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11/02/2024

http://KEXP.ORG presents Kælan Mikla performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 18, 2019.Songs:Hvernig kemst ég upp?NæturblómDraumadísNótt eftir...

04/12/2023

Cruel World
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Glenn Campling has moved on but has given his full blessing for Diva Dompe to play bass and keyboards on this gig

26/10/2023

We are delighted to announce some of the guests, moreover incredible talent that have signed on to be featured on Lisa Gerrard and Marcello De Francisci’s upcoming album ‘The Poetry of Life’ thanks to a co-effort made by Fairfax City Music & Claudio Bustamante.

01. Phil Manzanera - Guitarist for the iconic English band ‘Roxy Music’ and recipient of the ‘Music Hall of Fame’ award.

02. Noémie Wolfs - Vocalist for the band ‘Hooverphonic’.

03. Denez Prigent - Renowned French singer who sang on the piece ‘Gortoz A Ran’ with Lisa Gerrard for the soundtrack to ‘Black Hawk Down’.

04. Tina Guo - Cellist extraordinaire and member of the ‘Hans Zimmer Live’ group.

05. Siobhan De Mare - Lead vocalist for the English band ‘Mono’.

06. Robbie Perry - Musician and member of ‘Dead Can Dance’.

07. Brice Amo - Solo Artist and Singer / Songwriter.

08. Marissa Stirpe - Poet & Performance Artist.

We are projecting for an early 2024 release. Thanks for tuning in. More news to come! Watch some of these featured artists interviews here:
https://www.youtube.com/fairfaxcitymusic

27/09/2023

20/09/2023

I’m very pleased to announce ‘Spirit Power, The Best Of Johnny Marr’, celebrating the first ten years of my solo career: https://JohnnyMarr.lnk.to/SpiritPowerFA

18/09/2023

Happy to be hosting BBC Radio 6 Music’s Artist In Residence show for the next two weeks. Tune in Monday to Thursday this week and next 8-9pm to listen to my picks.

11/08/2023

02/08/2023

The Cure's Play Out remastered in HD to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Wish in 2022. Stream the music of The Cure here: https://thecure.lnk.to/ListenIDExp...

28/07/2023

Hey Everyone!

Very happy to let you know that our album La Tragédie d’Oreste et Électre is released today for the first time on vinyl! The album is a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on crystal clear 180 gram audiophile vinyl. It includes a 16 page booklet containing all the story notes for the adaptation in both English and French. The album is being released by Music on Vinyl https://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/cranes Stockists in Europe can be found here: https://www.musiconvinyl.com/store-locator

La Tragédie D'Oreste Et Électre is the high-water mark of Cranes' work in a specifically high-art realm. Highlights from the release include "Danse D'Électre," a gentle piece that turns into a haunting wash of ambient sound, and the understated chills of "Au Temple”. Inspired by the play ‘Les Mouches’ by Jean-Paul Sartre, the album features music composed by Jim Shaw and original text from the play read by Alison.

25/07/2023

OH NEW YORK CITY, so much to answer for. 40 YEARS OF MORRISSEY over 4 NIGHTS AT UNITED PALACE THEATER. Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 24 Oct 25 celebrating THE SMITHS through today. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Purchase here: https://bit.ly/3Y43DHX

21/06/2023

Hi Everyone,

As some of you have discovered, Music On Vinyl are releasing (for the first time on vinyl) our 1996 album La Tragédie D’Oreste Et Électre.

The album is inspired by the play Les Mouches by Jean-Paul Sartre. It features a classical score by Jim Shaw with original text from the play, read by Alison. The record will be on high quality 180 gram audiophile vinyl, in a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on crystal clear vinyl.

The sleeve is deluxe heavyweight kraft cardboard and includes a 16-page booklet containing all the story notes for the adaptation in both English and French.
Although we are not selling it through our Bandcamp page this time it should be easy to order from many record shops throughout UK and Europe. The release date is July 28th, with pre-orders possible from today.

https://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/cranes/la-tragedie-doreste-et-electre

Click this link for the MOV Store Locator.
https://www.musiconvinyl.com/store-locator

03/06/2023

Yay!! Today is the release day for Peel Sessions 1989-1990! Here is an interview feature that we did for Bandcamp about the recording of Peel Sessions. daily.bandcamp.com/features/cranes-alison-shaw-interview-peel-sessions Hope you like it! And, as of today, June 2, you will be able to find the beautiful Dinked edition of the vinyl in your local indie record shops! We are happy to let you know that all of the vinyl and Cd pre-orders for Peel Sessions that you made from us via Bandcamp have now been despatched and your digital versions of the album are now available for download.
Thank you SO much for your support! We look forward to sharing more news with you soon!
Lots of love from Cranes xx

19/05/2023

23/04/2023

Just to let you know that there is to be a one hour Cranes special on NTS Radio - Temporal Cove www.nts.live
on Monday 24th April. Songs for part of the show chosen by Ali. Listen live at 12-1pm Pacific Time, 8-9pm UK time xx

12/03/2023

Album · 1996 · 11 Songs

07/03/2023

IF YOU HAVEN’T HAD ANY EMAILS FROM US OVER THE LAST 6 MONTHS, MAKE SURE YOU SIGN UP TO THE CURE MAILING LIST ASAP - BE THE FIRST TO GET NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS AT https://thecure.lnk.to/SignUpSR

03/03/2023

Hello!!!

