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Saint Etienne setlist, Latitude Festival, July 2009
Out 24 2009, 6h34 por georgethe23rd
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Latitude 2009
Jul 31 2009, 21h07 por ouwho
Thu 16 Jul – Latitude Festival 2009
Best year so far. About 2 out of 3 festival goers were working for the BBC, but never mind - the weather was tolerable (even the storm didn't leave us wallowing in mud!), it wasn't too crowded, the family field wasn't overrun with armies of middle-class civil servants battling the forces of law and order, and the pie and mash van was well stocked with gorgeous loveliness.
Favourite sets would be The Vaselines, Tricky, Patrick Wolf, and Nick Cave And The Bad Seed. Mrs Ouwho tells me Grace Jones blew her mind but I was soothing an overtired 4-year-old so I missed it. We also caught Thom Yorke and everyone there seemed to find it a religious experience. Me, I've always been a bit ambivalent about R'head, and I found the solo set a bit whimpery. At times, I think he was a bit embarrassed to be playing that kind of music to such a massive crowd too. It didn't really work. But I think I'm probably a minority opinion there...
My biggest surprise is that I had no interest whatsoever in seeing The Irrepressibles, who were my top find of 2008, but somehow I think I felt I'd be disappointed if I saw them again, and maybe it was time to find new stuff. I heard Jamie's voice drifting from far away on the first night and weirdly that was enough.
I didn't see any comedy either, even though it's usually my favourite bit, but caught some ballet, some poetry (everyone there looked a bit desperate) and some freakish, spooky drama.
Being middle-aged, we spent much of the time in the children's field and our daughter would happily have spent all three days jumping on the trampoline, having her face painted and riding round on that deathtrap big wheel thingy. In fact, she loved the whole thing, and spent most of the time rocking out as no other pre-schooler has rocked out before. On the last night, she finally conked out and fell asleep two songs into the godlike set by Nick Cave. When the festival was all over it took a giant breakfast in a café in Southwold and a few early nights to restore her tissues.
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The 405 Review
Jul 24 2009, 7h51 por oprimus
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Latitude 2009 Highlights
Jul 21 2009, 22h38 por aerach
My top five sets from the Latitude Festival 2009 were:
Pet Shop Boys
of Montreal
Patrick Wolf
Lisa Hannigan
65daysofstatic
Of the sets I saw of bands I knew little or nothing about, I was impressed by:
Mirrors
White Lies
Post War Years
The other festival highlight was the stand-off between the lead singer of !!! and the security guys who were trying to get people down off other shoulders :) -
Setlist Thom Yorke at Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Southwold, England
Jul 20 2009, 14h30 por setlistfm
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BUNNY ROOTS MOJO (or my Nick Cave update)
Abr 29 2009, 6h08 por BlackCoffeeDuck
Well To start will The Death Of Bunny Munro is coming out on 1st of September in Hardcover and Audio CD with Nick Cave reading it himself.
'Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with The Death of Bunny Munro. As it stands though, this novel emerges emphatically as the work of one of the great cross-genre storytellers of our age; a compulsive read possessing all Nick Cave's trademark horror and humanity, often thinly disguised in a galloping, playful romp.' Review by Irvine Welsh
A CD I picked up for 13 bucks is The Roots Of Nick Cave from the Complete Roots series by the people at www.snappermusic.com
A lot of the song are from the tour DVD 'The Road To God Knows Where' so it's like a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds late 80's tour mix tape plus some songs Cave have done covers of but here is the track listing:
1.
Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins
2.Shake, Rattle And Roll by Big Joe Turner
3.Keep A Knockin'by Little Richard
4.Cat Man by Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
5.I Put A Spell On You by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
6.I'm Gonna Kill That Woman by John Lee Hooker
7.Bottle Up and Go by Leadbelly
8. Wade In The Water by Ella Jenkins
9. Jesus Met The Woman At The Well by The Albama Singers
10.Another Man Done Gone by Odetta
11. Black Betty by Leadbelly
12. Mourning Song by Harry Belafonte
13.Fever by Little Willie John
14.99 Ways by Charlie Gracie
15.Lost Highway by Hank Williams
16. The Streets Of Laredo by Roy Rogers
17. Down In The Willow Garden by Hobart Smith And Texas Gladden
18. Shine On Me by Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
19. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O by Chubby Parker & His Old Time Banjo
20.Stack O'Lee by Mississippi John Hurt
21. Henry Lee by Dick Justice
22.John the Revelator by Blind Willie Johnson
Next up is Mojo magazine with Cave on the cover and it's has just got to Australia newsagents even so I got it a long time ago but now want to buy it again. It the best Cave magazine write up in the last few year that I've read. Check out Big Jim Sclavunos's Bad Seeds 2009 Aussie Tour Diary too.
