Shane Covers I Put A Spell On You For Haiti

[DzM]

From Christopher Smyth, one of the guys making this happen:

Hi everyone!

Another great day for the group... all your support has made it much bigger and better.. really is making such a huge difference! Thank you all!

Just thought I'd send out all the main links again so you can easily send to your pals! Here they all are -

YouTube Video - http://bit.ly/cZ6Qqe
Facebook Group - http://bit.ly/9ZMxWA
7 Digital Pre-order Page (UK) - http://bit.ly/bj2ieH
7 Digital Pre-order Page (Eire) - http://bit.ly/ahKs8l

Please keep adding your friends - we need to keep the momentum up!

Thanks again!!

Chris

[DzM]

Looks like international (or at least North American) buyers can now get the single from Amazon.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Looks like international (or at least North American) buyers can now get the single from Amazon.

"Radio Edit" c'mon now... (of course, I'm not inferring that you, el Capitan, had anything to do with that)

[DzM]

Looks like international (or at least North American) buyers can now get the single from Amazon.

"Radio Edit" c'mon now... (of course, I'm not inferring that you, el Capitan, had anything to do with that)

Maybe there's a super-more-better-extra-long-trance-house-dance-mix coming later?

It's worth noting that the description at the end of the UK and Ireland links is also "Radio Edit," so it's not like the amazon.com buyers are getting something different than what everyone else is getting.

[RoddyRuddy]

http://www.concern.net/blogs/posts/song-haiti

Concern web site has a page up about the song .With the 3 download links and a chance to leave a comment.[Shanes sister has already done so].
If you feel the need to make an extra donation to Concern you can do it from there site.

[Charles]

I'm guessing the "radio edit" is going to be the same version as the YouTube video FAY posted back on page 2.

YouTube runs 4:03 (with a little silence), and the time per Amazon is 3:58.

[MissWalshy]

Message to Shane MacGowan and friends via Facebook:

Hello,

Shane MacGowan and Friends have recorded a cover of 'I Put A Spell On You' to raise funds for Irish charity Concern's work in Haiti. The single is released on 8th March.

The song features an impressive list of of hell-raisers - a Devils Band Aid - led by MacGowan alongside Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, Mick Jones from The Clash, Glen Matlock of The Sex Pistols, Johnny Depp, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Nick Cave, Paloma Faith and Elisa Doolittle.

All money goes to Concern who have been working in Haiti for 15 years.

The song is currently available for pre-order as a download via http://www.concern.net/song

Today I spoke to Shane MacGowan and his partner Victoria Mary Clarke - who helped organise the project - and I have a message from them about the single.

If you could help let people know about this single it would be greatly appreciated!

Paul Trainer



Shane MacGowan says:
This is definitely the best single you are going to buy all decade. It’s a great song, by Screaming Jay Hawkins, who has passed on to the next level of Hell, but I believe he is with us in spirit. We are not as good as Screaming Jay Hawkins, we are a bunch of wankers, but we are the next best thing!
All the money goes to rebuilding Haiti. The Haitians have had even more fucking shite bad luck than most people lately. Every natural disaster that you can possibly imagine. So I think that at this moment in time, the best thing you can do for yourself, for the good of everything and everybody and everything that ever has been or ever will be or ever can be is to go out and buy this single! And it would be a good thing for a great record to get to number one for a change!

Victoria Mary Clarke says:

I agree with Shane that this is an amazing record, and well worth the price, which, when you think about it is cheaper than a cup of coffee, or popcorn at the cinema or a lot of things that wont give you as much pleasure or last as long. The musicians all gave of their very souls to make it and when you think about what it must be like for the people in Haiti who probably didnt have much anyway and who lost everything, maybe even lost their whole family as well as their home and who have been left all alone in the world, especially the little kids, I think it makes sense to help out.

[Mike from Boston]

Exclusive pics from the session from legendary photographer and genuinely nice bloke, Danny Clifford:

http://www.dannyclifford.com/#/client/template.xml?aaa=portfolio/29468

Picture #20 is one for the ages! Shane and Mick Jones

[Mike from Boston]

Thoughts-



Why is Glen Matlock singing? He has no voice. I would rather they'd had literally any other surviving Sex Pistol.

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Well, We are the World Haiti used old Michael Jackson footage, maybe they could have used some old footage of Sid instead!!

[johnfoyle]

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/ill ... 87950.html


Rock solid: Cait O'Riordan, Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke at the launch of their charity single in aid of Haiti relief. Picture: Ronan Lang

I'll show Simon Cowell how to do a real charity single

Shane MacGowan is on a mission to help Haiti, he tells John Meagher


Thursday March 04 2010

It was the moment when Shane MacGowan decided he could not sit back and do nothing. He had to rush out a single to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake when he first heard what Simon Cowell's hand-picked starlets had done with REM's 'Everybody Hurts'.

"When I heard that shite, I thought 'f*** it', let's show him how it's done' and that's how we came to do our version of 'I Put A Spell On You'. That's what a charity single should sound like, Tree Trunk Neck."

His partner, Victoria Mary Clarke, and good friend and former Pogues bandmate, Cait O'Riordan, collapse with laughter. "Tree Trunk Neck!" O'Riordan repeats. "I love it. That's the best description of Simon Cowell I've ever heard."

I'm sitting with the three in a Donnybrook restaurant, on the street where MacGowan and Clarke share a home, and when they are not maligning the X Factor and American Idol judge, they're talking about how they took Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 1956 classic and made something new and special.

