Morrissey launched his memoir, Autobiography, at a book signing in Gothenburg, Sweden last night [October 17].
Queues began at the Akademibokhandeln bookshop on Wednesday lunchtime. The Guardian estimated that the crowd numbers peaked at 500 people.
There are many revelations in Morrissey’s Autobiography, but perhaps the most unexpected arrives on page 194. “While in Denver,” writes Morrissey, “Johnny [Marr] and I attend a concert by A-ha, whom we have met previously and whom we quite like.”
U2 are aiming to finish their new album by the end of November, bass player Adam Clayton has revealed.
The band last released an album in 2009 when they put out No Line On The Horizon. It is expected that their new record will appear in 2014 with Clayton confirming that the band are trying to wind up work and get the songs "absolutely right" prior to Christmas.
In this piece from the Uncut archive (March 2013, Take 190), the outspoken Irish singer answers questions from fans and famous admirers, recalls her violent exchange with Prince, oils up for John Grant and tweets Pope Benedict about her excommunication… Interview: John Lewis
Cat Power, Sky Ferreira, the Low Anthem and DIIV's Zachary Cole Smith will play an Elliott Smith tribute at Brooklyn's Glasslands on October 21 - the 10-year anniversary of Smith's death.
Proceeds from the show will go to the Elliott Smith Memorial Fund, which benefits two charities: Portland's Outside In and Free Arts for Abused Children.
Television nearly completed a comeback album six years ago, it has been revealed.
The band recorded 16 songs at New York's Stratosphere Sound recording studios between Christmas and New Year in 2007 with engineer Geoff Sanoff. The tracks, which have been sitting in the vaults ever since, still need mixing and vocals, Rolling Stone reports.
David Bowie and the Arctic Monkeys are currently William Hill's favourites to win the 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize, after the nominations were announced yesterday evening [September 11].
I hope you had a good Bank Holiday break. I spent a very enjoyable chunk of it reading the new Carl Hiaasen novel – excuse the shameless self-promotion, but you can read an interview I did with Hiaasen over on my blog. But now we’re back in the office, and it’s my pleasure to introduce you all to the new issue of Uncut, which goes on sale tomorrow.
