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Barbican to host Lee Hazelwood tribute show
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 25 September 2015
The Barbican will next month host a night of music by songwriter Lee Hazelwood, who died in 2007. Among a line-up of artists performing songs such as ‘These Boots Were Made For Walkin’ and ‘Some Velvet Morning’ are Mark Lanegan, Fran Healy, Caitlin Rose and Matthew E White.
The event, taking place on 25 Oct and titled ‘Love And Other Crimes: The Songs Of Lee Hazlewood’, is curated by musician Ed Harcourt and Wyndham Wallace, Hazelwood’s manager in the last years of his life. Wallace also published a biography earlier this year, ‘Lee, Myself & I: Inside The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood’.
Speaking to CMU, Wallace explains how the idea for the show came about: “I live in Berlin, and I got a message out of the blue from Chris Sharp at The Barbican in November last year. I’d not seen him for many, many years and when he said he was coming to the city we decided to meet for brunch. He asked me what I’d been up to, and, as I told him about ‘Lee, Myself & I’, I suddenly thought of asking if he’d be interested in putting on a tribute show. He liked the idea, and soon afterwards I talked to Ed Harcourt about acting as co-curator and musical director. But the idea itself was pretty spontaneous”.
As for what Hazlewood himself might make if it, he added: “He might perhaps squirm at the attention, but deep down he’d probably be loving it, and would be fascinated by how the ‘young kids’ delivered his songs”.
Those “young kids” will be a band made up of Harcourt, Polar Bear’s Tom Herbert, Jim Sclavunos from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Romeo Stodart from The Magic Numbers, and Portishead’s Adrian Utley. They will be joined by vocalists Duke Garwood, Joe Gideon, Lawrence, Flo Morrissey, Josh T Pearson, Gemma Ray, Patrick Watson, Kathryn Williams, and the aforementioned Lanegan, Healy, Rose and White.
Read more from Wallace here on his association with Hazelwood and putting this show together, and book tickets for the show here.
