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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Launch ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Launch ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’
Beatles' icons Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr both appeared at the launch of the forthcoming Beatles Rock Band game at Microsoft's Electronic Entertainment Expo yesterday (June 1). The Harmonix title's launch, which took place at the University of Southern California was also attended by Yoko O...

Beatles‘ icons Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr both appeared at the launch of the forthcoming Beatles Rock Band game at Microsoft’s Electronic Entertainment Expo yesterday (June 1).

The Harmonix title’s launch, which took place at the University of Southern California was also attended by Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison.

‘The Beatles : Rock Band’, on sale from September 9, features 45 Beatles songs which users of the game will be able to play karaoke-style, performing vocals, guitar and drums. The game is the first-ever agreed third party licensing for use of the band’s back catalogue.

Speaking animatedly about the game, at the first public viewing of the game’s graphics, Sir Paul McCartney said: “We love the game, it’s fantastic”, with Ringo Starr adding “The game is good, the graphics are very good, and we were great.”

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St Etienne plus all latest LATITUDE additions!

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St Etienne have been confirmed for the Uncut Arena at this July's Latitude Festival, which takes place from July 16-19. The band who have recently reissued deluxe editions of their acclaimed albums Fox Base Alpha and Continental ( Win copies here!) will join previously announced headliners Bat Fo...

St Etienne have been confirmed for the Uncut Arena at this July’s Latitude Festival, which takes place from July 16-19.

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Wedding Present’s David Gedge To DJ in London this week

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Wedding Present’s David Gedge To DJ in London this week
David Gedge of Wedding Present and Cinerama fame is guest DJ at this week's How Does It Feel To Be Loved club night in Brixton. The monthly indie-pop club is a regular spot for Gedge, with this Friday (June 5) being his fourth appearance at the club. He has previously spun weird surprise choices in...

David Gedge of Wedding Present and Cinerama fame is guest DJ at this week’s How Does It Feel To Be Loved club night in Brixton.

The monthly indie-pop club is a regular spot for Gedge, with this Friday (June 5) being his fourth appearance at the club. He has previously spun weird surprise choices including the Sugababes, PJ Harvey and Ciccione Youth.

HDIF takes place at the Canterbury Arms, SW9, more information and advance tickets are available here

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St Etienne and more added to Latitude Festival Bill

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St Etienne and more added to Latitude Festival Bill
St Etienne have been confirmed for the Uncut Arena at this July's Latitude Festival, which takes place from July 16-19. The band who have recently reissued deluxe editions of their acclaimed albums Fox Base Alpha and Continental ( Win copies here!) will join previously announced headliners Bat For ...

St Etienne have been confirmed for the Uncut Arena at this July’s Latitude Festival, which takes place from July 16-19.

The band who have recently reissued deluxe editions of their acclaimed albums Fox Base Alpha and Continental ( Win copies here!) will join previously announced headliners Bat For Lashes, Spiritualized and Gossip in the popular covered tent.

Also announced this week are further additions for the Literary, Comedy and Music & Film Arenas; highlights including Frank Skinner, Jeremy Warmsley and a collaboration between Grace Maxwell and Edwyn Collins.

Latitude, now in it’s fourth year, is Uncut’s festival of the Summer, and tickets for the weekend are still available for £150 for the weekend, from nme.com/gigs and www.latitudefestival.co.uk.

If you’re feeling lucky, don’t forget there’s a chance to win a pair of tickets, at Uncut’s competitions page here.

Latitude takes place in Henham Park, Suffolk, we’ll see you there!

The latest additions for the festival are as follows, for all previous updates see our dedicated Latitude 2009 blog here.

UNCUT ARENA:

Saint Etienne

The Temper Trap

SUNRISE ARENA:

Kap Bambino

FILM & MUSIC ARENA:

Future Cinema Presents Black Cat White Cat with Taraf de Haidouks

Noise Of Art presents ‘Love Bites – The Dance Of The Vampires

Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before with Kieran Evans, Adem & Friends

Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Warmsley

One eskimO

London Short Film Festival

Night Of The Living Dead – 3D

LITERARY ARENA:

Frank Skinner

Grace Maxwell & Edwyn Collins

Punk Fiction with Cathi Unsworth, Nicholas Hogg,

Janine Bullman, Salena Godden, Dev Hynes, Lee Bullman

COMEDY ARENA:

Lee Mack

Stephen Grant

Rob Rouse

John Gordillo

Kerry Godliman

CABARET ARENA:

The Whoopee Club

Ima Doll

Fancy Chance

Ekat

Beaux Belles

Russella

The Two Wrongies

Miss Lady G Luck

Simon Deville

Des O’Connor

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Muse Announce UK and Ireland Arena Tour

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Muse Announce UK and Ireland Arena Tour
Muse have announced a UK and Ireland arena tour to take place this winter. The seven live shows start in Sheffield on November 4 and end with a two-night stint at London's O2 Arena on November 12 and 13. The band, fronted by Matt Bellamy are currently working on their fifth studio album The Resist...

Muse have announced a UK and Ireland arena tour to take place this winter.

The seven live shows start in Sheffield on November 4 and end with a two-night stint at London’s O2 Arena on November 12 and 13.

