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- Audio advent calendar: Download The Hundred in the Hands' Pigeons (Screentests remix)
18 Dec: Christmas is getting closer, so here's your chance to get hold of this exclusive remix of Pigeons
Available for the first time, the next sonic treat on our audio advent calendar is this Hunded in the Hands remix. Here's what the band have to say ...
Pigeons has a backstory that feels cinematic but the actual lyric is fractured and skeletal. It's the story of a girl living in a city. She's in a rut and going a little too far on the weekends. Spends the afternoons with her friends in the city centre. Spends the night sneaking out the house and hooking up with a boy she has a crush on. It's like a looped narrative, every weekend, the same thing. In the end, up on the roof, she looks at the city and the pigeons flying above and wonders 'why don't they just fly away?'"
Click to read more about Screentests and the Hundred in the Handsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Music Weekly podcast: Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley on our Christmas special
Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne comes in to tell us why the band have released so many tracks about Christmas. Plus the team pick their favourite festive tunes
Переслать - Audio advent calendar: Tricky playlist
17 Dec: Our Christmas countdown continues with this festive playlist from Tricky
Tricky shows off his disparate influences with a playlist that features everything from NWA to Kylie Minogue ...
Tricky's playlist
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Flyman – Kingston Logic
Tinie Tempah – Pass Out
Kylie Minogue – Slow
The Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom
PJ Harvey – 50ft Queenie
Public Enemy – Bring the Noise
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
Eden James – My Addiction
Lil Kim – Lighters Up
London Posse – Gangster Chronicleguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Behind the music: Why are musicians more likely to suffer from depression?
Creative artists are fifth in the top 10 professions with high rates of depressive illness. But does depression attract them to the job? Or does the job make them depressed?
Health.com recently published a top 10 of professions with the highest rate of depression– one chart most artists wouldn't want to be on. However, people working in the arts are fifth most likely to suffer from depression, with around 9% of them reporting a major depressive episode in the previous year. It appears carving out a career as a musician isn't just perilous when it comes to earning a living – it can also cause damage to your physical and mental health. Musicians supplementing their income by waiting tables would rate even higher on the chart, as food service staff are second most prone to depression.
Among men – who are most likely to be associated with major depression – the rate is nearly 7% for full-time workers. Those figures are not surprising. Many prominent artists have suffered depression and died as a result. Nick Drake in 1974 died from an overdose of prescribed anti-depressants at 26. In 2003, the singer-songwriter Elliott Smith was found dead with what were thought to be self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest after years of depression and addiction.
Drugs and alcohol have featured in the lifestyles of so many performers for so long that sometimes it's difficult to tell if depression is the symptom or the cause. Some artists, as Marvin Gaye did, use them to steady their nerves before performances; others use them to come down from the high of the performance. I've certainly met more people in the arts who attend Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings than in any other profession I've come across.
Many people who become performers do so to fulfill a craving for acceptance and love from their audience; they need that affirmation to be able to feel good. But having a love affair with thousands of people you don't know is bound to lead to dissatisfaction, heartbreak and disappointment – often as soon as you leave the stage, or go home to an empty house.
It also appears that a high proportion of people with depressive illnesses are drawn to working in the arts, though often their problems go undiagnosed and untreated. Robbie Williams has often spoken of his battles with depression. Often, what makes an artist great is the fact that they're born "with a skin too few" – which might be why some worry that getting medical treatment would stifle their creativity or make their output less interesting – but that also makes them less able to handle the pressures of not knowing where their next pay packet will come from, and being expected to always be at the top of their game.
Does this mean that you have to suffer for your art? There is a certain morbid fascination in watching an artist crash and burn, but the reality for the sufferer is that depression is so debilitating it's impossible to create anything at all. It's only when emerge from a period of illness that you can look at the darkness and find the words to describe it. So maybe the key to being a great artist and songwriter with a long and happy life is to dare to go to those dark places – but don't make them your home.
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