Dancing About Architecture 10.03.06
Posted by Ian Wright on 10.03.2006
New music from Damien Rice, new old music from Johnny Cash, Sleater Kinney news, Radiohead, Jarvis Cocker and is Lily Allen a hooker?
The bit at the start
Hello, how are you? I'm good, I was away in Lyon (which is in France) all weekend and I just got home. For once I left Ireland and didn't go to a gig, how shocking.
I did go to a nightclub on a barge though, it possibly had the highest concentration of gorgeous woman that I've ever seen. Allez la France. They even played some good reggae there.
Anyway, it's late and I want to get some actual news in this week so lets get started.
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island.
They didn't just release one brilliant album you know?
I wonder if Jamie picked up a copy of this over the weekend.
You news, you lose
No typo, there is an s' there.
Quick semi Radiohead news to start off this week. "Analyse", the second single from Thom Yorke's solo album The Eraser will be released on XL recordings on October 30th in the UK and October 31st in the US. The track is going to be available on download and, as with the first single "Harrowdown Hill" on limited edition 12''. B-sides will include "A Rat's Nest" and "Iluvya" (How sweet.)
I'd have thought that if there was a song that was an obvious single then it'd be the album's title track.
Bang goes the drum.
Hey guys, still mourning the end of Sleater-Kinney? Well I may have some comforting/horrifying (delete as applicable) for you.
Not content with being part of Quasi drummer Janet Weiss has joined Stephen Malkmus' awesome/awful because it's not Pavement (delete as applicable) backing band The Jicks.
Weiss has jammed with The Jicks before but The Portland Mercury is reporting that she's now a full member of the band and played with them in the Jupiter Hotel in Portland on September 29th. According to Matador records "the Jicks aren't very active" at the minute so it's a bit up the air as to how much work this will give Weiss but seeing that John Mohen who previously drummed with them is now a full-time Decemberist there might be more to do when things pick up with them.
Cool/shite (you know the drill).
Maybe I'm just being mean here.
It seems the best way to make Lily Allen smile is to be a boy who she causes to cry. Well last week you had a chance to make her smile.
To "celebrate" National Dating Day (what the hell?) the mouthy daughter of celebrity asshole Keith Allen joined up with a bunch of British celebrities including Chris Tarrant, Liz McClaron, Jodie Kidd, Misses England, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, radio personalities Jamie Theakston, Harriet Scott, Lucio, Welsh and more (if you're drawing a blank on some/all of those names don't worry, so am I) and put a date with herself up for auction with the proceeds going to charity.
Allen chose to donate her earnings to Strummerville, a Joe Strummer inspired organisation for the production of new music.
Allen even put a "dating profile" for her up here for prospective suiters to check out. For the record she went for £2250.
I don't know about how things work wherever you are but in Ireland escorts use a variant on the following phrase as a legal loophole "you are just paying for the company of the girl, anything that happens between 2 consenting adults has nothing to do with the payment." So what if the dude who paid over 2 grand for the date turned out to be ultra charming and wound up getting into her pants? What would that make Lily Allen?
I wonder if he did meet that girl 6 years ago.
Since more than a decade has passed since the summer of Brit-Pop (or 1996 for you North American readers) there's been plenty of time to ruminate on the period. I think we can all agree that the Blur-Oasis thing was a bit of an embarrassment but there's a bit less agreement with my assertion that the best music of the genre was made by Pulp.
Since the band split a few years ago things have been a bit quiet on the Jarvis Cocker front, of the former Pulpers Richard Hawley has been that most prominent figure. However good news is on the way in a the form of a Cocker solo album. Entitled simply Jarvis (dude you've had years, couldn't you have come up with something better?), it was produced by Sam Lockwood and John Watson, two old school chums of Cocker and it's out in the UK on November 13th. Also, if you head on over to his MySpace page there's some new music there to listen to taken from the Children Of Men soundtrack.
