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• 2 Feb, 2024: The Wharf , Canal Road, Tavistock, PL19 8AT. Tickets available here .
• 3 Feb, 2024: The Regent , 51 High St, Christchurch BH23 1AS
• 10 Feb, 2024: Melksham Assembly Hall , Market Pl, Melksham, Wiltshire SN12 6ES. Tickets available here .
• Cancelled: 24 Feb, 2024: St. Peter's Church , Belper, Derbyshire DE56 1FD
• 25 Feb, 2024: Arlington Arts , Newbury RG14 3BQ
• 1 Mar, 2024: Half Moon , 93 Lower Richmond Rd, Putney SW15 1EU
• 2 Mar, 2024: Half Moon , 93 Lower Richmond Rd, Putney SW15 1EU
• 8 Mar, 2024: Key Theatre , Embankment Road, Peterborough PE1 1RS
• 9 Mar, 2024: The Stables , Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LU
• 15 Mar, 2024: Shaftesbury Arts Centre , 11-13 Bell Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8AR
• 16 Mar, 2024: Assembly Hall Theatre , Crescent Road, Tunbridge Wells TN1 2LU
• 30 Mar, 2024: The Apex , 1 Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 3PX
• 20 Apr, 2024: The Mick Jagger Centre , Shepherds Lane, Dartford, Kent DA1 2JZ
• 10 May, 2024: Norden Farm Centre for the Arts , Altwood Road, Maidenhead, SL6 4PF
• 18 May, 2024: The Factory Live , Worthing BN14 8BX
• 25 May, 2024: Malthouse Theatre , Malthouse Road, Canterbury, CT2 7JA
• 14 Jun, 2024: Witham Public Hall , Collingwood Road, Witham, CM8 2DY
• 15 Jun, 2024: CryerArts Centre , 39 High St, Carshalton SM5 3BB
• 28 Jun, 2024: Swan Theatre , The Moors, Worcester WR1 3ED. Tickets available here .
• 29 Jun, 2024: Norman Bragg Studio, Exchange St, Aylesbury HP20 1UG. Tickets available here .
• 13 Sep, 2024: Chequer Mead Theatre , De La Warr Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 3BS
• 4 Oct, 2024: Teignmouth Pavilion , The Den Crescent, Teignmouth, TQ14 8BG
• 5 Oct, 2024: Salisbury Arts Centre , Bedwin St, Salisbury SP1 3UT
• 19 Oct, 2024: Mill Arts , Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 3JG
• 1 Nov, 2024: The Harlington , 236 Fleet Road, Fleet, Hampshire GU51 4BY
• 24 Nov, 2024: The Official Kinks Fan Club, The Dome (Boston Arms) , Tufnell Park, London, NW5 1HL
• 28 Nov, 2024: Exmouth Pavilion , The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ
• 29 Nov, 2024: Regal Theatre , 10-16 The Avenue, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5AZ
• 30 Nov, 2024: Ropetackle Arts Centre , Little High Street, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex, BN43 5EG
• 6 Dec, 2024: The Half Moon, Putney , 93 Lower Richmond Rd., London SW15 1EU
• 7 Dec, 2024: The Half Moon, Putney , 93 Lower Richmond Rd., London SW15 1EU
• 22 Feb, 2025: Shanklin Theatre , Prospect Rd, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, PO37 6AJ
• 28 Mar, 2025: Tivoli Theatre , 19 West Borough, Wimborne BH21 1LT
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The Kinks’ Ray Davies on the song he wants played at his funeral

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Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of classic tunes he penned as frontman of the Kinks, including “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,” “Tired of Waiting for You,” “Stop Your Sobbing,” “Sunny Afternoon,” “Waterloo Sunset,” “Lola” and “Come Dancing,” among many others.

Yet ask Davies, 78, which of these was the first to make him feel like he was a real songwriter, and he’ll tell you he’s not sure he’s one even now.

“What I usually say to the students before I start the course is, ‘I can’t teach you anything,’” he says, chuckling dryly, over Zoom from his home in the U.K. “‘Real songwriter’ gives me an image of a guy from Tin Pan Alley or the Brill Building — like Neil Sedaka. I think I’m still trying to find out if I’m that good.”

Caveat thus offered, Davies agreed to look back at — and to classify — some of the high points of his career with the Kinks, which he formed in 1963 with his younger brother Dave Davies on guitar and which became one of the key acts of the British Invasion (at least until they were temporarily banned from entering the U.S. in 1965 amid a dispute with the American musicians’ union).

Though never as popular as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, the Kinks covered no less musical ground, blending elements of rock, folk, pop, country, R&B and British music hall in detailed songs about the lives of English people; the band, rounded out at the beginning by drummer Mick Avory and bassist Pete Quaife, also helped lay the groundwork for garage rock and heavy metal, thanks in large part to Dave’s blistering guitar work. Among their punk successors were the Buzzcocks and most famously the Jam; later inheritors include Yo La Tengo, Fountains of Wayne and any number of acts associated with the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s.