The band, fronted by Matt Bellamy are currently working on their fifth studio album The Resistance, which is expected to be completed and released by the end of 2009.

Tickets for the winter tour will go on sale at 9am on Friday June 5, calling at the following venues:

Sheffield Arena (November 4)

Liverpool Echo Arena (5)

Dublin O2 Depot (6)

Glasgow SECC (9)

Birmingham NIA (10)

London 02 Arena (12, 13)

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Arctic Monkeys’ Josh Homme Produced Album Tracklisting Revealed!

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Arctic Monkeys’ Josh Homme Produced Album Tracklisting Revealed!
Arctic Monkeys have confirmed the tracklisting for their forthcoming as-yet-untitled third album, due for release on August 24, just before their headline appearances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. Producing duties for the ten new tracks have been split between Queens of the Stone Age mainman ...

Arctic Monkeys have confirmed the tracklisting for their forthcoming as-yet-untitled third album, due for release on August 24, just before their headline appearances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals.

Producing duties for the ten new tracks have been split between Queens of the Stone Age mainman Josh Homme in Nevada and James Ford over in New York.

The tracklisiting for the album, which will be available on CD, Vinyl and via digital download, is as follows:

“My Propeller”

“Crying Lightning”

“Dangerous Animals”

“Secret Door”

“Potion Approaching”

“Fire And The Thud”

“Cornerstone”

“Dance Little Liar”

“Pretty Visitors”

“The Jeweller’s Hands”

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The 21st Uncut Playlist Of 2009

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A bit of a Wilco binge in the last couple of days, since I’ve been trying to write a review of “Wilco (the album)” for the next issue of Uncut. Auspicious arrivals, too, from Wild Beasts and from Ben Reynolds, who’s the guitarist of Trembling Bells and who seems to have slotted rather gracefully into the space left by James Blackshaw on the Tompkins Square roster. I’ll write about those two soon, and also the Cornershop album, which is bedding in nicely now. Space in the playlist, too, for Phoenix’s peerless “Alphabetical”, which has become something of a default summer record for me over the past few years. 1 Ben Reynolds – How Day Earnt Its Night (Tompkins Square) 2 Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (Domino) 3 Brendan Benson – My Old, Familiar Friend (Echo) 4 Cornershop – Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast (Meccico/Ample Play) 5 Wilco – Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch) 6 Wilco – Wilco (the album) (Nonesuch) 7 The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Communion (Album sampler) (TSOOL) 8 Deradoorian – Mind Raft EP (Lovepump United) 9 Soulsavers – Broken (V2) 10 Astra – The Weirding (Rise Above) 11 Tobacco – Fucked Up Friends (Anticon) 12 Tune-Yards – Hatari (http://www.myspace.com/tuneyards) 13 Six Organs Of Admittance – Luminous Night (Drag City) 14 Sleeping States – In The Gardens Of The North (Bella Union) 15 Busta Rhymes – Back On My BS (Universal Motown) 16 Phoenix – Alphabetical (Source) 17 The Fiery Furnaces – The End Is Near (Thrill Jockey)

A bit of a Wilco binge in the last couple of days, since I’ve been trying to write a review of “Wilco (the album)” for the next issue of Uncut. Auspicious arrivals, too, from Wild Beasts and from Ben Reynolds, who’s the guitarist of Trembling Bells and who seems to have slotted rather gracefully into the space left by James Blackshaw on the Tompkins Square roster.

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Alice Cooper To Bring Theatre Of Death Tour To UK

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Alice Cooper To Bring Theatre Of Death Tour To UK
Alice Cooper is set to bring his Theatre of Death Tour to the UK this November. Starting at the Manchester Apollo on November 24, Cooper will bring his most visual show to the UK in more intimate venues than in recent years. Commenting on the newly announced tour, Cooper explains: "I always prefer...

Alice Cooper is set to bring his Theatre of Death Tour to the UK this November.

Starting at the Manchester Apollo on November 24, Cooper will bring his most visual show to the UK in more intimate venues than in recent years.

Commenting on the newly announced tour, Cooper explains: “I always prefer to play theatres because it makes the theatrics of our show so much more intense. With this being a new show, with things we’ve never done before, we’re proving that Alice is totally indestructible. It’s still pure rock ‘n roll of course. The great thing is that England always gets our shows better than anyone else.”

UK tour support comes from Man-Raze, featuring: Def Leppard’s Phil Collen on vocals and former Sex Pistol Paul Cook on drums.

Alice Cooper’s Theatre of Death tour calls at:

Manchester Apollo (November 24)

Glasgow Clyde Auditorium (25)

Newcastle City Hall (27)

Sheffield City Hall (28)

Swindon Oasis (29)

Wolverhampton Civic Hall (December 1)

Plymouth Pavilions (2)

Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (4)

Brighton Centre (5)

London HMV Hammersmith Apollo (6)

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Richard Thompson Four Disc Collection To Be Released

