The Hold Steady release their sixth album, Teeth Dreams, on March 24 – in this piece from the Uncut archives (June 2009, Take 145), Craig Finn reveals 10 of the albums or songs that have changed his life, raising a glass to St Joe Strummer and his other heroes – including Billy Joel! Interview: Rob Hughes___________________The first record I owned
The Bay City Rollers
Greatest Hits (1977)
Kate Bush has announced she will play a series of live shows later this year.
Bush will play 15 shows at London's Eventim Apollo Hammersmith starting on August 26.
The title of the shows is Before The Dawn.
Tickets will go on sale from 9.30am on Friday, March 28.
These are Bush's first major live dates since 1979's Tour of Life, since when she has given only the occasional live performance.
Tickets are available only from the following outlets: www.eventim.co.uk, www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk.
“The truth is, I don’t like dangerous things and am quite normal,” Christopher Walken told Uncut in September 2006. “I was born into show business and that brings with it being a little eccentric, the way you speak, the way you approach things. This innately gives me a sense of foreignness, which can easily translate into…s-t-r-a-n-g-e.”
The Rolling Stones have rescheduled a series of shows in Australia and New Zealand for October, after they were postponed following the death of L'Wren Scott.
A list of the dates affected by the postponement can be found below.
Promoters Frontier Touring have urged fans with tickets to hold on to their tickets for the rescheduled shows, which they claim will come in October and November, though no specific dates have yet been announced.
Neil Young has postponed the Record Store Day reissue of his long-out-of-print 1973 album, Time Fades Away.
The album was scheduled for release as part of Young's Official Release Series Discs 5-8 Vinyl Box Set, alongside On The Beach, Tonight's The Night and Zuma.
After a very long wait, the second album on Matthew E White’s Spacebomb label has turned up… and it may not be quite what most of you would have envisaged…