By Zachary Swickey
Surprise, surprise! It appears Lily Allen may have spoke too soon about enjoying a life of retirement, as the Brit pop songstress is hinting at an eventual return to the stage.
Talking with BBC’s Test Match Special, Allen casually mentioned, “When I do go to gigs I get a slight pang of envy and think, ‘Oh, I do miss being up on that stage.’ But I have other priorities at the moment.”
Those other priorities currently include a new marriage, pregnancy, designing clothing and writing the songs for the musical adaptation of “Bridget Jones’ Diary,” which is set to debut sometime this year in London’s West End. It’s the phrase “at the moment” that has us hoping for more.
The singer echoed a similar statement to Elle recently, admitting that she misses the fans and stage: “I can’t commit to going on tour for seven months and leaving Sam [Cooper, her new husband]. I really miss singing my songs to people and seeing the reactions on their faces. It’s one of the most special things you can do, or it was for me.”
Allen has been discussing her retirement at length for a very long time, and repeatedly delayed it when she kept adding new dates to her summer tour last year. It all began in September 2009 when she posted an anti-downloading rant on her website and mentioned leaving the music industry altogether. Read More...
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By Nick Neofitidis
My colleague James Montgomery and I have a somewhat friendly difference of opinion about many things musical. James, it appears, favors writing hard-hitting stories about
· Beck has finally confirmed the release date for his upcoming Danger Mouse-produced album, Modern Guilt. The 10-track LP — featuring the trippy first single, "Chemtrails" — will drop July 8. A release announcing the disc describes it as vacillating between "economy and experimentation, hybrid and pop classicism, while consistently manifesting Beck and Danger Mouse's shared interest in psych-rock, folk, electronic minimalism and orchestration." What, no space-age polkas? No drum-machine-assisted cumbias?