Ray
Davies, Kenwood House, London Ray
of sunshine on wet home turf
Reviewed by Ben Walsh
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26/6-09 NME: Ray
Davies draws huge crowds to Glastonbury
Acoustic Tent headline set
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abt and kaa 26/6
2009
"the neighbourhood where I grew up is really
quite depressed"
abt & kaa
21.06.09
Friday, 19 June 2009: "I gotta tell
you - I miss the Kinks,"
says Ray. "I heard 'Lola' on the
radio a few months back when Chris
Evans played it, and I was amazed
how strong the intro was. With the
other, fuzz-guitar-driven stuff I
could always get that energy and
power from my brother Dave. Jimmy
Page and Eric [Clapton] are great
technical players, but you wouldn't
have got that from them."
............................. "As
our interview winds down, Davies
tell me there is a new film
about the Kinks in the offing, and
that Julien Temple, best known for
his documentaries about the Sex
Pistols, wants to direct it. Davies,
meanwhile, is planning to make
a new album in
Nashville, and he also wants
to finish Flatlands, the
Norfolk-set choral work he began
with the Britten Sinfonia back in
1998. But what of humble old
songwriting? Is he doing any of that?
"Yes. I like to write at the
weekends these days; it always
reminds me of when I didn't have to
go to school. Last weekend, I wrote
two country songs, one of which is
about the difficulties of family
relationships. It's called 'Brothers
and Sisters'.""
Pilgrim Sisters Country / Bluegrass
During spring -09 16 songs have been
recorded at KONK studios in London with
producer and legendary Kinks rocker Ray
Davies. Album's on the way.
http://www.myspace.com/pilgrimsisters
The "Bukta" Festival 2-4/07-09 Ray Davies to
"BUKTA", Tromsø, Norway
Is this the
first time Ray is going to play in
the midnight sun?
------------------- Tuesday
08.08.06: Guardian on the "BUKTA"
Festival: Tripping the light
fantastic "If you plan to
be in Norway next summer, make time
to fit the Bukta festival into your
schedule. To be honest, it doesn't
really matter which bands are
playing; the point of going to Bukta
is just to be there and enjoy the
fantastic atmosphere, because there
really isn't another live music
event like it in the world."
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NEW RAY ALBUM
Crouch End
Festival Chorus
in studio with
Ray - Out this
spring?
Ray
Davies is once
again in studio,
this time
recording an
album with the
Crouch End
Festival Chorus,
directed by
David Temple.
According to the
Chorus’ web site
(here),
they are
recording an
album of Ray’s
hits, and it
will be finished
by the first
half of this
year.
This seems to be
another great
Ray Davies year,
with Come
Dancing possibly
at the West End.
We hope and beg!
We
also cross
fingers for a
Come Dancing
album! What
about a CD and a
DVD with this
wonderful
musical?
Here are Ray and
his angels from
last years
e-proms:
The MOBIUS
Best
Off-West End
Production:
Come Dancing
– Theatre
Royal
Stratford
East
hawards.whatsonstage.com:
"The Kinks’
frontman Ray
Davies, who
was
nominated in
Hartnett’s
category for
making his
musical
writing and
performing
debut in the
semi-autobiographical
Come Dancing
at the
Theatre
Royal
Stratford
East, is on
hand at
tonight’s
event to
collect in
another
category:
the musical
premiere was
the
hands-down
winner for
Best
Off-West End
Production."
whatsonstage.com:
"The
majority of
award
recipients –
including
The Four
Seasons’ Bob
Gaudio,
leading
American
playwright
and
filmmaker
Neil LaBute,
Donmar
artistic
director
Michael
Grandage and
The Kinks
frontman Ray
Davies –
will collect
their prizes
in front of
a sell-out
audience
tonight (15
February) at
the
Whatsonstage.com
Awards
Concert,
hosted by
James Corden
and Sheridan
Smith, at
the West
End’s Prince
of Wales "
Hurrah!
10th DUTCH KINKS FAN MEETING You find
the whole invtation amd some more here:
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‘ARTHUR - 40 YEARS’
ON SUNDAY APRIL 26, 2009,
FROM 11.00 UNTIL 18.00 UUR
IN
ROCKCAFÉ ‘STAIRWAY TO
HEAVEN’
MARIAPLAATS 11-12 – 3511 LJ
UTRECHT (CENTRUM) WITH
LIVE-PERFORMANCES OF
THE KAST OFF KINKS 2
with former Kinks-members
MICK AVORY
(drums)
IAN GIBBONS
(keyboards)
JIM RODFORD
(bass guitar and vocals)
and the only ‘not-Kink’
DAVE CLARKE
(lead guitar and vocals)
SUPPORT ACT
FLAMIN’ STARS
Some
of the people in this photo
from "Stairway to Heaven"
might bee there.
You must come too and then
you will find out!
Ray
Davies with a new album.
Crouch End Festival Chorus
- a North London-based choir
with an international
reputation. The chorus it to
team up for a third time
with Kinks legend Ray Davies
- this time to record an
album of his hits in early
2009.
uncut.co.uk :
"Kinks
founder
Ray Davies is to
perform at this year's
Laugharne Weekend in Wales.
The Welsh literary festival
welcomes poets, authors and
'travelling musicians' and
venues range in capacity
from Dylan Thomas' Boathouse
(24) to Laugharne Castle
(300). Davies will be
performing a spoken word
show based on his book
'X-Ray.'"
The
Dave Davies Video Section is
here! A
collection of
Dave Davies Videoes on
YouTube.
It's a tribute to Dave
Davies
on his 62th birthday (3
February), from
the WhyKinks editors.
46 videoes in 7
categories.
There
are 123 more pictures, from
the last last gig, in
Kolbäck Sweden 6/9 2008, off
the fabulous, fantastic,
furious and friendly and one
and only "The Kast
Off Kinks".
Just use the link button.
"You taught
me how to face the morning." Send
Your Answer
here.
Lee
Arthur Wilkerson presents:
7 videoes that gives you a high
quality music biography of The
Kinks from 1964-1984.
Contains color and b&w footage. Here
they are in one playlist:
From the
entertainment section of
jan 9 2009 Presents songs about disaster, comforting us
in the new year!?
This lines by Ray Davies ends the story. Try the link for
more. “Tornado, cyclone and hurricane/
Can batter the houses with the thunder and rain / Blizzards can blow, the waves hit the shore/ But the
people recover and come back for more / Somehow the people
fight back, even if the future looks black / Life
goes on and on and on/ Life goes on and on and on."
Lee
Arthur Wilkerson presents: 