The Kinks, who broke up in 1996 but who seem always on the verge of reuniting, collect 36 of their songs on a new compilation titled “The Journey — Part 1.” A second volume is due later this year.

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The most British song in the Kinks’ catalog: “A Well Respected Man” (1965)

In an era when many of his peers had their sights set on America, Davies wrote with remarkable sympathy about working-class Brits — about their goals and their resentments and about the sometimes-crushing weight of the country’s traditions. “While lots of bands sang in American accents, we were singing in London accents,” he says. He could also rail against the U.K.’s upper crust, as in this crisp but savage portrait of a privileged guy eager to “grab his father’s loot when pater passes on.”

The song that makes Davies think of his mother: “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)

“Unlike many other rockers, I always cared what my parents thought of my music,” says Davies, who adds that, even as a younger man, “I was writing songs for older people.” He recalls playing “Waterloo Sunset” — a gently psychedelic pop tune in which the narrator watches two lovers cross a bridge over the River Thames — for his mother and his older sister Rose and being buoyed by their enthusiasm. The song, which paints a modest scene in almost unbearably pretty colors, “says a lot about people of [my mother’s] postwar generation living in austerity in London. I was a strange kid, not very sociable, but I think with this song she finally understood me a bit.”

The song that makes him think of his father: “ Alcohol ” (1971) A “true Kinkophile,” the singer says, Davies’ father “would have related to this tale of the decline of a philanderer” from the Kinks’ bluesy-rootsy “Muswell Hillbillies” album, which was inspired by the North London neighborhood in which the Davies brothers grew up.

The song that most rips off one of Davies’ heroes: “ So Mystifying ” (1964) To Davies’ ears, this propulsive cut from the Kinks’ self-titled debut makes clear the debt he and his brother owed Chuck Berry, whom he calls “one of the underrated poets in American culture.”

The most depressing song he ever wrote: “Dead End Street” (1966)

“What are we living for? / Two-roomed apartment on the second floor,” Davies sings in this stark hard-times lament. “Yet it’s not actually meant to be depressing,” he clarifies, adding that he thinks of the song as “musical journalism: You’re conveying the bleakness of a real situation through an art form.”

The most misanthropic song he ever wrote: “ 20th Century Man ” (1971) Davies came up with “Muswell Hillbillies’” stomping opener — “I’m a 20th century man but I don’t wanna die here,” he sings — while pondering the “breakdown of community,” as he puts it, that led to London’s bombardment during World War II. “Communities are still breaking down now but for other reasons,” he says. “You go into a restaurant expecting to see people having dinner with one another and they’re all looking at their iPhones.” He laughs. “That’s me being a bit grumpy.”

The best riff Davies ever created: “You Really Got Me” (1964)

“Gotta be that one, right?” he says of the indelible two-note figure — composed by Ray on piano before Dave brought it to guitar — that not only took the Kinks to No. 1 on the British singles chart but also launched the career of Van Halen when the L.A. band covered “You Really Got Me” a decade and a half later.

The easiest song he ever wrote: “You Really Got Me” (1964) “As a songwriter, I’d probably write more lyrics today,” Davies says. “What’s it saying? She’s really got him going, and he’s crazy about her. Very unsubtle in many respects. But that’s the whole point. I didn’t think about the lyrics. I just made them up and sang them.”

The song he never expected to become a hit: “ Tired of Waiting for You ” (1965) Davies remembers having a severe chest cold the day he recorded the vocal for this wistful chart-topper. “So I went in thinking I’d just satisfy the commitment to the record label,” he says. “But I’m pleased with the performance, don’t get me wrong. If I’d tried too hard, maybe it would’ve gone over the top.”

The song he thought would be a hit but wasn’t: “Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy” (1965)

The Kinks modeled this spirited dance number on the music of Motown’s house band, the Funk Brothers, and in particular the intricate drumming of Uriel Jones, who’d become friendly with the Kinks’ Avory. “I told Mick it should be written around this drum pattern like Uriel would do,” Davies says. “He could somehow make a drum part into a hook. So we tried to get Mick to do it, but he couldn’t.” The single, released as the follow-up to “Tired of Waiting for You,” stalled out at No. 17 on the British chart. Says Davies: “Maybe it was too intricate a pattern for rock ’n’ roll. It’s not Mick’s fault — I wrote the bloody song.”

The cover of a Kinks song he loves the most: Peggy Lee’s “ I Go to Sleep ” (1965) Davies likes Van Halen’s take on “You Really Got Me,” and he admires “Stop Your Sobbing” by the Pretenders, whose Chrissie Hynde he went on to have a child with. His favorite cover of one of his tunes, though, is Lee’s jazzy version of “I Go to Sleep,” which “made me feel kind of warm inside,” he says, not least because it impressed one of his sisters, who was a huge fan of the pre-rock pop star.