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/01/big_jim_sclavunoss_bad_seeds_t.html
In Perth he even talks about Rainbow Lorikeets!!! in the next bit which is here. http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/02/jim_sclavunoss_bad_seeds_tour.html
The Free CD is Cool. It's called Bad Seeds and sub-titled Nick Cave: Roots & Collaborations. Here's the track listing too.
1. The Saints - (This) Perfect Day
2. Johnny Cash -Folsom Prison Blues
3. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
4. Karen Dalton -Katie Cruel
5. Tim Rose -Long Time Man
6. Scott Walker -The Big Hurt
7. Current 93 -All the Pretty Little Horses
8. Einstürzende Neubauten - Blume
9. Martin L. Gore -Loverman
10. Lydia Lunch & Nick Cave - Done Dun
11. Beasts of Bourbon -Cocksucker Blues
12. The Golden Gate Quartet -Wade In The Water
13. Peggy Seeger - Henry Lee
14. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O'Lee
15. Hank Williams -I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Also Nick Cave – The Exhibition is currently touring the country, showcasing “original lyrics, notebooks, artwork, photography and books” from the great man. It’s the kind of thing only Nick Cave could get away with. Having started its circuit in Melbourne, the exhibition is currently showing in Brisbane. After that stint is up, Nick’s stuff will move on to Perth and Canberra. Oh, and it’s free! Check it all out here: http://assets.theartscentre.net.au/nickcave/
Nick Cave – The Exhibition tour dates:
BRISBANE
QPAC
Now showing until 9 May 2009
www.qpac.com.au
PERTH
WA Museum
23 May – 19 July 2009
www.museum.wa.gov.au
CANBERRA
National Library of Australia
7 August – 5 October 2009
www.nla.gov.au
And Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds European 2009 festival tour dates
Norway Thu 12 Jun – Norwegian Wood 2009
Sweden Fri 13 Jun – Where The Action Is
Finland Sat 14 Jun – Provinssirock
Germany Fri 19 Jun – Southside Festival 2009
Germany Sat 20 Jun – Hurricane Festival 2009
Germany Sun 21 Jun – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds own show
Switzerland Fri 27 Jun – OpenAir St.Gallen
Denmark Fri 3 Jul – Roskilde Festival
Belgium Fri 4 Jul – Rock Werchter Festival 2009
Scotland Fri 10 Jul – T in the Park 2009
Ireland Fri 10 Jul – Oxegen
Russia Thu 16 Jul – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds B1 Concert Hall, Moscow
Russia Fri 17 Jul – Стереолето 2009 - Стереозакат or Stereoleto Music Festival, St Petersburg
United Kingdom Sat 19 Jul – Latitude Festival 2009
The band will feature Ed Kuepper on guitar, Kuepper, formally of Australian bands The Saints and Laughing Clowns, completes the current Bad Seeds live line up of Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Conway Savage. Kuepper has been, and continues to be, a significant influence on contemporary Australian music. He formed the original version of the proto punk band The Saints in 1973 whilst in high school and when the original Saints split he formed what, in the eyes of many, was an even bolder enterprise - Laughing Clowns. The Clowns broke up in 1984 and Kuepper launched a prolific solo career which has seen the release of more than 20 albums and several film and soundtrack projects. His latest studio recording was 'Jean Lee and the Yellow dog' in 2007
Ed Kuepper has said nothing is planned after this tour but I’m hoping for a new album, imagine Ed and Nick co-written songs would sound like? We can hope if the tour goes well maybe they might just go into a studio just start recording a new Bad Seeds album. Well I wish anyway, do you too?