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A four-disc collection, spanning forty years of Richard Thompson's work is to be released on August 10. Starting in 1968 and bringing us up to the present, Walking On A Wire begins with Fairport Convention and ends with material from his twenty year solo career via collaborations with Linda Thompson. The 71-track collection has been personally chosen and produced by Thompson and will come with a 60 page book. The full track listing for Walking On A Wire: Richard Thompson (1968-2009) is as follows: Disc One: 1. Time Will Show The Wiser - Fairport Convention (Fairport Convention) 2. Meet On The Ledge - Fairport Convention (What We Did On Our Holidays) 3. Genesis Hall - Fairport Convention (Unhalfbricking) 4. Crazy Man Michael - Fairport Convention (Liege & Lief) 5. Sloth - Fairport Convention (Full House) 6. Roll Over Vaughn Williams (Starring As Henry The Human Fly) 7. The Poor Ditching Boy (Starring As Henry The Human Fly) 8. The Angels Took My Racehorse Away (Starring As Henry The Human Fly) 9. The Great Valerio - Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight) 10. When I Get To The Border - Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight) 11. Withered And Died - Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight) 12. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight) 13. Down Where The Drunkards Roll - Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight) 14. The Calvary Cross - Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight) 15. I'll Regret It All In The Morning - Richard & Linda Thompson (Hokey Pokey) 16. Old Man Inside A Young Man - Richard & Linda Thompson (Hokey Pokey) 17. For Shame Of Doing Wrong - Richard & Linda Thompson (Pour Down Like Silver) 18. Night Comes In - Richard & Linda Thompson (Pour Down Like Silver) Disc Two: 1. Dimming Of The Day/Dargai - Richard & Linda Thompson (Pour Down Like Silver) 2. A Heart Needs A Home - Richard & Linda Thompson 3. Don't Let A Thief Steal Into Your Heart - Richard & Linda Thompson (First Light) 4. Strange Affair - Richard & Linda Thompson (First Light) 5. Sunnyvista - Richard & Linda Thompson (Sunnyvista) 6. Sisters - Richard & Linda Thompson (Sunnyvista) 7. Rockin' In Rhythm Strict (Tempo!) 8. Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed - Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights) 9. Man In Need - Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights) 10. Shoot Out The Lights - Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights) 11. Wall Of Death - Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights) 12. Walking On A Wire - Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights) 13. Tear Stained Letter (Hand Of Kindness) 14. How I Wanted To (Hand Of Kindness) 15. Hand Of Kindness (Hand Of Kindness) 16. Beat The Retreat (Live) Small Town Romance (Live/Solo In New York, 1982) 17. I Ain't Going To Drag My Feet No More (Across A Crowded Room) Disc Three: 1. Little Blue Number (Across A Crowded Room) 2. She Twists The Knife Again (Across A Crowded Room) 3. Valerie (Daring Adventures) 4. Turning Of The Tide (Amnesia) 5. I Still Dream (Amnesia) 6. Waltzing's For Dreamers (Amnesia) 7. Read About Love (Rumor And Sigh) 8. I Feel So Good (Rumor And Sigh) 9. I Misunderstood (Rumor And Sigh) 10. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Rumor And Sigh) 11. Put Your Trust In Me Sweet Talker (Original Soundtrack) 12. From Galway To Graceland (Live) Watching The Dark 13. I Can't Wake Up To Save My Life (Mirror Blue) 14. MGB-GT (Mirror Blue) 15. Mingus Eyes (Mirror Blue) 16. Beeswing (Mirror Blue) 17. Taking My Business Elsewhere (Mirror Blue) 18. King Of Bohemia (Mirror Blue) 19. Don't Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes At Me (Live) - Richard Thompson with Danny Thompson Live At Crawley 1993 - Richard Thompson with Danny Thompson 20. Razor Dance (Voltage Enhanced) Disc Four: 1. Hide It Away (Voltage Enhanced) 2. Last Shift - Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson Industry 3. Big Chimney - Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson Industry 4. Lotteryland - Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson Industry 5. Persuasion (Live) - Richard Thompson Celtschmerz (Live UK '98) 6. Cooksferry Queen (Mock Tudor) 7. Bathsheba Smiles (Mock Tudor) 8. Hard On Me (Live) Semi-Detached (Mock Tudor) 9. Gethsemane (The Old Kit Bag) 10. A Love You Can't Survive (The Old Kit Bag) 11. A Legal Matter (Live) 1000 Years Of Popular Music 12. Main Title From Grizzly Man Grizzly Man (Original Soundtrack) 13. Al Bowlly's In Heaven (Live) Live From Austin TX 14. I'll Never Give It Up (Sweet Warrior) 15. Dad's Gonna Kill Me (Sweet Warrior) 16. She Sang Angels To Rest (Sweet Warrior) For more music and film news click here You can also now follow Uncut on Twitter! For news alerts, to find out what we're playing on the stereo and more, join us here @uncutmagazine

A four-disc collection, spanning forty years of Richard Thompson‘s work is to be released on August 10.

Starting in 1968 and bringing us up to the present, Walking On A Wire begins with Fairport Convention and ends with material from his twenty year solo career via collaborations with Linda Thompson.

The 71-track collection has been personally chosen and produced by Thompson and will come with a 60 page book.