The song he’d like played at his funeral: “Days” (1968)

“Thank you for the days, those endless days / Those sacred days you gave me,” Davies sings in this chiming farewell that he wrote for (but ultimately cut from) the first of the Kinks’ several concept albums, “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.” “But that’s only if I have to pick one of my songs,” he says. “If not, I choose ‘SOS’ by ABBA.”

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“It was time to open things up,” says Gary Louris. “The Jayhawks are a true band, one where everyone’s an equal, and we wanted to make a record that really reflected that.”

Featuring writing and lead vocal contributions from all four members, The Jayhawks’ extraordinary new album, XOXO , is the most diverse and wide-ranging in the group’s storied history. Rather than marking a sonic departure, though, the collection signals a sharpening of focus for the band, an elevation in understanding of who they are and what they do best. In classic Jayhawks fashion, the songs here mix the influence of American roots music with British invasion and jangly power-pop, but there’s a newfound vitality at play, as well, an invigoration of confidence and energy that could only come with the injection of fresh blood. The result is an album that, much like the band’s lush harmonies, brings multiple distinctive voices together into a singular whole, a collection that, ironically enough, finds unity in individuality and identity in reinvention.

“This album feels like a new lease on life for us,” explains Louris. “I don’t know what the future holds, but this band is full of great songwriters who deserve to be heard, and my only regret is that we didn’t do something like this sooner.”

One of the most enduring and beloved groups of the last thirty years, The Jayhawks first emerged from Minneapolis in the mid-1980’s, though their commercial and critical breakthrough didn’t arrive until the release of their 1992 masterpiece, Hollywood Town Hall . Over the ensuing decades, the band would go on to record a series of highly influential albums and tour the world countless times over, sharing stages with everyone from Bob Dylan and Tom Petty to Lucinda Williams and Wilco along the way. Following an extended hiatus in the mid-2000’s, Louris and his long-time bandmates—bassist Marc Perlman, drummer Tim O’Reagan, and keyboardist Karen Grotberg—returned to the studio, most recently releasing the acclaimed Paging Mr. Proust and Back Roads and Abandoned Motels in 2016 and 2018, respectively.

“Touring those records the last few years, I never felt like I was getting to hear enough of Karen or Tim singing lead vocals,” says Louris. “I know they write great songs, as does Marc, who’s co-written plenty of Jayhawks songs over the years, so I decided to widen the circle and let go of a little bit of control.”

Beginning in the spring of 2019, Louris began making monthly trips from North Carolina back to his native Minnesota, where he and the band would gather for weeklong rehearsal and writing sessions in their St. Paul practice space. All four members would bring song ideas to the table in various states of completion. There were no quotas or egos at play in the process, only a quest for the best Jayhawks tunes possible, wherever they may come from.

“Some songs we molded together from scratch, but others had been fully written by one or the other of us,” says Perlman, who, along with his bandmates, bounced between instruments depending on the needs of each track. “We didn’t worry too much about who penned what, because after all these years of playing together, everything we do just naturally comes out sounding like a Jayhawks song.”

When it came time to record, the band returned to the secluded Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, MN. There, they holed up for roughly two weeks of tracking, living and working in close quarters 24-hours-a-day. The group later continued the sessions at Flowers Studio – founded by the band’s friend and Minneapolis music stalwart, the late Ed Ackerson.

“At Pachyderm, we all shared this big old house on the grounds, so we cooked our meals, drank wine, listened to records, and walked down to the studio every morning together,” says Louris. “We forged a new bond during those sessions, and I think we came out of it tighter as friends than we’d ever been before.”

That camaraderie is the heart and soul of XOXO , which opens with the easygoing “This Forgotten Town”. Written jointly by Louris and Perlman, the track finds Louris and O’Reagan trading off lead vocals, with Grotberg coming in on harmonies, and it sets the stage perfectly for an album fueled by chemistry and trust.

“Because of the added closeness we were all feeling, I think everyone was more comfortable taking chances on this record,” reflects Grotberg. “The more we collaborated, the more ideas we were able to spark off each other, and the more new and unexpected directions we were able to take things.”

For his part, Louris found himself tackling more topical lyrics than he was used to writing. The Harry Nilsson-esque “Living In A Bubble”, for instance, laments the problematic nature of our ratings-driven news cycle, while the transportive “Homecoming” grapples with climate change and the long-term costs of our shortsighted environmental destruction, and the trippy “Illuminate” (a co-write with Perlman and O’Reagan) is an abstract exploration of idol worship that feels particularly relevant to the present political landscape. Grotberg, on the other hand, reached back into her catalog for more timeless tunes, channeling Christine McVie with her deep, breathy vocals on the elegant “Ruby” and hinting at the southern magnetism of Emmylou on the pedal steel-laden “Across My Field”.

