At. Don't forget to subscribe and thanks for watching Unfortunately, the Internet hasnt lived up to its promise. I was thinking people have to, first of all, disassociate themselves in a sort of way from "101 Dalmatians," but there are certainly elements of it in "Cruella." He's one of Britain's finest actors, for sure. It just reminds you of how talented she is. John McCrea on Creating the West End's Newest Hit: 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie'. You wouldnt want to pigeonhole yourself within a genre. note: We spoke to McCrea one week prior to the midterm election.] I've got to be honest, I was a '90s Disney kid, so for me it was sort of more about "The Lion King" and the like. I think most artists wouldnt mind recorded music being free as long as no one was getting paid for that music. With a keen eye on style and trends, Artie quickly becomes a close . Thats I guess really why I like that quote. We love L.A. Interviews Everybody's Talking About Jamie Star John McCrea on Making a Splash in the West End, Broadway Dreams & More. What you ??? I would like stuff like that to leak out off the website, into the office, the water cooler dialogue. I think it's the closest I'll ever come to feeling like a rock god. It was incredible. [1] [2] is a great British stage and television actor and singer [3]. We really feel grateful that there were still enough people who think its not foolish to buy an album and support us. When we release enough, well put them all on an album. Cheap rent. [Ed. It was just looking around me and feeling like I [would] vomit a little bit. Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film \u0026 Entertainment News. And the fact that we ever expect any of these massive movie stars to be anything but that, I think it says more about us than it does about them. You've got to be hoping that Artie is going to come back with a sequel. They try to work it out into their early adulthood to find a more secure emotional space for themselves, but ultimately I think thats a fucking luxury right now. Mother, Janet, and his brother Tom and sister Geills completed McCrae's family. STEREOGUM: Yeah, at what point did you start writing this collection of songs? The Mighty World of McCrea includes existing work, as well as never-before-seen material, and serves as the first in a four-volume series of such collections from McCrea. It occurred to me that there are all these songs that we have that we should probably formalize in sound recording. Its an altruistic and adult thing to do. Or even just beneficial to CAKE itself? Yeah, totally, and not just from that core group of people, but from everybody. And then there are people who think we dont go far enough in terms of taking a stance. By telling the story of a teenage boy who dreams of becoming a drag queen, the new play wants to send . It's like that for a lot of bands. bigjeffoh said.. In terms of the world we're in, obviously we never mentioned him, but I like to believe that maybe, on some level, if he didn't exist, Artie was on the same sort of spiritual journey. Speaking ahead of the launch of Disney's Cruella origin story, the film's star John McCrea revealed that his Artie character was at one point actually intended to be a drag queen. MCCREA: You know, holy shit. It seems difficult to get music out there without, on some level, having to conform to somebody elses idea of what they want from you. I think Nadia Stacey, the makeup designer, was obviously influenced. It's going to lead somewhere. For nearly 20 years Cake have been making music that is distinctly their own. Now that "Cruella" has been released, McCrea has his eyes set, long term, on a dream remake of another classic vampire thriller. While speaking with director Craig Gillespie, the creative had nothing but praise for the movie's composer,. Was it over the period of six or seven years since the last CAKE album? This unique sound first reached a small cadre of in-the-know fans in . John McCrea is an American singer and musician. When Cake formed in 1990, McCrea was. And in this case it really seemed like it didnt. So we can still exist I guess. "The main problem with short stories for the artist is to hit the ground running visually," McCrea revealed. Ive got dozens of songs going at once. Skybound's Creepshow takes all the fright from Shudder's hit anthology series and brings it to comic book readers who want to get the Halloween festivities started a little earlier this year. I mean, I'll tell you - there's crazy stories about the world being . But yeah, you want to get information out, especially information that can possibly help us - especially information that maybe dislodges fake information. At the same time, literally the whole thing could be flushed down the toilet. Lomax, John Avery, et al. I'll be honest it's not one of the movies I grew up watching. "Interview with Uncle Billy McCrea, Jasper, Texas, 1940 (Part 1 of . John A. Lomax: Toting salt? Its not a clean victory; its a nuanced victory, isnt it? But as the group sets out on yet another tour that on July. Years and years went by, and because the band was getting more and more successful, I wasnt home at all and I moved away. But we have new gatekeepers: the giant multi-billion dollar companies that rule the internet. Maybe theres some innovation that can occur that can make that easier, especially if we used some of the tools of the