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Bob Dylan Calls on White Stripes Man For New Project

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Bob Dylan Calls on White Stripes Man For New Project

White Stripes star Jack White has been working with Bob Dylan on a project, co-ordinated by Dylan, to complete a series of songs left unfinished by country legend Hank Williams at the time of his death in 1953. White is one of a number of musicians approached by Dylan to work on completed lyrics and music for the songs. White has reportedly recorded a ‘finished’ version of the incomplete Williams song “You Know That I Know” at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios, with engineer Joe Chiccarelli. According to Dominic Suchtya, bassist with the band Steppin’ In It, and an old friend of White’s who played with him on the session: “Dylan had contacted him to see if he’d like to finish some of these tunes. No one has heard it as it was a Hank Williams lyric sheet that Jack put to music and edited a bit. Jack as sent most of or all of the unfinished tunes and picked this one to finish. “We listened to quite a bit of Hank while I was down there and sat around, just the two of us, playing our favourite Hank tunes, but the song was done when I got there. I think Jack just ingested a bunch of Hank Williams and this is what came out of him.” White appeared with Dylan in September, when Bob played a two-night stint at Nashville’s Ryman Theatre. On the first night they performed the first ever live version of “Meet Me In The Morning” from Blood On The Tracks. The following night, they gave a first live outing to “Outlaw Blues” and duetted on “One More Cup Of Coffee” from Desire, getting its first live airing since 1993. See Bob Dylan and Jack White perform together at the Ryman Theatre by clicking here.

White Stripes star Jack White has been working with Bob Dylan on a project, co-ordinated by Dylan, to complete a series of songs left unfinished by country legend Hank Williams at the time of his death in 1953.

White is one of a number of musicians approached by Dylan to work on completed lyrics and music for the songs.

White has reportedly recorded a ‘finished’ version of the incomplete Williams song “You Know That I Know” at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios, with engineer Joe Chiccarelli.

According to Dominic Suchtya, bassist with the band Steppin’ In It, and an old friend of White’s who played with him on the session: “Dylan had contacted him to see if he’d like to finish some of these tunes. No one has heard it as it was a Hank Williams lyric sheet that Jack put to music and edited a bit. Jack as sent most of or all of the unfinished tunes and picked this one to finish.

“We listened to quite a bit of Hank while I was down there and sat around, just the two of us, playing our favourite Hank tunes, but the song was done when I got there. I think Jack just ingested a bunch of Hank Williams and this is what came out of him.”

White appeared with Dylan in September, when Bob played a two-night stint at Nashville’s Ryman Theatre. On the first night they performed the first ever live version of “Meet Me In The Morning” from Blood On The Tracks.

The following night, they gave a first live outing to “Outlaw Blues” and duetted on “One More Cup Of Coffee” from Desire, getting its first live airing since 1993.

See Bob Dylan and Jack White perform together at the Ryman Theatre by clicking here.

Led Zeppelin Launch Official Website

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Led Zeppelin Launch Official Website

Led Zeppelin have set up a new interactive website, allowing fans to discuss all matters Led Zep. The site at www.Ledzeppelin.com features a section that their fans can add their own reviews and pictures to, alongside a database of all of Led Zep's past gigs and a timeline. The official website also includes photos, official merchandise and audio-visual media, including interactive 'flipbooks' of rare tour programmes, and a full band discography. At the time of launch, there will be approximately 1,400 rare images in the Photo Gallery. The Discography section also features a huge assortment of rare ads, 45 picture sleeves, promos, and related memorabilia. As is rarely far from the news, Led Zeppelin are reuniting for a one-off reunion concert, in tribute to their former Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun, at London's O2 Arena on December 10. They have also just released 'Mothership - The Best Of Led Zeppelin' - a two disc remastered compilation of 24 tracks. Read the five-star rated Uncut review here. Pic credit: Rex Features

Led Zeppelin have set up a new interactive website, allowing fans to discuss all matters Led Zep.

The site at www.Ledzeppelin.com features a section that their fans can add their own reviews and pictures to, alongside a database of all of Led Zep’s past gigs and a timeline.

The official website also includes photos, official merchandise and audio-visual media, including interactive ‘flipbooks’ of rare tour programmes, and a full band discography.

At the time of launch, there will be approximately 1,400 rare images in the Photo Gallery.

The Discography section also features a huge assortment of rare ads, 45 picture sleeves, promos, and related memorabilia.

As is rarely far from the news, Led Zeppelin are reuniting for a one-off reunion concert, in tribute to their former Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun, at London’s O2 Arena on December 10.

They have also just released ‘Mothership – The Best Of Led Zeppelin’ – a two disc remastered compilation of 24 tracks.

Read the five-star rated Uncut review here.

Pic credit: Rex Features

I’m Not There – Original Soundtrack – Various Artists

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I’m Not There – Original Soundtrack – Various Artists

There have been Bob Dylan cover albums as long as there has been Dylan, but this - the 34 song soundtrack to Todd Haynes’ Cubist movie I’m Not There; containing 34 tracks, less than half of which actually feature in the film – really raises the bar. Most obviously, it’s down to the quality and coherence of the musicians rounded up. From contemporaries with layers of Dylan-association (Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Roger McGuinn, Willie Nelson), through elder indie statesmen (Tom Verlaine, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo) to recent darlings (Cat Power, The Hold Steady, Charlotte Gainsbourg) the soundtrack extends the movie’s kaleidoscopic, all-facets and faces methodology. It also cleverly identifies Dylan as simultaneously the one fixed, yet most mercurial point in rock history. Holding it together like glue are the two house bands who contribute a third of the tracks: the lithe “Million Dollar Bashers,” (Verlaine, half of Sonic Youth, Wilco’s Nels Cline, keyboardist John Medeski and, tellingly, Dylan’s long-term bassist, Tony Garnier); and Calexico, who excel, framing My Morning Jacket man Jim James’s gorgeous falsetto to transform “Going To Acapulco” into south-of-the-border soul. The other deciding factor here is canny song selection. Some warhorses are present, but this is a relatively adventurous rag-bag, pilfering from across the dark continent of Dylan’s songbook and shining a light on neglected outposts. Heavy weight falls on the Highway 61 Revisited – Blonde on Blonde axis, but some of the most thrilling recordings come from more unexpected places: Nelson and Calexico’s burning reading of Street Legal’s “Senor”; Iron and Wine (with Calexico again) transmuting (i)Empire Burlesque(i)’s “Dark Eyes” into a fluttering, caged exotic bird; Sufjan Stevens' sprinkling toy-town-rococo across Oh Mercy’s “Ring Them Bells”; Verlaine spooked, spooky as he creeps through Time Out of Mind’s “Cold Irons Bound.” We even have, in Stephen Malkmus’ lovely “Can’t Leave Her Behind” and Sonic Youth’s forever-dying “I’m Not There” itself, two Dylan compositions that were not only never released, but never actually completed. Importantly, though, it closes with the first official release for Dylan’s own recording of “I’m Not There,” an extemporised sketch from the 'Basement Tapes' sessions. Fragile, fugitive, deeply mysterious - after all the other ideas of Dylan on display, it makes clear how completely not there he has been. DAMIEN LOVE

