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One Live In Birmingham
Danny O'Connor caught up with Starsailor and Elbow at their gigs and Steve Lamacq gives his verdict on the up and coming bands and the romance of rock & roll...
Video: Fergie & Oakey at One Live
Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong and Darren Emerson then rocked the joint at Gatecrasher at the NEC.
Elbow dish out advice
The lads have been taking part in a One Live In Birmingham seminar on getting started in the business. The band have been going for 10 years now so they have plenty of experience to share. Elbow’s singer Guy says in the early days they wasted a lot of time: "I think where we went wrong was for a long time we tried to alter what we did in order to try and get a deal - jump on whatever bandwagons were popular at the time." "We tried to edit our stuff. We did that for loads of years really." Guy admits eventually the band learned to be true to themselves: "When we became Elbow about four or five years ago we decided to do our own thing." And it was another couple of years until our window came up. I think really, if I was going to give any advice to anyone, it would be, do as much as you can yourself. Don't wait for anyone to sign you a cheque, and stick to your guns musically until your window comes up.
More details about the band can be found at www.elbow.co.uk. Exclusive: Charlatans always backed Starsailor
Starsailor took the Radio 1 sponsored Best Newcomer gong at yesterday's (Monday) ceremony in London. Speaking after their One Live In Birmingham gig, Tim from The Charlatans said the band were very keen to have Starsailor on their December arena tour:
The Charlatans and Starsailor are appearing together on the following dates:
Thursday December 13th - Glasgow - SECC The second single to be taken from The Charlatans 'Wonderland' album will be 'A Man Needs To Be Told' and is released on November 12th.
Crackout managed to get through Jo Whiley's show at One Live In Birmingham without swearing yesterday morning (Monday) - but only just. The lads were performing their single 'You Dumb F**k' from the album 'This Is Really Neat'. Stephen and Nick from the band say curbing their language was tricky: Stephen: "The song I was singing has **** in it and I'm not allowed to say that on the radio obviously, so I had to say "truck" instead, which takes a lot of concentration, especially when you're on tour when you're singing as it should be every night. Nick: You always swear more on tour. Stephen: Fifteen men on a bus and the language is foul and you get used to it. You have to think 'My grandparents are here' - and that's how you get through it." Crackout say we can expect a new single in the new year and they will be gigging in the run-up to Christmas, although they cannot confirm dates at the moment. More details can be found at www.crackout.com/.
Oakey found time to talk to us after the One Live In Birmingham Gatecrasher gig at the NEC over the weekend. He is signed to Madonna’s label Maverick and has been working with a range of talent: “The album's based around guitars and breaks, it's kind of a step on from dance. There's tracks with Ice Cube, the Neptunes, Billy Corgan.”
Oakey had just played in Dublin the night before the Radio 1 Gatecrasher gig. He admits he was knackered but thanked the crowd for keeping him going: “It went really well, I mean the crowd were really up for it. I'm really tired, actually, but the crowd were wonderful, it was a great production and well done Gatecrasher. I needed the crowd there to keep me going.”
Trevor said it was a superb show and predicted great things for Alicia in the future: “She came on with a real hip hop vibe and the crowd loved it. She's a real performer, a real character, I think she's going to be so massive in years to come. The woman's the hottest thing in R&B.”
"There was a fog so heavy you could barely see ahead of you. It was scary so they delayed the flight and finally they were going to cancel it but I decided to go with it and we got here. As we were trying to pass through customs, there was an awful, mean woman, I wish I knew her name but finally we got through, got here and went right on stage and it was great.” Alicia was warmly welcomed by the crowd. She admits it was amazing for her that everyone knew the words to her songs: “It shocks every time and I'm like, 'Oh my God, look at that' I can just point the mic and we'll all sing together, which is how I love it."
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The Charlatans, Pulp, Electric Soft Parade and local heroes King Adora were among the acts on the bill this week at One Live in Birmingham.
One Live in Birmingham was a massive event for clubbers - Fergie started the proceedings at Godskitchen at Code.
Elbow have been giving out advice to new bands trying to make it in the music industry.
The Charlatans are congratulating Starsailor over their Q Award success and say they have always been behind them.
"We organised it ages ago back in June for Martin Kelly who works for Heavenly Records and his partner Andrew who manages Starsailor. It was just like this little band, 'Can you support them?' and I was like, 'Yeah' and now they're doing really good."
Paul Oakenfold says we can expect to hear plenty of new collaborators on his next album.
He is also very impressed with one artist in particular: “I'm a big fan of Nelly Furtado and she's on the record. She's got this wonderful way about her, she's extremely talented and a great vocalist. Most of all she's good fun, she doesn't take it as seriously as some people do."
Radio 1’s Trevor Nelson has declared Alicia Keys the new queen of R&B after her stunning performance at the Sanctuary last night (Sunday) for One Live In Birmingham. 
Trevor was also keen to point out how fantastic the New York born artist looked on stage. This is surprising as Alicia nearly did not make it to Birmingham at all. She was supposed to land at 9:30pm and do a soundcheck but only reached the venue at 11:30pm. An unfazed Alicia just walked onto stage but says it was too hectic a journey:
Roots Manuva will be doing a live webcast this Thursday November 1st as part of One Live In Birmingham.