Posted on Thursday, 27 August 2009
Described as “lightning in a bottle” by none other than Dennis Hopper, legendary songwriter, Eurythmics founder and of course, B&W Fellow, Dave Stewart performed a one-off Benefit Concert with his Rock Fabulous Orchestra last night in LA.
If you were under a misapprehension that Dave Stewart is not a frontman, have a look at this footage [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 14 May 2009
B&W Fellow and Society of Sound Curator Peter Gabriel has just been awarded the Polar Music Prize which he will share with Venezuelan composer Jose Antonio Abreu.
This has been another very successful year for Peter, he was nominated for an Oscar for Down to Earth from the Wall-E soundtrack. He won a Grammy for Best [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 8 April 2009
US band and B&W Fellows Papa Roach, are coming over to the UK to play three live dates next week:
April 16 - Manchester University, Manchester
April 17 - HMV Forum, London
April 18 - O2 Academy, Birmingham
Although seemingly unlikely bedfellows, B&W and Papa Roach prove that being loud doesn’t necessarily mean bad sound and you can see [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Peter Gabriel has added more dates to his South American and Mexican tour in March - you can see a full list of dates so far here.
Narrowly pipped at the post for the Best Song Oscar by Slumdog Millionaire, Peter did win a Grammy for Best Song with Down To Earth and Best Instrumental Arrangement [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 5 February 2009
There is something very unappealing about recommendation technology. Amazon’s is almost patronising in its banality and does anyone find iTunes’ Genius feature useful? I would always take suggestions from friends and colleagues far more seriously than any generated by algorithms. If sites have to use music search engines they should at the very least be [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2008
I’m in Newcastle-on-Tyne right now, in the final stage of rehearsals for my Skellig opera which premieres here at the Sage Gateshead next Monday and runs from November 24-29.
Newcastle is a lot smaller than Boston, where I live, but it has a familiar feel of an East-West running river that empties into the ocean with [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Tod Machover: cutting edge composer, a Professor of Music and Media at MIT’s renowned Media Lab and a Fellow of B&W’s Society of Sound. Tod is in the UK in November for two exciting events: a lecture in London on the Future of Music and the premier of his new opera Skellig at The Sage [...]
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