"'I Put A Spell On You' is so uplifting, so energetic," Clarke says. "We wanted to release something that would be worth buying in its own right, and not just for a very good cause. We're not saying that you shouldn't buy the Cowell single -- just don't listen to it."

It was Clarke who assembled some of music's greatest names to make the record at short notice. "We've got Nick Cave, (Sex Pistol's) Glen Matlock, (Primal Scream's) Bobby Gillespie, Johnny Depp on it -- and loads more," she says. "Cait plays bass on it."

It is a measure of MacGowan's standing in the rock world that such names can be summoned so readily. "They adore Shane," Clarke says. "Bono was going to do it as well, but he then thought it might be overkill as he's doing something similar himself."

MacGowan is looking every inch the rock star today. He's dressed all in black and wears motorcycle gloves and dark glasses. His dyed black hair is swept into a rockabilly quiff.

Initially, he comes across as truculent -- "you're a journalist so you can put all this on f***ing expenses," he snarls -- but then he mellows, particularly if a conversation subject arouses his attention.

A conversation with Shane MacGowan invariably lurches into unexpected territory. I ask him how difficult it is to retain creativity and he launches into a rant about his diminishing sex life. "It's f***ing miserable."

The strangest things animate him. Jedward, for instance. "I think they're f***ing great," he says. And he admits to liking Ronan Keating's much-derided version of MacGowan's masterful song, 'Fairytale of New York'. "He's a good singer," he says. I search his face for irony, but there is none. "No, honestly he is."

He's not nearly as pleased with Elvis Costello, citing his production on The Pogues' famous song, 'A Rainy Night in Soho', as something that irritates him. "He f***ing murdered it."

Perhaps his criticism of Costello is for O'Riordan's benefit. She and Costello had a relationship, having met in 1985, and they went on to have a 16-year relationship. It ended badly in 2002. "I don't see him any more," she says. "It's better that way."

She corrects the common perception that they were married. "There would have been alimony if we were," she says half-ruefully.

O'Riordan spent time in the celebrity rehab of choice, The Priory -- "at a thousand quid a day" -- and hasn't had a drink in three years. "I've never felt better," this very youthful 45-year-old says, and talks with enthusiasm about an academic prize she is to receive from UCD. "College has given me the sort of structure my life badly needed."

I ask MacGowan if he would consider drying out. "Why would I do that?" he says, genuinely surprised. "I don't drink as much as I used to. I can handle it."

He appears to be telling the truth. I interviewed him five years ago and he drank three pints of Guinness and three whiskies in an hour. This time, he sips just two glasses of Prosecco and doesn't demand a refill.

He's more coherent than last time, but he struggles to articulate his thoughts clearly. The lack of teeth makes his speech difficult to follow and when he laughs, it's with the sort of wheeze an espresso machine makes.

Clarke treats him gently, almost maternally. They have been together for 25 years. "We're soul mates," she says. He grunts, but I can see he's pleased.

Some time ago, Clarke suggested the pair would get married, but now she's not so sure. "What is marriage, anyway? My mother wasn't married. Maybe we'll do it; maybe we won't."

I ask him if he is working on new songs. "I'm always working. I want to work with Cait."

She looks surprised at this. "I'm always up for that," says Cait. "In college, I wanted to put together a band but there wasn't enough interest.

"People would say 'I kinda play the guitar'. It's so ineffectual to say that -- you either play the f***ing guitar, or you don't."

'I Put A Spell On You' is released on Monday. All proceeds go to Concern's Haiti fund.

[jennylois]

That's it, I'm buying it!

[MissWalshy]

Vic loves a fluffy hat doesnt she, I bumped into her by mistake at Brixton (i have no space awarness) and thought .. woah funky hat, and then I realised it was her, I'm not sure that would of changed my reaction though,..

Anyway, I'll have a copy, go on then....

[Mike from Boston]

He's not nearly as pleased with Elvis Costello, citing his production on The Pogues' famous song, 'A Rainy Night in Soho', as something that irritates him. "He f***ing murdered it."

Perhaps his criticism of Costello is for O'Riordan's benefit. She and Costello had a relationship, having met in 1985, and they went on to have a 16-year relationship. It ended badly in 2002. "I don't see him any more," she says. "It's better that way."

She corrects the common perception that they were married. "There would have been alimony if we were," she says half-ruefully.

O'Riordan spent time in the celebrity rehab of choice, The Priory -- "at a thousand quid a day" -- and hasn't had a drink in three years. "I've never felt better," this very youthful 45-year-old says, and talks with enthusiasm about an academic prize she is to receive from UCD. "College has given me the sort of structure my life badly needed."

Some interesting statements from Cait regarding Costello. I guess I thought like most people they were married. I was always, "tabloid curious" about what sort of settlement she would have received from Mr. McManus. Now, she says they weren't married, but wouldn't there be some sort of common law marriage if you are together sixteen years??

[firehazard]

Vic loves a fluffy hat doesnt she, I bumped into her by mistake at Brixton (i have no space awarness) and thought .. woah funky hat, and then I realised it was her, I'm not sure that would of changed my reaction though,..

Anyway, I'll have a copy, go on then....

You'll have a copy of her hat, Walshy?
Yeah, ok, good choice actually. It is a damn fine hat.

[orrok61]

great news that we can get it in the US.Thanks!