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When I started playing with Jim [White] and Mick [Turner],” says Ellis, “it was the first time I found what I had heard in other music – just the liberation of feeling like you’ve scaled the top of a mountain one moment and you’re lying face down on the floor the next. His first instrument was a Hofner piano accordion which he found as a child while playing on a local rubbish dump – “I stepped on it and heard it wheeze.
A distinctly amiable and intelligent host, Ellis provides insight into some unusual creative minds . After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. What a thrill to see a person whose work gives a little extra beauty and meaning to our lives casually inhabiting the same physical space! I know people who would go, I probably would too (maybe not if it were just the gum but you get the idea). It has also been cast in silver by Hannah Upritchard, a jeweller in London, and a small number of ingots in the shape of the gum were presented to close friends of Ellis’s.Why I'm reading this: Honestly, I'm not sure why I put this on hold at the library, but I love Nina Simone and the reviews here on GR are mainly stellar. A] beautiful, strikingly idiosyncratic book - part memoir, part essay, part conceptual art project, all testament to humans at their strangest and best . Touching briefly on some of the expected tropes of the rock star genre, including the rigors of touring and the ravages of substance abuse, Ellis refreshingly refuses to dwell on any glorification of bad-boy anti-social behavior, instead favoring wholesome sincerity and unrestrained love, exploring the huge questions of “finding the right people to work with,” asking, “How does that happen?
The absurd yet perfect story of the gum reaching back into his life and then involving dozens of people who got the power in that little clump of stuff. Kuo labiau kitas apsinuogina, kuo labiau pasako, kad rūpi, kad skauda, kad neramu, tinkamas partneris – gyvenimo, draugystės, profesijos – gali ne tik suprasti, bet ir atliepti, papildyti emociją, ją įgalinti ir patvirtinti jos reikšmingumą, net jei pats norėtum numenkinti. As the audience rose to its feet as one, cheering and applauding, she stood for a few moments at the front of the stage, one clenched fist raised, and glared out into the sea of adoring faces as if ready to do battle with them. The well-known story of Warren’s own interest being sparked by a discarded Hohner piano-accordion he found on a rubbish dump is just one way in which the randomness of thrown away items can provide new meaning, life or inspiration.
At the gig’s end, Ellis mounted the stage, and souvenired the gum, placing it and its towel into a yellow-and-red Tower Records bag. This book follows not only the journey of the gum but also shows the various inspirations for artists and performers and also some of Warren’s life. In 2019, Cave - his collaborator and great friend - asked Warren if there was anything he could contribute to display in his Stranger Than Kindness exhibition. There are aspects of my behaviour that I assumed I shared with everyone else – the superstitions, the impulses and maybe the obsessions – but then I realised there is something a bit crazy about what I do. Ne tik dėl milžiniško tikėjimo žmonijos gerumu užtaiso, bet ir dėl to, kad istorija neeilinė, o ir apie ją dar išgirsime.
The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I guess a lot of people must have noticed that she was chewing gum, because it was just the coolest thing,” says Ellis, “a small act of defiance that said so much about her whole fuck-you attitude. I wanted that magic of the story of Nina Simone's Gum and it's impact on the author and every one who came into contact with this silly little artifact. Over the course of plumbing his fellow attendees’ impressions, Ellis contacted the photographer Bleddyn Butcher to see if he’d captured any images of the performance.
It is in the recording studio, however, that the dynamic between the two has transformed Cave’s music of late.
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