Working Man’s Soul Launch Party

Licorice Soul will be celebrating the launch of our new album, Working Man’s Soul, on Monday 11th December 2006 at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London, UK.

The launch party will feature the Bob Bernard Trio live on stage, Licorice Soul DJs, comedy and many other forgotten Working Men’s Club traditions – watch this space for more details as the big day draws closer! We have only a very limited number of tickets available for this once-only event.

Working Man’s Soul Launch Party Ticket
Monday 11th December 2006, 8pm-12am
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
44-46 Pollard Row,
Bethnal Green,
London E2 6NB, UK

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Saint Etienne Xmas Party

No theme for this Turntable Cafe apart from mulled wine and bonhomie. A jazz trio will be playing Vince Guaraldi’s music from the Peanuts Christmas specials, and very special guests will be wheeled out and plied with liquor to dance and sing for our entertainment.

Cool Yule

Some really cool events coming up at the Royal Festival Hall this winter.

7:45 pm Purcell Room
Circulus + Chrome Hoof

7:45 pm Purcell Room
Zum – Gypsy Tango Inferno

Jean Claude Vannier – Histoire de Melody Nelson & L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches

Only Connect presents the first ever live performances of two cult classic albums Histoire De Melody Nelson and L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches from 1971 and 1972 respectively. Produced by long-time collaborator of randy iconoclast Serge Gainsbourg, composer/arranger Jean-Claude Vannier’s otherworldly string and choral arrangements are iconic of the era, and the rediscovery by a whole new generation has won him renewed acclaim.

For tonight’s World Premier event, Vannier conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, a children’s string quintet plus the inimitable musicians Dougie Wright, Big Jim Sullivan, Herbie Flowers and Vic Flick from the original recordings.

Jarvis Cocker, Badly Drawn Boy, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey and The Super Furries’ Gruff Rhys take it in turns to sing Serge for the performance of L’Histoire De Melody Nelson’ and L’Enfant Assassin des Mouches features live sound effects – including ringing bells, ticking clocks, a model helicopter, flies and even a billiards table.

Histoire de Melody Nelson
Words: Serge Gainsbourg
Music: Serge Gainsbourg and Jean Claude Vannier

L’enfant Assassin des Mouches
Music: Jean Claude Vannier
Story: Serge Gainsbourg

Produced by the Barbican in association with Finders Keepers

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=4655

Illustrated London Noise

The gang are out in force for the first Illustrated London Noise Night at the ICA.

This is going to be mucho fun!

YouTube

The amount of musical goodness on youTube is just incredible – I’ll be posting up a large amount of vids culled from mainly the vinyl vulture site!

Record collecting…

Well the guardian have written a lovely little feature on the weird world of record collecting! Big news is that Vinyl Vulture gets a really good plug.

Well done boys!

Read the article!

Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited

Another remix/covers cd of classics by the genius god that was Serge Gainsbourg….This one might actually be worth checking for one track…Portishead have remixed Anna. The rest of the tracks look god awful…

1. FRANZ FERDINAND – JANE BIRKIN / A SONG FOR SORRY ANGEL
   Original Title SORRY ANGEL
2. CAT POWER & KAREN ELSON / I LOVE YOU (ME EITHER)
   Original Title JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS
3. JARVIS COCKER & KID LOCO / I JUST CAME TO TELL YOU THAT I’M GOING
   Original Title : JE SUIS VENU TE DIRE QUE JE M’EN VAIS
4. PORTISHEAD / REQUIEM FOR ANNA
   Original Title : UN JOUR COMME UN AUTRE (sous titre de « ANNA »)
5. FAULTLINE, BRIAN MOLKO & FRANCOISE HARDY / REQUIEM FOR A JERK
   Original Title : REQUIEM POUR UN CON
6. MICHAEL STIPE / L’HÔTEL
   Original Title : L’HÔTEL PARTICULIER
7. TRICKY / AU REVOIR EMMANUELLE
   Original Title GOOD BYE EMMANUELLE
8. MARIANNE FAITHFULL / LOLA R. FOR EVER
   Original Title : LOLA RASTAQUOUERE
9. GONZALES, FEIST & DANI / BOOMERANG
   Original Title : COMME UN BOOMERANG
10. MARC ALMOND & TRASH PALACE / BOY TOY
    Original Title I’M THE BOY
11. PLACEBO / THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSON
    Original Title : LA BALLADE DE MELODY NELSON
12. THE RAKES / JUST A MAN WITH A JOB
    Original Title LE POINCONNEUR DES LILAS
13. THE KILLS / I CALL IT ART
    Original Title : LA CHANSON DE SLOGAN
14. CARLA BRUNI / THOSE LITTLE THINGS
    Original Title : CES PETITS RIENS

OneDotZero at the V&A

The excellent onedotzero team land at the v&a museum for a special late night opening. Lots of fine people guesting and some very interesting digital work.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/fri_late/index.html

Mr Freedom Vs Jimi Tenor

Rescoring cult classic movies is becoming the performance piece of the every hip artist these days…but when its done right it can be genius. I was pretty excited to see that Jimi Tenor is rescoring William Kliens – ‘Mr. Freedom‘. This is worth going to just for the film itself. Its a satire, it has a superhero dressed as a american football player…and its french! Oh yeah and the master Serge Gainsbourg originally scored it and he also pops up as mr drugstore…oh yes!

The showing is at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday 24 March 2006, 7:45 pm.

Watch the goodness