Sitting on the bar after closing time in her local in Camden, the lights dimmed and the doors locked, Amy Winehouse knew how to hold an audience, even before she became famous. After a night of drinks and laughter, she would perch her tiny frame on the bar, take up a guitar and sing. (more…)
Amy’s Goodbye – Sad, and Way Too Soon August 1, 2011
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Amy Winehouse: ‘her death, like her life, has been lit by the glare of dozens of camera flashes’. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
Who’s There? August 1, 2011
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The Who may not be finished after all. Despite widespread fears that the rockers might never play again, Pete Townshend has announced that he will rejoin Roger Daltrey for a Quadrophenia tour next year. “I’m 66, I don’t have perfect hearing, and if I listen to loud music or go to gigs I do tend to get tinnitus,” Townshend admitted. “[But] don’t we all?” It has only been four months since Townshend and Daltrey played together at the Royal Albert Hall. In spite of the gig’s success, Townshend’s recurring hearing trouble put the future of the band in doubt. ”If my hearing is going to be a problem, we’re not delaying shows – we’re finished,” the guitarist said last year. It certainly didn’t seem like a good sign when Daltrey announced that he was taking the Who’s Tommy on tour – without Townshend. ”Roger has my complete and most loving support,” Townshend said in a statement; his younger brother was revealed to be taking over lead guitar. Earlier this month, Daltrey told the Daily Mail that “Pete is almost stone deaf”. But Townshend seems to think his hearing is just fine. (more…)
Bowie book target as rock memoirs sell July 19, 2011
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Davie Bowie in 1973.
Publishers have described him as the ‘great white whale’ of the rock memoir world. Call them the Big Five. Game hunters have their wish-list of trophy animals, and rock music has its own – the elite group of rock stars yet to be bagged for publishing deals. This month, after HarperCollins snapped up the autobiography of Pete Townshend of the Who after a bidding war, publishers’ sights are firmly set on the few remaining major talents to have held back from a book deal. Paul McCartney, Elton John, Robert Plant and Bruce Springsteen are on that list, but at the top for many in the book industry is David Bowie.Lefsetz Says: Game Over Game On! July 9, 2011
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Is anybody other than the major labels complaining the Internet has made music worse? That free music has ruined the incentive to create? That if we don’t overpay we’ll get lousier tunes? This fiction has been created by a well-compensated class that doesn’t realize it’s involved in an epic battle between the haves and the have-nots. One they cannot win until they come down off their perch and get into the pit with their customers.
How does it FEEL?
That’s what Bob Dylan sang. I ask you, how does it feel to get ripped off, paying $12.99 for a CD with one good tune? How does it feel to be a fan of the band but find out that you’ve got to pay far in excess of the printed price to attend the show? What is end game here? What do labels and promoters think is going to change? Do they think they can put all the customers in re-education camps where they’ll be happy to fork over all their cash to a ruling class? (more…)
Movie Invites Billy The Mountain To Produce CD July 3, 2011
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Hot on the heels of their new album Tides of Mercy © making it through the mastering stage to full CD production and release, comes the news that Billy The Mountain Band has been commissioned by the producers of the new movie Between Weathers to write an album of songs to ‘illustrate’ and accompany the storyline, and perhaps feature a song or two somewhere along the length and breadth of the movie. The movie’s ‘official’ soundtrack is already in the capable hands of Glaswegian Kennedy Aitchison who graduated from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and has been working for over twenty years as a musical director, producer, orchestrator, and arranger in most musical genres.
Billy Breaks Noisehead 90k Barrier June 26, 2011
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Bangkok-based Billy The Mountain have just eased past the 90,000 listens landmark on their Noisehead page which features their debut album Drifting To Valhalla. A band delivering an eclectic mix of music that defies immediate classification, they are reportedly close to releasing their latest album – Tides of Mercy – with some 14 tracks now being mastered in a ‘secret’ European hideaway ahead of a possible August release of the new CD. Band frontman and songsmith Alex ‘Dr Blues’ Pithie says the majority of the work is now done and also exclusively revealed to The Jungle that their label is also footing the bill for the re-mastering of their classic first album Drifting To Valhalla, in order that it can be released again together with the new CD. (more…)
E-Street Band’s Clarence Clemons Dies June 20, 2011
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Reverberating June 2, 2011
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Billy The Mountain Band are working hard to promote their new album Tides of Mercy and we are happy to lend a helping hand. The July/August release is much anticipated by the band’s fans around the world and we’ll be keeping in close contact with the band as the big day approaches.
