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Paul McCartney, Press Releases

PAUL McCARTNEY: THE FRESHEN UP U.S. Tour 2019 FOUR NEW STADIUM DATES ANNOUNCED

PAUL McCARTNEY

THE FRESHEN UP U.S. Tour 2019

FOUR NEW STADIUM DATES ANNOUNCED

June 8 – Green Bay WI – Lambeau Field
June 14 – Arlington TX –  Globe Life Park
June 22 – San Diego CA – Petco Park
July 13 – Los Angeles CA –  Dodger Stadium

GREEN BAY TICKETS ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC DECEMBER 10th AT 10am LOCAL TIME

ARLINGTON, SAN DIEGO, LOS ANGELES TICKETS ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC DECEMBER 13th AT 10am LOCAL TIME

EGYPT STATION OUT NOW ON CAPITOL RECORDS

http://paulmccartney.com/

© MPL Communications Ltd // Photographer: MJ Kim

In the wake of the triumphant headline stand at the Austin City Limits festival that the Austin American Statesman called “A Marathon to Remember Forever,”  Paul McCartney has added four new stadium plays to the upcoming U.S. leg of his new Freshen Up tour. The newly confirmed dates make for a total of 12 confirmed shows on Paul’s first extended Stateside run since the One On One Tour that played to some two million fans around the world during 2016 and 2017.

The Freshen Up tour is Paul’s first outing following the release of his #1 charting album, Egypt Station, released September 7th on Capitol Records to stellar reviews: Rolling Stone raved, “Macca keeps adding new gems to his songbook, with nothing to prove except he’s the only genius who can do this… And, oh yeah — in his spare time, he happens to still be the greatest live performer on Earth,” while Entertainment Weekly described the album as “the still-vital life force of a superstar who has been there and everywhere and is glad just to be here now.”

The newest additions to the U.S. leg of Freshen Up include Paul’s first ever appearances at Lambeau Field in Green Bay WI on June 8th, and Globe Life Park in Arlington TX on June 14th. On June 22nd and July 13th, respectively, Paul will return to Petco Park in San Diego and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, both of which hosted unforgettable Paul performances to capacity crowds on his 2014 Out There tour.

The Paul McCartney live experience is everything any music lover could ever want from a show: Nearly three hours nightly of the greatest moments from the last 50 years of music, dozens of songs from Paul’s solo, Wings and of course Beatles catalogues that have formed the soundtracks of our lives. Paul and his band have played an unparalleled range of venues and locations throughout the Americas, the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and all points between: outside the Coliseum in Rome, Moscow’s Red Square, Buckingham Palace, The White House, a free show in Mexico for over 400,000 people, the last ever show at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park where The Beatles played their final concert in 1966, a 2016 week in the California desert that included two headline sets at the historic Desert Trip festival and a jam-packed club gig for a few hundred lucky fans at Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, and even one performance broadcast live into Space! Featuring Paul’s band of the last 15+ years – Paul “Wix” Wickens (keyboards), Brian Ray (bass/guitar), Rusty Anderson (guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (drums) –and constantly upgraded state of the art audio and video technology that ensures an unforgettable experience from every seat in the house, a Paul McCartney concert is never anything short of life-changing.

Tickets will be on sale for the new dates 10am local time on Thursday, December 13th, with the exception of Green Bay, which will be on sale 10am local Monday, December 10th.

American Express® Card Members in Green Bay can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Wednesday, December 5 at 10am through Sunday, December 9 at 10pm local time and in Arlington, San Diego and Los Angeles beginning Monday, December 10 at 10AM through Wednesday, December 12 at 10PM local time.
 
For further information, go to http://paulmccartney.com/

PAUL McCARTNEY
FRESHEN UP Tour U.S. 2019:

May 23 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center
May 27 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena
May 30 – Greenville, SC – Bon Secours Wellness Arena
June 1 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena
June 3 – Fort Wayne, IN – Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
June 6 – Madison, WI – Kohl Center
June 8 – Green Bay WI – Lambeau Field
June 11 – Moline, IL – TaxSlayer Center
June 14 – Arlington TX –  Globe Life Park
June 22 – San Diego CA – Petco Park
June 26 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Arena
July 13 – Los Angeles CA –  Dodger Stadium

Press Releases, Thom Yorke

THOM YORKE: SUSPIRIA RADIO SESSION & INTERVIEW PREMIERING THIS WEEK

THOM YORKE
SUSPIRIA RADIO SESSION & INTERVIEW
PREMIERING THIS WEEK

“Open Again” Session Performance Video Live Now at https://youtu.be/hJ9ljQXIrY4

Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) Out Now on XL Recordings.
Photo Credit: Ebru Yildiz

On November 19th, Thom Yorke sat down for an interview and solo performance at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. The session features four songs—three from Thom’s original soundtrack for the Luca Guadagnino film—and a rare in-depth discussion of the creative processes involved in Suspiria and beyond.

