Threatmantics are playing their last show tonight in Hastings (at The Crypt)
as part of their rotating triple bill tour with Swanton Bombs and Video
Nasties, which has been going down a storm. Their new single, Little Bird, is
released this coming Monday 2nd February.
Coachella: McCartney, Winehouse, Cure, MBV, etc
McCartney is just one of 120 acts at the festival. Most of them, including the Killers, Franz Ferdinand and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, perfectly fit the event's tradition of connoisseur alt-rock.
There also will be sets by the Cure, Morrissey and My Bloody Valentine, three revered acts from the 1980s and 1990s British scene, as well as a performance from neo-soul singer Amy Winehouse, whose train-wreck tabloid life has made her a digital age version of Janis Joplin.
Still, despite those compelling bookings, Paul Tollett, the festival's chief architect, knows that his decision to bring in a living legend from the 1960s will dominate discussion between now and Sir Paul's main-stage set on the festival's first night.
more at LA Times, coachella.com
'Beth Orton’s debut album, Trailer Park, originally released on Heavenly Recordings in 1996, will be re-issued through Sony Music on March 9th. The re-mastered album is packaged with a bonus disc containing thirteen non–album tracks from 1996 through to 1998 including b-sides, live tracks, instrumentals, rarities and two tracks featuring Chicago soul legend Terry Callier.
Mysterious and magical, Trailer Park skittered into the riotous, rooted, all-lads-together world of Britain in the mid-1990s like an unusually purposeful will-o’-the-wisp. Released on Heavenly Recordings – at the time less a label, more a way of life – Beth Orton’s first album was born out of going out and staying in, of love, late nights and mornings after.
Trailer Park referenced Rickie Lee Jones, Bobbie Gentry, Joni Mitchell; the girl groups of the early 60s, the twisted pop of the late 60s. Honoured with a trio of BRIT and Mercury Award nominations, including a BRIT win for “Best British Female”, there were those who deemed Trailer Park the perfect post-club comedown album; but it was so much more.
Trailer Park is a collection of stories, a moment in time, a humble offering with far-reaching effects, a musical experiment gone right, a small jewel that glitters differently as you turn it in your hand. Even today, it’s still open enough to let your own moods and desires take the songs where you want them to go. Beth Orton’s evocative song-writing and yearning, hopeful voice gives the album warmth as well as ache: the cracks in her voice revealing more of the hurt running through these songs than the words ever can.
Beth is an instinctive songwriter. She doesn’t approach a song like it’s an essay, knowing exactly what she wants to say. Instead, she creates something new, catches a mood, reduces it to an essence, evokes rather than reports.
Some songs were written in one swift swoop; others were written over a period of time in various places. She Cries Your Name grew in Marrakesh, Essouira, and a North London studio with William Orbit. (Orbit was the first person to discover Beth's distinctive voice, when she toured a play around Russia in 1990. After seeing the dress rehearsal in London, he was intrigued enough by the girl turning Rimbaud poems into blues songs to ask her to come and work on his Strange Cargo projects).
Don’t Need A Reason was written post-Glastonbury. Through it, Beth was lifted from the mud of that weekend - and her illusions about an abusive relationship - to a place of redemption.
With each song she wrote, she felt freer and more liberated, until, finally, she left behind the confines of Galaxy Of Emptiness for the healing of Touch Me With Your Love. Someone’s Daughter is Beth giving voice to the idea that every person has been the beloved child of someone else - and therefore has the right to be loved, cherished and respected, no matter what. And that by falling in love we become loved, as though someone’s child all over again.
Sugar Boy speaks for itself. A song born of the original blues song of the same name, it started, then stopped, then started again, until Beth and Andrew Innes of Primal Scream swirled it to its quietly defiant finish.
Beth first heard The Ronettes’ Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine with Jeff Barrett who signed her to Heavenly Recordings. This song (about devotional love lost) evoked her loss and grief at her mother’s death a few years earlier. Hearing it gave expression to feelings that, at the time, Beth could only access through writing her own love songs. She ran home and learnt Sunshine there and then, breathing her own experience into the song, stripping it back to its barest bones to reveal the vulnerability beneath the Phil Spector production.