There have been Bob Dylan cover albums as long as there has been Dylan, but this – the 34 song soundtrack to Todd Haynes’ Cubist movie I’m Not There; containing 34 tracks, less than half of which actually feature in the film – really raises the bar.

Most obviously, it’s down to the quality and coherence of the musicians rounded up.

From contemporaries with layers of Dylan-association (Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Roger McGuinn, Willie Nelson), through elder indie statesmen (Tom Verlaine, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo) to recent darlings (Cat Power, The Hold Steady, Charlotte Gainsbourg) the soundtrack extends the movie’s kaleidoscopic, all-facets and faces methodology.

It also cleverly identifies Dylan as simultaneously the one fixed, yet most mercurial point in rock history.

Holding it together like glue are the two house bands who contribute a third of the tracks: the lithe “Million Dollar Bashers,” (Verlaine, half of Sonic Youth, Wilco’s Nels Cline, keyboardist John Medeski and, tellingly, Dylan’s long-term bassist, Tony Garnier); and Calexico, who excel, framing My Morning Jacket man Jim James’s gorgeous falsetto to transform “Going To Acapulco” into south-of-the-border soul.

The other deciding factor here is canny song selection. Some warhorses are present, but this is a relatively adventurous rag-bag, pilfering from across the dark continent of Dylan’s songbook and shining a light on neglected outposts. Heavy weight falls on the Highway 61 Revisited – Blonde on Blonde axis, but some of the most thrilling recordings come from more unexpected places: Nelson and Calexico’s burning reading of Street Legal’s “Senor”; Iron and Wine (with Calexico again) transmuting (i)Empire Burlesque(i)’s “Dark Eyes” into a fluttering, caged exotic bird; Sufjan Stevens‘ sprinkling toy-town-rococo across Oh Mercy’s “Ring Them Bells”; Verlaine spooked, spooky as he creeps through Time Out of Mind’s “Cold Irons Bound.”

We even have, in Stephen Malkmus’ lovely “Can’t Leave Her Behind” and Sonic Youth’s forever-dying “I’m Not There” itself, two Dylan compositions that were not only never released, but never actually completed.

Importantly, though, it closes with the first official release for Dylan’s own recording of “I’m Not There,” an extemporised sketch from the ‘Basement Tapes’ sessions. Fragile, fugitive, deeply mysterious – after all the other ideas of Dylan on display, it makes clear how completely not there he has been.

DAMIEN LOVE

Eddie Vedder – Into The Wild

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Eddie Vedder – Into The Wild

You can easily imagine Eddie Vedder’s inner Eco Warrior being more than unduly stirred by the subject of Sean Penn’s new film, for which the Pearl Jam vocalist has written the music. Into The Wild, based on Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book, is the true story of Chris McCandless, who as a 22-year old walked away from the life he had known to date in the affluent Washington DC suburb of Annandale, gave away everything he owned and disappeared into the Alaskan wilderness to meet with nature in all its raw and savage beauty, dying there eventually of starvation. For Krakauer, Penn and Vedder, McCandless’ rejection of society, and his quest to, as they say, find himself, is unquestionably heroic, a transcendent gesture. And so Eddie here answers what you might be inclined to describe as the call of the wild with a series of mostly handsome, jangly folk-rock ballads – acoustic guitars, banjos and the like to the fore – that musically have an attractively rough-hewn cast, evocative of the great outdoors and the things that happen there. The lyrics to these songs are themselves sketchy, enigmatic, quietly rousing, windily romantic, redolent of majestic vistas, vast horizons, a landscape of personal liberation. The best of them, however, set such euphoric declarations against a glowering sense of foreboding, the woe to come when McCandless is reduced by hunger to a lonely death, a victim of his own hopeless idealism. I’ve wondered since Ten what music Vedder, freed from Pearl Jam’s mighty stadium roar, might be capable of, where in a different setting his voice might go. He provided a fascinating hint via his duet with Nusrat Ali Khan on the Dead Man Walking OST, which took him somewhere he’d never been before and hasn’t returned to since. Disappointingly, as good as much of this record is, only the tantalisingly brief “The Wolf” brings him close again to that place. ALLAN JONES

You can easily imagine Eddie Vedder’s inner Eco Warrior being more than unduly stirred by the subject of Sean Penn’s new film, for which the Pearl Jam vocalist has written the music.

Into The Wild, based on Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book, is the true story of Chris McCandless, who as a 22-year old walked away from the life he had known to date in the affluent Washington DC suburb of Annandale, gave away everything he owned and disappeared into the Alaskan wilderness to meet with nature in all its raw and savage beauty, dying there eventually of starvation.

For Krakauer, Penn and Vedder, McCandless’ rejection of society, and his quest to, as they say, find himself, is unquestionably heroic, a transcendent gesture. And so Eddie here answers what you might be inclined to describe as the call of the wild with a series of mostly handsome, jangly folk-rock ballads – acoustic guitars, banjos and the like to the fore – that musically have an attractively rough-hewn cast, evocative of the great outdoors and the things that happen there.

