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10th December 2009
BILL BAILEY'S REMARKABLE GUIDE
TO THE
ORCHESTRA FEATURING ANNE
DUDLEY
DECEMBER 2009 TOUR DATES
Bill's sell
out shows are going from strength to strength. Bill is aided by his
partner in crime Anne Dudley, who as well as conducting the orchestra,
has composed some of the music for the shows. A show from the Royal
Albrt Hall is available to buy on DVD Video and Blu-ray disc DECEMBER 2009 TOUR DATES & BOOKING INFO:
11 - LONDON O2 - Alongside the BBC Concert
Orchestra
Telephone Booking: 0844 277 4321, Book Online
13 - EDINBURGH Usher Hall -
Alongside The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Telephone Booking: 0131 228 1155, Book Online
14 - GATESHEAD Sage Centre - Alongside The
Northern Sinfonia
Telephone Booking: 0191 443 4661, Book Online
Book tickets for any of the shows above on the official
tour
TICKET HOTLINE on 0844 875 8758
or online at www.ticketzone.co.uk
(also available via Ticketmaster
and See Tickets).
Tickets are priced from £25 to £60. Booking fees may also
apply.
K.M. Whitehouse
Friday 10th December 2009
ABC'S THE LEXICON OF LOVE TOUR
ABC performed two more live show of
their classic debut album, aided by two members of the Art of Noise Anne
Dudley- conducting the orchestra and Gary Langan in control of sound.
They have played to sell out crowds in Shefield and Manchester.
Below is a review posted on Gary's official MySpace site:
ABC
Bridgewater Hall
December 6, 2009
THAT ABC’s Lexicon Of Love is now considered by some to be one of the
top 100 albums of all time for its complexity of song writing, and for
Trevor Horn’s miraculous production, is not surprising.
What is a surprise however is that, 27 years later, ABC still has the
pulling power to saddle up on the back of a 50-piece orchestra and fill
The Bridgewater Hall for a complete run-through of that album, when
I’ve never met anyone else other than my dad who admits to liking the
band.
It’s a mighty achievement for a band who have been out of the limelight
for so long.
Is this a pop concert? I’m not sure. The show is split into two parts,
the first seeing ABC perform songs from its non-Lexicon back catalogue.
But from the off it feels more like a film score from an eighties’
blockbuster than electro chic.
Ecstatic
This is epic reproduction on every level – just how Trevor Horn would
like it I’m sure – but despite a high standard with tracks such as
Ocean Blue and How To Be A Millionaire, ABC fail to stir the audience
who are obviously waiting for the main show in part two.
When it comes, the audience are like a crackling thunder cloud waiting
for a break, excitedly dancing in their seats without standing, and
ecstatic in their reaction. ABC perform the classic set in order except
at the end where they switch 4 Ever 2 Gether for All Of My Heart so
they can dedicate it to each and every one of us. That might be cheese
too ripe for some, but it’s gladly received by others.
Poison Arrow is popular, and Date Stamp is wrongly, mutely received, but
The Look of Love sees people dancing in the aisles.
If this night is anything to go by ABC will continue to play this
classic album in its entirety for many years to come.
Thanks to Gary for the info
Friday 16th October 2009
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Art of Noise's
stablemates Frankie Goes To Hollywood get another greatest hits album in
the form of Frankie Say Greatest out on the 2nd November 2009
along with a brand new remixes and a new remix single of Relax, featuring non other than Holly Johnson in the new video.
As many of you know, the Art of Noise's Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Anne
Dudley and Paul Morley were all involved with the succss of the band's
first album and their biggest hits. This is chance to hear once again
why Frankie still remain one of Liverpool's best loved bands.
Friday 11th September 2009
GARY LANGAN'S LATEST MYSPACE
BLOG
Summer
Category: Life
Beginning of September took me
off too Split in Croatia to work on a new project involving three
soprano teenagers.The studio in Split was ok, little bit on the
under-maintained side ! but workable, just. Only had a small handful of
mics to choose from and an old PC running Nuendo (not my favourite
combination for music) The upside was not only the fact that the girls
are great singers but the writer wouldnt start work untill 3 in the
afternoon cause it was too hot,so that left me hanging around on the
beach.......... very tough ! We managed to record four tracks and then
brought them back to my favourite studio in London,Sphere.Got four good
mixes out of them.Looking forward to doing more tracks.
Also had the chance to work with a great singer, Rachel Furner.Looked
after the front of house sound for her when she supported Pixie Lott at
the Forum for her UK album release. Check out her MySpace.
Tuesday 8th September 2009
BILL BAILEY'S REMARKABLE GUIDE TO THE
ORCHESTRA
Following on from last year's
sell out shows at the Royal Albert
Hall and the critically acclaimed version on BBC2, Bill Bailey's
surreal comic and musical imagination is let loose once more as he
takes this show on the road, performing with some of the finest
orchestras throughout Britain, accompanied by Anne Dudley, one of the
UK's most celebrated composers and arrangers.
