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Edinburgh Reporter
3 days ago
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Speaking to Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright is about to return to Edinburgh for a special evening at The Queen's Hall to perform her debut album supporting a 20th anniversary release which includes a first release on vinyl. 'If you heard the record you were special because it was a little niche and emotive and it felt special'. The album was a long time in the making but as Wainwright explained: 'I felt a great relief because I had been working so hard. I was concerned about what was going to happen and to 'make it' or have a career. Finally, after years of effort, I flew over to England and the press showed up, the record came out and I appeared on Jools Holland. It felt all of that was not for nothing and I was going to have an opportunity to have a career in music.' The debut is a confessional singer-songwriter long-player that continues to stir the emotions, what's it like to revisit those tracks twenty years later? She said: 'I wouldn't want to tour an anniversary record for the rest of my life but a lot of the lyrics still apply or have taken on a new meaning. One of the lyrics in Far Away is 'I have no children/I have no husband/I have no reason'. I no longer have a husband and my children are almost teenagers, so in a way, it still applies. It was a period in life, the people and relationships, it was such a very emotional record and not necessarily a pop record or one that everyone knew or listened to. 'If you heard the record you were special because it was a little niche and emotive and it felt special. It was my story in the music business and I was really at a turning point or crossroads. What's a relief is that I can still easily sing the songs, they are in the same key. I'm not wrestling with the material and I'm still enjoying it.' The album contains a beautiful rendition of Whither Must I Wander by composer Ralph Vaughn Williams. He was inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson poem of the same name and used Stevenson's verse for the lyrics. Martha said: 'My mum (Kate McGarrigle) and brother Rufus (Wainwright) would have suggestions for songs and they picked that one for me. I usually do at least one cover, they are quite important on my records. It's funny Rufus says 'We're the same age now' and I'm like 'Nope; I'm two and a half years younger'. After all the time he spent telling me what to do as the little sister I get to hold on to being younger!' Rufus also joins Martha for Bring Back My Heart on the vinyl release of a track that only appeared on certain editions of the album. She said: 'I've tried to use my brother and his name to my advantage and that includes having his talent on the records.' Being part of a songwriting dynasty does have its advantages. A memorable event was when her mother and aunt, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, were invited to record with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for his No More Shall We Part album back in 2001. 'It was super cool that Nick Cave had them be Bad Seeds and introduce people of our generation to them. I don't know if they knew how cool Nick Cave was and is, they were just into the music and into him and whatever he did. It was so awesome, interesting and intriguing. I think for them it was exciting to be part of an album that mattered and to be invited by Nick Cave who they were both completely in love with.' The sisters, also said to be an influence on Kate Bush, inspired a variety of artists but chose to keep a relatively low profile adding to their mystique. 'My mother pointed it out in a cool McGarrigle way (about Kate Bush), she was happy to tell me about it. I don't know if it was made clear by Kate Bush or in an article. They were so hip in so many ways without trying and that was the nature of their career. It was a little outside of the grind of the music industry and they made decisions as artists that were perhaps unconventional. They toured but didn't tour like many of us do, it was a rare thing. I think she wondered what might have happened had she gone further and dedicated herself more but for whatever reason she didn't.' Martha also starred in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) performing the great American standard I'll Be Seeing You. It was a definitive experience that included her father Louden Wainwright III and brother Rufus. 'That was really where nepotism came in handy. I was in that movie with Rufus and my father and we all do a scene each at different points.' The song was recorded in New York City and Martha was later invited to shoot her scenes in Montreal. After a long wait in full costume and make-up, she began to wonder if her scene was going to happen, at the end of a long day a sense of deflation set in. 'The next day they finally called me to do my scene, it took about 45 minutes and it was just me and Scorsese and he directed me. It was one of the greatest things that ever happened in my life.' The last time I met Martha for an interview, she had just climbed Arthur's Seat with her band for the first time back in 2005. Is it something she plans to do this time around? 