The lyrics to these songs are themselves sketchy, enigmatic, quietly rousing, windily romantic, redolent of majestic vistas, vast horizons, a landscape of personal liberation. The best of them, however, set such euphoric declarations against a glowering sense of foreboding, the woe to come when McCandless is reduced by hunger to a lonely death, a victim of his own hopeless idealism.

I’ve wondered since Ten what music Vedder, freed from Pearl Jam’s mighty stadium roar, might be capable of, where in a different setting his voice might go. He provided a fascinating hint via his duet with Nusrat Ali Khan on the Dead Man Walking OST, which took him somewhere he’d never been before and hasn’t returned to since. Disappointingly, as good as much of this record is, only the tantalisingly brief “The Wolf” brings him close again to that place.

ALLAN JONES

Kylie Minogue – X

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Kylie Minogue – X

Though a queen of the frothiest pop, Kylie’s 10th studio album shows there’s something of the Teflon don about her. She’s endured some troubled times since her last album in ’03 – long-term relationship ended, cancer beaten – but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from what’s here. Not for Kylie the heart-on-sleeve approach. Sleeves, she doesn’t do. X instead showcases customary Madonna-esque workouts and northern European disco pop: Scissor Sisters-like single “2 Hearts” and Gainsbourg-sampling “Sensitized” a cut above the rest. In short, a glittering sign reading “business as usual” – even if it’s not a return to adventurous Kylie gold. JOHN ROBINSON

Though a queen of the frothiest pop, Kylie’s 10th studio album shows there’s something of the Teflon don about her. She’s endured some troubled times since her last album in ’03 – long-term relationship ended, cancer beaten – but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from what’s here.

Not for Kylie the heart-on-sleeve approach. Sleeves, she doesn’t do. X instead showcases customary Madonna-esque workouts and northern European disco pop: Scissor Sisters-like single “2 Hearts” and Gainsbourg-sampling “Sensitized” a cut above the rest. In short, a glittering sign reading “business as usual” – even if it’s not a return to adventurous Kylie gold.

JOHN ROBINSON

Arp – In Light

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Arp – In Light

Despite 'In Light' being almost entirely composed of puffy, slightly out of focus analogue modules, Arp’s Alexis Georgopolous would like you to know he does not now, nor will he ever in perpetuity, own an ARP synthesizer – the traditional tool for such creations. Nevertheless, it’s perpetuity that these slow ambient tracks are aimed at. “St Tropez” and “Potentialities” suggest a huge, arching, permanent structure, like a camera pan over the Golden Gate Bridge in Georgopolous’s San Francisco hometown; the murmuring piano on “The Rising Sun” recalls Cluster & Eno’s or Harmonia; and his “Odyssey” for doomed Dutch performance artist Bas Jan Ader is an appropriately dignified fractal fanfare. ROB YOUNG

Despite ‘In Light’ being almost entirely composed of puffy, slightly out of focus analogue modules, Arp’s Alexis Georgopolous would like you to know he does not now, nor will he ever in perpetuity, own an ARP synthesizer – the traditional tool for such creations. Nevertheless, it’s perpetuity that these slow ambient tracks are aimed at.

“St Tropez” and “Potentialities” suggest a huge, arching, permanent structure, like a camera pan over the Golden Gate Bridge in Georgopolous’s San Francisco hometown; the murmuring piano on “The Rising Sun” recalls Cluster & Eno’s or Harmonia; and his “Odyssey” for doomed Dutch performance artist Bas Jan Ader is an appropriately dignified fractal fanfare.

ROB YOUNG

My Bloody Valentine Fever Continues

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My Bloody Valentine Fever Continues

My Bloody Valentine have announced that they will now play a fourth London date on their comeback tour next Summer. The legendary indie band will now play London's Roundhouse venue on June 23 - in addition to previously announced shows on from June 20-22. The band have announced the extra date in response to the fact that several tickets for the now sold-oout dates have appeared on trading site eBay. The second night at Manchester's Apollo venue on June 29 and a second night at Glasgow Barrowlands on July 3 both now have very limited availability. As announced last week, Kevin Shields and the gang are to play long awaited comeback shows in the UK next year. The pioneers have not played live since 1992, after the release of their last album 'Loveless' in 1991. There are also rumours that the band will play some US dates next year too. MBV will now play the following dates: London, The Roundhouse (June 20/21/22/23) Manchester, Apollo (28/29) Glasgow, Barrowland (July 2/3)

My Bloody Valentine have announced that they will now play a fourth London date on their comeback tour next Summer.

The legendary indie band will now play London’s Roundhouse venue on June 23 – in addition to previously announced shows on from June 20-22.

The band have announced the extra date in response to the fact that several tickets for the now sold-oout dates have appeared on trading site eBay.

The second night at Manchester’s Apollo venue on June 29 and a second night at Glasgow Barrowlands on July 3 both now have very limited availability.

As announced last week, Kevin Shields and the gang are to play long awaited comeback shows in the UK next year.

The pioneers have not played live since 1992, after the release of their last album ‘Loveless‘ in 1991.

There are also rumours that the band will play some US dates next year too.

MBV will now play the following dates:

London, The Roundhouse (June 20/21/22/23)

Manchester, Apollo (28/29)

Glasgow, Barrowland (July 2/3)

Black Lips: “Good Bad Not Evil”

