Kate Bush concluded her run of sold-out 'Before The Dawn' shows at Hammersmith Apollo last night (October 1), with speculation that it will be "a while" before she plays live again.
At the conclusion of Se7en, his second film as director, David Fincher memorably gave us Gwyneth Paltrow’s severed head in a box. In many respects, he has been producing heads from boxes ever since.
As AC/DC announce Malcolm Young's retirement and the release of a new album, Rock Or Bust, we look back at the life of former frontman Bon Scott in a piece taken from Uncut's December 2013 issue (Take 199). A street poet who’d been inside for ‘carnal knowledge’? A teenybop idol and hippy seer? A tearaway who swam with jellyfish and rode motorbikes naked? “A fantastic guy, a real human, so different to what people thought…” Words: Peter Watts_________________________
A month, perhaps, of surprises. On the rather intimidating new Scott Walker and Sunn O))) album, there appears to be a joke about Michael Flatley's testicles. Somewhere in the elevated aesthetics of Kate Bush's Before The Dawn, there's an equally dubious comedy routine that hinges on the punchline, "HP and mayo, it's the badger's nadgers." And then, just as we were finishing the new issue of Uncut (out today in the UK, as you may have seen), a U2 album suddenly materialised in iTunes, a bullish play to reassert them as the biggest pop group in the world.
The Doors’ documentary Feast Of Friends, which the band filmed themselves on their 1968 summer tour, will be released next month.
The documentary, which was never completed, was screened at film festivals during Jim Morrison's lifetime, but has never been formally released due to legal issues.
To coincide with the releases of his first new studio album in five years, Tell ‘Em I’m Gone, on October 27, Yusuf / Cat Stevens is set to answer your questions in our regular An Audience With... feature.
So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask the legendary singer-songwriter?
What does he remember about touring with Jimi Hendrix and the Walker Brothers in 1967?
What is his favourite of the many cover versions of his songs?
How did he come to work with Will Oldham and Rick Rubin on his new album?
