Marianne the Q Icon
Marianne Faithfull was awarded the Q icon award at the Q Magazine Awards 2009. Accepting the award from Jarvis Cocker, Marianne was grateful for her first UK recognition and paid credit to those who helped her throughout her long career, "Thank you very much, I've never recieved an award before in Britain, in England. So this means alot, that it's been noticed. Everything's gone out of my head, I'm very touched. I've got to thanks my PR Rob (Partridge) who's unfortunately now dead, Andrew Loog Oldham, the wonderful Chris Blackwell, the people from the sixties, they're all very important and my wonderful publicist who I worked with for many years who wanted me to win this. Thank you very much, thank you."
Marianne Faithfull was awarded the Q icon award at the Q Magazine Awards 2009. Accepting the award from Jarvis Cocker, Marianne was grateful for her first UK recognition and paid credit to those who helped her throughout her long career, "Thank you very much, I've never recieved an award before in Britain, in England. So this means alot, that it's been noticed. Everything's gone out of my head, I'm very touched. I've got to thanks my PR Rob (Partridge) who's unfortunately now dead, Andrew Loog Oldham, the wonderful Chris Blackwell, the people from the sixties, they're all very important and my wonderful publicist who I worked with for many years who wanted me to win this. Thank you very much, thank you."
Fans will have another chance to listen to Marianne's excellent performance on the US radio station WXPN recorded earlier this year.
Marianne sings a selection of tracks from her acclaimed new album Easy Come Easy Go, as well as a highly emotional performance of Sister Morphine.
Here is the link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111303559
Marianne sings a selection of tracks from her acclaimed new album Easy Come Easy Go, as well as a highly emotional performance of Sister Morphine.
Here is the link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111303559
MARIANNE FAITHFULL RETURNS STATESIDE WITH A FALL U.S. TOUR IN SUPPORT OF HER ěSTUNNINGî (USA TODAY) ALBUM EASY COME, EASY GO IN STORES NOW (Decca/naïve)
After a successful U.S. promotional visit with media coverage including; NPRís Weekend Edition Sunday and World CafČ, The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS Sunday Morning and a stellar performance at The City Winery in New York City, the iconic singer Marianne Faithfull returns for a major tour in support of her Decca debut Easy Come, Easy Go. The tour kicks off on September 24th at New York Cityís Town Hall and continues throughout select cities until wrapping up in Jacksonville, FL on October 21st at the Florida Theatre. (See the complete list of tour dates below.) She will perform songs from her critically acclaimed new album Easy Come, Easy Go as well as dipping into the wealth of material from her expansive career.
The album received a massive amount of praise with major features in Interview Magazine, Black Book and BLURT to name a few. USA Today stated the album was ěmasterfulî and ěstunningî while Rolling Stone affirmed that ěMarianne Faithfull confirms her status as matriarch on this brilliantly programmed covers set.î
In concert Marianne Faithfull creates an intimate feeling with a unique quality of transforming lyrics into seemingly personal moments that captivate the audience.
After a successful U.S. promotional visit with media coverage including; NPRís Weekend Edition Sunday and World CafČ, The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS Sunday Morning and a stellar performance at The City Winery in New York City, the iconic singer Marianne Faithfull returns for a major tour in support of her Decca debut Easy Come, Easy Go. The tour kicks off on September 24th at New York Cityís Town Hall and continues throughout select cities until wrapping up in Jacksonville, FL on October 21st at the Florida Theatre. (See the complete list of tour dates below.) She will perform songs from her critically acclaimed new album Easy Come, Easy Go as well as dipping into the wealth of material from her expansive career.
The album received a massive amount of praise with major features in Interview Magazine, Black Book and BLURT to name a few. USA Today stated the album was ěmasterfulî and ěstunningî while Rolling Stone affirmed that ěMarianne Faithfull confirms her status as matriarch on this brilliantly programmed covers set.î
In concert Marianne Faithfull creates an intimate feeling with a unique quality of transforming lyrics into seemingly personal moments that captivate the audience.
Marianne will conclude her season of events tomorrow (June 18th) at Cite de la Music in Paris with the second of two concerts on her Easy Come Easy Go tour.
Tomorrow's concert will be transmitted live on the Cite de La musique website at 20.00pm french time, and will remain on their website for a month thereafter.
www.cite-musique.fr
Enjoy what is sure to be a great concert.
Tomorrow's concert will be transmitted live on the Cite de La musique website at 20.00pm french time, and will remain on their website for a month thereafter.
www.cite-musique.fr
Enjoy what is sure to be a great concert.
BBC FOUR SESSIONS: MARIANNE FAITHFULL Friday 24th April at 10.30pm
Marianne Faithfull is accompanied by a top-notch band for this warm and intimate performance in the beautiful surroundings of LSO St Luke's in London. An audience of friends and fans are treated to an eclectic mix of songs from her critically acclaimed new album Easy Come Easy Go, including Morrissey's sexually-charged "Dear God Please Help Me", Dolly Parton's atmospheric "Down From Dover" and Randy Newman's chilling "In Germany Before The War". And there are dips into the past with the early Jagger co-write "Sister Morphine", "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" from landmark 1979 album "Broken English", and her first ever live performance of the original '60s arrangement of the hit "As Tears Go By".
Marianne Faithfull is accompanied by a top-notch band for this warm and intimate performance in the beautiful surroundings of LSO St Luke's in London. An audience of friends and fans are treated to an eclectic mix of songs from her critically acclaimed new album Easy Come Easy Go, including Morrissey's sexually-charged "Dear God Please Help Me", Dolly Parton's atmospheric "Down From Dover" and Randy Newman's chilling "In Germany Before The War". And there are dips into the past with the early Jagger co-write "Sister Morphine", "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" from landmark 1979 album "Broken English", and her first ever live performance of the original '60s arrangement of the hit "As Tears Go By".
The US, UK and Australian release dates for Marianne's new album are as follows.
US release: March 17th 2009 on Decca
UK release: March 16th 2009 on Dramatico
Australian release: February 14th 2009 on Shock records
The album has already been released in Europe to great acclaim.
US release: March 17th 2009 on Decca
UK release: March 16th 2009 on Dramatico
Australian release: February 14th 2009 on Shock records
The album has already been released in Europe to great acclaim.