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For several years, director Małgorzata Szumowska and cinematographer Michael Englert have been the most productive force in Polish cinema, with an unpredictable and cosmopolitan output ranging from Juliette Binoche drama Elles to recent US-set religious-cult drama The Other Lamb. Their latest, Never Gonna Snow Again, is among their most thoroughly Polish but may be the title that really marks their international breakthrough. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut Alec Utgoff plays Zhenya, a young mystery man from the East – ominously near Chernobyl, in fact – who arrives at a Polish...
With an oeuvre devoted to the poison, perversity and paranoia of the 20th century and a passion for telling tales of ambition, fame and oblivion, you couldn’t imagine a director better suited to a Velvet Underground documentary than Todd Haynes. But though you might have hoped for some occult, oneiric version of the story told via fabulist casting, phantasmagoric CGI and a little puppetry, The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film by Todd Haynes is a story as straight as its title. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut Understanding the challenge of...
In the halcyon days of New York punk club CBGBs, there was a pinball machine located in the furthest corner away from the stage. In his memoir Spy In The House Of Loud: New York Songs And Stories, dB’s co-leader Chris Stamey remembers being drawn to that part of the room on the (frequent) occasions when the band on stage wasn’t quite as thrilling as legend would have you believe. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut He wrote: “When a skilled player like Dee Dee Ramone nudged it just the right...
Carl “Buffalo” Nichols opens his self-titled debut with a crisp acoustic blues riff, bending the notes upwards while he depicts himself as a deeply and irredeemably lonely man. “If you see me in your town, looking tired with my head hanging down,” he sings on Lost & Lonesome, “you may wonder what went wrong and why I’m alone”. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut It’s a bracing introduction to an artist who uses blues to examine the world around him and who understands the historical weight of the music without being...
A pair of David Bowie pop-up shops are opening in London and New York later this month to celebrate the late artist’s upcoming 75th birthday. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Inside Uncut’s new free posterzine, Bowie Bulletin No. 2 A year-long celebration of Bowie‘s 75th – which will fall on January 8, 2022 – is being planned by his estate under the name ‘Bowie 75’. Two special ‘Bowie 75’ locations are now set to open at 14 Heddon Street in London – the location where the cover of The Rise...
There were a couple of moments during one of my interviews with Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods where the difference between his past life and his present came sharply into focus. BUY NOW: Curated By Sleaford Mods We were talking, at one point, about a time some years ago when things were not going well with his music career, when his residential situation was unstable and a promising development seemed to be a couple of under-populated gigs in London – only for his flow to be interrupted by a smiling figure at the end of the table. “Recognised you...
Presenting our latest online exclusive: Curated By Sleaford Mods. The full Sleaford Mods story, in their own words. Includes a massive new interview, the lowdown on every Sleaford Mods album, and making the videos. Also: the band on their influences, their relationship, their gigs, clothes, and their new songs. More Mods! Buy a copy here!
Michael Chapman quit music just the once. Returning from America in 1971, where he’d supported Cannonball Adderley, been threatened by Black Panthers and very much failed to be paid, he vowed to leave it all behind. His new life lasted about three days. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue “A promoter friend of mine in Holland called,” the songwriter recalled in 2016. “I told him I’d retired and he said, ‘Oh, you don’t want to tour with The Everly Brothers, then…’ I said, ‘When does it start?’ ‘Tomorrow.’ Since then, no, I’ve not...
CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR David Bowie, Pink Floyd, REM, The Waterboys, Led Zeppelin, Modern Nature, Michael Chapman, Gil Scott-Heron, Dion, Dean Wareham and The Beatles all feature in the new Uncut, dated December 2021 and in UK shops from October 14 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music. DAVID BOWIE: On the cusp of a new century, what does David Bowie do? Having plotted a dramatic course forward across four decades, he decides instead...