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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: October 2010
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Monday, 18 October 2010. Swords of the Dance. Yet another old Word. Piece rehashed for interweb immortality. This originally appeared early Sept 2010, timed to coincide with Ninja Tune's 20th anniversary celebrations. Perched between a gay pub and a grey council estate on a south. One of the longest-serving British dance labels, it was formed as an outlet for renowned producers Coldcut. Matt Black and Jon More, with an initial cash injection of just £500. Coldcut, Cinematic Orchestra. Black, who’s ...
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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: Tune-Yards
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Saturday, 9 April 2011. A month back, I met Merrill Garbus. Better known as Tune-Yards. 8211; or tUnE-yArDs. If you're feeling fingery – in a Tufnell Park pub for a mooted magazine feature. Unfortunately the feature stumbled over the issue of photos, but not before the interview happened, so rather than let it go to waste, I’m posting it here in its unedited entirety. We talked BiRd-BrAiNs, w h o k i l l. 8221; Having recorded the last one the way we did, this seemed dry, like a vacuum. There were a ...
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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: Kanye's Thriller Night
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Thursday, 7 October 2010. Kanye West has compared his self-directed 40-minute short film Runaway. To the abstract works of Picasso and Matisse. What they would’ve made of this breathtakingly cornball fantasy is anyone’s guess, but I suspect that other giant of 20th-century art whose name kept cropping up at last night’s screening – in the Bafta HQ on Piccadilly, no less – Michael Jackson. Would’ve felt right at home among the UK urban celebs ( Tinie. Watch more Music Videos. Then at least Graduation.
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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: March 2011
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011. So much good stuff around at the moment, more than I can reasonably post on Facebook. First up Austra. Just got the album of this. Not quite as instantly smitten as I'd expected – not yet, anyway – but this is gorgeous. Here in its harder, longer form. All the work of Katie Stelmani. S, a Latvian-American out of Toronto with a voice for the opera and beats for sex in club toilets. S album is a massive surprise. Expected drab turntablism, got some spacey, bass-heavy carnival ma...
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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: July 2012
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012. Skee-Lo's I Wish and Other Songs of Eternal Joy. This is the last thing I ever wrote for The Word. Writers were asked to submit a long list of songs that never fail to make them happy, from which the editor picked one per writer for a piece that was meant to appear this month but was held over and will now never appear. Which I guess is apt in the circumstances. It was a trick he could only play once. Despite the single’s success, his album flopped and after a stalled com...Frank W...
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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: August 2010
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Thursday, 26 August 2010. Sly Stone: Stone Crazy After All These Years. This appeared in slightly shorter form in Word Magazine. In Sept 2007. This, is the full unedited, unexpurgated version (or, if you work for a record company catalogue department, the Deluxe Edition) written with no regard for word count or reader's attention span. So far as I know this was only Sly's second interview in 20 years, the other being Vanity Fair. Despite assent the cigarette in his hand stays unlit. But Sly is special; h...
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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: September 2010
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010. A genius career turn for our Babs. Duck Sauce "Barbra Streisand". Monday, 20 September 2010. Grasscut: One Fell Swoop. First published Word Magazine Aug 2010. Here the Brighton duo of Grasscut. And the artwork for their debut album, 1 Inch: ½ Mile. So the opening track High Down. Accompanies the first steps, taking us past the giant phone mast with its gentle classical piano, then swirling up in a giant electric rush as the valley opens up in front of us, home now to nothing m...
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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: Good Cop Nazi Cop
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Tuesday, 4 January 2011. Good Cop Nazi Cop. Highlight of my Christmas domestic entertainment by a distance was the latest Philip Kerr, Field Grey, the seventh in his series of Marlowe-in-Nazi-Germany novels featuring that most anti of anti-heroes. Gunther first appeared in 1989’s March Violets. Soon followed by two more (the first three novels are still in print as the trilogy, Berlin Noir. Then a gap of some 15 years, when he was revived for The One From The Other. Gunther is now a globetrotter ( The On...
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Yatesy's Whine Lodge: February 2011
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011. This originally appeared in Word Magazine, January 2011. Now’s The Time. It’s pop’s true perennial, one that’ll be here long after the guitar-bass-drum legions have gone the way of the washboard. The double-barrelled shotgun of big-song/big-voice predates rock and keeps getting in the way of its conquest: halting the Beatles’ run of consecutive chart-toppers when Release Me. Hemmed in one of their best singles, Strawberry Fields Forever. Having perhaps sensed that for Adele m...
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