First vinyl records made a comeback, and now there’s an even newer trend in music: The lowly tape cassette is making a comeback, and there are sales numbers to prove it.
Disney Releases Video Of First Look at ‘Star Wars’ Land Models
Today until Sunday, Disney will be giving D23 Expo attendees in Anaheim a close-up look at the new Star Wars-themed lands at Disneyland and Walt Disney World in 2019. Star Wars Land will be the largest-ever single-themed expansion at the theme park. If you’re not there this weekend, here’s the sneak peek:
Warner Music Canada To Release Teenage Head’s “Fun Comes Fast” Compilation
Warner Music Canada has announced a licensing deal with Canadian punk rock pioneers Teenage Head to release Fun Comes Fast, a double album collection of songs spanning the group’s 40 year career. The album is scheduled for release later this Fall.
Warner Music Canada President Steve Kane commented on the agreement saying “C’mon, it’s Teenage Head! Their contribution to the Canadian music scene should not go unsung. We’re thrilled to be able to make sure that important bands like Teenage Head remain visible on our musical landscape.”
Teenage Head formed in Hamilton, Ontario in 1975 by Frankie Venom, Gord Lewis, Steve Mahon and Nick Stipanitz. Fronted by the charismatic Venom, the band’s live shows became infamous for inciting apocalyptic reaction from audiences across the country. Their 1978 show at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto ended in a riot, captured in the documentary film, The Last Pogo.
In 1978 the band’s first single, “Picture My face,” hit the streets followed a year later by self-titled debut album. In 1980, Teenage Head released their breakthrough album, Frantic City, that produced the hits “Let’s Shake” and “Somethin’ On My Mind.” In total, Teenage Head have released eight studio albums and one live record.
By 1986, Frankie Venom had left the band and was replaced by Dave Rave. Venom rejoined the band three years later but succumbed to throat cancer in 2008.
Teenage Head recently opened for Billy Talent at Hamilton’s new Tim Hortons Stadium. The band returns to the Horseshoe Tavern for a show this Friday, July 14.
More details on the release of Fun Comes fast including a full track-listing to be released in the future.
And now, a few words from Teenage Head’s Steve Mahon:
Back in the seventies, when Nick, Gord, Frank and myself decided to try and form a rock group, we had no idea what lay ahead. All we knew was what we loved, and that was loud, in your face bands like Alice Cooper, The Stooges, MC5, and The New York Dolls. That was the blueprint.
It was this mutual love that determined what Teenage Head would become. If you didn’t absolutely love the “Funhouse” album by the Stooges, then you were out. You were not going to be in this band.
How lucky we all were to have been influenced by such amazing bands. Without them, there never would have been a band that sounds like Teenage Head.
Now all we had to do is learn how to play our instruments, how hard could that be? We practiced relentlessly, wherever we could, and whenever we could. I can honestly tell you that even though there’s only 4 strings on a bass, I struggled the most.
In Bruce Springsteen’s latest book, he mentions how the members of bands like The Sex Pistols, The Dolls, and even U2, may not have had the “best” players, but they were the “right” players. I knew we had the right players, right from the beginning, including myself. I may not have been the best bass player in the world, but nobody wanted it more than I did. To this day, I still feel very fortunate to say I’m a member of Teenage Head.
Nick started out early on, playing drums in his older brothers cover bands, and is a natural born drummer. Just listen to our first album. It may sound deceptively simple, but Nick thought out every single cymbal hit, every snare hit. Finding the right drummer has always been the most difficult position to fill in any rock band. Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, you name it. We had our Ringo.
What can you say about Frankie? He was originally our drummer. Watching him gradually move off the drums, and out to centre stage, is when I first knew we had something. Much has been said of his on stage antics, and ability to entertain the troops, but not enough about his voice. He had the perfect voice for Rock, Pop, even ballads, he never let us down. We had our Iggy.
Gord started out as a bass player, and fortunately, not only for me, he decided to switch to guitar. Self-taught, and determined, this was his calling. This is where the heart of the Teenage Head sound comes from. The crunch, the tone, the riffs, it’s all coming from Gord, and his Les Paul Special. Not only did we find our Johnny Ramone, we found our Johnny Thunders.
