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<description><![CDATA[FINALLY we are pleased to present the definitive interview with Nick McCabe, former guitarist for Verve, exclusive to Excellent Online!Nick McCabe refused interview requests from NME and Rolling Stone. So how the hell did we score the chance to talk to him? Here's the story:Just before the Verve broke up (for the first time) in 1995, Ajay created the first unofficial Verve web site. Throughout 1996 there were rumors flying that the Verve had reformed without Nick. On October 15, 1996, Ajay received a tape featuring six new tracks from the &quot;new&quot; band. To back up this report on the unofficial site, the tracks were posted online for fans to hear proof. Immediately after going live with the new material, Simon Jones's wife Myra called Ajay at 2 a.m., asking where the tapes had come from. As the envelope the tape had come in had already been thrown away, her question couldn't be answered - but instead of being angry about it, she offered more information, telling Ajay that the new band name was undecided and the album would be out in early 1997.In late 1997, Urban Hymns is about to be released. Via other fans privy to promo copies, Ajay received an advance of the album and posted the track listing, including the bonus track &quot;Deep Freeze&quot;. Just that little bit of info really upset the Verve camp, who ordered the removal of that information from the site - which Ajay did immediately upon receiving their request. Despite this, rumors began circulating that the Verve were referring to Ajay as an &quot;uncontrollable element&quot; and that he was called a &quot;tosspot&quot; on Radio 1.In the summer of 1998, Nick quit touring with the Verve. The band replaced him with several different musicians in order to finish a U.S. tour and European festival dates. That October, Ajay received a letter from EMI asking him to remove all sound files, images, guitar tabs, and lyrics from his site. Ajay, realizing this would effectively kill his site, chose to plow forward as is, and strangely enough never heard from EMI again.Then, in spring of 1999, the Verve really broke up. The day after the official announcement, Ajay began receiving emails from someone claiming to be Nick McCabe. As the messages were coming from a hotmail account and it was easiest to assume they were from some prankster, the emails went ignored. But the person was persistent to the point where Ajay wrote back, &quot;If you're the real Nick McCabe, call me!&quot; That night around 11 p.m., Ajay got a call from Nick McCabe.The two talked via phone and email for a few weeks, during which Ajay found out the story behind EMI's sudden retreat after insisting he shut down his site. When Nick found out what the record company was doing, he went to David Boyd, head of Hut Records, and asked what was going on, saying, &quot;This [site] is the reason people are turning up to the gigs and you're trying to shut it down!&quot; It was through Nick's persistence that the unofficial Verve site was saved.Soon after Nick had called Ajay, he stated his desire communicate a message to Verve fans via Ajay's site. Ajay asked for the opportunity to conduct a proper interview in person, and Nick agreed. And so on Thursday, June 24, 1999, at 2:30 p.m. we found ourselves face-to-face with Nick McCabe at the Marquees of Queensbury pub.It's been a long, hard roada4for both this interview and Nick McCabe. The time that's gone by (which seemed like a lifetime to those of you waiting for, panting over, and incessantly demanding this interview) has been spent in a whirlwind of transcription, spell checking, name checking, fact checking, retyping, and condensing. It's been crazy; but then again, Nick's life is even crazier. Read all about it.LYG: What prompted you to email Ajay, to first get in contact with him?McCabe: It was a bit twisteda4I thought I might have a friend. I dunno, I justa4In one of my first emails I said to you, &quot;You do [the web site] without any pay, you're a fan and you care enough about the band to do it for free.&quot; Well, it's just like it was something special in the old days. It was something worth talking about, and I think about these people that take the bother to write and post about it.I went purely out of vanity to see if it was all worthwhile. My sort of fantasy was that people were in their bedrooms listening to the music that we were making and were in the similar mindset. They would be like distant friends that we'd probably never meet. People that think like we do. It's just, &quot;My breed exists,&quot; you know what I mean?I make music whether I get a paycheck or not. You probably get like two bucks off bootlegs or something; it's not a business concern. You just started it. I don't want to sound bombastic about it, like you started a movement or something, for the lack of a better word. It was your three favorite bands [the Verve, Adorable, and Swervedriver] at the time and that's what you started. I think that's cool. I'm glad that people notice. It's great that there's a handful of people that are really into it. AS: It's crazy - in San Francisco there were people who had come from all over to see you perform. Then the same in LA - everybody's talking about where to meet up before the show. It's just great.McCabe: It's the last neighborhood! Have you seen Talk Radio? He says something like it's the last neighborhood, like it's a bunch of psychopaths and mentally ill and the like. It's communal, isn't it?You don't meet many people that you can call friends, but it's like there's something about that thing - the only thing you know about the other person is that you share this. I think that's part of getting old - that you stop being into things. It's what keeps you young, really. I'm looking a bit haggard now, but a lot of people that I went to school with I haven't seen them since I was twenty years old and they've just rolled over and died.Anyone that likes music is lucky, really. It doesn't have to be music - it can be anything. Just give a damn about something, instead of just existing.LYG: Just existing instead of hoping for something better. That's what music does for a lot of people. If you're really into music it just gives you hope.McCabe: I feel I've got to that point where hope isa4I mean money is fuckin' nothing to me. You know what I mean? But by the end of the day I don't really worry about the day. I don't have to plan my days.I don't think people know how to have fun anymore. They think it's all pretty silly. I think of it as the Greeksa4I mean the Greeks were like the primo race for a while. If you go to Greece, they're all really down. The British Empire, everybody is so backward now. Nobody does anything, makes anything. You can see it in people's eyes.LYG: How did you become a guitarist - was it what you were first interested in?McCabe: No, I don't even like guitars! I like synthesizers. I got my first one when I was fourteen and I liked ita4then I picked up a guitar. I tried to do it my own style, just wanting to make the guitar sound more like a synthesizer.I'm not a big guitar fan. I never set out to be a guitarist. I like things that sound a bit muddy, like Eddie Hazel, the guy out of Funkadelic. I wanted to do everything at once. It was always frustrating, really - I wanted a big stack of toys that I can play with and just make a bunch of noises instead it was like, &quot;You're the guitarist, you're gonna play guitars.