The full track listing for Walking On A Wire: Richard Thompson (1968-2009) is as follows:

Disc One:

1. Time Will Show The Wiser – Fairport Convention (Fairport Convention)

2. Meet On The Ledge – Fairport Convention (What We Did On Our Holidays)

3. Genesis Hall – Fairport Convention (Unhalfbricking)

4. Crazy Man Michael – Fairport Convention (Liege & Lief)

5. Sloth – Fairport Convention (Full House)

6. Roll Over Vaughn Williams (Starring As Henry The Human Fly)

7. The Poor Ditching Boy (Starring As Henry The Human Fly)

8. The Angels Took My Racehorse Away (Starring As Henry The Human Fly)

9. The Great Valerio – Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight)

10. When I Get To The Border – Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See

The Bright Lights Tonight)

11. Withered And Died – Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight)

12. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight – Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight)

13. Down Where The Drunkards Roll – Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight)

14. The Calvary Cross – Richard & Linda Thompson (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight)

15. I’ll Regret It All In The Morning – Richard & Linda Thompson (Hokey Pokey)

16. Old Man Inside A Young Man – Richard & Linda Thompson (Hokey Pokey)

17. For Shame Of Doing Wrong – Richard & Linda Thompson (Pour Down Like Silver)

18. Night Comes In – Richard & Linda Thompson (Pour Down Like Silver)

Disc Two:

1. Dimming Of The Day/Dargai – Richard & Linda Thompson (Pour Down Like Silver)

2. A Heart Needs A Home – Richard & Linda Thompson

3. Don’t Let A Thief Steal Into Your Heart – Richard & Linda Thompson (First Light)

4. Strange Affair – Richard & Linda Thompson (First Light)

5. Sunnyvista – Richard & Linda Thompson (Sunnyvista)

6. Sisters – Richard & Linda Thompson (Sunnyvista)

7. Rockin’ In Rhythm Strict (Tempo!)

8. Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed – Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights)

9. Man In Need – Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights)

10. Shoot Out The Lights – Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights)

11. Wall Of Death – Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights)

12. Walking On A Wire – Richard & Linda Thompson (Shoot Out The Lights)

13. Tear Stained Letter (Hand Of Kindness)

14. How I Wanted To (Hand Of Kindness)

15. Hand Of Kindness (Hand Of Kindness)

16. Beat The Retreat (Live) Small Town Romance (Live/Solo In New York, 1982)

17. I Ain’t Going To Drag My Feet No More (Across A Crowded Room)

Disc Three:

1. Little Blue Number (Across A Crowded Room)

2. She Twists The Knife Again (Across A Crowded Room)

3. Valerie (Daring Adventures)

4. Turning Of The Tide (Amnesia)

5. I Still Dream (Amnesia)

6. Waltzing’s For Dreamers (Amnesia)

7. Read About Love (Rumor And Sigh)

8. I Feel So Good (Rumor And Sigh)

9. I Misunderstood (Rumor And Sigh)

10. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Rumor And Sigh)

11. Put Your Trust In Me Sweet Talker (Original Soundtrack)

12. From Galway To Graceland (Live) Watching The Dark

13. I Can’t Wake Up To Save My Life (Mirror Blue)

14. MGB-GT (Mirror Blue)

15. Mingus Eyes (Mirror Blue)

16. Beeswing (Mirror Blue)

17. Taking My Business Elsewhere (Mirror Blue)

18. King Of Bohemia (Mirror Blue)

19. Don’t Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes At Me (Live) – Richard Thompson with Danny Thompson Live

At Crawley 1993 – Richard Thompson with Danny Thompson

20. Razor Dance (Voltage Enhanced)

Disc Four:

1. Hide It Away (Voltage Enhanced)

2. Last Shift – Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson Industry

3. Big Chimney – Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson Industry

4. Lotteryland – Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson Industry

5. Persuasion (Live) – Richard Thompson Celtschmerz (Live UK ’98)

6. Cooksferry Queen (Mock Tudor)

7. Bathsheba Smiles (Mock Tudor)

8. Hard On Me (Live) Semi-Detached (Mock Tudor)

9. Gethsemane (The Old Kit Bag)

10. A Love You Can’t Survive (The Old Kit Bag)

11. A Legal Matter (Live) 1000 Years Of Popular Music

12. Main Title From Grizzly Man Grizzly Man (Original Soundtrack)

13. Al Bowlly’s In Heaven (Live) Live From Austin TX

14. I’ll Never Give It Up (Sweet Warrior)

15. Dad’s Gonna Kill Me (Sweet Warrior)

16. She Sang Angels To Rest (Sweet Warrior)

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Blur Raffling Last Tickets To Warm-Up Shows For Charity

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Blur have launched a competition for fans to win the chance to see them at two intimate warm-up shows to raise money for charities. The band who have recently re-united have 26 pairs of tickets available for their Colchester East Anglian Railway Museum gig on June 13 and 20 pairs up for grabs for t...

Blur have launched a competition for fans to win the chance to see them at two intimate warm-up shows to raise money for charities.

The band who have recently re-united have 26 pairs of tickets available for their Colchester East Anglian Railway Museum gig on June 13 and 20 pairs up for grabs for the intimate London Goldsmith’s College show on June 22.

Fans are being asked for £5 to enter the competition, and all monies raised will be split between the East Anglian Railway Museum, Teenage Cancer Trust and the Aldham Village Hall.

You can enter from June 1, HERE.