'In Edinburgh that first time I got the band up to Arthur's Seat, it's always a big thing and experience to do that walk before a show.' While this tour will feature a full band she is expecting to also take the songs out on another run during an acoustic tour. 'I have to say this band is fantastic. I'll probably have to go out on the road and do this record solo to make some money but it's wonderful to come out with musicians on the first go around and recreate the music. 'We've been on the road with the record for a month in North America so we are getting really comfortable with it and we are opening up the songs and taking more liberties. The Maker has been really fun, there are some songs where you feel connected less but they can return and ring true in that moment.' Martha Wainwright will play The Queen's Hall on Wednesday 4 June Tickets are sold out but there is a waiting list. Credit Gaëlle Leroyer Credit Gaëlle Leroyer Credit Gaëlle Leroyer Like this: Like Related
Yahoo
22-05-2025
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Soaking in the Past at the Cruel World Festival
The very first Cruel World festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl was held over two sweltering 90+ degree days in 2022, daring denizens of gloomy music and ghoulish dress-up to brave the California sun in their fishnets to see their favorite artists live in an outdoor festival setting. Saturday's wet and rainy 2025 edition may have been more appropriate in terms of environment for a goth and new wave assembly, but it didn't appear to be as successful, and the rain wasn't even the main problem. Economic struggle has affected us all, from gas to groceries and especially entertainment like concerts. Coachella, now a mainstream pop extravaganza, barely sold out its GA tickets this year in its first weekend, and the second weekend didn't sell out at all. Beyonce, who kicked off her Cowboy Carter Tour with five nights at Sofi Stadium did ultimately sell out, but it wasn't quick, and cheap seats were released each night to fill the venue. Niche and nostalgia fests like Cruel World can be hot tickets but the bill has to be right— and the formula can't last forever unless it evolves. C.W. has attempted to do that as its grown, dipping into poppier acts from the 80's and expanding its scope into the 90's and 2000's alongside 80's bands and new ones inspired by them. But excitement for this year's line-up never matched the first incarnations which featured comeback shows from post-punk legends Bauhaus (2022) and Siouxsie Sioux (2023), and pop-friendly new wave poster boys Duran Duran (2024). At this year's Cruel World —headlined by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and New Order, with secondary bill-toppers including the Go-Go's, Devo, OMD, Death Cult, Garbage, Madness, Til Tuesday, She Wants Revenge and Alison Moyet— the bad weather definitely put a damper on things, but the atmosphere was clearly diminished regardless, from the vendor count to the crowd itself. Musically, there were more hits than misses, but some of the misses were Order closed out the night on the main Outsiders Stage with a whimper, and even a vibrant light and laser show couldn't save them. Lead singer Bernard Sumner's vocals were on the weak side of acceptable, but his energy was lacking to the extent that we wondered if he even wanted to be there. The band have a handful of heartfelt hits that bring a lot of us back to a wistful time in our lives. For me, songs like "True Faith" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" recall teen breakups, unrequited loves, house parties and clubs (right there in Pasadena) where they all played out. New Order's music is melancholy in the best possible way, especially from the Gen X perspective— upbeat sonically but haunting lyrically. Saturday the band didn't come close to conveying the emotion that made them so special in their heyday. Even their Joy Division material lacked angst. 'Blue Monday' a hit so well-known, it veers into wedding reception playlist territory (it played at mine anyway) felt limp as well. By contrast, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, who played just before New Order, were mesmerizing and powerful. It felt like they had something to prove, though Cave's transcendent performances always kind of feel that way. He may be a legendary dark music figure —from his time in the Birthday Party to his Bad Seeds and Grinderman projects— but he doesn't have the American radio hits that many from Saturday's bill did. Some Reddit and social media groups doubted him as a headliner, pointing out his lack of populist appeal. They were proven wrong on Saturday, and we're guessing many of the same naysayers became new fans this past weekend. The Bad Seeds turned in the best headliner set of the day led by Cave's eternally visceral, passionate, theatrical presence up front. Even when no one in the crowd knew the words to sing along to classics like "Frogs" and "Tupelo," or the band's latest, "Wild God" (read our conversation about the record HERE), he had everyone enraptured from start to finish. Across the Brookside Golf Club grounds at the Sad Girls stage, The Go-Go's played in between the two headliners. Sound-wise, they had some problems but their energy made up for