Music News round-up: Sting re-opens Bataclan

Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images

Fans of Tyler, the Creator (which instantly rules out Prime Minister Theresa May) can now sneak a peak at his forthcoming behind-the-scenes documentary Cherry Bomb.

The rapper remains banned from the UK after the then-home secretary refused him entry for three-five years last August, due to the lyrical content of his first two albums.

A new trailer for the film, produced by Illegal Civilization Cinema has been released on YouTube and follows the Odd Future star around during the making of his fourth studio album.

There's a lot of 'cussing' involved in the trailer, so we're going to let you lot go and find it for yourselves on YouTube.

If you do so, keep your eyes peeled for cameos from the likes of Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Pharrell Williams.

Cherry Bomb: The Documentary is out on DVD in January 2017.

AlunaGeorge have teamed up with producer Yogi for his latest single Blow You Up.

The producer has previously worked with artists like Pusha T, Rita Ora, Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah.

He also produced Not Above Love on Aluna’s latest album.

Here is the video, complete with some rather gratuitous fence licking...

Warning: Third party content, may contain ads.  

Radio 2 broadcast a special Simple Minds gig live from Hackney Empire on Thursday night.

Here's the Glasgow band rocking one of their biggest hits Don't You Forget About Me.  As if we ever could...

Click here for more clips from a special night in East London including Promised You A Miracle, a Q & A session with the band, Jo Whiley and the audience and also a soundcheck with fellow Scot KT Tunstall.

Amazon MusicCopyright: Amazon Music

American electronics suppliers Amazon have began streaming music in the UK today via their new Amazon Music Unlimited service.

The new on-demand music streaming system boasts 40 million songs, thousands of hand-curated playlists and now an Alexa voice control: handy for those troublesome band name spellings.

Fans of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci will be delighted with this innovation.

BBCCopyright: BBC

The Foo Fighters are to headline Denmark’s Roskilde Festival 2017.

The event in Copenhagen falls in the same week as Glastonbury, sparking rumours the band will also play at Worthy Farm.

They cancelled their 2015 headline appearance in the UK after singer Dave Grohl broke his leg, handing the slot to Florence and the Machine - who provided one of the sets of the weekend.

Anders Wahrén from Roskilde called The Foos: "undoubtedly one of the biggest rock bands in the world".

Have they packed their wellies?

European Photopress AgencyCopyright: European Photopress Agency

Chris Martin treated Coldplay fans to an acoustic rendition of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne during their London Palladium show on Friday night.

The cover was in honour of the Canadian crooner who died earlier that day aged 82 and you can watch some fan-shot footage here.

He can't have had very long to practice this little ditty can he?  But how do Chris's efforts above stack up to some of these other classic Cohen covers?

Imitation, in this case, truly is the most sincere form of flattery.

In September, we told you about LIV, the new Swedish supergroup featuring Lykke Li and members of Miike Snow and Peter Bjorn and John.

Well, now they've shared another new track called Dream Awake and its as dreamy as its title suggests.

We seriously cannot wait for this lot to release a full album...

PACopyright: PA

A series of gigs celebrating the work of David Bowie has been announced including a show at Brixton Academy in London.

The show will be hosted by actor Gary Oldman and will feature musicians such as former Bowie band members Mike Garson, Earl Slick, Adrian Belew, Mark Plati, Gerry Leonard, Gail Ann Dorsey, Sterling Campbell, Zachary Alford, Holly Palmer and Catherine Russell.

More special guests are yet to be announced.

The aforementioned musicians performed and recorded with Bowie on his Ziggy Stardust tour, his Sound And Vision greatest hits tour and his appearance at Glastonbury in 2000 (pictured above).

The show will be held at the O2 Academy Brixton on Sunday 8 January.

APCopyright: AP

American Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell died in his sleep in Nashville, Tennessee on Sunday.

The 74-year-old was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011 and Elton John called him his "biggest influence as a piano player, a singer and a songwriter".

The pair collaborated on the 2010 album The Union, which was awarded third place in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the best albums of that year.