Blur’s reunion tour will call at the following venues this summer:

Southend Cliffs Pavilion (June 21)

Wolverhampton Civic Hall (24)

Newcastle Academy (June 25)

Manchester MEN Arena (June 26)

London Hyde Park (July 2/3)

Oxgen Festival (July 10)

T In The Park Festival (July 12)

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Neil Young Kicks Off European Tour 2009 in Spain

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Neil Young Kicks Off European Tour 2009 in Spain
Neil Young started his the European leg of his 2009 World tour in Spain on Saturday night (May 30) at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Playing a similar track list to recent shows in the US, the singer performed a customarily exhilarating finale covering the Beatles classic "A Day In The ...

Neil Young started his the European leg of his 2009 World tour in Spain on Saturday night (May 30) at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona.

Playing a similar track list to recent shows in the US, the singer performed a customarily exhilarating finale covering the Beatles classic “A Day In The Life”.

Young’s UK dates begin in Nottingham on June 23, before headlining slots at London’s Hard Rock Calling and Glastonbury festivals the weekend beginning June 27.

Neil Young’s first night set list was:

Mansion On The Hill

Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)

Are You Ready For The Country?

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Pocahontas

Spirit Road

Cortez The Killer

Cinnamon Girl

Mother Earth

The Needle And The Damage Done

Unknown Legend

Heart Of Gold

Old Man

Down By The River

Get Behind The Wheel

Rockin’ In The Free World

Encore:

A Day In The Life

Neil Young’s European tour dates 2009 continue at:

Nantes, France (June 3)

Paris, France (4)

Antwerpen Sportpalais, Belgium (6)

Rotterdam, Netherlands (7)

Erfurt Messehalle, Germany (9)

Oslo “The Norwegian Wood Festival” (11)

Stockholm “Where the action is”-Festival, Sweden (12)

Isle of Wight Festival”, UK (14)

Berlin O² World, Germany (16)

München Olympiahalle, Germany (17)

Köln Tanzbrunnen, Germany (19)

Dublin, O2 Arena, Ireland (21)

Nottingham, Trent FM Arena Nottingham, UK (23)

Aberdeen, Aberdeen Exhibition Centre, Scotland (24)

London “Hard Rock Calling”, Hyde Park (27)

Glastonbury Festival (28)

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Deradoorian: “Mind Raft”

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When I was grappling with the Dirty Projectors’ “Bitte Orca” a while back, I came to the fairly trite conclusion that I liked the band best when Angel Deradoorian or Amber Coffman took the lead, rather than David Longstreth. I’m indebted, then, to Jake from the Love Pump United label, who last week sent me Deradoorian’s debut solo EP, “Mind Raft”, which is quite wonderful. Longstreth is listed as executive producer, and various other members of Dirty Projectors, TV On The Radio, Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear all figure in the acknowledgements, anointing “Mind Raft” as very much a product of the current Brooklyn illuminati. No problem with that, of course, and what a wonderful record it turns out to be. There’s still a generally brittle quality to these five songs, but unlike much of the Dirty Projectors’ work, they don’t seem overburdened by complexity. In fact, the opening “Weed Jam” (a superbly unsuitable title, given what those words normally infer), simply pits wordless multi-tracked harmonies against minimalist breaks, a crisp mixture of (faintly medieval) church music and hip hop; someone here wisely mentioned David Axelrod, which perhaps amounts to the same thing. Everything here is great, actually. “You Carry The Deed” is a beautiful, soul-inflected acoustic ballad which would sit neatly as an adjunct to that blessed run of “Stillness Is The Move” and “Two Doves” on “Bitte Orca”. “High Road” and “Holding Pattern” have a kind of crepuscular intensity that remind me a bit of another Brooklyn act, Telepathe, though Deradoorian generally works with orthodox rock settings rather than with synthpop, and she’s technically a much stronger singer. The standout here, though, in very elevated company, is the final “Moon”, dust-gathering liturgical drone-folk that reminds me a little of the first couple of Marissa Nadler records, and of Fursaxa, the witchiest outrider in what used to be called, quaintly enough, the acid-folk scene. It all amounts to one of the best things I’ve heard all year, and I’m hearing some very interesting rumours about what she might have planned for an album...

When I was grappling with the Dirty Projectors’ “Bitte Orca” a while back, I came to the fairly trite conclusion that I liked the band best when Angel Deradoorian or Amber Coffman took the lead, rather than David Longstreth.

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James Brown – The Night James Brown Saved Boston

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James Brown – The Night James Brown Saved Boston

