➤ Sussex hosts its first boutique green-field jazz festival

Posted on 25 Feb 2013 | Leave a comment
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Rodgers, Ferry and Kiwanuka: Stars announced for the 2013 Love Supreme Festival

❚ BRYAN FERRY IS TO BE the Saturday headliner of the first Love Supreme Jazz Festival taking place July 5–7 2013. Four stages present a mix of jazz, soul and blues against the picturesque backdrop of Glynde Place, the Elizabethan manor house in East Sussex, 11 miles from Brighton.

Ferry said: “I am looking forward to incorporating material from my latest album The Jazz Age in the set at the Love Supreme Festival. This will be the first time the Bryan Ferry Orchestra will have played live in the UK and we will be adding vocals to several of the jazz arrangements as well as being joined by members of my regular band.”

Love Supreme Festival,, JazzFM, Jools Holla, Bryan Ferry, Nile Rodgers, Courtney Pine, Jools Holland, Glynde Place, Headlining on the Sunday will be Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra who has announced that Roland Gift, the Fine Young Cannibals front-man, will be his special guest vocalist alongside Ruby Turner and Louise Marshall.

Also appearing: disco megastars Chic ft Nile Rodgers, Courtney Pine, Michael Kiwanuka, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Gregory Porter, White Mink, Portico Quartet, Roller Trio, GoGo Penguin, Robert Glasper Experiment, Andreya Triana and Naturally 7.

Courtney Pine CBE said: “Playing concerts in front of a live outdoor audience is a huge thrill for the improvising musician. The concerts feature a fantastic cast of world-class jazz musicians which I am proud and very humbled to be joining. This Love Supreme Jazz Festival will be banging!”

➢ Love Supreme Festival 2013 in association with JazzFM: Upgrades available to luxury tents, pods and wagons

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➤ German director invites you to join him in Lee Scratch Perry’s paradise

Posted on 21 Feb 2013 | Leave a comment

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❚ THE TEAM BEHIND Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision Of Paradise need to raise $20,000 to finish a unique movie which promises to become a classic and tells a story of epic proportions. “It’s not a biography but rather a fairytale documentary,” says German film-maker Volker Schaner of his story about the 76-year-old Jamaican pioneer of reggae and dub. The director followed Perry for 13 years and discovered what he calls “a revelation, told about and with one of the major protagonists of contemporary music”. His encounter with “The Prophet” of the international Rastafari movement, will, he claims, create a movement that would be like a “spiritual revolution … to prepare a new paradise, a new world without problems”. Schaner is appealing through Kickstarter, the fundraising website, for your donation before March 5 to help finish the film and become part of it …

➢ Visit Kickstarter to help complete Volker Schaner’s
feature-length film

➢ Vision Of Paradise director’s appeal at YouTube

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➤ A rave for Alison Moyet’s comeback single – ‘my happiest studio experience’

Posted on 18 Feb 2013 | 1 comment
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Hello again, Alison Moyet: three-times Brit winner and Grammy nominee

➢ PJ’s verdict today: “Completely amazing in the 2010s – What we have before us in The Changeling is an extraordinary, very modern-sounding and effortlessly stylish comeback tune that teases Moyet’s first album in six years. You will note that her voice sounds completely sensational but that’s to be expected really isn’t it? The smart, decadent production is the work of Guy Sigsworth…”

➢ Utterly free download of Changeling, the first track to be premiered from a new album by 80s icon Alison Moyet – The Minutes is Alison’s first artist album since 2007 and was produced by Guy Sigsworth, known for his work with Robyn, Björk, Goldie and Madonna. The singer says: “I avoided listening to anything during the process of writing and recording this album, choosing instead to be lead by my own melodic voice, the one I now find myself with 30-years-in. Guy Sigsworth returns me to a programmer’s world and marries it with perfect musicality. I have been waiting for him. We have made an album mindless of industry mores that apply to middle-aged women and have shunned all talk of audiences, demographics and advert jazz covers. This has easily been my happiest studio experience.”

➢ 2012, NME names synth-duo Yazoo’s Only You as the 8th Greatest Song in Pop History

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➤ A glamorous date with Margot Fonteyn and a feast of fabulous frocks

Posted on 2 Feb 2013 | Leave a comment
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Shall we dance? Dame Margot Fonteyn’s ostrich feather evening coat by YSL at the Fashion Museum in Bath

❚ WOW FACTOR TIMES 50! The ostrich feather evening coat seen in close-up (above) and matching crystal and feather cocktail dress by Yves St Laurent (below) were owned by the English prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn and worn to go nightclubbing in the 1960s with her stage partner Rudolf Nureyev, the charismatic Russian dancer who had defected to work in the West. They are showing from today until end of the year in the exhibition, 50 Fabulous Frocks which have been chosen from a world-class collection of originals to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the council-run Fashion Museum in Bath. Dame Margot was a great supporter of the earlier Museum of Costume and donated a number of her personal clothes in the 60s.

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F-A-B: YSL crystal and feather cocktail dress and 17th-century silver tissue dress (Fashion Museum, Bath)

Rosemary Harden, principal curator of the museum, wants to show the richness of its collection through personal wardrobe moments and key landmarks in fashion history “ranging from our oldest piece, an exquisite 17th-century silver tissue dress, to one of the latest Burberry creations”.

The display also includes a gold embroidered Georgian court dress and a delicate 1870s gauze bustle day dress alongside an Ossie Clark trouser suit, the Chanel suit and stars of 20th-century couture – Schiaparelli, Poiret, Vionnet, Dior – plus today’s most desired names such as Erdem and John Rocha.

The Fashion Museum originated with Doris Langley Moore, a designer, collector, writer and scholar who gave her famous private collection of costume to the city of Bath. Recently it was listed by CNN as one of the world’s Top 10 fashion museums.

➢ 50 Fabulous Frocks runs from Feb 2 at the Fashion Museum, Bath

➢ Bath in Fashion 2013 is a week-long festival (April 13–21) showcasing celebrities such Norman Parkinson in a centenary exhibition, an illustration masterclass with David Downton, talks with Michael Jackson’s costume designer Michael Bush, and Sir Roy Strong. Plus catwalk shows and craft workshops

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➤ The world asks, Who is Boy George these days? And he answers

Posted on 30 Jan 2013 | Leave a comment

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“It did all right, Culture Club, but, you know, move on” – Boy George the ex-singer

“Dance music is probably the most exciting it’s been in years” – Boy George the deejay

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Philip Sallon partying with blue-faced George in 1980 when he was an obsessive record collector. (Photographed by Paul Sturridge)

❏ Feb 20 update: The new slimline beardie, tachioed George interviewed at the Brits:

“Twitter were very nice and got my name back [from somebody else] but Facebook won’t do it – so I actually don’t own my Facebook page. I’m Angela Gina Dust”

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