&quot; There's loads of stuff with me and Si [Simon Jones, Verve bassist] in the old days - just dickin' about with Casio keyboards - that sounds really good because we were sticking them through effects.LYG: Now that you're on your own, are you able to do the stuff you want to do?McCabe: I've always done that anyway. I've probably got a good thirty tapes worth of stuff just sitting in a cupboard. Whether I'll do anything with that I don't know. But it was like that with the Verve, which was just a day job, really. At the start, me, Si, and Sobbo [Pete Salisbury, Verve drummer] used to get together every night of the week, every week of the year, and we'd just go and playa4 We recorded everything we did, and we used to go out with headphones and listen to what we did.It was exciting! It was a night out - going out, getting some friends into it and just playing. As it progressed and got a bit morea4a bit more of touring, you get a bita4 The time is allocated so you get stuck in it. It's like, &quot;I can't play now because we got a gig coming up.&quot;So I just do my stuff at home. Someone described it as electro, but it's not - it's sort of abstract. It's probably in a similar vein to what I was doing with guitar, but a bit more fleshed out. I've been doing that stuff all along and since people have expressed interest in putting my stuff out, I may as well get some money out of it.LYG: Do you feel that your experience with Verve has prepared you for doing your solo work?McCabe: I didn't benefit from it more than anyone else, really. (pause) Again, this is the reputation that you get for being shagged out of it - fuckin' bollocks. Thing is that I'm bit too polite for my own good. I just sat there, took all the shit, and let everybody behave like toddlers. I've been through this cynical jaded business for three years, but now, whatever happens, I rise above it. If you came to me two years ago, I might have been really upset, really negative about it... I do feel like the storm trooper, though.LYG: It's amazing that all of this happened to you so young.McCabe: Yeaha4it's probably better, though. If there was anything different about us, it was because we had that lack of respect that you get when you older. You've got that sort of arrogance - &quot;No, we're not doing that, we're doing this!&quot; You know what I mean?I had a cushy job, I had money coming in, and I went to Sobbo and said, &quot;No - this doesn't make me happy until I do this, and make this work.&quot; And to a large extent I did make it work. If I never made a penny out of it, it still would've been a good thing to do. You get tired of it really, just sticking you neck out, or getting it chopped off as well. (grinning) It grows back, though.LYG: What things about the industry would you like to see younger musicians do away with?McCabe: Well, you know the band Witness? It's one of my best friends from years ago; it's all gone sour now. They had some great tunes and I used to go out drinking with them all the time. My thing is that people sort of create their own judging rules, this mystification about themselves, and I enjoy popping the bubble. And I like deadpan humor, and to deadpan people. We know a lot of people around us that are just full of shit and it's really satisfying just to-- [serious deadpan expression] You know what I mean, and watch thema4AS: Squirm.McCabe: (laughing) Yeah, squirm. Because that's what it is. A lot of people try to elevate themselves into a position of importance. The thing about music is that people like chopping ice and playing telephone when they get home and that's about as glorious as it gets. It's just something that you do, work and play. I find it all ridiculous really - I mean, we suffered through Richard [Ashcroft, lead singer of the Verve] making all his grand claims and I think people were justa4 I'm just so diametrically opposed to that. I like things to be stripped of bullshit. You're more receptive to music if you don't know what's coming. He's just making ridiculous claims.LYG: So anything that you do will most likely be on done independently?McCabe: Well, I really don't know. It's all just a big quandary, really, because Richard signed a &quot;leaving member&quot; clause, and we're still the Verve - we're still together as the Verve. But he [Richard Ashcroft] signed the leaving [contract] and has gone solo on Virgin.He's obviously golden boy, so they're talking about this performance that me and Si are doing, saying, &quot;You know, I don't think we're gonna want to put out anything before Richard does his records.&quot; I can see them sort of delaying stuff. Get the Richard Ashcroft record out - that could be four years from now or that could be never - and then maybe they'll think about putting our stuff out. So at the moment this ambient thing that I'm doing is licensed to another label. I think that seems like the wisest thing to do.LYG: And that won't conflict with your commitment with Virgin?McCabe: No.LYG: That's cool.McCabe: It seems like the only way around it really. We've still got Virgin demanding that we supply them with two finished Verve albums.AS: Virgin still wants Verve albums?McCabe: Yeah.AS: Without the lead singer?McCabe: Maybe not as &quot;The Verve&quot; but from the three remaining members on the contract - that's Sobbo, Si and myself. We can use a different namea4but Sobbo plays with Richard now.AS: And Tong isn't even on the contract?McCabe: Yeah.LYG: That's messed up.McCabe: It's all so fuckin' sinister.LYG: It's so odd that you can't properly distribute your music, or distribute to as many people as you want to, unless you get allied with some mega-company. Yet that just completely ties you up.McCabe: I was thinking of doing - I know it sounds cheesy - but like multimedia stuff. There's bits of video that I'm putting together myself. I hate to use the word &quot;ambient,&quot; but that's the label you can put on the stuff that I'm doing; it's pretty abstract. It's not that pretty - it's quite strange. That's the kind of thing that I'm into. Not really the pop stuff. Like we were talking about the Joy Division record - you get that record, put your headphones on and you're in another world. I dunno - there's nothing special about getting a pop CD, is there? You get a CD, skip through -AS: That's why you get vinyl. I still have Storm in Heaven on vinyl.McCabe: You've got that on vinyl?AS: Of course!McCabe: I haven't got that on vinyl.AS: (laughing) I'll go down to Camden and buy you a copy.LYG: Maybe multimedia is the next wave.McCabe: It's a buzzword, isn't it? It's so easy for things to get misconstrued, because you say &quot;multimedia&quot; and then there's this DVD thing that's out there, which is supposed to be better. My multimedia idea was a straightforward book and a really good piece of vinyl, like a big thick piece of vinyl.But now it's getting a bit gimmicky - &quot;Nice plastic molded box fit thing,&quot; you