from The Tube to YouTube

we cut for 4 AD/Beggars Group now haunts the virtual ventricles of YouTube…interview excpepts, studio scenes…

So the USA must endure another Driftless week…all good things come to…haste makes…patience is a…

and so on.

in the meantime…the raves continue to roll in…check updated album press including a review from , the first I believe to categorize the album as ‘punk’ - I’ve always thought he was far more punk than most of what as punk these days.
and in the meantime…the edit of the film continues apace.  Grant Gee and I are huddled in Brighton hacking away, our man Jerry Chater working in tandem in the wilds of Battersea…a particularly moving moment emerged just recently…Ute Lemper listening to “Lullaby (By-by-by)”, which Scott wrote for her album .  She hadn’t head it in 5 years.  She is genuinely taken by surprise, and stops, utters a barely audible “wow” as the song soars…

Not that it should be news to anybody, but yes, the 11 year wait is OVER.  There it was on the New Releases shelf at the HMV in Victoria Station - I bought five.  Come on fellow UK-based Plastic Palace People…can we nudge our man Scott into the Top 20?  If a Scott & Walker Bros. best-of can enter the charts at #24…well, that’s saying something isn’t it?  So, well done all you die-hards, let’s knock that damned Snow Patrol down a few notches, and what’s with Pearl Jam and that bloody avocado album? Get lost you tired fuckers, make way for the Drifter…

US release is, as again, many of you know, delayed to the 21st or so - hold on…brace yourselves…