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Wilco Preview New Material

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Wilco, on tour in Midwest America, have been showcasing new songs each night. Wilco fansites including ViaChicago.org have fans split in two camps discussing the new material, with track titles being speculated about, too. Wilco appear to be steering in a higher-tempo '70s rock direction, and this is leaving opinion divided. One forum user, “Wheelco”, says he “won't criticize anyone else's opinion, but 'Rockin'' is one term for it; I can think of some others, quite frankly.” Plagued with troubles, the band were dropped by their record label in 2001 for recording an unsellable album, but went on to win the Grammy in 2004 for Best Alternative album "A Ghost Is Born." Jeff Tweedy, Wilco founder member and singer, checked into rehab two years ago and has since been very open about his struggles with migraines, depression and addiction. One of the new tracks, “Wreck Myself”, features the lyric: “You know a lot other people could be/ standing here instead of me/ singing their own sweet lines/ through clenched and cracking teeth.” Speaking to The Wichita Eagle, a local Kansas newspaper, ahead of their show there this Sunday (Oct 15), bassist John Stirratt talks about the struggle Tweedy faces. He says: "Jeff has had different fears about not being sure what removing the problems might do to the songwriting, but ultimately, it's not worth a great record to suffer." Stirratt will be releasing a new album with his side project, “The Autumn Defense”, in January '07. Tweedy continues to tour solo, and earlier this year he released the album "Born Again in the USA" with his side project Loose Fur. Check out the debate on the new Wilco material on the band’s fansite www.viachicago.org.

Wilco, on tour in Midwest America, have been showcasing new songs each night.

Wilco fansites including ViaChicago.org have fans split in two camps discussing the new material, with track titles being speculated about, too.

Wilco appear to be steering in a higher-tempo ’70s rock direction, and this is leaving opinion divided.

One forum user, “Wheelco”, says he “won’t criticize anyone else’s opinion, but ‘Rockin” is one term for it; I can think of some others, quite frankly.”

Plagued with troubles, the band were dropped by their record label in 2001 for recording an unsellable album, but went on to win the Grammy in 2004 for Best Alternative album “A Ghost Is Born.”

Jeff Tweedy, Wilco founder member and singer, checked into rehab two years ago and has since been very open about his struggles with migraines, depression and addiction.

One of the new tracks, “Wreck Myself”, features the lyric: “You know a lot other people could be/ standing here instead of me/ singing their own sweet lines/ through clenched and cracking teeth.”

Speaking to The Wichita Eagle, a local Kansas newspaper, ahead of their show there this Sunday (Oct 15), bassist John Stirratt talks about the struggle Tweedy faces.

He says: “Jeff has had different fears about not being sure what removing the problems might do to the songwriting, but ultimately, it’s not worth a great record to suffer.”

Stirratt will be releasing a new album with his side project, “The Autumn Defense”, in January ’07.

Tweedy continues to tour solo, and earlier this year he released the album “Born Again in the USA” with his side project Loose Fur.

Check out the debate on the new Wilco material on the band’s fansite www.viachicago.org.

Neil Young Multi-Format Live Series

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Neil Young Multi-Format Live Series

Neil Young’s eagerly anticipated “Archive Performance” series begins with the release of a live 1970 performance, “Live At The Fillmore East,” available next month. Recorded at the then-brand-new venue the Fillmore East, New York, Young plays a classic set, including an impressive 16-minute version of “Cowgirl In The Sand” and also an extended “Down By The River.” The full track listing is: “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” “Winterlong” “Down By The River” “Wonderin’” “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown” “Cowgirl In The Sand” Neil Young’s “Archive Performance” series will see the release of archival material from the last four decades, including unreleased recordings and classic live performances, for the first time. Uncut will keep you informed. The recording will be available on CD, DVD and as a two-part package. “Live At The Fillmore East” is released November 13 through Reprise Records.

Neil Young’s eagerly anticipated “Archive Performance” series begins with the release of a live 1970 performance, “Live At The Fillmore East,” available next month.

Recorded at the then-brand-new venue the Fillmore East, New York, Young plays a classic set, including an impressive 16-minute version of “Cowgirl In The Sand” and also an extended “Down By The River.”

The full track listing is:

“Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere”

“Winterlong”

“Down By The River”

“Wonderin’”

“Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown”

“Cowgirl In The Sand”

Neil Young’s “Archive Performance” series will see the release of archival material from the last four decades, including unreleased recordings and classic live performances, for the first time.

Uncut will keep you informed.

The recording will be available on CD, DVD and as a two-part package.

“Live At The Fillmore East” is released November 13 through Reprise Records.

Ryan Adams Goes Punk!

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Ryan Adams Goes Punk!