know. It's just marketing, so now the price has gone up to 80 quid. (laughing) I can't really see myself buying it. I was thinking about production costs of burning a CD and trying to find the cheapest way to do it and maybe start up a web site, do the rights and then have people buy direct from me.AS: You remember Carter USM?McCabe: Yeah.AS: Well, the guitarist, Fruitbat, is doing that. He started his own band and people just send him five bucks and he presses the CD's.McCabe: Does he keep it afloat though? Does he at least break even?AS: I believe so, yeah. The five bucks cover the production costs.McCabe: Yeah, that's an easy way to do it.AS: I asked him if he had a problem getting a label and just didn't want to deal with the industry anymore. He said that he just wants to make the music and deal with the fans.McCabe: Trouble is that people in the business will tell you - because it's such a gray area - &quot;Umm, it's really trickya4&quot; They just need to create an excuse for why they cannot do it. In my experience, you typically find out after the fact that you could've made things so much easier if you trusted your instinct.I can't really say which way I'm gonna go. We were talking about that stuff when the Verve was going. Urban Hymns was filled with ballads and I'm not into ballads. Me and Si used to do jams and we thought, &quot;I know what we could do - every three months we put out a record of jams.&quot; I mean, if I had a choice of Verve records, that's what I'd be buying.LYG: Definitely.McCabe: Stuff like the Longest Day and Stamped. Have you heard Stamped?AS: Yes, I've got all the singles.McCabe: They came out of forty-minute jams but because you've got this restriction of a single that you'd like to get to chart, the whole thing has to be no more then twenty-five minutes or something like that. But that's what I'd buy - stuff like that.AS: That's what the labels care about - chart placement more than anything else.McCabe: It's just so bloody crass. There are different ways of doing it but you got to follow it like it's this cookie cutter: &quot;Here, this is a single. This is an album.&quot; We wanna do vinyl and they get all, &quot;Well, I dunno, you want vinyl? It's expensive, and I'm gonna have to get different packaging anda4&quot; It's like they start cringing and all. It's like, &quot;No, we want fuckin' vinyl - do it!&quot; It's simple man. I took it to Virgin, actually because they were being dicks about it.AS: Were you getting upset that all the Urban Hymns singles were not being pressed on vinyl?McCabe: They're on vinyl now.AS: But at the beginning they weren't.McCabe: It's another way to screw the fans, isn't it? I mean, I wouldn't go back and sell you those B-sides. Basically I feel like we took a piss out of people with our records. The whole two-CD release thing? We were forced to do that because it gets the chart placement a bit higher. People who want the music would buy both CDs. Just taking the fuckin' piss out of it.AS: The History single was the first one that did that. I was like, &quot;Two CDs?! Well, I don't have a choicea4&quot; And I spent twenty bucks on both of them, and on every single one since.McCabe: I objected to it at the time, but at the end of the day, I'm gonna do it. I've got to get paid, you know what I mean? And they got all these brilliant reasons for whya4 I'm not so ideological to be like - it'd be nice for me to say, &quot;Oh, yeah, I just do it for the music.&quot; Even if it's the only way I'm gonna get paid, I wanna get paid.LYG: You have to live.McCabe: I've been on a hundred quid a week since I was eighteen. It's not a lot of money. I spent a year and half on the dole on the fuckin' benefits when I was sacked. Just went down to the dole office every morning.You've got this thing that you've got to worry about - it's your life span and you might get ten years, fifteen years, twenty years if you're really stupid. And all these fat cats are still giving it away for like thirty years. I was always going to get out of it before I was thirty. I'm twenty-eight this year - I'm getting fuckin' old. I want me life! I'm going to be on my pension in a bit! (laughing)It's a bit scary, actually, just being left in the dark. I've got a lot of tax billsa4no accountants, no management and the tax bills coming after you.LYG: It's the classic story of everybody taking advantage of the artist, but maybe it's that kind of misery that helps you to create.McCabe: Well, I knew the score before I got into it, but all the stuff about me being paranoid was bullshit really. At the time, I was the only one saying, &quot;John Best, he's a piss-taker, know what I mean?&quot; And everybody said, &quot;Eh? Wot? He's alright. He's a nice lad.&quot; I was the only one going, &quot;These people are businessmen, they're not music fans&quot;. They're just fuckin' businessmen. I knew the score. I got ten good years out of it and if someone will buy my music, then I'll fuckin' sell it.LYG: Do you miss playing live?McCabe: Yeah, I miss playing live, but I don't miss touring. I want to tackle this club down here; me and Si have been talking about it for years and years now. I've even been thinking about doing it in Wigan. An ex-girlfriend of mine ran a pub in Wigan and it got me thinking; she invited me down there to play one night, just get a loose collective of people just jamming. I'm not talking about blues guitar or anything like that, but sort of like a hip-hop vibe kinda thing. Like a partyish thing - you know, you just ring someone up and say, &quot;Would you like to come down and play tonight?&quot; Just doing something different.Have you heard Kraftwerk? The early Kraftwerk is the thing. I do like the later stuff as well, but early on they were in a bit of a trippy bohemian scene; it was a bit crazy really. They have this self-sufficiency ethic and had this network of musicians that basically just took over parties in Germany. It was their own thing - they existed without the support of English labels or anything.Seeing dance bands or DJ's play is a compromise of my perfect night out. My perfect night out would be seeing loads of stuff happening all over the place without being opportunist about it - just have something special, like Pere Ubu was back in the seventies. They used to play on the docks in Cleveland. Maybe I'm being a bit romantic about it a4cause I wasn't therea4 But it just sounds like something that I want, something of me own with my friends.LYG: Is that what you aim for when you record?McCabe: Yeah. The key to music is create like a child and edit like a scientist. I've been living my life to that! You have your fun and then you apply hindsight to it.AS: What's the best gig you ever had, the best time on stage?McCabe: [instantly] Southampton, the Joiners.AS: Wow - that was easy!McCabe: Yeah, it was the best one I ever had. There were about 50 people, my hair was standing on edgea4It was one of those things where the magic was really happening that night. It was a little tiny pub, probably smaller that this, and I think everyone knew they were watching something special happening. I don't mean to sound bigheaded but it's was just like, &quot;Fuckin' hell!