Friday, June 29, 2007

Fopp, outstanding music retailer, in trouble

Music for Grown-Ups has been praising Fopp ever since the small chain started rolling out its refreshing music retailing concept in England.

Its stores, notably the new flagship in London’s Tottenham Court Rd, are my preferred outlet for buying CDs, DVDs and books. Fopp leaves the competition in its slipstream, thanks to its quirky catalogue, some keen pricing, but mostly because its genre classifications – reflected in innovative display – are just so well thought-out.

Bad news this week, though – Fopp seems to be struggling to survive – a one-day closure of stores last Friday, suspension of online sales, cash only in the stores, and the Music Zone stores – their recent acquisition is a likely major cause of Fopp’s woes – closed, as I found when I went to visit the Welwyn Garden City branch yesterday.

All music retailers are currently struggling against free downloads and aggressive online and supermarket discounting. But if all the major chains went under, Fopp is the one I’d miss most.


Gerry Smith

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Morrison’s slash CD prices

Morrison’s, the UK “value” supermarket chain, has launched an aggressive discounting campaign, pricing its chart albums (eg the White Stripes’ Icky Thump and the new Clash compilation) at a challenging £7.

The prices are only available in-store – Morrison’s doesn’t sell CDs online.

Best value has to be new The Traveling Wilburys Collection, at £10. At that price, even those who bought the originals on release might now add the reissue to their collection; at £10, the extras – four bonus tracks, DVD, booklet and packaging – are probably worth having. For the fan, there’s a price point below which every Dylan product, bar none, is worth having. Wilburys at £10 is such a point.

Yet one more reason to shop at Morrison’s… .


Gerry Smith

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Fans to influence track selection for new Dylan compilation

Thanks to Lawrence Kirsch for this Sony press release:

“A career-spanning, three-CD retrospective of Bob Dylan's music - "Dylan" - will be released worldwide on October 1 by Columbia Records.

“This definitive Bob Dylan collection chronicles the artist's four decades of groundbreaking studio recordings, as well as his unparalleled influence on popular music and culture.

“According to Sony BMG Commercial Music Group President John Ingrassia, "Each new generation eventually discovers what millions of people the world over have known for decades: That Bob Dylan is a singular artist whose songs and recordings represent the very best that music has to offer. This 'Dylan' set will provide a comprehensive introduction to an important body of work that continues to impact our culture and attract multitudes of new fans each year."

“Song selection for this comprehensive set is still being determined, and will be greatly influenced by impassioned fan lobbying on website
www.dylan07.com

This site -- which went live in February for fans to share thoughts on Bob Dylan's music, swap stories about first hearing the artist's songs and seeing him in concert, and more -- has been updated today with the DYLAN artwork, a promotional trailer for the album, as well as the ability for fans to vote on the "Dylan" track listing.”

This Week’s Music for Grown-Ups on Radio/TV

Your new listening/watching guide… thanks to compiler Mike Ollier

RADIO For Grown-Ups

Wednesday BBCR2 23.00 ~ 23.30
* Classic Singles
3rd of a six-parter profiling great 45s. The Boomtown Rats with 'I Don't Like Mondays'. Well neither do I Bob, but I don't go on about it.

Thursday BBCR2 20.00 ~ 22.00
* Maconie & Radcliffe
A session and interview with Flavour Of The Month (well, several months) Arcade Fire. I guess I didn't win the competition then.

Friday BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: School

Friday BBCR2 21.15 ~ 21.30
* Chronicles, Volume One: 1961
Sean Penn reads from THE book. 5 of 8

Friday BBCR3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library
Pat Metheny discusses his favourite recordings (of himself, that is)

Friday BBCR3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On Three
Live from the Freedom Of The City Fest with Evan Parker



TV For Grown-Ups

Friday BBC4 21.00 ~ 22.00
* The Best Of Glastonbury
Inevitably

Friday BBC1 22.35 ~ 23.35
* Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
BBC erred last week ~ so fresh from their 2nd-only-to-The-Stooges appearance @ Glasters, The Arcade Fire play live tonight. Miss out all the crap (most of the show) and see the last 10 minutes. Alternatively, The Shield is back on Five.