Ryan Adams has streamed what looks like a whole new album of punk tracks online at Ryan-Adams.com called “You Are The Audience”. It marks yet another surprising new musical direction for the ever-changing Americana singer-songwriter. The 12 tracks feature high-speed lyrics and crunchy guitars, reminiscent of The Damned and The Ramones, with comical lyrics like “Rats, rats, rats/As big as a cat/Oh crap it’s a rat” (“Rats”) and another track where the chorus is “Bleugh! Bleugh! Bleugh!” shouted throughout. As reported last month, Ryan Adams streamed a Beck-like hip hop track called “Look Who’s Got A Website.” The fansite has been subject to recent closure, over misuse of the messageboard - Adams' personal information was maliciously posted online. The site is back up now. Check out the new material at ryan-adams.com

Ryan Adams has streamed what looks like a whole new album of punk tracks online at Ryan-Adams.com called “You Are The Audience”.

It marks yet another surprising new musical direction for the ever-changing Americana singer-songwriter.

The 12 tracks feature high-speed lyrics and crunchy guitars, reminiscent of The Damned and The Ramones, with comical lyrics like “Rats, rats, rats/As big as a cat/Oh crap it’s a rat” (“Rats”) and another track where the chorus is “Bleugh! Bleugh! Bleugh!” shouted throughout.

As reported last month, Ryan Adams streamed a Beck-like hip hop track called “Look Who’s Got A Website.”

The fansite has been subject to recent closure, over misuse of the messageboard – Adams’ personal information was maliciously posted online.

The site is back up now.

Check out the new material at ryan-adams.com

Bob Dylan: the first night of the tour

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Bob Dylan: the first night of the tour

Allan Jones, Uncut's esteemed Editor, sends a personal note from a hockey stadium. Bob Dylan The Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Wednesday October 11 2006 The sign above the bar says, stentorially, “DRINK RESPONSIBLY”, which I duly do – just, you understand, to get myself in the mood for what turns out to be an incredible evening. After a full month off the road, a long break that, by his standards, constitutes a season of uncommon indolence, Bob Dylan resumed his fabled Never Ending Tour on a typically unforgettable night at this vast ice-hockey stadium, home to the Vancouver Giants. During this recent interlude, Dylan, of course, has released Modern Times, which has given him his first American number one album since Desire in 1976, and he goes into this 28-date leg of the NET more popular probably than he has been for the last 20 years. It’s a measure, if you like, of his commercial rehabilitation that Dylan is supported at these shows first by Kings Of Leon, then, successively, Foo Fighters and The Raconteurs. It’s the formerly-beardy Kings who open tonight, to the kind of whooping encouragement more usually heard here when men in helmets and shoulder pads are battling one another for speeding pucks, and other excitements. Dylan is onstage promptly at 8.30pm, looking extremely dapper and for the next 75 minutes is mesmerising. There had been much debate beforehand about whether Dylan would play anything from the new album, such is his reputation for perverse bolshiness when it comes to delivering to his fans what they most want from him. I know longstanding fans who go to his shows prepared for pretty much anything, braced for every eventuality – from a set full of Gay Dad covers to Bob fronting a Sisters Of Mercy tribute band and encoring with a 30-minute bluegrass version of “This Corrosion”. In the event, tonight’s 15-song set list is drawn mainly from Dylan’s classic songbook, albeit in incarnations you may not have immediately recognised - opening with a roaring “Cat’s In The Well” from Under The Red Sky, and ending almost two hours later with a torrential “All Along The Watchtower”. Along the way, there are simply amazing versions of familiar songs that Dylan and his brilliant band at every turn seem to have reinvented – among them “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, done as a lilting country waltz, a fiddle-led version of “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” that sounded like something The Velvet Underground might have left off their first album for sounding too-far out, and an impossibly funky “Desolation Row”. The highlights tonight for many, however, might have been two songs from Modern Times he plays live tonight for the first time – a stunningly beautiful “When The Deal Goes Down” and a truly epic rendition of “Workingman’s Blues No 2”. Can it get any better than this? Tune in for our next report from Seattle! Set list: Cat’s In The Well You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere Tweedle dum & Tweedledee When The Deal Goes Down Watching The River Flow Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) Tangled Up In Blue Workingman’s Blues No 2 Highway 61 Revisited Simple Twist Of Fate Desolation Row Summer Days Encore: Like A Rolling Stone All Along The Watchtower

Allan Jones, Uncut’s esteemed Editor, sends a personal note from a hockey stadium.

Bob Dylan

The Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver

Wednesday October 11 2006

The sign above the bar says, stentorially, “DRINK RESPONSIBLY”, which I duly do – just, you understand, to get myself in the mood for what turns out to be an incredible evening.

After a full month off the road, a long break that, by his standards, constitutes a season of uncommon indolence, Bob Dylan resumed his fabled Never Ending Tour on a typically unforgettable night at this vast ice-hockey stadium, home to the Vancouver Giants.

During this recent interlude, Dylan, of course, has released Modern Times, which has given him his first American number one album since Desire in 1976, and he goes into this 28-date leg of the NET more popular probably than he has been for the last 20 years.

It’s a measure, if you like, of his commercial rehabilitation that Dylan is supported at these shows first by Kings Of Leon, then, successively, Foo Fighters and The Raconteurs.

It’s the formerly-beardy Kings who open tonight, to the kind of whooping encouragement more usually heard here when men in helmets and shoulder pads are battling one another for speeding pucks, and other excitements.

