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Foto:
Irma Romero
Presentación
en Londres
n.4
UK albums charts
I'm a
rabbit in your headlights
Scared
of the spotlight
You don't
come to visit
I'm stuck
in this bed
Thin rubber
gloves
She laughs
when she's crying
She cries
when she's laughing
Fat bloody
fingers
Are sucking
your soul away
I'm a
rabbit in your headlights
Christian
suburbanite
Washed
down the toilet
Money
to burn
Fat bloody
fingers
Are sucking
your soul away
[If you're
frightened of dying and
then you
hold on
You'll
see devils tearing your life
away
But, if
you've made your peace
Then the
devils are really angels
Freeing
you from the Earth...
from the
Earth]
Rotworms
on the underground
Caught
between stations
Butter
fingers are losing their
patience
I'm a
rabbit in your headlights
Christian
suburbanite You got
money
to burn
Fat bloody
fingers Are sucking
your soul
away...
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Nominados
a los BRITS 2000
Best British
Newcomer en el apartado Indie/Rock
One
for the roadkill - Banned ! UNKLE's "Rabbit in your headlights" has
been judged even more terrible than "Smack my bitch up". But they still
let Lorraine Kelly on the airwaves. Crazy world. - The video for UNKLE's
"Rabbit in your headlights" features an insane man walking through an underground
tunnel being repeadedly mown down by traffic. At the end he tekes off his
coat and destroys the next car that hits me. You won't be able to see it
though, because MTV have refused to show the clip.
"The idea
is obviously controversial", says the video's outraged director Jonathan
Glazer, "which was wy agreed to make certain compromises for MTV. Firstly,
they said they'd show it if we pixelated the collisions and, because so
many people had worked on it and we really wanted it to be seen, we agreed.
And they still refused to show it because the actor playing the madman
was too unnerving and subversive. They won't show the video because the
actor is too good ! What they are saying is anyone on the edge of society
shouldn't be seen on television."
Taking
the ban as the work of mental pygmies, Glazer's final words are worthy
of Thom Yorke himself : "MTV's definition of the "Real world" is four models
living together in a luxury flat", he sneers. "They seem perfectly happy
to show videos featuring models who look like they're on heroin, but the
UNKLE video isn't fashion pain or panto punk. Maybe I should have stuck
the actor in a Stussy Parka." (SELECT)
Rabbit
in your headlights"
Denis
Lavant joue dans la video dirigée par Jonathan Glazer. Denis Lavant
est l'acteur préféré du metteur en scène français
"culte" Leos Carax.
+The
first single off the recently released U.N.K.L.E. LP will be Thom and
DJ Shadow's 'Rabbit In Your Headlights', released in the UK on October
12th (unlikely to be released natively outside the UK), backed with remixes
by Massive Attack and David Axlerod. The single will be non-chart eligible
due to its length, but it will have an accompanying video directed by Jonathan
Glazer (responsible for the Karma Police, Street Spirit and Massive Attack's
Karmacoma videos).
The UNKLE
'Rabbit in Your Headlights' single will be released in the UK on 12th October
on the Mo'Wax label. The tracklisting will be :
1. Rabbit
In Your Headlights 2. Rabbit In Your Headlights (Instrumental) 3. Rabbit
In Your Headlights (Underdog Mix) 4. Rabbit In Your Headlights (Underdog
Instrumental) 5. Rabbit In Your Headlights (3D Mix (Reverse Light)) 6.
Rabbit In Your Headlights (3D Mix (Reverse Light Instrumental)) 7. Rabbit
In Your Headlights (David Axelrod - Suburban Hell Mix)
The formats
will be ltd. edition 12" and CD, and the promo CD contains only tracks
1, 5, 3 and 7.
Le
Monde (daté
du samedi 19 septembre)
<<UNKLE
: Psyence Fiction (signé Stéphane Davet) * Ce devait être
un des évènements de la rentrée. [...] On attendait
des aventures inouïes, des voyages visionnaires. On constate un flagrant
manque d'audace. [...] A sauver malgré tout : les étranges
arabesques du guitariste Jim Abbiss ("Unkle Main Tittle Theme"), le rap
ébouriffant du vétéran hip hop Kool G Rap ("Guns Blazing")
et , surtout, le délicat déchirement de Thom Yorke, chanteur
de Radiohead, sur fond de piano décharné et de batterie jazzy
("Rabbit In Your Headlight").>>
magic!
