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New Danish festival adds batch of big names

The Tinderbox festival has added ten new names over the past ten days to its inaugural line-up, highlighted by the likes of Faith No More, The Prodigy and Modest Mouse.

The Odense-based Tinderbox, the newest player on the competitive Danish music festival scene, may not have exactly blown fans away with its initial line-up announcement but it is quickly winning converts after a spate of recent announcements. 
 
The festival announced four new acts on Tuesday, highlighted by UK electro pioneers The Prodigy and American indie rock band Modest Mouse. 
 
“The Prodigy has cut a solitary path of noise through the unruly landscape of electronic music for the last 25 years. Known as one of the world’s most energetic live bands and loved at festivals and clubs throughout the world, [t]hey have released a long list of world famous club classics like Breathe, Smack My Bitch Up, Voodoo People and Firestarter,” the festival wrote in announcing Tuesday’s additions. 
 
The Washington-based Modest Mouse are venerable indie favourites that have been relatively quiet for the past several years but plan to release their sixth album, Strangers to Ourselves, next month. 
 
Also announced on Tuesday were Irish singer-songwriter Hozier and German folk duo Milky Chance. 
 
The new batch of acts came just days after Tinderbox announced a major coup with the booking of American cult rock legends Faith No More, who have experienced a recent renaissance of sorts after over a decade of silence and are preparing to release a new album this year. 
 
“We have worked hard in recent months to close the deal with Faith No More. They have been requested from the many Danish and international festivals, so of course it’s nice that they have chosen Tinderbox, even though we are a brand new festival,” Tinderbox manager Brian Nielsen said. 
 
“We think they compliment and reinforce the rock portion of the program, which includes significant names like Gaslight Anthem, D-A-D, Eagles of Death Metal, and All Time Low,” he continued. 
 
Other recent additions by Tinderbox include Ellie Goulding, Royal Blood, Love Shop and Echosmith. They will join previously-announced acts including Robbie Williams, Calvin Harris and The Cardigans. 
 
Festival organizers promise to add another additional 30 or so acts to the final line-up. 
 
The inaugural edition of the Tinderbox festival gets underway on June 26th in Odense’s Tusindårsskoven. Tickets are on sale now through the festival’s website.

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New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday’s death

Fans of the late Johnny Hallyday, "the French Elvis Presley", will be able to commemorate the sixth anniversary of his death with two songs never released before.

New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday's death

Hallyday, blessed with a powerful husky voice and seemingly boundless energy, died in December 2017, aged 74, of lung cancer after a long music and acting career.

After an estimated 110 million records sold during his lifetime – making him one of the world’s best-selling singers -Hallyday’s success has continued unabated beyond his death.

Almost half of his current listeners on Spotify are under the age of 35, according to the streaming service, and a posthumous greatest hits collection of “France’s favourite rock’n’roller”, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Leo
Smet, sold more than half a million copies.

The two new songs, Un cri (A cry) and Grave-moi le coeur (Engrave my heart), are featured on two albums published by different labels which also contain already-known hits in remastered or symphonic versions.

Un cri was written in 2017 by guitarist and producer Maxim Nucci – better known as Yodelice – who worked with Hallyday during the singer’s final years.

At the time Hallyday had just learned that his cancer had returned, and he “felt the need to make music outside the framework of an album,” Yodelice told reporters this week.

Hallyday recorded a demo version of the song, accompanied only by an acoustic blues guitar, but never brought it to full production.

Sensing the fans’ unbroken love for Hallyday, Yodelice decided to finish the job.

He separated the voice track from the guitar which he felt was too tame, and arranged a rockier, full-band accompaniment.

“It felt like I was playing with my buddy,” he said.

The second song, Grave-moi le coeur, is to be published in December under the artistic responsibility of another of the singer’s close collaborators, the arranger Yvan Cassar.

Hallyday recorded the song – a French version of Elvis’s Love Me Tender – with a view to performing it at a 1996 show in Las Vegas.

But in the end he did not play it live, opting instead for the original English-language version, and did not include it in any album.

“This may sound crazy, but the song was on a rehearsal tape that had never been digitalised,” Cassar told AFP.

The new songs are unlikely to be the last of new Hallyday tunes to delight fans, a source with knowledge of his work said. “There’s still a huge mass of recordings out there spanning his whole career,” the source said.

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