The night after a sniper’s bullet struck down Martin Luther King on 4 April 1968, 150 US cities were ablaze, their streets turned into battlegrounds between police and national guardsmen and incendiary, looting mobs. It remains the greatest civil insurrection in modern American history. The fury of black America at the assassination of its political figurehead burned even deeper than the ghettoes put to the torch. In the words of Princetown professor Cornel West, “We were a people whose hearts had been shattered.” Boston, the city dubbed the ‘Cradle of Liberty’ on account of its leading role in US independence, had escaped with a few ugly scenes and minor fires in its Roxbury ghetto, but no-one doubted the potential for something far worse. To add to the edgy, volatile atmosphere, the city’s premier arena, The Garden, was due to stage a James Brown show for a 14,000 strong crowd. Fearing it would be hosting a riot, the Garden was already issuing refunds. The city’s only black councillor, Tom Atkins, realised that this could only make matters worse, as flocks of disappointed young fans, faced with a no-show, roamed uptown streets looking to vent their compounded fury. The only solution, he realised, was to get Brown – the biggest star in the black American firmament after Muhammed Ali – to perform. Better still, to get the show broadcast live on television, to keep the black community at home. It was a brilliant yet almost impossible strategy, requiring a TV station to throw over its prime time schedule, and for the Garden and Brown to accept an empty stadium – for how many cash-strapped fans would pay for a show they could watch at home for free? The only solution was for the city itself to underwrite the losses, estimated at a colossal $60,000. The financial equation presented to newly elected mayor Kevin White was brutal: “If we didn’t come up with the money, the blacks were gonna burn the city down.” White had never heard of James Brown, but he learned fast, negotiating with a furious Soul Brother Number One in the limo from the airport. For their part, Brown and his manager were unequivocal – they would be paid in full – while Brown quickly absorbed the extraordinary situation. Though he would describe King as “America’s best friend”, Brown was no pacifist, nor was he a militant – his version of “Black Power” involved neither saintly non-violence nor the gunplay urged by hardliners like Stokely Carmichael. Brown believed in black empowerment through success – like him, owning radio stations and a restaurant franchise. Just the previous year the ex-jailbird and shoeshine boy had urged “Don’t Be A Drop Out”. Amazingly, a deal was cut. Public television channel WGBH would broadcast the show (displacing a Laurence Olivier drama), while Brown would be paid by the city and maybe, just maybe, Boston wouldn’t burn, baby, burn. The two discs here tell the breathless story with panache. The second offers the show, in grainy black and white, as witnessed by the stay-at-homes and the 2000 fans who attended. And what a show. Clips of Brown’s dazzling showmanship - the ankle-breaking, knee-splitting dance routines, the sobbing ballads, shrieking funk work-outs – are familiar enough. Here you get the complete arc of the JB experience; his squat physical presence, the canny interplay between hammer-drill vocals, dazzling spins and struts, cooking, compliant band and shimmering, razor sharp tailoring. It’s a compelling performance, culminating in a stage invasion that threatened to trigger the riot everyone feared. Brown seizes the moment heroically, keeping cops and kids apart, but the tension is palpable. “I thought we were gonna leave in a ball of fire,” admits drummer John Starks. Instead, the stadium and streets of Boston stayed quiet (the show was quickly re-run). The background footage on disc one is scarcely less arresting, a montage of interviews with many of the original protagonists, footage of King’s ascendancy and the riots that ensued his murder, Brown’s confused politics in the aftermath of ’68, controversially playing for the troops in Vietnam, and campaigning for the reactionary Herbert Hoover while releasing “Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud”. The show’s the thing, but here it’s rounded into a historical chapter. Essential viewing. EXTRAS: 3* Interviews with Reverend Al Sharpeton, Dr Cornel West and Charles Bobbit, Brown’s manager. NEIL SPENCER

The night after a sniper’s bullet struck down Martin Luther King on 4 April 1968, 150 US cities were ablaze, their streets turned into battlegrounds between police and national guardsmen and incendiary, looting mobs. It remains the greatest civil insurrection in modern American history.

The fury of black America at the assassination of its political figurehead burned even deeper than the ghettoes put to the torch. In the words of Princetown professor Cornel West, “We were a people whose hearts had been shattered.”

Boston, the city dubbed the ‘Cradle of Liberty’ on account of its leading role in US independence, had escaped with a few ugly scenes and minor fires in its Roxbury ghetto, but no-one doubted the potential for something far worse. To add to the edgy, volatile atmosphere, the city’s premier arena, The Garden, was due to stage a James Brown show for a 14,000 strong crowd. Fearing it would be hosting a riot, the Garden was already issuing refunds.

The city’s only black councillor, Tom Atkins, realised that this could only make matters worse, as flocks of disappointed young fans, faced with a no-show, roamed uptown streets looking to vent their compounded fury. The only solution, he realised, was to get Brown – the biggest star in the black American firmament after Muhammed Ali – to perform. Better still, to get the show broadcast live on television, to keep the black community at home.

It was a brilliant yet almost impossible strategy, requiring a TV station to throw over its prime time schedule, and for the Garden and Brown to accept an empty stadium – for how many cash-strapped fans would pay for a show they could watch at home for free? The only solution was for the city itself to underwrite the losses, estimated at a colossal $60,000. The financial equation presented to newly elected mayor Kevin White was brutal: “If we didn’t come up with the money, the blacks were gonna burn the city down.”

White had never heard of James Brown, but he learned fast, negotiating with a furious Soul Brother Number One in the limo from the airport. For their part, Brown and his manager were unequivocal – they would be paid in full – while Brown quickly absorbed the extraordinary situation. Though he would describe King as “America’s best friend”, Brown was no pacifist, nor was he a militant – his version of “Black Power” involved neither saintly non-violence nor the gunplay urged by hardliners like Stokely Carmichael. Brown believed in black empowerment through success – like him, owning radio stations and a restaurant franchise. Just the previous year the ex-jailbird and shoeshine boy had urged “Don’t Be A Drop Out”.

