lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES Arctic Monkeys ready to chill after global success ward-winning British rockers Arctic nitely. “We were never looking for more in been scrutinised more. It is a bit mad in Monkeys, whose cheeky garage America. You’re still thousands of miles terms of how long ago we started the band Apunk origins have evolved seamless- away from home so just not playing to an and how much has happened. ly into stadium-filling success across empty room in America was success for us.” “Maybe at this point in time we’re the America, are ready for a break. Shrugging The four-piece shot to fame in 2006 with biggest band in the world but I’ve never off the label of World’s Biggest Band in the explosive teenage energy of “Whatever taken that seriously. I don’t wake up think- some sections of the music press, the indie- People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”- ing I’m on top of the world. But I can’t com- rock stars told AFP in an interview at Tokyo’s Britain’s fastest-selling debut album ever, plain.” Guitarist Jamie Cook agreed their lat- Summer Sonic festival that they were look- bristling with lyrics about lairy nights out in est cut was a major departure from their ing forward to some down-time after taking their home city of Sheffield in the north of early work, where tongue-in-cheek refer- the United States by storm. “There isn’t any England. ences to 1980s bands such as Duran Duran rush to do something else yet,” said drum- The band topped the American charts were mischievously dropped into hits like “I mer Matt Helders. “For now this album with the sultry “AM” and sold out arenas Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” and seems like a place to leave it for a bit. We’ve across the country, frontman Alex Turner “Teddy Picker.” never really had an indefinite chunk of time becoming a sex symbol in his rockabilly “There’s a lot of R&B influence in this off. I don’t think we can tour (this record) quiff and leather jackets. “Every time we’ve record,” he said of “AM”, which has drawn anymore.” made a record we have tried to move for- comparisons with everything from the G- The release of their fifth album “AM” last ward a bit,” added Helders. “We might have funk of Dr Dre to David Bowie’s backing September triggered a flood of critical made a bigger leap this time. When we did band Spiders from Mars, or The Strokes with acclaim and accolades but their transforma- our third album ‘Humbug’ that was a big its fuzzy guitar riffs. “There’s a lot more tion from brash teenagers to biker chic pin- step, but one that gave us confidence to do Arctic Monkeys groove and probably less traditional rock ups means they can barely get through a something a bit different.” Headlining and “Arabella” at the seaside baseball stadi- Wanna Know?” Helders said: “Some of the guitar. It’s a fun album to play.” Helders show now without being pelted with Japan’s Summer Sonic, which takes place um as a lightning storm flashed overhead. old stuff just doesn’t make as much sense agreed. “There’s definitely interesting parts women’s underwear. “More bras this year,” over two days in Tokyo and Osaka and also Richer texture anymore to play. Or it doesn’t fit into the set in this album,” he said. “We’ve got the oppor- said Helders. “Like nearly every gig. People featured Kasabian, Queen, Avril Lavigne, The band’s latest release shows a darker, as well. There’s nothing we’re ashamed of. tunity to play a lot of new songs that people write their e-mail addresses on them. It’s Kraftwerk and the Pixies, the Arctic deeper side to their music, richer in texture “Anybody who was 18 and is now 28 looks want to hear. I didn’t expect to play eight the first time we’ve had a lot of radio play Monkeys rocked a crowd of 40,000 with and with the theme of heartbreak at the back and is like ‘Why did I have that hair- out of ten of the new songs every night-usu- and played bigger shows in America, defi- tunes such as “Fake Tales of San Francisco” album’s core, as in the achingly tender “Do I style, or why did I wear that?’ It’s just we’ve ally they want the old hits.”—AFP Saxophonist Dickson plays classics, pop and saves lives too

fter winning a Classic BRIT award in with orchestras around the world led her to difficult,” she said. “It’s really just you 2013, proving the saxophone can be win the Breakthrough Artist of the Year breathe in through your nose and you store Aan important classical instrument; award at the Classic BRITs - an award whose air in your cheeks and you’re using your Amy Dickson is taking it to more familiar previous winners include violinists Nicola lung air to push air out through your mouth pop territory on her new album. “A Summer Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova. at the same time.” Place”, released later this month, is a Dickson started learning the saxophone Dickson’s talents are not limited to crossover that includes vintage pop songs when she was so young that she had to music. In her youth she acted as a lifeguard ranging from Simon & Garfunkel’s “The work out a quirky way of holding such a at a beach near where she grew up