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Quite a curious, though vaguely welcome, phenomenon in London at the moment, where a few American garage and artpunk bands appear to have been adopted by the sort of fashion scene who normally favour pseudo-transgressive electro over gnarly old rock'n'roll. The belated deification of Les Savy Fav is probably the most obvious manifestation of all this. But the sudden prominence of a sloppy-as-hell garage band from Atlanta is definitely another. On one level, it's pretty obvious why Black Lips have been adopted by the Vice crowd (they're on that mag's label): basically, they have handsome trucker moustaches, deviant brat humour, and a rep for pissing in each other's mouths during gigs. But listening to "Good Bad Not Evil", their fourth album, again this morning, they seem to have less in common with that crowd, and much more with the scene that briefly slipped into the limelight around 2001, when many British bands briefly toyed with the idea of finding their very own White Stripes. That hype passed - ruining a few good bands like The Von Bondies in the process. But I suspect that thousands of bands like this continue to flourish on a subterranean level in every urban pocket of the States, oblivious to the possibilities of fame, fortune and not working in second hand record shops that might be offered to them. One of the more prominent bands from this world in the past two or three years have been The Reigning Sound, and I think that's what this Black Lips album reminds me of, in places: a distinctly southern, soul-tinged, very very skinny twist on the old "Nuggets" vibe. Black Lips, of course, are necessarily more mischievous - exhibit A being a dorky love song set in New Orleans called, yep, "O Katrina!". But while they're clearly snarkier than most of their contemporaries, there's an exuberance that they share with so many garage bands; a sense that being in a band and playing rock'n'roll is the most uncomplicated thing to do in the world. A crazy dream, of course, but Black Lips, in their shambolic wise-ass way, are very good at pulling it off. They can also do gris-gris when the mood suits them (on "Veni Vidi Vici"; I have a neat Diplo remix of this kicking around somewhere, too), cornball country ("How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died", its archness burying the poignancy of real bereavement that inspired the lyrics), High School ramalam ("Bad Kids") and sundry bits of jagged garage psych that recall, marvellously, The 13th Floor Elevators. And the hidden track is the best one. But I'm sure you'd have guessed that, right?

Quite a curious, though vaguely welcome, phenomenon in London at the moment, where a few American garage and artpunk bands appear to have been adopted by the sort of fashion scene who normally favour pseudo-transgressive electro over gnarly old rock’n’roll. The belated deification of Les Savy Fav is probably the most obvious manifestation of all this. But the sudden prominence of a sloppy-as-hell garage band from Atlanta is definitely another.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers Sue US TV Network

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Red Hot Chili Peppers Sue US TV Network

Red Hot Chili Peppers have filed a complaint to the Los Angeles Superiour Court, suing US TV network Showtime over the use of the name 'Californication'. The popular dramedy series, airing in the UK on Channel Five, stars David Duchovny as a Hollywood writer. Red Hot Chili Peppers claim that use of the name 'Californication' - which is the title of their 1999 released CD and DVD, as well as the name of one of their biggest hit songs of recent times - is "inherently distinctive, widely recognized and immediately associated in the mind of the consumer and those in the trade" They also claim that the name of one of the show's characters Dani California has been used. 'Dani California' is the name of a Red Hot Chili Peppers single which was released in 2006. The band's front man Anthony Kiedis said in a statement "'Californication' is the signature CD, video and song of the band's career, for some TV show to come along and steal our identity is not right." The band are seeking unspecified damages, restitution and "disgorgement of all profits derived by the defendants". They also want to stop 'Californication' being used as a title in the future. Showtime Network, the TV show's creators have not, as yet, commented.

Red Hot Chili Peppers have filed a complaint to the Los Angeles Superiour Court, suing US TV network Showtime over the use of the name ‘Californication’.

The popular dramedy series, airing in the UK on Channel Five, stars David Duchovny as a Hollywood writer.

Red Hot Chili Peppers claim that use of the name ‘Californication’ – which is the title of their 1999 released CD and DVD, as well as the name of one of their biggest hit songs of recent times – is “inherently distinctive, widely recognized and immediately associated in the mind of the consumer and those in the trade”

They also claim that the name of one of the show’s characters Dani California has been used. ‘Dani California’ is the name of a Red Hot Chili Peppers single which was released in 2006.

The band’s front man Anthony Kiedis said in a statement “‘Californication’ is the signature CD, video and song of the band’s career, for some TV show to come along and steal our identity is not right.”

The band are seeking unspecified damages, restitution and “disgorgement of all profits derived by the defendants”.

They also want to stop ‘Californication’ being used as a title in the future.

Showtime Network, the TV show’s creators have not, as yet, commented.

Brian May Made University Chancellor

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Brian May Made University Chancellor

Brian May was made a university chancellor for Liverpool John Moores University yesterday (November 19). Queen's lead guitarist, pictured above on the steps at the Liverpool Anglican Church ceremony, takes over from Cherie Booth QC as the the university's chancellor. Brian May is due to take up his new position in February next year and has declared that the challenge was "irresistible" and that he would be celebrating with a vegetarian roast. He said: "Yes, I will be celebrating tonight. How? With a delicious vegetarianroast, and a glass ofchoice desert wine!" In a statement May said: "The way my life is at the moment, I probably didn't need another challenge, but this one was irresistible! I have a great feeling for the university and the dedicated people who run it, and I am convinced there is an opportunity here to go where no one has been before." He added: "I look forward to working with the administrative and academic staff of Liverpool John Moores to develop this unique environment still further,directlyaddressing the needs of students for their careers and for their lives. I understand Cherie Booth QC was very active in the life of the university, and I hope to be a worthy successor. Brian May was made an Honorary Fellow of LJMU at the University's summer graduation ceremony in July. He was recognised for his outstanding contribution to the arts, and for encouraging public understanding of science following the publication of his book 'Bang! The Complete History of the Universe'. May co-authored the book with Chris Lintott and Sir Patrick Moore, who is also a Fellow of LJMU. May has also this year finally completed his PhD, with a 48,000 word theses Radial Velocities In The Zodiacal Dust Cloud, which he started work on 30 years ago. Pic credit: Christian Petersen/LJMU/PA

Brian May was made a university chancellor for Liverpool John Moores University yesterday (November 19).

Queen‘s lead guitarist, pictured above on the steps at the Liverpool Anglican Church ceremony, takes over from Cherie Booth QC as the the university’s chancellor.

Brian May is due to take up his new position in February next year and has declared that the challenge was “irresistible” and that he would be celebrating with a vegetarian roast.

He said: “Yes, I will be celebrating tonight. How? With a delicious vegetarianroast, and a glass ofchoice desert wine!”

In a statement May said: “The way my life is at the moment, I probably didn’t need another challenge, but this one was irresistible! I have a great feeling for the university and the dedicated people who run it, and I am convinced there is an opportunity here to go where no one has been before.”