 A
classically trained musician, Bill has for many years covered all kinds
of music in his comedy and this show takes the form of an irreverent
guide to the instruments of the orchestra, plus 70's cop show music,
news themes, Bill's own songs, and some of Anne's specially written new
works. Hear the trombone's affection for Cockney music, and find out
what bassoon players are secretly obsessed with. It's a unique show
which The Times called "blissfully funny" and which Stephen Fry
described as "wonderfully enjoyable...like driving a Rolls-Royce
off-road".The first show will be at The
Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Friday 6 November 2009 (at
7.30pm) and will feature the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. As a
special treat for those of you reading this now, there are 100 of the
best seats reserved for you (Bill's mailing list members). These will
be reserved for 7 days, or until they are all bought - whichever comes
first. These are the top priced tickets at £60 each. Other tickets will
also be available and range in price from £25 to £50.
To get access to these seats,
call 08700 402000 from 10am on Wednesday 9 September 2009 (tomorrow!)
and quote "Furry Jam Hat 2267" and you will be allowed to purchase
tickets from this special allocation.
Further venues to be confirmed...there is a
very good chance that
tickets will be on sale in Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle,
Birmingham, Liverpool, Belfast, and Dublin. Further information to be
revealed early next week...stay tunefully tuned
Tuesday 8th September 2009
UNION SQUARE SIGNS ZTT DEAL
By Ben Cardew
Union Square
Music has agreed a deal to represent the catalogue of ground-breaking
indie label ZTT.
The
new deal means that the label, which previously issued a ZTT boxed set,
will take on responsibility for all physical releases, licensing and
synchronisation for the ZTT recordings for the world excluding North
America and Japan.
Union Square
managing director Peter Stack says that the label has big plans for ZTT.
“We
have some great re-issue ideas in planning, and we also look forward to
implementing an active synchronisation strategy for film and TV
licenses,” he says. “We have worked with the SPZ Group [which owns ZTT]
for many years via our successful exploitation of the Stiff Records
catalogue, and we look forward to this new extension to our
relationship." The
first releases under the new deal will be via USM’s Salvo label in early
2010, with deluxe editions and boxed sets planned.
ZTT was home to artists including
Art of Noise, Propaganda, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and 808 State.
It
was formed by Trevor Horn, Jill Sinclair and Paul Morley in 1983 and
enjoyed immediate success with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, whose first
three singles all hit the UK Number One spot.
SPZ Group
president Clive Black adds, “With several successful years of working
together on Stiff Records under our belt, the SPZ Group is delighted to
extend its working relationship with Union
Square Music to include ZTT Records which remains one of the UK's
seminal catalogues".
Monday 31st August 2009
REALITY KILLED THE VIDEO STAR
Robbie Williams'
new album is set to be released on the 9th November 2009. It is produced
by the Art of Noise's Trevor Horn. The title pays homage to "Video
Killed The Radio Star", a 1979 number one single by The Buggles, a
duo of non other than Trevor & Geoff Downes. The album is the
anticipated long awaited follow up to Robbie's 2006 flop album "Rudebox".
With Trevor at the helm it is guaranteed to be a success.
K.M. Whitehouse
Monday 13th July 2009
PAUL MORLEY
LEARNS HOW TO BE A COMPOSER
Fans of the former ZTT co-founder will enjoy
his new BBC 4 series How To Be A Composer, that begins Saturday
18th July at 9:30pm (BST)
The series will see Paul become a
music student for a year at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
K.M. Whitehouse
Thursday 21st May 2009
BEWARE TH AI BOOTLEG CASSETTES BEING SOLD
ON EBAY
Bootlegs of the
1988 version of The Best Of The Art Of Noise (Art Works 12") have
surfaced on eBay. The cassettes are made in Thailand by a company
calling itself Michael: Direct To Disc Master Sound., aimed at
looking like a promo tape. There are no artist credits on the label, no
writer, publisher, producer details on the inlay and no China
Records/Polydor logos either. The printing quailty of the inlay is poor,
the "record label" logo is the Motown label with the word Motown
replaced by Michael.
K.M. Whitehouse
Tueday 5th May 2009
BILL BAILEY & ANNE DUDLEY ON BBC TV
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide
To The Orchestra is being shown on BBC 2 in the United Kingdom at
9.40pm on Saturday 9th May. Bill's madcapshow features Art of Noise's
Anne Dudley conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra.
K.M. Whitehouse
SET
THE CONTROLS...
...for a
new Trevor Horn website.
It's "coming soon" at www.trevorhorn.com.
In the meantime, check YouTube for
rough-and-ready footage of Trevor on stage at ABC's glorious
one-night-only rendition of The Lexicon of Love at the Albert Hall last
week. The show also featured the Anne Dudley masterpiece Overture andSOS,
originally produced by Gary Langan.
Poison Arrow, The Look Of Love (Part
1) and All of My Heart from The Lexicon of Love are available on the
2004 ZTT release Produced
By Trevor Horn.