in Sound of Silence” to Andy Williams’s “Moon large instrument. Ten years later she made Australia. “When I was at school I was a surf River”. The Sydney-born saxophonist told her concerto debut. “I started playing the lifesaver because that’s what we do for Reuters she wanted to evoke a time and saxophone when I was six and it was enor- sport in Australia. And, yeah, I was in the mood one might associate with Audrey mous ... I sat on a chair and I had a pillow rubber dinghy out the back one day, in the Hepburn’s 1967 film “Two for the Road”. underneath my foot and I had my saxo- boat, with my best friend and one of the “I just thought that the most amazing, phone on my heel and kind of propped it other guys in the patrol, we saved three summery setting would be in the south of up. I loved the sound of it from a very early men,” she said. France in the 1960s by a pool - hair down age and I guess that’s why I stuck with it.” As for the future, Dickson believes the properly and in a gown,” she said in an saxophone - a relative newcomer and rarity interview. “And so we were really inspired ‘Circular breathing’ in the world of classical music - offers end- by that setting and tried to find a sound Dickson’s playing has been helped by less options. “I don’t have any limit to what I world that would capture that.” Trained at use of “circular breathing”. It took her six want to do musically. I keep discovering the Royal College of Music in London, months to master inhaling through the there’s such an enormous range of options Dickson proved her classical music prowess nose and exhaling through the mouth at for a musician out there and for somebody on an earlier album that featured her own the same time while playing. “I taught who plays the saxophone which is just an arrangements of a violin concerto by Philip myself to circular breathe really and it’s not instrument which can dabble in so many Glass and piece by John Tavener. actually that difficult. It’s hard to master it genres it’s just an infinite world of possibili- Amy Dickson That and her work on other albums and on an instrument, but the concept isn’t so ties.” — Reuters Bob Marley Depp, daughter Lily-Rose Dutch DJ Tiesto musical to make starring in Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers’ traffics in hits on ‘Paradise’ premiere in Baltimore ohnny Depp and his daugh- Michael Parks, Justin Long, Haley musical about Bob Marley that uses the Jamaican ter Lily-Rose Depp are star- Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, consistent presence near the top of Forbes’ val in Germany or something-people still want me reggae icon’s music is in the works for next year. Jring in Kevin Smith’s horror- Ralph Garman, Jennifer rankings of the most fiscally successful DJs, to play my own style. So you’re kind of stuck in that ACenter Stage in Baltimore said Tuesday it would comedy “Yoga Hosers,” which Schwalbach and Harley Aand a tireless performer at fests and residen- world. On mentorship: I’ve worked with a lot of present the world premiere of “Marley,” written and direct- begins shooting this week. Morenstein. New cast members cies, Dutch veteran Tiesto released “A Town Called people over the past few years; the biggest would ed by company artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah. It will Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn include Tony Hale, Natasha Paradise” this summer, his first proper album since be Avicii, who used to open for me in Ibiza. The run from May 6 to June 14. Smith is also starring in the sec- Lyonne, Austin Butler, Adam 2009’s “Kaleidoscope.” On the importance of problem with a lot of the other guys is that they The show focuses on the years 1975 to 1978, when ond installment of Smith’s True Brody, Tyler Posey and Jason albums: An artist album five or 10 years ago had a have their own agenda. Marley survived an attempted assassination in Jamaica and North Trilogy. The trio also Mewes. lot more impact than nowadays. Nowadays I feel went into exile in London. It will feature mid-’70s Marley appeared in the first film “Tusk,” The daughters will play 15- most people just do one-off singles all the time. No albums as “Exodus,” “Kaya,” and “Rastaman Vibration,” which which will see its world premiere year-old yoga enthusiasts who one really seems to be making real albums any- include the songs “Jamming,” “Three Little Birds” and “Roots, at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. hate their after-school jobs at a more, and people don’t take the time to listen to Rock, Reggae.” It’s a collaboration between Center Stage The entire “Tusk” cast is returning Manitoban convenience store and them either. That’s hard to fight against, when you and New York’s Public Theater, where Kwei-Armah directed for “Yoga Hosers,” including team with Depp’s manhunter have people who are surrounded with music all the two productions last year. Oskar Eustis, artistic director of character to battle an ancient time now. I just try to make the album as interest- the Public Theater, will be the “Marley” dramaturg. — AP evil.”People always ask me ‘Are you ing as possible, to make every song the