“Karen’s always been a very poetic writer, but it was amazing to watch her confidence as an artist grow throughout this process,” says Louris, who invited each bandmember to take ownership of their particular tunes when it came to production and mixing choices. “It was a really empowering experience for her, and for everyone, I think.”

Like Grotberg, O’Reagan spends more time in the spotlight here than on any previous Jayhawks album, taking lead on a trio of tunes that balance the old and the new. The driving “Dogtown Days” is a lean and muscular rocker in the best tradition of Big Star, while the dreamy “Looking Up Your Number” trades the power chords for fingerpicked acoustics and dreamy falsettos, and the minimalist “Society Pages” calls to mind Guided By Voices and Pavement. Perlman rounds out the collection by contributing writing to a number of tracks and stepping center stage on the waltzing “Down To The Farm”, which draws on a mix of British and American folk traditions in its storytelling.

Despite all the different writers and voices at play, XOXO remains a thoroughly cohesive record, both sonically and emotionally. While that’s due in no small part to the densely layered harmonies and impeccable musicianship that color each and every track, it’s clear that the deepened personal bonds between bandmates played a significant role in binding the collection, as well.

“Arriving at a consensus these days isn’t as tough as it used to be,” says O’Reagan. “I think the sound and dynamic of the band will evolve positively with everyone having an outlet for their ideas and songs”

Indeed, far from altering The Jayhawks’ DNA, opening up the writing process seems to have amplified it, and the end result is a group more inspired, more close-knit, more itself than ever before.

“At the end of the day, this album is just an extension of who we’ve always been,” says Grotberg. “We’re the same band, but it feels like we’ve stepped into a new era.”

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Ray Davies Talks ‘Arthur’ Reissue, ‘Project Kinks’ Reunion Project

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The Kinks were on the verge of collapse when they began 1969’s Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) . They’d just parted ways with original bassist Pete Quaife and their previous album, 1968’s The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society , failed even to chart in their native England despite excellent reviews. Making matters worse, an ongoing feud with the American Federation of Musicians made it impossible for them to tour in the States, a devastating blow at a time when groups like Led Zeppelin and the Who were rapidly building huge audiences in America thanks to relentless gigging. The very real possibility that they’d go down in history as an also-ran British Invasion band that burned out in the late-1960s lingered in the air.

The obvious move would have been to write some poppy singles like “You Really Got Me” and “Tired of Waiting for You” to get back on the charts, but Ray Davies had no interest in that. “I had become bored with the singles format,” he says on the phone from London. “I was tired of doing three or four singles a year and your whole body of work is judged by what those singles are like.”

He teamed up with English playwright Julian Mitchell to write a television play about a British man (inspired by Davies’ real-life brother-in-law) that grows weary of life in his home country and moves to Australia with his family. The play never happened, but it did inspire Davies to write 12 songs that told the story across two sides of a record. “I called it a documentary album,” says Davies about Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). “It’s about the generation that won World War II, but somehow lost the peace. It’s a neat package that tells the story of the decline of the British empire.”

The single “Victoria” became their most successful song in three years, and the album received the best reviews of their career. “Less ambitious than Tommy , and far more musical — no fillers, no waste tracks, not a matter of ideas but of perceptions worked out by bass, drums, voices, horns and guitars — Arthur is by all odds the best British album of 1969,” Greil Marcus wrote in Rolling Stone . “It shows that Pete Townshend still has worlds to conquer, and that the Beatles have a lot of catching up to do.”

As the 50-year anniversary of the album began looming last year, Davies began poring through archival tapes from the period to create a four-disc edition of the album, due out October 25th, packed with demos, outtakes, alternate mixes, and rehearsals. “The rehearsal tapes show the band was very tight back then,” says Davies. “We were turning a corner and the energy was different. There’s a song called ‘Some Mother’s Son,’ and I found a version before we wrote the bridge. I hadn’t heard that first draft in 50 years.”

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The set also includes 12 songs intended for a Dave Davies solo album that was never released. “That came after he had a big hit with ‘Death of a Clown,'” says Ray. “I told him to form a band and go on tour with it. He didn’t want to do that. He wanted to stay in the Kinks, but it really shows him develop as a very strong songwriter. He’s not doing a lot of heavy rock on it. It’s sensitive and quite beautiful.”

Unqualified praise for the talents of Dave coming from Ray may seem surprising to some Kinks fans, but they’ve finally made peace in recent years and have even taken tentative steps toward a Kinks reunion. Right now, they are focused on writing new songs. “Dave and I are having a collaboration on a few songs, which will be a first,” says Ray, who wrote the vast majority of the Kinks catalog on his own. “I’ll be like, ‘Here is the chorus, you write verse two.’ I’m trying to keep the energy flowing, and I really want Dave involved creatively.”

The Davies brothers have been largely recording with drum machines to flesh out their demos, but Ray hopes to call in Kinks drummer Mick Avory soon, despite Avory’s famously combative relationship with Dave. “It was a childish spat,” says Ray. “I got them to say ‘hello’ last year. I want to get them in the studio together. I’m calling it ‘Project Kinks.'”

