Keith Richards has spoken out about Rolling Stones ticket prices.
Richards told Rolling Stone "From my point of view, it's like this: We say we want to put a Stones tour together and people come to us with proposals. And these proposals are all basically the same."
He added: "We actually did push...
Keith Richards has spoken out about Rolling Stones ticket prices.
Richards told Rolling Stone “From my point of view, it’s like this: We say we want to put a Stones tour together and people come to us with proposals. And these proposals are all basically the same.”
He added: “We actually did push down the prices a little bit. We took the lower offer, in other words. But, um, it’s the price of the market. I don’t really know. I don’t have much to do with it other than I would like people to get in, to be able to afford to get in, without sort of starving their babies and all. And that’s about it.”
The Rolling Stones are to play two gigs in London’s Hyde Park this July, with tickets – the majority of which were priced at £95 – having sold out in minutes. The band are also due to headline this year’s Glastonbury Festival, making their debut appearance on the Pyramid Stage.
The evidently controversial new video from David Bowie has been banned by YouTube.
A spokesperson for Bowie said that the promo for "The Next Day" single had been removed from the streaming site as it apparently went against YouTube's terms of use. They commented: "They took it down as they say it contravened their terms of use".
No further reason has been given for the removal of the video, though it is thought that the promo's religious themes may have been a factor.
Alongside Bowie, the video features actors Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard.
'The Next Day' is the third single to be taken from Bowie's current album of the same name. The video was directed by Floria Sigismundi - the photographer and filmmaker who directed Bowie's last video, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)".
You can read our guide to Bowie on film here.
The evidently controversial new video from David Bowie has been banned by YouTube.
A spokesperson for Bowie said that the promo for “The Next Day” single had been removed from the streaming site as it apparently went against YouTube’s terms of use. They commented: “They took it down as they say it contravened their terms of use”.
No further reason has been given for the removal of the video, though it is thought that the promo’s religious themes may have been a factor.
Alongside Bowie, the video features actors Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard.
‘The Next Day’ is the third single to be taken from Bowie’s current album of the same name. The video was directed by Floria Sigismundi – the photographer and filmmaker who directed Bowie’s last video, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)”.
Lindsey Buckingham has opened up about his current relationship with Stevie Nicks.
Speaking about being back on the road with the band and his former partner Nicks, Buckingham told Rolling Stone: "Stevie and I have probably more of a connection now than we have in years. You can feel it. It's tangible on stage."
In the interview, Buckingham also discussed the band's first new material in 10 years, which was recently released as the Extended Play EP."With You", one of the four tracks on the record, is around 40 years old, pre-dating either Buckingham or Nicks' involvement with Fleetwood Mac.
"Stevie and I had a little disagreement over when it was written," explained Buckingham. "I believe it was written when we were in the process of culling material for a possible second Buckingham-Nicks album, before we were dropped by Polydor. She claims it was written earlier, but I'm not so sure." He continued: "It's a very sweet song that really harkens back to a time when we were far more innocent. She's writing to me and it's about our relationship, when we'd only been together for a very short time."
Fleetwood Mac will play a string of UK dates later this year. The band will play:
Dublin 02 (September 20)
London O2 Arena (24, 25, 27)
Birmingham LG Arena (29)
Manchester Arena (October 1)
Glasgow The Hydro (3)
Lindsey Buckingham has opened up about his current relationship with Stevie Nicks.
Speaking about being back on the road with the band and his former partner Nicks, Buckingham told Rolling Stone: “Stevie and I have probably more of a connection now than we have in years. You can feel it. It’s tangible on stage.”
In the interview, Buckingham also discussed the band’s first new material in 10 years, which was recently released as the Extended Play EP.”With You”, one of the four tracks on the record, is around 40 years old, pre-dating either Buckingham or Nicks’ involvement with Fleetwood Mac.
“Stevie and I had a little disagreement over when it was written,” explained Buckingham. “I believe it was written when we were in the process of culling material for a possible second Buckingham-Nicks album, before we were dropped by Polydor. She claims it was written earlier, but I’m not so sure.” He continued: “It’s a very sweet song that really harkens back to a time when we were far more innocent. She’s writing to me and it’s about our relationship, when we’d only been together for a very short time.”
Fleetwood Mac will play a string of UK dates later this year. The band will play:
The unveiling of Bowie's latest video earlier today prompted me to dig out this piece I originally wrote for our Bowie Ultimate Music Guide, about Bowie on film...
Most of David Bowie’s more recent acting roles have required very little preparation. He has made entertaining cameos as himself in Z...
The unveiling of Bowie’s latest video earlier today prompted me to dig out this piece I originally wrote for our Bowie Ultimate Music Guide, about Bowie on film…
Most of David Bowie’s more recent acting roles have required very little preparation. He has made entertaining cameos as himself in Zoolander and The Office; and provided voices for animated characters in Spongebob’s Atlantis Squarepantis and Luc Besson’s Arthur And The Invisibles.