Dylan is onstage promptly at 8.30pm, looking extremely dapper and for the next 75 minutes is mesmerising.

There had been much debate beforehand about whether Dylan would play anything from the new album, such is his reputation for perverse bolshiness when it comes to delivering to his fans what they most want from him.

I know longstanding fans who go to his shows prepared for pretty much anything, braced for every eventuality – from a set full of Gay Dad covers to Bob fronting a Sisters Of Mercy tribute band and encoring with a 30-minute bluegrass version of “This Corrosion”.

In the event, tonight’s 15-song set list is drawn mainly from Dylan’s classic songbook, albeit in incarnations you may not have immediately recognised – opening with a roaring “Cat’s In The Well” from Under The Red Sky, and ending almost two hours later with a torrential “All Along The Watchtower”.

Along the way, there are simply amazing versions of familiar songs that Dylan and his brilliant band at every turn seem to have reinvented – among them “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, done as a lilting country waltz, a fiddle-led version of “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” that sounded like something The Velvet Underground might have left off their first album for sounding too-far out, and an impossibly funky “Desolation Row”.

The highlights tonight for many, however, might have been two songs from Modern Times he plays live tonight for the first time – a stunningly beautiful “When The Deal Goes Down” and a truly epic rendition of “Workingman’s Blues No 2”.

Can it get any better than this?

Tune in for our next report from Seattle!

Set list:

Cat’s In The Well

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Tweedle dum & Tweedledee

When The Deal Goes Down

Watching The River Flow

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

Tangled Up In Blue

Workingman’s Blues No 2

Highway 61 Revisited

Simple Twist Of Fate

Desolation Row

Summer Days

Encore:

Like A Rolling Stone

All Along The Watchtower

Is This The Best YouTube Music Video In the World… Ever!?

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Is This The Best YouTube Music Video In the World… Ever!?

There’s a battle of the bands video proving to be a big hit, currently on YouTube. The Uglyfilms production cleverly pitches cover artwork from Billy Joel (“52nd Street”) against Rick James (“Street Songs”) and Eminem (“Encore”). Meanwhile, boob bullets are shot out by the models on Roxy Music’s “Country Life” cover. The two-and-a-half-minute-long video clip ends with the ‘world’ being blown up by the grenade from Green Day’s “American Idiot” with everyone buried under the crosses in the cemetery on the cover of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”. Everyone from AC/DC to Iron Maiden’s Eddie character appear along the way. Is this the best YouTube video ever? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP83IrERdP4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP83IrERdP4

There’s a battle of the bands video proving to be a big hit, currently on YouTube.

The Uglyfilms production cleverly pitches cover artwork from Billy Joel (“52nd Street”) against Rick James (“Street Songs”) and Eminem (“Encore”).

Meanwhile, boob bullets are shot out by the models on Roxy Music’s “Country Life” cover.

The two-and-a-half-minute-long video clip ends with the ‘world’ being blown up by the grenade from Green Day’s “American Idiot” with everyone buried under the crosses in the cemetery on the cover of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”.

Everyone from AC/DC to Iron Maiden’s Eddie character appear along the way.

Is this the best YouTube video ever?

Roger Daltrey to guest on CSI

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Roger Daltrey to guest on CSI

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey is to make a guest appearance in US hit TV drama “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” His voice already opens every episode of the "CSI" franchise - the classic Who hit “Who Are You” has been the opening theme tune since the show’s launch in 2000. Two other Who songs appear as the themes for spin-off drama series “Won’t Get Fooled Again” on “CSI: Miami” and “Baba O’Riley” on “CSI: New York.” “CSI”’s producers, Jerry Bruckheimer TV, Alliance Atlantis and CBS Paramount Network TV are keeping details about his character under wraps, calling it "a surprise role that will keep viewers guessing” in trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter. The Who will release 'Endless Wire', their first album in 24 years, on October 31.

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey is to make a guest appearance in US hit TV drama “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

His voice already opens every episode of the “CSI” franchise – the classic Who hit “Who Are You” has been the opening theme tune since the show’s launch in 2000.

Two other Who songs appear as the themes for spin-off drama series “Won’t Get Fooled Again” on “CSI: Miami” and “Baba O’Riley” on “CSI: New York.”

“CSI”’s producers, Jerry Bruckheimer TV, Alliance Atlantis and CBS Paramount Network TV are keeping details about his character under wraps, calling it “a surprise role that will keep viewers guessing” in trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter.

The Who will release ‘Endless Wire’, their first album in 24 years, on October 31.

Rock Recluse Celebrates Dawn Of UK Underground

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Rock Recluse Celebrates Dawn Of UK Underground

Reclusive, maverick British singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers will play his first London show in years. The concert takes place this Sunday at the Arts Theatre in Covent Garden (Oct 15). Sunday also happens to mark the 40th anniversary of the 'launch' of psychedelia in Britain. The "All-Night Rave Pop Op Costume Masque Ball" took place on October 15 1966. It was the launch party for the English underground newspaper “The International Times.” Ayers' band the Soft Machine and Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd played that night to an audience that also happened to include Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney. Thereafter, it became known as the night that British psychedlia was born. Kevin Ayers is currently recording his first new album in 18 years. The album will feature guest appearances from Antony and the Johnsons, Ladybug Transistor, Phil Manzanera and Robert Wyatt.