Saturday BBC2 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Seven Ages Of Rock:
British indie, from The Smiths to The Stone Roses to, ahem, Oasis and onto newer acts like The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand and T'Arctic Monkaays. Inessential… last one of a largely uninspiring series.

Saturday BBC2 23.30 ~ 00.00
* The Culture Show Special
Lou Reed bigs up the laugh-a-minute 'Berlin' tour with his new best friend Lauren Laverne.

Saturday BBC4 22.30 ~ 23.15
* Britpop Now
Blur, Supergrass snore zzzzzzzzzzz

Saturday BBC4 23.15 ~ 00.15
* Later Presents Brit Beat
Julian tinkles the black & whites with Blur, Radiohead (I'd like to see him boogie woogie to that!!), Oasis and Ash.

Saturday BBC4 00.15 ~ 00.55
* No Sleep Till Sheffield
Pulp in concert.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Three day breather for Music for Grown-Ups

For the first time since launch, Music for Grown-Ups is taking a short breather, to enable essential IT maintenance.

So there’ll be no new content posted tomorrow, Monday or Tuesday. Normal service will resume next Wednesday, 27 June. See you then.

Please keep sending your valued contributions to info@musicforgrownups.co.uk


Gerry Smith

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

White Stripes bonanza on BBC

BBC radio and TV are throwing serious resources at Icky Thump, the new White Stripes album. BBC Interactive (TV) and the web site are currently showing a 25 minute loop of the exciting gig the duo just recorded at Maida Vale studios, to be aired in full on Wednesday, as part of Radio 1’s White Stripes Day.

It’s not often that Music for Grown-Ups trails Radio 1 programmes, but the White Stripes are an exception: they’re the future of rock music. Or, maybe, its last, dying gasp? An unmissable band, White Stripes have now released half a dozen splendid albums for grown-ups.




www.bbc.co.uk/radio1


Gerry Smith

Monday, June 18, 2007

This Week’s Music for Grown-Ups on Radio/TV

Your new listening/watching guide… thanks to compiler Mike Ollier


RADIO For Grown-Ups

Monday BBCR3 23.15 ~ 01.00
* Andy Kershaw
Blues from Robert Belfour, plus lots of world music. Possibly. Probably.

Wednesday BBCR2 19.00 ~ 20.30
* Folk On Two
Saved from old fartdom this week by Ron Kavana discussing his new 4CD release 'Irish Ways' which is a history of Ireland told through song, music and poetry. Expect insight and pointed questioning from Mike Harding.

Wednesday BBCR2 23.00 ~ 23.30
* Classic Singles
Six-part series profiling great 45s. I'd tell you what this week's is if the Beeb could be arsed to get their website in order.

Thursday BBCR3 23.15pm ~ 01.00
* Late Junction
Gillian Welch is promised tonight

Friday BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Bible
'John The Revelator' by Blind Willie Johnson, 'The Rivers Of Babylon' from The Melodians and The Yahoos' 'Bottle And the Bible' (check out their website out to see how excited they were to get name-checked offa Bob)~ great stuff as ever. Is Bob allowed to get a Sony award? A shoo-in if he is.

Friday BBCR2 21.15 ~ 21.30
* Chronicles, Volume One: Influences
Sean Penn reads from THE book. 4th part of 8.

Friday BBCR3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library
Chick Corea

Friday BBCR3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On Three
Live from Glastonbury, John Tchicai and Empirical



TV For Grown-Ups

Friday/Saturday/Sunday on BBC2/BBC3/BBC4 at various times
* Glastonbury Festival
Well, glad I'm not there… crack a warm can open (preferably Fosters or some other equally pissy 'beer'), sit in the shower with a gro-bag, invite a burglar into your home, drop an E or two and have some felafel. Watch on TV. Ah, the festival experience in your own home, and a handy, safe toilet. There, I've saved you a few hundred quid and you haven't contracted trench foot.

You'll have to check times yourself, cos it's on all weekend across three channels (and some radio coverage), but on Friday you'd be a fool to miss Arcade Fire. Amy Winehouse is promised and some loud wannabes. Probably. John Fogerty and Iggy Pop are promised on Saturday.

However, you'll also have to put up with a bunch of entirely unnecessary celebrity presenters, who just get in the way of the music. One can only hope that professional good egg Mark Radcliffe is introducing/interviewing the more watchable performers.

Friday BBC1 22.35 ~ 23.35
* Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Arcade Fire play live tonight. Knowing the Beeb it will probably clash with their appearance at Glastonbury on one of their other channels. Tape Wossy (Pete Doherty is also a guest tonight… oh good), miss out all the crap (most of the show) and see the last 10 minutes. How can Ross be so awful on TV but present a corker of a radio show on a Saturday?

Saturday BBC2 21.300 ~ 22.30
* Seven Ages Of Rock: Left Of The Dial ~ American Alternative Rock
REM, Nirvana, Pixies et al… fast/slow quiet/loud ad nauseam. I do hope that nice Courtney Love is on.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Leonard Cohen set to tour?

Leonard Cohen’s portrait on the cover of new issue of The Word, following loads and loads of recent UK press, makes me think that we’re about to see Leonard touring England - after such a long break.

He can’t surely be doing the press rounds in support of the slightly expanded reissues of the first three albums, or Anjani, his companion’s, new album of Leonard material. There simply has to be a bigger picture.

I’ve never seen Lenny live, but, then, who has? He hasn’t toured – anywhere - in 14 years…

If, like many grown-ups, you’re excited by the interface where pop culture (rock) meets high culture (literature), Lenny is certainly your man.

Watch this space…

And don’t forget – Lenny is on BBC Radio 2 tonight at 1930 BST, talking about songwriting. As Mike Ollier wrote on Monday:

Friday Night Is Music Night Presents Leonard Cohen On Songwriting - The Word's Mark Ellen laughs with Len and quizzes him about his most famous songs and how he wrote them. Hopefully BJs, Janis and The Chelsea Hotel will turn up.


www.bbc.co.uk/radio2



Gerry Smith

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Traveling Wilburys Collection: worth buying?

If you already have the two Traveling Wilburys albums, should you bother with the new Traveling Wilburys Collection, released on Monday? Well, for about £14 in your supermarket/online, you get four extra audio tracks, five DVD tracks, and a short book. Worth buying, then? Maybe. Probably. Just.

If you didn’t buy the albums first time round - what were you thinking of? These vastly enjoyable good-time romps should be in the collection of any half serious rock fan.

The two Traveling Wilbury albums were cherished on initial release by Dylan fans as a sign that, after the multiple disappointments of the 1980s, Uncle Bob might not be quite ready for the scrap heap. Alongside Biograph, Oh Mercy and Bootleg Series vols 1-3, the Wilbury albums presaged a return to form.

Track Listing:

Disc One
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 1
1. Handle With Care
2. Dirty World
3. Rattled
4. Last Night
5. Not Alone Any More
6. Congratulations
7. Heading For The Light
8. Margarita
9. Tweeter And The Monkey Man
10. End Of The Line
Bonus Tracks:
11. Maxine*
12. Like A Ship*

Disc Two
DVD - The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Music Videos:
1. Handle With Care
2. End Of The Line
3. Inside Out
4. She’s My Baby
5. Wilbury Twist

Disc Three
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 3
1. She’s My Baby
2. Inside Out
3. If You Belonged To Me
4. The Devil’s Been Busy
5. 7 Deadly Sins
6. Poor House
7. Where Were You Last Night?
8. Cool Dry Place
9. New Blue Moon
10. You Took My Breath Away
11. Wilbury Twist
Bonus Tracks:
12. Runaway (B-side to “She’s My Baby” UK CD and 12”)
13. Nobody’s Child (previously released on Nobody’s Child: Romanian Angel Appeal)

*previously unreleased



Gerry Smith

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

The Best Of Van Morrison, Volume 3 – impressive duets, disappointing solo material, puzzling timing

The Best Of Van Morrison Volume 3, released yesterday in the UK (and in the USA on 19 June) is a 2CD album with 31 tracks, dating from the early 1990s to mid-Noughties, including previously unreleased collaborations, as well as duets with greats like John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Ray Charles.