Now, after 40 plus years, we’ve finally dug through the vaults, and with the help of Warner Music Canada, are set to release a 20 song collection of what I feel is our best work. If you’ve ever wondered what all the fuss about Teenage Head has been about, now you can finally hear it for yourself, for the first time, all on one amazingly remastered package. This is the one.
Polaris Music Prize Announces The 2017 Short List
The Polaris Music Prize, presented by CBC Music and produced by Blue Ant Media, today announced its 2017 Short List of 10 Canadian albums which will vie for the Polaris Music Prize being decided Sept. 18 in Toronto.
The 2017 Short List was announced by CBC Radio 2 Morning host and Polaris juror Raina Douris. Douris will also host the Polaris Music Prize Gala, which will be held at The Carlu in Toronto and live-streamed at cbcmusic.ca/polaris and on CBC Music’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
2017 Polaris Music Prize Short List:
A Tribe Called Red – We Are The Halluci Nation
BADBADNOTGOOD – IV
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
Gord Downie – Secret Path
Feist – Pleasure
Lisa LeBlanc – Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen?
Lido Pimienta – La Papessa
Tanya Tagaq – Retribution
Leif Vollebekk – Twin Solitude
Weaves – Weaves
My pick for the winner? Gord Downie’s Secret Path.
On CBC Radio 2 at 6 p.m. (6:30 p.m. NT) tonight, CBC Music will feature a special hour-long broadcast celebrating the Polaris Music Prize Short List on Drive with Rich Terfry. Tune in online or find your local CBC Radio 2 frequency at cbcmusic.ca/radio2, and visit cbcmusic.ca/polaris for more coverage.
The eligibility period for the 2017 Polaris Music Prize runs from June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017. An independent jury of music journalists, broadcasters and music bloggers from across Canada determines the Long List and Short List. Eleven people are selected from the larger jury pool to serve on the Grand Jury and they will convene the night of the gala to select the Polaris Music Prize winner.
The Polaris Music Prize will award $50,000 to the artist who creates the Canadian Album of the Year. Each of the nine other short-listed artists will receive $3,000 courtesy of Slaight Music. Judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration of genre or record sales, the prize’s past winners are Kaytranada (2016), Buffy Sainte-Marie (2015), Tanya Tagaq (2014), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2013), Feist (2012), Arcade Fire (2011), Karkwa (2010), Fucked Up (2009), Caribou (2008), Patrick Watson (2007), and Final Fantasy / Owen Pallett (2006).
Bruce Cockburn Announces His First Studio Album In Seven Years, Bone On Bone, Out September 15, 2017
Bruce Cockburn has announced the September 15, 2017 release of his first full-length album in seven years, Bone On Bone (True North Records). The release coincides with his induction into the Canadian Songwriter’s Hall Of Fame, and the launch of his longest touring schedule in decades.
Few recording artists are as creative and prolific as Bruce Cockburn. Since his self-titled debut in 1970, the Canadian singer-songwriter has issued a steady stream of acclaimed albums every couple of years. But that output suddenly ran dry in 2011 following the release of Small Source of Comfort. There were good reasons for the drought. For one thing, Cockburn became a father again with the birth of his daughter Iona. Then there was the publication of his 2014 memoir Rumours of Glory.
“I didn’t write any songs until after the book was published because all my creative energy had gone into three years of writing it,” Cockburn explains, from his home in San Francisco. “There was simply nothing left to write songs with. As soon as the book was put to bed, I started asking myself whether I was ever going to be a songwriter again.”
Such doubt was new to the man who’s rarely been at a loss for words as he’s distilled political views, spiritual revelations and personal experiences into some of popular music’s most compelling songs. What spurred Cockburn back into songwriting was an invitation to contribute a song to a documentary film about the late, seminal Canadian poet Al Purdy and he was off to the races.
Bone On Bone, Cockburn’s 33rd album, arrives with 11 new songs and there’s a prevalent urgency and anxious tone to much of the album, which Cockburn attributes to living in America during the Trump era. But, more than anything, Bone on Bone amounts to the deepest expression of Cockburn’s spiritual concerns to date. The 12-time Juno winner and Canadian Music Hall of Fame’s “Forty Years in the Wilderness” ranks alongside “Pacing the Cage” or “All the Diamonds” as one of Cockburn’s most starkly beautiful folk songs.
“There have been so many times in my life when an invitation has come from somewhere…the cosmos…the divine…to step out of the familiar into something new. I’ve found it’s best to listen for, and follow these promptings.
