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Five Day Forecast – w/c 16 Jan 2012
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 16 January 2012
Hello there. Today is apparently the most depressing day of the year, which means it’s all uphill from here. So why not kickstart your new found joy early by enacting your new year’s resolution to start listening to the CMU podcast, which returned on Friday? It features CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke and I talking about all the recent happenings in the music world. Well, some of them. The important ones. But before you rush off to listen to it, check out what’s happening this week…
01: Weezer Cruise. Despite what you might have read me saying in the papers, I am a little bit jealous of anyone heading out on Weezer’s cruise ship this week, if only because I still think Weezer are a great live band. Though, with another musical cruise running aground earlier this month, and the ongoing disaster off the coast of Tuscany, I reckon I might be able to wait a bit longer to see them on dry land instead. I’m sure Weezer run a much tighter ship than those other ones though. I imagine Rivers Cuomo himself is captaining.
02: LCD Soundsystem documentary premiere. If you’re heading out to the Sundance Film Festival this week, which I’m sure the vast majority of you are, be sure to check out the new LCD Soundsystem documentary. Capturing the band’s final show at Madison Square Gardens, the film was directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, who were behind Blur’s 2010 feature ‘No Distance Left To Run’, and also includes footage by Spike Jonze. A DVD release is expected later this year for those of you who will miss out due to being on the Weezer Cruise.
03: Unheard Brahms piece premiere. The handful of you not sailing the high seas with Weezer or weeping over the demise of LCD Soudsystem will be able to get some proper culture this weekend. BBC Radio 3 will premiere a two minute, previously unheard piano composition written by Johannes Brahms in 1853 this Saturday. The piece of music was found by conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood in the library of Princeton University, and came from a book that originally belonged to a director of music at Göttingen University in the nineteenth century.
04: New releases. The Big Pink release their second album, ‘Future This’, this week. This follow-up to 2009’s ‘A Brief History Of Love’, it was produced by Paul Epworth, who added his golden touch to a few key tracks on the duo’s debut. As well as that, Wiley releases his latest solo effort, ‘Evolve Or Be Extinct’, this week. Coming less than a year after his last commercially available album, ‘100% Publishing’, the two disc release will arrive in stores on Thursday to coincide with the grime MC’s 33rd birthday. Also out this week is the debut single from pop type Foxes, and a new EP from electronica producer Halls.
05: Gigs. This Friday, the night after celebrating his birthday and the release of his new album, Wiley will be heading out on a UK tour. So, people of Norwich, maybe don’t shout too loud, the man might have a hangover. Shout as loud as you like at Enter Shikari though. They’re also heading out on tour this week and they’re already pretty loud, so any headaches are their own fault. Also on the road this week is M83, back in the UK for a proper tour after a one-off London show last month, and he’ll be bringing the marvellous Porcelain Raft with him. And already touring, but hitting Cecil Sharp House in London tonight, are A Winged Victory For The Sullen, aka Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and pianist Dustin O’Halloran.
So, there you go. Something for everyone there. Have a fun week. I intend to spend as much of it as possible watching the boxset of ‘The Killing’ I recently borrowed. I might also go and see ‘The Artist’ again. So, there you go.
Andy Malt
Editor, CMU