A video of Thom’s performance of “Open Again” is live now at https://youtu.be/hJ9ljQXIrY4.

The session will be broadcast on December 4 KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, with additional airings confirmed for Wednesday, December 5 on WYMS (Radio Milwaukee), Friday, December 7 on WFUV (New York) along with airings on KEXP Seattle, WXPN Philadelphia, KCMP Minneapolis & KVOQ Denver to be scheduled. SIRIUS XMU will begin airing the session Wednesday, December 12, with repeats through Sunday, December 16.

Recently named by the AV CLUB as one of the best film soundtracks of 2018, Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) was released October 26 on XL Recordings. The album consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Guadagnino’s reimagining of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic. The album is a mix of instrumental score work, interstitial pieces and interludes, and more traditional song structures featuring Thom’s vocals including “Open Again,” “Has Ended,” “Suspirium,” and “Unmade”–the latter two having recently been performed for the first time before live audiences on Thom’s current Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes tour.

Suspiria was written and arranged by Thom Yorke, recorded and produced by Thom and Sam Petts-Davies. The album also features the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir, Noah Yorke on drums on “Volk” and “Has Ended,” and Pasha Mansurov on solo flute on “Suspirium.”

Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) is available across digital platforms, as well as 2-LP gatefold package pink vinyl and 2-CD physical versions.

For further information go to http://x-l-r.co/suspiria

Press Releases, Spiritualized

SPIRITUALIZED: 2019 NORTH AMERICAN DATES CONFIRMED

SPIRITUALIZED

2019 NORTH AMERICAN DATES CONFIRMED

Tickets On Sale Friday, December 7

And Nothing Hurt Out Now on Fat Possum Records

Following two intimate US performances in 2018, described by VOGUE as “revelatory” and by UPROXX as “staggering grandeur… every single person was laser-focused on that stage and soaking in every bit of the music emitting from it,” Spiritualized have confirmed a full 2019 North American tour in support of their critically acclaimed album And Nothing Hurt (Fat Possum).

Spiritualized will kick off the N.A. tour in March with an appearance at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, continuing with stops in cities including Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco and Brooklyn. See below for the full list of dates.

Presales begin Wednesday, December 5th at 10am local time; tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, December 7th at 10am local time.

Following its release in September, And Nothing Hurt was unanimously praised by critics, who raved:

“The new Spiritualized album is fucking great. It’s awesome. It’s suspiciously awesome…it’s glorious…every time I listen to And Nothing Hurt, I feel myself being lifted and swept away and moved. Every time I hear it, I feel a little more alive…I’m just as glad that Pierce sat at home, figuring things out, and then came along to utterly destroy us with a record this astonishing. You’re not fooling yourself. And Nothing Hurt really is that good.” —STEREOGUM (ALBUM OF THE WEEK)

“Arguably the purest and most sentimental music J. Spaceman, a.k.a. Jason Pierce, has crafted…Nothing Hurt is the band distilled into its most affecting essence….if this really is the final Spiritualized album, as Pierce keeps threatening, it’s one hell of a grand statement to go out on.”—AV CLUB

“it stands tall as a late candidate for the year’s best rock record. Spiritualized has added yet another chapter to its wild, dreamlike musical legacy, proving that rock isn’t dead and that maybe everyone else just isn’t trying enough.”—CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

“Distills and gathers the essence of what has often made Spiritualized so powerful…intricacy is the real delight of And Nothing Hurt. Despite the grandeur of these tunes, and the way they seem built to fill both regal concert halls and big, dark rock clubs, the best way to listen to them might be at home with lights out or eyes closed, headphones clamped tight…Pierce’s authorial scrupulousness and the same slavish devotion to an ideal that made Ladies and Gentlemen… a masterpiece and Spacemen 3 an institution gives these songs, one by one, their power.”—PITCHFORK

“Gorgeous…what binds his gushing tunefulness and subtly cutting lyrics is the relationship between the universal quest for transcendence and the near-universal suspicion it’ll never be found…something more wrenchingly true to life, an alloy of hope with a sense of life’s limits.”—THE ATLANTIC

For more information, visit www.spiritualized.com.

SPIRITUALIZED
North American Tour 2019

03/22/19 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
03/23/19 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
03/25/19 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
03/26/19 – Dallas, TX – Canton Hall
03/29/19 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
03/30/19 – San Francisco, CA – Masonic
04/01/19 – Portland, OR – Crystall Ballroom
04/02/19 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
04/03/19 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
04/05/19 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
04/06/19 – Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre
04/08/19 – Minneapolis, MN – Fitzgerald Theatre
04/09/19 – Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre
04/10/19 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
04/12/19 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
04/13/19 – Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre
04/14/19 – Boston, MA – Wilbur Theatre
04/16/19 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre
04/17/19 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
04/19/19 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore

(photo credit Juliette Larthe)

Press Releases, Queens Of The Stone Age

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: LET THE HOLIDAY SPIRITS FLOW

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 

LET THE HOLIDAY SPIRITS FLOW

“Silent Night” (feat. C.W. Stoneking)/“’Twas The Night Before Christmas” (feat. the Homme Family) 

Limited Edition Benefit Single Available Directly from QOTSA.com & All Streaming Platforms—Proceeds to Benefit the Sweet Stuff Foundation & Support Act 

Alligator Hour Back for Third Season— Guests Include Elvira, Bill Burr, Jake Shears

Queens of the Stone Age are working off the holiday spread in advance. The band is spreading year-end tidings of comfort and joy whether you want it or not.

