NEWS - 13/07/2010

Various Unknown Artists - We Were So Turned On: A Tribute To David Bowie

Old Romantics, Duran Duran head-up latest Bowie tribute album.

The phrase ‘musical luminaries’ is an oft-used, misunderstood and often widely misapplied expression in the hands of your average publicist, rarely indicating the arrival of anything so bright as ‘stars’ and invariably dispatched with a Jiffy Pack of uncomfortable silences and embarrassed looks. And this is really no different. This time the host of ‘musical luminaries’ prepares the way for a squarely ‘alternative’ take on David Bowie’s already sufficiently well rifled back-catalogue, with bands as popular as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Megapuss leading the assault.

Duran Duran and lo-fi visual artist sort, Devendra Banhart also feature.

 ‘We Were So Turned On: A Tribute To David Bowie’ is set for release via LA independent Manimal on the 11th October. All proceeds from the two-disc, 34-track album will go towards the benefit of War Child.

The project was launched in 2008, and also includes contributions from Carla Bruni, A Place To Bury Strangers, Lights, Vivian Girls, Rainbow Arabia and many more.

You might challenge the VIP claims of the project’s press-handlers, but what it lacks in celebrity it more than makes up for in quality. Or one would hope.

Crud is just waiting for the day that someone pays tribute to the last independent Bowie tribute album, 'Diamond Gods – Interpretations Of Bowie'. Or even for someone to buy it.

Disc One:

Exitmusic "Space Oddity"

Duran Duran "Boys Keep Swinging"

Megapuss "Sound + Vision"

Warpaint "Ashes To Ashes"

Corridor "Be My Wife"

Chairlift "Always Crashing In The Same Car"

Vivian Girls "John, I'm Only Dancing"

All Leather "Fame"

We Are The World "Afraid Of Americans"

A Place To Bury Strangers "Suffragette City"

Tearist "Repetition"

Halloween Swim Team "Look Back In Anger"

Afghan Raiders "Fashion"

Polyamorous Affair "Theme From Cat People"

Swahili Blonde "Red Money"

Jessica 6 "I'm Deranged"

Aska & Bobby Evans (Feat. Moon & Moon) "African Night Flight"

Xu Xu Fang "China Girl"

Disc Two:

VoicesVoices "Heroes"

Carla Bruni "Absolute Beginners"

Papercranes "Blue Jean"

Keren Ann "Life On Mars?"

Lewis & Clarke "Changes"

Zaza "It Aint Easy"

Genuflex "Soul Love"

Sister Crayon "Bewlay Brothers"

Marco Benevento "Art Decade"

Mick Karn "Ashes To Ashes"

Lights (NYC) "World Falls Down"

Aquaserge "The Supermen"

Caroline Weeks "Starman"

Rainbow Arabia "Quicksand"

Mechanical Bride "Sound + Vision"

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros "Memory Of A Free Festival"

Badly Drawn Boy ~ ‘It’s What I’m Thinking’ and ‘Part 1 – Photographing Snowflakes’ ::  Max Sedgley ~ 'Suddenly Everything' ~ 'Sound Boy' releases. ::  I Am Kloot ~ Autumn Tour dates ::  Various Unknown Artists ~ We Were So Turned On: A Tribute To David Bowie ::  Feeder ~ Renegades ::  Twilight Sad ~ ‘The Wrong Car’ EP ::  Frightened Rabbit ~ November and December Tour Dates ::  Clinic ~ 'Bubblegum' ~ New album ::  Gorillaz ~ 'On Melancholy Hill' ::  Tom Jones ~ 'Praise & Blame' new album ::  The Count & Sinden ~ 'Mega Mega Mega' ~ debut album ::  Corinne Bailey Rae ~ North American tour dates ::  Mark Ronson ~ 'Bang Bang Bang' ~ new single ::  Herbalizer ~ ‘Herbal Tonic – Best of Album’ ::  Villagers ~ 'Ship Of Promises' ::  Suzanne Vega ~ ’Close-Up Vol 1, Love Songs’ ~ UK Tour ::  Wild Beasts ~ July Roundhouse date ~ iTunes festival ::  Jónsi ~ Tour dates in September ::  Gorillaz ~ Escape To Plastic Beach Tour Dates ::  Frightened Rabbit ~ 'Living In Colour' ::  Eli Paperboy Reed ~ 'Come and Get It' new album ::  Wild Palms ~ 'Deep Dive' ::  Blur ~ Fool's Day - new single - Record Shop Day ::  Jónsi ~ 'Go Do' and 'Go' Releases ::  Angus and Julia Stone ~ 'Down The Way album - UK Tour ::  She and Him ~ In The Sun and Volume Two releases ::  Chemical Brothers ~ London Roundhouse and Sonar Festival ::  Eliza Doolittle ~ Debut single 'Skinny Genes' ::  Hidden Cameras ~ ‘Underage' / 'Origin: Orphan’ ::  Chapel Club ~ 'O Maybe I' new single ::  Lou Rhodes ~ 'One Good Thing' album released in March 2010 ::  Lightning Seeds ~ Tour dates - April 2010 ::  Frightened Rabbit ~ ‘Nothing Like You’ single ::  Lou Barlow ~ UK and European Tour ::  Mixtapes and Cellmates ~ New single 'Soon'. ::  Jon and Tracy Morter ~ Rage Factor Xmas No. 1 Winners ::  VV Brown ~ Travelling Like The Light’ - February 9th ::  Memory Tapes ~ 'Graphics' new single ::  Kathryn Williams ~ 'The Quickening' ::  Lightspeed Champion ~ New single – Marlene – 25th January 2010 ::