He added: “I look forward to working with the administrative and academic staff of Liverpool John Moores to develop this unique environment still further,directlyaddressing the needs of students for their careers and for their lives. I understand Cherie Booth QC was very active in the life of the university, and I hope to be a worthy successor.

Brian May was made an Honorary Fellow of LJMU at the University’s summer graduation ceremony in July. He was recognised for his outstanding contribution to the arts, and for encouraging public understanding of science following the publication of his book ‘Bang! The Complete History of the Universe’.

May co-authored the book with Chris Lintott and Sir Patrick Moore, who is also a Fellow of LJMU.

May has also this year finally completed his PhD, with a 48,000 word theses Radial Velocities In The Zodiacal Dust Cloud, which he started work on 30 years ago.

Pic credit: Christian Petersen/LJMU/PA

Cut Of The Day: Pj Harvey and Bjork Do Rolling Stones

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Cut Of The Day: Pj Harvey and Bjork Do Rolling Stones

Cut of the day: November 20 The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction' is brilliantly covered by the two coolest ladies around, PJ Harvey and Bjork. The unique live performance was recorded at the BRIT Awards ceremony in 1994. Check out the video here: object width="425" height="355"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH8wrM0NARo&rel=1 If you have any trouble viewing the embedded video above, try the link through YouTube videos here.

Cut of the day: November 20

The Rolling Stones‘ ‘Satisfaction’ is brilliantly covered by the two coolest ladies around, PJ Harvey and Bjork.

The unique live performance was recorded at the BRIT Awards ceremony in 1994.

Check out the video here:

object width=”425″ height=”355″> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH8wrM0NARo&rel=1

If you have any trouble viewing the embedded video above, try the link through YouTube videos here.

Iron Maiden Back In England

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Iron Maiden Back In England

Iron Maiden have announced their first ever UK stadium show, as part of their Somewhere Back In Time world tour. Maiden will play the 50, 000 capacity Twickenham Rugby Stadium on Saturday July 5, 2008 - their one and only UK show next year. The band's bassist Steve Harris has said they are very excited at the prospect of playing in London, saying: “It could be a bit of an understatement to say how excited we all are to be playing this show next summer. We’ve got hell of a tour planned visiting old and new fans all over the world but as always it’s great to get home and play here in London especially at such a prestigious stadium as Twickenham." Iron Maiden have previously only headlined major UK festivals such as Reading and Donington - Harris adds: "Fans who travel out to Europe for our stadium shows there have for a while been asking us to play one here as the audience in a stadium is much closer to the band than at a big festival and can see so much better." The Somewhere Back In Time tour will see Iron Maiden resurrect their 80s Powerslave Tour, with the stage production based on the same Egyptian theme. Iron Maiden are also releasing DVDs of their classic Live After Death and Maiden England shows from the mid-80s, previously only available on VHS, on February 4, 2008. Tickets for the Twickenham show will go on sale on November 30 at 9am, though memebers of the Iron Maiden fan club will get access to an exclusive pre-sale from November 28 at 9am. The tour kicks off in India in February and already sold-out world tour dates so far confirmed are as follows – See www.ironmaiden.com for info. Mumbai, India - Bandra Kurla Complex (February 1) Perth, Australia - Burswood Dome (4) Melbourne, Australia - Rod Laver Arena (6/7) Sydney, Australia - Acer Arena (9/10) Brisbane, Australia - Entertainment Centre (12) Yokohama, Japan - Pacifico Yokohama (15) Tokyo, Japan - Messe (16) Los Angeles, USA -The Forum (19) Guadalajara, Mexico - Auditoria Telmex (21) Monterrey, Mexico - Arena Monterrey (22) Mexico City, Mexico - Sports Palace (24) San Jose, Costa Rica - Saprisa Stadium (26) Bogota, Columbia - Simon Bolivar Park (28) Sao Paulo, Brazil – Alhembi Stadium (March 2) Porto Allegre, Brazil - Gigantinho (5) Buenos Aires , Argentina - Ferrofcarril Oeste Stadium (7) Santiago, Chile - Pista Atletica (9) Puerto Rico - San Juan Coliseo (12) New Jersey, USA - Izod Centre (14) Toronto, Canada - Air Canada Centre (16) Stockholm, Sweden - Stockholm Stadium (July 16) Helsinki, Finland - Helsinki Olympic Stadium (18) Trondheim, Norway - Lerkendalstadium (22) Oslo, Norway - Valle Hovin (24) Gothenburg, Sweden - Ullevi Stadium (26) Horsens, Denmark - Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen (27) Wachen Open Air Festival, Germany (August 1-3)

Iron Maiden have announced their first ever UK stadium show, as part of their Somewhere Back In Time world tour.

Maiden will play the 50, 000 capacity Twickenham Rugby Stadium on Saturday July 5, 2008 – their one and only UK show next year.

The band’s bassist Steve Harris has said they are very excited at the prospect of playing in London, saying: “It could be a bit of an understatement to say how excited we all are to be playing this show next summer. We’ve got hell of a tour planned visiting old and new fans all over the world but as always it’s great to get home and play here in London especially at such a prestigious stadium as Twickenham.”

Iron Maiden have previously only headlined major UK festivals such as Reading and Donington – Harris adds: “Fans who travel out to Europe for our stadium shows there have for a while been asking us to play one here as the audience in a stadium is much closer to the band than at a big festival and can see so much better.”

The Somewhere Back In Time tour will see Iron Maiden resurrect their 80s Powerslave Tour, with the stage production based on the same Egyptian theme.

Iron Maiden are also releasing DVDs of their classic Live After Death and Maiden England shows from the mid-80s, previously only available on VHS, on February 4, 2008.

Tickets for the Twickenham show will go on sale on November 30 at 9am, though memebers of the Iron Maiden fan club will get access to an exclusive pre-sale from November 28 at 9am.

The tour kicks off in India in February and already sold-out world tour dates so far confirmed are as follows – See www.ironmaiden.com for info.

