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Wie kannst du nur!

Weil die DNA von Hugh beim Regen von Hugh weggespült wurde weil ich keinen Regenschirm dabei hatte...ab da hatte es eh keinen Sinn mehr sie trocken zu lassen..
Aber wenn ich die Augen schließe und daran zurück denke, bekomm ich jetzt noch eine Gänsehaut und spüre Hugh's Lippen auf mir..

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READY MERCURY
THE contenders for the prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize will be announced next Tuesday. A panel of experts have been whittling down the 12 best album artists from the past year.

My top tips to compete for the gong are Adele, 22, Noah & The Whale, PJ Harvey, 41, Chase & Status, The Horrors, The Vaccines and James Blake, 21.
I’d also like to see Katy B, 22, Metronomy, The Streets and Smother by Wild Beasts get nods as well.

Don’t be surprised if Anna Calvi, 28, perennial faves Radiohead, Jon Hopkins, 31, Hugh Laurie, 52, and even Take That – thanks to the best reviews of their career – could be lucky too.
Previous winners include Suede, Dizzee Rascal, 24, Franz Ferdinand and last year’s champs The xx.

Source: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/vie ... -Mercury-/
Official Site: http://www.mercuryprize.com/
Watch Live at 11:30am,Tuesday 19th July 2011: http://www.facebook.com/Barclaycard?sk= ... 9330495881

[mj1985]

The lineup is now officially complete!!! We're very happy to announce that we've confirmed: Hugh Laurie / Ruthie Foster / Sarah Elizabeth Campbell / Maxim Ludwig & the Santa Fe Seven / Zigaboo Modeliste: King of the Funky Drums

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival; San Francisco, California
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Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk
About the Concert

An American favorite for his award-winning role in the hit TV series House, the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie showcases his musical side in an atmospheric personal odyssey filmed on location in New Orleans. Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk – A Celebration of New Orleans Blues airs on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances Friday, September 30 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/ ... cert/1172/

Defying simple categorization, Laurie finds his greatest satisfaction and inspiration from the mixture of blues and jazz that grew out of New Orleans at the beginning of the last century. He was inspired as a teenager by hearing blues great Professor Longhair’s “Tipitina.” Let Them Talk is Laurie’s very personal journey into the heart and soul of that music: “Here I am in the French Quarter playing with all these amazing musicians. This may be about as good as it gets. In fact, this may be what heaven is like.”

Laurie sings a wide selection of tunes, accompanying himself on piano or guitar, and backed by some of the town’s top-flight musicians. He refuses to pigeonhole his selections. “There are only two categories: good and bad. Those are the only things that matter.”

Throughout the hour, there are intimate performances and rehearsals with blues legends Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas, known as the “Soul Queen of New Orleans,” as well as another fellow traveler from Great Britain similarly inspired by this uniquely American music, Sir Tom Jones.

Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk – A Celebration of New Orleans Blues also includes documentary segments showing Laurie’s daytime and nocturnal travels around the city on foot, by bike, or car, including a visit to the legendary Euclid Records shop, where he reverently inspects the classic LPs there.

Laurie dubs the city “the most romantic place on earth” and observes that this is “a city that doesn’t fear death. It’s looked death in the eye.” This aspect is reflected in its music, he notes. “Death is the minor key. Life is the major key.”

He freely admits he’s following “in the footsteps of Martin Scorsese, Ken Burns, and Spike Lee,” all of whom memorably trod similar cinematic musical paths.

Of Laurie’s piano prowess, Jones observes admiringly, “He must have listened to a lot of blues players, a lot of boogie-woogie players,” and notes that Laurie’s playing resembles that of Jerry Lee Lewis. Thomas marvels that when she saw him on the keyboards on House, she “could tell he was actually playing.”

With concert sequences filmed at the historic Latrobe’s building in the French Quarter, the musical selections include New Orleans blues standards along with forgotten and neglected gems.

Song Listing

“Swanee River” (Foster/Charles)
Hugh Laurie
“Baby What Do You Want Me to Do”/“You Got Me Running” (Jimmy Read)
Miss Lovell White & The Austin Blues Society Band
“You Don’t Know My Mind” (Williams/Gray/Liston)
Hugh Laurie
“You Don’t Know Me” (Walker/Arnold)
Lady on Guitar
“Copperhead Road” (Steve Earle)
Group Singing and Playing Guitars
“Luckenbach Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” (Moman/Emmons)
Group Singing and Playing Banjos/Guitars
“John Henry” (Traditional Arrangement – Chatman)
Hugh Laurie/Irma Thomas
“St. James Infirmary” (Traditional Arrangement – Primrose)
Hugh Laurie
“Buddy Bolden’s Blues” (Traditional Arrangement – Morton)
Hugh Laurie
“Baby Please Make A Change” (Mississippi Sheiks)
Hugh Laurie/Tom Jones/Irma Thomas
“Let Them Talk”
Hugh Laurie
“Tipitina” (Professor Longhair)
Hugh Laurie

No stranger to public television, Laurie’s “Jeeves and Wooster” (with comedy partner Stephen Fry) was a popular Masterpiece Theatre presentation in the early 1990s.