First up is a limited edition Xmas single available on 7” vinyl directly from QOTSA.com and to stream, wherever streamers stream. The A-side is a rendition of “Silent Night” teaming Joshua Homme with Australian blues singer-songwriter and guitarist C.W. Stoneking, and the flipside features a reading of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” with Brody Dalle, Joshua Homme and their three merry-making elves.

Recorded during QOTSA’s 2017 tour of Australia in East Fremantle, the single will be released digitally on December 7th; the limited edition vinyl release is set for December 14th exclusively HERE.

Proceeds from the single will benefit the Sweet Stuff Foundation, the non-profit created by Homme in 2013 to provide assistance to career musicians, recording engineers and their families struggling with illness and disability, and to Support Act, an alliance with a similar mission founded in 1997 in Australia by AMCOS, APRA, ARIA and PPCA. For more information, go to https://www.thesweetstufffoundation.org/ and https://supportact.org.au/.

Finally, Joshua is back at it with the third season of his Beats1 radio show, the Alligator Hour. Guests on the new season include Elvira, Bill Burr, Jake Shears and more. The Alligator Hour can be experienced every Sunday 7am PT/10am ET/3pm GMT for free at apple.co/joshlive  or on demand at apple.co/josh.

Press Releases, St. Vincent

ST. VINCENT LIVE FROM HERE December 15

ST. VINCENT

LIVE FROM HERE December 15

MassEducation: Reimagining of MASSEDUCTION Out Now on Loma Vista

Following her December 2nd performance at the 41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors honoring Philip Glass with an intricate yet passionate instrumental performance “which received an enthusiastic two-thumbs up from a delighted Glass,” as reported by Billboard, St. Vincent will appear live during the New York City residency of Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly A Prairie Home Companion).

On December 15th, Annie Clark—accompanied only by piano player Thomas Bartlett—will perform from the stage of New York’s Town Hall as part of a live broadcast from Minnesota Public Radio’s weekly musical mainstay.

Check https://www.livefromhere.org/listen/stations for local air-times.

St. Vincent’s MassEducation was released October 12th on Loma Vista, and was received by Rolling Stone as “the deep breath after the freak-out… less dense structures allowing Clark’s compositional and vocal talents to shine,” and Entertainment Weekly as “riveting reinterpretations… exposed and unadorned… a testament to her versatile songwriting and remarkable vocal strength.” MassEducation is in fact another dimension of last year’s universally acclaimed MASSEDUCTION. Recorded live in the studio over two nights in 2017, MassEducation lays bare the exquisite songcraft of its other half. Performed entirely by Annie Clark on vocals and Thomas Bartlett on piano, the new album renders songs like “Young Lover” and “Fear The Future” and their subjects in vivid, vulnerable new light. Clark herself describes the album as “two dear friends playing songs together with the kind of secret understanding one can only get through endless nights in New York City.”

For further information, go to http://ilovestvincent.com/

Jenny Lewis, Press Releases

JENNY LEWIS: ON THE LINE – NEW ALBUM OUT SPRING 2019 ON WARNER BROS. RECORDS

JENNY LEWIS: ON THE LINE

NEW ALBUM OUT SPRING 2019 ON WARNER BROS. RECORDS

2019 Headline Dates Announced Including Chicago, Nashville, St. Paul, Austin, Las Vegas, Seattle and Los Angeles

Photo Credit: Autumn de Wilde

Just as 2018 comes to a close, Jenny Lewis has confirmed her highly anticipated return with her fourth solo album, On The Line—the follow up to 2014’s critically acclaimed The Voyager — out spring 2019 on Warner Bros. Records.

The 11 all-new original songs were written by Lewis and recorded at Capitol Records’ Studio B, and feature a backing band of legendary talent including Beck, Benmont Tench, Don Was, Jim Keltner, Ringo Starr and Ryan Adams.

Jenny has also announced her first round of 2019 headlining dates. The March-May 2019 itinerary includes stops at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre, Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, Seattle’s Moore Theatre, The Palace in St. Paul, the Hollywood Palladium and many more—plus an appearance at ACL Live at the Moody Theater set for April 6th.

Pre-sales for these dates begin on Wednesday, December 5th at 10am local time and will go on sale to the general public on Friday, December 7th at 10am local time: https://www.jennylewis.com/#tour.

