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...
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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...
Vincent Poag just dropped his new album called Masquerade. Home to some of the most unique and soulful compositions of today’s world, Masquerade encompasses 12 songs, all of different genre mixes. “Barcelona”, “Heartbreak”, and “In The Jungle”, to name a few, are Poag’s Ingenious yet simple creations. Vincent Poag’s previous successes include singles like “America” (2020), “Stress” (2011), and “This Christmas” (2013). Each track has several million views which speaks for itself. “Stress” hit #5 on the FMQB/ACQB chart, alongside artists like OneRepublic, Adele, and Coldplay. Poag’s pure and honest art appeals to vast audiences because of its simplicity...
“The English excel in dancing and music for they are active and lively. They are vastly fond of great noises that fill the air, such as the firing of cannon, drums and the ringing of bells. So that it is common for a number of them when drunk to go up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together.” So wrote the German lawyer Paul Hentzner in 1598 in his Travels In England During The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth, quoted in Simon Reynell’s short 1988 film about the scrapheap orchestra Bow Gamelan Ensemble. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones...
As spiritual and musical reawakenings go, it has to be said that The Beatles’ Indian love affair got off to a shaky start. In Richard Lester’s 1965 film Help!, we see the Fabs become embroiled with a sinister Eastern cult who set out to sacrifice a female Beatles fan to their goddess. While hindsight hasn’t been kind to Help!, it also allows us to get the full measure of the chain of events it would trigger on the musicians at the centre of the enterprise. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of the November 2021 issue of...