In 2006, though, director Christopher Nolan cast Bowie as the pioneering electrical engineer Nikolai Tesla in his elegant Victorian thriller, The Prestige. It’s hard not to draw parallels between Tesla, the reclusive genius, and Bowie himself these days, living out semi-retirement in his New York home – after all, he has often been powerfully connected to his acting roles, inhabiting his ’70s stage personae with Actor’s Studio dedication. As John Lennon dryly commented, “Meeting him… you don’t know which one you’re talking to.”
Bowie’s acting dates back to the earliest days of his career. In mid-1967, when “The Laughing Gnome” stalled his ‘other’ career for two years, he met choreographer and mime artist, Lindsay Kemp. Kemp gave Bowie his first stage role – as a clown, Cloud, in Pierrot In Turquoise, which first played in Oxford in December, 1967. It was filmed by Scottish Television and you can find it on YouTube, along with another early Bowie credit – as a mysterious, ghostly presence haunting a painter in 1967 short, The Image. Both of these are of-their-time oddities. But if Bowie’s earliest forays into acting are emblematic of a fledgling artist trying to establish himself, he’s a far more persuasive dramatic presence in the ’70s.
Much of that rests with his big breakthrough role: playing alien visitor Thomas Jerome Newton in Nic Roeg’s 1976 film, The Man Who Fell To Earth. Roeg cast Bowie after seeing him in Alan Yentob’s 1974 American tour documentary, Cracked Actor. In Cracked Actor, the disconnected, skeletally thin Bowie looked fantastically otherworldly: all Roeg really required him to do, then, was be himself. The Man Who Fell To Earth ends with Newton reviled, humiliated and broken; a fate suffered by many of Bowie’s characters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKF5lHcJY9k
It’s hard, however, to see where 1978’s Just A Gigolo fits into this period of Bowie’s acting career. Newton and many of the parts that followed into the early ’80s are all outsider figures: the Elephant Man, a vampire, and the goblin king. But for his friend David Hemmings, Bowie plays a Prussian officer in post-WWI Berlin who becomes a gigolo for wealthy widows. It’s a curiously ‘normal’ (read: dull) part, sandwiched between Newton and his next role as John Merrick, The Elephant Man.
If Newton was basically Bowie as himself, playing Merrick on the American stage in late 1980 required physical transformation – allowing Bowie to dust down his mime skills learned from Lindsay Kemp. When Tim Rice asked Bowie, on an edition of BBC chat show Friday Night, Saturday Morning, what appealed to him about the role, Bowie answered, “I have a thing about freaks, isolationists and alienated people.”
He’s very good in Baal, an adaptation by Scum director Alan Clarke for the BBC, which aired in February 1982. Both Merrick and Baal require the actor to put aside vanity, which Bowie does, full of piss and vinegar as Brecht’s murderous, itinerant poet. “Genius always suffers persecution,” Baal is told early on in the play; as good a description as any for many of the characters we’re talking about here.
He is persecuted further in 1983’s Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Released while he was enjoying mainstream success with Let’s Dance, Bowie plays Japanese PoW Major Jack Celliers, who becomes the obsession of camp commander Captain Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Though there are musings on honour, codes of conduct and east/west culture clashes, director Nagisa Oshima (In The Realm Of The Senses) lingers on the tensions between Celliers and Yonoi. They’re a handsome pair, and Bowie – with his blond hair and deep tan – appears almost golden. It’s a stretch when we see Bowie, then 36, playing the 10-year-old Celliers in flashback, but forgive that: he is excellent as the doomed, defiant army major, way out of his freakish comfort zone.
Bowie is required only for his Bowieness in Tony Scott’s The Hunger (1983), playing Catherine Deneuve’s vampire lover. He’s very funny as a terribly British hitman in John Landis’ comedy Into The Night (1985), facing Carl Perkins in a knife-fight. He fares less well as smarmy ad exec Vendice Partners in Julien Temple’s dreadful musical Absolute Beginners (1986). Bowie does get to dance on a giant typewriter, though.
And then there’s Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (1986). Bowie had contributed to children’s projects before – he’d narrated a version of Peter And The Wolf (1978) and recorded an introduction to The Snowman (1982). But as Jareth, the Goblin King, he will always be remembered for a dreadful fright wig, some very tight trousers and singing with Goth Muppets. To the Bog Of Eternal Stench, indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sF1HwRqXFw
After Labyrinth, Bowie’s acting career becomes bittier and less focused. He gives an intelligent reading of Pontius Pilate for Scorsese in The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988), playing him as a bureaucrat simply trying to keep the peace. Misfiring caper The Linguini Incident (1991) finds Bowie’s English bartender plotting with disgruntled colleague Roseanna Arquette. There’s a fun cameo as long-lost FBI agent Phillip Jeffries in Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), making cryptic pronouncements in an outrageous Texan accent before disappearing, literally, into thin air. Surprisingly, he’s less successful as Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (1996); his performance too close to caricature. He is miscast as a baddie in Spaghetti western Gunslinger’s Revenge (1998) and as an ageing British gangster opposite Goldie in Everybody Loves The Sunshine (1999). His cameos in Zoolander (2001), judging a ‘walk off’ between rival models Ben Stiller and Luke Wilson, and serenading Ricky Gervais in a 2006 episode of The Office (“Pathetic little fat man/no-one’s bloody laughing”) are diverting amuse-bouches. These days, you’re likely to get your big Bowie fix from his son, Duncan, promising director of two excellent sci-fi movies, Moon (2009) and Source Code (2011).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF76qlwWM8s
But it’s Christopher Nolan’s brilliant casting of Bowie in The Prestige that reminds you – goblins, cowboys and Prussian officers aside – how compelling a dramatic presence he can be. Bowie enjoys a spectacular entrance as Tesla, walking into shot through fearsome arcs of electromagnetic current. This is Tesla the erratic genius, pioneering in isolation on his scientific projects: time travel, anti-gravity machines, teleportation devices. Nikolai Tesla. The man who harnessed electricity. Who else are you going to get to play him?