Reclusive, maverick British singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers will play his first London show in years.

The concert takes place this Sunday at the Arts Theatre in Covent Garden (Oct 15).

Sunday also happens to mark the 40th anniversary of the ‘launch’ of psychedelia in Britain.

The “All-Night Rave Pop Op Costume Masque Ball” took place on October 15 1966.

It was the launch party for the English underground newspaper “The International Times.” Ayers’ band the Soft Machine and Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd played that night to an audience that also happened to include Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney.

Thereafter, it became known as the night that British psychedlia was born.

Kevin Ayers is currently recording his first new album in 18 years.

The album will feature guest appearances from Antony and the Johnsons, Ladybug Transistor, Phil Manzanera and Robert Wyatt.

The return of the mighty Stooges!

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The return of the mighty Stooges!

The Stooges are back in the studio recording their first full album in 33 years, with Steve Albini at the controls. Original Stooges Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton and Steve Mackay re-united in 2003 for a handful of live concerts, which were incredibly successful. Now joined by Mike Watt, also bassist with The Minutemen, The Stooges are back in the studio, and making a racket by accounts. Watt has been excitedly writing a blog about his experiences recording with the legendary Detroit proto-punks. He says it’s a tough learning experience, with Iggy writing and arranging everything. “A big part of my apprenticeship w/the stooges is learning restraint. I mean it’s way tough but I’m even more way into learning it.” Watt also talks about how the rehearsals have been going - they’ve rehearsed 15 tracks for the forthcoming album. Titles mentioned in the blog start with the album's first track, “Trollin,” for which Iggy is “singing out of a fender twin reverb amp.” Other named tracks include “Greedy Awful People,” “I Wanna Be Your Man” (the track written by Lennon & McCartney for the Stones), “Sounds of Leather,” “Claustrophobia,” “Free and Freaky In The USA,” I’m Fried,” “I Won’t Pay,” “My Idea Of Fun,” “The Weirdness,” “She Took My Money” and “Mexican Guy.” There is even talk of Iggy getting cool “cat” Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs to play guitar on a couple of tracks including one called “End Of Christianity”. The legendary Iggy Pop-fronted band originally disintegrated in 1974, after making their most successful album, 1973’s David Bowie-produced “Raw Power”. To get the daily gossip from the studio, check out Mike Watt’s blog at http://hootpage.com/hoot_wattstooges2006record.html

The Stooges are back in the studio recording their first full album in 33 years, with Steve Albini at the controls.

Original Stooges Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton and Steve Mackay re-united in 2003 for a handful of live concerts, which were incredibly successful.

Now joined by Mike Watt, also bassist with The Minutemen, The Stooges are back in the studio, and making a racket by accounts. Watt has been excitedly writing a blog about his experiences recording with the legendary Detroit proto-punks.

He says it’s a tough learning experience, with Iggy writing and arranging everything. “A big part of my apprenticeship w/the stooges is learning restraint. I mean it’s way tough but I’m even more way into learning it.”

Watt also talks about how the rehearsals have been going – they’ve rehearsed 15 tracks for the forthcoming album. Titles mentioned in the blog start with the album’s first track, “Trollin,” for which Iggy is “singing out of a fender twin reverb amp.”

Other named tracks include “Greedy Awful People,” “I Wanna Be Your Man” (the track written by Lennon & McCartney for the Stones), “Sounds of Leather,” “Claustrophobia,” “Free and Freaky In The USA,” I’m Fried,” “I Won’t Pay,” “My Idea Of Fun,” “The Weirdness,” “She Took My Money” and “Mexican Guy.”

There is even talk of Iggy getting cool “cat” Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs to play guitar on a couple of tracks including one called “End Of Christianity”.

The legendary Iggy Pop-fronted band originally disintegrated in 1974, after making their most successful album, 1973’s David Bowie-produced “Raw Power”.

To get the daily gossip from the studio, check out Mike Watt’s blog at

http://hootpage.com/hoot_wattstooges2006record.html

Uncut’s Bob Dylan Blog!

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Bob Dylan The Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Wednesday October 11 2006 The sign above the bar says, stentorially, “DRINK RESPONSIBLY”, which I duly do – just, you understand, to get myself in the mood for what turns out to be an incredible evening. After a full month off the road, a long brea...

Bob Dylan

The Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver

Wednesday October 11 2006

The sign above the bar says, stentorially, “DRINK RESPONSIBLY”, which I duly do – just, you understand, to get myself in the mood for what turns out to be an incredible evening.

After a full month off the road, a long break that, by his standards, constitutes a season of uncommon indolence, Bob Dylan resumed his fabled Never Ending Tour on a typically unforgettable night at this vast ice-hockey stadium, home to the Vancouver Giants.

