Laura Marling has penned a song for a new production of the Shakespeare play 'As You Like It'.
The track, which you can hear in a trailer on YouTube below, is set to feature in act two scene five of the play by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The clip shows people at a modern-day garden party, surrounded by Christmas lights and bunting and letting off fire balloons.
Laura Marling has revealed details of her forthcoming album.
The singer's website has been updated with information about her fourth album, the follow-up to 2011's 'A Creature I Don't Know'.
The 2013 Academy Award nominations were announced today [January 10]. The full awards ceremony will take place on February 7.
The nominations in the key categories are:
BEST PICTURE
Amour
Argo
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DIRECTOR
Amour - Michael Haneke
Beasts Of The Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin
Life Of Pi - Ang Lee
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
BEST ACTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson begins and ends The Master with the same image: Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), lying on a beach in the South Pacific in the closing days of World War II, nestled up close to the figure of a woman carved in the sand. Bent out of shape by the war, he is alcoholic and possibly deranged. In a series of weird, unconnected images, we see Freddie siphoning petrol from the tank of an aircraft, masturbating into the Pacific surf, lying in a hammock on a warship.
To accompany this month’s Uncut (Take 181, June 2012), out now, which features the Bonnie “Prince” Billy/Palace icon fielding questions from fans and musicians, here’s an illuminating Album By Album piece with Will Oldham, talking to Andrew Mueller, from Uncut’s April 2009 issue. “I feel more confident about things now,” he says. “Which frees up space for me to feel insecure about a whole new range of stuff…”
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Robert Plant has announced details of three live dates for this summer.
Plant will debut his new band, Sensational Shape Shifters, at:
** Gloucester, Guildhall - May 8
** HMV Forum, London - July 12
** WOMAD, Wiltshire - July 29
Apart from Plant, the line-up for the Sensational Space Shifters is:
Juldeh Camara (JuJu)
ritti (one-stringed African Violin), kologo (African Banjo), talking drum, vocals.
Justin Adams (JuJu, Jah Wobble)
guitar, bendir, vocals
John Baggott (Massive Attack, Portishead)
keyboards
Liam "Skin" Tyson (Cast)