internet and the kind of interconnectivity that could occur. Joel McCrea, a tall, trim, ruggedly handsome actor who radiated a casual, amiable image in 80 movies, many of them westerns, died yesterday of pulmonary complications at the Motion Picture and. Last updated: June 7, 2022 John McCrea stars as Artie in Disney's Cruella and in this interview we talk about the music, the sets, and the bonus scene he filmed. I think that everybody involved in this project will tell you that they probably wouldn't be interested in the production if not for that original "101 Dalmatians" animated film and the live-action reimagining. The David Bowie and Mark Bolan-inspired Artie marks a landmark moment for Disney, as he historically becomes the entertainment giant's first openly queer character in a live-action production . Yeah, we got a lot of complaints all the time, every day. It's not how I usually sing, and it was really great to sort of explore a different part of my voice. Its creating incentive to be satisfied by a nuanced victory. Theyre Wall Street. At the age of fourteen, he joined the . And especially the Deadhead type, or hippy sort of people that have checked out, really should be the most engaged and should be the most concerned about political issues because maybe their views run more counter to the mainstream. McCrea found immediate footing on "Shingo" after reading Dini and Langford's script, though, stating: "After reading the story, our titular chap seemed to me to be the bastard love child of Dr. Seuss, Sesame Street, and H. P. Thats kind of huge actually. I think that it has worked for us because I still find it interesting and exciting sometimes. Speaking of talking about something, the conversation of Everybody's Talking About Jamie arose as the film adaptation of the West End musical is coming to Amazon Prime in October. I tend to stay away from the horror genre. I just think that the Earth cant support popular culture in the way that weve come to expect. Well, it worked out, though, didn't it? Author: headcount.org Published Date: 08/05/2022 Review: 4.72 (231 vote) Summary: You'll also find it on the Web, where the band constantly engages its fans with advice, links to news stories, and sometimes heated discussion. He was nominated for a Olivier Award for the role Jamie New in the coming-of-age stage musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie , [1] and portrayed Artie in the 2021 Disney crime comedy-drama Cruella . I mean, what a great line. I really love Middle-Eastern music. I think its all over the map. John flew out to LA for the first time to shoot with Emma Stone, and although he is keeping his lips sealed about which scene it is, he is very glad they added it. To volunteer, visit our Volunteer Sign Up page. Not your music, but clearly your actions, seem almost punk rock in your desire to maintain your own control over how it sounds and the videos look. In . It is strange to me when were traveling in a country like Turkey that people are singing along to Stickshifts and Safetybelts. That was really bizarre. Do you feel that it operates like that? I guess television is still incredibly powerful, so yes, in some ways. Do Cake fans kind of fit into what youre describing, or do you think its a different sort of community? Your home base is in Sacramento. Ive never really wanted to get my hands icky with direct support on candidates, but Ive made an exception this time, McCrea says in a phone call. We are the Dead. RELATED: I Hate This Place Turns Terrifying Real Life Events Into Campy Fun, It isn't always easy to create short-form comic stories due to space constraints. Uncle Billy McCrea: Toting salt. It seems to be taking the audience participation - thats so integral to your live show - and bringing it to the web. Forming in 1991, the band crafted a sound that fused an array of genres as diverse as rock, folk, and elements of hip-hop and spoken word, with dynamic horn parts. Theres also more two-way communication between musicians and listeners. "It was actually my academic teachers that suggested taking up some extracurricular activities," he recalls. Following is the unpublished full-length version of our talk, in which we delve a little deeper into things San Francisco: Cake is a consistent band. Cruella, which is set in 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, follows a young grifter named Estella, a clever and creative girl determined to make a name for herself with her designs. Career [ edit] In 1989, after a few years of drawing television and toy tie-ins, he illustrated Ennis's debut, the political series Troubled Souls, in Crisis, as well as its sequel, the farce For a Few Troubles More. John A. Lomax:Well you said you, they all kept going, tell be about them coming through here with cannons. Okay. I do think that that could be called community. Uncle Billy McCrea: Yes, yes. PopMatters talked with John McCrea, the main song-writer and creative force behind Cake, discussing self-reliance in the music industry, satirical song-writing, and the "petulant, bulbous . One day, Estellas flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute, played by two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson (Howards End, Sense & Sensibility). For instance, Sinking Ship I wrote probably 10 or 15 years ago. I had a lot of freedom, but I think everyone will be pleasantly surprised with how this is