LIVE AND KICKING - Eurythmics over the top! That unforgettable "Revenge Tour" (1987)...

Uno dei concerti più emozionanti mai visti per esecuzione, intensità, bravura degli strumentisti e riusciti (ri)arrangiamenti...Oltre all'indiscussa capacità di Annie Lennox e Dave Stewart (quest'ultimo lo si veda nell'assolo di chitarra di "Here comes the rain"), menzione speciale per l'armonicista/sassofonista Jimmy "Z" Zavala (guardate cosa fa negli assoli di "There must be an Angel")...Il dvd del tour è vivamente consigliato sotto l'Albero di Natale...!

LET'S TOUR - Simple Minds are alive and kicking again! Nuovo tour incentrato sul pokerissimo di album di esordio, quelli che hanno segnato un'epoca

(ANSA) - ROMA, 22 NOV - I Simple Minds hanno annunciato un breve e intenso tour in venue di dimensioni ridotte, dove proporranno solo del materiale dai loro primi cinque importantissimi album in due ore e mezza di show davvero da non perdere. Un tour che partira' dal Portogallo il 14 febbraio e che sbarchera' a Milano (all'Alcatraz) il 28 febbraio.

Simple Minds are pleased to announce a very rare and exciting opportunity to see them perform material from their first five albums at intimate venues, in February and March 2012. As a Member at Simpleminds.com you have access to these special tickets before general release on Friday 25th November. Read on to find out more! These landmark shows, lasting over two and half hours, will be part of a 16-date European tour beginning in Portugal on 14th February with the first UK shows taking place at Birmingham Academy and in the band's hometown of Glasgow, at Barrowlands, on 24th and 25th February respectively, with the final UK shows of the tour at London's Roundhouse (3rd March) and the Manchester Ritz the following evening. The band will exclusively play five songs from each of their first five albums - Life In A Day, Real To Real Cacophony, Empires and Dance, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Calling and New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84), which celebrates its 30th anniversary next year - which were released in a prolific period from 1979 to 1982. These five albums have had a massive cultural impact from the time of their release during the birth of the new wave electro scene in the late 1970s, through the dance revolution of the '80s and '90s, to the music of the Manic Street Preachers and the recent sound of The Horrors' Skying album, making them five of the most vital albums of the post-punk period and the last 35 years.

"This is the set that so many who appreciate Simple Minds have been begging us to play and finally this is that one-off chance to see it." Jim Kerr.

OFF THE RECORDS - Buon Natale con Kate Bush! Il nuovo disco è un'ode alla neve

Roma, 22 nov. (Adnkronos) - A sei anni di distanza dall'ultimo album "Aerial" esce oggi il nuovo lavoro di studio di Kate Bush "50 Words For Snow". Il disco, che contiene sette brani inediti sul tema della neve, in pieno clima di strenne musicali in vista del Natale, e' pubblicato dall'etichetta di proprieta' della stessa cantante, la Fish People ed e' distribuito da EMI Music. Un lavoro di classe, contemporaneo negli arrangiamenti e senza tempo nella sintesi di voce e suggestioni letterarie. E con una sorpresa: un meraviglioso duetto con Elton John. "50 Words For Snow" e' una raccolta di canzoni della durata complessiva di sessantacinque minuti ed e' stato definito dal The Guardian come "Un album inaspettatamente straordinario, un magnifico sogno contemporaneo". La tracklist dell'album si apre con "Snowflake" e prosegue con i brani "Lake Tahoe", "Misty", "Wildman", "Snowed in at Wheeler street" (feat Elton John), "50 Words for snow" e "Among angels".



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“50 Words For Snow” will feature seven brand new tracks set against a background of falling snow. The total running time is 65 minutes.

VIDEOKILLER - Years go by, but "Lips like sugar" again...

OFF THE RECORDS - The last laugh! Going into the deep of soul with the first solo album by David Lynch

Best known as the surrealist auteur behind "Eraserhead," "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," David Lynch is one of America's most acclaimed film directors. Having long written and performed music for his films -- often in collaboration with others, most notably composer Angelo Badalamenti and Polish pianist Marek Zebrowski -- this fall sees the three-time Academy Award nominee make his debut as a solo recording artist. With the release Tuesday of his debut studio album, "Crazy Clown Time," on Sunday Best Recordings/PIAS, Lynch talks to "Billboard" about his hatred of singing, fear of performing live and working with the late Mark Linkous.

You recently curated a week-long music showcase at Paris' Club Silencio (a venue modeled on one featured in Lynch's 2001 film "Mulholland Drive"). Was it an enjoyable experience?
It's been incredible. Do you want to hear the bands that came? I started out with The Kills, followed by Au Revoir Simone and Kitty Daisy & Lewis. Followed by Gary Clark Jr, a bluesman from Austin, Texas. Followed by Dirty Beaches, [who sings] American rockabilly in the most dreamlike way. And then it ended up with Lykke Li and she did an incredible show. It was a real good week and the club is really fantastic. It's got a great, great feel and people are happy in that club.

How does it feel to begin a solo music career aged 65?
I'm finding it really good. I'm not touring. I'm not playing live. It's a studio experience... I've been working on music through the years and it's Sunday Best Recordings which came along and wanted to get the music out. Their enthusiasm was what really catapulted it coming out.

Most of the songs on "Crazy Clown Time" originate from studio jams, correct?
That's the technique that was used more often than not. I [would] say probably a 20 to 25-minute jam is 97% garbage. Maybe in that three percent there is something there and that becomes the fuel for the next steps, which lead to the finished song. An example of that is [album track] "Speed Roadster." That track came out of a jam when my guitar was just making a sound that was thrilling to me. It started making the sound of a speed roadster... a night time dream that was sparkling in the piney woods.