During this recent interlude, Dylan, of course, has released Modern Times, which has given him his first American number one album since Desire in 1976, and he goes into this 28-date leg of the NET more popular probably than he has been for the last 20 years.

It’s a measure, if you like, of his commercial rehabilitation that Dylan is supported at these shows first by Kings Of Leon, then, successively, Foo Fighters and The Raconteurs.

It’s the formerly-beardy Kings who open tonight, to the kind of whooping encouragement more usually heard here when men in helmets and shoulder pads are battling one another for speeding pucks, and other excitements.

Dylan is onstage promptly at 8.30pm, looking extremely dapper and for the next 75 minutes is mesmerising.

There had been much debate beforehand about whether Dylan would play anything from the new album, such is his reputation for perverse bolshiness when it comes to delivering to his fans what they most want from him.

I know longstanding fans who go to his shows prepared for pretty much anything, braced for every eventuality – from a set full of Gay Dad covers to Bob fronting a Sisters Of Mercy tribute band and encoring with a 30-minute bluegrass version of “This Corrosion”.

In the event, tonight’s 15-song set list is drawn mainly from Dylan’s classic songbook, albeit in incarnations you may not have immediately recognised – opening with a roaring “Cat’s In The Well” from Under The Red Sky, and ending almost two hours later with a torrential “All Along The Watchtower”.

Along the way, there are simply amazing versions of familiar songs that Dylan and his brilliant band at every turn seem to have reinvented – among them “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, done as a lilting country waltz, a fiddle-led version of “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” that sounded like something The Velvet Underground might have left off their first album for sounding too-far out, and an impossibly funky “Desolation Row”.

The highlights tonight for many, however, might have been two songs from Modern Times he plays live tonight for the first time – a stunningly beautiful “When The Deal Goes Down” and a truly epic rendition of “Workingman’s Blues No 2”.

Can it get any better than this?

Tune in for our next report from Seattle!

Set list:

Cat’s In The Well

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Tweedle dum & Tweedledee

When The Deal Goes Down

Watching The River Flow

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

Tangled Up In Blue

Workingman’s Blues No 2

Highway 61 Revisited

Simple Twist Of Fate

Desolation Row

Summer Days

Encore:

Like A Rolling Stone

All Along The Watchtower

New Ramones film on its way

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Rory Rosegarten, producer of hugely popular US sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond”, has acquired the rights to make a feature-length film about The Ramones. The seminal punk band have spawned many documentaries, including the recent “End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones”, directed by Michael Gramaglia, a huge critical success. The film will be based on the authorized biography “I Slept With Joey’s Brother” – written by Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh, and punk chronicler Legs McNeil. Rosegarten has also negotiated a deal with the late rocker's mother, Charlotte Lesher, who is the executor of Ramone's estate. The family has given him access to the band's staggering collection of tracks. The movie's expected release is 2008.

Rory Rosegarten, producer of hugely popular US sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond”, has acquired the rights to make a feature-length film about The Ramones.

The seminal punk band have spawned many documentaries, including the recent “End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones”, directed by Michael Gramaglia, a huge critical success.

The film will be based on the authorized biography “I Slept With Joey’s Brother” – written by Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh, and punk chronicler Legs McNeil.

Rosegarten has also negotiated a deal with the late rocker’s mother, Charlotte Lesher, who is the executor of Ramone’s estate. The family has given him access to the band’s staggering collection of tracks.

The movie’s expected release is 2008.

Lewis Taylor track covered by Robbie Williams

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Lewis Taylor track covered by Robbie Williams

Acclaimed cult north London psychedelic soul singer Lewis Taylor - who still moonlights with '70s prog rockers The Edgar Broughton Band and who has more in common with Brian Wilson and Syd Barrett than Stevie Wonder and Jamiroquai - is about to find fame and fortune at last. Why? Robbie Williams has chosen one of his songs, “Lovelight”, to cover for his forthcoming single. Originally written by Taylor in 2002, the track appeared on his third album “Stoned Pt 1’. The new version of the song takes the original's soulfulness and transforms it into a euphoric disco anthem, including a full-on falsetto from Williams. Williams originally heard Taylor’s soul anthem on the Tom Middleton compilation “The Trip”. He says of the track, “I fell in love with it instantly. I can’t believe how big that song is and no one knows it.” Now that Williams has chosen “Lovelight” to re-work, hopefully more people will get to know the work of the criminally underrated Lewis Taylor. www.lewistaylormusic.com

Acclaimed cult north London psychedelic soul singer Lewis Taylor – who still moonlights with ’70s prog rockers The Edgar Broughton Band and who has more in common with Brian Wilson and Syd Barrett than Stevie Wonder and Jamiroquai – is about to find fame and fortune at last.

Why? Robbie Williams has chosen one of his songs, “Lovelight”, to cover for his forthcoming single. Originally written by Taylor in 2002, the track appeared on his third album “Stoned Pt 1’.

The new version of the song takes the original’s soulfulness and transforms it into a euphoric disco anthem, including a full-on falsetto from Williams.