Elton left a moving message below for his friend and mentor and was followed by plenty of others.

Read more.

Okay, that's confusing.

What we mean is that US singer Pink has revealed on social media, where else?, that she is expecting her second baby with husband Carey Hart.

In an Instagram post on Saturday, captioned with the word "Surprise!" the photo shows the couple's 5-year-old daughter, Willow Hart and Pink's growing baby bump.

We have no confirmation, or indeed suggestion, that the birth will be shared on social media.

There are lots of new music videos out to catch up on from the weekend. 

First up is the brand new one from The Last Shadow Puppets for Les Cactus which is taken from their forthcoming Dream Synopsis EP which comes out next month.

It features Alex Turner, singing in French in a white shirt so unbuttoned that it makes Simon Cowell seem demure.

With his exaggerated dad dancing, we cant help but wonder if Alex is being serious or having a laugh at our expense...

Warning: Third party content, may contain ads.  

The Chemical Brothers are back with a classic Chemical-era sounding track C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L.

Directed by  Adam Smith, the video is apparently made up of distorted images from childrens’ TV shows.

Warning: Third party content, may contain ads.  

Also, on Friday, John Legend also released the video for his new song Love me Now, featuring his wife and baby daughter.

Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images

They've been going for more than 30 years and though the luxuriant soft permed mullets have been replaced by dignified grey, Bon Jovi have proved there is life in the old dogs yet after claiming their sixth US number one album.

This House Is Not for Sale has made its debut at the top of the  Billboard 200 chart.

In the UK, the album charted at number five earning them their 16th Top 10.

ReutersCopyright: Reuters

Robbie Williams became the UK's most successful solo artist when The Heavy Entertainment Show topped the chart on Friday, giving him 12 chart-topping albums.

That sees him leapfrog David Bowie and tying with Madonna, who also has a dozen chart toppers to her name. 

And he still has plenty of time to outrank Elvis Presley who claimed his 13th number one album (albeit posthumously)  two weeks ago.

APCopyright: AP

Now back to the Bataclan in Paris where there have been conflicting reports as to whether or not Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes was turned away from the venue for Sting's re-opening gig.

Hughes' band were performing at the venue when four gunmen opened fire and killed 90 people last November but the venue's management said the singer was unwelcome, after his repeated suggestions that Bataclan staff might have been involved in planning the attacks.

Hughes later apologised for the remarks but Bataclan manager Jules Frutos told the Press Association:

Quote Message: They are not welcome after what he said about the security. I mean, this man is just sick. That's all."

They are not welcome after what he said about the security. I mean, this man is just sick. That's all."

APCopyright: AP

However in a statement to Billboard magazine, the band's manager said the singer did not even attempt to attend the gig.

Marc Pollack said: "This day is not about Jesse Hughes or Eagles of Death Metal.

"In fact, Jesse is in Paris to share in remembering the tragic events of a year ago with his friends, family and fans."

He added:

Quote Message: This is about recalling the tragic loss of life that happened right in front of his eyes during his show, and this coward Jules Frutos feels the need to soil his own club’s reopening by spreading false tales to the press, and tainting a wonderful opportunity that could’ve been used to spread peace and love, to further spread mean spirited words of hate."

This is about recalling the tragic loss of life that happened right in front of his eyes during his show, and this coward Jules Frutos feels the need to soil his own club’s reopening by spreading false tales to the press, and tainting a wonderful opportunity that could’ve been used to spread peace and love, to further spread mean spirited words of hate."

European Photopress AgencyCopyright: European Photopress Agency

Even in death, David Bowie has continued surprising his fans.

His graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook has revealed that there are more hidden secrets to be found on his final album Blackstar.

The music world got excited earlier this summer when it was revealed that holding the album up to the sun revealed a star chart,

Now Jonathan has told 6 Music's Mary Anne Hobbs that there is moire to look for:

Colombia RecordsCopyright: Colombia Records

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis' seminal 1959 album has been voted the best jazz album of all time on BBC Music's pop up jazz radio station.