<<UNKLE
: Retour vers l'enfer. (signé Christophe Basterra) * Projet gargantuesque,
il est le disque de cette fin de millénaire, une oeuvre jusqu'auboutiste
où s'entrcroisent la pop, le métal, le hiphop et l'électro,
où se croisent Richard Ashcroft, Thom Yorke, Mike D et bien d'autres
encore. [...] Aujourd'hui, avant même d'en avoir écouté
la première note, "Psyence Fiction" impressionne, de part sa liste
d'invités : outre Ashcroft -entre temps devenu star par la grâce
de "Bitter Sweet Symphony"-, Thom Yorke -l'artiste le plus respecté
au monde depuis la réalisation de "OK Computer"- et Mike D ont répondu
présent. "Le plus incroyable, c'est que tous ces gens avaient vraiment
envie de collaborer. Thom et Mike, pendant la conception du disque, étaient
à des tournants de leur carrière. le premier enregistrait
"OK Computer" alors que le second essayait de développer Grand royal
et travaillait déjà à la suite de "Ill Communication".
Dans ce cas il n'est pas évident de gérer les plannings.
Mais ils nous demandaient d'attendre car ils voulaient vraiment participer
au projet. Et ça, c'est l'un des plus bel honneur que l'on puisse
te faire..." [...] Si Mike D vous donne l'impression de vous trouver sur
un disques des Beastie Boys, Thom Yorke se fait encore plus mélancolique
que sur "OK Computer" le temps de "Rabbit in your headlights".>>
<<UNKLE
: Psyence Fiction. (signé Phimippe Jugé) * [...] Car les
notes de piano distillées avec parcimonie par Mark Hollis ne servent
que de transition avec le dernier moment magique de cet album. Sur une
rythmique imposante et en équilibre, le fragile Thom Yorke illumine
"Rabbit in your headlights" de son aura.>>
Les
Inrockuptibles
<<tontons
flingués. (signé Jérôme Brézillon) *
[...] Entre-temps son extraordinaire album "Endtroducing" étant
passé par là, il en est devenu la vedette au même titre
que les stars mondiales qui ont prêté leur voix au projet,
Thom Yorke et Richard Ashcroft. "Psyence Fiction" doit ainsi une part de
sa réputation prénatale aux palmarès conjugués
des noms qui figurent à son générique. [...] Un cas
de figure similaire à celui de Thom Yorke, contacté après
"The Bends", quand Radiohead n'avait pas encore ce statut mondial de sauveur
providentiel hérité de "OK Computer". En résumé,
Lavelle avait cru embaucher deux tocards du rock indépendant britannique
et il se retrouve trois ans après avec un couple de pur-sang dont
la seule présence à bord suffit à emballer la machine,
à rendre son contrôle impossible.[...]>>
Rock&Folk
<<UNKLE
: le voyage fantastique. (signé David Mikanowski) * [...] R&F
: Thom Yorke, le chanteur de Radiohead, participe à l'aventure UNKLE.
Ce qui n'est qu'à moitié surprenant lorsqu'on écoute
"OK Computer", lui aussi très influencé par l'univers de
la science-fiction. / James Lavelle : Je partage le même goût
que Thom pour les sociétés futuristes décrites par
Kurt Vonnegut Jr (rires). Vous savez, les affinités qui m'unissent
avec Mike D, Richard Ashcroft ou Thom ont sûrement été
le véritable catalyseur de cet album.>>
The
Face
<<It
is the UNKLE album. (signé Craig Mclean) * JUNE 97. San Francisco.
A car winds up through the mountains outside town, deer botling across
the road as it approaches a "recording environment" known as The Site.
Thom Yorke is on the back seat, scribbling down lyrics. He has 48 hours
free-time in the midst of Radiohead's first Americain toure to promote
"OK Computer" and, after meeting James Lavelle in New York earlier that
month at the Tibetan Freedom Concert, has decided to devote his day off
to UNKLE. As they drive, California native DJ Shadow is decribing the local
flora and fauna. "What' that really sweet smell ?" asks Orke. "Oh,that's
Baby's Breath," replies Shasow. "It's a flower with little white puffs."
Up at the studio, Yorke sings of being "a rabbit in your headlights" and
"sweet baby's breath...". (he later decides to remove the local reference).
"this," says Shadow to Lavelle, "is where the heart and soul of the record
begins.">>
UNKLE
bajo al 12 del puesto 4 en las listas UK,y al 26 en la tercera semana al
32 la cuarta semana.
The
in-stores entail the following (as of this moment):
U.S.
