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Message started by Ade on Jun 25th, 2009 at 3:49pm

Title: The Dead Weather, HMV Forum, London, 24th June
Post by Ade on Jun 25th, 2009 at 3:49pm
Caught Jack White's new band, The Dead Weather, in London, last night  :areyoufuckingserious

Christ...my ears are still ringing and i had plugs in!  :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey :keithpunky

Catch them if they come to a town near you - they are harder and louder than his two other bands,
and with Alison Mosshart (The Kills) sharing vocals with Jack, throughout the show, the band have talent to spare.

Afew photos i took:-





Title: Re: The Dead Weather, HMV Forum, London, 24th June
Post by Pdog on Jun 25th, 2009 at 3:59pm
i'm digging the singles of them... did Jack stay behind the kit the entire show?

Title: Re: The Dead Weather, HMV Forum, London, 24th June
Post by mojoman on Jun 25th, 2009 at 4:00pm
dead moon

Title: Re: The Dead Weather, HMV Forum, London, 24th June
Post by Ade on Jun 26th, 2009 at 2:07am

Pdog wrote on Jun 25th, 2009 at 3:59pm:
i'm digging the singles of them... did Jack stay behind the kit the entire show?


no he came out front, and played axe, for just the one song

Title: Re: The Dead Weather, HMV Forum, London, 24th June
Post by Ade on Jun 26th, 2009 at 3:54am
Dead Weather, review

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/live-music-reviews/5638815/Dead-Weather-review.html

Jack White's new band Dead Weather is good – but why is he on drums? Rating: * * *

Jack White, who is still probably the world's most admired young rock star, is also, unusually, still one of its most productive.

Since he blazed into the headlines with the White Stripes in 2001, he has rather skilfully circumnavigated the fixed schedule for successful artists: record an album, tour for two years, recover from physical exhaustion, then struggle to reacquire the creative mojo, which made you popular to begin with. Or, obviously, you could end up like Amy Winehouse.

White has staved off such inertia. Refusing to tour endlessly, he has instead cut six records in eight years. He diversified with the Raconteurs, where he was co-frontman of a four-piece band – a more integrated role, after leading the two-piece Stripes. He also cut a James Bond theme with Alicia Keyes, and collaborated with Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones.

Last month, he unveiled the Dead Weather, another quartet, in which he is the drummer – an eccentric move, given that he is such a gifted guitarist. On their first UK visit, the band packed out the Forum with curious punters, musicians and famous friends, including Kate Moss and Jude Law – if nothing else, White's methods have certainly kept people guessing.

The first impression: there was a lot of black hair up there. All four were also dressed head-to-toe in black, but accessorised with white guitars; and the music was an accordingly dark, murky variant on the lo-fi blues-rock, which White favours.

Out front, Alison Mosshart, moonlighting from the Kills, yowled out bluesy cadences like White's straggly twin. At the back, White himself thumped out sturdy beats in the manner of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, and provided occasional vocals from his drum stool, while Dean Fertita, the Raconteurs' keyboard-player, switched to guitar and gnarly, old Sixties organ.

Weirdly, after keeping such a low profile, White stood to introduce the band members. At times, it felt strange watching them rumble away, knowing that the world's most electrifying guitarist was up there, otherwise occupied.

When White left his drum kit and strapped on Fertita's guitar, the temperature in the room rose palpably.

He and Mosshart sang a vamped-up version of Will There Be Enough Water, a song from the band's imminent album, both shrieking into the same microphone, White cranking exhilarating noise from his six-string. Reverting to the original formation, their encore featured a funky, fiery take on Dylan's New Pony.

Intriguing stuff, then, but no substitute for a new White Stripes record.


Title: Re: The Dead Weather, HMV Forum, London, 24th June
Post by Ade on Jun 26th, 2009 at 3:56am
The Dead Weather

HMV Forum, London
4 out of 5

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/26/the-dead-weather-pop-review

Jack White has always been partial to an intriguing side-project. In the last five years, the White Stripes singer's extracurricular activities have included fronting power-pop band the Raconteurs, producing a Grammy-winning album for Loretta Lynn, recording a Bond theme with Alicia Keys and penning a jingle for Coca-Cola.

His latest venture finds him drumming for the Dead Weather, a veritable US indie supergroup comprising Kills singer Alison Mosshart, Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita and Raconteurs bass player Jack Lawrence. Mosshart is a spectacularly volatile singer. From opening number 60 Feet Tall - taken, like most of the set, from the band's imminent debut album, Horehound - she proves a magnificent frontwoman, locked into the moment and throwing shamanic shapes like a grunge Patti Smith.

The Dead Weather are big on atmosphere and menace delivered via brooding, bastardised blues. The demented rhythmic spasm of I Cut Like a Buffalo recalls deep-south voodoo rockers such as the Gun Club or Tav Falco's Panther Burns, and when White steps out from behind the drums to duet with Mosshart on Will There Be Enough Water, the feral cunning of the music evokes Nick Cave's mid-1990s musical dalliance with PJ Harvey. As they encore with a thunderous white-noise mugging of a 1978 Bob Dylan rarity, New Pony, it's clear that White's latest maverick venture is anything but a vanity project.


Title: Re: The Dead Weather, HMV Forum, London, 24th June
Post by Ade on Jun 26th, 2009 at 5:14am
http://www.nme.com/news/the-dead-weather/45612

The Dead Weather have announced they will play the 2009 Glastonbury festival.

The band will play the Park Stage today (June 26) at 6.45pm (BST).

They confirmed their appearance in an email to fans in the early hours of the morning.

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