Scott-O -- as in Scott Walker and SunnO)))

He's not got the hang of that 'recluse' thing, has he?

Really hoping that "the guy" in that post means Scott Walker.

― goth colouring book (anagram), Monday, September 15, 2014 7:30 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's the time operator. And the time operator takes the time to take the time. So obv.

With DL on this btw. Have the download leak sitting on my computer but can't bring myself to put on some lolmp3s. Not for this record.

http://thequietus.com/articles/16412-scott-walker-sunn-o-to-play-live

That url has unfortunately dropped the fairly important question mark from the title of the article.

think scott has been floating the idea that he might play live again since at least climate of hunter-era interviews

It actually seems more plausible for this though, on the face of it

NB if SW plays in NYC and I can't go for any reason, will take to my bed, languish, expire

I'd lay money on them playing either the Barbican or the Festival Hall in London.

He's not actually done live since "Later", and that was fairly "empty studio" right?

He's not played a gig-style gig in front of a live audience since the last ever date of the Walker Brothers Nite Flights tour which was in Birmingham's Night Out club in 1978.

when was the last time scott walker was (publicly) in the USA anyway? i assume he went back on occasion for family reasons, but has he actually toured there since the 1960s?

According to the index of a book I've got, not since a pre-fame residency at Gazzarri's in LA, lasting from January to September 1964… not what I would have guessed at. There's an appearance on a TV show - The Billy Cotton Band Show on August 8, 1967 marked with Scott singing 'My Death' but nothing else live recorded.

wow.

His profile in the US has been pretty much nonexistent, though. Most of his solo stuff up to Tilt wasn't even released here (and Tilt's US release was two years after its UK release).

I knew he lived in England but I still think of him very much as an American personality, which I should stop doing really.

In a 2006 interview with Rob Young he said about America, "I would say if I could compound all the time I've been back there in the last forty years, it might reach to three months."

http://thequietus.com/articles/16411-scott-walker-interview-sunn-o-soused

that's a coincidence. i cracked open my copy of the rest is noise and read that opening paragraph just before i went to bed last night, and it happened to be the same paragraph i read when i got up in the morning.

All I can say is I'm absolutely PSYCHED about this album coming out - and at the right time too - just as I felt my passion for Walker's music finally quelling thanks to one too many plays of Bish Bosch (which I've settled on as the finest of all his records), this comes along, and while I haven't heard it yet just reading the lyrics to Herod 2014 is making me excited.

I like the way he laughs about having to wear earplugs when recording. I wear earplugs when I'm using a practice amp and a drumkit. Wouldn't dream of going anywhere near a member of Sunn O))) without a whole pile of cotton wool.

Can we all just admit that this is the most bad-ass thing possible to say about a record in 2014:

We got my friend Pete The Whipper down from Bristol to record the whips.

Also, I want to believe that Pete the Whipper has his own theme song that's "Nick The Stripper" with appropriately adjusted words. Plays whenever he walks into a room.

Really really great interview. My heart swells with love for this man. On a list of personal heroes that includes Mark Hollis and Tom Verlaine SW is the hyper prolific one who's out there in the field locating the crux.

pete the whipper assuredly a sequel to jean the machine

the analogy isn't perfect but both scott walker and terrence malick have had bewilderingly prolific "comebacks" after decades of near-silence and obscurity. so far walker's batting average is better IMO.

Maybe doran knows the answer to this-- is Brian Gascoigne no longer part of the walker crew?

Jon Lewis: Thanks for the kind words and all I can say is he's not on this album (to the best of my knowledge and according to the detailed credits sheet I got sent).

I'm psyched about the film score news btw. I am already a huge film score nerd and I'm dying to know who he's gonna be working with. I'm assuming it won't have the somewhat odds-and-sods aspect of the Pola X score (at least how Pola X plays on album)

Yeah, I don't want to get my hopes up but I do start thinking, 'Fuck, what if it's Bela Tarr… what if it's Peter Strickland…'

Captivating interview yet again, Doran (loved the intro to the piece as well!).

tarr isn't making films anymore no?

Amateurist: I didn't know about that. We've got an interview with him coming up on the site this month so I presumed he was 'back in the game'. Not read it yet though.

LBI: Cheers!

It could be some wild card thing like bankable actor x is a SW fan, uses his her leverage to get SW brought in as composer.

it's possible tarr is back in the game, but he made a lot of pronouncements around the time of turin horse that he wouldn't be making another film, and would instead devote himself to running his film school

oh, this leaked.

When's the official release? I preordered so long ago.

When people read that we were going to do this record I think what they expected was a lot of drones and some incoherent shit… you know what I mean… some screaming buried in the background.

lol

not so much this one but with other late period scott walker, how much must they cost to make relative to the amount they sell

oh this is just a straight-up late-period scott walker album with xtra guitar. nice.

"just"

"straight up"

also, doran, that was a great interview and write-up (though i have to say i think your interpretation of that benjamin essay is way off). so odd to see scott so talkative and open these days. i discovered him in the 1990s when he wasn't giving interviews and seemed to be cultivating a very strong mystique. which, oddly enough, isn't dispelled in any serious way by his new accessibility.

this album is a real kick. i had no idea it would be this, uh, tuneful (by their standards). also, it's really funny, something that's always been part of scott's work though not acknowledged enough. but this one is funnier than usual.

for someone who, only eight years ago, was the subject of a documentary about what a massive hermit he is, he sure comes across as a warm and balanced character. fab interview, goes without saying

Been a while since I saw the doc but can't recall it saying too much about him being a hermit. As so often in these cases (cf. Jandek) "hermit" is taken to mean "doesn't play live or give interviews". Scott travels on the tube, goes to the cinema &c.

Scott is like Kubrick - only gives interviews etc when he's got new product to promote. When you have a looong gap between albs, that means you vanish from the public eye and get accused of being a hermit.

Not sure that's the only reason we haven't heard from Kubrick of late

30th Century Man definitely painted him out as a recluse and a 'difficult' character - shutting himself away in a marshland hut, cap pulled firmly down over his eyes, rarely talking to people during studio sessions, deliberately removing himself from the public eye on more than one occasion etc... Obviously there's some truth to it, but 30CM had me believing for a long time that he was this utter enigma and highly unapproachable. Since Bish Bosch that's been completely disproven it seems.

That film is directed a certain way but Scott himself comes across as entirely affable and open, as he has in pretty much every interview since tilt?

This still rules. It's funny that he brings up the rhyming, I've often thought that a big unmentioned factor in why tilt comes over as more conventional than the two that followed is that most of the lyrics rhyme. I don't know that this is more "accessible" than climate of hunter as that quietus piece contends, but I have a hard time thinking of things in those terms, like who cares it's all accessible really

Another funny thing is that in all the interviews from the last one he talks about using less bass (and singing in a higher register) because bass tones & baritone voices act as a soporific, so it was amusing when he was all "hey guys I'm in sunn o now", maybe that's why everyone's saying this is more poppy

would be fun to spy scott in a tube

amateurist: Thanks. I guess any attempt to sum up Frankfurt School theory in a snappy single clause sentence is a fool's errand.

Is the hat because he's a paid-up member of the Steve Reich League of Bald-Headed Men?