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Uncut January 2025
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Every print copy of this issue comes with a free 12-track CD featuring brand new music from Mogwai, Rose City Band, Songhoy Blues, The Innocence Mission, Euros Childs, Eddie Chacon and more. Meanwhile, inside the magazine… Advertisement KATE BUSH: In this revelatory lost interview from 2011, Kate Bush holds forth on fame, the internet, pop music, fantastical creatures and the time she nearly burned her house down… BOB DYLAN: With James Mangold’s early-years biopic A Complete Unknown soon to open in cinemas, we discover how Dylan...
CMAT, Candi Staton and Lyle Lovett to be honoured at the UK Americana Awards
The first winners of January’s UK Americana Awards have been announced, with Candi Staton to receive the International Lifetime Achievement Award, Lyle Lovett the International Trailblazer Award, and CMAT the UK/Ireland Trailblazer Award. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement A host of other award-winners will be revealed at the ceremony – taking place at London’s Hackney Church on January 23 – with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Waxahatchee, Bonny Light Horseman, Brown Horse, Katherine Priddy, Jason Isbell, Kacey...
Fontaines DC, Aviva Studios, Manchester, November 29
There’s a sea of people bouncing in green balaclavas, beers are flying, sweat is dripping, bodies are hoisted up on top of shoulders, and people are lovingly embracing one another. The mood is palpably jubilant this evening, as Fontaines DC kick off their three-night residency in Manchester. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement This 2,000-capacity space is a comparatively intimate setting to the rest of their arena tour dates, so to have this relatively up-close environment – in...
Jennifer Castle Camelot
Historically, pop music has often reached into Arthurian legend for a handy metaphor. It is, after all, a symbolist’s paradise – the enchanted vale of Van Morrison’s “Avalon Of The Heart”, for instance, or David Crosby’s Californian hippie dream reflected back as “Guinnevere”. The Moody Blues’ spellbound evocation of Camelot on “Are You Sitting Comfortably?”, perhaps. Or, more literally, Rick Wakeman’s preposterous chainmail folly on ice. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement This ongoing thread of references in...
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition)
“The popular song is a very efficient and effective means of getting across ideas,” declares Talking Heads’ original typewritten ‘Statement Of Intent’, reproduced as part of this reissue package. “Without seeming pretentious, the band would like to think that music and the popular song (as a specific case) has the potential to inspire constructive feelings in the listener. The band hopes that their songs and presentation will inspire confidence in the audience. Words the band would hope can be associated with their ‘image’ are: sincerity, honesty, intensity, substance, integrity and fun.” THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE,...
The Beatles: Beatles ’64
“It’s not culture,” says Paul. “It’s having a laugh.” A first look at the new Fabs film… Following on from the Get Back series, The new Beatles collaboration with Disney+ is Beatles 64, which is available from today. A film produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by David Tedeschi, it focuses on the Fabs in February 1964, when they visited the USA for the first time. Most notably, to play on the Ed Sullivan show, which helped spread Beatlemania across the USA. Advertisement Drawing heavily on the footage shot by David and Albert Maysles in New York and on...
Arts council
Art Garfunkel (83) is on the phone singing “Old Friends” to his son, Art Garfunkel Jr (33). “The old men,” he whispers, easing into a gentle croon, “lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun. You know the little niceties, Junior? One of us sings ‘waiting for the sun’. The other sings ‘waiting for the sunset’…” Art Sr slides into the melody again: “The sounds of the city/ Sifting through trees…” THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement The...
I’m New Here One True Pairing
Tom Fleming looks visibly uncomfortable. Wincing slightly and itching his beard, he looks away from our video call before admitting with a rueful grin: “I’m still feeling a bit guilty about being a singer-songwriter. Do you know what I mean? It’s not something I feel is necessarily a viable art form.” As a magazine that features no shortage of such performers, we’re bound to ask: why ever not? “Well, it’s just the cliche of it. I am, you know, one guy with an acoustic guitar a lot of the time… I don’t want to be seen as another moaning...
Phil Manzanera My Life In Music
For your pleasure, the Roxy Music guitarist reveals his most impactful albums: “It was too exciting for words”… THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Buena Vista Social Club WORLD CIRCUIT, 1997 Advertisement I started learning guitar in Havana, being taught by my mum. There was no Bert Weedon’s Play In A Day for me, it was bolero and son. I don’t think my parents had heard about babysitters – they’d often take me to...Recent Posts
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