As of now, Project Kinks is short a bass player. Quaife died in 2010, and Jim Rodford, who played with them from 1978 to 1997, died suddenly last year. That does leave John Dalton, their bass player from 1969 to 1976. “I haven’t spoken to John about this yet,” says Davies. “I did see him last year, and I might reach out soon, perhaps November. Dave also has a couple of guys in mind that he likes. Right now, though, the songwriting comes first. This is a song project and keeping it in the family is something to enjoy.”

The Kinks haven’t played live in any capacity since splitting in 1996. A tour would be a huge moneymaker, but Ray is taking things one day at a time. “We have to make the record first,” says Ray. “But if we do play again, we’ll come to America. That’s another conversation though.”

Does all of this activity mean the Kinks are now officially back together? “The word ‘together’ is misleading,” says Davies. “We were never together. But we’re back to our dysfunction again.”

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“It’s a difficult thing to talk about,” Ray Davies admits of the shooting that hospitalised him in New Orleans in 2004.

He and a friend were walking home from dinner when a mugger attacked them both, threatening the woman with a gun before taking her handbag and piling into a getaway car. In a moment of madness, Ray chased after the assailant, who turned, aimed the gun and shot him in the leg at point-blank range.

Davies recounted the tale in his elegiac 2013 memoir Americana: the Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff . Asked how it felt to relive the terrifying incident in prose, he replies slowly and deliberately.

It was “cathartic,” he says, because he “didn’t feel like the good guy” when he replayed the scene on the page. “Just before he shot me, he looked afraid – and he had a gun. You know, I was thinking of the world he came from, the challenges in his life…” When NME suggests not many people have seen that look, he says quietly: “It’s utter desperation.”

Ray Davies has been weaving novelistic narratives steeped in empathy for six decades now. Usually, though, his medium is the four-minute rock song. As chief songwriter with The Kinks , the band he formed north London in 1963 with his younger brother Dave on guitar, he’s captured teenage lust (landmark breakthrough single ‘You Really Got Me’), wistful nostalgia (‘Waterloo Sunset’) and the sexual liberation of the swinging ‘60s (‘Lola’).

These classic tracks and many – many – more appear on ‘The Journey’, an innovative compilation released in two parts this year, marking The Kinks’ 60th anniversary (‘Part 2’ is due this week). Rather than being arranged in simple chronological order, each album is split into chapters that represent different themes, with the remastered songs grouped accordingly. It charts the Davies’ rise from working-class, postwar London to the spoils of rock stardom, speaking to The Kinks’ status as one of the most revered British bands ever, icons of the ‘60s who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

It’s also a reminder of their eclectic style, which morphed from spit-and-sawdust R&B to complex concept albums, a shift that began with 1968’s ‘The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society’. The record sold poorly upon release and Dave thought it would be their last, but it went on to be considered their masterpiece. By the 1980s, they were filling arenas with bombastic hard rock. What was it like to revisit such a formidable back catalogue?

“It was great,” Dave tells NME . “At first, when Ray suggested it, I thought: ‘Oh no – not this .’ [But] when you hear the songs again, you’re kind of there in the moment. It’s amazing… like watching a film about a period of time – you’re reliving that moment. You think, wow – this really happened ?”

A lot has, indeed, happened since 1963. The Kinks continued to knock out albums together until 1993’s ‘Phobia’, when the group drifted apart. The Davies’ have been the only consistent members of the band, though drummer Mick Avory served the second-longest from 1964 to 1984, when he left under a cloud.

Acrimony has long defined the Kinks: the brothers’ inter-band sibling rivalry predated Liam and Noel by some three decades. Avory, meanwhile, notoriously nearly killed Dave with a drum pedal in an onstage bust-up in 1965. All three members, now in their late seventies, contributed to a track-by-track breakdown on the new albums’ liner notes, so it seems tempers have cooled. Perhaps notably, though, NME chats to the trio over three separate phone calls: first Dave, then Ray and finally Mick.

In his 2022 memoir Living on a Thin Line , Dave described the latter as “a third brother”. Asked if it felt that way to him, Avory chuckles: “In the fact that we’re always arguing, yeah… It’s mellowed down, but back then it was so volatile, you know? Things could really go off like a flipping balloon going up at a moment’s notice… I was the brother in between. You couldn’t agree with one too much or else you’d lose face with the other.

The Kinks cast a long shadow over Britpop, with their observational style a strong influence on Damon Albarn . “[‘There were] similarities with Blur around that time,” notes Ray, “and it’s nice to be cited for writing certain music.”

Arguably the most obvious nod, though, came from Oasis , whose 2005 track ‘The Importance of Being Idle’ bears more than a passing resemblance to The Kinks’ ‘Dead End Street’. They even imitated its black-and-white music video, which sees the band carry a coffin through cobbled backstreets. Surprisingly, Ray hasn’t ever chanced upon the Oasis track or seen its video. When we break down the similarities, his jokey response is succinct: “Cheeky bastards!”