“Forty Years in the Wilderness” is one of several songs that feature a number of singers from the church Cockburn frequents, for the sake of convenience referred to in the album credits as the San Francisco Lighthouse “Chorus.” “Among other songs, they contribute call-and-response vocals to the stirring “Stab at Matter.” Other guests on the album include singer-songwriters Ruby Amanfu, Mary Gauthier, and Brandon Robert Young, along with bassist Roberto Occhipinti, and Julie Wolf, who plays accordion on “3 Al Purdys” and sings with the folks from Lighthouse, together with LA songwriter Tamara Silvera.
Produced by Colin Linden, Cockburn’s longtime collaborator, the album is built around the musicianship of Cockburn on guitar and the core accompaniment of bassist John Dymond and drummer Gary Craig. Also very much part of the sound is the accordion playing of Cockburn’s nephew John Aaron Cockburn and the solos of noted fluegelhorn player Ron Miles (check out his stunning work on the cascading “Mon Chemin,” for example).
Cockburn, who won the inaugural People’s Voice Award at the Folk Alliance International conference in February and will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in September, continues to find inspiration in the world around him and channel those ideas into songs. “My job is to try and trap the spirits of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal,” he once noted. More than forty years after embarking on his singer-songwriting career, Cockburn keeps kicking at the darkness so that it might bleed daylight.
Bone On Bone Track Listing:
1. States I’m In
2. Stab At Matter
3. Forty Years In The Wilderness
4. Café Society
5. 3 Al Purdys
6. Looking And Waiting
7. Bone On Bone
8. Mon Chemin
9. False River
10. Jesus Train
11. Twelve Gates To The City
TOUR DATES:
JUL 15 COURTENAY BC VANCOUVER ISLAND MUSIC
AUG 7 CANMORE AB CANMORE FOLK FESTIVAL
SEP 15 FREDERICTON NB THE PLAYHOUSE
SEP 16 HALIFAX NS REBECCA COHN
SEP 17 SUMMERSIDE PEI HARBOURFRONT THEATRE
SEP 19 MONTREAL QC CLUB SODA
SEP 20 QUEBEC CITY QC IMPERIAL BELL
SEP 21 SHERBROOKE QC THEATRE GRANADA
SEP 22 OTTAWA ON NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
SEP 23 TORONTO ON CANADIAN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME
SEP 25 PETERBOROUGH ON SHOWPLACE
SEP 26 KITCHENER ON CENTRE IN THE SQUARE
SEP 27 KINGSTON ON GRAND THEATRE
SEP 29 LONDON ON LONDON MUSIC HALL
SEP 30 HAMILTON ON FIRST ONTARIO HALL
NOV 5 ALBANY NY THE EGG
NOV 6 ITHACA NY HANGAR THEATRE
NOV 7 NORTHAMPTON MA CALVIN THEATRE
NOV 9 BOSTON MA WILBUR THEATRE
NOV 10 PHILADELPHIA PA KESWICK THEATRE
NOV 11 NEW YORK NY CITY WINERY
NOV 12 NEW YORK NY CITY WINERY
NOV 14 WASHINGTON DC BIRCHMERE
NOV 15 ANNAPOLIS MD RAM’S HEAD
NOV 17 ANN ARBOR MI THE ARK
NOV 18 CHICAGO IL OLD TOWN
NOV 19 CHICAGO IL OLD TOWN
NOV 21 MADISON WI BARRYMORE THEATRE
NOV 22 MINNEAPOLIS MN CEDAR CULTURAL CENTER
JAN 23 CALGARY AB JACK SINGER HALL
JAN 24 EDMONTON AB WINSPEAR CENTRE
JAN 26 VICTORIA BC ALIX GOOLDEN HALL
JAN 27 VANCOUVER BC CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
JAN 28 SEATTLE WA NEPTUNE THEATRE
JAN 30 PORTLAND OR ALADDIN THEATRE
JAN 31 PORTLAND OR ALADDIN THEATRE
FEB 2 GRANTS PASS OR ROGUE THEATRE
FEB 3 ARCATA CA VAN DUZER THEATRE
FEB 5 GRASS VALLEY CA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
FEB 7 SAN FRANCISCO CA FREIGHT & SALVAGE
FEB 8 SAN FRANCISCO CA FREIGHT & SALVAGE
FEB 9 SANTA CRUZ CA RIO THEATRE
FEB 10 LOS ANGELES CA EL REY THEATRE
FEB 12 TUSCON AZ RIALTO THEATRE
FEB 13 PHOENIX AZ MARQUEE THEATRE
FEB 15 SALT LAKE CITY UT STATE ROOM
FEB 16 BOULDER CO BOULDER THEATRE
FEB 17 ASPEN CO WHEELER OPERA HOUSE
APR 14 DALLAS TX KESSLER THEATRE
APR 15 HOUSTON TX THE HEIGHTS THEATER
APR 18 MELBOURNE FL STUDIO AT KING CENTER
APR 19 PONTE VEDRA FL CONCERT HALL
APR 20 ATLANTA GA CITY WINERY
APR 21 FRANKLIN TN FRANKLIN THEATRE
David Bowie ‘A New Career in a New Town’ Box Set Collects Berlin Trilogy And New Mixes
Parlophone Records are proud to announce DAVID BOWIE ‘A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977 – 1982)’, the third in a series of box sets spanning Bowie’s career from 1969.