it. These ladies are L.A. legends of course, and it was nice to see them get the spotlight twice, first at Coachella and then at C.W. Dressed in sequins, lame and colorful prints, the band brought lots of exuberance to their set full of hits like "Our Lips are Sealed," "Vacation" and "We Got the Beat," which were joyful if imperfect, leading guitarist Jane Wiedlin to remind fans that they started out a bit sloppy too, playing at the legendary Hollywood punk club The Masque. Other retro sets that made the soggy Saturday worth trekking: Blancmange, whose hits "Don't Tell Me" and "Living on the Ceiling" sounded just as sharp as they did when we first heard them on K-ROQ 106.7 and DJ Richard Blade's local new wave TV show MV3; Alison Moyet, arguably one of the most powerful voices of the 80's, giving us chills-inducing takes on Yazoo faves "Situation," "Only You" and "Don't Go;" the Buzzcocks poppy-punk bops which still have bounce even without Pete Shelley. It poured during all these sets but it didn't matter; each made their own did Madness, whose ska-flaired pop is proving timeless on stage (and in TV commercials); Devo, who've shown they basically can't give a bad performance at this point, with ebullient sets at the first Cruel World and last year's Darker Waves as well as Sat.; OMD, a vocals-driven group whose hits like "If You Leave" and "Enola Gay" still sparkled; and Death Cult (for many of us, their closing nod to the Love era with "She Sells Sanctuary" made the set). Beyond Cave, who is really in a class by himself —or at least, right next to Peter Murphy, Siouxsie and Morrissey from past fests— the strongest sets of the day came from Garbage and She Wants Revenge, two somewhat younger bands who've been around the block but clearly still have a lot of hunger on stage and in their hearts. Rather than simply playing their hits and hoping they still sound good, both added nuances to their best known numbers and served up new material they're been working on that actually got us excited to hear more. Dressed in a colorful ruffled frock, Garbage's Shirley Manson really connected with the crowd talking about the Butch Vig-led band's 32 year journey and conveying what an honor it was to share the stage with so many influential artists. She also begrudged her band's slot against Devo, playing the opposite stage at the same time, and thanked everyone for being there. Garbage may not have fit with the festival's 80's-heavy or goth thematics on paper, but songs like "#1 Crush," "Paranoid," and especially "Only Happy When Rains" were perfect vibe-wise and Manson made them sound and feel of the rain. She Wants Revenge's Justin Warfield was the only one to truly celebrate Saturday's weeping clouds, likening the day to the perfect "goth prom." Indeed, the grey clouds made for a sexy and moody backdrop behind him as he crooned hits like "These Things" and "Red Flags and Long Nights."A Psychedelic Furs cover, a new song and the early 2000s-era band's now iconic hit "Tear You Apart" (which won new fans when a vampiric Lady Gaga seduced and bludgeoned someone to the track in American Horror Story a few years ago) represented everything Cruel World can and hopefully will continue to be: dark and dramatic energy, killer hooks and lyrical reverence for the outsiders and weirdos who made music so interesting and intoxicating decades ago. See more photos from Cruel World by photographer in the photo gallery below: View the 48 images of this gallery on the original article
Yahoo
21-05-2025
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Grinderman Are Reissuing Their Full Discography
The post Grinderman Are Reissuing Their Full Discography appeared first on Consequence. Grinderman, the side project of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, have announced they will be reissuing their full discography on July 18th. The Grinderman lineup is comprised of Cave with fellow Bad Seeds Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos. The quartet has released three albums: their self-titled 2007 debut, 2010's Grinderman 2, and 2012's Grinderman 2 RMX. Each project will be available on eco-conscious black vinyl and digisleeve CD editions. Pre-orders are ongoing. Get Nick Cave Tickets Here Formed in 2005, Grinderman was created to explore a more raw, primal sound than The Bad Seeds and lean closer to Cave's earlier post-punk project, The Birthday Party. Their debut album, Grinderman, was universally acclaimed upon its release and spawned the singles 'No Pussy Blues' and 'Get It On.' Its follow-up, Grinderman 2, took a more psychedelic approach, while Grinderman 2 RMX featured reinterpretations from artists including Robert Fripp, Josh Homme, UNKLE, and Nick Zinner. Although Cave said the band was 'over' while on tour in 2011, Grinderman reunited in 2013 to perform at both weekends of Coachella. In a 2019 blog post, he hinted at a new album from a 'yet to be completed trilogy,' but that project has yet to come to fruition. In other Nick Cave news, he recently confirmed Nicolas Cage's claim that fans often confuse the two. Cave is scheduled to begin a solo European tour in June; get tickets here. The Bad Seeds' most recent album, Wild God, was released in 2024. Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Get It On 02. No Pussy Blues 03. Electric Alice 04. Grinderman 05. Depth Charge Ethel 06. Go Tell the Women 07. (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free 08. Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars) 09. Man in the Moon 10. When My Love Comes Down 11. Love Bomb Artwork: 2 Tracklist: 01. Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man 02. Worm Tamer 03. Heathen Child 04. When My Baby Comes 05. What I Know 06. Evil 07. Kitchenette 08. Palaces of Montezuma 09. Bellringer Blues Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Super Heathen Child – Grinderman/Robert Fripp 02. Worm Tamer – A Place to Bury Strangers Remix 03. Bellringer Blues – Nick Zinner Remix 04. Hyper Worm Tamer – UNKLE Remix 05. Mickey Bloody Mouse – Joshua Homme Remix 06. When My Baby Comes – Cat's Eyes with Luke Tristram 07. Palaces of Montezuma – Barry Adamson Remix 08. Evil – Silver Alert Remix ft. Matt Berninger 09. When My Baby Comes – SixToes Remix 10. Heathen Child – Andy Weatherall Remix 11. Evil – 'The Michael Cliffe House' Remix 12. First Evil – Grinderman Popular Posts Trump Warns Springsteen: "He Ought to Keep His Mouth Shut Until He's Back Into the Country" New Reality TV Show That Sees immigrants Compete for US Citizenship Has Backing of Trump Administration: Report Holy Shit, You Have to See Footage from System of a Down's Concert in Brazil Bruce Springsteen Gives Trump the Middle Finger with Another Defiant Concert Guns N' Roses Share Video of Axl Rose Repeatedly Falling Onstage: Watch Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal Tackles Autism — Thanks to a Consequence Article Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
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Cannes Rising Star Earl Cave on Being Directed by the 'Generous' Kristen Stewart
Earl Cave hopes Cannes audiences walk out of The Chronology of Water. 'It's a very bold and quite outrageous film,' the young star teases. 'If everyone sat there liking it, something's wrong. If there's people running out screaming, I think it's a good sign.' More from The Hollywood Reporter 'The Plague' Review: Joel Edgerton in a Thrilling Drama That Captures the Terror of Adolescent Masculinity Legendary Entertainment Names Di Mu CEO of China Division Long Layover? Plan a Paris Pitstop The Brit is the son of rocker Nick Cave — best known as frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — and it must be said, the resemblance is striking. The younger Cave, with a mop of jet black hair and thick eyebrows just like his father, is talking to The Hollywood Reporter about being directed by Kristen Stewart in her feature film debut. 'She is the most generous director [and] it was the most beautiful sight to behold,' the 24-year-old gushes. 'Her being an actor, she'd just do these things that directors would never do, which was so refreshing. She'd say, 'If you look over there and you kind of open your mouth slightly, you're gonna look really hot.' And I'm like, 'Great!' This is all I've ever wanted: a director to tell me where to look.' This small glimpse into the inner workings of Stewart (the director) confirms everything we already thought we knew about the Twilight superstar: effortlessly cool, but takes her work seriously. These qualities will be on full display when Stewart and her Chronology cast arrive in Cannes to tell the story of the once-hopeful Olympic swimmer Lidia Yuknavitch. The movie is based off of Yuknavitch's 2011 memoir of the same name. 'It's about her life, growing up as a young woman,' Cave explains. '[She had] a very tormented and abusive life, which made her start writing in a way that was incredibly moving. It's about her career as a swimmer, the trials and tribulations she had go through — and her life is absolutely bizarre. The film itself, it's portrayed [her life] in quite a psychedelic and free-flowing form.' Cave, starring opposite Imogen Poots as the central character, plays Lidia's husband, Philip. 'He's this kid from Tennessee that she met at university who just sits around playing a guitar a lot,' he says, revealing that Stewart features one of Cave's original songs in the film ('I was given the opportunity of combining two things I love most in this world'). He continues: 'Philip counterbalanced Lidia's manic-ness. She was a tornado of a woman, and he was very loving and kind, but unfortunately she was a little bit too difficult for Philip.' Stewart, who Cave describes as 'an absolute ball of energy,' happened upon Cave in 2023's The Sweet East. 'It felt like we'd known each other for years,' he recalls about their first call when she approached him for the role of Philip. 'I think we're kindred spirits. You know, my whole life, I've actually been told that I look like her. So it was sort of like I was on FaceTime with myself.' Does he feel like he's entering a very different industry to the one Stewart did in the early 2000s? 'I've always been a big believer that the cinema is a place to escape from the world,' Cave responds. 'I don't think it's necessarily film's duty to be a voice for politics of what's happening.' He references his next movie, coincidentally the very project that'll stop Cave joining Stewart and Poots on the Croisette as George Jaques' Sunny Dancer, about a 17-year-old with cancer forced to sign up for a summer 'chemo camp' by her parents, shoots in Glasgow. 