To bring this same raw quality to her own material (and obsessed, as she was, by the The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier and anything and everything by Nick Drake), she went to work assembling the right musicians. Folk was the music that came most naturally to Beth, writing songs on her acoustic guitar. She wanted to capture the purity of its traditional sound. Having grown up around British folk musicians, she often wondered why UK folk was not revered in the same way as the roots music of America.
She also wanted to stay true to her other roots: her love of going out and dancing, to Northern soul, hip-hop, dub or reggae. Why couldn’t all these elements live happily with one another? She found great support and inspiration from Jeff Barrett in this quest. He introduced her to an even more diverse spectrum of music from all eras, every genre and emotion going. An adventure!
She started, first things first, by sitting and singing the songs solo, sharing the stage in a London Soho pub with her best friend Tasha Lee at their Acoustically Heavenly night. The pair would sing their hearts out on stage; on cue, grown men would cry. At Acoustically Heavenly, emotions ran high; fights regularly broke out, men regularly broke down. All that was missing was the sawdust and chicken wire. It was here that Beth met Andrew Weatherall. Though he was interested in working with her as producer, she had already set her sights on Victor Van Vugt, long-time sound engineer and producer for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. He was one of the first people to hear Beth’s demos when they were just voice and guitar sung into a tape recorder mic. She liked the idea of someone who understood how a live band should sound and, with that in mind, she started to piece a band together for Van Vugt to record and for Weatherall to later mix.
Enter Ted Barnes on guitars, mandolin and bouzouki, brought by bass player Ali Friend, whom Beth had worked with in Red Snapper. Both became key elements in these songs’ arrangements. Rounding out the band were drummer Wildcat Will, a friend from Beth’s London nights out; and Sean Read on keyboards, another old friend from Norfolk and a member of Heavenly’s much-loved The Rockingbirds. These players brought not just music, but their own atmosphere to Beth’s vignettes.
Still, it was Beth’s voice, her songs that tied together all these disparate elements. With all the optimism of a novice from a small town, she decided that as long as she stayed true to herself, all would turn out just fine. The outcome: psychedelic beats, swooning strings and dark electronic waves, alongside clear, resonant, acoustic instruments heard as they had not been in a long time, stripped and bare, free from overblown production. Beautifully produced by Victor Van Vugt, they’re still as vital as if you were in the room as they played. Andrew Weatherall added his own magic with his remixes of Touch Me With Your Love, Tangent and Galaxy of Emptiness, spinning the musicians into an alchemic mix, a new noise from pure sounds.
Today, everywhere we look, there are female singer-songwriters confidently staking their claim amongst pop’s boy wonders. Folk is a thriving, youthful musical genre, no longer the preserve of elderly, jumpered males. So it’s appropriate that this is Trailer Park’s Legacy edition, because the album’s legacy is all around us. Beth herself sees it as a door into another world, one that she went through and never looked back. But she left that door open, and many others have followed her through.
For Beth, writing and recording songs is the best feeling in the world. The equivalent of true love, she calls it. It’s time for us to fall in love all over again.
Orton has released three albums since Trailer Park: Central Reservation (Arista, 1999), Daybreaker (Astralwerks, 2002) and Comfort of Strangers (2006). Her latest is expected this year.
TRAILER PARK by BETH ORTON
(originally issued September 1996, as Heavenly 17)
CD One – Selections: 1. She Cries Your Name • 2. Tangent • 3. Don’t Need A Reason • 4. Live As You Dream • 5. Sugar Boy • 6. Touch Me With Your Love • 7. Whenever • 8. How Far • 9. Someone’s Daughter • 10. I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine • 11. Galaxy Of Emptiness.