How did you approach sequencing the album? Are there similarities with editing film?
Exactly. I'm not sure if these days people really sit down and listen to an album start to finish but if they do, you want to have the correct sequence. So you live with the sequence, you think intellectually and emotionally to get a line, then you test it and live with it for a while. Maybe rearrange a few things and then you've got a sequence that feels good should someone sit down and listen to it start to finish.

You've formerly described yourself as a self-taught non-musician. Have you got more proficient through making this album?
No. No. No. I can play it once. I can find a thing and it's very, very much like accidents that occur. We all know exceptionally great musicians in the world. I can't play like them. I find a way of getting something that thrills me on the guitar. I don't play them in a normal way. I started playing a guitar just to make sound FX and that method of playing kind of led to how I work in music.

Twelve of the 14 tracks on "Crazy Clown Time" feature your vocals. Is singing something that you have always done outside of the recording studio?
No. The opposite of that. Zero. I hated the idea of singing. I never wanted to sing. Ever. [But] I started getting kind of infatuated with this high voice and singing [about] these characters. I don't know quite how it happened. The only person I sing in front of is Dean [Hurley, studio engineer and key collaborator on the album]. I sometimes sing a little bit to Emily, my wife, but I'm even embarrassed singing in front of her.

Are there any plans to perform the record live, at all?
In the future it could be possible. I think emotionally I'm not quite ready to do that and technically [I'm] even further away.

Do you plan to do another record or is "Crazy Clown Time" a one-off?
I always love making music in the studio, so we'll see how this goes but definitely they'll be more music. Whether it goes out into an album or not, I don't know. Let's see if people like "Crazy Clown Time."

You worked with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous on the 2010 "Dark Night of the Soul" album. What are your strongest memories from that time?
A great, great happiness and fondness. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse became my friends because of that and they actually really did me a huge favor allowing me to sing on that [record]. It kind of gave me more confidence and it worked out so well... I was looking forward to really having a great long time friendship with Sparklehorse and then he ended up taking his life which was just a huge giant catastrophe and sadness. I really feel bad about that part of the story.



Director: Arnold de Parscau
Cinematography: Jonathan Bertin, Antoine Bon
Actors: Elia Blanc, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Brigitte Aubry, Sarah Barzyk.
Almost 450 were entered into the competition to create the official music videos for David Lynch's single 'Good Day Today / I Know'm released on Sunday Best Recordings www.sundaybest.net
This fantastic video directd by Arnold de Parscau was chosen by David Lynch as the winner for Good Day Today from a shortlist of 10 finalists.

VIDEOKILLER - Girls (aka Superhot Models) on film! Brand new fetish kolossal-video "Girl Panic!" by Duran Duran is NOW

Make yourself comfortable…the premiere of Duran Duran’s “Girl Panic!” is here!

VIDEOKILLER - All you need is now! On November 8th Duran Duran's "Girl Panic!" video-kolossal is out. Take a look at the sexy backstage

The eighties gave us supermodels, and they gave us Duran Duran. Fast-forward to 2011 and they’re all making headlines again. The band recruited five über-supers for a video for “Girl Panic!,” its new single off the album All You Need Is Now, released earlier this year. In the nine-minute clip directed by Jonas Akerlund (the Grammy Award winner behind Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”) and made in collaboration with Swarovski Elements, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen, and Yasmin LeBon play Simon, John, Nick, Roger, and an “anonymous guitarist,” while the real members of the group appear as bellhops, waiters, chauffeurs, and paparazzi. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana even make cameos as Harper’s Bazaar U.K.’s guest editors during a photo shoot scene, images from which can be found in that magazine’s actual December issue. “It’s all daft stuff, but it’s fantastic daft stuff,” says John Taylor in a “making of” video that Style.com is debuting exclusively here. Check back on Tuesday, November 8, for our interview with Nick Rhodes and the complete music video.

Nicole Phelps for "Style.com"

Watch the backstage of "Girl Panic!"

http://www.style.com/stylefile/2011/11/duran-duran-super-sized/

Duran Duran’s “Girl Panic!” is Coming!
Premiering on November 8th on VEVO.com

NEWS WAVE - The Book of Love! "We can be heroes" is the right present for Christmas...

This Friday 4th November, Graham Smith and Chris Sullivan will be hosting an evening soirée geared around the forthcoming book ‘We Can Be Heroes’ at The Society Club in Soho. I’ll have polished up my frames and be exhibiting a few prints and Chris will be telling his ribald tales:

The Society Club
12 Ingestre Place, on the corner of Silver Place, which is off Lexington Street, Soho, W1F OJF.
Prints will be on sale.
It’s early 7-10pm

Afterwards Chris will be Djing classic club tunes from 1976 – 84 at the The Aviary Bar – 17 Little Portland Street, Oxford Circus, London W1W 8BW from 10 till 3:00am (http://www.theaviarybar.com/). Both venues are free to get into – so dig out your espadrilles and book yourself a baby sitter now!!!!

"We Can Be Heroes" is only available from www.unbound.co.uk/books/we-can-be-heroes

Graham was an essential cog in Spandau Ballet’s early pioneering days. He was the band’s original graphic designer and was responsible for the initial performance posters and record sleeve designs. He also happened to capture those days on camera. And now 30 years later he is producing his first photographic book of those heady days.

Chris Sullivan has written a brilliant and hilarious main text and Robert Elms has contributed an introduction. Our very own Gary Kemp has written a foreword along with Boy George and Steve Strange.