The follow-up to the awarding winning and critically acclaimed DAVID BOWIE ‘FIVE YEARS (1969 – 1973)’ and DAVID BOWIE ‘WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974 – 1976)’ will be released on 29th September and will contain a brand new remix of the 1979 album ‘LODGER’ by long time Bowie producer/collaborator Tony Visconti.
The eleven CD box, thirteen-piece vinyl set and the Mastered For iTunes and standard digital download sets feature material officially released by Bowie between 1977 and 1982. It includes the so-called ‘Berlin Trilogy’ of albums on which he collaborated with Visconti and Brian Eno, and is completed by ‘SCARY MONSTERS (And Super Creeps)’.
The box set, named after the final track on side one of ‘LOW’, includes ‘LOW’, ‘“HEROES”’, ‘STAGE’ (ORIGINAL and 2017 VERSIONS), ‘LODGER’, ‘LODGER (Tony Visconti 2017 Mix)’, ‘SCARY MONSTERS (And Super Creeps)’ and ‘RE:CALL 3’. Finally we have the ‘“HEROES”’ E.P., which rounds up the German and French album and single versions of the track in one place for the first time, a compilation exclusive to the set celebrating the 40th anniversary of the song.
In the vinyl version of the box the original ‘STAGE’ will be pressed on yellow vinyl, replicating the limited edition U.K. release of the time. The 2017 version of ‘STAGE’ features two previously unreleased tracks.
Exclusive to each of the box sets is ‘LODGER (Tony Visconti 2017 Mix)’. The remix was started with David’s blessing before his passing in January last year. Tony Visconti has revisited the original multi-tracks at Human Studios and remixed the album with the benefit of modern technology to better highlight the album’s nuances. Always a personal favourite of David’s, this version of the album will also feature newly ‘remixed’ artwork featuring unseen images from the original cover photographic session from the archive of the Estate of photographer Duffy, working closely with his son Chris.
Also exclusive to each box is ‘Re:Call 3’, a new compilation featuring remastered contemporary single versions, non-album singles and b-sides, and songs featured on soundtracks. The cover features a photo by Christian Simonpietri taken at Hansa Studios in Berlin during the ‘“Heroes”’ sessions in 1977. The ‘Baal’ E.P. in its entirety is making its CD debut while ‘Beauty And The Beast’ (extended version) and ‘Breaking Glass’ (Australian single version) are making their debuts on CD and digital formats.
‘Beauty And The Beast’ (extended version) is available as a digital download upon pre-order of the box set. This version of the ‘“Heroes”’ album track is making its digital and CD debut having previously only been available on a rare US promo 12” and as a limited 12” release in Spain.
The physical box set’s accompanying book, 128 pages in the CD box and 84 in the vinyl set, will feature rarely seen and previously unpublished photos by photographers including Anton Corbijn, Helmut Newton, Andrew Kent, Steve Schapiro, Duffy and many others as well as historical press reviews and technical notes about the albums from producer Tony Visconti.
The CD box set will include faithfully reproduced mini-vinyl versions of the original albums, and the CDs will be gold coloured rather than the usual silver. The vinyl box set has the same content as the CD set and is pressed on audiophile quality 180g vinyl.