Stay tuned for complete track listing, exact release date and much more news to come!

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JENNY LEWIS 2019 LIVE DATES

3/26/19 – Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theatre
3/27/19 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee
3/29/19 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace
3/30/19 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
3/31/19 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
4/4/19 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Jones Assembly
4/5/19 – Dallas, TX – Canton Hall
4/6/19 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater
4/7/19 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
4/9/19 – Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
4/10/19 – Jackson, MS – Duling Hall
4/12/19 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
4/13-14/19 – Charleston, SC – High Water Festival
5/10/19 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
5/11/19 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
5/13/19 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
5/16/19 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
5/17/19 – Bellvue, CO – Mishawaka Amphitheatre
5/18/19 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Commonwealth Room
5/20/19 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
5/21/19 – Seattle, WA – The Moore
5/22/19 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
5/25/19 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Fremont Theatre
5/26/19 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues

Metallica, Press Releases

METALLICA: Vinyl Release of AWMH Concert Available for Pre-order

METALLICA, ALL WITHIN MY HANDS FOUNDATION & Contributors
Celebrate Giving Tuesday with Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic at The Masonic

Limited Edition Vinyl Release of Benefit Concert Available For Pre-Order

Available February 1, 2019 at Independent Retailers Worldwide

Today Metallica, the All Within My Hands Foundation and its contributors commemorate Giving Tuesday with the launching of the pre-order for the limited edition vinyl release of Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic at The Masonic. The double album, mixed by Greg Fidelman and newly mastered for vinyl by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, documents the inaugural Helping Hands Benefit Concert held in San Francisco on November 3rd.

Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic at The Masonic features rare acoustic renditions of hits and deep cuts spanning the Metallica catalogue (as well as covers of Deep Purple, Nazareth, Bob Seger and Blue Öyster Cult classics), captured on 140g colored vinyl with proceeds donated to the band’s All Within My Hands Foundation. Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic at The Masonic continues AWMH’s mission to fight hunger and to assist in creating sustainable communities through workforce education.
The album will be available February 1, 2019 at independent and digital retail around the world, all streaming services that feature Metallica’s music, and can be pre-ordered in the Metallica Store here and in Europe.  All copies will include a download card.

In addition to the vinyl pre-order, Metallica’s Giving Tuesday offerings will include a limited-edition etched glass featuring the iconic Pushead artwork for “One,” with all net proceeds donated to AWMH.

The first ever All Within My Hands Helping Hands Concert and Auction raised more than $1.3 million. Those resources will fund AWMH’s efforts with partners at Feeding America and the American Association of Community Colleges.

The Metallica family and the All Within My Hands Foundation board members are committed to running an organization of the highest integrity where expenses are kept to a minimum and are paid for entirely by the band, the board, and friends who have worked with the band over many years. As such, 100% of all donations from fans and third parties go to the organizations AWMH supports.

For more info and/or to make a donation, visit allwithinmyhands.org.

The track listing for Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic at The Masonic is below.

Disc One / Side A
1. Disposable Heroes
2. When A Blind Man Cries
3. The Unforgiven

Disc One / Side B
1. Please Don’t Judas Me
2. Turn the Page

Disc Two / Side C
1. Bleeding Me
2. Veteran of the Psychic Wars
3. Nothing Else Matters

Disc Two / Side D
1. All Within My Hands
2. Enter Sandman
3. The Four Horsemen
4. Hardwired

David Bowie, Press Releases

DAVID BOWIE is… VIRTUAL

DAVID BOWIE is… VIRTUAL

RECORD-BREAKING EXHIBITION COMES TO DIGITAL/INTERACTIVE LIFE

MOBILE APP TO BE RELEASED JANUARY 8, 2019

Groundbreaking Collaboration Between David Bowie Archive and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

https://davidbowieisreal.com/

David Bowie is, the record-breaking exhibition that drew over 2 million visitors across 12 cities – the most visited touring exhibition in the history of the V&A – has been granted digital immortality. David Bowie is, curated by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, was the first exhibition of its kind and has set the standard for others to follow. The visual richness of this show and visionary nature of Bowie and his music made this a must for virtual reality.

Beginning on January 8, 2019 (which would have been Bowie’s 72nd birthday), the David Bowie isAugmented Reality mobile app will be available in iOS and Android —granting access to the show’s hundreds of costumes, videos, handwritten lyrics, original works of art and more to the tens of millions of Bowie fans unable to visit the exhibition before it shuttered permanently on July 15, 2018. This virtual reality adaption of David Bowie is will enable the visitor to spend as long as desired on individual items and jump to others.