Saturday
11th April 2009
ABC
AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
If you’re going to do nostalgia, do it properly. And with
this gig, ABC (which is only Martin Fry really) certainly did it
properly. The best
pop album of the last 30 years – The
Lexicon of Love - played straight through, with a complete orchestra
…and in the Albert Hall. Could it be any better?
Well yes, actually. Because this
turned out to be a real reunion affair. David Palmer (nowadays Rod
Stewart’s
drummer) back for the first time since
the album. Gary Langan on the sound desk. Tessa Niles out of retirement
on backing vocals. Anne Dudley conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Even a rambling speech from Trevor Horn. And yes, the gold lame suit for
the encore. If the audience was emotional (and it was full of couples
who looked like one or other of the tunes was “their song”) then I bet
it was an even more lump-in-the-throat night for many of the performers.
Sound a bit naff? You weren’t there in that case. Fry has still got it,
no question. The first 45 minutes were spent running through the
non-”Lexicon” back catalogue, which contains more hits than you might
think. Then after the break, a no- gimmicks run-through of The Album.
I’d forgotten how complex some of the songs are, and Fry even looked
nervous at times, but he hardly missed a word.
And if he had, 4000 fans would have
sung the right ones regardless. They loved it. Mrs R said afterwards:
“it really makes you realize how
second-rate the pop music of the past
20 years has been in comparison, doesn’t it?” and yeah, it might just
have been an album which defines a time in our lives, but what a great
album to have as our special one. After 27 years, it’s still great to
hear “axis” rhyme with “fascist”.
Monday
9th March 2009
BLEEP.COM CHOOSE
ZANG TUUM TUMB
To celebrate Bleep’s fifth birthday, the world's best
electronic download store has been asking various musical luminaries to
choose their favourite releases from their catalogue.
Top of Luke Vibert's choices was Art of Noise's Daft which he
describes as “a sterling compilation from the band's Trevor Horn era"
from the "Avant-garde synth 'n' sample pop group formed with
convention-destruction in mind." Soundmurderer a/k/a Todd Osborn chose
the recently unearthed Britmix of 808 State's Pacific, declaring it
"incomparable tribal- acid-rave from 808 State, featuring that riff."
And Tresor artist/producer DJ Surgeon picks (Who's Afraid Of?) the Art
Of Noise for its "post-modern pop-dadaist... slapped into the mainstream
consciousness in 1984."
Monday 2th
March 2009
ART OF NOISE
GETS AN UNOFFICIAL REMIX BY A CHICAGO DJ!
For
the past few weeks Rhythm Scholar's remix of Close (To The Edit) has
been taking the internet by storm. The track is so popular that it has
even mentioned on ZTT's website and Art of Noise fans on various
websites having been giving it the thumbs up! This is a first for me to recommend an unofficial item, but it is worth a listen
as it is one of the best remixes I have heard for a long time. Check it
out @ www.rhythmscholar.com.
K.M.
Whitehouse
Monday 2nd
March 2009
ART OF NOISE
MEMBERS TO APPEAR WITH ABC AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL ON 8TH APRIL 2009.
ABC
will performing their entire classic 1980's album The Lexicon Of
Love live at the London venue with Anne Dudley conducting the BBC
Concert Orchestra. Trevor Horn will be introducing and playing bass on
some of the songs while Gary Langan will be behind the mixing desks in
charge of the sound.
Thanks
to Gary Langan for the info
K.M.
Whitehouse
Sunday 1st
February 2009
MOMENTS IN LOVE
BACK ON YOUTUBE
The music for the Art of Noise's Moments In Love
video has been unblocked on ZTT's YouTube channel, so fans can once
again hear as well as watch the classic promo clip after Warner Music
Group had blocked the audio content to the video.
K.M.
Whitehouse
Tuesday 27th
January 2009
THE ART OF
NOISE'S MOMENTS IN LOVE REMOVED FROM YOUTUBE BY WARNER MUSIC GROUP
Music
giant Warner Music Group have removed the audio track from the Art of
Noise's classic video Moments In Love from ZTT Records' YouTube video
channel. The following message appears under the video: NOTICE. This
video contains an audio track that has not been authorised by WMG. The
audio has been disabled. Warner were in talks with the internet
video channel YouTube when talks broke down in December 2008 over
licensing issues. WMG then removed all Warner Bros owned artists, and
songs published by their publishing companies. People who use YouTube to
create home videos have also had their videos removed by Warners. As
you may or not know ZTT Records Ltd. were part of the Warner Music Group
from 1988 until 1997. This is a mystery as to why Moments In Love has
been banned on ZTT's YouTube channel as the recording is owned by ZTT
Records Ltd. and the publishing is owned by Perfect Songs Ltd.
(originally Perfect Songs/Ltd. Unforgettable Songs Ltd.) Both ZTT and
Perfect Songs Ltd. are part of the SPZ Group, owned by Trevor Horn &
Jill Sinclair and not by the Warner Music Group.
K.M.
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