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There’s an interesting snippet in the next issue of Uncut, when the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne talks about Portishead’s “Third”. “It got under my skin,” he says. “From the standpoint of being in a band, they do some fun production things, it’s pretty inspiring. I liked how they embraced more stranger elements of prog-rock, and Silver Apples-influenced drum loops and things like that.”

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Fear and loathing - and dancing - in Essex. Cannes Jury Prize winner 2009.

Live-in-the-studio Crowes fly high

Fans can attend a ‘sunrise show’

Some interesting responses to the free psych CD blog that I posted yesterday; thanks for those, and keep your thoughts coming.

Johnston heads to the UK

Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pierce in stunning Kathryn Bigelow war film

In what now seems, somewhat miraculously, to be an annual free-pass for self-indulgence, I’ve been allowed to compile another one of my psych CDs to come free with the new issue of Uncut; the one with The Who on the cover, hence the CD’s pretty arbitrary title, “Seeing For Miles”.

Special version of ‘Journal for Plague Lovers’ to be released