Ray has kept up with more recent music, though, and told Channel 4 in 2018: “I love grime.” Today, he explains: “[Rap] is spoken-word. The way the dialogue can take over… if you’ve got something to say, it’s a great medium. It depends where you come from. You’ve got your voice and your background and where you come from.”

This is in stark contrast to the Stones’ swashbuckling guitar pirate Keith Richards, who recently sassed : “I don’t really like to hear people yelling at me and telling me it’s music – AKA rap.” Ray laughs: “And he works with Mick Jagger!?” He sympathises with Keef’s opinion, but gently disagrees: “You’ve got to have a voice so that you can struggle to get yourself out [of your situation]. So it reflects society, really… It’s part of the world, part of history.”

It’s no surprise that Ray Davies identifies with artists who evoke their era: the Kinks did the job so well that they closed the NME Awards (then known as the NME Poll Winners Concert) in 1965. This was just over a year after the release of their debut single, a bluesy take on Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’. Unfortunately, they were preceded on the bill that night by a band with a slightly bigger following: the Fab Four.

“It mucked it up for us, really,” remembers Mick, still sounding crushed by the experience 58 years later. “We were still cutting our teeth on stage shows and we had to go on after the Beatles so that they could leave the building without getting pulled to pieces… Half the sound system wasn’t working because all the sound guys thought that was the end of the concert. Which it should have been! It was awful.” Of the Kinks’ live inexperience, he notes ruefully: “We could have done with a run in Hamburg for about eight months.”

Avory chats to NME the day after the release of the Beatles’ ‘final’, AI-assisted single ‘Now and Then’ . While he might not be blown away by the tune (“It’s alright, but it’s nothing really different for them”), there does seem to be something of a ‘60s revival underway. Just look at the Stones, who recently sashayed to Number One with their comeback album ‘Hackney Diamonds’ .

Ray approves of ‘Angry’, its lead single, while talk of the band leads Dave to recall his friendship with their founding member Brian Jones, who died in 1969: “He had an innate ability… I think he was a bit of a magician, pulling a flower out of a hat. I think that being a writer and musician is like being a magician.”

Dave speaks of creativity with childlike wonder. “What’s amazing about writing,” he says, “[is that] you don’t always know what you’re writing about. Am I writing about the future? Am I writing about the past? What am I writing about? And I think Ray has always had a knack of pulling things through time. And that’s so weird – but life’s weird!”

Jagger and the gang made a massive return to UK stadiums in 2018, when Ray was promoting his solo album ‘Our Country: Americana Act 2’. In the aforementioned Channel 4 interview, he claimed to be in the process of reforming the Kinks, “inspired by the Rolling Stones”. There was even talk of new material, which caused something of a stir among fans. And then… tumbleweed. What happened?

Ray, who can be cryptic at the best of times, squirms around the topic as if we’re asking for the keycode to his safe deposit box. “Well,” he says, “it got shelved because of… other issues. But there’s still material there. When I get time.” By-by-bit, gnomically, he reveals that he’s been recording the “home demos” in question since the ‘90s. Mick and Dave have contributed to the tracks, too (the drummer later describes them as a mixture of their “punchy” arena rock and “mid-tempo rock ballads”). The songs are “in bits”, Ray says: “We’ve got loads of songs there in pieces.”

How many songs?

“…About 20.”

He seems to be enjoying the game: “Yeaaaah!”

And how close to completion are the new Kinks tracks?

“There are about two or three songs I want to finish,” he says, “and when they’re finished, I’ll put the whole thing together.”

A full reunion, insists the elder Kink, remains “in the lap of the gods”. Dave suffered a near-catastrophic stroke in 2004, the year that Ray was shot, and it prevented him from releasing music for almost a decade. The band last played Glastonbury together in 1993 (though Ray performed the Legends Slot in 2010); but it would be so sweet to see both brothers crunching out ‘You Really Got Me’ on Worthy Farm. Ray doesn’t balk at the prospect, but says it would hinge on “getting a show that gives us the credit we deserve”.

Before we can get our change.org petitions going, though, Ray needs to “persuade [Dave] to come on”. In his conversation with NME , the guitarist explains that the two intend to meet very soon, and entertains the possibility of working on new music. But Ray’s wary: “You’ve gotta be careful because he’ll run off in one direction and I’ll [run] in mine… He’s like that. He stays in control.” You can imagine the twinkle in his eye when he adds: “I’m just a well-meaning big brother.”

The Davies’ dispute is a puzzle. Look at footage of Liam and Noel in the ‘90s and you can see how they might wind each other up, but Ray and Dave seem so genial. What gets between them? “We’re just different animals,” sighs Dave. “We found ourselves at a very young age being in each other’s faces. And we had to work with it somehow.”