The David Bowie is AR mobile app is the first release resulting from a collaboration between the David Bowie Archive and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., who hosted the exhibition in Tokyo in 2017. The New York-based studio Planeta is designing and developing the AR/VR interpretations of the original museum experience at the V&A. The AR adaptation, a first of its kind, mirrors the physical exhibition through a sequence of audio-visual spaces through which the works and artifacts of Bowie’s life can be explored. 3D renderings preserve and present his costumes and treasured objects such as musical scores, storyboards, handwritten lyrics, and even diary entries–all in 360-degree detail, enabling intimate “behind the glass” access rivaling that of the visitors to the original exhibit, and enhanced by an immersive audio experience featuring Bowie’s music and narration, best experienced with headphones.

Additionally, the David Bowie is mobile app will feature dozens of items not featured in the original exhibition – including some entirely new and exclusive to this AR version.

Like the David Bowie is touring exhibition, the AR and VR versions will be offered in seven different languages. The AR mobile app is the first phase of this innovative initiative, with the VR format scheduled for later release.

For more information https://davidbowieisreal.com/

Notes to editors for touring exhibition

·    David Bowie is was on show at the V&A from 23 March – 11 August 2013

About David Bowie Is

The exhibition explores the broad range of Bowie’s collaborations with artists and designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theater, art, and film. On display are more than 60 stage costumes including Ziggy Stardust bodysuits (1972) designed by Freddie Burretti, Kansai Yamamoto’s flamboyant creations for the Aladdin Sane tour (1973), and the Union Jack coat designed by Bowie and Alexander McQueen for the EART HL I NG album cover (1997). Also on show is photography by Brian Duffy, Terry O’Neill, and Masayoshi Sukita; album sleeve artwork by Guy Peellaert and Edward Bell; cover proofs by Barnbrook for the album The Next Day (2013); visual excerpts from films and live performances including The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); music videos such as Life on Mars? (1973), “Heroes” (1977), Boys Keep Swinging (1979), Ashes to Ashes (1980), Let’s Dance (1983) and Blackstar (2015); and set designs created for the Diamond Dogs tour (1974).  Alongside these are more personal items such as never-before-shown storyboards, handwritten setlists and lyrics as well as some of Bowie’s own sketches, musical scores, and diary entries, revealing the evolution of his creative ideas.

Press Releases, The Good The Bad And The Queen

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN: MERRIE LAND

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN: MERRIE LAND

Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Tony Allen and Simon Tong Return with Second Album Out Today

UK Dates Begin November 26
https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-good-the-bad-and-the-queen

Photo credit: Pennie Smith

“…this album is a masterpiece… the best album of the year.” – Sunday Times Culture

“…Up there with the most evocative attempts by British pop to interpret its locality” – Mojo

“The music they wrote suggests no end of ghosts: off-key pub pianos, bass recorders, an abundance of old-school organ that instantly evokes the British Seaside.” – The Guardian

Presaged by the recently released “Gun To The Head” and its title track (featured in The New York Times’ Playlist)—as well as the band’s first live appearance in seven years on Later…. With Jools Holland—Merrie Land, the sophomore album from The Good, The Bad & The Queen is finally released today, November 16, 2018.

Merrie Land follows an 11-year hiatus since The Good, The Bad & The Queen’s self-titled 2007 debut, and is self-released on the newly created label Studio 13. Produced by Tony Visconti and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Merrie Land contains 10 new songs – written during the current period in which the UK is preparing to leave the European Union – creating a reluctant good-bye letter, a series of observations and reflections on Britishness in 2018.

Merrie Land’s focus moves beyond GBQ’s London-themed first album to a wider land, with a beautiful and hopeful paean to the Britain of today, an inclusive Britain, currently in an Anglo Saxostentialist crises at the end of a relationship, wondering what might be salvaged. Could there be a more perfect band – with their creative symbiosis of pasts and present and shared acclaimed music histories – to reflect on the anticipation, disorientation and confusion of current life?

In preparation for their shows in Blackpool, Glasgow and London the band will play three intimate warm-up shows in Tynemouth, at the Tynemouth CIU Club on November 26th and Cullercoats Crescent Club on November 27th & 28th – each with a rare capacity of less than 100.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen is Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Tony Allen and Simon Tong.

The full track listing for Merrie Land is:

– Merrie Land
– Gun to the Head
– Nineteen Seventeen
– The Great Fire
– Lady Boston
– Drifters & Trawlers
– The Truce of Twilight
– Ribbons
– The Last Man to Leave
– The Poison Tree

Merrie Land – STREAM / BUY HERE

The Good, The Bad & The Queen – LIVE DATES:

November 26th – Tynemouth CIU Club, NORTH EAST
https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-good-the-bad-and-the-queen

November 27th – Cullercoats Crescent Club, NORTH EAST
https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-good-the-bad-and-the-queen

November 28th – Cullercoats Crescent Club, NORTH EAST
https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-good-the-bad-and-the-queen

December 1st – The North Pier, BLACKPOOL
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-good-the-bad-the-queen/north-pier/1272677

December 2nd – SWG3, GLASGOW
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/3600554FD1925A60