CD Two – Selections: 1. Safety (A) • 2. It’s Not The Spotlight (A) • 3. Galaxy Of Emptiness (live at Shepherds Bush Empire, 26/11/1996) (B) • 4. Pedestal (B) • 5. Touch Me With Your Love (instrumental) (C) • 6. It’s This I Am Find (D) • 7. Bullet (E) • 8. Best Bit (early version) (E) • 9. Best Bit (F) • 10. Skimming Stone (F) • 11. Dolphins (feat. Terry Callier) (F) • 12. Lean On Me (feat. Terry Callier) (F) • 13. I Love How You Love Me (G).
Another festival of Indy-electronica, this time back in
Berlin for the third time, at the Theater Kapelle in Boxhagener str 99,
Friedrichshain on 11 and 12 April 2009.
More details at the fest's homepage
Petition to Save Live Music in UK
Calling for Heroes - Nottingham Rock
Following the announcement that MUZU.TV have signed a deal with Music Giant
EMI Music we have a great playlist to give to you that contains brilliant
dance content that is fresh into MUZU TV to brighten up these cold winter
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CALLING ALL
PRODUCERS!
REMIX COMPETITION!
REMIX STREET FIGHTER II AND WIN
XBOX 360S
+ STREET FIGHTER IV GAMES!
To
celebrate the launch of Street Fighter IV, the latest instalment in
one of the most successful fighting game series of all time, video
games giant Capcom has made available for the first time the
original, fully-mastered vocal, FX and music samples taken from the
cult classic Street Fighter II, enabling DJs and producers access to
cut, scratch, remix and re-edit these classic parts to their heart’s
content.
Why
Street Fighter II? Released in 1991 Street Fighter II became the
must-have fighting game for the SNES, literally smashing all
competition in its path with its two-player and arcade modes, making
this one of the most successful games of all time. And it’s
back for 2009 in a brand new manifestation, available on PS3 &
Xbox 360.
Capcom
team up with leading MP3 download portal Trackitdown.net to bring you
this exclusive remix competition. On Jan 19th the competition will go
live offering DJs and producers across the globe access to download a
full Street Fighter II sample pack featuring classic vocals such as
Hadoken, Sonic Boom, Tiger Uppercut alongside
hundreds of FX noises and music in lossless .wav format giving up
coming and established producers the opportunity to remix these
classic parts in whatever way they feel!
The
four best remixes will each win an Xbox 360 and copy of the brand new
Street Fighter IV game, with runners up winning copies of the game.
This competition is open to producers of all genres. Trackitdown.net
will also give away the winning tracks as a bundle post-competition
for free!
For
more info / to download free sample pack visit:
http://www.trackitdown.net/streetfighter4
To
get your creative juices flowing check out this remix by AV Legends
Hexstatic:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fiilep_bgBQ
Street
Fighter IV will be in stores from Feb 20th
available for PS3 & Xbox 360. For
more info please contact Tom or Lou @ Cypher PR on 0207 372 4464 or
email tomj / lou @cypherpress.uk.com
U2 Single - Get On Your Boots - well, actually, it's not a vid at all: it's one
picture with the music playing.
Mstation Music and Games News
for a scroll down page of all news go here.
Fri, 30 Jan 2009
Csound 'PySys_SetArgv' Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
BugTraq ID: 33446
Remote: Yes
Last Updated: 2009-01-28
Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33446
Summary:
Csound is prone to a remote command-execution vulnerability.
An attacker could exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting
victim to execute the vulnerable application in a directory
containing a malicious Python file. A successful exploit will
allow arbitrary Python commands to run with the privileges of
the currently logged-in user.
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May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!
(Dave Craig from LAU)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009
BETH ORTON
TRAILER PARK- Legacy Edition
MARCH 9th 2009
Key:
A – Tracks 1-2 from B-side “She Cries Your Name” single, 1996.
B – Tracks 3-4 from B-side “Touch Me With Your Love” single, January 1997.
C – Track 5 from B-side “Touch Me With Your Love” vinyl 10-inch, 1997.
D – Track 6 from B-side “Someone’s Daughter,” March 1997.
E – Tracks 7-8 from B-side “She Cries Your Name” (re-release), June 1997.
F – Tracks 9-12 from Best Bits EP, December 1997.
G – Track 13 from Mojo soundtrack album, July 1998.
