Scott Walker. (RIP March 2019)

A friend has posted the programme on FB. No one is doing SASL. Wise.

Yes, if anyone hadn't realized before, these songs are hard to sing.

Going to listen the shit out of this when it surfaces afterwards.

Matt DC I am soo jealous, would love to hear how it was being there!

(didn't i read somewhere that radio 3 were doing lossless streaming (flac) for the proms? Website mentions binaural but not lossless)

29 days left to listen

Enjoying Hawley's very downbeat "Two Ragged Soldiers."

Seems very apt that Jarvis is doing the 'Til the Band Comes In material

Sundfør killin it on "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg"

Will check this out later but scanning the track list can't help thinking it's a bit disrespectful to ignore nearly everything post Scott 4. No one's expecting 'SDSS1416+13B(Zercon, a flagpole sitter)', but some acknowledgement of where he is now would have been nice.

Simon Raymonde reflecting on the evening including Scott's presence

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This was fantastic. Jarvis was pretty obviously out of his depth but he had a choir to help him with the difficult bits, he's got a way of phrasing that worked with the more downbeat material though. Susanne Sundfor's higher register is astonishing and her voice has WAY more power than I would have expected - there's still something a bit off about her lower register though that I can't put my finger on. John Grant just has the right voice for this and his Seventh Seal was incredible, he can't quite get at the sadness of some of the songs though (his own stuff is extremely sad but there's often a distancing layer there). Whereas Richard Hawley isn't anywhere near as good a singer (and I've never engaged with his solo material) but he got a certain beaten down vibe really well.

Essentially these songs are pretty much never going to be performed like this again and the goodwill in the venue was obvious.

Sundfør killin it on "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg"

This was the highlight of the night for me. Listening on the radio, that is.

Frankie Boyle!

I no.

I feel like if cocker were really a fan of these songs he would have un-blagged his way out of this programme but what can you do, he's just about tolerable I guess (speaking as someone who's attended his performance of a song from the drift and experienced the true nightmare of albarn attempting "farmer in the city")

I thought it was all a bit straight, too reverent. Trying to capture the feeling of these songs requires the opposite approach but then again faced with a voice like Scott's what're you going to do? The Old Man's Back Again was fucking awful: Hawley sounded like he was reading it off a piece of paper, and it was missing that "James Jameson in the Eastern Bloc" bassline. Too much separation between the backing musicians and the singers: it felt like they both happened to be in the same place at the same time but didn't really gel.

It felt like a eulogy for a guy who's more alive and creatively present than, say, Jarvis is.

I'd say even Jarvis would agree with that.

It may be heretical to say this, but Sundfors take on 'Angels and Ashes' was just better than the original - each lineverse had differences whereas the original doesn't so much.

Not by much, but.

Jarv was ok, John Grant was the best bloke voice, Richard Hawley managed to get close to a cigar to Scotts voice.

Some songs worked better than others.

And now Reginald..

The arrangement of "The Seventh Seal" might have been better than the original, it had a nice coda. The rest were probably a bit too reverent, John Grant was good but stuck so close to the recorded versions if Scott had sneezed in a song he'd have sneezed too.

but that was on 'The Drift'

just listened to the prom. made me want to listen to all the original versions again...

Oddly, while I could hear the shortcomings of the voices and the overly-reverent arrangements (but still mostly enjoyed it) listening live on R3 on Tuesday, when I watched it the TV version on iPlayer late on Friday night, I found it tremendously moving. It was perhaps only Grant's performances that didn't grab me, as he was the most nearly-Scott; everyone else had to do something different.

But, yeah, Saturday was spent packing boxes to the entirety of the Five Easy Pieces boxset.

gutted i missed this

it's on iplayer, radio and tv

Haven't got a TV license :-/ and the BBC radio app insists I log in now, which is a bridge too far for me

You can skip that login at the moment, look underneath ...

get_iplayer...

you need a tv license

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMnTBzbpGKI

Yeah, its all over YouTube.

ah that's okay then. thanks all

I can find individual links for video (like Susan's) but does a full video version exist on YT?

Yikes I can't get with Jarvis Cocker on these first few tunes (listening to the YT link). Like a wet rag on those beautiful arrangements.

He provided a number of genuine laugh-out-loud "oh dear" moments esp on "the war is over"

It's a shame Goldfrapp didn't turn up for this. Susanne was perfect, I think that's the best version of that song

Maybe this was talked about in some other thread but Scott has composed the score for Vox Lux, the new film by the guy who directed Childhood of a Leader, which stars Natalie Portman and the young girl from Killing of
A Sacred Deer and sounds possibly pretty awesome as a movie (songs are by Sia and are not SW collabs)

Score album comes out in two weeks!

Part of The Drift also turns up in the new Jean-Luc Godard.

He should do something with Gazelle Twin.

Saw this thread back at the top of ILX and had a mixture of excitement for new material/fear something had happened to Scott. Turned out it was just the Vox Lux news I already knew about, so I'll write this up as a mixed success.
& as long as we're tossing out potential collabs he should absolutely do the hook on an fka Twigs track. Like, I'd 100% take any other sort of collaborative work from them as well, but "Scott hook" strikes me as the platonic form of that hypothetical meetup. Plus as I think I've said before somewhere else "Glass & Patron" is just the Bish Bosch sound design quantized into a vogue beat

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Scott Walker. Scott was 76 years old and is survived by his daughter, Lee, his granddaughter, Emmi-Lee, and his partner Beverly: https://t.co/awaFXWOkja pic.twitter.com/nd6MYVmWaO

— 4AD (@4AD_Official) March 25, 2019

Damn!

Come on mods, do what's needed.

This being one thread where we see it's revival and say "Oh good, what's Scott been up to all these years?" as opposed to....

Oh no. RIP.

Farewell scotty, I love you old man

Jaw literally dropped when I heard the news on the radio just now. Too soon, too soon. RIP.

:-(

Very sad - felt like there was more great music to come from him.

Yeah there were about 3 or 4 new songs in that collected lyrics book iirc. I guess we’ll have to just imagine the music now

RIP. man this really sucks.

Here’s 2006’s ‘30 Century Man’ docu in full, i once saw this with only 2 other fellas in there, at the Cornerhouse in Manchester.

Grab this if you’ve never seen it, it’s amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUj-T3EecBI

RIP. Thanks for producing We Love Life.