December 3rd – Hackney Arts Centre, LONDON
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-good-the-bad-the-queen/earth-hackney-arts-centre-/1272679

December 5th– Hackney Arts Centre, LONDON
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-good-the-bad-the-queen/earth-hackney-arts-centre-/1272681

December 6th – Hackney Arts Centre, London
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-good-the-bad-the-queen/earth-hackney-arts-centre-/1272682

NOTES TO EDITORS:

Merrie Land will be available in several formats:

– on CD and vinyl, or limited edition green vinyl;
– limited edition deluxe CD with a beautiful 56-page A4 hardback book
containing handpicked original and reimagined photos by Paul Simonon,
sheet music, lyrics and artwork;
– The Boxset will contain the above, plus heavyweight green vinyl LP, an
exclusive screen print, postcards & bonus tracks.
– The Super Boxset offers all of the above plus a selection of coloured ribbons
and a limited wood-cut print, hand printed by Paul Simonon. Order here.

ABOUT The Good, The Bad & The Queen

The Good, The Bad & The Queen began life as the acclaimed 2007 album of the
same name, a heartfelt tribute to London described by The Observer in a 5-star
review as –“One of the most surprising and magical records for which Damon Albarn
has ever been responsible”. The record traced a journey from the English music hall
tradition to West Africa and Afrobeat, zigzagging through the West Indies and its
reggae and dub, back to England and London’s punk scene, all the while taking in a
strand of British beat music from the ’50s right through to Britpop. The result was a
record specific to a place and mood but with a background that was geographically
wide-ranging.

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Paul McCartney, Press Releases

PAUL MCCARTNEY: Previously unreleased versions of John Lennon-inspired ‘DEAR FRIEND’ available now

Previously unreleased home recorded & remastered
versions of the John Lennon-inspired track

‘DEAR FRIEND’

Both available now as instant grats HERE
Taken from the forthcoming reissue of

Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1971 debut album ‘Wild Life’

Wild Life will be reissued alongside the 1973 album ‘Red Rose Speedway’ on December 7th

Both reissues are part of the ongoing Grammy-award winning Paul McCartney Collection

Today, to mark the forthcoming reissues of Paul McCartney’s 11th and 12th classic works from his revered catalogue, ‘Dear Friend’, the John Lennon-inspired closing track to Paul McCartney And Wings’ debut album ‘Wild Life’, has been made available to hear as two special instant grats. The first a remastered version, and the second a beautifully intimate unreleased home recording. The re-releases come fully remastered and expanded across multi format installments of his GRAMMY-winning Archive Collection, to be released December 7, 2018 via MPL/Capitol/UMe.

Speaking of the track, Paul comments “With ‘Dear Friend’, that’s sort of me talking to John after we’d had all the sort of disputes about The Beatles break up. I find it very emotional when I listen to it now. I have to sort of choke it back. I remember when I heard the song recently, listening to the roughs [remastering works-in-progress] in the car. And I thought, ‘Oh God’. That lyric: ‘Really truly, young and newly wed’. Listening to that was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s true!’ I’m trying to say to John, ‘Look, you know, it’s all cool. Have a glass of wine. Let’s be cool.’ And luckily we did get it back together, which was like a great source of joy because it would have been terrible if he’d been killed as things were at that point and I’d never got to straighten it out with him. This was me reaching out. So, I think it’s very powerful in some very simple way. But it was certainly heartfelt.”

ABOUT THE REISSUES:
PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS: WILD LIFE
PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS: RED ROSE SPEEDWAYLIMITED NUMBERED DELUXE EDITIONS TO INCLUDE REMASTERED ORIGINAL ALBUMS, BONUS TRACKS, PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMOS, RARE AND NEVER BEFORE SEEN VIDEO, EXCLUSIVE BOOKS FEATURING NEW INTERVIEWS WITH PAUL, PHOTOS, ARTWORK, & MUCH MORETO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 7, 2018 VIA MPL/CAPITOL/UMe

First up is the four-disc (3CD, 1DVD) limited deluxe edition of Wild Life, the debut album from Wings, originally released December 1971. Written by Paul and Linda McCartney (with the exception of a cover of Mickey & Sylvia’s ‘Love Is Strange’), Wild Life is beloved by fans for its raw and direct vibe–having been recorded in just over a week with the majority of tracks laid down in a single take. Wild Life’s limited deluxe edition treatment features the full album remastered at Abbey Road plus 25 bonus audio tracks including rough mixes of the album, original single edits, B-sides, home recordings and other previously unreleased material across three CDs. The set’s DVD features rare footage of acoustic home videos, rehearsals and more. The Wild Life deluxe package includes a 128- page book written by David Fricke telling the story behind the album – including track-by-track information and new interviews with Paul and key album personnel, a 48-page scrapbook of tour diaries, lyrics and set lists, unpublished Polaroids, lyrics, notes and memorabilia from the MPL archives. Wild Life’s download redemption card will provide access to all audio in HD 24/96kHz unlimited high-resolution versions.

