Oh yes, I have been waiting to see this for ages – the brand new video from Elbow – Grounds for Divorce. Listen to the savage fuzzed up guitar and Garveys amazing voice…
I’ve been working on a cocktail called ‘Grounds for Divorce’
** its been down, and then up…and now its back again **
This is truly a marvelous track – counting down the minutes until the album is available.
Absolutely f*cking brilliant (‘scuse my language but really…)
UPDATE (cut from my screen a few minutes ago 
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Never been to the Porchester Hall, but Elbow Live – 500 tickets – should be excellent!
By: mattr
Category: music
After Shirley Bassey last year, Neil Diamond will be the Sunday headline at Glasto
Guess where I am working today:
There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit
and the vermin of the world inhabit it
and its morals aren’t worth what a pin can spit
and it goes by the name of London.
At the top of the hole sit the privileged few
Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo
turning beauty to filth and greed…
I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders,
for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru
but there’s no place like London!
From Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Boulogne-sur-Mer – sent in 1934 to H. Headham (sp?), Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich – the trip was just a couple of days…from Brighton?
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Gore blimey, etc – there are a million puns that could be made about Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I’d waited long enough to see it, and I wasn’t disappointed when I finally did.
Adapted from the Steven Sondheim stage score, and directed by the perfectly suited Tim Burton – this ‘musical-macabre’ tells the story of Benjamin Barker, as he returns to London after being banished by a crooked judge and seeks his revenge armed with only his cutthroat friends.
Burton makes the movie look perfect, presenting Victorian London as a gothic scene, dark streets, dirty cobbles and belching chimneys. Lit only by gas-lamps and grey skies, Todd sets up business above the pie shop of Mrs Lovett (played by Helena Bonham-Carter), and so the tale unfolds.
I was surprised just how enjoyable the singing was, Johnny Depp sounding a little like David Bowie, and the rest of the cast well able to carry a tune (even Timothy Spall). There were wonderful turns from Sacha Baron-Cohen as Pirelli, and Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin.
Great film – you must get to see this if you can.
Gotta love a bit of people power – commuters holding a farestrike on Great Western
What a contrast – in one corner we have queen of the red tops, Amy Winehouse, apparently 3 months from death and certainly 18 months after Back to Black was released. In the other corner, Adele – fresh faced, spread across most of the newspapers ahead of tomorrows release of ’19′, her debut album. The contrast between the two couldn’t be any greater.
And yet, Adele Atkins is constantly compared. ‘The new Amy Winehouse’, or ‘The Next Kate Nash’, it must be quite frustrating to be bracketed with your peers.
But, in true journalistic tradition – these are lazy descriptions – to me, Adele seems to have much more going for her, a great sense of style, superb voice and an awesome collection of songs. This album has enough of its own style and substance to stand without those comparisons.
The opener ‘Daydreamer’ has been all over the radio, alongside previously released material ‘Chasing Pavements’ and ‘Hometown Glory’ (which was previously released on friend Jamie Ts label). On ‘Cold Shoulder’ a nice shuffling rhythm track allows the big soulful voice to do its stuff – certainly radio friendly, this will be a single in the future. ‘Right as Rain’ is driven along by a nice sound Rhodes, and a sixties style vocal that is one of the closest to the Mark Ronson sound that drives many of her peers.
Make you feel my love is a stunner, piano and strings underpinning a sweet love song and ‘My Same’ is another soulful number that shows off the voice to good effect. ‘Tired’ is a great track with huge strings giving a great contrast to a tick-tock rhythm.
The whole album is excellent – well produced, nicely written and brilliantly sung.
So comparisons will inevitably heaped on her, and most will come and go, but I’d put my money on Adele having more longevity than many of the artists she’s been compared with – she already has more style and grace than most of them.
Highly recommended CD – get into it before it’s everywhere, because I guarantee this album will be absolutely huge in 2008.
By: mattr
Category: music
After reading this report – I’m really glad we went to see Morrissey at the start of his tour – appears that his gigs tonight and tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday) have been cancelled as Moz has some kind of illness. Big shame for his fans.
I hope he didn’t catch a cold when he whipped his shirt off at the end of the show.
By: mattr
Category: music
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