Knife fights, street crime and single parent families… it sounds like the backdrop of a quintessential Panorama special as opposed to your NME touting, Alan McGee championing supergroup, also known as Glasvegas. They’ve had a fruitful summer, selling 56, 000 copies of their debut album ‘Glasvegas’ in it’s first week of release and winging their way into the hearts of the nation. In association with music.virgin.com Eleanor Conway Presents: Glasvegas – in a rare insight into the band, the album and how to clean those grubby doors of perception.
Features videos ‘Daddy’s Gone’, ‘Geraldine’, ‘Please Come Back Home’ (and also a wee bit of strong language).
Eleanor Conway Presents: Manu Chao — the most successful musician that you’ve probably never heard of.
His album Clandestino was a massive hit in Latin America and Europe and if you’ve ever been to backpackers haven-Thailand, Manu’s ‘Sounds of the Bongo’ can be heard resonating from hammocks from Haad Rin to Haad Tien.
Famous for commandeering a train and a boat as the centre of his circus inspired tours with earlier musical outfit Manu Negra his approach to performance and his career is anything but textbook.
In town promoting his Maradona inspired single ‘La Vida Tombola’ from recent album ‘La Radiolina’, he chats to Eleanor Conway of music.virgin.com about Britney, his music and his ‘commercial suicide’ gone right.
Eleanor Conway journeys to the centre of the Earth (or London), to get tips from Serge of Kasabian on how to land a rock star boyfriend, learns what happens when Paul Weller loses part of his anatomy on Oasis stage, gets touched up by Bat For Lashes and goes to the loo with Florence The Machine.
With his new single Weight Of The World out now, the nicest guy in music, Lemar, chats to Eleanor Conway about oat cake chairs, hanging with Timbaland and who he rates as onee to watch in the UK music scene.
Once dubbed ‘The Badboy of the Dance Scene’ Armand Van Helden is no stranger to controversy. Renowned for having an ego the size of Mount Everest a much calmer version sat down with Eleanor Conway of music.virgin.com to discuss his gay guy in the closet tendencies, why Estelle is so right, and his obvious similarities with Johnny Rotten.
Featuring videos from New York: A Mix Odyssey Part Two compilation. Released on Southern Fried Records — www.southernfriedrecords.com —
Getting her cherry taken by a virgin is no mean feat for the people’s intrepid music reporter and winner of Virgin’s Global VPass competition – Eleanor Conway. Talking to the ‘Band to Watch 2009′ – The Virgins, The Ellenoid hits the Notting Hill Arts Club in order to cater to said precocious rock starlets’ yearning to learn of who their ‘Fan to Watch 2009′ should be. Criteria? No tasers. And the ability to be silent. Quality.
Elbow are set for a summer of love in 2009, music.virgin.com’s Eleanor Conway will be hot on their heels in true stalker fashion as they prepare for V Festival Sydney sunshine, ahead of their UK dates (including V Festival of course!). On the eve of the hotly commended Wembley Arena gig last week, Eleanor Conway gets down and dirty with the boys from Elbow in this exclusive video interview…
Having started the uber cool label, Mowax, at the tender age of 18, UNKLE’s James Lavelle knows a thing or two about good music. The coupling of the UK’s finest (and newest) live venue ‘matter’ and a live appearance by UNKLE proved too much of a temptation for music.virgin.com so we went down for matter’s launch night to have a gander. Watch Eleanor Conway’s video interview where she gets down and dirty with the man from Unkle.
If someone was going to play Alain Clark in a movie of his life, it would undoubtedly be Sean Connery ala 007. A massive hit in his home country of Amsterdam, Alain Clark has remained in the charts for 52 weeks and is about to bring it to the UK.
I went on over to Land of the Tulips, to chat to the man himself in this episode of Eleanor Conway Presents:
