Easy Retirement (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It all started with an invitation to lunch from Nigel, a distant cousin with whom I correspond about our family history. He suggested Finch's Wine Bar on Bishopsgate as we are very distant relatives of the Finch family. My great grandfather Vincent's brother, Sidney Morton Pearson Roberts, had married a Kate Finch. The basement restaurant is now called City House, and this is where I met Nigel for...
Olga Loves YuЯi (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
New music hits my inbox all the time. Most of it is a total "I'll pass," but every once in a while, something really good comes by. One of the goodies is a band out of the UK called Scarlette Fever . How would I describe their music? Atmospheric, dreamy, haunting, and very catchy. The single " You Don't Know My Name " is very good. Using a sample from John Barry's Midnight Cowboy...
24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I’m sorry that this post is late. Our local telephone exchange has been down, and for almost 24 hours we’ve had no internet service. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Dir: Peter Hunt I have often said that, given a decent budget and a proficient crew, just about anyone can make a technically competent movie. Clearly I had not reckoned with Peter Hunt. Had it been competently...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
How best to describe slide trumpeter {{Steven Bernstein = 16405}}'s singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with {{John Lurie = 8915}}'s Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from {{Bill Frisell = 6859}} to {{Sam Rivers = 10719}}, the Flying...
Maya Reynolds (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Niccolò Paganini was a noted Italian pianist and composer. He wrote 24 "Caprices for Solo Violin" between 1802 and 1817. He is best remembered for his Caprice No. 24 which has been used as the basis for other works by many composers ranging from Brahms to Benny Goodman to Andrew Lloyd Webber. The most famous of these variations is "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini" by Sergei...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Hear her first album in 20 years before anybody else, exclusively at guardian.co.uk/music Dame Shirley Bassey isn't just the biggest voice to come out of Wales, the 72-year-old singer remains one of Britain's most successful female artists. No wonder the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Pet Shop Boys and Gary Barlow were queuing up to write songs for her new album. Hear The Performance, her first LP of...
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Actress-comedian Roseanne Barr is 57. Composer John Barry is 76. Actor-dancer Ken Berry (”Mayberry R.F.D.”; “Mama’s Family”) is 76. Actor-radio personality Shadoe Stevens is 63. Singer Lulu is 61. Actress Kathy Kinney (”The Drew Carey Show”) is 56. Actress Kate Capshaw is 56. Comedian Dennis Miller is 56. Singer Adam Ant is 55. Actor Dolph Lundgren [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Composer John Barry is 76. Actor-dancer Ken Berry (Mayberry R.F.D.; Mama's Family) is 76. Actor-radio personality Shadoe Stevens is 63. Singer Lulu is 61. Actress-comedian Roseanne Barr is 57. Actress Kathy Kinney (The Drew Carey Show) is 56. Actress Kate Capshaw is 56. Comedian Dennis Miller is 56. Singer Adam Ant is 55. Actor Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) is 52.
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
October 22, 1964—Even the best of us blow it sometimes—just ask umpire Tim McClelland about those calls he wishes he had back the other night in the Yankees-Angels game. That’s the only way I can see why ace record producer John Burgess of EMI Records would fail to see the potential in a group auditioning at London’s famous Abbey Road Studios. The youngsters were known at the...
Baggage Reclaim (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
When I met up with my old friend Mark Spybey, and my cousin and friend Mark Sanderson, I wanted to establish how we started making music together, because it's actually a rather unusual thing for friends to start doing. I made some notes, and then wrote this down whilst waiting for the count at the Lewisham East Labour Party Selection Hustings (I'm sure people thought I was a journalist) now transcribed...
It's Eclectic! It's Eccentric! It's RadioNowhere's... (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
FILMIC HALLOWEEN SPECIAL October 8th 2009 Track/Composer/Artist/Film The Murder/Bernard Herrmann/The San Diego Symphony/Psycho Theme: Nightmare On Elm Street/Charles Bernstein/Soundtrack & Theme Orchestra Nightmare On Elm Street Behind Blue Eyes/Roger Daltrey/The WhoLimp Bizkit/Gothica Clarice Howard Shore/Original Soundtrack/The Silence of the Lambs Theme: Jaws/John Williams/Royal Philharmonic...
Double O Section (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Network Announces More ITC Soundtrack CDs Including Music From The Saint and The Persuaders! UK-based DVD company network, who over the past few years have produced a steady output of fantastic, multi-disc soundtracks for a number of ITC spy series including Danger Man, The Prisoner, Jason King and others, have announced a new wave of CD titles. Whereas the original releases were sometimes up to five...
The Devil Has The Best Tuna (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The Wolfmen Genre: Rock / Experimental / Punk From: London, United Kingdom The Wolfmen is the brainchild of Marco Pirroni ( Siouxsie & The Banshees / Adam & The Ants ) and Chris Constantinou ( Adam Ant /Jackie OnAssid) . The duo, who formed in 2005, have a new single out, the spine tingling ' Jackie, is it my birthday?' a duet between Chris and Sinéad O’Connor that's the biggest,...
Anyone For a Film? (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Ask someone on the street to name a famous film composer and chances are the name John Williams will spring to their lips. Or if they're into their hip 'n quirky cinema, Danny Elfman. None of this is without reason: Williams' hard work in crafting some of the big screen's most iconic yet accessible themes is unsurpassed in Hollywood, his repertoire including the Star Wars trilogies, Jaws, ET, the Indy...
Black Film Society (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
The soulful singer is not only back, but also on brilliant form. Anyone who’s ever accused British black singers of being perhaps a little bland compared to their American equivalent has clearly been at the shops for the last 20 years: black music in the country has encompassed everything from the brilliance of Dizzee Rascal , the internationalism of Estelle and the prize-winning suss and sass...
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