Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl (September 21) San Francisco, CA - Fillmore (23/24/26/27) Santa Barbara, CA - County Bowl (29) Los Angeles, CA - Palladium (October 1/2/4/5/6/8/9/11/12/13) Salt Lake City, UT - Thanksgiving Point (15) Waukegan, IL - Genesee Theatre (17) Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre (19) Merrillville, IN - Star Plaza (20) New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom (22/23/26/27/28) Boston, MA - Orpheum (30) Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live! (31) Washington, DC - Constitution Hall (November 2)

Morrissey has revealed plans for an extensive US concert tour starting this September.

The iconic indie songsmith will play several nights in Las Vegas, San Francsico, Washington DC and Los Angeles over a six week period between September 21 and November 8.

The newly announced shows include multiple nights at San Fracisco’s Fillmore auditorium and ten nights at LA’s Palladium.

The US stint comes after the singer was forced to cancel several dates due to illness during his 40 date tour that started in April this year. Morrissey contracted a viral throat infection and was forced to cancel gig that included New York’s immense Madison Square Gardens.

Morrissey’s most recent album, ‘Ringleader of the Tormentors’has been one of the former Smith’s founders most successful album of recent years, entering the UK charts at number one in 2006.

Support for all of Morrissey’s dates will come from the same alternative singer as played on his US tour earlier this year, Kristeen Young.

Morrissey will play:

Las Vegas, NV – The Pearl (September 21)

San Francisco, CA – Fillmore (23/24/26/27)

Santa Barbara, CA – County Bowl (29)

Los Angeles, CA – Palladium (October 1/2/4/5/6/8/9/11/12/13)

Salt Lake City, UT – Thanksgiving Point (15)

Waukegan, IL – Genesee Theatre (17)

Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre (19)

Merrillville, IN – Star Plaza (20)

New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom (22/23/26/27/28)

Boston, MA – Orpheum (30)

Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live! (31)

Washington, DC – Constitution Hall (November 2)

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