Former US president Bill Clinton has revealed that he tried and failed to get Led Zeppelin to reform in 2012.
According to a CBS, David Saltzman of the Robin Hood Foundation, which organised the Hurricane Sandy benefit concert in New York, said that he and the film executive Harvey Weinstein had flown to Washington DC to enlist Clinton's help in getting Led Zeppelin on the concert bill alongside The Who, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones.
Clinton agreed to Saltzman and Weinberg's request and approached Led Zepplin band members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in Washington at the Kennedy Center Honors gala, which took place days prior to the Hurricane Sandy benefit. However, the former President could not get the band up on the stage.
"Harvey Weinstein had this great idea that we could enlist Bill Clinton to convince Led Zeppelin to reunite," Saltzman said. "The President was terrific – 'I really wanna do this, this will be a fantastic thing, I love Led Zeppelin'. And Bill Clinton himself asked Led Zeppelin to reunite, and they wouldn’t do it."
Robert plant has recently announced a string of North American tour dates.
Former US president Bill Clinton has revealed that he tried and failed to get Led Zeppelin to reform in 2012.
According to a CBS, David Saltzman of the Robin Hood Foundation, which organised the Hurricane Sandy benefit concert in New York, said that he and the film executive Harvey Weinstein had flown to Washington DC to enlist Clinton’s help in getting Led Zeppelin on the concert bill alongside The Who, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones.
Clinton agreed to Saltzman and Weinberg’s request and approached Led Zepplin band members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in Washington at the Kennedy Center Honors gala, which took place days prior to the Hurricane Sandy benefit. However, the former President could not get the band up on the stage.
“Harvey Weinstein had this great idea that we could enlist Bill Clinton to convince Led Zeppelin to reunite,” Saltzman said. “The President was terrific – ‘I really wanna do this, this will be a fantastic thing, I love Led Zeppelin’. And Bill Clinton himself asked Led Zeppelin to reunite, and they wouldn’t do it.”
Robert plant has recently announced a string of North American tour dates.
Laura Marling has unveiled the video for her track "Master Hunter".
The song features on Marling's forthcoming new album Once I Was An Eagle. The follow-up to 2011's 'A Creature I Don't Know', it was recorded at the Three Crows Studio owned by producer and solo musician Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon, ...
Laura Marling has unveiled the video for her track “Master Hunter”.
The song features on Marling’s forthcoming new album Once I Was An Eagle. The follow-up to 2011’s ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’, it was recorded at the Three Crows Studio owned by producer and solo musician Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon, Ryan Adams, Vaccines), with Dom Monks on engineering duties.
Last month, Marling unveiled the first four tracks from the album via a short film, entitled When Brave Bird Saved – watch it here.
The film was directed by Fred & Nick, who commented: “When Brave Bird Saved is an introduction to a visual journey directly inspired, informed, and narrated by the first four tracks of ‘Once I Was An Eagle’. Having collaborated with Laura over the last four years, the ambition and scope of this film marks an exciting new direction for us – and we were given total freedom to focus strongly on the distinct journey of the four tracks.”
Once I Was An Eagle is set for release on May 27. You can read Uncut’s exclusive interview with the singer-songwriter in the new issue of Uncut, on sale now.
The tracklisting for ‘Once I Was An Eagle’ is:
‘Take The Night Off’
‘I Was An Eagle’
‘You Know’
‘Breathe’
‘Master Hunter’
‘Little Love Caster’
‘Devil’s Resting Place’
‘Interlude’
‘Undine’
‘Where Can I Go?’
‘Once’
‘Pray For Me’
‘When Were You Happy? (And How Long Has That Been)’
A rare guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison has arrived in London before it goes up for sale at auction.
The custom-made prototype VOX guitar will go on public display at The Stafford London Hotel in London from Thursday (May 9) to Saturday (May 11) before it goes up for sale in New York on May 18 at Julien's Auctions. It was played by Harrison and Lennon during the 1967 Magical Mystery Tour period.