best song I ever going to make a comicbook can. When I think of this album, there’s 14 hits on movie?’” said Smith. “This is it - but there. It’s not a journey like the old albums used to instead of yet another dude sav- be, it’s more like every song can be, or should be a ing the day, our antiheroes are the hit. most feared and formidable crea- On audience expectations: Some people are Bjork to present tures man has ever encountered: surprised when I don’t play “Adagio for Strings” in two fifteen year old girls.” my set, and some other people are surprised when UK premiere of ‘Biophilia Live’ StarStream Entertainment is I do, like, “what the hell is this hard, fast techno financing and producing the film sound” that they had no idea I did. That song is 11 at BFI London Film Festival in association with Invincible years old; if you’re 20 years old and going to a festi- Pictures, Abbolita Productions and val now, you’ve probably never heard it. It’s a tricky Smith’s SModcast Pictures. Liz one. I think that’s the beauty of being in that posi- Destro, Jordan Monsanto and tion as a DJ. I change my style, change my sound, Jennifer Schwalbach are produc- and if I play things nowadays, it has the same sur- ing. XYZ Films will be selling for- prise reaction as 10 years ago when I first made it. eign rights at Toronto with WME It’s a great position to be in. It all depends on what A lot of DJs are not in the situation I’m in. For Global handling North America. kind of gig it is. When I play Las Vegas, people just me, it doesn’t really matter if someone (I mentor) XYZ Films is also handling foreign want to party, they just want to hear great happy gets big or not. But there are a lot of DJs out there sales on “Tusk.”StarStream’s “Life music. that want themselves to be the biggest, and the After Beth” opened last weekend And I’m fine with that, of course. And then a lot younger guy has to be the warm-up act and that’s and Lionsgate and Roadside of festivals like Outside Lands ... it’s a very indie- it. That’s what I see sometimes, and that’s the prob- Attractions will release based audience, and I feel like there I can go a lot lem with DJs fighting other DJs. I don’t really have StarStream’s “Life of Crime” on Aug deeper and play some really weird stuff. But I’m not any ego in that sort of way, so I just like to help 29. News was first reported by The sure where I can go super deep anymore, because these guys and if I might see one of them turn even Johnny Depp Hollywood Reporter. — Reuters people expect Tiesto to play the sound of Tiesto. So bigger than me, I wouldn’t really care about that, I even when I play a deep festival-a deep house festi- would only be proud.— Reuters

Toby Kebbell in talks to celandic singer Bjork will attend the UK premiere of concert movie “Bjork: Biophilia Live” at the BFI ILondon Film Festival, alongside directors Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton. The film will play on Oct. 9 join ‘A Monster Calls’ at London’s Odeon West End as the Sonic Gala, the lead event for the fest’s music-inspired Sonic program antastic Four” and “Dawn of the Planet Picture Group co-chairman Patrick Wachsberger. of screenings and events. of the Apes” actor Toby Kebbell is in The story follows a boy who seeks the help of a “Biophilia Live” was recorded live at London’s negotiations to join Felicity Jones and tree monster to cope with his single mom’s termi- Alexandra Palace last September, and features Bjork “F and her band performing every song from her eighth Liam Neeson in the adaptation of Patrick Ness’ nal illness. The pic will bow on Oct 14, 2016. fantasy novel “A Monster Calls.” The Focus After showing strong supporting roles in studio album, “Biophilia,” and reworked versions of Features, River Road Entertainment, Participant films like “The East,” “War Horse” and “The some of her past tracks. The songs are accompanied by Media and Lionsgate International production Counselor,” Kebbell is looked at as someone who animation sequences and science and nature archive also stars Sigourney Weaver with Juan Antonio should pop in the coming months. He recently footage inspired by the album’s theme-the relation- Bayona directing. wrapped production on Legendary’s “Warcraft” ship between musical structures, the natural world on Focus will distribute domestically while as well as Fox’s “Fantastic Four” where he plays Earth, and the universe. Images include volcanoes, Lionsgate International handles overseas sales. super-villain Doctor Doom. Though unrecogniz- viruses, lightning, plankton, planets and jellyfish. Clare The pic will be shopped at the upcoming Toronto able, Kebbell also gave his talents as the rebel- Stewart, the festival’s director, said: “Bjork is a true Film Festival. Executive producers are River Road’s lious Koba in Fox’s “Dawn of the Planet of the innovator, collaborating with exceptional filmmakers Bill Pohlad and Mitch Horwits, Participant’s Jeff Apes.” He is repped by CAA and Independent and artists to produce intoxicating work at the inter- section of music and film.” — Reuters Skoll and Jonathan King and Lionsgate Motion Talent Group. — Reuters Toby Kebbell