Next up is a six-disc (3CD, 2DVD + 1Blu-ray) numbered limited deluxe edition of the second Wings album and first credited to Paul McCartney and Wings, Red Rose Speedway. Released in April 1973 and featuring the #1 single ‘My Love,’ Red Rose Speedway was the first Wings album to hit #1 on the U.S. chart. The Red Rose Speedway limited deluxe edition features three discs of audio including the original album remastered at Abbey Road, no less than 35 bonus audio tracks, including a reconstruction of the originally conceived double album version of Red Rose Speedway, singles, B-sides, alternate mixes and previously unreleased tracks. The 2DVD + Blu-ray portions of the deluxe are packed with rare and previously unseen footage, including the James Paul McCartney TV Special, interviews and music videos, as well as the never before seen film The Bruce McMouse Sho  fully restored and remixed in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. The package includes a folio containing 14 replica hand drawn original character sketches by Paul and facsimile dialogue sheets for the film, a 128-page book containing many previously unpublished images by Linda McCartney, expanded album and single artwork from the archives and story behind the album — including new interviews with Paul McCartney, and key album personnel — and track-by-track information, written by Amanda Petrusich, five replica handwritten lyric sheets and photo print, a 64-page ‘Wings In Morocco’ photo book, all housed in a numbered outer slipcase. The Red Rose Speedway download redemption card will provide access to all audio in HD 24/96kHz unlimited high-resolution versions.

Finally, the 11-disc Paul McCartney and Wings 1971–73 numbered limited edition super deluxe compilation features not only the entire contents of the Wild Life four-disc numbered limited deluxe edition and of the Red Rose Speedway 6-disc numbered limited deluxe edition—but also the exclusive live album, Wings Over Europe. This exclusive collection features 20 previously unreleased, newly mixed live tracks recorded over the course of 5 shows, an introduction featuring Paul recounting memories of the 1972 tour, a 96-page photo book including previously unreleased images by Linda McCartney and Captain Snap, a replica of the 1972 Wings Over Europe tour program, and access to downloadable 24/96kHz unlimited high-resolution audio versions.

The Paul McCartney Archive Collection debuted with the November 2, 2010 re-release of Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1973 milestone Band on the Run, which won the 2010 GRAMMY Award for Best Historical Album, while the Archive Collection’s Deluxe Edition Box Set of the 1976 classic Wings Over America took the 2013 GRAMMY for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. The most recent previous installment was 2017’s reissue of Paul’s eighth studio album Flowers In The Dirt, which ROLLING STONE called “spectacular… an extraordinary document,” and the OBSERVER hailed as “perhaps the greatest record to emerge from the world of AOR in 1989… an absolute pleasure to rediscover today.”

Every release in the ongoing Paul McCartney Archive Collection is supervised by Paul himself, who oversees all aspects of each and every title from remastering to the curation of lost tracks, outtakes, artwork, photographs and video from his personal vaults, and much more. The result is one of the most ambitious and personal undertakings of its kind, one that encompasses more than 40 years of cherished, classic material from the most successful songwriter and recording artist in music history.

See below for the Deluxe Edition track listings.

Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway are also available on:
2CD – Special Edition
2LP – 180 Gram vinyl with MP3 download card
Digital Download/Streaming – Standard & Special Edition
Plus
A 2LP recreation of the Red Rose Speedway “Original Double Album” on 2LP – 180 Gram vinyl with
MP3 download card

PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS: WILD LIFE
Paul McCartney Archive Collection Limited Deluxe EditionNumbered heavy weight kraft board slipcase. Cover silkscreen printed.
128 page essay book written by David Fricke.
Folio containing; 48-page facsimile notebook, 12 replica medium format Polaroid pictures, plus
“The Ball” album launch party invite.
CD portfolio containing 3CDs & 1DVD.CD1 – Remastered Album1. Mumbo
2. Bip Bop
3. Love Is Strange
4. Wild Life
5. Some People Never Know
6. I Am Your Singer
7. Bip Bop (Link)
8. Tomorrow
9. Dear Friend
10. Mumbo (Link)

CD2 – Rough Mixes

1. Mumbo [Rough Mix]
2. Bip Bop [Rough Mix]
3. Love Is Strange (Version) [Rough Mix]
4. Wild Life [Rough Mix]
5. Some People Never Know [Rough Mix]
6. I Am Your Singer [Rough Mix]
7. Tomorrow [Rough Mix]
8. Dear Friend [Rough Mix]

