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Spoon Exclusive Jimmy Kimmel Off-Air Performances
Spoon had the privilege of performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, July 19th.
While the television audience got to see the band perform their new single No Bullets Spent you can go behind the scenes and watch exclusive off-air performances of classics Inside Out, I Turn My Camera On, Don’t You Evah, Do You, The Underdog and Rent I Pay
The band release their first-ever compilation album, a collection called Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon, out July 26 on Matador.
They also perform in Toronto at the Budweiser Stage on August 11th as special guests of Beck and Cage The Elephant.
Gruff Rhys new album Pang! out on September 13th
Gruff Rhys will be releasing his new album ‘Pang!’ on Rough Trade Records on September 13th.
‘Pang’ is a pop album with a couple of verses of Zulu and an English title. ‘Pang!’ developed unexpectedly over about 18 months. A solo album of songs by Gruff Rhys, produced & mixed by the South African electronic artist Muzi.
Recorded in Cardiff, Wales. The song “Pang!” was mixed by the producer Muzi in Cardiff & Johannesburg. Drums by Welsh-American psychedelic warlord Kliph Scurlock, brass by Gavin Fitzjohn and flute and percussion by the engineer Kris Jenkins. Beats, bass & ah’s by Muzi with Gruff on vocals and guitar.
Gruff explains “Pang!” is a Welsh language song with an English title. It started life as a folk reel and soon expanded into a ‘list’ song, listing various reasons for pangs; hunger, regret, twitter, pain, bad design etc. Using the English word pang in a Welsh language track may appear weird but I suppose it’s like using the French word ‘Magazine’ in an English song. In that it’s slightly pretentious but completely acceptable.”
Gruff appeared on Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6 Music show to talk about his brand new track and album. Interview segment starts at the 2 hour and 11 minute mark
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Belle and Sebastian have announced Days Of The Bagnold Summer OST.
Belle and Sebastian have announced Days Of The Bagnold Summer OST.
The album, out on September 13th on Matador Records, is prefaced by single Sister Buddha as well as a handful of Canadian shows.
Days of the Bagnold Summer began life as a 2012 award-winning graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, was turned into a feature film and the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner), and is now a wonderful, rich, bittersweet, and warmly welcoming original soundtrack album by Belle and Sebastian, to be released September 13 on Matador Records.
The announcement arrives with first single ‘Sister Buddha’ and its accompanying video
Premiered by Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music, the anthemic and transcendent song is led by shards of melodic guitar and Stuart Murdoch’s compassionate lyrics and soaring vocals, telling of a protagonist in search of an escape from “the thrills, the pills, the circus ring” of daily life, brimming with a message of inner strength and solidarity.
Days Of The Bagnold Summer features eleven brand new Belle and Sebastian songs, as well as re-recorded versions of classics ‘Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying’, originally appearing on 1996’s If You’re Feeling Sinister, and ‘I Know Where The Summer Goes’, from 1998’s This Is Just a Modern Rock Song EP.
The band headline a run of festivals this summer, starting with their own The Boaty Weekender music cruise in August, followed by Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris in October, and the inaugural Primavera Weekender in Benidorm in November. Canadian shows include Montreal’s M Telus on July 15th, Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall on July 16th and the Calgary Folk Festival on July 25th.
Days Of The Bagnold Summer, set for release in 2020, features BAFTA-winning actress Monica Dolan (Eye in the Sky, The Falling, Pride), Earl Cave (The End of the F***ing World), Rob Brydon (The Trip, A Cock and Bull Story), BIFA-Award-winning actress, writer and director Alice Lowe (Prevenge, Adult Life Skills, Sightseers), Olivier-Award-winner actress Tamsin Greig (Second Best Marigold Hotel, Tamara Drewe) and Elliot Speller-Gillot (Uncle). It’s a tender, touching and acutely observed coming-of-age story, which tells of a heavy-metal-loving teenager’s holiday plans falling through at the last minute, leading to him having to spend the summer with the person who annoys him most in the world: his mum.