&quot;AS: Do you have videos or any footage of when you guys played?McCabe: I probably got two videos to my name, Verve videos. I haven't got the records - I just give a4em to people - &quot;Do you want it?&quot; I got the B-sides compilation, No Come Down. Occasionally I listen to that.AS: Yeah, it's got the live Gravity Grave.McCabe: They were good times. Oh, the nostalgia - the good ole' days. The anniversary days are coming right up.LYG: All those years agoa4McCabe: Best years of me life. Now I'm just gonna wait to die out.LYG: Nothing left for you anymore.McCabe: Just going to sit in a pub for the rest of my days. (laughing) I do that anyway.We used to drive ourselves. I think that's probably when it's stops being fun anymore - when you stop driving. We'd all pile in the van and be giddy - we were dead excited. We had like four transit vans with bus seats and the manager's dad got the seats in the back. You probably got like two people on there - you know, a bum cheek on the seats. I used to fall asleep like that. It was really freezing, really fucked up.Clapham Grand was another good one as well. It was another night wherea4 See, the thing about the later gigs was that when I came off, I was sweating but I didn't feel disturbed. The earlier gigs, when I came off I was jittering - I couldn't talk. Some sort of chemical thing was happening in my braina4it was probably because I was smoking all this weed or something.That's a funny thing, really. I mean Si Jones can get up in the morning and smoke a4til he goes to bed. He's always under control. You can never tell when he's high. With me, I can't evena4They must be on a four-year span or something, and then it stops being fun. It's like, &quot;Why am I doing this? Stop it, it's stupid!&quot;AS: So Si's not coming down?McCabe: He's Mister Domesticated now. He's getting his garden sorted out. He's got a real nice place.LYG: What's he doing?McCabe: He's working with me. We're doing a film soundtrack. Do you know Iain Banks? I guess you can say he's a predecessor to Irving Welsh in a way. Irving Welsh made it a bit more garish. [Banks] does these twisted little psychological horror stories - there's no actual horror, it's just really twisted, you know what I mean? Some of it's borderline science fiction, some of it's not. He's got a real whacked sense of humor. This [film] is called Complicities. It's pretty fuckin' weird.AS: Have you seen the Acid House movie?McCabe: I've not actually, no. Shit?AS: I've read the book and it was great, and the movie came out in England, I'm waiting for it to come out in America. I figure that I'm here and that someone's had to seen it.McCabe: Is it out?AS: Yeah, it came out last year.McCabe: I don't remember any big fanfare for it or anything.AS: You guys were on the soundtrack.McCabe: Are we? (laughing) I was never asked about that. Do you like Irving Welsh stuff?AS: Yeah.McCabe: He and Banks' stuff is really good. Irving Welsh sort of took Iain Banks' thing a bit further.AS: It's a bit too difficult to read at the beginning but once you get into it, it's really good. It's not in English - it's written with a Scottish accent.McCabe: You have to decipher it first.AS: Thank God that when I read the Trainspotting book it had a glossary in the back so you can look up what all the terms are.McCabe: Have you ever met a real Glaswegian? I think Billy Connelly said it: &quot;A pissed-up Glaswegian is like being growled at by a Alsatian.&quot; I man, they're all right until they get a bit pissed and it's like [makes grumbling noises]. Glasgow's a good town, but it's a bit stereotypical. I went up there with my girlfriend and we got there at three in the afternoon and they were loads of people on &quot;special brew&quot;. There were people stumbling about at three in the afternoon. It's a good night out.AS: It's a good day out, apparently.McCabe: [For Complicities], we thought we were going to do a lot more music on it, but it's been scored already by some proper Hollywood orchestra. So we are doing a track in the middle of the mix. It's nice and scary. I was thinking along the lines of Stamped. You know, evil-like.LYG: What will it sound like - the Verve stuff or very different?McCabe: Well, I think it's not like the Vervea4I never really liked strings. I mean, you put strings in your song to make it sound posh. I don't like posh records. I like what strings do, but I don't like what they say. You know, &quot;We got strings now, we're big&quot;. I like music to be dirty, dirty music. The [Verve] demos are really the definitive versions. (pause) Quite sad, reallya4AS: What is?McCabe: Quite sad, that's my life! I've not done anything.AS: The demos are classics but the albums -McCabe: Yeah, the albums just misseda4We took a left turn somewhere.AS: On all of the albums?McCabe: The best stuff we did really was spur-of-the-moment stuff. Because I've got a thing about rooms, I think a lot of stuff that we wrote was influenced by the very room that we were in. I got sucked into them. Two months later I thought, &quot;That's why the record doesn't sound right, because we can't get the room anymore.&quot; We've got like fifty grand worth of reverbs and Mexican shita4We did that for Man Called Sun. On the last day we were so fucked - total desperation - &quot;I know, we'll stick microphones all over the room.&quot; And [the engineers and producers] were looking at us like we were a bunch of pricks but that's what you hear - people always try to convince you that they know better.AS: Do you have a favorite producer that you worked with, or did you always want to produce all your own material?McCabe: Chris Potter is nice - genius. I never actually met Youth.AS: Oh yeah, that's right. He was done before you even got there.McCabe: But I spent like seven months on the record. Basically the key tracks were recorded from scratch, but some of them were already there. The Drugs Don't Work was re-recorded. I wish I'd never played on that.Chris Potter was just a classic gentleman, a nice bloke. Sometimes he gets a bit touchy, though. You know that sound on Stormy Clouds - the sort of whiny high-pitched stuff? I only found out a little while ago that that's an Eventide harmonizer. Problem is that it's an Eventide clich. Like, fuck that!AS: What about working with John Leckie - did you have a lot of expectations because he did the Stone Roses record?McCabe: I just found it really difficult. I had something in my mind, he had something in his, and I generally ended up doing it somewhere in the middle. It got to the point to where he would come out and start fiddling with my amp. I'd wait for him to turn his back and then I'd put it back.It's ridiculous really. I don't really think he knows how to record guitars. I mean the Radiohead album The Bends - it's lumpy, a bit clumsya4clunky as far as I'm concerned. I love the band but I don't think he did it justice. The Roses is just a brilliant band anyways so you can't really go wrong with them, except that one chorus where everything is bullshit.It turned out to be a good record. What were we, twenty? I was twenty; I'm the oldest. It could've been better, and I knew that at the time.AS: Butterfly? You're happy with Butterfly?McCabe: See things like thata4things like that -AS: To me, [Storm in Heaven] is the perfect album except for Butterfly.McCabe: You don't like that one.AS: I don't like that one. It's justa4McCabe: Clumsy. It's clumsy, isn't it?AS: It seems like it was -McCabe: Bashed out.AS: Yeah, like someone said, &quot;Okay, we need another song for the album,&quot; you go into the studio and bam - two hours later, Butterfly comes out. That's what it seems like to me. I don't know if you guys spent four weeks or -McCabe: It wasn't done in a montha4but it was bashed out. It was me and Richard in a room with a Steely Dan loop. This is the kind of thing that we were putting up with - a Steely Dan loop. Me playing mandolin? (pause) All right, yeah, I'll play it. What the fuck were we doing with a Steely Dan loop going on in the backgrounda4I'm just making bonker noises, hitting my guitar, stoned out of me mind as wella4it's fuckin' three o'clock in the morning and me going, &quot;What am I doing here? Girlfriend is pregnanta4It's snowing outside and you have to walk down the fuckin' railway just to get to the shops.