Alan Wise, the legendary Manchester music mogul Alan Wise dies aged 62
Alan, a key figure in the birth of The Haçienda and Factory Records, launched a scathing attack on mental health bosses after his daughter’s death, just hours after she celebrated her 22nd birthday.
Alan’s former colleagues and well-known faces in the Manchester music scene paid tribute after hearing about his death.
Alan was a popular figure in the Manchester music scene in the 1980s, promoting and managing a number of acts, including Nico.
Friends say he ‘never recovered’ from Natasha’s death and ‘died of a broken heart’.
The exact cause of his death is not yet known.
Former Joy Division and New Order bass player Peter Hook tweeted: “Rest in Peace Alan Wise - God now has a great promoter!
Source: Français-Express.com
A free to download 23 track selection of just some of the music from all over the world that
Martin Bowes has produced, remixed or mastered at the Cage Studios during our 23rd year: 2015 - 2016.
Including alternate mixes and recordings remastered specially for this release...
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Album compiled and remastered by Martin Bowes at the Cage Studios. 2016.
The Cage studios was founded in 1993 as a vehicle for me to produce Martin's own music. Originally used primarily for Attrition works and a few select remix, production and mastering projects, he opened the Cage doors to the world in 2011 and since then have been working with so many inspiring bands and labels in genres as diverse as dark ambient, post punk, noise, folk, industrial, drum n bass, house, neo-classical, rockabilly, punk and metal...
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The Cage is set in the heart of England: but working with the speed of fibre optic file transfers it really could be anywhere at all.
Nick Cave's new album and concert film One More Time With Feeling will be released in September.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have confirmed details about their forthcoming new album and concert film. The LP, which is the follow-up to the band’s 2013 record Push The Sky Away, will be titled Skeleton Key and is set for release on September 9 – but the first opportunity fans will have to hear any of the record will be when the film One More Time With Feeling is screened in more than 650 cinemas across the world the day before on September 8.
Directed by Andrew Dominik (whose 2007 film The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford featured a soundtrack composed by Cave and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis), the film will combine footage of the Bad Seeds performing the album with interviews and narration from Cave himself. According to the press release accompanying the announcement, it will delve into the “tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album”, which will be the first since Cave’s teenage son, Arthur, died after falling from a cliff last year.
The Bad Seeds started work on Skeleton Key, which will be their 16th studio album, in 2014 at Retreat Studios in Brighton before further sessions took place in 2015 at La Frette Studios in France. It was previously revealed that the band would not release any singles from the LP before its theatrical debut to ensure the film is “the first medium through which anyone anywhere will be able to hear & experience the songs”.
Great news if you live in Belgium, or if you are just around in this tiny country.
On 8th July there is a free festival in Leuven (Oude Markt) and the line-up is just gorgeous.
Apart from Arbeid Adelt! (yes, that’s the band with ex-MTV VJ Marcel Vanthilt) you can see the iconic Human League.
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The Italian Alternative/Gothic/Post-punk Date At Midnight released its new album Songs To Fall And Forget on Manic Depression.
The album is both available on CD and digital platform. Let’s waste no words in describing them, just listen to the new song below and you’ll understand why this is a must have.
