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Also, she's very successful but she doesn't care - she just wants love and tenderness like anyone else."The scene in which Sarah snaps at a fan who recognises her on the Underground - "I am not the person you think I am," she fumes - was also lifted from life. Seven movies in seven years qualifies as a prolific work rate for a film-maker, especially once you factor in all the schlepping to far-flung festivals to hawk your wares Fran?s Ozon, though, is looking good on it. As well as this healthy glow, Ozon has brought with him something else he didn't have when we last met two years ago: a firm grasp of English. I don't know anyone who can elicit more sympathy and compassion for the disenfranchised.

Usually I get a part because someone has seen a movie I've done, or has met me and thinks there is something about me that's interesting, or right for the role. By the time I met Gus I'd already done the audition scene more times than I would have liked. If the volume came as a surprise, the vendors had rarely seen a crowd like this: thousands of pale East Village denizens who look like they haven't left the neighbourhood in a decade bused out to the beach - what's this? Sand! - all decked out in their darkly decorous punk best.But despite some trepidation, the Stooges can still play like no other, and it was immediately clear what Iggy Pop has been missing after years of touring-by-rote and making largely forgettable records with increasingly clunky heavy-metal bands. The Stooges deliver a real cool time When the singer took to the stage last Friday, he wanted it understood this was not an Iggy Pop and the Stooges show as billed; it would be a Stooges show. Having moved to Los Angeles and temporarily left behind his old bandmates in The Charlatans, Tim Burgess has fallen for the sun-and-sea lifestyle in a big way. Clark's wilful anti-commerciality secured No Other its rightful place in rock history, as a footnote to a career that started out flying, with beautiful Byrds songs such as "Feel a Whole Lot Better", and just plummeted from there. This out-take-expanded reissue has received glowing reviews from which, I'm afraid, I have to demur.

In "Snapshot", the juddering synth riff is the techno equivalent of the 12-bar blues, a standard form that has become all too easy for lazy musicians to slip into. With their endlessly cycling layers of fizzing synths and those big filter-sweeps that were de rigueur a few years back - when the music recedes to nothing, then surges back again - tracks such as "My Spine" and "Hang Tough" could have been made at any time in the past six or seven years. In between are a Fairport Convention-style "Diamond Joe", a jaunty "Down In The Bottom", a gospel treatment of "John the Revelator" and a stilted"End of the World". Cast Of Thousands, V2 Elbow's follow-up to 2001's breakthrough Asleep in the Back continues along much the same lines, bringing a more ambiguous slant to the band'sindie style, which combines Coldplay's mildness, Radiohead's angsty reproach and Doves' relentless thrumming. I think it comes from working with electronica, so people can come up with easy labels such as 'lab technicians'. It seemed to say, there's no limit - you don't have to use the Beatles as a barometer."The richness of these influences, coupled with the near-detachment in Keenan's voice ("I'm not into decorative vocals," she says, "I can't be Shirley Bassey."), goes some way towards explaining why some see them as faintly esoteric. We saw the high ceiling and wooden floors and thought, wow.. We did our drum parts there.

Once Broadcast decided they had to produce it themselves, their Warp label-mate Tom Jenkinson, otherwise known as the beats vandal Squarepusher, popped by to free-up their creative ducts "It was like a release, working with him," says Cargill. Some may suspect, of course, that many of them are being forced into these realms after falling from commercial popularity. Damon Albarn of Blur set up Honest Jon's Records with his two partners, Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield. In the late 1960s, Frank Zappa was acting as an A&R scout for the likes of Wild Man Fischer and The GTOs. With the new album, she retains her copyright but has to fund the recording-sessions and manufacturing costs herself.

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