&quot; Now it's four o'clock and we're going, &quot;Hey, we got another tune for the album.&quot; Ugly, I dunnoa4I think it's good. It was good fun playing it. I don't mind. I think it has a big sort of kick on it. There wasn't any finesse at all, but I reckon you can still call it great. Basically I like everything that sounds bonkers.LYG: What bands are you listening to now?McCabe: Expensive Shit. I bought this album on recommendation a while back. Do you know the Meters? They're a Seventies band. I remember reading an interview with the drummer of the Meters and he saw Fela Kuti in '73 and it saved his life. I sat in a taxi two weeks ago and this guy was playing Fela Kuti and I couldn't believe it, I was like, &quot;What is this you're playing?&quot;LYG: When you guys started playing and recording your stuff, did you discover what musicians you've been influenced by?McCabe: I went back and did my homework by listening to a lot of older records - it's a research thing. There are a lot of shit records and a few diamonds and it was a quest for that perfect record. I still do it occasionally; one day I'm going to find a perfect record. When I start writing I'd like to make something that I would buy, otherwise the records wouldn't be mine.I subconsciously find myself nicking all these things - I come back to something that I've done two years ago. I was putting a portfolio together and you can tell what I was listening to at that time. It was probably a bit fuckin' dumb, but at the time I thought I was doing something really original, you know what I mean? I bought stuff with bagpipes all over it. I mean, they're really beautiful tunes but it's like, &quot;Why the fuck did I buy this?&quot;It's really frustrating because I'm trying to find something and all I find is this stupid shit. I've probably got three hours of music that I'm definitely going to something with. I've got a good couple of hours of music. I've got this gadget - it's the ultimate lazy man's toy. It's this delay unit that's got a thirty-second delay and I use it on all the ambient stuff that I do. I got like fifteen minutes worth of this thirty-second loop going around. It's sort of like working with Q-base. You press the pedal, play a little bit, press it again and you stop it. It's like a multi-track recorder on a loop. And then you play a little bit more, you hit the pedal, and stick it on. And because you're in a loop, somehow things start sounding music-wise. I mean, I've got a good two hours worth of that stuff as well. Just sitting there watching Springer on telly with the microphone and a cup of tea. I listened back to it and say, &quot;Wow, this good shit!&quot;LYG: Five years from now you're going to listen to that and go, &quot;Shit, I can tell I was listening to Jerry Springer when I did that!&quot;AS: San Francisco was the last [Verve] show I saw, and you weren't there. It was okay, but it was just like they were going through the motions.McCabe: I was, actually. Virtually. I told you about me being sampled, didn't I?AS: Sampled!LYG: I didn't know that.McCabe: Si only told me about it two weeks ago. All those American gigs - the guy playing all the octapads - they sampled all the live guitars. I should get royalties. (laughing) Disgraceful, isn't it?AS: So they kick you out and they took all your riffs.McCabe: Wella4 I went to Si and asked, &quot;How were you guys doin' stuff like Come On?&quot;AS: Yeah, there's like a million guitars in there. The loops and delays, I can see you doing it, but no one else. Richard, no.McCabe: He told me, &quot;Yeah, we sampled you.&quot; I was like &quot;What?!&quot; Fuckin' outrageous.AS: That explains a lot - like how it sounded full without a guitarist up there that could do it. I walked away thinking, &quot;What the hell did they do with Come On?&quot; Everything else sounded flat and dry.McCabe: Fuckin' disgraceful. Basically, the jamming thing at the end of Come On, it's like [Richard] would go, &quot;Right boys, let's jam!&quot; You know what I mean? It got so corny. It's like &quot;Fuckin' hell, Sobbo we've done it, we can't go any further - give it a fuckin' rest.&quot; So I always ended up just doing nonsense, just making it as evil and horrid as I possibly could, because that was the only thing that was going to satisfy me. It's pretty easy to get a big section of me doing all sorts of nonsense, slapping my strings and all kinds of stuff. Basically what I said was, when I wasn't touring-I told you about the beer bottle right?AS: Yeah, about punching a wall [in 1997 before &quot;reunion&quot; tour that was cancelled because of Nick's broken hand].McCabe: Giving Richard a bit of a slap. (pause) I went home that next day and I told them I'm not going to America for three or four weeks. I'll do all the festivals and the V98 thinga4I was being a dick, beady eyes and everything. The V98 thing was good - I mean, they were going to pay us a thousand pounds just for showing up. &quot;Fuck that, I'm there!&quot;But we had the touring festivalsa4I was getting acupuncture every day and had fuckin' bottles of vitamins in the fridge. I had a massive fever, and it knocked me down for a couple of days - and that's the only time I've ever pulled a gig. Richard has pulled his fair share of gigs. Jazz actually sent for this doctor and told him that I was either schizophrenic or manic-depressive. I had these full-blown tests and they said I was fucked and that's why I pulled.We had like six festivals to go and I had agreed to do all those, and Richard started to panic - he probably didn't want to see me again because I didn't want to see him. Couldn't face me. That's why I haven't spoken to him since that day.AS: The summer of '98 right?McCabe: Right. The last time I spoke to him, I had him against a bathroom wall and he was crying. (pause) I just saw a picture of him and his new Porsche. (laughing)LYG: It's so easy to fall into what he fell into. You seem to have come out of it staying your own person.McCabe: I was reading this Brian Eno book - I'm a big Eno fan - he did this diary for a year and on the opening page he's talking about life with his wife. The opening line is, &quot;I have a wonderful life.