Broadcast always attracted plenty of speculation and intrigue when they were active, but since the death of singer Trish Keenan at the age of 42 in January 2011, the band’s enigma – and reputation – has only grown. Eleven years after their final album – an eccentric soundtrack to Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, completed by remaining member James Cargill – Broadcast are more popular than ever. Their 750,000 monthly listeners on Spotify hammer the Birmingham group’s first three albums – The Noise Made By People, Haha Sound and Tender Buttons – which Warp have kept repressing since 2015...
The day splits have been announced for this year’s End Of The Road Festival, which runs from August 29 – September 1 at Wiltshire’s Larmer Tree Gardens. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Richard Dawson will kick things off on Thursday, while IDLES return to Larmer Tree Gardens this time taking the billing reins on Friday. They top a supporting bill including Sleater-Kinney and Baxter Dury as well as Garden Stage headliners Lankum and Mdou Moctar. Advertisement Saturday is topped by Slowdive who will follow Jockstrap. Richard Hawley, Phosphorescent and Camera Obscura grace the Garden Stage, Fever Ray will bring...
Set the controls for our new issue! As much as they were about unbelievable music, Pink Floyd were about incredible images. When the band played their first official gig at All Saints Hall in London in 1966, they did so accompanied by a phenomenon as new as their own ever-extending R&B: a light show. With that event begins the relationship between sound and vision you’ll see unfold before you in this lavish new magazine. Accompanied by eyewitness recollection – Floyd’s Nick Mason is a key player here – Pink Floyd: A Life In Pictures follows the band on their...
Our latest Deluxe, 148-page edition It is, the internet tells me, shortly after Christmas 1987, and a few friends and I are huddled in a chilly corner of a pub in London’s Soho. We are here for various reasons. For one, we know that they serve pints of bitter even to self-evidently underage customers like us. For another, hard rock lore suggests that this is a spot we might run into Lemmy – surely an encounter to delight all parties equally. The main reason we’re there, though, is to find consolation after grave disappointment. We have failed to phone...
Drive-By Truckers will release a deluxe edition of their 2001 album, Southern Rock Opera. An expanded new 3xLP edition is released via New West Records on Friday, July 26. Pre-orders are available now. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Advertisement For this deluxe edition, the double album has been remixed, remastered and re-sequenced to include a third LP featuring two sides of additional studio material and live recordings. The supplemental LP comprises Side A – Betamax Guillotine, featuring three songs recommended to play between the original album’s Acts I & II including the...
With The Beatles’ Let It Be back on our screens – at last! – after an absence of over 50 years, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg talks to Uncut about his memories of the original shoot, earlier attempts to bring it back into circulation and it’s relationship to Peter Jackson’s Get Back… ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! “I feel so pleased it is coming out again. It has been 50 years and thank God some of the principles are still alive, including me. Peter Jackson’s Get Back was...
A new documentary blur: To The End is coming to screens in the UK and Ireland on July 19. You can watch the trailer below. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! The documentary follows Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree as they came together in early 2023 to record the songs that became their The Ballad of Darren album, ahead of their first ever shows at London’s Wembley Stadium in July last summer. Advertisement The film is directed by Toby L and produced by Josh...
David Gilmour returns with Luck and Strange, his first studio album for nine years. In this extract from Uncut’s world exclusive cover feature, Gilmour, his wife and collaborator Polly Samson, bass player Guy Pratt and producer Charlie Andrew reflect on the genesis of his new album… “Have you checked your Instagram recently?” said the message from Charlie Andrew’s manager last summer. The 42 year-old producer duly logged into the app and waiting for him was a message which said, “Hi, David Gilmour here, please give me a call.” The preceding six months had seen Gilmour and Polly Samson re-emerge carefully from...
Bruce Springsteen debuted “If I Was The Priest” in Europe on May 5, 2024 at the Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wales. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! The song dates back to Springsteen’s singer-songwriter days in the early ’70s. Springsteen performed it during his audition for John Hammond, who signed him to Columbia Records in 1972. Advertisement The song was eventually recorded and released in 2020 for Springsteen and The E Street Band’s Letter To You album. Otherwise unperformed publicly since 1972, it appeared on the setlist on February...
Nigerian rapper LADIPOE, known for his sharp wordplay and infectious flow, returns with a reflective and motivating new single, “Hallelujah.” This isn’t just another braggadocious rap track. “Hallelujah” delves into LADIPOE‘s journey from hustling newcomer to established artist, navigating the challenges and temptations that come with success. The song opens with a declaration of purpose: “Nothing now wey go kill my vibe / All I need is that peace of mind” (Nothing will kill my vibe, all I need is peace of mind). The lyrics paint a picture of loyalty and perseverance, highlighting the importance of close friends (“All...
