A PAIR OF KINGS
- Steve Lamacq
- 22 Sep 08, 04:51 PM
There is something amusingly cocksure and faintly daft about bands who wear shades indoors during daylight hours. It must be like driving round all day with your own personal blacked-out windows.
They can see us, but we can't see them. Is it supposed to make us mere mortals more inquisitive? Are we supposed to ask who's really inside?
And is 24-hour shade-wearing, anyway, just one of rock and roll's last great affectations? Like wearing leather trousers in the desert? Or sulking in your dressing room if you get the wrong colour towel?
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MY COO CA CHEW
- Steve Lamacq
- 15 Sep 08, 03:22 PM
About the same time that the Mercury Music Prize was being awarded across town in Mayfair, I was slouched outside the Dublin Castle - waiting to see Strokes-like New Yorkers The Virgins - when it suddenly occurred to me that it's true what they say: some people in the music biz really will go to the opening of an envelope.
And yes you're right. Your humble DJ didn't get an invite (can't think why?).
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THERE AIN'T NO SANTI CLAUSE
- Steve Lamacq
- 9 Sep 08, 04:15 PM
Relax! Leash the hounds! There's not a single mention of Coldplay anywhere in the next 600 words. Nothing even touched by their hand. Unless, of course, you count Santogold, who was a guest on their American tour recently and has spent the rest of 2008 posing for style magazines and spinning her story to hungry journalists.
It's not a bad tale though is it? A former music student, she slipped into a career as an A&R talent scout for Epic Records before winding up as the singer in an American punk band. At this point Martin Heath - the man who discovered The Killers - emerges from the gloom to offer her a solo deal (which explains why I saw the well-spoken Heath, purposefully circulating the backstage area at Reading Festival a few weeks back like a cross between Peter Jones from Dragons Den and AA Gill).
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SHOUT TO THE TOP
- Steve Lamacq
- 2 Sep 08, 12:49 PM
So what we suspected - but weren't at liberty to confirm - turns out to be true. There will be another Coldplay album next year, currently set for release in December '09.
Chris Martin broke the news during a convivial chat with REM's Michael Stipe and yours truly on BBC 6 Music on Saturday afternoon. What's more surprising is that there will be a new EP, Prospects March, released around Christmas... ("hopefully December 26th, something like that").
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