If you don’t have an extensive Van Morrison collection, the new release – available online from £8.95 delivered – is an impressive round-up of Morrison’s multifarious outings with some of the greats of postwar blues and soul music. Highlights? The Junior Wells and Hooker duets – both spellbinders.

But for this formerly heavy duty Van consumer, CD2 (see below) illustrates just how The Man’s art has careered uncontrollably towards pop pastiche/showbiz/showband in the last ten years, jettisoning former hardcoristas like me along the way. You couldn’t give me most of the solo tracks on CD 2: I’d have dropped them all, in favour of more duets.

The timing of the release, a bare four months after At The Movies, the last EMI Catalogue compilation of Morrison tunes, is puzzling, too. Presumably it’s a new contract and the label wants to maximize its return - rapido. They won’t get much help from me - I haven’t bought a new Van M album this Millennium, and Best Of Volume 3 won’t change that.


Disc 1
1. Cry For Home (with Tom Jones) (previously unreleased)
2. Too Long In Exile
3. Gloria (with John Lee Hooker)
4. Help Me with Junior Wells (live)
5. Lonely Avenue / 4 O' Clock In The Morning (with Jimmy Witherspoon, Candy Dulfer & Jim Hunter) (live)
6. Days Like This
7. Ancient Highway
8. Raincheck
9. Moondance
10. Centerpiece (with Georgie Fame & Annie Ross)
11. That's Life (live)
12. Benediction (remix) (with Georgie Fame & Ben Sidran)
13. The Healing Game (re-mix)
14. I Don't Want To Go On Without You (with Jim Hunter)

Disc 2
1. Shenandoah (with The Chieftains)
2. Precious Time
3. Back On Top (remix)
4. When The Leaves Come Falling Down
5. Lost John (with Lonnie Donegan) (live)
6. Tupelo Honey (with Bobby Bland) (previously unreleased)
7. Meet Me In The Indian Summer (orchestral version) (remix)
8. Georgia On My Mind
9. Hey Mr. DJ
10. Steal My Heart Away
11. Crazy Love (with Ray Charles)
12. Once In A Blue Moon
13. Little Village
14. Blue and Green
15. Sitting On Top Of The World (with Carl Perkins)
16. Early In The Morning (with B.B. King)
17. Stranded



Gerry Smith

Monday, June 11, 2007

This Week’s Music for Grown-Ups on Radio/TV

Your new listening/watching guide… thanks to compiler Mike Ollier


RADIO

Tuesday BBCR2 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Louie and the G-Men: Silvio Dante (you may know him as Miami Steve Van Zandt) narrates the story of one of the greatest songs ever ~ Louie, Louie. A fun tune, you'd think, so why did the FBI try to ban the original record by The Kings Men?

Wednesday BBCR2 23.00 ~ 23.30
* Classic Singles: A new six-part series about great 45s, starting with Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman."

Thursday BBCR2 23.00pm ~ 23.30
* In Love With Hank: 5th and final part of the profile on the greatest country singer ever, Hank Williams.

Thursday BBCR3 23.15pm ~ 01.00
* Verity Sharp has Johnny Dowd amongst the featured guests tonight. He's just been featured on Jackie Leven's superb "Oh, What A Blow That Phanthom Dealt Me" and if you like your Americana darker than a dark thing, twisted Johnny is your man.

Friday BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Telephone: Kraftwerk and Elmore James this week.

Friday BBCR2 19.30 ~ 21.15
* Friday Night Is Music Night Presents Leonard Cohen On Songwriting - The Word's Mark Ellen laughs with Len and quizzes him about his most famous songs and how he wrote them. Hopefully BJs, Janis and The Chelsea Hotel will turn up.

Friday BBCR2 21.15 ~ 21.30
* Chronicles, Volume One - Sean Penn reads from THE book. 3rd part of 8.

Friday BBCR3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library: Sun Ra - jazz music's favourite space cadet profiled.

Friday BBCR3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On Three: [em], the implausibly monikered trio featuring German pianist Michael Woolny are in session.

NB: If you visit the BBC2 website there is a competition to join the audience for two special shows from current-flavour-of-the-month, The Arcade Fire.



