BBC Review..

BBC Review

Pioneering Scottish indie-funkster issues third album in two years. New acts could do worse than look to Haig’s current output for inspiration, such is the man’s continuing streak of creativity.

'Relive' reviews..

Paul Haig 'Relive' (ROL 021)
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"crammed full of pithy pop tunes, trademark dislocated funk and adroit covers, it's uplifting proof that his recalcitrant muse is still with him. Q magazine

"Relive is, without any question, one of the best and most consistent records Paul Haig has made in his very long and distinguished career". thevinylvillian

"Trip Out The Rider is as good a single as Franz have ever managed and reiterates Haig's ongoing influence"...Uncut

"it throbs with widescreen opulence and sounds hungry"..theartsdesk.com

"ex-Josef K frontman’s latest LP, Relive, unfolds as a bone-rattling thrill that could energise the darkened corners of any dancefloor"...The Skinny.

Paul Haig & Nouvelle Vague

Martin Gore & Nouvelle Vague
Originally uploaded by luptonn

Live at the Roundhouse, London. 15th October 2009. That's defo not martin gore!

Nouvelle Vague Guest Spot

ROLinc News Release

Sept 17 2009

Ex Josef K Paul Haig Relives ‘Sorry for Laughing’ with Nouvelle Vague, Roundhouse, London Oct 16 2009.

Early radio plays for new album

First up was KCRW in Santa Monica with Marion Hodges (poster girl for scottish indie popettes) :

http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/or/or090927marion_hodges_guest_

then Janice Forsyth Saturday past :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079g47

now I'm listening to Paul live on French radio on the web thanks to our French Distributor Le Son du Maquis' efforts

http://sites.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/em/cestlenoir/

wish i could speak French sort of went silence, postcard, les disc du crepescule and that was all i understood - Evan

Andy Warhol's 13 Most Beautiful - Dean and Britta

Hi ,

thought this might be of interest to ROLinc folks...

Dunfermline Carnegie Hall is delighted to present the UK premiere of ‘13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests’: a multimedia pop culture must-see featuring exclusive Warhol film footage of Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, ‘Baby’ Jane Holzer, (plus many more), and a live music soundtrack from dream-pop doyennes Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips (Galaxie 500, Luna).

Having taken US art-houses by storm, ’13 Most Beautiful...’ comprises 13 four-minute silent film portraits of 60s and 70s Factory icons (full details overleaf). Each short movie will be screened as a large-scale video projection while Dean and Britta, (plus backing band), perform an illuminating live accompaniment on the stage below.

Each rarely-seen, transfixing four-minute Screen Test has been scored individually, and the live soundtrack is set to provide an exhilarating blend of bespoke pop tributes, cinematic compositions, vintage Dean and Britta material, plus two intoxicating cover versions: an astral take on Bob Dylan’s ‘I’ll Keep It With Mine’ augments the filmic portrait for Nico (for whom Dylan penned the song), while a mesmeric reworking of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Not A Young Man Any More’ provides a fitting aural foil for Lou Reed’s un-missable four-minute movie.

Jointly commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts 2008, ’13 Most Beautiful’ came to fruition after Dean and Britta – long held as contemporary proponents of the Warhol doctrine – were given access to the museum’s archives, and asked to select (from several hundred) the 13 moving portraits with which they’d most like to work.

’13 Most Beautiful...’ has already been avidly received in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and, not least, New York: a performance that Wareham proclaimed as “spectacular” – thanks to the stage’s backdrop (a 90-foot-high view of the city’s night skyline) – although the fact that Lou Reed showed up for the performance didn’t hurt either...

Following its UK premiere at Dunfermline Carnegie Hall, ’13 Most Beautiful...’ will travel to Paris, Marseille and St Etienne.

UK premiere of ‘13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests’:

Wed July 8, £18 / £13 Concs

Carnegie Hall,

East Port, Dunfermline, Fife KY12 7JA

Box Office 01383 602 302

www.ticketweb.co.uk

spotify at last for paul haig

alert alert alert...

'the warp of pure fun' has just appeared on Spotify in the last few days...

keep checking for the recent ROLinc releases as the IODA aliiance works its magic with those crazy Swedes -

if they ain't given it away through pirate bay their revolutionising music with this streaming lark...

PH is waitng for the pennies to come flooding it...

now that would be funny...

EH