It says a lot about Roger Daltrey’s support for the Teenage Cancer Trust that when The Who take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall it is the band’s first show for almost exactly a year – in fact, it’s their first since last year’s Teenage Cancer Trust show. And The Who will be back here again on Sunday to headline a second evening on behalf of the charity. Tonight, at least, Daltrey and Pete Townshend are in fine form, delivering a set packed with hits but also containing a great deal of warmth, humour and character. On the...
From Uncut’s March 2015 issue , how The Smith’s 1985 album Meat Is Murder provided a radical manifesto for troubled times, one overshadowed by the “violence, oppression and horror” of Margaret Thatcher. Uncut tracks down band members, intimate associates and contemporaries to tell the full story of a band at their closest and most adventurous… Advertisement The distance travelled by The Smiths in late 1984 can be measured, to some extent, in car journeys. En route with the rest of The Smiths from their respective homes in Manchester to Amazon Studios in Kirkby during the winter of 1984,...
From Uncut’s April 2021 issue , the indomitable first lady of folk shares her whole story with Uncut: an epic 85-year odyssey that also involves Woody Guthrie, Ewan MacColl and Greenham Common Advertisement This morning, Peggy Seeger has been out in her garden in Oxfordshire to inspect the bird tables. These, she explains, have now been squirrel-proofed and she was keen to see how successfully they were working. “Connecting with nature is something you do a whole lot when you get old,” she says, with a typically commanding blue-eyed stare. “I’m not a mature citizen, I’m not vintage,...
From Uncut’s May 2017 issue , we salute the genius of “The Bronx Brontë”! Laura Snapes tracks down Nyro’s closest collaborators to uncover the true story of a revolutionary singer-songwriter and her own thwarted career… Advertisement There is an abiding image of Laura Nyro as the black sheep at the crowning of the counterculture. On June 17, 1967, the 19-year-old played Monterey. According to cousin and confidant Alan Merrill, the moment producer Lou Adler called and asked Nyro to play, “Her lips went blue from the shock.” Once she recovered, she started sketching costumes. Her outfit was a...
Relationships today often feel fleeting. Digital interactions replace real intimacy. Miné ‘s latest single, “Crave“, is a call for something deeper. The Nigerian-American artist blends pop and R&B with sincerity, making this one of her strongest releases yet. Miné creates catchy hooks with real emotion. “Crave” continues that style. The song explores the struggle to find authenticity in a world focused on the surface. Her vocals are smooth but urgent, reflecting the need for real connection. Her earlier singles, “TMLA” and “Born, Not Raised,” explored innocence and identity. “Crave” broadens the conversation. It’s not just personal—it speaks to a...
Lexi Goddard and Chris Coleslaw first met while working at the same café in Chicago, soon uniting to perform Neil Young covers and, in time, writing their own songs as Tobacco City. Debut EP “LSD” arrived in 2018, followed by 2021’s full-length Tobacco City, USA, an album that suggested their spiritual locus lay at some movable point between ’60s Bakersfield and the bleached expanse of the American Southwest. Echoes of Gram and Emmylou shaped their harmonies, while a supporting cast conjured up the kind of glazed psychedelic country so beloved of early Flying Burritos. Advertisement THE MAY 2025 ISSUE...
For Kenney Jones, reclaiming the Small Faces legacy has been a lengthy battle, doggedly pursuing unpaid royalties and restoring the management of this beloved group’s back catalogue. “I don’t think any band’s been treated worse than the Small Faces,” Jones’s former bandmate Ian McLagan ruefully told Uncut in 2014. Jones’s achievements, then, are nothing short of heroic – as this month’s cover story attests. Nominally a celebration of the posthumous – and now radically expanded – The Autumn Stone album, our cover story explores the band’s tumultuous 1968, discovering along the way tantalising new insights into the music they...
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR EVERY PRINT EDITION OF THIS ISSUE OF UNCUT COMES WITH A COPY OF SOMETHING NICE – A FREE AND EXCLUSIVE SMALL FACES CD OF ALTERNATE MIXES, RARITIES AND LIVE CUTS Advertisement SMALL FACES: 1968 was a year of extremes, from hit singles and a career-defining album to a final, on-stage bust-up. But while the bonds between them were strained by internal tensions and external dramas, the music Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagen and Kenney Jones made in their final months together pointed tantalizingly in bold,...
Bob Dylan began his Rough And Rowdy Ways spring tour on Tuesday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW While the majority of Dylan’s band remained the same – Tony Garnier (guitar, piano, harp), Bob Britt (acoustic guitar, electric guitar) and Doug Lancio (acoustic guitar, electric guitar) – Jim Keltner, who had been drumming with Dylan since the Outlaw Festival last June, was replaced by Anton Fig. Fig has previously...
The comedy and literature lineups have been announced for this year’s End Of The Road festival, taking place at Larmer Tree Gardens on August 28-31. Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Following last year’s packed-out cameo, Stewart Lee returns to top the comedy bill, alongside Grace Campbell, Michelle de Swarte and Adam Buxton (who will host a special live edition of The Adam Buxton Podcast). Ivo Graham and Alex Kealy bring their own podcast Gig Pigs...
