Attention Los Angeles fans…a 10 min. trailer for our film will screen at the film festival in Los Angeles, held at the wonderful .
It has now been confirmed to play on OPENING NIGHT before the film “GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY: A PORTRAIT OF JEFFERY LEE PIERCE AND THE GUN CLUB”. Thursday, June 29th at 8pm

This is NOT the EPK that is currently available on YouTube by the by…

Arctic Monkey Alex Turner had this to say in the latest issue of Hot Press…

‘Me two favourite songs at the moment are ‘Sheba’, which is by a 50s rock’n'roll band called Johnny & The Hurricanes, and Scott Walker’s version of Jacques Brel’s ‘Jackie’ - them lyrics are pretty smart!’

And

‘David Bowie came backstage in New York, which was more exciting for our manager Geoff than it was for us. If he’d brought Scott Walker with him though, I’d have been shitting meself!’

(Just a word to any skeptical film buyers out there in regards to the demographic appeal of this film…the Arctic Monkeys are all -barely- 20 year olds!)

and a free dvd of this film (when complete) to the first person to fully explain the multiple-references in the title of this post…

Album Press page continues to be updated, the latest being a wonderful, in-depth and detailed review/article by Thom Jurek for AllMusic.com…

” I’ve spent weeks playing The Drift, Scott Walker’s latest foray into dense, art-damaged composition, precise spatial construction, and process-oriented production. The Drift feels like a perverse funhouse mirror reflecting back individual and collective senses of dislocation, brokenness, and the unexpected, sometimes perverse places love exists inside, helping to facilitate redemption or disaster. The cracked language fragments that serve as lyrics offer distorted images and utterances a way to speak from the void and enter the world. In the album’s songs, Walker brings listeners meditations on history, real and imagined. But there are stories here, too; they are either forgotten, or never existed. ”

“He offers no place to run, no place to hide, only absence, littered space, and the wandering around of unseeable beings and buildings across the landscape, lifting the whole thing to the level of Shakespearean tragedy.”

the full article is

Also interesting to note - at , in their list of the top albums thus far of 2006, based on accumulated critic scores, The Drift is #2!

“breaking to where loaded icons wade…”
The nominees included the late Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Neil Young and Van Morrison but the 2006 Mojo Magazine ICON award was on our man Scott, the reports.

The award is voted for by MOJO readers and Mojo4music users - well done.