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trailer-park-digest       Monday, March 4 2002       Volume 03 : Number 008




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Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:10:51 EST
From: Tedford41@aol.com
Subject: Some Beth bits

Been kind of quiet around here of late, but I've found some news to post:

From Billboard.com:

Some high profile guests will make appearances on Beth Orton's forthcoming 
third album, due later this year from Astralwerks. Ryan Adams plays piano and 
sings backup on Orton's "Concrete Sky," and plays guitar on "OK," which he 
wrote. Emmylou Harris contributes backing vocals to "Godsong," while a 
co-write with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr is also being considered.

The as-yet-untitled set is Orton's follow-up to 1999's "Central Reservation" 
(Arista), which debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart and has 
sold 244,000 copies in the U.S., according to SoundScan. The artist can 
currently be heard singing on "The State We're In," from the Chemical 
Brothers' new Astralwerks album "Come With Us."


- -- Jason Reynolds, L.A. 


And from nme.com:

  
Beth Orton - This charming woman  
ORTON GIG MARRED

 JOHNNY MARR joined BETH ORTON onstage for four songs last night (January 25) 
at an intimate gig in LONDON, fuelling speculation that he will appear on her 
new album, NME.COM can exclusively reveal. 

The former Smiths guitarist sang and played on four songs, including brand 
new Orton tracks 'Holding On', 'Concrete Sky', 'Beauty In You' and also on 
'Someone's Daughter'. 

Orton was previewing new songs in front of a tightly packed audience of 
several hundred, including Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker, at the low-key show at 
King's College. 

Marr sang backing vocals on 'Holding On' and 'Beauty In You', playing lead 
guitar on 'Concrete Sky', which led into a free-flowing jazz jam with Orton, 
one of the highlights of the evening, with its refrain "I feel like I'm 
falling". 

Prior to announcing her surprise guest - who was introduced with the words: 
"I bumped into someone in the toilets. His name is Johnny Marr. He's going to 
play some songs" - she had performed seven songs with her backing band, 
including two new numbers 'Daybreaker' and 'Paris Train'. The new songs 
displayed a jazzier feel, which Orton acknowledged, pulling a stool onstage 
and saying: "This is my jazz stool. This is where I sit when I play jazz," 
and adding in a 'Fast Show' spoof: "Niiiice." 

After Marr left the stage, she continued with 'She Cries Your Name' and 'Best 
Bit', before breaking for an encore. 

However, the set was cut slightly short by a fire alarm, causing power to cut 
out in the building. The first song of the encore, 'Mount Washington' went 
off without incident, but before she had completed 'Central Reservation', an 
official from the venue approached the sound desk, and warned that a fire 
alarm had gone off elsewhere in the building and the power would shut off in 
a minute. 

As the venue was plunged into semi-darkness and the PA power cut out, Orton 
looked bemused, before leaving the stage, and the audience were quickly 
ushered out. 

The full set-list was:

'Blood Red River' 
'Stolen Car' 
'Thinking About Tomorrow' 
'Daybreaker' 
' Path In Time' 
'Sugar Boy' 
'Paris Train' 
(With Johnny Marr) 'Holding On' 
'Beauty In You' 
'Concrete Sky' 
'Someone's Daughter' 
(Without Marr) 'She Cries Your Name' 
'Best Bit' 

ENCORE 
'Mount Washington' 
'Central Reservation'

Anyone at this show?  I'd love to hear about the new stuff.  I'm starting to 
get really excited about this record.

Cheers all, 
Jason

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