Gil Scott-Heron

Best of 2011: Albums

The best albums of 2011, including Josh T Pearson, Com Truise and Metronomy

14 Dec 2011

Josh T Pearson – Last of the Country Gentleman. A phenomenally stark and moving record from the enigmatic, deeply talented Texan with a foot-long beard. The fact that some tracks come in at almost 12 minutes long may have been off-putting to some, but…

Kanye West performs at Gil Scott-Heron's funeral

Music Gossip

3 Jun 2011

Kanye West performed in tribute to Gil Scott-Heron at his funeral yesterday (02.06.11). The rapper appeared at the memorial service at Harem's Riverside Church to give a rendition of 'Lost in the World', which includes a sample of Gil's recorded poem…

Gil Scott-Heron has died

Music Gossip

28 May 2011

Gil Scott-Heron has died. The poet and singer – most widely known for his poem set to music 'The Revolution Will Not be Televised' – passed away at a hospital in New York yesterday (27.05.11) aged 62. Although it is not currently clear how he…

Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here

Musically different XL labelmates remix project repurposes Scott-Heron's I’m New Here

11 Feb 2011

Kudos to whoever cooked up this brilliant, deranged project: bring together two of XL’s most acclaimed but sonically and generationally opposite artists, the younger remixing the elder. It works to striking effect, with Scott-Heron’s voice (mostly…

Nick Cave makes Irregular appearance in Edinburgh

24 Jun 2010

No, you didn’t just hallucinate that. Nick Cave’s popping down to the Roxy. This Canongate Books/Edinburgh International Film Festival multimedia event brings the Aussie music/film/literature icon, who will be reading from his novel, The Death of Bunny…

Nick Cave reading in Edinburgh at Canongate literary cabaret night Irregular

16 Jun 2010

Ladiezangenulmen! Mr! Nick! Cave! Canongate pull off something of a coup with an appearance by the Lord of Darkness at their literary cabaret night. Thanking their lucky stars that they’re on this line-up are writer David Whitehouse and musician Jed…

Gil Scott Heron

HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, Mon 26 Apr 2010

12 May 2010

At over three score years, novelist, poet and musician Gil Scott Heron cuts a dapper, if weathered figure. Slender and sage-like, he resembles a jazz Gandalf. His famous baritone cuts through the packed auditorium, here to witness the return of a true…

Gil Scott–Heron on UK tour in support of new album I'm New Here

15 Apr 2010

Polemicist, ex-prisoner, poet – Gil Scott–Heron’s spoken word diatribes are charged with political passion and fused with jazz, proto-rap and blues rhythms. As he arrives in Scotland, Paul Dale traces a life lived politically Between the moon and…