Tonight's entertainment options
Bristolians: catch Tempting Fate, a festival of performance art and live talks centred on the idea of risk-taking in the arts.
Hastingians (people from Hastings): be amazed and/or terrified by the new Chapman Brothers exhibition
Or you could just stay home and eat Red Peperamis, like The Guide’s Luke Holland.
We leave you with the new Kendrick Lamar video, which has already crashed my computer once this afternoon and will probably do so again any second n...BZZZZZZT
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Die Antwoord get ugly
South African hip hop lot Die Antwoord, who every journalist in the world is seemingly contractually obligated to describe as “oddballs”, have just shared their new video for Ugly Boy. It’s basically a reunion of Kerrang TV’s Class Of ‘02, with guest appearances from Marilyn Manson, Jack Black, Dita Von Teese and Flea, as well as Cara Delevingne. Also featured: a man getting repeatedly punched in the face, some fire, a bloke with “Hello, my names is God” on his hoodie and all manner of other nonsense. Gawp at it below:
Lunchtime Links
- Play Wiley’s version of Snakes & Ladders created in conjunction with his just-released album of the same name. In it, ‘you are an MC from the UK, and you know you have talent’ and who - rather precisely - has ‘done two mixtapes, six guest verses and four live shows’.
- Read about rock stars calling people who aren’t rock stars rock stars: last night Metallica’s Lars Ulrich called Michael Eavis the “greatest rock star in England”, while Dave Grohl has told NME that Barack Obama - whom he interviewed for Foo Fighters doc Sonic Highways - is “a rocker”.
- Listen to Wu-Tang Clan’s latest Ruckus In B Minor, from their long-awaited December album A Better Tomorrow.
- And finally watch Ed Sheeran look like he’s trying not to laugh as Wayne Rooney really gets in the zone during the pair’s pub duet performance of Sheeran’s Lego House a couple of days ago.
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Annie's Back And This Time It Doesn't Look Great
A brand new trailer for the upcoming remake of Annie starring Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne and Cameron Diaz has premiered on Digital Spy, which makes it seem slightly like a (quite bad) word-for-word restaging of the 1982 film.
The production also has Will Smith and Jay Z as its producers, the latter continuing his long-standing association with the musical, that began with him sampling It’s The Hard Knock Life in 1998’s Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem).
Sia is also on board for the soundtrack - a couple of weeks ago she shared this version of You’re Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile, which I hope I am describing completely objectively as godawful.
As for much more palatable Annie-inspired fare, here’s Grace Jones performing her cover of Tomorrow (which was on her 1977 album Portfolio) in the late 70s on a really great TV show set.
And, even better, is 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon’s actually really impressive desk-bound performance of Maybe. They should have just got her to do the soundtrack.
A Sign All Cheryl's Musical Output Will Now Be Riddled With Expletives
In this week’s Guide we named Cheryl’s latest release I Don’t Care our single of the week. And also: song of the year.
Now she’s released a new track called Stars (which you can listen to over at Popjustice) taken from her upcoming album Only Human. While it doesn’t quite have I Don’t Care’s wild abandon, autobiographical resonance and merciless synth, like her previous offering there IS class A swearing involved. It’s a brave move, but it is beginning to look like one of the nation’s sweethearts is making saying ‘fuck’ the hallmark of an ongoing solo career.
Girls Grow Up
After all the recent controversy surrounding the revelations in her new book, it’s nice to see Lena Dunham getting back to what she does best: mining taboo aspects of her personal life for a living. Here’s a peek at season 4 of Girls (set to air next year), including some insight from the cast about how the girls are maturing but still making mistakes, thank God.
