MUSIC FRIDAY 36 i 29 MAY 2015 37 FR DAY FR Inside Track ALBUM REVIEWS By Andy Gill EMILY JUPP various maritime metaphors for insomniac confusion as she Sights and admits she “can’t help but pull Knocking on the earth around me to make Wainwright pays his sounds of my bed”, a vivid notion whose darkness is echoed in the image turmoil of “trying to cross a canyon grandparent dues with a broken limb” in the single “What Kind Of Man”. Dylan’s door FlOreNCE AND THE Album The emotional turmoil is better MACHINE of the served by the more introspective ufus Wainwright is through so much, whether it was How Big How Blue week balladry of “Various Storms And about to play the first the war or the Depression, they Ray Foulk reveals how he persuaded the voice of a How Beautiful Saints” and “Long And Lost”, of a series of gigs were the ones to say, ‘chill out, Island where heartbreak is more subtly held within the Royal it’s all going to be fine, there are generation to shun Woodstock and come out retirement HHHHH suggested through ambient Hospital Chelsea’s worse things that could happen’.” Download: Ship to Wreck; St Jude background textures, wisps of Rcentral courtyard, with a portion The Live at Chelsea series to play the Isle of Wight. By Simon Hardeman synthesiser, strings and vibrato of the profits going to help sup- features Rufus Wainwright on guitar. The vaunting, anthemic port the Chelsea Pensioners who 12 June, Damien Rice on 13 June The day the Woodstock festival Before recording How Big approach, meanwhile, is much live there. I half-jokingly ask the and Alison Moyet on 14 June. opened was an epoch-defining How Blue How Beautiful, better suited to the assertive singer-songwriter if old people moment in pop. Yet an even more Florence Welch had a year off messages of “Third Eye” and are close to his heart. IDRIS AIMS TO TURN THE extraordinary event was taking – during which, she claims, she “Delilah”, whose revival-meeting “All pensioners are close to TABLES AT GLASTO place less than 100 miles away on experienced “a bit of a nervous feel is strongly reminiscent my heart because I’m not so far The Wire star Idris Elba will take Friday, 15 August, 1969. In a jour- breakdown”. of Arcade Fire, its ebullience from being one myself!” he quips. to the decks at Glastonbury’s ney as unlikely as that of the tin can The results of that stressful in rendering big, bombastic providing natural support for But it turns out that 41-year-old Silver Hayes dance village. that had taken men to the Moon a period are evident throughout arrangements with clarity is Welch’s desire to find “a different Wainwright felt closer to his Although this will be his month earlier, Bob Dylan and his the album – this is Welch facing well matched with the Machine’s kind of danger in the delight”. grandparents than to his own Glastonbury debut (last year family were boarding the QE2 in up to reality, confronting her grandiose sound. Perhaps the most touching parents as a child and a teenager. his day job got in the way), Elba New York to sail to a little island emotional demons in surprisingly Dravs apparently forbade her performance is the lost-cause His difficult relationship with his is no stranger to a turntable. off the south of England, snubbing frank manner. In this she’s to write any more songs about elegy “St Jude”, where she parents, particularly his father, is He established himself as a DJ the festival that had been set up in helped by heavyweight new water – yet the opening track finally reaches the realisation well documented in his songs, but through a string of club nights Dylan’s backyard to tempt him out producer Markus Dravs (Arcade “Ship To Wreck” breaks that rule “Maybe I have always been more it seems his grandparents were in Ibiza over the years, where of three years’ retirement. In one Fire, Coldplay), whose skill with panache, Welch wielding comfortable in chaos”. far more supportive. he DJ-ed under the name Big of the greatest coups, naïve but “I was guided by my Driis. After starring as Nelson earnest youngsters were unwit- grandparents at critical points Mandela, he even made an album tingly stealing the planet’s biggest SUN Kil MOON Jamie xx Dar Williams in my life, like when my parents about it, called mi Mandela or rock star from the most famous Universal Themes In Colour Emerald were getting divorced and when “Our Mandela”. The Hackney- festival in rock history. Caldo Verde Young Turks Bread & Butter I came out as being gay… at the born actor will join a varied One of those was Ray Foulk, now HHHHH HHHHH HHHHH end of