After all they’ve been through, it would be glorious for the Kinks to close one chapter with ‘The Journey’, only to start another. As Dave observed, when he remembered thinking ‘…The Village Green Preservation Society’ would be the end of the band: “It was an ending, but as with all endings, they are also beginnings.”

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It's one of the most notorious sibling rivalries in music history.

Ray Davies and Dave Davies didn't see eye-to-eye for decades - their relationship was so fractured that it in fact broke up The Kinks .

During their time in the influential band, things were continually tense between the two brothers, but their creative powers still flourished.

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Ray's witty, quintessentially British lyricism captured imaginations, writing era-defining songs like 'Waterloo Sunset' and 'Sunny Afternoon'.

Dave's guitar mastery conjured riffs like the timeless 'You Really Got Me' their first hit in 1964, and a sound which brought opened the door for distortion to revolutionise pop music.

Together they brought The Kinks to the fore of British music throughout the 1960s and 1970s, despite it being "a constant state of screaming and shouting at each other" as Dave recently revealed to the Daily Express .

Even after the band split, the brothers' rift deepened, with Ray ­infamously stamping on Dave's 50th birthday cake in 1997.

They've softened over the years however, and have learned to appreciate each other's work, with a reunion long been mooted.

"We spoke about it only last week," Dave told The New Cue earlier this week. "We're going to meet up again this week and see where the journey might take us.

"We've had loads of stuff in the can for ages so who knows. Stuff we've had in demo form or things we didn't use. There’s quite a few songs we’ve either revamped or done slightly differently so we'll see."

Asked outright if new Kinks music was on the way, Dave replied: "Let's hope so, eh!"

It's not the first time the band have hyped up a comeback recently with Dave telling the Express last month: "We'll try to get back on stage".

So The Kinks getting back together has never seemed closer, with Ray telling NME recently that they have around "20 songs" for a new album.

It's been on-off-on-off and on-off again between the Davies brothers – Dave seemed to pour cold water on the prospect in 2022 by branding Ray "a megalomaniac" .

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But it seems the tide has turned, with both brothers wanting to remind the world of how great The Kinks truly were.

"We spoke the other day and we’re meeting up in a couple of weeks," Dave said. "We’ll try to get back on stage. I won’t tell you what it is until it's ready, but I want us to talk about doing something based on our lives."

Their only public reunion since The Kinks' demise in 1997 was when Ray joined Dave on stage at London's Islington Assembly Hall in 2015 to perform 'You Really Got Me'.

Ever since then tongues have been wagging for them to finally get the band back together, and now their relationship has healed, it looks likely.

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Dave spoke fondly of his brother to the Express , saying: "I look forward to it whenever I see Ray and we talk about stuff, because Ray has got such a way with words."

The band's primitive nature was the reason they became to successful, paving the way for heavier, distortion-indebted rock that followed.

But Dave feels like The Kinks' continuous fallings out have been blown out of proportion by the media.

"The Kinks' fights have been blown up out of proportion over the years," he insisted. "Me and Mick wanted to kill each other – but I love him too."

"Ray and I were so different. We still are. When you look back, you see how those differences complemented each other."

"You sometimes need things to go wrong before they go right. It didn’t always work, but when it did? Boom, we had something," he continued.

He was quick to praise the impact that Ray Davies' songwriting had on pop culture and the band's initial success too.

"Ray was able to take anything ­people said – even me telling him, 'Shut the hell up!' – and write it down in a way ­that made you think, 'Wow, that’s clever'. Ray shaped cultural advances through ­our music."

In their latter years, with their brotherly love back intact and a 60th anniversary since their formation on the horizon, a reunion seems imminent.

"Inside, I still feel 15," added Dave. "I still don’t really know what I’m doing. But music has taught me more about the world than I’d ever thought possible."

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Ray Davies (born June 21, 1944) is one of Britain's most distinguished and distinctive songwriters, known as the beloved lead singer of the Kinks, he was born in Muswell Hill, London, UK.

Having formed one of the most important and influential rock/pop band of the British Invasion, Ray Davies’ the Kinks crafted their distinctively British sound for over two decades. Having influenced hosts of subsequent pop/rock artists, the Kinks had nine charting albums within the Top 40, 17 Top 20 singles, and earned multiple honours including the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Service to British Music" and being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Prior to the band’s separation in 1996, Davies released the solo album “Return to Waterloo” in 1985, which served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, also written by Davies.

10 years later in 1995, Davies released the semi-fictional memoir “X-Ray”, shedding light on the his experiences with the Kinks in an unorthodox yet literary way. In support of the book, the singer performed a series of concerts entitled “Storyteller”, which featured classic Kinks songs, passages from the book, old stories, and new songs. The album “The Storyteller” was subsequently released in 1998, charting at No. 105 on the UK Albums Chart.