The guitar, which was made in 1966, was given to the band's friend "Magic Alex" Mardas by John Lennon. A plaque attached to the back of the instrument reads "To Magic Alex/ Alexi thank you/ for been [sic] a friend/ 2-5-1967 John." According to Madras the date refers to his 25th birthday earlier that year and not the date the guitar was given to him. It's one of the few guitars known to exist that was played by both John Lennon and George Harrison.
Last month, the door from Paul McCartney's childhood home fetched as much as £5,000 when it went up auction in Gloucestershire. The door was from 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton, Liverpool, where McCartney lived from 1955-1964 and learned to play guitar, piano, drums and the trumpet.
A rare guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison has arrived in London before it goes up for sale at auction.
The custom-made prototype VOX guitar will go on public display at The Stafford London Hotel in London from Thursday (May 9) to Saturday (May 11) before it goes up for sale in New York on May 18 at Julien’s Auctions. It was played by Harrison and Lennon during the 1967 Magical Mystery Tour period.
The guitar, which was made in 1966, was given to the band’s friend “Magic Alex” Mardas by John Lennon. A plaque attached to the back of the instrument reads “To Magic Alex/ Alexi thank you/ for been [sic] a friend/ 2-5-1967 John.” According to Madras the date refers to his 25th birthday earlier that year and not the date the guitar was given to him. It’s one of the few guitars known to exist that was played by both John Lennon and George Harrison.
Last month, the door from Paul McCartney’s childhood home fetched as much as £5,000 when it went up auction in Gloucestershire. The door was from 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton, Liverpool, where McCartney lived from 1955-1964 and learned to play guitar, piano, drums and the trumpet.
David Bowie has released the title track from his current album The Next Day as a single.
The video was directed by Floria Sigismundi - the photographer and filmmaker who directed Bowie's last video, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)". She also directed The Runaways and the video for Justin Timberlake's...
David Bowie has released the title track from his current album The Next Day as a single.
The video was directed by Floria Sigismundi – the photographer and filmmaker who directed Bowie’s last video, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)”. She also directed The Runaways and the video for Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors”.
The video for “The Next Day“, which is set in a pub, stars Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard alongside Bowie.
Bowie plays a Christ-like figure, Oldman portrays a priest and Cotillard plays a saint-like character while a Cardinal hands out cash and a nun prays.
Bowie and Oldman previously joined forces in 1995, when they recorded a duet of Bowie’s “You’ve Been Around” for guitarist Reeves Gabrels’ album The Sacred Squall Of Now. They worked together again in 1996 on the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Basquiat with Bowie portraying Andy Warhol and Oldman in the role of a fellow painter loosely based on Julian Schnabel.
All three have previously starred in Christopher Nolan films. Bowie starred in The Prestige, while Oldman is an alumni of all three Batman films, the last of which co-starred Cotillard.
There’s a great video on www.uncut.co.uk at the moment of Neil Young singing ‘Happy Birthday’ in affectionate celebration of Willie Nelson, who was, astonishingly, 80 last month.
It reminded me of a YouTube clip I came upon a while ago of Willie jamming with Neil and Crazy Horse on a typically raging Neil version of “All Along The Watchtower”, Willie looking more than a tad bemused by where he seems to have found himself and Neil utterly lost in the noise he’s making.
I’ve posted it here in belated birthday tribute to Willie along with some terrific footage of Willie with other of his friends, including Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Paul Simon and Merle Haggard. The version of “Wild Horses” with Keith, Ryan Adams and Hank Williams III is especially rocking.
The Uncut website, I should also mention, now has a dedicated features section, with plenty of our best long pieces archived there. You can find it here.
Have a good week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cusVoNKZF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsR0Y-sWk-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vvWiL3pifE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqdQ2dnPFg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SQL-j3GVus
Willie Nelson and Neil Young pic: Ebet Roberts/Getty Images
There’s a great video on www.uncut.co.uk at the moment of Neil Young singing ‘Happy Birthday’ in affectionate celebration of Willie Nelson, who was, astonishingly, 80 last month.
It reminded me of a YouTube clip I came upon a while ago of Willie jamming with Neil and Crazy Horse on a typically raging Neil version of “All Along The Watchtower”, Willie looking more than a tad bemused by where he seems to have found himself and Neil utterly lost in the noise he’s making.
I’ve posted it here in belated birthday tribute to Willie along with some terrific footage of Willie with other of his friends, including Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Paul Simon and Merle Haggard. The version of “Wild Horses” with Keith, Ryan Adams and Hank Williams III is especially rocking.
The Uncut website, I should also mention, now has a dedicated features section, with plenty of our best long pieces archived there. You can find it here.
Have a good week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsR0Y-sWk-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vvWiL3pifE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqdQ2dnPFg
Willie Nelson and Neil Young pic: Ebet Roberts/Getty Images
Various malign forces conspired to prevent me from posting this playlist in its rightful timeslot last week; apologies for that. But better late than never, I guess, and some fine new arrivals here from, among others, Duane Pitre, Bitchin Bajas, The Cairo Gang and Houndstooth.