It’s been such a long time!

Well, we honestly never thought this would happen but….

We are very happy to let you know about a new Cranes release on vinyl and for download!

Cranes - John Peel Sessions 1989-1990

The songs on this limited edition mini-album are from two sessions we recorded for BBC Radio's John Peel. The first session in July 1989 and the second in March 1990 at BBC Maida Vale. The album has been mastered at Abbey Road.

The album will be released on June 3rd 2023.

It is available for pre-order from today here:
https://cranes.bandcamp.com/album/peel-sessions-1989-1990

The first song (EG Shining) is available from today for listening on Bandcamp and all other streaming services

The album has artwork beautifully designed by Chris Bigg of 4AD Records/V23. The first 100 people to order directly from Cranes on Bandcamp will receive an extra 12’ x 12’ element of the artwork by Chris, signed by Ali and Jim and Mark and Matt.

Tracklisting

1. EG Shining
2. Focus Breathe
3. Starblood
4. Til Tomorrow
5. Da Da 331
6. Give
7. Inescapable

There is also a limited edition Dinkd Edition of the album with silver vinyl. The Dinkd Edition is available in Dinkd affiliated independent record shops in the UK…

For example, our local record shop in Southsea:

Pie and Vinyl Records
https://www.pandvrecords.co.uk/product-category/dinked-edition/

Full list of Dinkd stockists (UK independent record shops) : https://dinkededition.co.uk/shops

We are also very happy to show you the video for EG Shining, edited by our very own Mark Francombe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVCXdltzdUI

We are so excited to let you know about these things! And there’s even more news coming a little later in the year!

As mentioned above, Cranes are now on Bandcamp and this is where you can find info about and purchase new releases, mailorder items, vinyl and album downloads. If you’d like to hear about our new releases and future plans etc, please follow us here:

https://cranes.bandcamp.com/follow_me

Also:

https://www.facebook.com/cranes.music.official
https://www.instagram.com/cranes
https://cranes.bandcamp.com
https://twitter.com/CranesOfficial

Lots of love and we really hope to see you again some time soon!

Cranes ###

18/02/2023

SHOW - 30th ANNIVERSARY 2LP RELEASE FOR Record Store Day
THE CURE IN CONCERT - FIRST TIME ON PICTURE DISC
RECORDED LIVE AT THE PALACE, AUBURN HILLS, MICHIGAN USA
REMASTERED BY ROBERT SMITH & MILES SHOWELL
- APRIL 22ND

28/01/2023

12/01/2023

Part 24:

Shantell was released in September 1983. We were pleased with it, it was a simple song but had depth, it was well recorded and produced and it didn’t sound like anyone else. One of the British music papers gave it a review that was neither good nor bad, it wasn’t played on the radio and it didn’t enter the indie charts let alone the national charts. In a typical example of his humour Justin likened it to us lighting a firework that shot up into the sky and as we waited for the explosion nothing happened.

We had hoped for but hadn’t really expected anything more, despite Chris Berry’s outrageously optimistic predictions. This determined positivity of his was totally alien to us, particularly us Jones boys who have a tendency to gravitate the other way, but we played along and when Chris insisted that we write and release another, more radio friendly single straight away we were happy to give it a try.

So for one of the very few times in our existence we set out to try and write a commercially viable song. Musical ideas came quickly and we settled on another based around a twelve string acoustic guitar piece. The most problematic thing was finding a good vocal melody, arguably the most important ingredient.

I’d started to learn that as a lyricist I needed to be on the lookout for inspiration anywhere and everywhere, all the time. As a result, a cover of the Sunday Times magazine I had recently seen with the heading ‘Swimmer in a secret sea’ resurfaced as an idea for the title. It was actually an article accompanying groundbreaking microphotography of the human embryo but as our song ‘Midnight Garden’ had already touched on that subject my eventual lyrics revolved around adolescent dreamscapes.

I worked hard at finding a vocal melody and found many… mostly terrible, some of which still haunt me. In the end it was Steven who found the best tune so I worked my words around that. We wrote and re-wrote that song again and again throughout the autumn under a strip light in The Dairy with it’s bricked up windows hiding the changing leaves blowing across the big, overgrown garden and finally went down to London to record it at Southern Studios, where the renowned anarchist punk band ‘Crass’ and other bands on their label recorded.