For more than 90 hours straight over the weekend, it broadcast programmes featuring the likes of Jamie Cullum, Laura Mvula, Van Morrison and actor Don Cheadle - who played Miles in the recent biopic Miles Ahead.

Following in the footsteps of the list of 50 Greatest Jazz Artists, which featured on last year's pop up station and was also won by Miles, a special programme was hosted by BBC Radio 3’s Geoffrey Smith and Jazz FM’s Helen Mayhew on Sunday afternoon.

Geoffrey said, “Miles Davis rules the 50 Greatest Jazz Albums with three in the top 10, crowned at number one by Kind of Blue, the album for every mood and taste.  

"And for every listener - the one jazz album you’re bound to have if you just love music and Miles at their best.”

Here are some clips from the weekend, starting with Don talking about Miles' hatred of critics and Laura's love of the trumpeter - calling him "the ultimate icon".

There are loads more clips like these which you can listen to now.

Gabe Ginsberg / StringerCopyright: Gabe Ginsberg / Stringer

Now, she's no stranger to left-field art-forms and that's certainly reflected in Yoko Ono's bizarre message for incoming US president Donald Trump.

While Lady Gaga chose to protest outside Trump Towers and Moby penned an open letter to the American people to show his concern, Yoko has taken a more, shall we say minimalist approach.

The Japanese artist lets out what can only be described as a 17 second primal scream, which you can enjoy/endure below.

Warning - turn your sound down or risk your own ears

So make of that what you will.  Comedian Omid Djalili already has.

Here's his thoughts on Yoko's latest vocal offering.

APCopyright: AP

The Bataclan concert hall in Paris has reopened with a performance by Sting, a year after Islamist militants killed 90 people at the venue.

There was a minute's silence for the 130 people killed last year in the French capital by jihadists from so-called Islamic State.

The British singer told the audience, including survivors, that they had to honour the dead and celebrate life.

Speaking in French Sting said:  "We will not forget them", before beginning with the song Fragile, singing:

Quote Message: "Nothing comes from violence and nothing will."

"Nothing comes from violence and nothing will."

Read more here.

This week sees fellow British performer and French resident Pete Doherty perform at the same venue on Wednesday and Thursday.  

Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images

Sticking with Leonard Cohen for a moment and his son Adam has written a brief eulogy to the late singer praising his "approachable elegance"

Writing on Facebook, he said he and his sister had buried his father in Montreal next to his mother and father, "with only immediate family and a few lifelong friends present," adding it was "exactly as he’d asked".

Quote Message: As I write this I’m thinking of my father’s unique blend of self-deprecation and dignity, his approachable elegance, his charisma without audacity, his old-world gentlemanliness and the hand-forged tower of his work. There’s so much I wish I could thank him for, just one last time. I’d thank him for the comfort he always provided, for the wisdom he dispensed, for the marathon conversations, for his dazzling wit and humor."

As I write this I’m thinking of my father’s unique blend of self-deprecation and dignity, his approachable elegance, his charisma without audacity, his old-world gentlemanliness and the hand-forged tower of his work. There’s so much I wish I could thank him for, just one last time. I’d thank him for the comfort he always provided, for the wisdom he dispensed, for the marathon conversations, for his dazzling wit and humor."

He added: "I’d thank him for music; first for his music which seduced me as a boy, then for his encouragement of my own music, and finally for the privilege of being able to make music with him." 

Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images

Morning music fans.

We trust you're all suitably refreshed/rested since last we spoke and eager to go again?  Ok well don't answer that just yet...

We left you on Friday afternoon with a stream of fitting tributes from yourselves and the music world to the late Leonard Cohen and you can re-visit those here.

Plus you can listen to jazz singer Jacob Collier, below, cover his song Hallelujah for Radio 3's In Tune.

So get settled in and we'll mop up the best of the weekend's music news for you as Sting re-opens the Bataclan and Yoko Ono has a typically left-field response to Donald Trumps's election.

And we'll discover which record has been voted the Best Jazz Album of all time.