Amazingly, a deal was cut. Public television channel WGBH would broadcast the show (displacing a Laurence Olivier drama), while Brown would be paid by the city and maybe, just maybe, Boston wouldn’t burn, baby, burn.

The two discs here tell the breathless story with panache. The second offers the show, in grainy black and white, as witnessed by the stay-at-homes and the 2000 fans who attended. And what a show. Clips of Brown’s dazzling showmanship – the ankle-breaking, knee-splitting dance routines, the sobbing ballads, shrieking funk work-outs – are familiar enough. Here you get the complete arc of the JB experience; his squat physical presence, the canny interplay between hammer-drill vocals, dazzling spins and struts, cooking, compliant band and shimmering, razor sharp tailoring. It’s a compelling performance, culminating in a stage invasion that threatened to trigger the riot everyone feared. Brown seizes the moment heroically, keeping cops and kids apart, but the tension is palpable. “I thought we were gonna leave in a ball of fire,” admits drummer John Starks. Instead, the stadium and streets of Boston stayed quiet (the show was quickly re-run).

The background footage on disc one is scarcely less arresting, a montage of interviews with many of the original protagonists, footage of King’s ascendancy and the riots that ensued his murder, Brown’s confused politics in the aftermath of ’68, controversially playing for the troops in Vietnam, and campaigning for the reactionary Herbert Hoover while releasing “Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud”. The show’s the thing, but here it’s rounded into a historical chapter. Essential viewing.

EXTRAS: 3* Interviews with Reverend Al Sharpeton, Dr Cornel West and Charles Bobbit, Brown’s manager.

NEIL SPENCER

The Spirit

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The Spirit

Directed by Frank Miller (from Will Eisner’s comic books), this may be less twisted and cruel than Sin City, but it’s briskly witty, with a script so “meta” it all but nudges you. “My city screams. She is my mother. She is my lover”, growls Gabriel Macht’s The Spirit as he battles The Octopus (Samuel L Jackson) and is purred at by Sand Saref (Eva Mendes) and Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson) in a hyper-stylised world of noir. EXTRAS:4* Director’s commentary, three featurettes, trailer. CHRIS ROBERTS

Directed by Frank Miller (from Will Eisner’s comic books), this may be less twisted and cruel than Sin City, but it’s briskly witty, with a script so “meta” it all but nudges you.

“My city screams. She is my mother. She is my lover”, growls Gabriel Macht’s The Spirit as he battles The Octopus (Samuel L Jackson) and is purred at by Sand Saref (Eva Mendes) and Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson) in a hyper-stylised world of noir.

EXTRAS:4* Director’s commentary, three featurettes, trailer.

CHRIS ROBERTS

Bat For Lashes and Jack Penate Added To Free Festival Line-Up

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Bat For Lashes and Jack Penate Added To Free Festival Line-Up

New additions for this July's iTunes Live Festival in London are acclaimed singers Bat For Lashes and Jack Penate , who will headline on Juley 3 and July 19, respectively. They play as part of the iTunes festival which will take place at Camden's Roundhouse throughout the month of July. Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol are just some of the big names announced to play so far. Tickets for all of the intimate shows are free and you can be in with a chance of winning a pair if you go to the iTunes Live website here: iTuneslive.co.uk The line-up confirmed so far is as follows: Jack Penate (July 3) Flo Rida (4) Snow Patrol (5) Franz Ferdinand (6) Paolo Nutini (10) Bat For Lashes (19) Oasis (21) Kasabian (22) The Saturdays (27) For more music and film news click here

New additions for this July’s iTunes Live Festival in London are acclaimed singers Bat For Lashes and Jack Penate , who will headline on Juley 3 and July 19, respectively.

They play as part of the iTunes festival which will take place at Camden’s Roundhouse throughout the month of July.

Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol are just some of the big names announced to play so far.

Tickets for all of the intimate shows are free and you can be in with a chance of winning a pair if you go to the iTunes Live website here: iTuneslive.co.uk

The line-up confirmed so far is as follows:

Jack Penate (July 3)

Flo Rida (4)

Snow Patrol (5)

Franz Ferdinand (6)

Paolo Nutini (10)

Bat For Lashes (19)

Oasis (21)

Kasabian (22)

The Saturdays (27)

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Paul Weller To Release New Live Recordings Collection

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Paul Weller To Release New Live Recordings Collection
Paul Weller is releasing a new live DVD and CD set called Just A Dream on JUne 8. The live DVD is based on a BBC session of 21 tracks, including "Wild Wood" and Jam track "The Eton Rifles". Also included on the Just A Dream DVD is an interview with Paul Weller and his band as well as the promo vi...

Paul Weller is releasing a new live DVD and CD set called Just A Dream on JUne 8.

The live DVD is based on a BBC session of 21 tracks, including “Wild Wood” and Jam track “The Eton Rifles”.

Also included on the Just A Dream DVD is an interview with Paul Weller and his band as well as the promo videos for newer tracks “Have You Made Up Your Mind?” and “Echoes Round The Sun”.

Just A Dream also includes a live 13-track CD, which was recorded when Weller played London’s Brixton Academy in November 2008.

The DVD’s tracklisting is:

‘Peacock Suit’

’22 Dreams’

‘All I Wanna Do’

‘From The Floorboards Up’

‘All On A Misty Morning’

‘Brand New Start’

‘Have You Made Up Your Mind?’

