... demonstrated his amazing ability to magnetise forks. - Watched the BBC Four documentary about PaulMorley learning to compose classical music. Oh, he is so pretentious and earnest, and yet almost always right about everything! My favourite bit was when he said that the music he wanted to compose ought to be a reflection of himself, so it would be sad and melancholy. Then there were...
... and subdued, dreamy and specific, as well as supernaturally ancient and defiantly modern”. PaulMorley, Observer Music Magazine Official Website: http://www.rachelunthank.com/ Tickets priced £12.50 are available from Midland Box Office: 0870 320 7000 or online at http://www.wolvescivic.co.uk/
The Quietus : What happened to pop? What’s become of it? Its story in the 2000s was, on the one hand, the story of its tedious ubiquity, but also, in another sense, its disappearance. In the 1980s, PaulMorley was an arch-theorist of a meta-notion of Pop. He expressed it baitingly and facetiously (annoying heavy metal fans by talking about “hard” groups like Depeche...
Filed under: News , UK , New Releases With the Blur reunion done and dusted, Damon Albarn has refocused his attentions on his cartoon band, Gorillaz . Speaking to veteran music journalist PaulMorley in the Guardian , the ever restless Albarn revealed that the new album -- Gorillaz's third -- is to be called 'Plastic Beach' and has been recorded as a pop statement in direct reaction...
Damon Albarn has revealed details of the forthcoming third Gorillaz album, entitled Plastic Beach…Speaking to PaulMorley in an audio interview for The Guardian, Albarn said he felt the album reflected a particularly “dystopian, British melancholia”...He also revealed that the record – due for release by EMI in 2010 – features guest contributions from Bobby...
... intense days trying to prove we were actual poets. I remember trying to impress people by quoting PaulMorley in NME saying that Joy Division were an "angst band". I was rightly mocked for this pretension. When it came to the private tutorials, the man from Poetry Wales was nothing like as impressed with my verses as I hoped he'd be. Worse still, he really liked the work...
has revealed ' third album will be called 'Plastic Beach'Speaking to PaulMorley, he explained the album is nearly finished – and he has plenty of other projects that are also nearer fruition.He said: "This whole album, 'Plastic Beach', which is nearly finished now, started off as 'Carousel'. [It's] sort of about the mythical aspects of Britain. Obviously, because it's we've moved it...