*A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982) will also be made available in High Definition audio digital formats (192kHZ/24bit and 96kHZ/24bit). Content varies from other formats due to the resolution of the available original source material.
“Tomorrow Belongs To Those Who Can Hear It Coming”
DAVID BOWIE ‘A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977-1982)’
LP Box Set:
84 Page hardback book
Low (remastered) (1LP)
“Heroes” (remastered) (1LP)
“Heroes” E.P. (remastered) (12” Single)*
Stage (remastered) (2LP Yellow Vinyl) *
Stage (2017) (remastered) (3LP)
Lodger (remastered) (1LP)
Lodger (Tony Visconti 2017 Mix) (1LP)*
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1LP)
Re:Call 3 (non-album singles, single versions and b-sides) (remastered) (2LP)*
* Exclusive to ‘A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982)’
CD Box Set:
128 Page hardback book
Low (remastered) (1CD)
“Heroes” (remastered) (1CD)
“Heroes” E.P. (remastered) (CD EP)*
Stage (remastered) (2CD)*
Stage (2017) (remastered) (2CD)
Lodger (remastered) (1CD)
Lodger (Tony Visconti 2017 Mix) (1CD)*
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1CD)
Re:Call 3 (non-album singles, single versions and b-sides) (remastered) (1CD)*
* Exclusive to ‘A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982)’
Digital download 192kHz/24bit box set:
Low (remaster)
“Heroes” (remaster)
“Heroes” E.P.*
Stage (original) (remaster) *
Stage (2017) (remaster)
Lodger (remaster)
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (remaster)
NB Lodger (Tony Visconti 2017 mix) is not included in this digital box set.
Digital download 96kHz/24bit box set:
Low (remaster)
“Heroes” (remaster)
“Heroes” E.P.*
Stage (original) (remaster) *
Stage (2017) (remaster)
Lodger (remaster)
Lodger (Tony Visconti 2017 mix) *
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (remaster)
Digital download standard/MFiT box set:
Low (remaster)
“Heroes” (remaster)
“Heroes” E.P.*
Stage (original) (remaster) *
Stage (2017) (remaster)
Lodger (remaster)
Lodger (Tony Visconti 2017 mix) *
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (remaster)
Re:Call 3 (Single versions and non album B-sides) (non MFiT) *
* Set exclusives
‘A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977-1982)’ CD & Vinyl Tracklistings (showing Vinyl side breaks)
LOW
Released on RCA PL 12030 (U.K.) / CPL1-2030 (U.S.) on 14th January, 1977.
Side 1
1. Speed Of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. What In The World
4. Sound And Vision
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car
6. Be My Wife
7. A New Career In A New Town
Side 2
1. Warszawa
2. Art Decade
3. Weeping Wall
4. Subterraneans
“HEROES”
Released on RCA PL 12522 (U.K.) / AFL1-2522 (U.S.)
Side 1
1. Beauty And The Beast
2. Joe The Lion
3. “Heroes”
4. Sons Of The Silent Age
5. Blackout
Side 2
1. V-2 Schneider
2. Sense Of Doubt
3. Moss Garden
4. Neuköln
5. The Secret Life Of Arabia
“HEROES” E.P.
Side 1
1. “Heroes”/”Helden” (German album version)
2. “Helden” (German single version)
Side 2
1. “Heroes”/”Héros” (French album version)
2. “Héros” (French single version)
STAGE (Original)
Released on RCA PL 02913 (U.K.) / CPL2-2913 (U.S.)
Side 1
1. Hang On To Yourself
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Five Years
4. Soul Love
5. Star
Side 2
1. Station To Station
2. Fame
3. TVC 15
Side 3
1. Warszawa
2. Speed Of Life
3. Art Decade
4. Sense Of Doubt
5. Breaking Glass
Side 4
1. “Heroes”
2. What In The World
3. Blackout
4. Beauty And The Beast
STAGE (2017)
Side 1
1. Warszawa
2. “Heroes”
3. What In The World
Side 2
1. Be My Wife
2. The Jean Genie *
3. Blackout
4. Sense Of Doubt
Side 3
1. Speed Of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. Beauty And The Beast
4. Fame
Side 4
1. Five Years
2. Soul Love
3. Star
4. Hang On To Yourself
5. Ziggy Stardust
6. Suffragette City *
Side 5
1. Art Decade
2. Alabama Song
3. Station To Station
Side 6
1. Stay
2. TVC 15
* Previously unreleased
LODGER
Released on RCA PL 13254 (U.K.) / APL1-3254 (U.S.)