Note: All tracks on CD One and CD Two are 2008 re-mastered versions.
Tue, 27 Jan 2009
Thu, 22 Jan 2009
Dear Music Lovers
Please take the time to sign this petition, (link below) before Jan
23rd.
This is an urgent call!! Please read, sign and pass it on to everyone
in your address book, especially all UK citizens who have a right to
sign the petition.
Thanks all
Crystal & Yvan
Raison D'Etre Music Lover Collective London
It has been brought to our attention that new noise legislation is
about to be introduced that is likely to virtually destroy live music
in the UK.
The government wish to consider it a legal requirement in the new tax
year to introduce laws insisting anyone applying or re-applying for
an entertainment licence must have a noise control device fitted to
the venue. This will be the final nail in the coffin for pretty much
ALL entertainment in the UK as the level at which these devices cut
the power off is ridiculously low.
In our experience any venue that has one in use cannot have any
electric music as the power is constantly being cut mid-song - and
even loud applause at the end of a song can cut it.As an example -
The sound pressure at a Royal Philharmonic Orchestra concert can be
more than some rock bands and is enough to turn the electricity off.
How are their electronic devices going to cope. By cheating like
everyone else? The regulation of these limiters will come under the
control of local councils who are stretched enough trying to manage
the governments draconian laws brought into place to destroy the pub
and leisure industry.
Enough is enough.
Venues are suffering enough as it is without being forced to go to
the expense of fitting one of these damned things.
Noise limiters are a menace to live music.
NOTE: You may also be aware that promoters of live music might soon
have to fill in an 8 page document for each concert they promote
outlining each musician's full details from their ethnicity onwards.
Whatever happened to the notion of art as being a free expression of
creativity?
Please sign the petition! And pass it on!
PLEASE DO NOT INTRODUCE THIS LAW, WE LOVE LIVE MUSIC!
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION HERE:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoNoiseControl/
Link
NOTE: WE HAVE UNTIL 23rd JANUARY TO SIGN THE PETITION!!!!
Wed, 21 Jan 2009
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Press Release
For Immediate Release:
Band Name Calling for Heroes
Web site address myspace : www.callingforheroes.com
Headline:
Calling for Heroes Official Worldwide Chart Release!
Date: 21st January 2009
Nottingham rock band Calling for Heroes have secured an official worldwide chart
release of their EP ?Space and Time? due to be released on Monday 26th January 2009.
Calling for Heroes are a commercial rock band, performing their own original songs.
Song writer and band member, Nigel Allcock, commented ?It?s fantastic news to finally
get the distribution in place that we had hoped for? the band have been together just
over 12 months.
?The EP will be available worldwide from all the major companies HMV, ITunes, Play,
Tune Tribe, Napster, MTV, O2, Tesco and many more. We can?t wait as the EP will
also be chart registered so if enough people help us and buy it ? we could appear
in the official UK chart. Initially it will only be available for digital download
but it?s a fantastic step for us.?
The bands myspace www.myspace.com/callingforheroes, contains information on the band,
the biography, pictures and songs from the EP are featured here. Space and Time has
already had rave reviews and been given much airplay on the BBC and other local Radio
stations including Mansfield 103.2fm.
Band History:
Calling for Heroes is the brainchild of Nigel - formerly of 8 Lives Down - who,
following their demise set about creating a new project of talented, like-minded
musicians. The drummer Neil; Nigel met previously through auditions for 8LD.
The vocalist Wes impressed the guys so much he was chosen straight away. After
trying out several different people for the role - the bass player, Simon, was
found in October 2007.
The guys then began rigorously rehearsing original material from a huge collection
of songs written over the past few years, building a set so they could make their
debut onto the scene in the early months of 2008. Their Debut EP was recorded with
producer Guy Elderfield (the Libertines, The Donnas, Amusement Parks on Fire) at
Random Recording Studios Nottm in 2008. They have gone on to play some impressive
shows with fantastic reception from the crowds on their first tour which included
Mansfield?s Party in The Park to over 7000 revellers.
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Tue, 20 Jan 2009