Williams originally heard Taylor’s soul anthem on the Tom Middleton compilation “The Trip”. He says of the track, “I fell in love with it instantly. I can’t believe how big that song is and no one knows it.”

Now that Williams has chosen “Lovelight” to re-work, hopefully more people will get to know the work of the criminally underrated Lewis Taylor.

www.lewistaylormusic.com

SCISSOR SISTERS FEEL LIKE DANCIN’

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SCISSOR SISTERS FEEL LIKE DANCIN’

Uncut's favourite retro-futurist glam-pop troupe Scissor Sisters, currently Top 3 in the charts with their latest album “Ta-dah”, have announced that they're to play a Halloween show at the end of the month. The gig, on October 31st, will be at London's Brixton Academy, and has been organised in association with charities Global Cool and Oxfam. Naturally, being a Scissor Sisters party, it is likely to be a colourful event. An announcement on the band's website warns, "Fancy dress is required!" Tickets are available from the Global Cool website on Friday from 9am. The band have also announced two other dates: they play Manchester Apollo on October 30 and Glasgow Barrowlands on November 20.

Uncut’s favourite retro-futurist glam-pop troupe Scissor Sisters, currently Top 3 in the charts with their latest album “Ta-dah”, have announced that they’re to play a Halloween show at the end of the month.

The gig, on October 31st, will be at London’s Brixton Academy, and has been organised in association with charities Global Cool and Oxfam.

Naturally, being a Scissor Sisters party, it is likely to be a colourful event. An announcement on the band’s website warns, “Fancy dress is required!”

Tickets are available from the Global Cool website on Friday from 9am.

The band have also announced two other dates: they play Manchester Apollo on October 30 and Glasgow Barrowlands on November 20.

Scott Walker movie premiere

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Scott Walker movie premiere

The world premiere of the Stephen Kijak-directed Scott Walker film takes place at in London at the end of the month. “Scott Walker: 30th Century Man” is a new film documenting the '60s music icon, from the beginning of his pop stardom to his wilderness years. Scott Walker fan David Bowie has executive-produced the film as well as appearing in interview in the film. Other musician-fans who appear include Radiohead, Sting and Jarvis Cocker. The film is showing as part of the 50th Times BFI London Film Festival at the National Film Theatre. The premiere is on October 31st. There is a Scott Walker track, “Darkness”, featured as part of the 4AD label’s “Margate Exodus” project, a contemporary re-telling of the biblical Book of Exodus. The film festival runs from Wednesday 18th October to Thursday 2nd November 2006. See www.lff.org.uk

The world premiere of the Stephen Kijak-directed Scott Walker film takes place at in London at the end of the month.

“Scott Walker: 30th Century Man” is a new film documenting the ’60s music icon, from the beginning of his pop stardom to his wilderness years.

Scott Walker fan David Bowie has executive-produced the film as well as appearing in interview in the film. Other musician-fans who appear include Radiohead, Sting and Jarvis Cocker.

The film is showing as part of the 50th Times BFI London Film Festival at the National Film Theatre. The premiere is on October 31st.

There is a Scott Walker track, “Darkness”, featured as part of the 4AD label’s “Margate Exodus” project, a contemporary re-telling of the biblical Book of Exodus.

The film festival runs from Wednesday 18th October to Thursday 2nd November 2006.

See www.lff.org.uk

U2 RELEASE THE TITLE OF “BEST OF”

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U2 have announced that their forthcoming “Best of” compilation, released on November 20, will be called “U218 Singles.” As previously announced on www.uncut.co.uk, the album will feature 16 of the band's most popular songs. The tracklisting will be revealed to www.uncut.co.uk next week. “U218 Singles” also includes two new tracks produced by Rick Rubin at Abbey Road Studios last month. One of these is the forthcoming single and collaboration with Green Day, a cover of The Skids’ “The Saints Are Coming.” Proceeds from the single will go to the Hurricane Katrina charity “Music Rising”. As well as new tracks, the album will feature a limited edition bonus live CD, featuring 10 songs from the Milan date on the band’s 2005 “Vertigo” tour. To complete the audio-visual package, there will also be a singles collection DVD to accompany “U218 Singles.”

U2 have announced that their forthcoming “Best of” compilation, released on November 20, will be called “U218 Singles.”

As previously announced on www.uncut.co.uk, the album will feature 16 of the band’s most popular songs. The tracklisting will be revealed to www.uncut.co.uk next week.

“U218 Singles” also includes two new tracks produced by Rick Rubin at Abbey Road Studios last month.

One of these is the forthcoming single and collaboration with Green Day, a cover of The Skids’ “The Saints Are Coming.”

Proceeds from the single will go to the Hurricane Katrina charity “Music Rising”.

As well as new tracks, the album will feature a limited edition bonus live CD, featuring 10 songs from the Milan date on the band’s 2005 “Vertigo” tour.

To complete the audio-visual package, there will also be a singles collection DVD to accompany “U218 Singles.”

