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Five Day Forecast – w/c 22 Aug 2011
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 22 August 2011
Hey, how were your weekends? I went to the pub, went to a gig, read a book, watched a film, and decided that 9/8 is my new favourite time signature. I think that’s everything.
The film was ‘Departures’, a Japanese production that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. And deservedly so, I heartily recommend it to you now. The gig was LA2019, which I recommended to you here last week. That was also very good. Let’s see if I can pull any more recommendations out of my sleeve, shall we?
01: Reading and Leeds. Marking the beginning of the end of the summer festival season, August bank holiday weekend brings with it the only dual site festival worth considering. OK, it may not be the most welcoming event, but it does have some fine acts on its line-up this year. Acts like Deftones, Pulp and The National on the main stage, an exclusive audio-visual DJ set from James Lavelle on the Dance Stage, and the likes of Fixers, boysetsfire, Big Deal, Rival Schools, Saul Williams, Henry Rollins, Patrick Wolf and Warpaint elsewhere.
02: Tom Waits setting the record straight. Gravel-gargling minstrel Tom Waits is this week poised to “set the record straight” on various scurrilous rumours that he’s about to release a new album. Or alternatively, he’ll just announce that he’s about to release a new album. If it’s of a studio variety, this will comprise his first LP proper (not counting live compilations, theatrical scores and such) since 2004’s ‘Real Gone’. But, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Those interested in seeing the record set straight, once and for all, should keep watch at Tom’s website on 23 Aug.
03: ThreeWeeks. OK, this is the last week I’ll bang on about this, because, yes, we’ve finally made it to the last week of the Edinburgh Festival 2011. It may not mean much to you, but it’s significant when you work for a company that produces the most prolific media at the world’s biggest arts festival. There’s still one more issue of the printed newspaper to come, but while you wait for that, you can have a read of last week’s edition, which was guest edited by Andrew Maxwell. As temporary leader of the operation, Maxwell interviewed Sammy J and Glenn Wool.
04: New releases. There are some physical releases of a few records that are already available digitally this week, for those of you who like holding things. All of them are well worth holding onto, as well. There’s Toddla T‘s ‘Watch Me Dance’, The Deer Tracks‘ ‘The Archer Trilogy Part 2’ and Austra‘s remix EP. Live dangerously and buy them on vinyl, why don’t you? Also out this week on all formats is the latest album from Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks, ‘Mirror Traffic’. And if you only shell out for one sound recording this week, make it the new single from AlunaGeorge, ‘You Know You Like It’.
05: Gigs. I want to go and see Deftones play at the Shepherds Bush Empire on Wednesday but I can’t. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy it, though. Well, it sort of does, actually. How about you try something another night? You could go and see Little Roy singing his reggae covers of Nirvana songs at the 100 Club on Thursday, or you could see Jeffrey Lewis in Brighton tonight. Or, hey, Sebadoh and Taking Back Sunday are both touring this week.
Next Monday is a bank holiday (in England and Wales, anyway), so I’ll see you with the next Five Day Forecast two weeks from today. Please try to behave in my absence.
Andy Malt
Editor, CMU