Great Performances is a production of THIRTEEN for WNET New York Public Media, one of America’s most prolific and respected public media providers. For nearly 50 years, WNET has been producing and broadcasting national and local arts programming to the New York community.

Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk – A Celebration of New Orleans Blues was directed for television by JP Davidson. For Great Performances, Bill O’Donnell is series producer, and David Horn is executive producer.

Major funding for the Great Performances telecast is provided by Vivian Milstein, LuEsther T. Mertz, the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, and the Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/ ... cert/1172/

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Hugh Laurie
Friday, September 30
At The Mint - 9:00 PM (8:00 PM doors) / 21+
$15.00
Los Angeles

quelle: http://www.themintla.com/show/detail/49928

wer kommt mit?

[mj1985]

$15? Wow ... das ist wenig.
Ich dachte Hugh sei mehr wert

[six]

Ich nehme 2! Für den Preis bekomme ich auch irgendwie das Geld für den Flug zusammen!

[LisaH]

Ich bin dabei! Uni, wann besorgst du die Karten?

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schon alles gekauft und gebucht

-- 02 Sep 2011, 15:36 --

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/magaz ... .html?_r=3

lesenswert! und vorallem SEHENSWERT....das obere bild ist ja mal geil

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'House' star singing the blues

Hugh Laurie has a serious case of the blues.

No, life isn't imitating art for the star of the TV medical-mystery drama House. Quite the opposite. The 52-year-old actor, writer and amateur musician has just released his first album Let Them Talk, a celebration of his longtime passion for New Orleans blues, boogie- woogie and jazz.

"This music has moved me ever since I first heard it at age 11 or 12,"

says the erudite Brit down the line from House's Hollywood set. "I don't know how anybody can hear the music of that city and be unmoved by it, and not drawn to it like a moth to a flame."

The 52-year-old singer, pianist and guitarist isn't flying solo on Let Them Talk: The authentic-sounding set of blues classics was produced by studio ace Joe Henry and features Louisiana legends Dr. John, Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas. But the real star of the show is Laurie, whose nimble fingers, decent vocals and obvious sincerity elevate the album beyond the usual actorly vanity project.

Between takes, a genial Laurie - whose love of New Orleans and its music will be the subject of a PBS doc in late September - discussed growing up friendless, consulting with Dr. John and taking his act on the road.

You're a little young to have been caught up in the '60s British blues wave. Shouldn't you have been a punk?

Indeed, I should have been a punk. And who knows, maybe I will be one day. But I never really bought punk or pop records. That's not a boast; I was just never moved by it. I don't really know how this happened, because I have no memory for anything beyond ... oh, about 20 minutes ago. I just know that as soon as I heard this music, I gravitated toward it. But people who were collecting Screaming Jay Hawkins were pretty thin on the ground, so I never had the same kind of musical bond with my peers that other people had. I was utterly friendless. And continue to be.

Not many people wait until their 50s to make their first album. Why are you doing it now?

Well, I don't want to say I'm reacting rather than proacting, because I don't think there's such a word as proacting. Basically a man came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a record. A few people have done that in the past, and my instinct has been to say, 'No, I'm not ready.' Perhaps the reason I said yes this time has something to do with having a five at the beginning of my age. You start thinking differently. I started to think, 'If not now, when?'

So it's your midlife crisis album?

Please don't say that. (Laughs)

What was it like to have personal heroes like Dr. John and Allen Toussaint working on your album?

It was so intoxicating I actually started laughing in a slightly crazed, manic way. When I got a text from Joe Henry saying that Dr.

John was in town and up for singing something, I assumed I'd been hit by a bus and taken to heaven, or was in some episode of The Twilight Zone. The whole thing was like a dream. But to play piano for Dr. John was just a little ...

Intimidating?

Just a bit! And the thing is, we hadn't rehearsed. The idea was that I'd get there early; we all assumed Dr. John would be an hour late because he's a legend. But he was half an hour early and by the time I got there he was at the piano figuring out the song. So we actually had to ask Dr. John to step away from the piano! But he just said, 'That's great; now I don't have to learn the motherf---ing changes.'

The man swears like a trooper. Anyway, we recorded it in about half an hour, and then he just sat in the control room and told us stories. It was so incredible that at the end, I got in the car and wept. I was so overwhelmed by the whole experience. I had worshiped the man since I was a boy, and to be in his presence, never mind play for him, was extraordinary.

Do you want to make more albums and tour?

If any record company wants to do another album, I would jump at it with embarrassing haste. I wouldn't even put pants on. I'd be out of the door like a shot. And I would love to tour. We did eight or nine shows in England earlier this year, which scarcely counts as a world tour. But when you've done no shows, nine is a lot. I thought I was staring? up at Everest. But I had the most wonderful time. I frankly can't wait to do it again. I'm slightly constrained by the TV production for the next few months, but come spring, I hope we'll get a bus.

Albums by actors are a tough sell. You know people are going to call you a dilettante.

I do. And to be honest, I would do the same. I completely get it, I'm ready for it, I understand it. It's completely fair. The only thing I can assure you of is the sincerity of my love for this music. So the only strategy for me is to keep going. If I can do this for 10 or 20 years, hopefully I'll have turned around some of my more cynical critics.

Quelle: http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Entertainment ... 34426.html

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