&quot; And I always thought Eno was clear - like, he did his pop star bit, realized it was bullshit and basically he's doing what I'd like to do. Play a little bit on a soundtrack, do some production, play every now and then, put your own album out every now and then. It's just sort of keeping it fresh and diverse. And he goes on holiday in Egypt and plays with Egyptian musicians, and it's like, that is the life. Now if you look at Brian Ferry, it's the complete opposite - he's fucked. He's just got to realize that his situation is bullshit.I came back to the band with such a fuckin' clear head and such a better attitude about it after reading this book. The benefits of having a big record are that than you have the cards. The reason for getting into a band in the first place is because you want to create your own universe and your own life by your terms. Generally what happens is the opposite. All your good intentionsa4you just let people advise you badly.So I came back to the band and stopped moaning all the time. I had a laugh when we toured, but a lot of it was fuck-all. I just said, &quot;I'm not touring - we got a big record, sold six million records, we'll tour when we want to.&quot; We always to put on specials shows as well. Something really special, you go, &quot;Fuckin' hell, I've had a really good night out!&quot; But we started getting shit for the tour and we'd be like, &quot;We're not ready yet.&quot; But they wanted to time it when the singles were coming out. I'm saying that we don't need to do that - let's just make it enjoyable for ourselves. Instead, we'd just been bullied into running the treadmill shit.I find it now that what happens in a day is my prerogative. I decide what happens in a day. And that's one of the most depressing things about before - I'd ring someone up and say, &quot;What are we doing today? What am I doing with my life today?&quot;LYG: But now you're doing your own thing.McCabe: That's why I did it in the first place. That's why I sacked my cushy joba4so I could be responsible for my own life.Holland was a bit killer for me because I had this [John Martin] loop reeling in my head. I had the worst two daysa4.John Martin is part of my upbringing - my brother was in jail and he came back with all these John Martin tapes, saying, &quot;He's my hero&quot;. My brother's the one that got me into music in the first place. The guy that got him into John Martin was a deep-sea diver on an oilrig. And he'd come back from a day of doing all this deep-sea diving in these insane conditions, and he'd seen people die. He'd come back into the oilrig, have a smoke, and listen to John Martin. And that sort of put it all into perspective for me.I don't know what he's been up to - I mean, I wanted John Martin to play [Wigan] because it was going to be my day. He's a soul mate of some kind, you know what I mean? It was justa4Beck? As much as I like him, it was just a bit fuckin' cookie cutter.AS: Right - you wanted it to be special because it was your homecoming show.McCabe: Well, not reallya4none of us are actually from Wigan.AS: Verve have always been known as a Wigan band?McCabe: Well, it's another one of those myths, isn't it? I guess there's some truth to it because the band was formed in Wigan. But no one was born there. We all met in college there.But for that show, Richard's going on - &quot;Oh, John Martin, you won't get it.&quot; And he's right. By the time I got my parts in there it's not really a music fan's record. It just sits nicely next to the Oasis record.AS: Yeah, a lot of fans were very upset, but you're right - if you take the Haigh Hall crowd, only about 10% of them are real music fans.McCabe: [Urban Hymns] was just a safe bet for people. I'm not going to say it was bad. I mean, we were good as far as pop goes. But it's pop music. I wanted bands like Oval to be there, have them playing in a different part of the field with all these lights going on. Not fuckin' hippy shit. Justa4you know what I mean?LYG: They don't want it to be open - they want it to be safe like you said.McCabe: It's coffee table. We're coffee table aren't we? You know what I mean, it's like -AS: You got your Urban Hymns and your Mariah Carey right there.McCabe: You might be joking, but that is the case though, isn't it?AS: I know several people that have Urban Hymns and they've never heard of Storm in Heaven or Northern Soul. They think Bitter Sweet Symphony is your only song. It's just a shame but it's the truth.McCabe: That was Si's conception about it in the beginning. Its sounds sort of petty really, saying &quot;Si didn't do this!&quot; He's an integral part of the band, but it was Richard and some other blokes.I would like a bit of respect instead of beinga4I mean, I've joked about it in the past - I'm a professional knob head. Most people that know me now know what I do. They either love me instantly or they hate me instantly. I don't sort of sit in the middle. So the props that you should get are that what you do at least should have some merit to it.This and that businessa4 (pause) Ah, it fuckin' doesn't matter. [to Ajay] Just shortly before I started mailing you, I was looking at what people were saying and I wanted people to be interested in what we were doing, because I know what I'm doing is better then anything than I did with the Verve.LYG: People don't want that little bubble burst, they want to keep you -McCabe: That whole bubble is all myth anyway.AS: Have you read any other press? I was just reading the Q article about &quot;Why the Verve Really Broke Up&quot; and I was like, &quot;Oh my god, how can they print this?&quot;McCabe: Well, a couple of people told me that what was going to be in that article was a lot more controversial then what came out. There was someone who was investigating Jazz Summers and dug up loads of dirt. And I think someone must've got to him and found out how he operates and that he's a bad man, like.I was fuckin' gaggin' for that to come out. I went and bought it when it came out. I was waiting to see him topple, but that's not what happened. He's a fuckin' seedy bastard. You know how he managed Wham? Well he still takes his twenty percent from them even though he doesn't do anything for them now.LYG: So many musicians sign contracts and don't even realize what's in them or that they're going to be locked into it for the rest of their livesa4well, even after they're dead because their stuff's still going to be around.AS: Like people still buying Beatles albums and John Lennon albums.McCabe: Michael Jackson owns the Beatles stuff - fuckin' bonkers, isn't it?LYG: Talk about a bastard.AS: That's so sad.McCabe: It's horrible - that whole collector mentality - isn't it? That's what record companies are, basically - they collect artists. Patron of the arts, patronizer of the arts. If it does well, it's like &quot;See, I knew!&quot; And if it bombs it's like, &quot;Ahh well, erra4 It's somebody else's fuckin' project.