
News | The Last Shadow Puppets | Posted: 04/09/08
The Last Shadow Puppets release their new single 'My Mistakes Were Made For You' on Monday the 20th of October 2008.
The B-sides for the single include an exclusive live orchestrated version of 'Separate And Ever Deadly' from The Age of the Understatement, dramaturgic live cover versions of the Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra classic 'Paris Summer' which the band recently performed with Alison from The Kills in Paris and the Burt Bacharach penned, Love covered 'My Little Red Book'.
Check out this wonderful 1966 TV performance of 'My Little Red Book', it worth viewing just to see Arthur Lee’s sunglasses:
TRICKY ON KNOWLE WEST BOY "'Knowle West Boy' was recorded in London and LA. It was initially recorded over a year ago in London. But I wasn't really happy with the writing. Some of it was just too generic. So I brought it back here to LA and rewrote everything. It's totally self-produced apart from a couple of tracks that were co-produced by Switch. He definitely livened up 'Council Estate'. He’s a good guy. Knowle West is where I was born. It's a white ghetto. I didn't know what racism was until I left. My family’s mixed race, so we don't see colour. I grew up on a council estate more as a white kid, but with Jamaican roots. But all of us there had something in common… we were poor. I realised that I'd never written anything for these kind of people. I met a... ![]()
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The Even Number
Play now?
Including songs by: James Yorkston and The Athletes, u.n.p.o.c., Max Tundra, Archie Bronson Outfit and Juana Molina
The odd number
Play now?
Including songs by: James Yorkston and The Athletes, u.n.p.o.c., Max Tundra, Archie Bronson Outfit and Juana Molina
Available for pre-order now:
CD £8.99 / 2xLP £11.99
Buy: CD £9.99 / 2 x 10" £11.99
"For me, listening to James Yorkston's music is like coming across the interesting-looking person on the fringes of a party. Before you know it, you've spent the evening listening to their compelling tale. In this record, I ...more


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