Especial love for the Iasos comp from Numero Group, too. But I should get on…
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1 Bitchin Bajas – Bitchitronics (Drag City)
2 Duane Pitre – Bridges (Important)
3 Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin (Castlemania)
4 Matias Aguayo – The Visitor (Cómeme)
5 Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - Daytime Viewing (Unseen Worlds)
6 The White Stripes – Nine Miles From The White City (Third Man)
7 Lightning Dust – Fantasy (Jagjaguwar)
8 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Your Funeral… My Trial (Mute)
9 Date Palms – The Dusted Sessions (Thrill Jockey)
10 Animal Collective - Monkey Been To Burn Town (Domino)
11 Jozef Van Wissem - Nihil Obstat (Important)
12 Iasos - Celestial Soul Portrait (Numero Group)
13 Various Artists – Philly ReGrooved 3: Tom Moulton Remixes (Harmless)
14 Houndstooth – Ride Out The Dark (No Quarter)
15 Rollin Hunt – The Phoney (Moniker)
16 JJ Cale – Naturally (Mercury)
17 Daft Punk – Get Lucky (Sony)
18 Danny Paul Grody – Between Two Worlds (Three Lobed)
19 Master Musicians Of Bukkake – Far West (Important)
20 Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II (In The Red)
21 The New Mendicants – Australia 2013 (One Little Indian)
22 Hiss Golden Messenger – Haw (Paradise Of Bachelors)
23 The Cairo Gang – Tiny Rebels (Empty Cellar)
24 Data 70 – Space Loops: The Complete Sessions (Enraptured)
Various malign forces conspired to prevent me from posting this playlist in its rightful timeslot last week; apologies for that. But better late than never, I guess, and some fine new arrivals here from, among others, Duane Pitre, Bitchin Bajas, The Cairo Gang and Houndstooth.
Especial love for the Iasos comp from Numero Group, too. But I should get on…
The National played their song "Sorrow" live for six hours straight on Sunday (May 5) in New York.
The band played the High Violet track over and over in a collaboration with artist Ragnar Kjartansson called A Lot Of Sorrow. Click below to see fan-shot footage of one of the performances of the song...
The National played their song “Sorrow” live for six hours straight on Sunday (May 5) in New York.
The band played the High Violet track over and over in a collaboration with artist Ragnar Kjartansson called A Lot Of Sorrow. Click below to see fan-shot footage of one of the performances of the song.
The National ended up playing the track 105 times, reports Pitchfork, who add that drummer Bryan Devendorf sat out one take of the song.
On the Facebook page, the band commented, jokingly: “For the encore, The National played ‘Sorrow’.” The one-track setlist is pictured.
The show took place at Moma PS1 in Long Island City, New York. A press release from the gallery reads: “By stretching a single pop song into a day-long tour de force the artist continues his explorations into the potential of repetitive performance to produce sculptural presence within sound.”
It continues: “As in all of Kjartansson’s performances, the idea behind A Lot of Sorrow is devoid of irony, yet full of humour and emotion. It is another quest to find the comic in the tragic and vice versa.”
Last month The National played two songs from their forthcoming sixth studio album Trouble Will Find Me on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
The band release Trouble Will Find Me on May 20 via 4AD.
The National will play six gigs in the UK and Ireland this November:
Blur may record a new album in Hong Kong this week, according to Damon Albarn.
The band were playing a date at Hong Kong's AsiaWorld-Expo last night, which was originally due to be followed by some postponed dates in Japan. Faced with a week to kill in Hong Kong, Damon Albarn teased that they may ...
Blur may record a new album in Hong Kong this week, according to Damon Albarn.
The band were playing a date at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo last night, which was originally due to be followed by some postponed dates in Japan. Faced with a week to kill in Hong Kong, Damon Albarn teased that they may use the time to lay down some new material.
Speaking to the crowd, Albarn said: “So we have a week in Hong Kong, and we thought it would be a good time to try and record another record.” Scroll down to watch a clip.
The question of whether Blur will record a follow-up to 2003’s Think Tank is an ongoing saga. Blur penned two new tracks – ‘Under The Westway’ and ‘The Puritan’ – for last year’s Hyde Park shows, and the band have hinted that more could follow, with producer William Orbit telling NME that the band had been in the studio working on new material with him. However, most recently, Graham Coxon denied it would happen in a conversation with a fan on Twitter in November 2012. Asked if there is a new Blur album coming out and, if so, when? Coxon replied by simply saying, “No”.
Blur will play their only show on the British Isles this year at Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art on August 1. The date marks Blur’s first show in Ireland in four years. Bat For Lashes and The Strypes support.
Several Beatles songs that have never before been performed before were given their live debut by Paul McCartney on the opening night of his world tour.
McCartney played "Your Mother Should Know", "Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite", "Lovely Rita" and "All Together Now" for the first time ever during the gig in Belo Horizone, Brazil on Saturday (May 4). You can watch fan-shot footage of the gig below.
