Going to this tonight, extremely excited, although I can already tell that Jarvis is going to be the weak link here. I'm guessing they'll give him some of the more knockabout material though.
... aaaaand he's opened up with "Boy Child", which is about as far from knockabout as you can get. He seems to be doing it as Jake Thackray though and not Scott Walker.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
Sound quality rather better on R3 than on R6M for this, FWIW.
Would like to hear Susanne Sundfør have a bash at Scope J. Any time, perhaps.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Another time, perhaps, I meant.
Everyone is doing fine, but only Susanne should go near Such A Small Love.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
A friend has posted the programme on FB. No one is doing SASL. Wise.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
Yes, if anyone hadn't realized before, these songs are hard to sing.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Going to listen the shit out of this when it surfaces afterwards.
Matt DC I am soo jealous, would love to hear how it was being there!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
(didn't i read somewhere that radio 3 were doing lossless streaming (flac) for the proms? Website mentions binaural but not lossless)
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
29 days left to listen
― Dancing on the Pylons, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 07:52 (seven years ago) link
Enjoying Hawley's very downbeat "Two Ragged Soldiers."
― Dancing on the Pylons, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 08:21 (seven years ago) link
Seems very apt that Jarvis is doing the 'Til the Band Comes In material
― Dancing on the Pylons, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 08:25 (seven years ago) link
Sundfør killin it on "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg"
― Dancing on the Pylons, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 08:28 (seven years ago) link
Will check this out later but scanning the track list can't help thinking it's a bit disrespectful to ignore nearly everything post Scott 4. No one's expecting 'SDSS1416+13B(Zercon, a flagpole sitter)', but some acknowledgement of where he is now would have been nice.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 08:30 (seven years ago) link
Simon Raymonde reflecting on the evening including Scott's presence
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20265058_10155737913193714_3514232556438195846_n.jpg?oh=c4a470fa0eaa295a68565b479d3d0a7e&oe=59F49F91
― Dancing on the Pylons, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 08:33 (seven years ago) link
This was fantastic. Jarvis was pretty obviously out of his depth but he had a choir to help him with the difficult bits, he's got a way of phrasing that worked with the more downbeat material though. Susanne Sundfor's higher register is astonishing and her voice has WAY more power than I would have expected - there's still something a bit off about her lower register though that I can't put my finger on. John Grant just has the right voice for this and his Seventh Seal was incredible, he can't quite get at the sadness of some of the songs though (his own stuff is extremely sad but there's often a distancing layer there). Whereas Richard Hawley isn't anywhere near as good a singer (and I've never engaged with his solo material) but he got a certain beaten down vibe really well.
Essentially these songs are pretty much never going to be performed like this again and the goodwill in the venue was obvious.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 08:34 (seven years ago) link
This was the highlight of the night for me. Listening on the radio, that is.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 09:39 (seven years ago) link
Frankie Boyle!
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 10:26 (seven years ago) link
I no.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 11:28 (seven years ago) link
I feel like if cocker were really a fan of these songs he would have un-blagged his way out of this programme but what can you do, he's just about tolerable I guess (speaking as someone who's attended his performance of a song from the drift and experienced the true nightmare of albarn attempting "farmer in the city")
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
I thought it was all a bit straight, too reverent. Trying to capture the feeling of these songs requires the opposite approach but then again faced with a voice like Scott's what're you going to do? The Old Man's Back Again was fucking awful: Hawley sounded like he was reading it off a piece of paper, and it was missing that "James Jameson in the Eastern Bloc" bassline. Too much separation between the backing musicians and the singers: it felt like they both happened to be in the same place at the same time but didn't really gel.
― Dan.S., Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
It felt like a eulogy for a guy who's more alive and creatively present than, say, Jarvis is.
― Dan.S., Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
I'd say even Jarvis would agree with that.
It may be heretical to say this, but Sundfors take on 'Angels and Ashes' was just better than the original - each lineverse had differences whereas the original doesn't so much.
Not by much, but.
Jarv was ok, John Grant was the best bloke voice, Richard Hawley managed to get close to a cigar to Scotts voice.
Some songs worked better than others.
And now Reginald..
