Music
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Rod Stewart O2 Arena, London, February 27, 2017
“Enjoy yourself!” Rod The Mod’s surreal soul revue turns the O2 into a “giant pub”
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May 2017
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“I'm In This Up To My Neck”
The Konrads, The King Bees, The Manish Boys. The Lower Third, The Buzz. The Riot Squad and The Hype. A baseball team called the Dulwich Bluejays, and a mime about the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Fifty years on from the release of David Bowie’s debut album, Michael Bonner takes a very close look at Bowie’s quietly momentous 1960s, and learns from many friends, lovers and accomplices how David Jones became Rainbowman, and invented the majestic creature mythologised as David Bowie. As his former girlfriend says, “Everything David did in the ’60s led up to the ’70s…”
10+ min |
August 2017
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Never A Dull Moment
Scion of brit comedy royalty. swinging london scenester. rod confidant. French superstar. Womble... the eventful career of Robin Le Mesurier.
3 min |
August 2017
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Kiss
O2 Arena, London, May 31, 2017The crazy, crazy genius of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley: it’s all about the smoke and mirrors…
5 min |
August 2017
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Afghan Whigs
Koko, London, May 30, 2017“Let’s get it on!” Greg Dulli gets hot under the collar once again
3 min |
August 2017
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Night of the Living Dead
June 27, 2015: the reunited members of The Grateful Dead begin their last run of shows. In Northern California, Uncut goes native with the Deadheads to celebrate the bands 50-year adventure, and explores the seismic impact they have made on hundreds of thousands of lives. How will the Dead sound without Jerry Garcia? What happens next? And how do you score some really good LSD? Shall we go, you and I/While we can?..."
10+ min |
September 2015
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Jonathan Demme | 1944–2017
SHORTLY after Jonathan Demme died – on April 26, aged 73 – David Byrne wrote an extensive eulogy for the film director on his blog. reflecting on their first collaboration together, the 1984 talking heads’ concert film, Stop Making Sense, Byrne praised Demme’s singular approach to the project.
2 min |
July 2017
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Let Me Come Back Over
Buffalo Tom revisit their masterpiece: “There’s some real emotional turmoil to that period of life…”
2 min |
July 2017
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How Many Holes Does It Really Take To Fill The Albert Hall?
Yep, they’d love to turn you on: The Bootleg Beatles bring Sgt Pepper to life.
2 min |
July 2017
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Julia Jacklin
Recommended this month: how a Blue Mountains girl was inspired by Britney, but ended up like Emmylou.
2 min |
July 2017
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Fleet Foxes
“Was I too slow? Did I change overnight?” Robin Pecknold returns to the hunt.
5 min |
July 2017
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Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie
Return of the Mac? This fine duo album raises hopes.
3 min |
July 2017
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The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Super Deluxe Edition
Comprehensive six-disc boxset – guaranteed to raise a smile!
8 min |
July 2017
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Aimee Mann
Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, April 26, 2017Mental Illness, plus gags, plus a “a fucking chorus of owls”, equals singer-songwriter gold.
3 min |
July 2017
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I Was Terrible At All My Jobs. I Was Always Too High
An Audience with Ryley Walker.
7 min |
January 2017
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The Age Of The Iconoclast…
Laura snapes on the year’s best new music
6 min |
January 2017
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A Year With A Hex On It…
David Cavanagh on the departed of 2016.
7 min |
January 2017
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She Bangs The Drums
To celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage, Liverpool band Stealing Sheep are marching through festivals with a 33-strong, all-female percussion and dance troupe
2 min |
June 2018
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Hard As A Rock
Malcolm Young | 1953-2017
4 min |
February 2018
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U Got The Look!
The young PRINCE’s first photo session: “It's before an icon becomes an icon.”
2 min |
February 2018
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Is There Room To Improvise? Of Course. That's The Blues
JOHN MAYALL is an early riser. Despite the cold morning in his adopted home of California – where he has lived since the late 1960's – Mayall is already up and busy preparing for his forthcoming live shows when Uncut calls. Mayall, who is 83, is in sprightly form. “We do 100 shows every year all over the world,” he says. “It keeps us active!”
8 min |
April 2017
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The Magnetic Fields
Stephin Merritt has 50 identical sets of underwear and a latent ambition to be Walt Disney. He has written an album of 69 Love Songs and, now, 50 Song Memoir - one for each year of his life. Artpop genius? Conceptual prankster? “I am,” he admits, “a questionable narrator...”
10+ min |
April 2017
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Making Time
Inspired by a football chant, the freakbeat classic that pioneered the violin bow and feedback in rock:“No, no, this is how it’s supposed to be!”
10+ min |
April 2017
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Mick Harvey
The Bad Seed, “music maker” and solo artist surveys some of his best work
10+ min |
August 2016
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Forget Punk. That Was Amateur Hour
1977. Lou Reed exists on a steady diet of whisky and speed. His fractious relationship is going off the rails. His studio is filled with eerie heads. And he is rising, heroically, to the challenge of showing rock’s young rebels the true meaning of debauchery. Damien Love uncovers the harrowing tale of an “offensive” masterpiece, Street Hassle.
10+ min |
October 2016
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The Magic Number
Gathering inspiration from Mickey Mouse and Multiplication Rock, the NY trio crafted a hit manifesto.
10+ min |
September 2016
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Somebody's Watching You!
A filmmaker’s epic pursuit of Sly Stone. “Fame attracts wonderful people. Fame also attracts guns and dogs…”
3 min |
September 2017
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Randy Newman
Dark MatterNONESUCH8/10Uniting sardonic gospel songs with complex orchestral scores.
4 min |
September 2017
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The War On Drugs
A Deeper UnderstandingATLANTIC8/10 Granduciel admits a little more light.
4 min |
September 2017
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“We're Still The Best Band On The Planet!”
Welcome back the mighty Royal Trux: once an out-of-control juggernaut, now “purring along like a rested jaguar”
2 min |