TV

Thursday C4 00.20 ~ 01.25
* 4Music ~ Wireless Festival 2007 - Video it and fast forward to find the confused nu-blues rockers The White Stripes ~ dressed as Pearly King & Queen whilst calling their album after a (almost) well known Yorkshire saying?!!? Thankfully, their music is better!

Saturday BBC2 19.10 ~ 20.00
* The Culture Show - Laughing Lou (goodness, Bob, Len, Lou all in one week? We only need Van to make up the set) tells us about his laugh-a-minute album 'Berlin.'

Saturday ITV1 22.45 ~ 23.45
* Parkinson - will 'The Parkinson Effect' work for Amy Winehouse?

Saturday BBC2 21.10 ~ 22.10
* Seven Ages Of Rock: Stadium Rock - Queen, Broooce and Led Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Saturday BBC4 22.55 ~ 23.55
* Genesis ~ Invisible Touch Tour At Wembley - Can you honestly think of anywhere worse to be?

Saturday BBC4 23.55 ~ 00.35
* Rock Goes To College ~ The Police - A 1979 concert

Friday, June 08, 2007

World-class opera – FREE next week

If you’ve half fancied trying opera, but didn’t want to risk wasting money, here’s your chance. The Royal Opera production of Mozart's Don Giovanni is playing at a big screen, outdoors, near you on Wednesday 13th June at 7pm:

BELFAST Botanic Gardens
BIRMINGHAM Chamberlain Square
BRADFORD Centenary Square Terrace
DERBY Market Place
HULL Queen Victoria Square
LEEDS Millennium Square
LIVERPOOL Clayton Square
LONDON Covent Garden Piazza
MANCHESTER Exchange Square
ROTHERHAM All Saints' Square

As the Royal Opera says: “Bring a picnic, bring your family and friends and don't miss the magic and excitement of one of Mozart's most popular operas - ABSOLUTELY FREE!”

It’s a great opera, with a fine cast. Kudos: Royal Opera.


Gerry Smith

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Bob Marley’s Exodus – 30th anniversary: encore

The New Statesman is a political mag published weekly in London. Its music coverage is intermittently worth reading, though you have to beware its leftist (non-musical) agenda.

I liked this recent piece: Keep on moving, Vivien Goldman, published 28 May 2007
Hailed as the best album of the 20th century, Bob Marley's Exodus is 30 years old next month. Vivien Goldman recalls the sessions that produced a modern classic…


http://www.newstatesman.com/200705280033


Gerry Smith

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Waterboy Mike Scott interview in new Bowie fanzine

Tirelessly promoting Book Of Lightning, the new album, Mike Scott, Head Waterboy, has been turning up all over the media. But nowhere as surprising as the Bowie Zone Fanzine (www.bowiezone.net), the impressive new unofficial website celebrating the art of the great chameleon art rocker.

Scotty fans will love the interview. Bowie followers will want to check out this lovely new site. Grown-up rockers will get a double buzz.


http://www.bowiezone.net/11343/98901.html



Gerry Smith

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Bob Marley’s Exodus – 30th anniversary CDs, book, film

Exodus, the quintessential Bob Marley album, first released 30 years ago, has been treated with respect by record label Island/Universal.

Having released re-mastered single CD and De Luxe 2CD versions in 2001, Island have just released no fewer than five 30th Anniversary versions of the great album: single CD, CD/DVD, vinyl LP and – here’s the interesting bit – CD/SD memory card version and CD/USB memory stick version.

The CD/DVD combo looks like the pick of the crop.

Exodus: Bob Marley and The Wailers, a new book (ed Richard Williams, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £25), published on Thursday, gathers together a collection of articles on the seminal album. Looks interesting.

Bob Marley’s Exodus, Sunday’s Arena programme on BBC2, was disappointing. It made the schoolboy error of playing the album tracks under a series of ill-chosen, unrelated contemporary news clips. And compounded the error by inserting an endless series of inconsequential comments on the album by anonymous wo/men in the street.

The leitmotif of clips from a ceremony dedicating a plaque on a block of flats off London’s Tottenham Court Rd., where Marley briefly lived, was the most squirm-inducing bit of TV I’ve seen for ages.

The Arena documentary was nowhere near as good as three earlier Marley TV documentaries I have on VHS tape: largely unwatchable; a missed opportunity.