There's also some tour dates:
11-12 Paris, France - La Cigale
11-15 London, England - KOKO
12-16 London, England Roadhouse
I don't expect the record to be anywhere near as good as Different Class but even it approaches This Is Hardcore in terms of quality I'll be really, really happy.
About Fucking Time.
So in February of 2002 an Irish singer-songwriter released his debut solo album following a few years of bumming around after walking out on his band and their major label deal due to the label's interference. By his own admission he wasn't expecting much success from the home recorded and produced (save for one song) album, maybe sell 1,000 copies in Ireland and if he was lucky get a small release in the UK, in the meantime he'd focus on recording the follow up which he wanted to get out within the next year.
4 years later Damien Rice's O has sold over 2 million copies worldwide, won the Shortlist Award and had songs from it pop up on pretty much every show on TV when some soft acoustic incidental music has been required.
4 years, wow. It's been a long frustrating wait for a follow up for his fans but it's almost at an end. 9 will be released in Ireland on November 3rd, in the UK on the 6th and in the US on the 14th.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. 9 Crimes
2. The Animals Were Gone
3. Elephant
4. Rootless Tree
5. Dogs
6. Coconut Skins
7. Me, My Yoke And I
8. Grey Room
9. Accidental Babies
10. Sleep Don't Weep
The lead single will be "9 Crimes" which will be released in the UK on November 20th. Rice claims that he's already working on the next album, but then again he did say that the second album would be out 3 years ago so maybe he shouldn't be taken at his word.
I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when.
If you don't own a copy of Johnny Cash's stunning San Quentin performance then I really suggest you don't rush out and buy it
for a few weeks
because on November 14th it's going to be reissued as a 3 disc (2 cd's and a dvd) expanded set. The remastered version of the album which came out in 2000 expanded the original album from 10 to 18 tracks but this new release will see ANOTHER 13 songs added to the album with performances from Cash and everyone else in his band at the time which included June Carter Cash, the Carter Family, Carl Perkins, and the Statler Brothers.
The DVD will feature live performances as well as the 1969 British TV documentary Johnny Cash in San Quentin and interviews with inmates of the prison.
Tracklist:
CD 1:
01 Carl Perkins: "Blue Suede Shoes"
02 The Statler Brothers: "Flowers on the Wall"
03 The Carter Family: "The Last Thing on My Mind"
04 June Carter Cash talks to the audience
05 The Carter Family: "Wildwood Flower"
06 Johnny Cash: "Big River"
07 Johnny Cash: "I Still Miss Someone"
08 Johnny Cash: "Wreck of the Old 97"
09 Johnny Cash: "I Walk the Line"
10 Johnny Cash: "Medley: The Long Black Veil/Give My Love to Rose"
11 Johnny Cash: "Folsom Prison Blues"
12 Johnny Cash: "Orange Blossom Special"
13 Johnny and June Carter Cash: "Jackson"
14 Johnny and June Carter Cash: "Darlin' Companion"
15 The Carter Family: "Break My Mind"
16 Johnny Cash: "I Don't Know Where I'm Bound"
17 Johnny Cash: "Starkville City Jail"
CD 2:
01 Johnny Cash: "San Quentin"
02 Johnny Cash: "San Quentin"
03 Johnny Cash: "Wanted Man"
04 Carl Perkins: "Restless"
05 Johnny Cash: "A Boy Named Sue"
06 Johnny Cash: "Blistered"
07 Johnny Cash: "(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley,"
08 Carl Perkins: "The Outside Looking In"
09 The Statler Brothers: "Less of Me"
10 Johnny Cash with the Carter Family: "Ring of Fire"
11 Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers: "He Turned the Water Into Wine"
12 Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers: "Daddy Sang Bass"
13 Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers: "The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago"
14 Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers: "Medley: Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk the Line/Ring of Fire/The Rebel - Johnny Yuma"
DVD:
01 Both Sides of the Law: Historical Background
02 Johnny and June Enter San Quentin
03 Opening Title: Johnny Takes Stage
04 I Walk the Line
05 Inmates Speak About Prison Life
06 Folsom Prison Blues
07 Orange Blossom Special
08 Jackson
09 Darlin' Companion
10 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
11 San Quentin
12 Wanted Man
13 Prisoners and Guards: Segregation, Paranoia, Rebellion
14 A Boy Named Sue
15 The Path to San Quentin: Death Row and Doing Time
16 (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me)
17 He Turned the Water Into Wine
18 The Condemned: Execution Day Has Arrived
19 San Quentin
If you can you should go to these gigs.