DEBBIE HARRY TO PLAY AT CBGBS FINAL WEEKEND

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DEBBIE HARRY TO PLAY AT CBGBS FINAL WEEKEND

Debbie Harry has confirmed that she and Blondie partner Chris Stein have been added to the closing show bill at legendary New York club CBGBs. They will play an exclusive acoustic set there on Saturday night (Oct 14), before headliners The Dictators. As previously announced on www.uncut.co.uk, the famous CBGBs will close this weekend, after a long conflict with the venue's landlords, who wanted to make more rent from the property. CBGBs will be reopening in Las Vegas in 2008. As previously reported, Patti Smith will play the final gig at the New York venue on Sunday night.

Debbie Harry has confirmed that she and Blondie partner Chris Stein have been added to the closing show bill at legendary New York club CBGBs.

They will play an exclusive acoustic set there on Saturday night (Oct 14), before headliners The Dictators.

As previously announced on www.uncut.co.uk, the famous CBGBs will close this weekend, after a long conflict with the venue’s landlords, who wanted to make more rent from the property.

CBGBs will be reopening in Las Vegas in 2008.

As previously reported, Patti Smith will play the final gig at the New York venue on Sunday night.

C86 – 20th anniversary of indie landmark

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Two shows have been announced at the ICA, celebrating 20 years of the rise of indie, from when ‘indie‘ still meant independent. Taking place at the end the month, Uncut favourites Roddy Frame, Gokart Mozart and The Pastels are among the line up. The two-day indie extravaganza is being put on by three of the most influential independent record labels of the last two decades - Heavenly, Rough Trade Shops and Domino. They are looking back at the C86 legacy with these live concerts, film screenings and an exhibition of related paraphernalia. It will all be taking place at C86’s original birthplace, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, the ICA. Back in1986, the NME put on a week of gigs at the ICA, announced as a showcase for this new breed of ‘indie’ music. NME branded it C86, compiling 22 new British bands on a cassette of the same name – featuring, among others, The Shop Assistants, Pastels, The Wedding Present, Stump and Primal Scream. The full 2006, C86-revisited line-up will be: The Magic Numbers, Gokart Mozart, Vic Godard & the Subway Sect + DJs St Etienne and Jeff Barrett (Heavenly Recordings) (October 27) Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera), Phil Wilson (Junebrides), The Wolfhounds + DJs The Pastels (October 28) Tickets are on sale now, priced £22.50 Booking: is by telephone only – 020 7930 3647 (12noon-9.15pm daily) www.ica.org.uk

Two shows have been announced at the ICA, celebrating 20 years of the rise of indie, from when ‘indie‘ still meant independent.

Taking place at the end the month, Uncut favourites Roddy Frame, Gokart Mozart and The Pastels are among the line up.

The two-day indie extravaganza is being put on by three of the most influential independent record labels of the last two decades – Heavenly, Rough Trade Shops and Domino.

They are looking back at the C86 legacy with these live concerts, film screenings and an exhibition of related paraphernalia.

It will all be taking place at C86’s original birthplace, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, the ICA.

Back in1986, the NME put on a week of gigs at the ICA, announced as a showcase for this new breed of ‘indie’ music. NME branded it C86, compiling 22 new British bands on a cassette of the same name – featuring, among others, The Shop Assistants, Pastels, The Wedding Present, Stump and Primal Scream.

The full 2006, C86-revisited line-up will be:

The Magic Numbers, Gokart Mozart, Vic Godard & the Subway Sect + DJs St Etienne and Jeff Barrett (Heavenly Recordings) (October 27)

Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera), Phil Wilson (Junebrides), The Wolfhounds + DJs The Pastels (October 28)

Tickets are on sale now, priced £22.50

Booking: is by telephone only – 020 7930 3647 (12noon-9.15pm daily)

www.ica.org.uk

The Fratellis attack Pete Doherty

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“Pete Doherty is a degenerate waste of space” and a “junkie”according to Glaswegian band, and Uncut faves, The Fratellis. A Top 5 single “Chelsea Dagger” and Number 2 album “Costello Music” are earning the three-piece comparisons with Supergrass and The Libertines. Unfortunately, there is little good feeling between The Libs and The Frats. In fact, bassist Barry Fratelli says, “People should check out The Clash if they want a band to believe in,” adding: "Doherty's just a junkie.” In this issue of Uncut, The Fratellis also reveal that they had a spat with another, even more legendary, Pete earlier this year, at T in Park. To find out about their argument, get the latest issue, in shops now. In other Libs-related news, Carl Barat reveals to Uncut how he and Pete Doherty used to write songs when they were bandmates. He says their “personal feelings would fuse together and a story would emerge. I remember lying on my back drunk with the guitar and Pete had some chords and he would be saying, ‘Come on, come on.’”

“Pete Doherty is a degenerate waste of space” and a “junkie”according to Glaswegian band, and Uncut faves, The Fratellis.

A Top 5 single “Chelsea Dagger” and Number 2 album “Costello Music” are earning the three-piece comparisons with Supergrass and The Libertines.

Unfortunately, there is little good feeling between The Libs and The Frats.

In fact, bassist Barry Fratelli says, “People should check out The Clash if they want a band to believe in,” adding: “Doherty’s just a junkie.”

