I love the concept behind Grinderman. Nick Cave feels the band allows him to showcase his more extreme side. Nick Cave. Just you think about that. Anyway, the new single is called, with suitable frightening overtones and crawly skin feelings, ‘Wormtamer’ and it’s ace.
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Paul Weller returns this week with Wake Up the Nation, an album which, staggeringly, turns out only to be the tenth offering of his near-two decade solo career. Weller has been in and out of favour with the cognoscenti for so long that it became impossible to determine accurately where he was positioned at any [...]
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Music is a fast-moving beast. Everything changes at a rapid old pace. This isn’t always bad – goodbye and good luck with your future endeavours to Acid Brass, Alan McGhee and the Bravery, amongst others – but inevitably the baby sometimes goes with the bathwater. Such is the case with the great rock’n’roll nickname. So [...]
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Australia. Title of a rubbish Manic Street Preachers song, birthplace of Kylie, supplier of bar staff. Today is the day that the Aussies celebrate being Australian or something, and needless to say drink a lot. Here you will find no criminal jokes, instead we wish to celebrate all that is good about Australia. So, Shane [...]
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We first caught up with Phantom about six months ago, when they were in town for the Hinterland Festival. Today sees the release of their debut single ‘The Great Pretender.’ We caught up with the guys to to see what’s been happening in the corner marked ‘gorgeous pop-noir’; Elsie Martins
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regular readers may have noticed a bit less wookie related activity round here recently. the details are unimportant, but not to put to fine a point on it, the misunderstandings were all cleared up and well…… So, thought you might like this to get you raring to go on a Tuesday morning. Peace, love and [...]
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Saturday evening is kicked off with the sweet, narcotic drone of Spiritualized on the Main Stage. Jason Pierce only really has two songs, essentially – the slow one which uses women as a metaphor for drugs and the fast one which uses women as a metaphor for drugs. But still, they are both good tunes [...]
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There’s been much talk of Mr Nick Cave round these parts recently, and also some talk of Kylie Minogue (albeit only by me). Here they are together in a collaboration only slightly less unlikely than Nick Cave asking me to record a song with him……
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As mentioned in the Reasons to be cheerful post this is setting up to be a busy gig week for the ELM team. Last night saw us heading off in different directions to see Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and also Vampire Weekend. The pleasure of the Nick Cave gig was mine, and it [...]
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I don’t like festivals. You probably could have predicted that, I know. You stand in a field and get covered in mud. I don’t like mud. It’s not solid ground, it’s not a proper puddle, its just this gooey mess. In fact, if mud was a singer, it would be James Blunt. That’s how much [...]
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