Gerry Smith

Monday, June 04, 2007

Major new Paul Weller photo exhibition

Birmingham’s Snap Galleries is notching up some top rock photography exhibitions. Following a top quality Doors show, they’re about to host first major exhibition of Paul Weller photographs, by Lawrence Watson.

Thanks to Guy White, Gallery Director, for details:

Modern Rock ‘n’ Roll - Paul Weller - The Solo Years: The photographs of Lawrence Watson. Saturday 7 July 2007 to 8 September 2007


Lawrence Watson’s first major Paul Weller exhibition to be held in Birmingham

Snap Galleries, a gallery specialising in rock ‘n’ roll photographs, will host a major exhibition of photographs from Lawrence Watson’s renowned Paul Weller archive starting on Saturday 7 July 2007. Snap Galleries is based in a 2,000 sq ft space in Fort Dunlop, one of England’s most recognisable buildings, just outside Birmingham.

The exhibition focuses on Paul Weller’s entire sixteen year (and counting) solo career, a period photographed in its entirety by Lawrence. He first photographed Paul Weller in the last days of The Style Council, and is still photographing him today.

In January 2007 he flew to New York to shoot the three consecutive concerts Paul held play songs from The Jam, The Style Council and his solo period.

Lawrence’s photographic credits do the talking - his work appears on most of Paul Weller’s albums and singles, and his photographs documenting the first few years of Paul Weller’s solo career were published in the 1995 book ‘Days Lose Their Names And Time Slips
Away’.

Perhaps Lawrence’s most instantly recognizable image is the silhouette of Paul Weller strumming his guitar in a doorway with a dappled summer scene in the background, used on the cover of 1993’s ‘Wild Wood’. The exhibition features this and a feast of other work, none of which has been exhibited before.

As a video director, Watson also made the acclaimed ‘As Is Now’ DVD documentary, which will be screened regularly throughout the
exhibition.

A Thousand Things: the exhibition coincides with the publication of ‘A Thousand Things’, the forthcoming luxury limited edition book by Genesis publications, which covers Paul Weller’s career from The Jam to the present day, and features Lawrence’s photographs alongside images by many other photographers. The book will be available to purchase at the gallery throughout the exhibition.

Snap Galleries Limited, Fort Dunlop, Fort Parkway, Birmingham B24 9FD
www.snapgalleries.com; email: info@snapgalleries.com

Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10.30am-6.00pm, Saturday 11.00-5.00pm


Further background on Lawrence Watson

Lawrence Watson was 17 when he hustled a freelance job at the NME. His first commission was a portrait of a group called Southern Death Cult, who later became The Cult, and whose singer, Ian Astbury, replaced Jim Morrison when The Doors reformed.

He was soon shooting covers on a regular basis. His first was not a musician but a comedian-turned-film star - Eddie Murphy was in town to promote Beverly Hills Cop when Lawrence persuaded him to leave his hotel suite and travel to Bow Street police station, where he posed him beside a pair of London bobbies. For NME he shot, amongst others, The Smiths, David Bowie, KLF, BB King, INXS, Madness and Neneh Cherry.

He shot Lenny Kravitz in Bar Italia, Michael Jordan in his San Antonio dressing room, Snoop Doggy Dogg in a California police cell, and Bobby Womack in what looks like Berwick Street fruit-and-veg market.

More recently Lawrence worked with the artist Peter Blake to photograph the ‘Stop the Clocks’ album cover for Oasis. Lawrence had shot the cover for their album ‘Don’t Believe the Truth’, and accompanied Noel Gallagher on his warm-up gig in Moscow for the Teenager Cancer Trust concerts.

As a video director he has worked with Cast, Echo and the Bunnymen, One Dove, Ian Brown, Travis and, of course, Paul Weller.

For further background on Paul Weller: www.paulweller.com

Background on ‘A thousand things’, the forthcoming limited edition book by Genesis Publications: www.genesis-publications.com

Friday, June 01, 2007

Ella Fitzgerald

Why we all still love Ella: Today’s music stars are lining up to pay homage to the queen of swing

(The Times, 1 June 2007)

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1866076.ece