McCartney also surprised the 55,000 in attendance by opening with "Eight Days A Week" – which had previously only been performed once in 1965 – and "We Can Work It Out", which hasn't been included in his set since his Glastonbury performance in 2004. Wings tracks "What The Man Said" and "Hi Hi Hi" also made it into his solo setlist for the first time.
Belo Horizonte was picked as a stop on McCartney's Out There tour after local fans started a petition on Facebook to get the singer to play the city. At the end of his show McCartney got the girls up on stage from the audience who organised the petition and thanked them for their support.
Paul McCartney played:
'Eight Days A Week'
'Juniors Farm'
'All My Loving'
'Listen To What The Man Said'
'Let Me Roll It'
'Paperback Writer'
'My Valentine'
'1985'
'Long and Winding Road'
'Maybe I'm Amazed'
'Hope Of Deliverance'
'We Can Work It Out'
'Another Day'
'And I Love Her'
'Blackbird'
'Here Today'
'Your Mother Should Know'
'Lady Madonna'
'All Together Now'
'Mrs Vanderbilt'
'Eleanor Rigby'
'Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite'
'Something'
'Ob la di Ob la da'
'Band on the Run'
'Let It Be'
'Live and Let Die'
'Hey Jude'
'Day Tripper'
'Lovely Rita'
'Get Back'
'Yesterday'
'Helter Skelter'
'Golden Slumbers/The End'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCEZVIMZIY
Several Beatles songs that have never before been performed before were given their live debut by Paul McCartney on the opening night of his world tour.
McCartney played “Your Mother Should Know”, “Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite”, “Lovely Rita” and “All Together Now” for the first time ever during the gig in Belo Horizone, Brazil on Saturday (May 4). You can watch fan-shot footage of the gig below.
McCartney also surprised the 55,000 in attendance by opening with “Eight Days A Week” – which had previously only been performed once in 1965 – and “We Can Work It Out”, which hasn’t been included in his set since his Glastonbury performance in 2004. Wings tracks “What The Man Said” and “Hi Hi Hi” also made it into his solo setlist for the first time.
Belo Horizonte was picked as a stop on McCartney’s Out There tour after local fans started a petition on Facebook to get the singer to play the city. At the end of his show McCartney got the girls up on stage from the audience who organised the petition and thanked them for their support.
Tom Waits joined The Rolling Stones live onstage on Sunday (May 5) to sing "Little Red Rooster" – you can watch fan-shot footage of the moment below.
Waits joined The Rolling Stones on stage at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. "Little Red Rooster" was originally performed by Howlin' Wolf ...
Tom Waits joined The Rolling Stones live onstage on Sunday (May 5) to sing “Little Red Rooster” – you can watch fan-shot footage of the moment below.
Waits joined The Rolling Stones on stage at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. “Little Red Rooster” was originally performed by Howlin’ Wolf but Sam Cooke and The Doors have also recorded their own versions; the Stones released a version in 1964.
Previously on current leg of the band’s 50 & Counting tour, the Stones have been joined by Gwen Stefani and Keith Urban, who joined the band in Los Angeles on Friday (May 3).
However, everything isn’t as rosy as it seems in The Rolling Stones camp. There have been reports that the band may face a pay cut as their US tour has failed to sell-out due to high ticket prices.
According to The Guardian, the band may have to renegotiate their reputed $20million fee as there is still a lot of tickets available for other dates on the tour. “Total disaster. Too expensive and no vibe on the show…it’s a terrible way to go out,” a source told the newspaper. “What’s the band gonna do? Say we’re not going to play if you touch our gross?”
The issue appears to have only affected their US tour with tickets for their upcoming gigs at London’s Hyde Park, priced between £95 and £300, selling-out. The band are also set to headline the Pyramid Stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Black Flag have released a brand new song.
Scroll down to listen to "Down In The Dirt", which comes ahead of a new album. The song can be downloaded for free via SST Records by clicking here.
Ron Reyes, Greg Ginn, Gregory Moore and Dale Nixon are currently putting the finishing touches on an LP, w...
Black Flag have released a brand new song.
Scroll down to listen to “Down In The Dirt”, which comes ahead of a new album. The song can be downloaded for free via SST Records by clicking here.
Ron Reyes, Greg Ginn, Gregory Moore and Dale Nixon are currently putting the finishing touches on an LP, which is set for release later this year.
They are one of two versions of the band about to play shows. The 1979-80 line-up of the band – fronted by Reyes – will play the Hevy Fest in Kent as well as gigs across the US and Europe.
Another incarnation of the band will also be playing shows this summer. The band’s co-founder Keith Morris, alongside Chuck Dukowski, Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton of Descendents, will be touring as Flag.
“Down In The Dirt” was released via the official Black Flag website with a note that reads that the band are: “not to be confused with the ‘fake’ Flag band currently covering the songs of Black Flag in an embarrassingly weak ‘mailing it in’ fashion. We urge you to check out the real Black Flag when they hit your area.”