Mumbai, India – Bandra Kurla Complex (February 1)

Perth, Australia – Burswood Dome (4)

Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena (6/7)

Sydney, Australia – Acer Arena (9/10)

Brisbane, Australia – Entertainment Centre (12)

Yokohama, Japan – Pacifico Yokohama (15)

Tokyo, Japan – Messe (16)

Los Angeles, USA -The Forum (19)

Guadalajara, Mexico – Auditoria Telmex (21)

Monterrey, Mexico – Arena Monterrey (22)

Mexico City, Mexico – Sports Palace (24)

San Jose, Costa Rica – Saprisa Stadium (26)

Bogota, Columbia – Simon Bolivar Park (28)

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Alhembi Stadium (March 2)

Porto Allegre, Brazil – Gigantinho (5)

Buenos Aires , Argentina – Ferrofcarril Oeste Stadium (7)

Santiago, Chile – Pista Atletica (9)

Puerto Rico – San Juan Coliseo (12)

New Jersey, USA – Izod Centre (14)

Toronto, Canada – Air Canada Centre (16)

Stockholm, Sweden – Stockholm Stadium (July 16)

Helsinki, Finland – Helsinki Olympic Stadium (18)

Trondheim, Norway – Lerkendalstadium (22)

Oslo, Norway – Valle Hovin (24)

Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi Stadium (26)

Horsens, Denmark – Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen (27)

Wachen Open Air Festival, Germany (August 1-3)

The Uncut Soundsystem

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Apologies there was no blog on Friday: I spent the day at home, mucking about with several thousand CDs and trying, successfully, to buy My Bloody Valentine tickets. Today has been another complicated one of meetings and Italian lessons and list-making, but it did come to a happy zenith about an hour ago when we saluted the undervalued excellence of U-God, footsoldier of the Wu-Tang Clan and one of the stars of their new "8 Diagrams" album, which miraculously arrived in the office this morning. The eight-hour spangled marathon of Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! has just begun, and I fear I may not be still in the office to hear Track 22, "Rock A Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" tonight. While the great man serenades us with "When You're Smiling", let me guide you through the short but sweet Uncut playlist of the day: 1 LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (DFA/EMI) 2 Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (Domino) 3 Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch) I'll definitely write some more about this one in the next day or two 4 Rings - Black Habit (Paw Tracks) 5 The Wu Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams (Bodog) 6 Wild Beasts - Assembly (Domino) 7 Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall (Polydor)

Apologies there was no blog on Friday: I spent the day at home, mucking about with several thousand CDs and trying, successfully, to buy My Bloody Valentine tickets. Today has been another complicated one of meetings and Italian lessons and list-making, but it did come to a happy zenith about an hour ago when we saluted the undervalued excellence of U-God, footsoldier of the Wu-Tang Clan and one of the stars of their new “8 Diagrams” album, which miraculously arrived in the office this morning.

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Get Free Darjeeling Ltd Rides In London This Week

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Get Free Darjeeling Ltd Rides In London This Week

Celebrating the release this week of Wes Anderson's new film, The Darjeeling Ltd, a special fleet of tuk-tuks will be peddling round the streets of London. From Wednesday (November 21) through to Saturday, you can grab a free ride just by hailing one of the brightly coloured tuk-tuk 'drivers'. The film starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman opens for general release this Friday. To see Uncut's four-star rated review of The Darjeeling Limited, click here.

Celebrating the release this week of Wes Anderson‘s new film, The Darjeeling Ltd, a special fleet of tuk-tuks will be peddling round the streets of London.

From Wednesday (November 21) through to Saturday, you can grab a free ride just by hailing one of the brightly coloured tuk-tuk ‘drivers’.

The film starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman opens for general release this Friday.

To see Uncut’s four-star rated review of The Darjeeling Limited, click here.

Foo Fighters Line-Up Massive London Show

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Foo Fighters Line-Up Massive London Show

Foo Fighters have announced that they play a mammoth concert at London's Wembley Stadium next Summer. The band who this weekend played two sold-out shows at the 20,000 capacity 02 Arena - are due to play the newly built stadium on June 7. Dave Grohl and co played at the same venue as part of this years' Live Earth Charity concert. Tickets for the show will go on sale this Friday (November 23) at 10am.

Foo Fighters have announced that they play a mammoth concert at London’s Wembley Stadium next Summer.

The band who this weekend played two sold-out shows at the 20,000 capacity 02 Arena – are due to play the newly built stadium on June 7.

Dave Grohl and co played at the same venue as part of this years’ Live Earth Charity concert.

Tickets for the show will go on sale this Friday (November 23) at 10am.

Arcade Fire Cover The Clash At London Show

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Arcade Fire Cover The Clash At London Show

Arcade Fire kicked off the first of three sold-out shows at London's Alexandra Palace with a mammoth set, that included renditions of The Clash, The Smiths and New Order songs. Playing on Saturday night (November 17), the Canadian's covered The Smiths' 'Still Ill' four tracks in. They also played The Clash's 'I'm So Bored' and parts of New Order's 'The Age Of Consent'. The rest of the two hour set was made up of Arcade Fire's two studio albums 'Funeral' and 'Neon Bible'. The band play their final night at the same venue tonight, with last minute support coming from Brooklynites Yeasayer. The full set list was: 'Black Mirror' 'Keep The Car Running' 'Neighborhood #2 (Laika)' 'Still Ill' 'No Cars Go' 'Haiti' 'Black Wave/Bad Vibrations' 'Neon Bible/The Age Of Consent' 'Ocean Of Noise' 'Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)' 'The Well And The Lighthouse' '(Antichrist Television Blues)' 'Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)' 'Rebellion (Lies)' 'I'm So Bored With The USA/Intervention' 'Wake Up' Pic credit: Andy Willsher

Arcade Fire kicked off the first of three sold-out shows at London’s Alexandra Palace with a mammoth set, that included renditions of The Clash, The Smiths and New Order songs.

Playing on Saturday night (November 17), the Canadian’s covered The Smiths’ ‘Still Ill’ four tracks in. They also played The Clash’s ‘I’m So Bored’ and parts of New Order’s ‘The Age Of Consent’.

The rest of the two hour set was made up of Arcade Fire’s two studio albums ‘Funeral’ and ‘Neon Bible’.

The band play their final night at the same venue tonight, with last minute support coming from Brooklynites Yeasayer.