the day my grandfather line-up at the dance area which a bubbling but unassuming chap Download: The Download: Gosh; Download: FM was the only one to say, ‘I heard includes Four Tet, Kate Tempest with an air of eternal optimism Possum; Birds of Loud Places; I Know Radio; Empty Plane; you’re gay and that’s OK’. That and Jess Glynne. who doesn’t look his 70 years. The Films; Little Rascals; There’s Gonna Be Mad River; New York was a big relief.” His parents, full story, which he is revealing Garden of Lavender Good Times Is a Harbor he says, “were afraid to say the ESKA HEADS UP THE LAST only now, complete with never- word ‘gay’,” but now that he’s a LOT FOR LATITUDE before-seen photographs, sheds Universal Themes continues Mark The garish sleeve design of Williams’s ability to articulate parent himself (he and husband The final acts for Latitude new light on a mysterious period Kozelek’s engrossing mode of Jamie xx’s solo debut are in sharp emotional complexities is ably Jörn Weisbrodt have a daughter festival (16-19 July, Henham in the life of rock’s greatest song- existential confessional, in long, contrast to the xx’s monochrome demonstrated on Emerald, with with Leonard Cohen’s daughter Park, Suffolk) have just writer, and has a supporting cast meandering pieces that slip character; as is the comparable subtleties and disguised motives. Lorca), it has given him some been announced and it’s an of Beatles and other rock gods. between personal memories, tour lightening of spirit in its airy There’s empathy for the put- perspective. intriguing mix of rising stars and In 1968 Foulk was a 23-year-old diary, passing observations on dance grooves. Setting booming upon, like the couple punished for “Being a parent now, I established acts, including soul printer, living on the Isle of Wight boxers, musicians and actors, and sub-bass against metallic clatter, their misplaced blind faith in the understand it’s more of a myopic sensation Eska, whose thrilling with his wife and two children. always, nagging away, the bitter opener “Gosh” suggests R&S future in the Springsteen-esque relationship you have with your vocals have seen her dubbed one With his brother Ronnie he had soul-branding of bereavement. Records’ house heyday tempered Mad River; and support for the children; they are an extension of the UK’s best female singers. organised gigs on the island, cul- There’s a sense of Kozelek with electro purity. Jamie’s independent-minded, such as of you, but with grandparents Joining her are Blur-influenced minating that year in an outdoor battling the absurdity of trying to bandmates Romy and Oliver both the assertive spirits encouraged they are one step removed and newbie Rat Boy, former Madness festival headlined by San Francis- impose moral order on a universe contribute vocals – the latter’s in Girl of the World. And there’s [grandparents] have a bit more member Cathal Smyth (aka co’s hippest hippies, Jefferson Air- about Woodstock three days after A cabin door slammed into The gig itself was fraught: both brutal and random. Like his murmured part on “Stranger in prodigious insights, as in her perspective and can keep things Chas Smash) and thoughtful plane. It drew 10,000 people, but it had happened,” says Ray. Dylan’s three-year-old son Jesse, 150,000 had massed to hear mes- lyrics, Kozelek’s guitar settings a Room” hovers midway between examination of the peripatetic in proportion. Grandparents folk group Stornoway. Weekend Ray and Ronnie weren’t satisfied. A trip to London to consult un- sending him to hospital, and the siah’s return, among them, in a slip desultorily between different seduction and alienation, while lifestyle, Empty Plane, where she of that generation, they went tickets are £200.50. They wanted an act for next year’s derground magazines revealed ship sailed without them. “It was chaotic VIP area, George Harri- sections as his muse leads him Romy crystallises the anxieties of acknowledges both the regret festival that would be big enough Dylan’s management and Ray just two weeks before the show, and son, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, autobiographically along. club life in “Loud Places”. and the anticipation of departure. to pull people across the Solent. made contact via a crackly late- we got a call. The papers were say- Syd Barrett, John Lennon and “We needed a giant,” Ray tells night transatlantic telephone call. ing that Dylan might not appear,” Yoko Ono, Terence Stamp and SimplY Red ENsemble SigNal me, “and the giants at the end He was told Dylan might be in- recalls Ray.