Greg Ginn was joined by Ron Reyes in Black Flag in 1979, replacing Keith Morris, who went on to form The Circle Jerks. Morris currently plays with Off!.
Reyes quit just one year later and was replaced by fan Dez Cadena. Henry Rollins joined the band in 1981, leaving in 1986. Rollins is not attached to any of the Black Flag reunions.
Hand-typed lyrics to a Bob Dylan song which he never recorded are expected to sell for £35,000 when they go up for auction next month.
Dylan's lyric sheet for "Go Away You Bomb" will go under the hammer at Christie’s in London on June 26.
The song was written for a 1963 anti-nuclear weapons campaign, writes the Guardian.
Nicolette Tomkinson, a director at Christie's has said of the song: "This unreleased song, written against the background of the threat of nuclear warfare, is not only a beautiful example of Dylan's songwriting, representing his political protest activities during that era, but is also a potent symbol of the anxieties of the American public in the early 1960s."
The lyric sheet has an estimate of £25,000-£35,000.
Bob Dylan will headline the AmericanaramA Festival in America this Summer.
Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Richard Thomson are amongst the acts confirmed to play alongside Dylan as the festival tours the United States from June through to August. The festival begins at the Cruzan Amphitheatre on June 26 before culminating with an appearance at Mountain View, California on August 4.
Bob Dylan’s latest album, 'Tempest', was released last year.
Hand-typed lyrics to a Bob Dylan song which he never recorded are expected to sell for £35,000 when they go up for auction next month.
Dylan’s lyric sheet for “Go Away You Bomb” will go under the hammer at Christie’s in London on June 26.
The song was written for a 1963 anti-nuclear weapons campaign, writes the Guardian.
Nicolette Tomkinson, a director at Christie’s has said of the song: “This unreleased song, written against the background of the threat of nuclear warfare, is not only a beautiful example of Dylan’s songwriting, representing his political protest activities during that era, but is also a potent symbol of the anxieties of the American public in the early 1960s.”
The lyric sheet has an estimate of £25,000-£35,000.
Bob Dylan will headline the AmericanaramA Festival in America this Summer.
Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Richard Thomson are amongst the acts confirmed to play alongside Dylan as the festival tours the United States from June through to August. The festival begins at the Cruzan Amphitheatre on June 26 before culminating with an appearance at Mountain View, California on August 4.
Bob Dylan’s latest album, ‘Tempest’, was released last year.
The Rolling Stones kicked off their 2013 50 and Counting tour last night (May 3) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The band were joined by Mick Taylor, who has been announced as special guest on the tour, to play "Midnight Rambler".
Other guests included Gwen Stefani, who joined the band for "...
The Rolling Stones kicked off their 2013 50 and Counting tour last night (May 3) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The band were joined by Mick Taylor, who has been announced as special guest on the tour, to play “Midnight Rambler”.
Other guests included Gwen Stefani, who joined the band for “Wild Horses” and Keith Urban who played guitar and sang during “Respectable”.
The band took to the stage at 9pm (PT) and played a two hour long, 23 song set that included classic tracks “You Can’t Always Get What You Want’, ‘Satisfaction”, “Honky Tonk Women”, “Brown Sugar”, “Paint It Black” and “Tumbling Dice”. Scroll down for a full setlist.
The show started with a brass performance of “Satisfaction” by the UCLA Bruins marching band. Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts then entered the stage to play “Get Off Of My Cloud”, following it with “The Last Time”.
The beaming band performed “Emotional Rescue” live on stage for the first time since it was released in 1980, and also gave a rare live airing to 1968 Beggars Banquet track “Factory Girl”, during which Jagger played acoustic guitar.
“Good evening Los Angeles,” said Jagger to the crowd. “Or is it just Beverly Hills, Brentwood and parts of Santa Monica?” he added, jokingly referring to the posher parts of town.
Jagger also apologised to the audience for the fact that the show date was shifted from May 2 to May 3. “It’s either us or the Lakers,” he said, referring to the basketball team who usually play the downtown Los Angeles venue. “So now you got us. It doesn’t matter to Jack Nicholson, because he was coming to both of them,” he added, pointing out the Hollywood star and famous basketball fan in the crowd.
To warm up for the current tour The Rolling Stones played a tiny club show in Los Angeles last Saturday (April 27) at The Echoplex in the Echo Park neighbourhood.
Jagger was on energetic form throughout the hour-and-a -half long show, dancing and chatting with the crowd. “Thank you very much, you’re too good to us,” he said towards the end of the set. “The first show of the tour, probably the best one!”
Hop Farm Festival has been cancelled.
The festival was due to take place over the weekend of July 5 - 6 at Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, Kent.
In a statement promoter Vince Power said: “After reviewing the ticket sales on Hop Farm and the predicted final figures the festival would suffer unsustainabl...
Hop Farm Festival has been cancelled.
The festival was due to take place over the weekend of July 5 – 6 at Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, Kent.