LODGER (2017 Tony Visconti mix)
Side 1
1. Fantastic Voyage
2. African Night Flight
3. Move On
4. Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)
5. Red Sails
Side 2
1. D.J.
2. Look Back In Anger
3. Boys Keep Swinging
4. Repetition
5. Red Money
SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS)
Released on RCA BOWLP 2 (PL 13647) (U.K.) / AQL1-3647 (U.S.)
Side 1
1. It’s No Game (Part 1)
2. Up The Hill Backwards
3. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
4. Ashes To Ashes
5. Fashion
Side 2
1. Teenage Wildlife
2. Scream Like A Baby
3. Kingdom Come
4. Because You’re Young
5. It’s No Game (Part 2)
RE:CALL 3
Side 1
1. “Heroes” (single version)
2. Beauty And The Beast (extended version)
3. Breaking Glass (Australian single version)
4. Yassassin (single version)
5. D.J. (single version)
Side 2
1. Alabama Song
2. Space Oddity (1979 version)
3. Ashes To Ashes (single version)
4. Fashion (single version)
5. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (single version)
Side 3
1. Crystal Japan
2. Under Pressure (single version) – Queen and David Bowie
3. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (soundtrack album version)
4. Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy * – David Bowie and Bing Crosby
* mono
Side 4
Bertolt Brecht’s Baal
1. Baal’s Hymn
2. Remembering Marie A.
3. Ballad Of The Adventurers
4. The Drowned Girl
5. The Dirty Song
The running order for Re:Call 3 CD differs from the vinyl version
1. “Heroes” (single version)
2. Beauty And The Beast (extended version)
3. Breaking Glass (Australian single version)
4. Yassassin (single version)
5. D.J. (single version)
6. Alabama Song
7. Space Oddity (1979 version)
8. Ashes To Ashes (single version)
9. Fashion (single version)
10.Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (single version)
11.Crystal Japan
12.Under Pressure (single version) – Queen and David Bowie
Bertolt Brecht’s Baal
13.Baal’s Hymn
14.Remembering Marie A.
15.Ballad Of The Adventurers
16.The Drowned Girl
17.The Dirty Song
18.Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (soundtrack album version)
19.Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy * – David Bowie and Bing Crosby
* mono
Bill Burr doesn’t like stupid questions. Or small chairs.
Here’s comedian Bill Burr owning yet another interview.
The Trailer for “David Gilmour – Live at Pompeii” Is Out
Don’t miss the spectacular film of David Gilmour Live at Pompeii, in cinemas worldwide, for one night only – September 13th. For Tickets and more information, please visit http://www.DavidGilmourCinemaTickets.com
45 years after Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour filmed ‘Live At Pompeii’ in the legendary Roman Amphitheatre there, he returned for two spectacular shows, part of his year-long tour in support of his No.1 album ‘Rattle That Lock’. The performances were the first-ever rock concerts for an audience in the stone Roman amphitheatre, and, for two nights only, the 2,600 strong crowd stood exactly where gladiators would have fought in the first century AD.
‘David Gilmour Live At Pompeii’ is an audio-visual spectacle, featuring lasers, pyrotechnics and a huge circular screen on which specially-created films complement selected songs, but paramount above all is the astonishing music and stellar performances from an all-star band. The show includes songs from throughout David’s career, as well as many Pink Floyd classics, including ‘One Of These Days’, the only song that was also performed at the band’s 1971 show.
Both concerts also saw very special performances of ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’ from ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’, which David rarely plays as a solo artist. This concert performance film includes highlights from both shows, filmed in 4k by director Gavin Elder and presented in Dolby Atmos where available. ‘David Gilmour Live At Pompeii’ shows an artist at the top of his artistic game, performing incredible material with his world-class band, in a unique setting, on one very special occasion.
Songs include the title tracks of his two most recent No. 1 solo albums: Rattle That Lock and On An Island, as well as other solo and Pink Floyd classics, including Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb.
How Eminem was discovered by Dr. Dre
This Eminem guy might make it big one day, check out how he was discovered by Dr. Dre. This is from the HBO documentary, “The Defiant Ones”. All four episodes are now streaming on HBO.
https://youtu.be/toy_XlT7EUo

