July 14th, 2011

Songs like ‘Vessel‘ are ideally played somewhere with a bit of space. A few acres to soak up the sound. A stadium arena would be nice, but a forest spread across a mountain might be more fitting. This music has something of the night and the wild about it.

You can hear the electric purr of The Cure; Joe Meek’s mad, eerie studio recording techniques; even a little of haunting blues spirituals of the early 20th century.

Video by award-winning director Simon Minett

Dave Stewart has admitted Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger initially thought the idea of forming a supergroup was ‘mad’ as the new project quickly gathered pace earlier this year.

Speaking to USA Today, Stewart described how he and Jagger first invited Joss Stone, Damian Marley and Indian musician-and-producer A.R. Rahman together for what would become SuperHeavy, and that Jagger soon came to wonder what they were getting themselves in for.

Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese has paid a glowing tribute to George Harrison, as a new two-part documentary, which is named after Harrison’s 1973 album ‘Living In The Material World‘  and charts the life and career of the late former Beatle, gets set to air on the HBO network in the autumn.

The Vaccines frontman Justin Young has said the current difficulties being felt by most guitar bands in breaking into the UK charts is not a concern, as those charts are no longer relevant.

Young was speaking with BBC Newsbeat on the commercial struggles of new bands, and insisted that the charts do not now reflect the standard of music being made in indie quarters.

Former Guns n Roses guitarist Slash has said he finds the level of interest and intrigue in his former band, which has sustained since he quit the group back in the Nineties, quite puzzling, and doesn’t understand why people continue to talk about them.