To Matthew E White’s first London show tonight, all being well, but in the meantime this week’s playlist, with a few things to listen to and watch, as is becoming a hopefully useful habit.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds are set to launch their new album, Push The Sky Away, with a special live show at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on February 10.
The band will be playing the album in full with strings and a choir. A short film by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard about the making of the album, which is out February 18, will also be screened at the event.
Similar events will be held in Paris at Trianon (February 11), Berlin Admiralspalast (February 13) and Los Angeles Fonda Theatre (February 21).
Tickets go on sale at Nickcave.com at 4pm (GMT) on January 17.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have unveiled a brand new song, called 'Jubilee Street'.
Scroll down to listen to the track and view the song's lyric video.
The downbeat "Jubilee Street" is the second song to be taken from the band's forthcoming new album Push The Sky Away, following the track "We No Who U R".
Push The Sky Away will be Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' 15th studio album and is set for release on February 19.
ZZ Top have announced plans to play two UK tour dates later this year.
The band, who are celebrating their 42nd anniversary, have lined up two shows in Manchester and London in June.
They will play:
London Hammersmith Apollo (June 24)
Manchester O2 Apollo (25)
ZZ Top will be playing tracks from their 2012 album La Futura. Mainman Billy Gibbons recently revealed that he and bandmate Dusty Hill once turned down an offer of $1 million (£638,000) to shave off their beards.
At the end of November 2012, Low released a short video trailer for their forthcoming tenth full album, “The Invisible Way”. There is some static, and Mimi Parker talking about some “exceptional peaches”, then a cascading piano line fades in. After 44 seconds, and before the clip has revealed much of a shape as a song, the clip ends.
In Part 2 of this exclusive interview from Uncut’s October 1999 issue, David Bowie looks back on 30 years of genius, drugs and derangement. Words: Chris Roberts