done. Once the video was done, we were able to just pop it up. John McCrea is the lead singer of CAKE, a group that mixes rock, funk, country, hip-hop and jazz into one gorgeous kaleidoscope of sound. The singer is also funneling his energy into the bands first new music since 2011, beginning with the unambiguous protest anthem Sinking Ship, the profits of which will go to Doctors Without Borders. And I just thought, "I could barely say lines and just do that." What a great way to introduce your character, especially with the sense of style that Artie has. Cruella will release simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access Then, another three years later, its the same thing, none of the same people. Cruella star John McCrea has confirmed that his character in the film is queer, saying he "lives by his own rules". Guest also include Sam Mendes and the cast of Hamilton. About ten years or so later I just happened to be walking in that part of town for some reason and walked by the tree that I planted when it was about three feet tall and it was about twenty-five or thirty feet tall. Interview: John McCrea of Cake. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Walking down that street, making tea a couple of weeks later, is there something that made you sit back and say, "Boy, that really surprised me about Emma and the way she performed in that scene?". Literally, they dont have food if they stop touring. On October 10, 1992, John McCrea was born in Aldershot, England. Writer Paul Dini and artist John McCrea chat about the excitement and challenges of short-form storytelling in Skybound's Creepshow #1. "It's wonderful to create a role," McCrea shares. If I hit a wall, I just move on to a different song. He tries to walk around London like a walking art piece, and I think he succeeds. This week on The Show On The Road, a rare career-spanning interview with the ever-curious frontman, activist, and rock hitmaker John McCrea, who founded Cake, one of the most beloved and yet misunderstood bands of our time in Sacramento in 1992. As a young boy, he had overflowing energy, which often led him into mischief. Not really. I think having seen the film, the scene that is added is really necessary and it wraps up a lot of stuff for that character, so I am so glad they added it. With the massive success of CAKEs 90s singles, to what extent have you seen some extra income via streaming services? MCCREA: I think no matter what happens, we have to keep our eye on the ball for a while. John McCrea (born October 10, 1992) is a British actor, singer, Internet face, and media personality from England. Yeah. Everybody in the supply chain gets paid except for the artist. Stop by the HeadCount table at Cake shows throughout the United States this year. Sure. MCCREA: The elephant in the room is its nice to get paid for something that youve worked on for a year or two. "Stephen Langford and I would keep those guidelines in mind when we wrote for the TV series and now for the Creepshow comic. But a lot of people felt betrayed by us as well. Now, of course, there's Tony McNamara's script too. This terrific cover brought to mind a classic Jay Ward character "Super Chicken" who was featured on the "George Of The Jungle" Show. Comic book artist John McCrea has officially launched a Kickstarter campaign for The Mighty World of McCrea, a collection of creator-owned work spanning the Belfast-born artist's 32-year career. The most important stories and least important memes, every Friday. Yeah, we noticed at the time concert-goers seemed to be politically inclined, but also somewhat disaffected. That didnt answer your question. Its a great organization. The musical, a sleeper hit at the Sheffield Crucible earlier . Concerts Cake's John McCrea talks optimism, pessimism and the future of music. Conspiracy theories that the whole thing is rigged - they really run rampant. What a wonderful cast across the board. Not only do you look like Bowie, but Bowie prepping to transform into Ziggy Stardust, because I noticed those lightning bolts by your eyes. Did that sort of vault you guys back into the public eye? Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae and Bonneau. We never have been part of a big movement, cultural phenomenon, or explosion. Yeah, I think there is a certain amount of self-loathing in our culture. MCCREA: I think I resisted it for a long time, just because I thought music can subliminally get through to people who may overtly disagree with you. . It is as if you are suspect if the people like you. Yeah, yeah, totally. He had some great stories in between takes. Are you a fan of the horror genre? He rose to fame for his appearance as a gay in the Disney Live-action movie named 'Cruella', which released on May 28, 2021. [Ed. I guess that is a good thing, to be busy. So, when something does become really popular and the people really like something, I think that there are people who sort of automatically turn off. So taking the reins of our own record label and running that business and sort of being able to make that into a creative process an extension of the creative process that happens in the studio - everyone was very happy we made that decision, and it makes a lot of sense right now. I just had an opportunity to visit the Google campus not too long ago. sort by * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. The other thing people get angry