I'm quite looking forward to the new Bryan Ferry album Olympia, which promises a return to form. The lead single is You Can Dance which sounds to me like a Bete Noire era track and that is no bad thing. Flea on bass and Nile Rodgers on guitar certainly create a good sound.
Though what on earth he was thinking of with this video I'm not sure:
For more new check out this excellent Roxy Music / Bryan Ferry Site:
http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/index.php
Friday, 10 September 2010
Forgotten Album Friday #12 - Hothouse Flowers Songs From The Rain
This is an album that I am amazed is not regarded as a classic. I think that the Hothouse Flowers suffered from never quite being one thing or the other, not a folk rock band, not a stadium rock band and not quite a band with an underground following like, say, World Party.
This is the third album from the band and was released in 1993 by which time the band were struggling to make any sort of impact and the slightly curious choice of Stewart Levine as Producer (Commodores, Simply Red) made you wonder where on earth they were headed....fear not though as the band produced a set of brilliantly produced, well crafted songs with a beautiful sound which mixed celtic themes with an atmospheric background.
Comparison with U2 and Waterboys cannot of course be avoided but I think this album in particular sees the band creating a sound of their own.
The key tracks are:
This is It (your soul) - one of my all time favourites
An Emotional Time
Thing Of beauty
Isn't It Amazing
Stand Beside Me
There is not a bad track on this album.....seek it out you will not be dissapointed.
This is the third album from the band and was released in 1993 by which time the band were struggling to make any sort of impact and the slightly curious choice of Stewart Levine as Producer (Commodores, Simply Red) made you wonder where on earth they were headed....fear not though as the band produced a set of brilliantly produced, well crafted songs with a beautiful sound which mixed celtic themes with an atmospheric background.
Comparison with U2 and Waterboys cannot of course be avoided but I think this album in particular sees the band creating a sound of their own.
The key tracks are:
This is It (your soul) - one of my all time favourites
An Emotional Time
Thing Of beauty
Isn't It Amazing
Stand Beside Me
There is not a bad track on this album.....seek it out you will not be dissapointed.
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Free Exclusive Live Manic Street Preachers Track - Faster
Follow this link where Amazon have a free live download of one of the forthcoming tracks from Postcards:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0041RN9ME?ie=UTF8&tag=columbialagr-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B0041RN9ME
Available until 27th September
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0041RN9ME?ie=UTF8&tag=columbialagr-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B0041RN9ME
Available until 27th September
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Kings of Leon Single - Radioactive
I am not a fan and I heard this today on the radio and it sounded a bit like a David Byrne cover! See what you think:
Download frenzy....
Well a couple of downloads:
Josh Ritter and Dawn Landes - 500 Miles
http://joshritter.com/2010/09/07/500-miles-free-mp3-for-the-european-tour/
Jesse Malin - Burning The Bowery
http://www.backstreets.com/Assets/Audio/JesseMalin_BurningTheBowery.mp3
Josh Ritter and Dawn Landes - 500 Miles
http://joshritter.com/2010/09/07/500-miles-free-mp3-for-the-european-tour/
Jesse Malin - Burning The Bowery
http://www.backstreets.com/Assets/Audio/JesseMalin_BurningTheBowery.mp3
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Teddy Thompson - Bella
A fair bit off yet but word is a early 2011 Release from teddy Thompson will be entitled "Bella".
A wee reminder of the last lp! Updates to follow....
A wee reminder of the last lp! Updates to follow....
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Richard Ashcroft - Born again
Great video for one of the albums standout tracks. Though it sends me checking for the car alarm - listen and you will see what I mean:
New Manics Single - Its Not War Just The End of Love
Another cracking single from Manic Street Preachers. Journal for Plauge Lovers was an outstanding lp and I am hoping the forthcoming lp "Postcards From A Young Man" will be a big hit.
Manic Street Preachers - (Its Not War) Just The End Of Love
Manic Street Preachers - (Its Not War) Just The End Of Love
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Junky Star
You may not realise that you know Ryan Bingham but you have probably have heard his song The Weary Kind in the film Crazy Heart and he and the band provide Jeff Bridges backing band in the film.
Anyway...his new album Junk Star is due out on 14 September and it promises to be another essential release. I think this is a particularly good live version:
The lead single is Depression - and I hope you enjoy this live performance.
Anyway...his new album Junk Star is due out on 14 September and it promises to be another essential release. I think this is a particularly good live version:
The lead single is Depression - and I hope you enjoy this live performance.
Band of Joy - You Cant Buy My Love
Hope you were up early to catch Robert Plant and His Band of Joy on the Andrew Marr show:
Justin Townes Earle - New Album Harlam River Blues
Justin Townes Earle's new album is released on 14 September, and what I have heard sounds fantastic.
Here is the lead track:
Here is the lead track:
Thursday, 26 August 2010
16 November - Official Darkness Holiday!! Darkness on The Edge of Town - Official Re-issue News
UPDATE: GOT THE SET EARLY SEE NEW BLOG POST!!!
