Hedi Slimane is a fashion designer and is friends with Beck. He was the Dior Homme designer that Beck did the absolutely amazing Dior Theme for. Slimane has a photo diary on his site and today’s entry has a number of photos of Beck. You know, if you’re into that kind of thing. (Make sure to check the second page, too.)
(Thanks Hambeck for posting the link)
UPDATE: I was way off on the date and with the link to the entry above. The photos are from the March 5 and March 8 entries.
I have pre-ordered the singles boxset from HMV.co.jp and I just recently received this e-mail from them:
Thank you for shopping with HMV.co.jp.
Release date of your following order has been postponed.===== Information =====
release date is posponed to 06/27/07.
We’ll ship the item as soon as it comes out.[Order Number]08000732
[Catalogue Number]UICF5009
[Artist]Beck
[Title]Singles 1994-2006 (Ltd)(Box)*You will receive Shipping Information when your order is shipped.
So it looks like the new release date for now is June 27, 2007. Who knows if this is firm, or if they’re just going to keep pushing it forward.
Still no news on Odelay Deluxe.
For those of you with dimeadozen accounts, somebody has uploaded the April 8 show. It’s not actually working I don’t think, because I think dime might be having some database issues, but hopefully that’ll be resolved soon. Just go to dimeadozen.org and search for Beck, and you should see it. If you don’t have an account, new ones can be tricky to get, you gotta be on your toes.
The NME is reporting that Beck will be included on a new charity compilation due out in May. His contribution will be Black Tambourine.
Kaiser Chiefs, Weezer and Beck are among the artists to feature on a brand new compilation CD put together by Lily Allen collaborator Mark Ronson.
Wolfmother, Ryan Adams and Scissors Sisters are also included on the CD, which is the first of a series of compilations put together by Ronson for Hard Rock Hotels.
The album which is released in May will also donate a dollar from each sale to the Water For Life charity an initiative from artist Jay-Z with the mission to bring clean drinking water throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
So the Japan tour is over now. WuCu plays tonight (at the Echo, I believe). All is good.
We posted some setlists from the Japan tour earlier and they looked mighty fine. I was going to post some more, but to be honest they were all fairly similar. If you want to check them out, they will eventually make their way onto Hijacked Flavors, so keep checking back there.
After all our whining and hoping, we were lucky enough to get a recording of one show so far, 2007-04-16! The extra awesome news is that Beck played Time Bomb at that show and, in this blogger’s opinion, it’s awesome. The show actually seemed like a lot of fun. To me it seemed like Beck was more into it than he has been more recently in North America, but that might just be me projecting my own excitement onto the recording.
There was also that big art show we mentioned, which seems to have gone down pretty well. I understand that a whole buttload of people showed up, Beck signed autographs (check out Hambeck’s sweet autographs), and good fun was had by all. Plus, you can’t really go wrong with large framed pictures of horses humping, can you? I noticed in some pictures from the art show that there seemed to be an accompanying book that maybe was sold or given out there. (I can’t find the pictures now, but if I find them I’ll update this post with the links.) I haven’t really heard anything about this, but I’m definitely interested in it. If anybody has more info about this book, please share it in the comments.
Let’s see, what else…Beck seemed to have a really good time tooling around Japan, and he took a lot of mighty nice photos for his beck.com photo diary. I again recommend you check those out. That’s about it I guess. Sorry this post is kinda half-assed.
UPDATE: Thanks to Kristen for posting the link to azukibean’s Flickr stream, where I had originally seen the photos of the book described above (1, 2, 3, 4).
There are plenty of unofficial / fan remixes of Beck tracks out there, and they are often incredibly terrible. Sometimes, though, you get a pleasant surprise; two of my favourites* in the past were by Skew, who’s done remixes of Emergency Exit and Broken Drum.
This morning I stumbled across a YouTube video for a New Round remix by Skew. The video is underwhelming – just a few photographs in a loop. Once again, though, the remix is really good and I recommend you all pick it up here on Skew’s site.
*I’m Canadian, deal with the u.
From smashingmag.com:
Izumikuma’s hyper swift photo report of Beck (6th Apr. @ Liquidroom Ebisu) is posted. There will be an exhibition of “Beack Art Show”, featuring the works of the latest album, “The Information”, from the 15th to 19th of this month @ La Foret Museum Harajuku. On the 15th, Beck himself will be there, we hear. Be there or square?
UPDATE: It’s also on beck.com now, which as the flyer.
Rosemint Cafe has a review up of this show (in Japanese) and a setlist, repeated here for your convenience. Time Bomb?! Beck hasn’t pulled that one out since June 20, 2006! I need to hear this song! These Japanese shows seem like they’re all pretty cool.
Setlist:
Loser
Black Tambourine
New Pollution
Landslide
Girl
Time Bomb
Rentalcar
Motorcade
Mixed Bizness
Que Onda Guero/Nicotine & Gravy/Hell Yes (medley)
The Information
Nausea
Minus
Think I’m In Love
No Complaints
Devil’s Haircut
Paper Tigertable set:
Lost Cause
Jackass
Wave of Mutilation (Pixies cover)
Lonesome Whistle (Hank Williams cover)
Lonesome Tears
The Golden Age
Clap Handsencore:
Puppetron “Bekzillaâ€
1000BPM
Where It’s At
E-Pro
UPDATE: masumacworld has a pic of the setlist and some discussion (again in Japanese).
Beck performed at the Liquid Room the other night (here are some photos). I haven’t read much in the way of English-language reviews, but I gather it was a good performance. Hambeck has a review up, in Japanese, along with a setlist (repeated below, Rosemint cafe has a slightly different one). Let’s hope a recording turns up, it seems awesome.
Setlist:
Black Tambourine
Scarecrow
Soldier Jane
Girl
Motorcade
Paper Tiger
Novacane
Whether (the opening throat [tsu] the tune which you do not know was done)< Medley >
Think I’m In Love
Celllphone’s Dead
Mixed Bizness
Nicotine & GravyNausea
Qué Onda Guero
Hollywood Freaks
No Complaints< Acoustic >
Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime (instant)
Lost Cause
Sunday Sun
The Golden Age
?
Lonesome Whistle (the cover of Hank Williams)
Nausea
Clap Hands< Encore >
Where It’s At