about, that I dont think should be a partisan issue, is when well post something about an environmental issue. Known for their hits, "The Distance," "Never There," and "Short Skirt/Long Jacket," Cake's 2011 self-release, Showroom of Compassion, hit #1 on the Billboard 200 album charts, proving not only the band's longevity, but also their cultural relevance as a pioneering and prodigious staple of contemporary music history. Is the Cake fan base a community? John McCrea (born 10 October 1992) is a British actor and singer. "We are not part of a 'next big thing.' Check out our other video for more exclusive theatre interviews, thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe. Let The Roundup Begin: The Month In Hardcore, The Number Ones: Mims This Is Why Im Hot, Weve Got A File On You: Marshall Crenshaw, The 10 Best Flaming Lips Songs (That Even Flaming Lips Fans Might Not Know), Cast And Crew Members Describe The Weeknds HBO Show, Watch Weezer And The Detroit Youth Choir Blow Away Simon Cowell On. But then, a couple of weeks after, you'll just be walking down the street or making a cup of tea and you'll be like, "Wait a minute. I think thats amazing. John McCrea: I'm always a fan of the villain, always (laughs). Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film & Entertainment News. I think probably because of current events. There are Cake fans that threaten us that if we post one more non-music related story on our website or Facebook site they will never buy our music again - they will only steal our music. In a recent interview, lead singer John McCrea discusses the current state of music with the Internet, the benefit of a band to have cheap rent, and that the anomaly of Cake's continued survival is partially because they are outsiders. I mean, Ill tell you - theres crazy stories about the world being connected in ways that are so complex, you know that obviously its implausible. Cake's front man John McCrea, the voice and face of much of this activity, sat down with HeadCount to discuss how he tries to infuse a sense of populism in his communication with fans, and the various reactions that invokes. And that's a subtle theme throughout the it's not even subtle. Cake's front man Matching search results: Well, here's why they're disaffected. The thing that maybe embodies everything were talking about is the tree giveaway and the tree gallery. Sergio Pereira has been writing about pop culture for over 15 years, specializing in the areas of comic books, film, television series, pro wrestling, and video games. So we can still exist I guess.". It is a brilliant script, isn't it? So, that is 45% fewer people able to file taxes as musicians, call themselves musicians professionally. She was just such a joy to work with. In some way, I think it is kind of wasteful because I dont think that cultural criteria should be used to judge musical criteria. Mark Strong was wonderful. Check out our other video for more exclusive theatre interviews, thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe. Jane McCrea was a Loyalist who was killed and scalped during the American Revolution on the way to meet her fianc in a British camp. Lovecraft. For 11 months I failed miserably, averaging 3 days a month as an extra at $7.50 a day.". Why did you decide to play Los Angeles for New Years Eve? Im still playing music all the time, but Im not sure what it was were supposed to do. Theres more of a feedback loop. ", RELATED: The Image Comic Barry Windsor-Smith Decided to Re-Write as He Drew It, Short-form stories can also bring their own unique set of challenges for artists since they need to hit the ground running immediately and get the designs right from the get-go. And I guess it occurred to me that everyone should have some sort of experience that does that. Qualification: High School Graduated John McCrea Career. Today, McCrea is far more interested in raising awareness about causes he cares about, like world poverty and global warming. After the tour for their popular 2004 disk Pressure Chief, McCrea could . Its not a gritty sort of subversive thing its actually a sort of coddled pudgy thing. Other articles where John McCrae is discussed: Canadian literature: Modern period, 1900-60: John McCrae's account of World War I, "In Flanders Fields" (1915), remains Canada's best-known poem. It's an infectious energy, for sure. The popular alt-rock group combines caustic lyrics with pulsing guitar music and is influenced by. In February of 1989 Starrett was arrested for the murder of Jean Taylor McCrea. HeadCount: I appreciate you taking the time today. Yeah, totally. But what about Craig Gillespie? I think you look a lot like David Bowie when Estella first meets Artie. But who doesn't love a villain, you know? Id imagine that it must really add to the vitality. And she is just multitasking away like nobody's business. On the scale of how youre trying to help the environment and change the world, do you see yourself more like a Neil Young, a Willy Nelson, or a Bono? Yeah, it was not so much about hormonal rage or fighting the man so much as just being able, personally, to remain interested in what you are doing. Probably every month or so there will be another single, then probably in a year well release the whole album. I keep thinking September for some reason. Oh, that was my favorite thing to do by far.

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