The long awaited (in my house anyway) re-issue of Darkness comes out on 16 November, here are the details and frankly they are beyond even the most ardent fans expectations:
Bruce Springsteen - "The Promise: The Making of 'Darkness on the Edge of Town'" Sneak Peek from Columbia Records on Vimeo.
IT'S OFFICIAL: DARKNESS FALLS, NOVEMBER 16
Six-disc box set tells The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story
The long-awaited Darkness on the Edge of Town reissue, originally expected for the 1978 album's 30th anniversary, has grown to enormous proportions for its release on November 16 as The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story. The 30th anniversary set for Born to Run comprised three discs, and it would have been reasonable to expect the same for Darkness; instead, this just-announced set doubles down, with six discs: three CDs, and three DVDs. (A 3-CD/3-BluRay edition will also be available.)
For this deluxe edition, the discs will be packaged with an 80-page notebook containing facsimiles from Springsteen's original notebooks from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes in addition to a new essay by Springsteen and never-before-seen photographs.
So we're looking at more than six hours of film, and more than two hours of audio. Let's break it down...
CD1: Darkness on the Edge of Town Digitally remastered for the first time (and in our view, the album most in need of such treatment)
CD2 and CD3: The Promise Two discs (which will also be released separately as a 2-CD set and a 4-LP set) containing 21 previously unreleased tracks from the Darkness sessions — songs that, as Springsteen writes, "perhaps could have/should have been released after Born to Run and before the collection of songs that Darkness on the Edge of Town became." Of this material Bruce also writes, "Darkness was my 'samurai' record, stripped to the frame and ready to rumble… But the music that got left behind was substantial." All 21 songs have been mixed by Springsteen's long-time collaborator Bob Clearmountain. According to long-time manager/producer Jon Landau, "There isn't a weak card in this deck. The Promise is simply a great listening experience."
The Promise Disc 1
Racing in the Street ('78 rock version)
Gotta Get That Feeling
Outside Looking In
Someday (We'll Be Together)
One Way Street
Because the Night (original studio recording)
Wrong Side of the Street
The Brokenhearted
Rendezvous (original studio recording)
Candy's Boy
The Promise Disc 2
Save My Love
Ain't Good Enough For You
Fire (original studio recording)
Spanish Eyes
It's a Shame
Come On (Let's Go Tonight)
Talk to Me (given to Southside Johnny)
The Little Things (My Baby Does)
Breakaway
The Promise
City of Night
DVD1: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town. The documentary directed by Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny. The 90-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978—including home rehearsals and studio sessions—with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former-manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record. The documentary will first screen at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival on September 14 and will make its television debut on HBO on October 7.
DVD2: A mix of E Street new and old: first the modern-day E Street Band tackles the Darkness album from start to finish (remember back in December, when Bruce and the E Streeters were doing some closed-door filming at the Paramount Theater?), then a wealth of vintage clips from the Thrill Hill Vaults document the Darkness-era band, both in-studio and live.
Darkness on the Edge of Town (Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ, 2009)
A performance of the album in its entirety, shot in HD without an audience and recreating the stark atmosphere of the original album.
Thrill Hill Vault, 1976-1978
From studio rehearsals to live performances, clips here include brand new cuts of the Phoenix footage, re-edited by Thom Zimny.
Save My Love (Holmdel, NJ 76)
Candy's Boy (Holmdel, NJ 76)
Something in the Night (Red Bank, NJ 76)
Don’t Look Back (NYC 78)
Ain't Good Enough For You (NYC 78)
The Promise (NYC 78)
Candy's Room Demo (NYC 78)
Badlands (Phoenix 78)
The Promised Land (Phoenix 78)
Prove It All Night (Phoenix 78)
Born To Run (Phoenix 78)
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (Phoenix 78)
DVD3: Houston '78 Bootleg: House Cut A holy grail of sorts, this is the complete show from December 12, 1978, at the Summit in Houston, TX toward the end of the tour for Darkness on the Edge of Town. They're calling this a "bootleg house cut," as it's the footage that appeared on-screen at the concert.
Badlands
Streets of Fire
It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City
Darkness on The Edge of Town
Spirit in the Night
Independence Day
The Promised Land
Prove It All Night
Racing in the Street
Thunder Road
Jungleland
The Ties That Bind
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
The Fever
Fire
Candy's Room
Because the Night
Point Blank
She's the One
Backstreets
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Born to Run
Detroit Medley
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
You Can't Sit Down
Quarter to Three
The long awaited (in my house anyway) re-issue of Darkness comes out on 16 November, here are the details and frankly they are beyond even the most ardent fans expectations:
Bruce Springsteen - "The Promise: The Making of 'Darkness on the Edge of Town'" Sneak Peek from Columbia Records on Vimeo.
