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Folky Friday Round Up

Blur, Shane Macgowan, Lady Gaga, Guns and Roses, Folky Friday Downloads



Get the new Johnny Flynn song, 'Drum', here. Bloody good, he is:


http://soundcloud.com/stayloose/johnny-flynn-drum-1



Fans of The Pogues and ugly-but-brilliant men with no teeth should check out this  best of Shane Mcgowan collection from those at Mojo:


http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2010/01/shane_macgowans_greatest_clips.html




Blur's 'No Distance Left To Run' film to get a DVD release:


http://www.nme.com/news/blur/49228



Arcade Fire post message to fans urging them to donate to Haiti earthquake appeal:


http://www.arcadefire.com/



Lady Gaga collapses before show in America:


http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/01/15/lady-gaga-cancels-indiana-show-collapses-due-to-exhaustion/



Early bird tickets for Liverpool city festival, Liverpool Sound City go on sale:


www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk




Guns N' Roses kick off American shows with three hour epic. You know it would be brilliant...:


http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/01/14/guns-n-roses-bring-chinese-democracy-to-north-america-with-marathon-winnipeg-gig/



Get new Yankee folkster Caitlin Rose's track 'Shotgun Wedding' here:


  http://soundcloud.com/stayloose/caitlin-rose-shotgun-wedding





Carrying on the lady folk theme, here is one from the very sweet Alessi's Ark:


http://soundcloud.com/stayloose/alessis-ark_simple-man-cover



And, in our second Blur related snippet, the band admit to being 'destroyed' by drugs after Parklife:


http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1525657.php/Blur-destroyed-by-drugs



And in the final instalment of out Folky Friday round-up, an acoustic cover of Mumford and Son's 'White Blank Page':


http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6911243.ece

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