― Mark G, Saturday, 29 July 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
The arrangement of "The Seventh Seal" might have been better than the original, it had a nice coda. The rest were probably a bit too reverent, John Grant was good but stuck so close to the recorded versions if Scott had sneezed in a song he'd have sneezed too.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Saturday, 29 July 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
but that was on 'The Drift'
― Mark G, Saturday, 29 July 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
just listened to the prom. made me want to listen to all the original versions again...
― koogs, Monday, 31 July 2017 09:58 (seven years ago) link
Oddly, while I could hear the shortcomings of the voices and the overly-reverent arrangements (but still mostly enjoyed it) listening live on R3 on Tuesday, when I watched it the TV version on iPlayer late on Friday night, I found it tremendously moving. It was perhaps only Grant's performances that didn't grab me, as he was the most nearly-Scott; everyone else had to do something different.
But, yeah, Saturday was spent packing boxes to the entirety of the Five Easy Pieces boxset.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 31 July 2017 10:15 (seven years ago) link
gutted i missed this
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 31 July 2017 10:21 (seven years ago) link
it's on iplayer, radio and tv
― koogs, Monday, 31 July 2017 10:25 (seven years ago) link
Haven't got a TV license :-/ and the BBC radio app insists I log in now, which is a bridge too far for me
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 31 July 2017 10:30 (seven years ago) link
You can skip that login at the moment, look underneath ...
― Mark G, Monday, 31 July 2017 10:55 (seven years ago) link
get_iplayer...
― koogs, Monday, 31 July 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
you need a tv license
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 31 July 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMnTBzbpGKI
― koogs, Monday, 31 July 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, its all over YouTube.
― Mark G, Monday, 31 July 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
ah that's okay then. thanks all
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 31 July 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
I can find individual links for video (like Susan's) but does a full video version exist on YT?
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
Yikes I can't get with Jarvis Cocker on these first few tunes (listening to the YT link). Like a wet rag on those beautiful arrangements.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:04 (seven years ago) link
He provided a number of genuine laugh-out-loud "oh dear" moments esp on "the war is over"
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:26 (seven years ago) link
It's a shame Goldfrapp didn't turn up for this. Susanne was perfect, I think that's the best version of that song
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Maybe this was talked about in some other thread but Scott has composed the score for Vox Lux, the new film by the guy who directed Childhood of a Leader, which stars Natalie Portman and the young girl from Killing ofA Sacred Deer and sounds possibly pretty awesome as a movie (songs are by Sia and are not SW collabs)
Score album comes out in two weeks!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 1 December 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
Part of The Drift also turns up in the new Jean-Luc Godard.
― with hidden noise, Saturday, 1 December 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
He should do something with Gazelle Twin.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 3 December 2018 05:30 (five years ago) link
Saw this thread back at the top of ILX and had a mixture of excitement for new material/fear something had happened to Scott. Turned out it was just the Vox Lux news I already knew about, so I'll write this up as a mixed success.& as long as we're tossing out potential collabs he should absolutely do the hook on an fka Twigs track. Like, I'd 100% take any other sort of collaborative work from them as well, but "Scott hook" strikes me as the platonic form of that hypothetical meetup. Plus as I think I've said before somewhere else "Glass & Patron" is just the Bish Bosch sound design quantized into a vogue beat
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Monday, 3 December 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Scott Walker. Scott was 76 years old and is survived by his daughter, Lee, his granddaughter, Emmi-Lee, and his partner Beverly: https://t.co/awaFXWOkja pic.twitter.com/nd6MYVmWaO— 4AD (@4AD_Official) March 25, 2019
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
Damn!
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
Come on mods, do what's needed.
This being one thread where we see it's revival and say "Oh good, what's Scott been up to all these years?" as opposed to....
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
Oh no. RIP.
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:51 (five years ago) link
Farewell scotty, I love you old man
― kolarov spring (NickB), Monday, 25 March 2019 08:54 (five years ago) link
Jaw literally dropped when I heard the news on the radio just now. Too soon, too soon. RIP.
― Jeff W, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link
Very sad - felt like there was more great music to come from him.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:42 (five years ago) link