Premiering the video of "Rabbit in your Headlights"
Presentacion
en London
por
Irma Romero
Es domingo,
dia 23 y tengo la pulserita que me
permite
entrar en HMV a ver a UNKLE Habia mucha
cola y
nos hicieron esperar casi una hora...la gente
se fue
situando en los mejores sitios cerca del
escenario.
Yo me dedique a dar una pequeña vuelta
para terminar
al lado derecho del escenario, cerca
del "guest
area". Habia tres manadas de gente
separada
por los estantes de discos, cubiertos de
plastico.
Una gran pantalla detras del escenario y
varias
pequeñas desde donde nos bombardeaban
con imagenes
de los responsables del Psyence, más
artwork
del artista neoyorkino. Y alli estaba Thom en
las pantallas
tambien. Me sente en la barandilla
viendo
la movida, con los ojos fijos en la guest area,
pero ni
rastro de Thom. Reconoci a Terry Hall...el sitio
empezaba
a llenarse de la gente más variopinta.
James
lavellesalto al escenario pasadas las 23.00.
Tambien
habia visto a DJ Shadow con camiseta gris
y la peririllita.
Tenia ganas de preguntarle que que tal
las sesiones
con Thom. El Mr Mo'wax toco unos 45
minutos
varias remezclas de canciones muy
familiares
via Beastie Boys y tambian del nuevo
disco,
al igual que DJ Shadow. Las grandes y
pequeñas
pantallas iban alternando imagenes live
con las
del disco. Genial. Despues salto al escenario
DJ Shadow,
acompañado de aplausos. Me encanta
este pibe.
Tocaba canciones de su
"Endtroducing"tambian
y...fue
mi momento, cuando
empezaron
los primeros acordes de Rabbits in your
headlights".
Inconscientemente solte un gritito cuando
me di
cuenta de lo que estaba sonando por los
altavoces.
Oir la voz de Thom...!que gusto! Y la gente
encantada.
DJ Shadow toco otros 45 minutos, luego
empezaron
a quitar las vallas para formar unas filas
cuando
empezaron a firmar los dos. Durante los dos
shows
estaba el pibe responsable del artwork del
disco
pintando al lado del escenario. En total habia
unas 400
personas que corrieron a comprar el disco
y a la
cola de las firmas...Una hora y media en la
cola...cuando
ya estaba llegando empece a sentir el
familiar
cosquilleo de la tripa y oleadas de calor me
subian
a la cara. Lavelle fue el primero al que le di el
disco
y la agenda..le pregunte que que tal en
Benicassim?y
mirandome con unas extrañas gafas,
me dijo
que le habia gustado bastante. Cuando
llegue
a DJ Shadow me pregunto que que quería que
me firmase...todo
el tiempo me quede en blanco. Le
sonrio.
Le doy las gracias y me las piro...aliviada y
con una
pequeña sonrisa en la cara.
UNKLE
disco de la semana en el Pais de las Tentaciones
¿Sigue
siendo un fan fatal dispuesto a arriesgar hasta el último penique
por dar a conocer las músicas más innovadoras y elegantes?
¿En qué ha cambiado James Lavelle desde entonces? "En la
talla", contesta riéndose. "Supongo que soy una persona más
feliz [más risas]. Tengo más dinero, pero ése no es
el motor de mi vida. Aquellos tiempos eran más divertidos porque
nada importaba una mierda: no tenías ni puta idea de lo que hacías.
Ahora todo es más profesional, y todo el mundo está mirando
con lupa cada puto movimiento que haces. El objetivo hoy es pensar: ¡que
les den por culo!".
Psyence
fiction está editado en Mo'Wax / Polygram.
UNKLE
France
L'album
de Unkle est l'album de la semaine sur la
radio
Ouie fm à Paris dans l'émission de 17 à 20
heures.
Hier soir, ils ont passé l'intégralité de
Rabbit
in your headlight. Evidemment je vais
encore
dire que cette chanson est superbe, la
voix de
Thom est un merveilleux medium qui
transporte
les sentiments à l'état pur. (Laurence
Boisnard-Paris)..
"Investment
pays musical dividens" .
[...]