&quot; Dickheads. It's war out there. Like Ireland, everyday.AS: Were there plans to record after Urban Hymns?McCabe: It was going to happen, yeah. We had quite a lot of stuff in place already. We stuck a couple tracks in the blender and recycled a couple of othersa4.there were some brilliant things emerging. Lucky Man we did like space rock - we took a section of the strings and sampled it and we just went out in the fuckin' stratosphere. It was like fuckin' ecstatic music, really good.AS: To me and a lot of fans, when we heard Urban Hymns, we knew that it was just Richard's band anyway but we thought the next album would be much greater because it would be back to what it was before. All you guys would be working from the start. It wasn't just having you do final touches and add another guitar track. So everybody was anticipating the next Verve album until the breakup.McCabe: I don't think that would ever happen, to be honest. My take on it is - well, I posted it on Deja News the other day. It was a bit late at night and I started this rant on the whole thing. It's the only thing I've ever posted there - &quot;This is what I thought the day he asked me backa4&quot;.Everybody in Wigan had heard all this stuff and I hadn't heard anything. People were sort of protecting me from it. But everybody had all the tapes from all the sessions so far. Basically what I was hearing from people was that it was like very song based, almost like a country rock thing. And The Drugs Don't Work was written -AS: Way back - you guys played it on the '95 tour.McCabe: Right, for Northern Soul. So I was thinking Bon Jovi, Robbie Williams. And I'll stand by that today - I reckon that's up there with the best Bon Jovi record.AS: That's not saying a lot.McCabe: I'm talking about his paranoia. [Richard's] shitting himself because he needs somebody to be either more stressed out then him or to argue with him. So I'm thinking, &quot;He's got this record here and he thinks it's a big stadium record and it's got to be weirder, get the weird bloke back in. You know, he made all those funny noises and people will think we're crazy and experimental.&quot;So he gets me back and it's some sort of convoluted attempt to inject a bit of creditability in it. Then it's a really weird drugs record instead of a Robbie Williams record. Maybe I'm being a bit hard on the mana4 But then the record came out and he got all these accolades and slaps on the back and he's like, &quot;Well, what was I worrying about?&quot;As far as I'm concerned, the day that it went fuckin' platinum, the band was over anyway. He didn't need the safety net of us there, him hiding among us - it's like we're a gang. It's not right. If it's shit, then five people are responsible for shit instead of one person. And now that he's like some fuckin' generational spokesman - he doesn't need to worry about it.AS: Now he's the great songwriter and all that.McCabe: That's what I think it is. He doesn't even know what music he likes. I dunno if I'm bitchin' ora4fuck, it's got to be said though. He won't stand by anything, you know what I mean? And a4I do. I do and I don't mind getting flack for it. I mean, people disappear at fan parades and I'm not fuckin' for that. I'm lucky really. People I've met recently just sort of synched with me without any vested interest.I was talking about this with Si the other daya4because Virgin's got Richard and he's a golden boy, it's a classic situation that the singer is the profitable one out of the band. If you take the singer, the band collapses, so your best bet is the singer. Really speaking, there was a time where we were the biggest band in Britain. We've been dropped by our management and gone through a ton of shit and I was saying to Si, &quot;Someone should be slapping us on the back and going, a4Step out there, go out and enjoy yourself.'&quot; And I've managed to realize that by myself, as I've sort of put myself back into the frame and meet people that are good. I feel like some of my convictions are paying off.It's a nice life if you can make it work, you know what I mean? But if you take your hands off the reigns for a minute it can all turn nasty. So as long as you keep your eyes open - it's the Brian Eno thing. He's done it and he's done it with dignity and he's a happy man, I think. He's got a good life.LYG: The entertainment industry is out of control. Too much business, too much politics.McCabe: I don't mind that so much, really. The big depressing thing for me is that nobody else really knows. As far as I'm concerned, it's a given.For me, I'm surprised when people turn out to be nice now and I'm pleasantly surprised quite a lot of times. If you just accept that people are a bit dodgy, then you can appreciate what's good about them. I think things could've been more comfortable if everybody didn't try and shove themselves after they realized that we're in shark-infested waters, but if they'd just accepted the deal and made the best of it. People would be a lot happier now. Instead, people got disappointed. I started out thinking good of people and the only person that I'm disappointed about is Richard, because he was once me friend. I've lost a friend and he's lost all his friends. He's got no mates. Really, no mates. Si Jones - Si Jones fuckin' like saved his life a couple of times. I'm not talking suicide or anything - he's just bailed him out of loads of shit through his life and he's been treated really shadowy.LYG: This is why I'm cynical.McCabe: I think it's quite good. If you accept that there's a certain amount of bullshit, then you can be pleasantly surprised. There are good people.LYG: There are a few. But if you're, pessimistic then you're prepared.AS: There's stuff in these magazines that mention how hard Northern Soul was to record, like everybody was on E for months and no one would sleep for weeks and everybody went insane. How true was that?McCabe: It wasn't hard it was justa4 (pause) Well, I went to a doctor after that. I went and got a dose of Prozac. Newport was just down the road and it was the drug capital of Wales. It's shady. And we were always likea4Speed was like the main thing before that. Ecstasy is pretty good for you - in moderation, though. It's an artificial high and you have a nice time when you're E'ed up, and it stays with you for a couple weeks.AS: A couple weeks?!McCabe: No, I mean the memory of the nice time, how nice you felt. It's good and you sort of stockpile all the good memories. But I actually got to the point where I thought I couldn't play well unless I was E'ed up. It was fuckin' scary. We only recorded Wednesdaya4wait, we recorded everyday but we only ever got anything done on Wednesday. I don't know why -LYG: It was just the magic day.McCabe: It was always Wednesday. For the first three weeks there was a party every night. It was like being in a club every night - we'd have other people's tunes. Then there were Wednesdays. So It Goes and Stormy Clouds are all Wednesday tunes within the first three weeks. They were like when we were standing up. Then you get into that little dirty sort of state of mind where you don't do anything.I probably did an E once every two months because I was always going somewhere. Then it was just like we were partying and recording. Then, after three weeks, things just started getting a bit sinister. Richard was getting a bit abrasive, too. You don't know when he's straight at all - he's just a righteous twat, anyway. If you're in a bad mood, you generally keep out of people's, way don't you? But when he's in a really good mood and you're not, he's on ya' - &quot;What's fuckin' wrong with you, it's a party!