Music stars team up to release anti-X Factor silent record
A group of musicians including Orbital, Imogen Heap and Pete Doherty, are teaming up to record a single with the aim of knocking the X Factor winner's single off the Christmas number 1 spot.
In a move that'll be good for press but rubbish for sales, the "supergroup" are recording a version of John Cage's experimental work 4'33, the sound of an orchestra sat in silence, not playing their instruments.
Billy Bragg, Coldcut, Pendulum, Madness singer Suggs, John McClure, The Kooks, Heaven 17 and The Big Pink are also taking part in the unconventional session at Dean Street Studios in Soho.
Paul Epworth, who won the Brit Award for best producer this year, will be at the controls to record the four-minute, 33-second "performance".
"We're going to have a drum kit with a few drummers, some bass players, some guitarists."We're going to plug everybody in," said Xfm DJ Eddy Temple-Morris, who has helped organise the session.
"I don't know what the noise will be. I imagine there will be the tweak of a leather jacket, a cough, a snigger, a muffled laugh."
The single will raise money for five charities, including Calm, a service for young men at risk of suicide, and the British Tinnitus Association.
Youth Music, Nordoff Robbins music therapy and Sound & Music, a charity promoting challenging new music and sound art, will also benefit from the proceeds.
The song is 5/1 to be Christmas number one, according to bookmaker William Hill.
If the protest is about manufactured pop taking over the charts with unoriginal songs, why doesn't this group record their own original, interesting song to show Cowell and co. how it's done? Charity fund-raising aside, this seems too gimmicky; I'd rather the X Factor got to Number 1 than fork out money to hear Pete Doherty coughing up crack tar.
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TweetsBay
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Ive got to say I stopped watching theX factor not because of the talent on show, I found the talentless panell cringeworthy.
- 1 year ago
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NLi10
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Can we tip Billy Bragg off, convince the fashionistas that 4 33 is 4 weeks and 33 days and then just lock them all away saving the world from their 'art'?
- 1 year ago
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NLi10