IT'S OFFICIAL: DARKNESS FALLS, NOVEMBER 16
Six-disc box set tells The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story
The long-awaited Darkness on the Edge of Town reissue, originally expected for the 1978 album's 30th anniversary, has grown to enormous proportions for its release on November 16 as The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story. The 30th anniversary set for Born to Run comprised three discs, and it would have been reasonable to expect the same for Darkness; instead, this just-announced set doubles down, with six discs: three CDs, and three DVDs. (A 3-CD/3-BluRay edition will also be available.)
For this deluxe edition, the discs will be packaged with an 80-page notebook containing facsimiles from Springsteen's original notebooks from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes in addition to a new essay by Springsteen and never-before-seen photographs.
So we're looking at more than six hours of film, and more than two hours of audio. Let's break it down...
CD1: Darkness on the Edge of Town Digitally remastered for the first time (and in our view, the album most in need of such treatment)
CD2 and CD3: The Promise Two discs (which will also be released separately as a 2-CD set and a 4-LP set) containing 21 previously unreleased tracks from the Darkness sessions — songs that, as Springsteen writes, "perhaps could have/should have been released after Born to Run and before the collection of songs that Darkness on the Edge of Town became." Of this material Bruce also writes, "Darkness was my 'samurai' record, stripped to the frame and ready to rumble… But the music that got left behind was substantial." All 21 songs have been mixed by Springsteen's long-time collaborator Bob Clearmountain. According to long-time manager/producer Jon Landau, "There isn't a weak card in this deck. The Promise is simply a great listening experience."
The Promise Disc 1
Racing in the Street ('78 rock version)
Gotta Get That Feeling
Outside Looking In
Someday (We'll Be Together)
One Way Street
Because the Night (original studio recording)
Wrong Side of the Street
The Brokenhearted
Rendezvous (original studio recording)
Candy's Boy
The Promise Disc 2
Save My Love
Ain't Good Enough For You
Fire (original studio recording)
Spanish Eyes
It's a Shame
Come On (Let's Go Tonight)
Talk to Me (given to Southside Johnny)
The Little Things (My Baby Does)
Breakaway
The Promise
City of Night
DVD1: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town. The documentary directed by Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny. The 90-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978—including home rehearsals and studio sessions—with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former-manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record. The documentary will first screen at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival on September 14 and will make its television debut on HBO on October 7.
DVD2: A mix of E Street new and old: first the modern-day E Street Band tackles the Darkness album from start to finish (remember back in December, when Bruce and the E Streeters were doing some closed-door filming at the Paramount Theater?), then a wealth of vintage clips from the Thrill Hill Vaults document the Darkness-era band, both in-studio and live.
Darkness on the Edge of Town (Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ, 2009)
A performance of the album in its entirety, shot in HD without an audience and recreating the stark atmosphere of the original album.
Thrill Hill Vault, 1976-1978
From studio rehearsals to live performances, clips here include brand new cuts of the Phoenix footage, re-edited by Thom Zimny.
Save My Love (Holmdel, NJ 76)
Candy's Boy (Holmdel, NJ 76)
Something in the Night (Red Bank, NJ 76)
Don’t Look Back (NYC 78)
Ain't Good Enough For You (NYC 78)
The Promise (NYC 78)
Candy's Room Demo (NYC 78)
Badlands (Phoenix 78)
The Promised Land (Phoenix 78)
Prove It All Night (Phoenix 78)
Born To Run (Phoenix 78)
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (Phoenix 78)
DVD3: Houston '78 Bootleg: House Cut A holy grail of sorts, this is the complete show from December 12, 1978, at the Summit in Houston, TX toward the end of the tour for Darkness on the Edge of Town. They're calling this a "bootleg house cut," as it's the footage that appeared on-screen at the concert.
Badlands
Streets of Fire
It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City
Darkness on The Edge of Town
Spirit in the Night
Independence Day
The Promised Land
Prove It All Night
Racing in the Street
Thunder Road
Jungleland
The Ties That Bind
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
The Fever
Fire
Candy's Room
Because the Night
Point Blank
She's the One
Backstreets
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Born to Run
Detroit Medley
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
You Can't Sit Down
Quarter to Three
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Duke and The King - Shaky
Lead track from the forthcoming second album (is Simon Felice the hardest working recent open heart surgey person?):
The Duke & The King - Shaky from Silva Screen on Vimeo.
TIP if you want a solo Simon Felice release pop along to Diverse Vinyl for an lp which otherwise I think you can only get at his shows....very sadly I cannot make his Edinburgh gig and the Glasgow Duke show co-incides with Mary Chapin Carpenter....bad.
The Duke & The King - Shaky from Silva Screen on Vimeo.
TIP if you want a solo Simon Felice release pop along to Diverse Vinyl for an lp which otherwise I think you can only get at his shows....very sadly I cannot make his Edinburgh gig and the Glasgow Duke show co-incides with Mary Chapin Carpenter....bad.
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