“I find it faintly ridiculous that anyone would want to make a film about me,” says Luke Haines at the start of Niall McCann’s documentary, currently touring film festivals. Haines has spent much of his career as both a musician and, latterly, an author, raging splenetically and repeatedly against Britpop and those musicians he considers of lesser creative stature – which is most of them.
John Murry first entered Uncut airspace in 2006 with World Without End, the bleakly brilliant album of country death songs he wrote and recorded with Bob Frank. Six years on, Murry has just released his first solo album, The Graceless Age, an album of almost symphonic emotional turmoil, co-produced by late American Music Club drummer Tim Mooney. The songs on the record deal sometimes explicitly with Murry’s heroin addiction, specifically the 10-minute ‘Little Coloured Balloons’, a harrowing account of a near-fatal OD. I reviewed The Graceless Age for the current issue of Uncut and emailed Murry some questions, to which he replied in detail and at illuminating length, as you will see from the fascinating transcript that follows.
Pink Floyd have denied Ed Sheeran's claim that he will duet with the rock legends at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The "+" singer had been rumoured to be joining The Who at the August 12 ceremony, but told Australian radio station Nova that he will in fact be playing with Pink Floyd.
Jarvis Cocker, Johnny Marr, Alex Kapranos and Pete Townshend are among a list of musicians who have signed a letter calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Pussy Riot.
The President will arrive in London today to meet with Prime Minister David Cameron, who is expected to raise the trial of the band members.
Bob Dylan has been speaking about his new album, Tempest.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Dylan explained that the album - his 35th studio record - started out as "something more religious," he says. "I just didn't have enough [religious songs]. Intentionally, specifically religious songs is what I wanted to do. That takes a lot more concentration to pull that off 10 times with the same thread – than it does with a record like I ended up with."
Tom Waits has released a cryptic picture, fuelling speculation that he is set to announce live shows, possibly of port cities or even aboard a boat.
The photo, pictured above and entitled Permission To Come Aboard?, sees Waits dressed as a cigar chomping pirate - complete with cutlass and eye patch - above the date August 7, on which a full announcement is expected to be made.
Arctic Monkeys' cover of The Beatles' 'Come Together' is racing up the singles chart.
The track – which featured as part of Danny Boyle's four-hour Olympic Opening Ceremony extravaganza on Friday – has climbed to Number 14 in the iTunes download chart.
"Caliban's Dream" – the Underworld-penned track sung by Two Door Cinema Club frontman Alex Trimble is currently at Number Five.
Graham Nash has contradicted claims by his CSN band mate, Stephen Stills, that the trio would record again.
In an interview last month with www.musicradar.com, Stills explained that the sessions the band had been working on with producer Rick Rubin had ground to a halt, and then claimed: "We won't make another album."
