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GIGS OF THE WEEK Salford


Who: Caro Emerald Where: The Lowry, Salford When: September 8 Why: The singer kicks


off a UK tour after releasing her second album in May. She comes to London’s Royal Festival Hall on September 14 and Birmingham’s Symphony Hall on September 16.


DIGITAL VS 37.6%


61.6%


Birmingham


Who:Macklemore And Ryan Lewis Where: O2 Academy Birmingham When: September 11


Why:The Seattle rapper and DJ/producer duo come to the UK after the success of their No.1 hit single Thrift Shop. US hip-hop artist Chance The Rapper joins for a support slot.


PHYSICAL 37.3%


61.7%


TOP 5 STORIES ON MUSICWEEK.COM


Musicweek.com’s most-read stories for period ending Sept. 2


01 02 03 04 05


Live Nation and AEG in bidding war for David Bowie 2014 tour - report Monday, September 2 Key music execs invited to Downing Street to talk Government support Sunday, September 1 Nathan Hubbard: 'Twitter is committed to helping the music industry sell more' Thursday, August 29 Dutch recorded music sales up for first time in 12 years in H1 2013Wednesday, August 28 Bertelsmann post highest net income in over a decade in H1 2013 Friday, August 30


London


Who: Miles Graham Where:The Boogaloo, London When: September 12 Why: Gathering


praise after the release of his latest single All So Innocent, the singer/songwriter plays an intimate show at the London venue. His debut album is set for release early 2014.


INK SPOTS


Too busy to read the music press? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you.


On the front of this month’s Jazzwise magazine is Shabaka Hutchings - the band- leader of “dub Afro- jazz” outfit Sons Of Kemet. Inside, the clarinet “virtuoso” and


37.4% 61.5% 38% 61% 37.3% 79%


WkS 31-35 The UK market share for all albums in the past five weeks


DIGITAL CD


MUSIC WEEK POLL


This week we asked... What did you think about the Miley Cyrus MTV VMA performance? Vote at www.musicweek.com


“fire-breathing” tenorist discusses the band’s “melting diasporic mix of tuba-fuelled African, Caribbean and Afrobeat grooves”. Elsewhere, soul-jazz singer


Gregory Porter talks about joining the Blue Note label after singing with Universal during the merger with EMI last year. “It’s an honour to be a Blue Note artist - it kind of adds you into a part of music histo- ry, photographic history, black cul- ture, American culture,” he explains. An exclusive unpublished


interview with Jimi Hendrix just 48 hours before his death in 1970 reveals the late icon’s plans to work withMilesDavis and TonyWilliams to create a ‘new kind of jazz’. In the reviews pages, Stuart


pop-tastic: 21% distasteful: 79% Brilliantly Just plain


@WileyUpdates@RizzleKicks your jokes are stupid ...check this you could sell 10 million in a week you still would not be accepted in credible


urban life. (Wiley) Tuesday, August 27


@RizzleKicks@WileyUpdates couldn't give a fuck where we’re accepted. Worrying about shit like that’s lead you into making some pretty bad


decisions. (Rizzle Kicks) Tuesday, August 27


@WileyUpdates @RizzleKicks I dont hate you I just know you lot ain't the in ting and you never will be with or without nick Hugget ..sales or not.


(Wiley) Tuesday, August 27


@lilyrosecooper Miley, what you did at the vma’s was not embarrassing, me twerking down ladbroke grove with a Jamaican flag tied to my head at 6pm


on a Monday, that's embarrassing. (Lily Cooper) Wednesday, August 28


@IamLauraT You know things have hit a bit of a low point when ‘Twerk’, ‘Selfie’, ‘Food Baby’ and ‘Digital Detox’ get added to the Oxford Dictionary.


(Laura Tannenbaum, Absolute Radio) Wednesday, August 28


@mattie_bennett #breadfilms Baguetting Sarah Marshall Cob Roy Rising Bun Scone In 60 Seconds The Bagel Guy Pitta Pan Rye Another Die


Much Ado About Muffin (Mattie Bennett, Universal Music International) Friday, August 30


TWEET OF THE WEEK @LaurenceTGreen So Katy Perry's UK release of Roar is this weekend now? Yet another admission that On Air / On Sale needs to happen, soon.


(Laurence Green, Blinkbox Music) Friday, August 30


@iamrobanderson I can promise myself I will never use the word ‘sick’ to describe something that's good. (Rob Anderson, Distilller Music) Friday,


August 30 Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews


Nicholson gives The Impossible Gentleman’s Internationally Recognised Aliens an ‘excellent’ four star rating. Luis Perdomo’s Links comes “thoroughly recom- mended” by Tony Hall, the album features the Venezuelan pianist’s “many qualities on display in abundance.”


LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST


@elizabethalker At a wedding... Twerking has definitely taken off in Stoke Newington (Elizabeth Alker, BBC 6Music) Friday, August 30


@adrian_read Yes there’s some seri- ously terrible shit happening in Syria, but as Lee Ryan is rightly pointing out on his twitter: "what about badgers?"


(Adrian Read, Inside/Out) Saturday, August 31


@Popjustice@adrian_read Do you think you could get him to also throw his considerable influence behind Foxes? This is Music Week Award-win-


ning stuff (Popjustice) Saturday, August 31


@EvelmoMan on the bus behind me is eating pistachios and throwing the shells all over the floor. Might put them in my hair #swinefest #gaga


(Eve Morrison, Polydor Records) Sunday, September 1


THE MAGIC NUMBERS


Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with


these head-spinning facts and figures...


79


Years of age makes Pete Rowe of The Fisherman’s


Friends the oldest member of a group to achieve a Top


20 album with latest release One And All. Doris Day holds the title as the oldest solo


artist to enter the UK album charts, releasing new material at 89


£10.9m Opening box office tally for


One Direction documentary This Is Us in North America. The figure lags behind Miley Cyrus’ Hannah


Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert - which opened five years ago to £20m


1


Music artist appears in 2013’s MediaGuardian


100 power list. David Bowie


is in as a new entry at No.98 after his comeback this year with The Next Day. Simon


Cowell is the highest music- related figure at No.14


15


Year deal that will see AEG Facilities run Wembley Area


approved by the Competition Commission on Monday


8


Years since David Bowie’s last live show won’t deter Live Nation and AEG on


bidding to claim his return to the stage, according to reports


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