The city’s hard, the city’s fair...

CARL BARAT New Album, Book and UK Tour

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31 October COLOGNE, Gebaude 9
1 November HAMBURG, Ubel and Gefahrlich
2 November BERLIN, Magnet

Photograph: by Roger Sargent in Mexico/ www.myspace.com/carlbarat

»Dear all

Firstly may I wish you all well and thank you for you patience over the last few months. During this time I have been mightily busy compiling an album for your pleasure, which I very much hope you will love. As do I.

It seems to have been quite a while since we were last together. It will be splendid to be on the road again and for the first time on my own. The album is different to say the least… so expect the unexpected (within reason). Please look out for my new tracks that I will be posting online imminently and with trepidation I look forward to your reactions.

I havent been totally lazy in this extended break, I have worked on a film with my good friend Mark Donne ('The Rime Of The Modern Mariner') which will be touring the film festivals this year, I did a stretch in the theatre earlier in the year and wrote a couple of tracks for Russell Brands new film 'Get Him To The Greek'

Amid this self imposed exile I have also been working on a book of memoirs that I trust will tickle your curiosity if not simply stand to amuse you and invoke laughter, tears and torment (not necessarily in that order).

Obviously there is the small matter of a few Libertines shows in August too. Its been a heartwarming experience being back with those fellas again and those shows are going to be something special.

I very much hope to see you all when my tour kicks off in October where I will be playing a mix of new and old tunes Keep checking my sites for details of all shows but the first few are below and on sale tomorrow. I will be adding a very special set of French dates and some shows in Italy too but those wont be anounced for a little while.

I'm expected the album and book to be released in October post Libertines and pre headline dates. In the meantime I have set up a twitter twitter.com/carlbaratmusic and renamed this myspace.com/carlbarat in order to keep everyone updated with what I'm doing.

There will also be a brand New website coming very soon and I will be sending a little prezzie out to everyone on the mailing list.


Love Carl x«

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Photograph: by Sam Seager/ www.myspace.com/emmythegreat

FREE TRACK / ALBUM NEWS
»Hello all,


We're back (almost).


Album is right at final stages of writing. Studio is booked. And we have some news coming soon.


Help us sign people up to hear about it by clicking the widget below and sharing on Facebook, or sending a little tweet. You'll also get a free download of First Love, mariachi style, recorded live at the Barbican with Mexico's Mariachi Feminil Nuevo.


Lots of love


Emma«

»Greetings everyone, Our next record, Lisbon, will be released on September 14 on Fat Possum records. We recorded the first half in New York with Chris Zane, and the second half in Dallas with John Congleton. We recorded 29 songs, but whittled it down to 11. It runs for 44 minutes. The writing took 2 years and the recording took just under one. We'll have a lot more stuff about it here in the next couple of days.«

Follow the link to get a free download of “Stranded”...

http://www.marcata.net/walkmen/news.html

Photograph: by Julien Bourgeois/ www.jenslekman.com

RollingStone.de verwies unter Bezug auf TwentyFourBit auf einen kleinen Beitrag, der in der Smalltalk-Sektion von www.jenslekman.com fast untergegangen wäre. The city’s hard, the city’s fair freut sich über den Hinweis auf Jens Lekmans „A Summer in 3/4 Time“-Mix , der während eines Remixes eines Au Revoir Simone-Tracks offenbar in eine Obssession für den 3/4-Takt verfiel (»While making the remix, my mind started working in 3/4 and 6/8 time. I started looking around for tracks in that time signature to make a mix, I wasn't intending to but I couldn't help it. It was all a big swirl. After a while I heard it everywhere. In soul ballads, in polyrhythmical african pop, in old movies. In the ocean waves tumbling in against the shore, in the beat of a lovers heart. One two three, one two three...«), zumal dessen Konzerte im August für uns ganz ohne erfrischenden Effekt ins Wasser fallen werden...

(zum Original-Post auf TwentyFourBit, auch zu empfehlen wegen der anderen dort verlinkten Summer Mixes und Playlists u. a. von Danger Mouse). The city’s hard, the city’s fair empfiehlt an dieser Stelle, neben dem oft zitierten taz-Popblog und der Abgehört auf SPIEGEL ONLINE, explizit dieses Blog während seiner Absenz - schon, weil es auch uns währendessen mit News versorgt - wie etwa der, dass Laura Marling auf Jack Whites Third Man Records und von niemand Geringeren produziert eine 7” aufgenommen hat...

01 Au Revoir Simone - Shadows (Jens Lekman’s remix)
02 Barbara Mason - Oh How It Hurts
03 Thomas Mapfumo - Madiro
04 The Morning Benders - Excuses
05 Dialogue from Gregory’s Girl (1981)
06 Chad & Jeremy - Everyone’s Gone To The Moon
07 Music and dialogue from Day Of The Locust (1975)
08 Eggstone - Birds In Cages
09 Pete Drake - Forever
10 Armando Mantovani - Around the World
11 Dialogue from Puberty Blues (1981)
12 Jane Morgan & the Troubadours - Fascination
13 Armando Trovajoli - L’Amore Dice Ciao
14 Sharon O’Neill - Puberty Blues
15 Like A Sleepy Blue Ocean (remix of John Denver’s “Annie’s Song”)

http://www.jenslekman.com/records/smalltalk.htm

She & Him - Thieves

Bleibt noch hinzuweisen, dass es The city’s hard, the city’s fair gelungen ist, einen Gastautoren zu gewinnen (obwohl ich mich noch immer nicht, des Eindrucks erwehren kann, es mit einer Autorin zu tun zu haben, nichtsdestotrotz), einer gemeinsam vor dem Bildschirm durchzechten Nacht und einer geteilten Obssession für The Drums, She & Him und einen zuletzt vom taz-Popblog verbreiteten Stück der Gruppe Jetzt! geschuldet, wird unter einem Kürzel fortan das mir aus dem fast ähnlich genannten Kosmos der Süddeutschen als »schwindlicht« bekannte Talent, die Zeit meiner mentalen Abwesenheit mit zu füllen versuchen...

Apropos The Drums:

Illustration: by Johnnie Cluneyby/ www.daytrotter.com

“We only write about two feelings: one is the first day of summer when you and all of your friends are standing on the edge of a cliff watching the sun set and being overcome with all of your hopes and dreams at once. The other is when you’re walking alone in the rain and realize you will be alone forever.”

»Coaxing Cool Heartbreak And Loss«, eine Daytrotter-Session mit diesen vom 09. Juli diesen Jahres steht wie immer kostenfrei dort zum Download bereit.

http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/the-drums-concert/20031276-3737904.html

Und damit wir enden, wie wir begonnen hatten -

The Drums auf Tour:

Nov 21st • Maria Berlin, Germany
Nov 22nd • Kantine Cologne, Germany
Dec 8th • Uebel & Gefaehrlich Hamburg, Germany

The city’s hard, the city’s fair hofft sich spätestens dann vollends zurück melden zu können, sowohl Carlos Barât als auch The Drums sind zumindest vorgemerkt.

Schönen Sommer, I’m off…