CD3 – Bonus Tracks

1. Good Rockin’ Tonight [Home Recording]
2. Bip Bop [Home Recording]
3. Hey Diddle [Home Recording]
4. She Got It Good [Home Recording]
5. I Am Your Singer [Home Recording]
6. Outtake I
7. Dear Friend [Home Recording I]
8. Dear Friend [Home Recording II]
9. Outtake II
10. Indeed I Do
11. When The Wind Is Blowing
12. The Great Cock And Seagull Race [Rough Mix]
13. Outtake III
14. Give Ireland Back To The Irish
15. Give Ireland Back To The Irish (Version)
16. Love Is Strange [Single Edit]
17. African Yeah Yeah

DVD – Bonus Video

1. Scotland, 1971
2. The Ball
3. ICA Rehearsals
4. Give Ireland Back To The Irish (Rehearsal)

Plus 24/96kHz unlimited high-resolution audio download of the remastered album and bonus audio

PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS: RED ROSE SPEEDWAY
Paul McCartney Archive Collection Limited Deluxe Edition

Numbered edition, colour printed silver metalized board slipcase.
128-page essay book written by Amanda Petrusich. Including 5 replica handwritten lyric
sheets, and a photo print.
64-page Wings Over Morocco photo book.
The Bruce McMouse Show folio containing; 14 replica hand drawn sketches by Paul
McCartney, facsimile dialogue sheets and the unreleased film restored and remixed on DVD
and 5.1 HD Blu-Ray. CD portfolio containing 3CDs & 1DVD.

CD1 – Remastered Album

1. Big Barn Bed
2. My Love
3. Get On The Right Thing
4. One More Kiss
5. Little Lamb Dragonfly
6. Single Pigeon
7. When The Night
8. Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)
9. Medley:
a) Hold Me Tight
b) Lazy Dynamite
c) Hands Of Love
d) Power Cut

CD2 – “Double Album”

1. Night Out
2. Get On The Right Thing
3. Country Dreamer
4. Big Barn Bed
5. My Love
6. Single Pigeon
7. When The Night
8. Seaside Woman
9. I Lie Around
10. The Mess [Live At The Hague]
11. Best Friend [Live In Antwerp]
12. Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)
13. Medley:
a) Hold Me Tight
b) Lazy Dynamite
c) Hands Of Love
d) Power Cut
14. Mama’s Little Girl
15. I Would Only Smile
16. One More Kiss
17. Tragedy
18. Little Lamb Dragonfly

CD3 – Bonus Audio

1. Mary Had A Little Lamb
2. Little Woman Love
3. Hi, Hi, Hi
4. C Moon
5. Live And Let Die
6. Get On The Right Thing [Early Mix]
7. Little Lamb Dragonfly [Early Mix]
8. Little Woman Love [Early Mix]
9. 1882 [Home Recording]
10. Big Barn Bed [Rough Mix]
11. The Mess
12. Thank You Darling
13. Mary Had A Little Lamb [Rough Mix]
14. 1882 [Live In Berlin]
15. 1882
16. Jazz Street
17. Live And Let Die [Group Only, Take 10]

DVD 1 – Bonus Video

1. Music Videos
2. James Paul McCartney TV Special
3. Live And Let Die [Live In Liverpool]
4. Newcastle Interview

DVD 2 – Bonus Film

1. The Bruce McMouse Show
5.1 Surround Dolby Digital, 16bit 48kHz
/PCM Stereo, 24bit 48kHz

Blu-ray – Bonus Film

1. The Bruce McMouse Show
5.1 Surround DTS-HD Master Audio, 24bit 96kHz/PCM Stereo 24bit 96kHz

Plus 24/96kHz unlimited high-resolution audio download of the remastered album and bonus audio

PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS: WINGS 1971-1973
Paul McCartney Archive Collection Limited Super Deluxe EditionBoth Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway Limited Deluxe Editions, plus:
Exclusive and numbered edition, 7-colour screen print on corrugated board.
Exclusive Wings Over Europe 96 page photo book with screen printed cover.
Facsimile of the Wings Over Europe 1972 European tour programme.
Brand new stereo mix of tracks played on the 1972 tour on CD.1. Big Barn Bed [Live In Newcastle]
2. Eat At Home [Live At The Hague]
3. Smile Away [Live In Berlin]
4. Bip Bop [Live At The Hague]
5. Mumbo [Live In Antwerp]
6. Blue Moon Of Kentucky [Live At The Hague]
7. 1882 [Live In Berlin]
8. I Would Only Smile [Live In Antwerp]
9. Give Ireland Back To The Irish [Live In Groningen]
10. The Mess [Live In Berlin]
11. Best Friend [Live In Antwerp]
12. Soily [Live In Berlin]
13. I Am Your Singer [Live At The Hague]
14. Seaside Woman [Live In Groningen]
15. Wild Life [Live At The Hague]
16. My Love [Live At The Hague]
17. Mary Had A Little Lamb [Live At The Hague]
18. Maybe I’m Amazed [Live In Groningen]
19. Hi, Hi, Hi [Live At The Hague]
20. Long Tall Sally [Live In Groningen]Plus 24/96kHz unlimited high-resolution audio download of the remastered album and bonus audio