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Five Day Forecast – w/c 13 Feb 2012
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 13 February 2012
I went and saw Mastodon and The Dillinger Escape Plan at Brixton Academy on Saturday night. Mastodon and Dillinger Escape Plan. Well done to whoever thought up that line-up, you win at putting on gigs. Both bands put in amazing performances (as too, apparently, did Red Fang, who I sadly missed). How will this week match up to that excitement? Well, let’s have a look…
01: by:Larm. From Thursday to Saturday this week the finest in new Nordic music will be showcased at the annual by:Larm festival in Oslo. I will be there, which is very exciting (especially as the weather forecast says it’s not going to be nearly as cold as had been predicted). If you’re going, come and say hi in between bands. There are lots of bands playing. I like bands. I like new bands. I like Nordic bands. It’s basically the perfect festival for me.
02: MPG Awards. The Music Producers Guild Awards ceremony returns for its fourth year this Thursday. Taking place at the Café de Paris in London, it will see the people who work to make artists sound great on record celebrated. Will Paul Epworth follow up his Grammy success and take the Producer Of The Year prize (which doubles up as a BRIT Award) for the second time? We just don’t know. But we do know that Beggars Group boss Martin Mills will rightly receive another Outstanding Contribution To Music award.
03: Depeche Mode: 101. In 1989, Depeche Mode went on the road in the US to promote their ‘Music For The Masses’ album, which by then had been out for nearly two years. They had the foresight to take a documentary film crew with them, and stick a load of fans on a bus to provide extra colour (and some fine haircuts). I’m telling you this because that documentary, ‘Depeche Mode: 101’, is on the BBC iPlayer all this week. It’s an amazing film for many reasons, including the fashion, the backstage banter, and the various bits of live footage, particularly that at the Pasadena Rose Bowl with which the film closes.
04: New releases. Current singles chart botherer Gotye finally releases his second album ‘Making Mirrors’ this week. Field Music also have a new album out, as do garage pop types Those Darlins. Meanwhile, Ninja Tune producer Bonobo has a remix album out, Lianne La Havas and Ital both have EPs, and former Primary 1 man Joe Flory has a new single in his guise as Amateur Best.
05: Gigs. There’s a pre-BRITs party on in Shepherds Bush this Sunday and you’re all invited. Well, most of you. The show is being held in aid of War Child and takes place two days before the ceremony itself, with performances from Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon, Ed Sheeran, and Dry The River. Ghostpoet and Gotye both have one-off London shows this week too, as does ex-Gallows frontman Frank Carter, who will be playing his first show with new band Pure Love. Doing the touring thing this week are Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Big Pink, Field Music, We Have Band, and that bloody Skrillex bloke.
I don’t think I’ve plugged our podcast here for a while. You’ve probably already listened to it though. I mean, the idea that you wouldn’t listen to it is just inconceivable. Still, just in case it slipped your mind or something, here’s the link.
Andy Malt
Editor, CMU