In this issue of Uncut, The Fratellis also reveal that they had a spat with another, even more legendary, Pete earlier this year, at T in Park.

To find out about their argument, get the latest issue, in shops now.

In other Libs-related news, Carl Barat reveals to Uncut how he and Pete Doherty used to write songs when they were bandmates.

He says their “personal feelings would fuse together and a story would emerge. I remember lying on my back drunk with the guitar and Pete had some chords and he would be saying, ‘Come on, come on.’”

JEFF BECK, SIOUXSIE SIOUX PETITION QUEEN

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JEFF BECK, SIOUXSIE SIOUX PETITION QUEEN

Jeff Beck, Siouxsie Sioux and Morrissey join a growing number of famous musicians in support of PETA Europe’s campaign to stop the killing of bears for hats. Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck and Banshees frontwomanr Siouxsie Sioux have put heir weight behind PETA Europe’s petition calling on Queen Elizabeth II and the Ministry of Defence “to adopt a fur-free policy throughout the British Army and to switch to faux fur for the Household Guards’ bearskin hats”. Other musicians including Morrissey, Razorlight and P!nk have also signed on to try and save the Canadian black bears from being slaughtered for the guard’s ceremonial headwear. For more information and to sign the petition:- UnbearableCruelty.com Peta.org.uk

Jeff Beck, Siouxsie Sioux and Morrissey join a growing number of famous musicians in support of PETA Europe’s campaign to stop the killing of bears for hats.

Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck and Banshees frontwomanr Siouxsie Sioux have put heir weight behind PETA Europe’s petition calling on Queen Elizabeth II and the Ministry of Defence “to adopt a fur-free policy throughout the British Army and to switch to faux fur for the Household Guards’ bearskin hats”.

Other musicians including Morrissey, Razorlight and P!nk have also signed on to try and save the Canadian black bears from being slaughtered for the guard’s ceremonial headwear.

For more information and to sign the petition:-

UnbearableCruelty.com

Peta.org.uk

Morrissey announces UK arena tour

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Morrissey announces UK arena tour

Beginning in Glasgow on December 2, the tour finishes off just before Christmas, to round off what has been a busy year for the Ex-Smith. He released the Top 10 album “Ringleader of the Tormentors” and has played numerous arena tours and festivals in Europe. However, this is his first arena tour of the UK this year. Moz’s final lap of shows will be at: Glasgow SECC (December 2) Newcastle Arena (4)? Nottingham Arena (5) Birmingham NIA (7) London Wembley Arena (8)? He’s also playing Manchester G-Mex (22, 23) - calling these two shows his “homecoming.” Tickets go on sale at 9am on October 13. For availability go to nme.com/gigs

Beginning in Glasgow on December 2, the tour finishes off just before Christmas, to round off what has been a busy year for the Ex-Smith.

He released the Top 10 album “Ringleader of the Tormentors” and has played numerous arena tours and festivals in Europe.

However, this is his first arena tour of the UK this year.

Moz’s final lap of shows will be at:

Glasgow SECC (December 2)

Newcastle Arena (4)?

Nottingham Arena (5)

Birmingham NIA (7)

London Wembley Arena (8)?

He’s also playing Manchester G-Mex (22, 23) – calling these two shows his “homecoming.”

Tickets go on sale at 9am on October 13. For availability go to

nme.com/gigs

INDIE STARS GET BUENA VISTA MAKE-OVER

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INDIE STARS GET BUENA VISTA MAKE-OVER

Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and Coldplay all get reworked in a Cuban style for a new album out next month. The collaborative album, made with The Buena Vista Social Club, takes the original orchestration from songs such as Coldplay’s “Clocks” and Franz Ferdinand’s “Matinee,” and moulds them into their own unique Afro-Cuban sound. “Rhythms del Mundo” includes music by famed Cuban singers Omara Portuondo and the last vocal recording of Afro-Cuban bolero singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who died in 2005. The other Buena Vista Social Club musicians who appear on the album are: Barbarito Torres, Amandito Valdes, Virgilio Valdes, Agel Terri Domech, Manuel Mirabal, Orlando Lopez and Demetrio Muniz. Proceeds from the album will go to the Artists Project Earth group. www.apeuk.org “Rhythms Del Mundo Cuba” is released through Universal on November 13

Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and Coldplay all get reworked in a Cuban style for a new album out next month.

The collaborative album, made with The Buena Vista Social Club, takes the original orchestration from songs such as Coldplay’s “Clocks” and Franz Ferdinand’s “Matinee,” and moulds them into their own unique Afro-Cuban sound.

“Rhythms del Mundo” includes music by famed Cuban singers Omara Portuondo and the last vocal recording of Afro-Cuban bolero singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who died in 2005.

The other Buena Vista Social Club musicians who appear on the album are: Barbarito Torres, Amandito Valdes, Virgilio Valdes, Agel Terri Domech, Manuel Mirabal, Orlando Lopez and Demetrio Muniz.

Proceeds from the album will go to the Artists Project Earth group.

www.apeuk.org

“Rhythms Del Mundo Cuba” is released through Universal on November 13

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