&quot; But if he's in a bad mood, you've got to be in a bad mood too.And I had a lot of other things going on in my personal life. I just realized, &quot;What am I doing with my life?&quot; You know what I mean? [Richard's] got no respect for anybody. And I can't say anything because I would be spoiling the party. It's a bit sappy when you're in a band with your friends, because when you sign a contract it's going to end a bit messy. To the bitter end, you know what I mean? There aren't many friends in bands that stay friends.At five o'clock in the morning we've been drinking wine all day, everybody's E'ed up and we've got no work done. Going a little bit psychotic as well. It's not good. It's not good. But the first three weeks were great - it was a party, a party and a half.LYG: What's your advice to musicians starting bands with their friends?McCabe: They've got to be taken out of London. London is like, &quot;Choose your addiction!&quot; (laughing) (pause; listens to music on jukebox) I got to put up with this shit every time I go out. This is an ode to me. It's The Drugs Don't Work. I'm convinced the last two albums are about me, think about it - History...AS: I was glad you played the guitar version on the very first American Urban Hymns tour. Oh man, that was it - that was the definitive version.McCabe: (sarcastically) You're just saying that to make me feel better!AS: I was looking forward to it again but you had to wuss out on the American tour. (laughing)McCabe: It was really weird because we never knew when things were going to finish - we'd look at people and they'd be likea4[makes a confused face] I was just playing me guitar. I always felt like we should be doing something really mad. You can imagine what that feels like, when you come to the end of a songa4People were going on about me soaring, but it's me concentrating because I can't really play that well anyway - I have to really think about it. Then I look up and I've been concentrating for five minutes and then it's like, &quot;Oh, uh, maybe I should give this up.&quot;AS: (laughing) &quot;Where are my keyboards?&quot;McCabe: (laughing) &quot;Where's me knobs?&quot;AS: A lot of people want to know why you don't jump around.McCabe: Jump around?AS: Yeah, like Pete Townsend.McCabe: I remember someone screaming at me, &quot;DANCE!&quot; I mean, it's like, what thea4?AS: You should've handed the guitar over. I mean, let's see them jump around and do Stormy Clouds.McCabe: Most bands that dance around do it because it looks good. They don't do it because they feel like it. Pete Townsend was being injected with speed before doing it. Or Ned's Atomic Dustbin or something.AS: Ned's Atomic Dustbin has a lot of energy on stage.McCabe: I dunnoa4I feel comfortable standing there. I don't see what the big deal is. I remember seeing Billy Corgan when we were both on tour . We were in Oslo and it was the first night of the tour and he must have been having a dilemma about the stage craft or somethinga4.He's doing that &quot;guitar-face&quot; [makes wacky face]a4we were right up close and his face was sort of crazy-looking. About halfway through the night, everybody was leering at him anyway because he's a wanker. I never saw him do his guitar face after that.AS: Is there anybody else that you wanted to tour with when you were still in the band?McCabe: I wanted to go on tour with Witness when we were buddies. We were good friends for a long time. The guitarist for Witness is shacked up with my ex-girlfriend - you know, the mother of my daughter. Twisted. She always used to come down to the pub that we used to hang out. She thinks he's going the Nick McCabe route.Me current girlfriend is lovely, though. We've been going out for two years. She's my friend as well - our feelings are mutual.AS: Didn't she tell you, &quot;Don't do some stupid interview with those kids in Californiaa4&quot;McCabe: (laughing) She did say that, actually. &quot;What, are you mad?!&quot;<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The 2008 Coachella lineup has been announced.  It's going to be held in Indio, CA as always and it's going to be on April 25, 26, and 27.  Tickets go on sale on January 25th.The lineup is as follows:FRIDAY, APRIL 25:  Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop  Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you, Yeah?, Minus  the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam  Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens  Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Professor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, The Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Bang, Lucky I Am.SATURDAY, APRIL 26:  Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Cafe Tacuba, Sasha &amp; Digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus &amp; the Jicks, DeVotchKa, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars on Broadway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boyz  Noize, Junkie XL, Cinematic  Orchestra, Jamie T, The Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Carbon/silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty!, Little Brother, Bonde  Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJs (Surkin, Para One and Orgasmic), James  Zabiela, Sebastian, Kavinsky, Dredg, The Bird and the Bee, Grand Ole Party, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days, Yoav, Electric Touch, UffieSUNDAY, APRIL 27: Roger Waters (&quot;Dark Side of the Moon&quot;),  Love &amp; Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, The Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dmitri from Paris, Autolux, The Field, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fav, The Cool Kids, Sons &amp; Daughters, Sia, Holy Fuck, Black Kids, Black Mountain, The Annuals, Kid Sister w/A-Trak, Man Man, Duffy, I'm from Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, The Horrors, Austin TV,  Shout Out Louds, Plastiscines, Brett Dennen<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zia Dandies in Nude Shocker]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:26:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Okay, that was my stab at an NME-esque headline -- did it work? So by now, we've all seen ZIA MCCABE of the Dandy Warhols nekkid. Whether it's on a stage or on some liner notes, the girl's got a penchant for exhibitionism. Now it's officially been taken to a new level, as the surprise girl of the day on the love-it-or-hate-it SuicideGirls website is the fabulous Zia herself. The bigger surprise of the full-frontal set: McCabe was VERY pregnant at the time (she recently gave birth to her first child, Matilda Louise.) McCabe swears she'll be reading everyone's comments to her on the SG website, so if you've ever wanted to gab with a Dandy, now's your chance. Of course, you've got to sign up to SuicideGirls to get access to the site.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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