‘Wild Blue Yonder’

‘Black River’

‘Invisible’

‘One Bright Star’

‘Where’er You Go’

‘Wild Wood’

‘Why Walk When You Can Run’

‘The Butterfly Collector’

‘Sea Spray’

‘Echoes Round The Sun’

‘The Changingman’

‘The Eton Rifles’

‘Push It Along’

‘Whirlpool’s End’

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Topper Headon To Raffle Unique Mini To Raise Money For Charity

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Topper Headon To Raffle Unique Mini To Raise Money For Charity
Topper Headon is selling his Mini Cooper with raffle tickets to raise money for the Strummerville charity that helps young musicians. The Clash drummer's car is customised and totally unique and the £10 raffle tickets are available from Saturday May 30, with the draw taking place on July 13. Head...

Topper Headon is selling his Mini Cooper with raffle tickets to raise money for the Strummerville charity that helps young musicians.

The Clash drummer’s car is customised and totally unique and the £10 raffle tickets are available from Saturday May 30, with the draw taking place on July 13.

Headon, talking about the car’s history has said: “This car has been my pride and joy. I had it two-tone customised and it was the first car I drove when I got clean, so you can imagine I’ve been attached to it and have loved it a lot.

“But I so love the great work that Strummerville are doing, so am delighted to donate the car to be raffled. I hope it will make a fortune for the charity. Giving kids a chance is such a good cause.”

Get your ticket and a chance to win, here, at www.strummerville.com

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The Killers To Return To London’s Royal Albert Hall This July

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The Killers To Return To London’s Royal Albert Hall This July
The Killers are set to play two shows at London's Royal Albert Hall on July 5 and 6, it has been announced. The band last played the venue last November but this time return to headline two shows which will be filmed for a future live DVD film. Prior to the newly announced concerts, The Killers wi...

The Killers are set to play two shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall on July 5 and 6, it has been announced.

The band last played the venue last November but this time return to headline two shows which will be filmed for a future live DVD film.

Prior to the newly announced concerts, The Killers will also headline London’s Hard Rock Calling festival in London’s Hyde Park on June 26.

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The Specials To Play Tiny Glasto Warm Up Gig

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The Specials have announced that they will play a tiny Glastonbury Fesival warm-up show at London's legendary 100 Club on June 25. The show, the day before the reformed band play Glasto's Pyramid Stage just before Neil Young's headline performance is in support of a campaign to help the iconic Lond...

The Specials have announced that they will play a tiny Glastonbury Fesival warm-up show at London’s legendary 100 Club on June 25.

The show, the day before the reformed band play Glasto’s Pyramid Stage just before Neil Young‘s headline performance is in support of a campaign to help the iconic London venue maintain its indepensent status.

Tickets will be free to competition winners, and you can find out out to win through the Thespecials.com and also Fredperrysubculture.com

The band’s fee, and all other proceeds from the intimate gig will be given to the campaign.

The Specials recently completed an acclaimed UK tour, including a five-night stint at London’s Brixton Academy.

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Trailer Friday! Sherlock Holmes, Bruno, 9!

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Yes, I know it's nice and sunny outside and you're probably thinking of a post-work pint. Meantime, I've briefly taken time out from putting together the next issue of UNCUT to scour the Internet for the best new trailers. And here's 3 I thought might take your fancy. 9 [youtube]JIpZxBczWUg[/youtube] This caught me right by surprise, and I'm afraid I don't have too much data on it. It's produced by Tim Burton and directed by Shane Acker, it's an animated film set in one of those post-apocalyptic worlds. It seems, in the last days of humankind, a scientist has transferred his mind into 9 little sack creatures, who've come to life. Of course, they all have distinct personalities, and are voiced by the likes of Elijah Wood, Martin Landau, Jennifer Connelly and -- yay! -- Crispin Glover. We can see the marketing opps for plush toys already. Too cute. Sherlock Holmes [youtube]S4K3aM5H5KM[/youtube] OK, we can't claim to be too enamoured about the prospect of Guy Ritchie tackling the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. BUT, we should point out, that this particular film project stars no less than Robert Downey Jr as the great detective. On the evidence of the trailer, Downey looks like he's having an absolute blast, playing Holmes as something of a dissolute rake. "Does your depravity know no bounds?" Asks an aghast Watson (Jude Law... yes, yes...). "No," says Downey. The film could be a stinker -- but, remember, the point of Trailer Friday is to talk only about the trailers. Bruno [youtube]fAGpmNb2xfQ[/youtube] I tried to post this the other week, but failed miserably. This is Sascha Baron Cohen's Borat follow-up, featuring outrageously camp fashion correspondent wreaking havoc at Milan Fashion Week. Laugh as he dons a suit made entirely of velcro, go on a camping trip with some redneck survivalist types and take his supposedly adopt black baby onto a daytime TV talk show. Mayhem and hilarity, of course, ensue.

Yes, I know it’s nice and sunny outside and you’re probably thinking of a post-work pint. Meantime, I’ve briefly taken time out from putting together the next issue of UNCUT to scour the Internet for the best new trailers.

And here’s 3 I thought might take your fancy.

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