The Wrens
The nicest men in music (they have to be for being so patient when dealing with all my harassment of them) and best live act in indie continue their weekend only touring schedule in the next few months with a number of dates. If you're going to either of the California shows say hi.
10-13 Columbus, OH - Little Brother's *
10-14 Newport, KY - Southgate House *#
10-27 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church ^
10-28 Washington, DC - Black Cat ^
11-10 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour %
11-11 San Francisco, CA - Be the Riottt!
11-17 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge (Charles Bissell solo) &
11-18 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge (Charles Bissell solo) &
* with Swearing at Motorists
# with Ruby Vileos
^ with +/-, Palomar
% with Asobi Seksu, the Bon Savants
& with Centro-matic, Bobby Bare Jr., David Vandervelde
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
09-26 Boston, MA - Avalon *#
09-28 New York, NY - Central Park Summerstage *
09-30 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero *#
10-01 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues *#
10-02 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre *#
10-03 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre *#
10-04 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue (Main Room) *#
10-06 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre *#
10-07 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater *#
10-10 Seattle, WA - The Showbox *#
10-11 Seattle, WA - The Showbox *#
10-12 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *#
10-13 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theater *#
10-14 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre *#
10-15 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre *#
10-29 Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro
10-30 Nagoya, Japan - Club Quattro
11-01 Tokyo, Japan - Stellar Bar
* with Architecture in Helsinki
# with Takka Takka
Yo La Tengo
No, they are not afraid of you, and yes, they WILL beat your ass.
10-04 Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater *
10-05 Chicago, IL - Vic Theater *
10-06 Milwaukee, WI - Rave *
10-07 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
10-08 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground *
10-10 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater *
10-11 Aspen, CO - Belly Up *
10-12 Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue *
10-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards *
10-15 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
10-16 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
10-17 Sacramento, CA - Empire Events Center *
10-19 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore #
10-20 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore ^
10-21 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore *
10-23 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater *
11-01 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Media
11-02 Oslo, Norway - John Dee
11-03 Gothenburg, Sweden - Sticky Fingers
11-04 Malmo, Sweden - KB
11-05 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
11-07 Cardiff, Wales - Point
11-08 Gateshead, England - Sage
11-09 Cambridge, England - Junction
11-11 London, England - Forum
11-12 Paris, France - Café de la Danse
11-13 Tourcoing/Lille, France - Grand Mix
11-15 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
11-16 Utrecht, The Netherlands - Tivoli
11-17 Groningen, The Netherlands - Vera
11-18 Brussels, Belgium - AB
11-19 Berlin, Germany - Fritz
11-21 Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
11-22 Dusseldorf, Germany - Zakk
11-23 Munich, Germany - Muffathalle
11-24 Heidelberg, Germany - Karlstorbahnhof
11-25 Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-Son
11-27 Milan, Italy - Rainbow
11-29 Toulouse, France - Mange Disque
11-30 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo
12-01 Victoria, Spain - Sala Azkena
12-02 Madrid, Spain - La Riviera
12-03 Lisbon, Portugal - Aula Magna
* with Why?
# with the Chairs of Perception
^ with Whysall Lane
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Talk Radio
The Postal Service Give Up.
Crayonsmith You get down here.
Godspeed you! black emperor Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven.
The bit at the end
Despite my optimism for the gig I found The Black Keys to be incredibly dull last Monday. Most disappointing gig of the year for me I think. It's a shame because I really enjoyed them at ATP.
