There’s a story about Brendan Gleeson meeting unsuccessfully with a Hollywood agent to discuss furthering his acting career overseas. This was in the mid-Nineties, and until then Gleeson had largely worked in television, mostly in his native Ireland, with only a handful of minor film roles to his credit. Admittedly, Gleeson had come late to acting: he’d been a secondary school teacher in Dublin before taking up acting full time in 1991 and was now in his early forties.
I interviewed T Bone Burnett as part of a piece on Inside Llewyn Davis, the new Coen Brothers film, which ran in the issue of Uncut on sale in December. What was originally meant to be a brisk 10 minute chat about working with the Coens and the film's soundtrack evolved into a much longer conversation, the bulk of which, inevitably, I couldn't work into the feature. So I thought I'd post it here for anyone interested in reading T Bone's thoughts on the evolution of folk music, the music he was listening to when he was growing up, and of course his experiences working with the Coens. Other topics under discussion included the American Civil War, George Clooney and Bob Dylan...
Morrissey will release a new album later this year.
The singer has signed a new, worldwide record deal with Universal Music’s US-based Harvest Records. In a statement, he said he was "thrilled" to sign the contract.
Little Feat have announced details of a 13 disc box set.
Titled Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990, the set is presented in a clamshell box and includes the band's studio albums and live recordings as well as outtakes.
A final disc of this collection highlights outtakes from Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years Of Little Feat, a four-disc retrospective collection released in 2000.
Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990 is released by Rhino in the US on February 25.
The box set contains:
Little Feat (1971)
Jeremy Spencer, one of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac, has announced American tour dates and a new album.
The dates will be Spencer's first full-length tour of America since 1971.
Twelve years after he was pulling pints in a pub in London Bridge, Brian Burton is perhaps busier than ever – he has a new Broken Bells album out on Monday (January 13), he’s been working with U2 and is rumoured to be producing the next Black Keys record. It’s been a whirlwind decade for the writer and producer better known as Danger Mouse: after making his name by daring to cross-breed The Beatles with Jay-Z, he’s gone on to work with everyone from Damon Albarn to David Lynch.