In a statement promoter Vince Power said: “After reviewing the ticket sales on Hop Farm and the predicted final figures the festival would suffer unsustainable losses so therefore, as from today, it is with great sadness I am announcing the cancelation of the festival.
“I would like to say that this has no reflection on the artists but with around 2,000 ticket sold it is highlighting the poor state of the economy. At the selling rate the prediction today would be 4,500 sold.
“Thank you for your support this year, it has been a very hard decision.”
Among the bands who had been scheduled to play this year were Bloody Valentine, Rodriguez, The Horrors, Jimmy Cliff, The Cribs and Dinosaur Jr.
Pedro Almodovar's latest: high altitude, high camp comedy...
After the macabre gothic melodrama of his previous film, The Skin I Live In, a change of pace for Pedro Almodovar: a return to his earlier, frothy comedies like Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown.
We are a on a plane, bound for Mexico. There is a problem with the landing equipment. It is likely the plane will crash, killing everyone on board. The air stewards have sedated the whole of economy class, with only those in business class – an actor, a psychic, a dominatrix, a hitman, a businessman and a pair of newly weds – alert to the possible catastrophe. What to do? Break out the tequila, get stoned and watch the air stewards perform from their extensive “repertoire of musical numbers.” What’s this? Why, one passenger has their “ass packed with mescaline.” Hurray!
As you might have guessed by now, I’m So Excited runs at a hysterical pitch. After all, there aren’t many airplane disaster movies that feature the plane’s crew performing impromptu dance routines to the Pointer Sisters’ “I’m So Excited”. Almodovar finds something to keep all his characters occupied - both secrets and bodily fluids are liberally spilled during the film’s brisk run time.
It helps that the only working phone on the plane is damaged, meaning that every conversation held between passenger and a loved one back on the ground is transmitted over the plane’s loud-speaker system. There’s nice cameos at the start from Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz, as the witless ground crew who cause the problems with the landing gear in the first place. A minor – but exuberantly funny – piece from the Spanish master.
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Pedro Almodovar’s latest: high altitude, high camp comedy…
After the macabre gothic melodrama of his previous film, The Skin I Live In, a change of pace for Pedro Almodovar: a return to his earlier, frothy comedies like Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown.
We are a on a plane, bound for Mexico. There is a problem with the landing equipment. It is likely the plane will crash, killing everyone on board. The air stewards have sedated the whole of economy class, with only those in business class – an actor, a psychic, a dominatrix, a hitman, a businessman and a pair of newly weds – alert to the possible catastrophe. What to do? Break out the tequila, get stoned and watch the air stewards perform from their extensive “repertoire of musical numbers.” What’s this? Why, one passenger has their “ass packed with mescaline.” Hurray!
As you might have guessed by now, I’m So Excited runs at a hysterical pitch. After all, there aren’t many airplane disaster movies that feature the plane’s crew performing impromptu dance routines to the Pointer Sisters’ “I’m So Excited”. Almodovar finds something to keep all his characters occupied – both secrets and bodily fluids are liberally spilled during the film’s brisk run time.
It helps that the only working phone on the plane is damaged, meaning that every conversation held between passenger and a loved one back on the ground is transmitted over the plane’s loud-speaker system. There’s nice cameos at the start from Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz, as the witless ground crew who cause the problems with the landing gear in the first place. A minor – but exuberantly funny – piece from the Spanish master.
Slayer guitarist and founding member Jeff Hanneman has died at the age of 49.
The musician - second from right in the picture above - passed away from liver failure in a California hospital on the morning of May 2. A statement from the band's publicist released yesterday read:
Slayer is devastated...
Slayer guitarist and founding member Jeff Hanneman has died at the age of 49.
The musician – second from right in the picture above – passed away from liver failure in a California hospital on the morning of May 2. A statement from the band’s publicist released yesterday read:
Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11am (PT) this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael and Larry, and will be sorely missed.
Hanneman co-founded the iconic band in 1981 with Kerry King.
Earlier this week, the band posted a letter to fans on their website regarding Hanneman’s condition. It explained that the guitarist had been in ill health since he was bitten by a spider over a year ago. It said:
“Slayer fans everywhere – it’s time to let you know what is going on with our brother Jeff Hanneman. As you know, Jeff was bitten by a spider more than a year ago, but what you may not have known was that for a couple of days after he went to the ER, things were touch-and-go. There was talk that he might have to have his arm amputated, and we didn’t know if he was going to pull through at all. He was in a medically-induced coma for a few days and had several operations to remove the dead and dying tissue from his arm. So, understand, he was in really, really bad shape.”
It continued: “It’s been about a year since he got out of the hospital, and since then, he had to learn to walk again, he’s had several painful skin grafts, he’s been in rehab doing exercises to regain the strength in his arm; but best of all, he’s been playing guitar.”
It added that Hanneman had recently been attending rehearsals with the band, but that Gary Holt would continue to fill in for him on all upcoming shows, including the band’s summer dates in Europe. It is now not known if these shows will go ahead, following the news of Hanneman’s passing.