The full set list was:

‘Black Mirror’

‘Keep The Car Running’

‘Neighborhood #2 (Laika)’

‘Still Ill’

‘No Cars Go’

‘Haiti’

‘Black Wave/Bad Vibrations’

‘Neon Bible/The Age Of Consent’

‘Ocean Of Noise’

‘Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)’

‘The Well And The Lighthouse’

‘(Antichrist Television Blues)’

‘Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)’

‘Rebellion (Lies)’

‘I’m So Bored With The USA/Intervention’

‘Wake Up’

Pic credit: Andy Willsher

Led Zep’s Jimmy Page Speaks About Reunion Rehearsals

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Led Zep’s Jimmy Page Speaks About Reunion Rehearsals

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has been speaking about the band's secret rehearsals for their forthcoming one-off reunion show next month. Speaking to BBC news, Page explained that it was 'tough' keeping the reunion secret prior to the official announcement in September. He said: "We wanted to see how well we'd be playing together and once we played it was without doubt we wanted to do it. "The hardest thing of having anything to do with Led Zeppelin is getting together and rehearsing without anybody finding out about it." The guitarist has also again reiterated that the band have been shocked by the sheer demand to see them play at the Ahmet Ertegun tribute at the 02 Arena. He said: "We were pretty confident it would sell out on the first day but the demand was totally overwhelming," said Page. "I don't think anyone expected that demand in their wildest dreams." The concert takes place at the O2 Arena in London on December 10. Uncut.co.uk will be at the show, bringing you news to you as the show unfolds.

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has been speaking about the band’s secret rehearsals for their forthcoming one-off reunion show next month.

Speaking to BBC news, Page explained that it was ‘tough’ keeping the reunion secret prior to the official announcement in September.

He said: “We wanted to see how well we’d be playing together and once we played it was without doubt we wanted to do it.

“The hardest thing of having anything to do with Led Zeppelin is getting together and rehearsing without anybody finding out about it.”

The guitarist has also again reiterated that the band have been shocked by the sheer demand to see them play at the Ahmet Ertegun tribute at the 02 Arena.

He said: “We were pretty confident it would sell out on the first day but the demand was totally overwhelming,” said Page. “I don’t think anyone expected that demand in their wildest dreams.”

The concert takes place at the O2 Arena in London on December 10.

Uncut.co.uk will be at the show, bringing you news to you as the show unfolds.

Bjork Announces First UK Shows In Four Years

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Bjork Announces First UK Shows In Four Years

Bjork is to play her first full tour in the UK in four years, with eight shows announced for the UK next April. The singer kicks off her 'Volta' tour at Manchester Apollo on April 11, and the dates includes two nights at London's Hammersmith Apollo on April 14 and 17. The singer's only UK date this year was headlining The Other Stage at the Glastonbury festival (pictured above) in June. Björk’s band for the live shows includes Mark Bell (LFO) on computers and keyboards, Damian Taylor on keyboards and programming, Chris Corsano (Sonic Youth) on drums plus a ten piece all female Icelandic 10 piece brass section. Bjork is also set to release a new single 'Declare Independence on January 1. Bjork will play: Manchester Apollo (April 11) London Hammersmith Apollo (14, 17) Plymouth Pavilion (22) Wolverhampton Civic Hall (25) Belfast Waterfront (28) Blackpool Empress Ballroom (May 1) Sheffield City Hall (4) Pic credit: Andrew Kendall

Bjork is to play her first full tour in the UK in four years, with eight shows announced for the UK next April.

The singer kicks off her ‘Volta’ tour at Manchester Apollo on April 11, and the dates includes two nights at London’s Hammersmith Apollo on April 14 and 17.

The singer’s only UK date this year was headlining The Other Stage at the Glastonbury festival (pictured above) in June.

Björk’s band for the live shows includes Mark Bell (LFO) on computers and keyboards, Damian Taylor on keyboards and programming, Chris Corsano (Sonic Youth) on drums plus a ten piece all female Icelandic 10 piece brass section.

Bjork is also set to release a new single ‘Declare Independence on January 1.

Bjork will play:

Manchester Apollo (April 11)

London Hammersmith Apollo (14, 17)

Plymouth Pavilion (22)

Wolverhampton Civic Hall (25)

Belfast Waterfront (28)

Blackpool Empress Ballroom (May 1)

Sheffield City Hall (4)

Pic credit: Andrew Kendall

U2 To Play 02 Arena Next Year

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U2 To Play 02 Arena Next Year

U2 are rumoured to be playing a residency of as many as 21 dates at the O2 Arena in 2008. The Irish rock band, who this week release a 20th anniversary edition of their Joshua Tree album, are currently in the studio, working on a new album with producer Brian Eno. According to a report about the 02 Arena as a world-class venue, ThisisLondon.co.uk says that U2 are the latest in a long line of world-class acts queuing up to play the 02 Arena, since it opened in June this year. After Prince's 21-date run at the venue in August and September, even Led Zeppelin, are due to play their first gig since their brief set at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame in 1995 on December 10, as part of a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the late founder of Atlantic Records. Other huge artists to play the venue in the past six months have included the Rolling Stones' with their 'Bigger Bang' tour dates, Snow Patrol and and Barbara Streisand. We'll be covering the Zeppelin show here at www.www.uncut.co.uk, and also bring you more news about the U2 dates when they're confirmed.

U2 are rumoured to be playing a residency of as many as 21 dates at the O2 Arena in 2008.

The Irish rock band, who this week release a 20th anniversary edition of their Joshua Tree album, are currently in the studio, working on a new album with producer Brian Eno.

According to a report about the 02 Arena as a world-class venue, ThisisLondon.co.uk says that U2 are the latest in a long line of world-class acts queuing up to play the 02 Arena, since it opened in June this year.

After Prince’s 21-date run at the venue in August and September, even Led Zeppelin, are due to play their first gig since their brief set at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame in 1995 on December 10, as part of a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the late founder of Atlantic Records.

Other huge artists to play the venue in the past six months have included the Rolling Stones‘ with their ‘Bigger Bang’ tour dates, Snow Patrol and and Barbara Streisand.