They range from the stelar (Richard Ashcroft of the
Verve,
Thom Yorke of
Radiohead)
to the deeply obscure (Baldly Drawn Boy,
Alice
Temple)[...] [...] As the director of Psyence
Fiction,
DJ Shadow draws the strands of Lavelle´s
interests
together with some aplomb. The songs
featuring
richard Ashcroft and Thom Yorke ("Lonely
Soul"
and "Rabbit In Your Headlight" respectively)
seamlessly
blend Shadow´s imprimatur with the
angst-ridden
rock in which both those singers
specialise.[...]Financial
Times 21,8,98
UNKLE
the
first single, Rabbit In The Headlights
featuring
Thom Yorke, will be released on
October.12
Mo Wax
director Steve Finan makes no bones about
the difficulties
posed by A&M's disappearance. "It's
been very,
very painful and difficult," he says. "I was in
America
doing promotion last week and was having
to get
to know people at Island at the same time as
organising
this huge promotional campaign."
However,
both Lavelle and Finan are determined
these
obstacles will not affect an album which for
Lavelle
represents a chance to lift Mo Wax on to a
new level.
"It's a chance to step up, to reach a whole
new group
of people and to work with a great video
director
[Jonathan Glazer]," he says.
Finan
is dismissive of rumours that the album cost up
to £2m
or went ridiculously over budget. "It's no more
out of
shape than a normal record of this size," he
says.
The whole
marketing campaign, which was eventually
finalised
last week, features a number of typical
twists.
Although destined for a mainstream audience,
Psyence
Fiction will be accompanied by the
extravagant
packaging for which Mo Wax has been
famed.
The album's artwork has been created by
legendary
New York graffiti artist Futura 2000, who
also designed
a set of UNKLE character toys.
Following
the album's release in August, the first
single,
Rabbit In The Headlights featuring Thom
Yorke,
will be released on October 12. The single
package
will feature remixes by Massive Attack and
Sixties
veteran David Axlerod. But, because of its
length,
it will not qualify for the singles chart. Finan
says,
"A lot of the time with Mo Wax we've made a
conscious
decision not to go near the chart. People
who buy
our records want them when they want them
and not
when a record company wants them to."......
Tony Farsides
Dotmusic .com
More
UNKLE
The album,
Psyence Fiction (Sept. 29)US
will be
released by Island Records on August 24.
UK
Shadow
had met Thom Yorke at a party he had DJ-ed
at in
London in the summer of 1996 and at that year's
Tibetan
Freedom Festival in San Francisco. Yorke's
contribution,
'Rabbit In Your Headlights', was
recorded
in an isolated studio in a forest outside San
Francisco.
"That
track was one of the most rewarding," says
Shadow.
"After he did his vocal he ended up staying
for two
days tuning pianos and laying down extra bass
parts.
The track was built from the ground up." (NME)
Yorke
was another one who had one take that was
perfect
out of the box, DJ Shadow said. "Looking
back,
the lyrics to both songs are certainly about what
both were
going through at the time. It's inevitable," he
added.
The track
Yorke appears on, "Rabbit In Your
Headlights,"
was recorded last fall in San Francisco
while
Radiohead were in town for a show at the
Warfield
in support of their critically acclaimed album
OK Computer,
it and features the vicious line "fat
bloody
fingers are sucking your soul away."
"The last
minute of that song, the way he sings, it feels
like your
hair is being blown back," DJ Shadow said
of the
album-closing track. "It's really emotional and it
was really
special working with him. There's no
histrionics,
it's just right." ..(SONICNET)
LAVELLE'S
UNKLE MAKES AUGUST VISIT
The UNKLE
album, 'Psyence Fiction', featuring
contributions
from Richard Ashcroft, Thom Yorke, DJ
Shadow
and the Beastie Boys' Mike D, has finally
been given
an August 24 release date by Mo'Wax.
Richard
Ashcroft and Thom Yorke recorded their
contributions
before the successes of their 'Urban
Hymns'
and 'OK Computer' albums.
Lavelle
said: "I've always wanted to bring together the
different
types of music that I've grown up on, to
intertwine
them to create something that people my
age can
get into." The Richard Ashcroft song is called
'Lonely
Soul'. The Thom Yorke/DJ Shadow song,
which
was recorded in San Francisco, is called
'Rabbit
In Your Headlights'.(NME)
UNKLE
Thom wrote
and sang the words.
Thom's
collaboration with DJ Shadow on a track
'Rabbit
in Your Headlights' will be part of a
forthcoming
U.N.K.L.E. album 'Psyence Fiction'. It is
doubtful
that the track will be released as a single
from the
album. Promotional copies of the track
(backed
by other tracks from the album) will be
released
to the press on Monday, so expect it to be
heard
on radio stations (Radio One has already
played
it) frequently. The current release date for the
LP to
the public is 24th August. and 17th August in
Japan.
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