'Everything's fucked, right?' Cave continues. 'But this film has hope, which is rare. There's a difference between optimism and hope — optimism is allowing the potential for good, but hope is looking for good. That's what George is doing.' 'I want to work with Kristen again, and definitely George again,' he says when asked what piques his interest as a young actor with the world at his feet. Granted, Cave admits he's gunning for a shot at a horror flick and would relish the chance to work with master of the genre Dario Argento, but ultimately, it's an air of buoyancy, of aspiration, that he's most attracted to. 'It's amazing to make a film that isn't necessarily hopeful, but it just doesn't happen as much these days. So you have to look for hope in this day and age. [I'm looking for] films that do that.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked
Irish Daily Mirror
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
'People need to be able to talk about what's going on in Gaza'
Dublin post punks The Murder Capital are gearing up for their 'biggest headline show to date' this summer at the Iveagh Gardens. The five-piece outfit are currently on tour around Europe after dropping their third album, Blindness, earlier this year. The record was penned throughout Europe and recorded in a three-week stretch in Los Angeles. 'It had been a dream of mine to just go to LA in general in my life', The Murder Capital's bass player Gabriel Paschal Blake told the Irish Mirror. 'When I was a kid watching Illegal Civilization skate videos and wanting to hang out in North Hollywood, and for whatever reason, I was just really taken by witnessing in LA from being a kid. 'But at the same time, it was so amazing to have gotten there, but we still had a job to do. 'That was a big thing. I felt the responsibility almost of the opportunity that was in front of me. I was very aware that I was doing something that I've dreamed about since I was a kid, and that just made me lock on. This is an opportunity, a huge one, and it's to be respected in that way.' Last year, the group played a string of dates supporting Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Gabriel revealed that the legendary Australian songwriter 'completely broke down any sort of barriers or hierarchy' when the group first met him. 'It was funny, the two songs that he pointed out,' Gabriel said. 'I think, on the second or third day we came in, and we just went into the canteen to get some lunch, and he was sitting there all on his own, in a beautiful, powder blue shirt. 'He looked amazing… that was the first time meeting him. 'And obviously, I thought that there was going to be... prior to meeting him, he's quite an enigma, he's almost like a character in a story book rather than somebody in real life, but from the jump, he completely broke down any sort of barriers or hierarchy. We were just talking to each other. 'The first thing that he started speaking about was the album, because he went out of his way to hear it before it was out… which, in and of itself, was a crazy feeling. 'But it was funny, the two songs that he pointed out as his favorites were Love of Country and Swallow, which is mad, because those are the two songs that were almost not put on the album. 'It was really interesting that the two that nearly didn't make it were the ones that he liked." The Murder Capital recently joined over 100 artists, including Fontaines D.C., Lankum and Massive Attack, to sign an open letter in support of Kneecap organised by the trio's record label denouncing what it described as a "clear, concerted attempt to censor and ultimately deplatform" the group. 'People need to be able to talk about what's going on in Palestine,' Gabriel said. 'People need to be able to talk about what's going on in Gaza. 'This is as old as the hills, 'don't speak about the abuse that's happening'... 'Everybody just shut up and go along with it and sweep it under the carpet'. 'The thing that's been going around my head a lot is, and through navigating ourselves as a band, through a time like this is Sinead O'Connor, post her SNL (appearance where she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II), where she called out the Catholic Church for its abuses in Ireland. She was bullied and everything that happened to her was, it's just catastrophic and horrific. 'After her performance, Joe Pesci was talking about smacking her like and people were laughing at the idea of somebody hitting a woman, because the industry made it okay for people to bully, be misogynistic towards and just degrade her for speaking out about a truth.' 'She's such an inspiration to us,' he added. 'Not only because of her music, but how she carried herself as an artist, and especially as an Irish artist. 'If people can't speak out about atrocities that are happening, then they're just going to continue to happen.' The Murder Capital's third record, Blindness, is out now. The post-punk outfit will play their biggest headline show to date this summer with Soft Play and Mary in The Junk Yard at the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin, on Saturday, July 19. Tickets cost €39.90 and are available on Ticketmaster.