We’ll be covering the Zeppelin show here at www.www.uncut.co.uk, and also bring you more news about the U2 dates when they’re confirmed.

The Darjeeling Limited

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The Darjeeling Limited

DIR: WES ANDERSON ST: OWEN WILSON, ADRIEN BRODY, JASON SCHWARTZMAN SYNOPSIS The Whitman brothers, Francis (Wilson), Peter (Brody) and Jack (Schwartzman), grieving from the death of their father, embark on a train journey across India, which Francis hopes will end with them reuniting with their nun mother (Anjelica Huston). They bicker and mope, flirt with the train's stewardess (Amara Karan) and manage to misplace a snake, to the displeasure of the train's chief steward (Waris Ahluwalia) who kicks them off the train, forcing them to think afresh about the purpose of their journey. Before the main business of The Darjeeling Limited gets under way, Wes Anderson indulges himself with a short film, called Hotel Chevalier. Jason Schwartzman is on a bed in a hotel room, ordering a cheese sandwich. This being Wes, the room is brightly-coloured. The phone rings. It's Natalie Portman, who comes to the room. She has her hair cut like Jean Seberg in A Bout De Souffle. Oddly, this doesn't seem to impress Schwartzman. They lie around on the bed symmetrically. "If we fuck, I'm gonna feel like shit tomorrow." Portman says. "That's OK with me," Schwartzman replies. Though brief, Hotel Chevalier is a perfect distillation of the style Wes Anderson established in The Royal Tenenbaums, in which alienated characters endure their angst in a beautifully-choreographed, deadpan way, to a pop soundtrack. (The director is perhaps a little too generous with his reprises of Peter Sarstedt's "Where Do You Go To [My Lovely]"). But, just as soon as Anderson has engaged audience sympathies, he abandons the scene, leaving Portman as the memory Schwartzman is fleeing as he races Bill Murray for a train. Murray's cameo is perfect, but he misses the train, so he, too, is abandoned, and Schwartzman joins his two brothers, Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody on a train travelling across India. Anderson is fond of confinement - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou was a dolls-house version of life on the ocean wave - and while his interest in design hasn't abated there are signs here that he is now more relaxed about plot. Stuff happens, some of it good, some bad - and all of it is met with a silent movie shrug from the three glum brothers. Still, it's an amazing trip. Darjeeling hurtles through an idealised, fantasy-version of India, but is also an exploration of mood, with the Whitman brothers representing three shades of depression. Francis (Wilson) is the bossy one, despite being comically-bandaged from a suicide attempt. Peter (Brody) is about to become a father, and has neglected to tell his partner that he is popping out to India for a while. Jack (Schwartzman), we know, is still crushed by the infidelity of Portman, whose answering machine he keeps calling, in the hope of finding more evidence of her untrustworthiness. The screenplay (by Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola) does have ambitions to say something about brotherhood and spirituality, but Anderson's sense of style is so strong that sincerity and emotion struggle to be heard. It works better as a road trip that goes off-the-rails, like Down By Law, if Jim Jarmusch had decided to remake it with the Monkees. In India. On a train. With a girl. And a snake. ALASTAIR McKAY

DIR: WES ANDERSON

ST: OWEN WILSON, ADRIEN BRODY, JASON SCHWARTZMAN

SYNOPSIS

The Whitman brothers, Francis (Wilson), Peter (Brody) and Jack (Schwartzman), grieving from the death of their father, embark on a train journey across India, which Francis hopes will end with them reuniting with their nun mother (Anjelica Huston). They bicker and mope, flirt with the train’s stewardess (Amara Karan) and manage to misplace a snake, to the displeasure of the train’s chief steward (Waris Ahluwalia) who kicks them off the train, forcing them to think afresh about the purpose of their journey.

Before the main business of The Darjeeling Limited gets under way, Wes Anderson indulges himself with a short film, called Hotel Chevalier. Jason Schwartzman is on a bed in a hotel room, ordering a cheese sandwich. This being Wes, the room is brightly-coloured. The phone rings. It’s Natalie Portman, who comes to the room. She has her hair cut like Jean Seberg in A Bout De Souffle. Oddly, this doesn’t seem to impress Schwartzman. They lie around on the bed symmetrically. “If we fuck, I’m gonna feel like shit tomorrow.” Portman says. “That’s OK with me,” Schwartzman replies.

Though brief, Hotel Chevalier is a perfect distillation of the style Wes Anderson established in The Royal Tenenbaums, in which alienated characters endure their angst in a beautifully-choreographed, deadpan way, to a pop soundtrack. (The director is perhaps a little too generous with his reprises of Peter Sarstedt‘s “Where Do You Go To [My Lovely]”).

But, just as soon as Anderson has engaged audience sympathies, he abandons the scene, leaving Portman as the memory Schwartzman is fleeing as he races Bill Murray for a train. Murray’s cameo is perfect, but he misses the train, so he, too, is abandoned, and Schwartzman joins his two brothers, Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody on a train travelling across India.

Anderson is fond of confinement – The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou was a dolls-house version of life on the ocean wave – and while his interest in design hasn’t abated there are signs here that he is now more relaxed about plot. Stuff happens, some of it good, some bad – and all of it is met with a silent movie shrug from the three glum brothers.

Still, it’s an amazing trip. Darjeeling hurtles through an idealised, fantasy-version of India, but is also an exploration of mood, with the Whitman brothers representing three shades of depression. Francis (Wilson) is the bossy one, despite being comically-bandaged from a suicide attempt. Peter (Brody) is about to become a father, and has neglected to tell his partner that he is popping out to India for a while. Jack (Schwartzman), we know, is still crushed by the infidelity of Portman, whose answering machine he keeps calling, in the hope of finding more evidence of her untrustworthiness.

The screenplay (by Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola) does have ambitions to say something about brotherhood and spirituality, but Anderson’s sense of style is so strong that sincerity and emotion struggle to be heard. It works better as a road trip that goes off-the-rails, like Down By Law, if Jim Jarmusch had decided to remake it with the Monkees. In India. On a train. With a girl. And a snake.

ALASTAIR McKAY

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