The studio was in a terraced house in Wood Green in the North of the city. We recorded in a room at the front of the house, the control room was in a large soundproofed shed in the garden. Lol Tolhurst was with us again to produce and it was our first meeting and work with a very talented young sound engineer/producer with short, neat, blond hair and steel rimmed spectacles called David Motion who would go on to produce some well known singles and albums.

Once Lol had added some keyboards and he and David had worked on the mix and production ’The Secret Sea’ sounded like quite a catchy 7 inch single. The B side was a kind of cut up, experimental scratch mix of the A side… fashionable at the time but I have rarely played it since then so have no idea if it’s even listenable. We insisted on doing the sleeve artwork ourselves and used a black and white photograph of me in silhouette looking for shells on a beach in Wales.

We were also at the height of the 12 inch extended mix era, so later we went back into the studio and did one - which was fun. I’m not sure how I feel about such mixes now, many were done just because it was the done thing and in the hope they would get played in clubs. I have a feeling it became formulaic and over indulgent but some were unquestionably masterpieces in themselves - my personal favourites were ‘Bela Lugosi’s dead’ by Bauhaus, ‘Headache’ by the Au Pairs and ‘I feel love’ by Donna Summer. New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ was a huge hit and without doubt a classic but it wasn’t what I wanted from the remains of Joy Division.

Once, when we picked up Lol for a recording session he invited us into his apartment to see The Cure’s video for their new single called ‘Love Cats’ - it wasn’t exactly what I wanted or expected from them either, but it made us laugh and was a brilliant pop song. ‘The Secret sea’ was certainly not a brilliant pop song but it was a decent effort. People liked it, we liked it. It was ignored by the British music press and wasn’t played on the radio but this didn’t really bother us as things were moving fast now.

At the end of October we went back to Southern Studios to record an album which we would eventually decided to simply call ‘and also the trees’. We stayed at a run down hotel on the Seven Sisters road and each morning met up with Lol and David Motion who worked brilliantly together. We were full of energy, it was a good studio and they were exciting times.

I hadn’t thought about the link when I started writing this chapter but funnily enough my strongest memory of Lol is of a moment when we’d decided to take a break after a long session recording some extra sounds for the song ‘The Tease the Tear’ which involved violently shaking a suitcase full of cymbal stands.

It was just after dusk and we’d wandered out into a back alley and were standing around smoking and feeling like something between a group of mobsters and a bunch of truant schoolboys when Lol came walking back towards us from the newsagents where, being close to Guy Fawkes night, he’d bought a small box of fireworks. I can see him now, taking out the rocket and laughing as he held it up, lit the blue touch-paper and sent it up into the orange tinted London night. This firework did, modestly, explode.

SHJ

27/12/2022

Today, 40 Years Ago... Right about now on 26th December 1982 we're preparing to go on-stage. It's our 3rd gig as Alien S*x Fiend at The Lyceum in London. (We'd played The Batcave on 1st Dec, then a Batcave night at Heaven on 13th Dec.)
This event was held on Boxing Day as an alternative Christmas with 6 bands on the bill. Our stage time was 6.15pm! Which was early but Under Two Flags were on even earlier at 5.30pm! This was the first time that Nik used "the make up"!

13/11/2022

"In our excavation work while remodelling the house of Trussardi, we view history as non-linear and chaotic. It's a meeting of past and future, dreams and pr...

27/10/2022

Cranes formed in 1985 in Portsmouth, England by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw

09/09/2022

Lisa will be performing an extraordinary piece alongside the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Paul Grabowsky in October. Tickets are still available for Immortal Diamond on the 5th October.

Purchase Tickets: https://bit.ly/3QltFB2

“Immortal Diamond borrows its title from a poem of Gerard Manley Hopkins, called That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and the Comfort of Resurrection, in which his unforgettable final lines describe his relationship to Christ:
since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
Is immortal diamond

This beautiful poem, full of extraordinary sound pictures, provides the inspiration for a sound world in which Lisa Gerrard will range freely, one that speaks of the power of spiritual love and renewal. The music will ebb and flow slowly like a tide, the orchestra and sixteen wordless singers embedded within it will wrap around her voice, occasionally falling away to the ruminations of the piano as it continues accompanying a song that—in a sense—has no beginning and no end.”

— Paul Grabowsky AO, MSO Composer in Residence

19/08/2022

And Also The Trees' new album 'The Bone Carver' will be available for presale from Friday 19 August 2022 - shipping from 30 August. Purchase from the website www.andalsothetrees.co.uk.
As always, thank you for your support.

29/06/2022

Fields of The Nephilim are happy to announce that they will be performing The Nephilim in full on 3 special shows this December.

Tickets >>> https://bit.ly/FOTNTOURUK22