Cautious Clay played a series of surprise pop-up sets on a flatbed truck pulled by a Toyota Tundra TRD, rolling to each location in a Toyota C-HR, at various locations around Philly’s Fishtown including Primal Supply Meats, La Colombe, Greensgrow, Morgan’s Pier and International Bar. Watch the Cautious Clay performance here.
The invitation comes as part of his annual Peace And Love birthday initiative, a tradition he started on July 7, 2008, the date of his 68th birthday, after being asked by a journalist what he would like for his birthday. “Peace and love,” was his answer.
Since then the Beatle has invited everyone everywhere to think, say or post #peaceandlove at noon their local time on July 7 “to fulfil his birthday wish and encircle the planet in a wave of Peace and Love”.
Yesterday (June 28), Starr shared a video message. “I’m inviting everyone who wants to join the peace and love celebration for my birthday at noon your time wherever you are, 7-7-21,” he said.
“You can post it, you can say it, you can even think it – but it would be really cool if you go ‘Peace and Love’ at noon on my birthday – so let’s spread peace and love on my birthday – c’mon everybody!”
You can watch the message below:
Usually on his birthday, Starr meets with fans wherever he is in the world. It’s a tradition that began on July 7, 2008 when he convened with fans and friends in front of the Hard Rock Café in Chicago, passing out cupcakes and joining the crowd for “Peace and Love” at exactly noon.
Last year, the pandemic prevented an in-person event, and Starr instead moved the celebration online, hosting Ringo’s Big Birthday Show, which featured unseen concert and unique performances by Starr, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Ben Harper and Dave Grohl, Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr, Sheila E, and more.
In 2019 there were over 30 Peace And Love events in countries around the world. Details about 2021’s regional gatherings for the initiative, which will be hosted by fans – both in person and on Zoom – can be found on Starr’sFacebook page here.
The Beatles film will focus on the making of the band’s last studio album Let It Be and will showcase their final concert as a band, on London’s Savile Row rooftop, in its entirety.
The musician will host an exhibition of the items, billed The Peter Hook Signature Collection – New Order, from October 4-8 at Omega Auctions in Merseyside, UK. Donations from the auction will be supporting Epilepsy Society and The Christie charity.
The lots include a number of Hook’s own guitars and instruments, such as the Overwater Bass Guitar originally owned by John Entwhistle and the Prophet 5 Synthesiser And Sequencer used in the recording of “Blue Monday”.
Elsewhere there’s extremely rare vinyl including test pressings, tapes, CDs, artwork, and the audio rig ‘The End’ from New Order’s “farewell” concert in Buenos Aires in 2006.
Some of the awards accrued by the bassist across his career are also featured, including the NME Award he received when New Order were crowned Godlike Genius in 2005, his 2006 Ivor Novello award, and the Blue Monday Anvil presented to the band by Factory Records’ Tony Wilson to mark 500,000 sales.
They will then go up for auction on October 8, with over 400 lots set to go under the hammer. You can see a full catalogue here.
Joseph L. Clarke, Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Micaela Baranello, The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna (University of California Press)
Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music (Duke UP)
Susan Tomes, The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces (Yale UP)
Humphrey Burton, In My Own Time: An Autobiography (Boydell)
Chris Walton, Richard Wagner’s Essays on Conducting: A New Translation with Critical Commentary (University of Rochester Press)
Douglas W. Shadle, Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony (Oxford UP)