In aid of New Orleans musical education programs, Davies released the benefit EP “Thankgivings Day” towards the tail-end of 2005, in anticipation of his official debut solo album. The full-length “Other People’s Lives” arrived in February 2006, peaking at No. 36 on the UK Albums Chart – Davies’ first album to reached the Top 40 since the 1960s. Earning strong reviews from the musical press, the album once again showcases Davies’ enviable songwriting talent with his seemingly effortless introduction of narratives and characters. The album “Working Man’s Cafe” followed in 2008, featuring a less polished and pined over sound than its predecessor, however remained a tactful, witty release.

A choral collection of Kinks songs, recorded in collaboration with the Crouch End Festival Chorus, entitled “The Kinks Choral Collection”, was released in 2009. Proving popular amongst listeners, the album charted at No. 28 on the UK Albums Chart. The collection of high-profile collaborations “See My Friends” was issued by Universal in November 2010. Featuring the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Mumford & Songs, Spoon, and Jackson Browne, the album peaked at No. 12 in the UK Albums Chart.

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Moscow Tours & Travel Packages 2024/2025

63 moscow trips. compare tour itineraries from 45 tour companies. 308 reviews. 4.7/5 avg rating., popular moscow tours.

St Petersburg & Moscow in Style - Winter

• Explore the majestic St Petersburg & Moscow on private city tours
• Admire the rich Russian history, art and architecture
• Travel to Moscow on a highspeed train
• Enjoy the local cuisine in stylish restaurants

Golden Ring of Russia

Lower Volga Voyage

• Visit magnificent Red Square and Kremlin and examine the collection at theKremlin’s State Armory.
• Experience Russia’s diverse musical traditions at lively folk music performances
• Explore Volgograd, the site of the decisive battle of World War II’s eastern front

Best of Russia

Volga Dream Russian River Cruise

Highlights of Russia

St Petersburg & Moscow in Style - Summer

White Russian - 7 days

• Discover Moscow's UNESCO-listed Red Square, home to spectacular St Basil’s Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum and the historic GUM Department store
• Explore the grounds of Moscow's mighty Kremlin, with its numerous governmentbuildings, gold-domed cathedrals and the giant tsar bell
• Celebrate New Year's Eve in Moscow!
• Take in the highlights of St Petersburg including a guided tour of the exquisite Church on Spilled Blood, Peter & Paul Fortress and Cathedral
• Take a guided tour of the remarkable Hermitage Museum at the Winter Palace

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Small Group Moscow Tours

Vodka Shot - 6 days

• Explore the beautiful city of St Petersburg, including the exquisite Church on Spilled Blood, Peter & Paul Fortress and Nevsky Prospekt
• Marvel at the dazzling array of art and exhibits in the world-famous Hermitage Museum, at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg
• Discover a lavish residence of the tsars on a day trip to Catherine Palace at Tsarkoe Selo (winter: mid-October to April) or Peterhof Palace and gardens (summer: May to mid-October)
• Take in the highlights of the capital on a walking tour, visiting Moscow's famous Red Square, home to the historic GUM Department Store, Lenin’s Mausoleum and spectacular St Basil’s Cathedral
• Take a guided tour of the Moscow Kremlin, Russia’s political power house. Stroll around the grounds of this fortified complex, visit the Kremlin's cathedrals and see the mighty Tsar Bell

Route of the Romanovs - 10 days

• Learn about the last days of the Romanovs in Yekaterinburg, visiting the sites where Tsar Nicolas II and his family were assassinated and buried
• Straddle two continents at the famous obelisk Europe/Asia border marker in Yekaterinburg
• Experience the Trans-Siberian railway on an overnight train journey from Moscow to Yekaterinburg

New Year's in Moscow - 9 days

• Visit Catherine Palace at Tsarkoe Selo on Christmas Day and marvel at the incredible Amber Room
• Spend a night in Novgorod, an ancient city by the Volkhov River - explore the kremlin, cathedral and other sights and enjoy a traditional Russian banya (sauna)

Back in the USSR - 7 days

Russian Revolution - 9 days

• Visit historic Novgorod, an ancient city which straddles the Volkhov River. Explore the attractive riverside kremlin and experience a traditional Russian banya (sauna)

The Snowball - 6 days

• Visit Catherine Palace at Tsarkoe Selo and marvel at the incredible Amber Room

Mood for Moscow - 4 days

• Head underground to visit a Stalinist-era Soviet Bunker on an optional excursion
• Stroll to the vibrant Izmailovo Market, which lies behind the walls of an ancient Kremlin, and shop for an array of souvenirs

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Moscow reviews & ratings, capitals of the north.

some hotels could have been better

It was jam packed with every place I wanted to go and see. I especially love my photo of us setting out on the night time river cruise in St Petersburg and the Peter...

I really did not buy much and what I did buy was small gifts for others .

Johanna-Marie

Good hotels, some better than others. Interesting itinerary

Too rushed. Optional tour rather too short

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