Entertainment For Lively Minds
Steely Dan Tour & other News
Steely Dan tour in June at: Edinburgh Playhouse (28) Birmingham NIA (29) Hammersmith Apollo (Jul 1). Tickets are £50-£65 from aloud.com or 08709 988888.
also
Wilco return in June with the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2007's Sky Blue Sky. Made with their regular producer Jim Scott, it's rumoured to include a duet with Feist. Confirmed songs include Wilco The Song and One Wing.
Oh, and get this:
U2 are to release a second album this year, from the same sessions as No Line On The Horizon. The second album, Songs Of Ascent, has been described by Bono as similar to Zooropa, the experimental album from the Achtung Baby sessions. "It's a meditative, reflective piece of work," Bono told Rolling Stone. "But it's not indulgent. It will have a clear mood, like Kind Of Blue."
Finally,
The Flaming Lips and Arcade Fire have exchanged insults, after Wayne Coyne called Arcade Fire "pompous p****s" in a Rolling Stone interview. Coyne claimed the band "treated everyone like s***, not only their crew, but the audience too". At arcadefire.com, Win Butler said: "I hope I'm less of a p**** than someone who'd tell Rolling Stone that people I don't know at all are a**holes."
This just in:
Fleet Foxes and John Cooper Clarke are on The Culture Show (BBC2, Tue, 10pm). Not sure if they are performing together.....
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Steely Dan touring the UK...
the perfect excuse to put Becker and Fagen's fizzogs on the cover and do an in-depth feature.
woo-hoo!
The tickets for Birmingham NIA are only £50 - and there's about 10 people in the band.
And Walter Becker has a beard...
so they qualify.
Nearly Nick but Dan's the Man
I stumbled across this today thanks to the banner ad on The Word website.
This should just about make up for the fact that on the day I went to buy a ticket for Nick Lowe his May gig in Edinburgh was cancelled because it turned out he is playing with Ry Cooder in America on that date.
Great whooping and hollering last Sunday though when I found out Nick and Ry are bringing the show to Edinburgh in July - bugger it I'll be necking Efes by the pool in Turkey that week.
Steely Dan it is then.
Hold on - I’ve just experienced what recent podcasts have been on about in terms of ticket prices etc. I don’t have a problem with the £65/£50 for a ticket, a bit much but seeing Steely Dan is one of the things I must do before I am 60, it’s the etc. that’s getting me - £8.25 or £6.75 booking fee plus £2.25 to post a ticket to you – what the @~#$ is that about? I’m being charged for the privilege of entering my credit card details into an online booking system. I feel a Victor Meldrew moment coming on.
Never mind, you know everything is right with the world when Nick Lowe is quoted on Shameless. On Tuesday when asked how her relationship with Jamie was going Karen the barmaid said “You know, true love travels on a gravel road”. Excellent.
Surreal coincidence
My GLW was watching a Doc Martin DVD last night and one of the characters quoted exactly the same quote.
To be strictly accurate though, it wasn't one of Basher's lines; it was penned by Dallas Frasier and Doodle Owens.
£2.25 postage?
Eeeeeee... Steely Dan, The Rainbow, 1974... I bet the whole night out cost less than that.
AND it were all fields when I were a lad
Meldrew Avoided
Found the time to make the journey into the big smoke and bought my ticket for face value of £50 with no additions at the box office. Handling fee is apparently a credit card charge.
Almost sold out according to the box office clerk but she suspects a lot of tickets blocked out to various agencies and e-bay types.
NB I stand corrected re lyricists of Basher song - still gladdens the heart to hear it included in TV dramas.
Does this mean that the Word massive has infiltrated even further into the fabric of society than we first suspected?
Messrs Ellen and Hepworth will no doubt be appearing on question time next putting the world to rights.
Bono is comparing the mood of a U2 record to 'Kind Of Blue'?
Modest, isn't he?!
Beat me to it
Did they have a ceremony to lure the ghosts of Miles, Bill Evans, John Coltrane and the rest of the musicians into the studio?
Bono
What a tool, cannot stand him. On the mayo show last week he tried to make the case of how his and bands tax avoidance has helped the irish economy!!!
The Dan
Any chance of an Irish gig?
I expect
They'll stick to the sort of jazzy stuff that has served them so well.
Oh Lord
My sides! Please desist!
b'dum tish
made me laugh, Tony
I have gone off into a weird fantasy...
in which Becker and Fagen were based in Ireland instead of the USA, and employed members of Planxty, The Chieftans and The Dubliners to make their records. I'd love to hear 'Deacon Blues' from those sessions...
Irish Date for Steely Dan
Pat
I've played safe and bought tickets for Edinburgh as the tour itinerary looks tight for a Dublin date...the sound quality at SD's 1996 show in the Point blew donkeys, you may recall.
Fleet Foxes and John Cooper Clarke performing together ??
I'd prefer to see Oasis with Pam Ayers !!
I'd rather see
Dave Lee Travis play MacBeth
Enter the Foxes...
exit Johnny Clarke!
Fear not, the venerable JCC was filmed at the Arches in Glasgow last week (and bloody excellent he was too) without a trace of Renyard.
Birmingham NIA June 29th
just purchased two tickets for brum on june29th - thanks chasandmorph for the hot information - i've been waiting to see these guys all my life!
At last it looks
like someone else checks out the c4 teletext music news. I'm always checking it out.
Drat and Double Drat!
You've twigged my oh so secret source!