Classic sounds and soulful voices from Lana Del Rey’s exclusive playlist choices for the Mulberry Mix Tape Tour.
Lana has also been out and about with her namesake Del Rey bag in Black! Don’t forget to sign up to be the first to know when the Del Rey launches in store and online.
As part of the Mix Tape Tour we’re asking the artists who perform for us to give their mix tape song suggestions so we can turn them into playlists for you to enjoy. Listen to the mix tapes from Sunday Girl, Harley Viera Newton, Little Dragon and Kasabian – just press play!
We were lucky to have the multi-talented George Lewis (better known as Twin Shadow) DJ at our pool party in Los Angeles at the end of last year. We were even luckier when he agreed to perform a cover of a great British song by a great British artist – Peter Gabriel. He also had time for a chat with Harley Viera Newton in infamous Bungalow 2 at Chateau Marmont.
Six up and coming duos or bands performed exclusive covers of their favourite British love songs for the Mix Tape Tour. Make sure you stop for a listen!
Between performances, we chatted to Jamie N Commons and The Dø about their chosen songs and falling in love.
Which song did you choose and why?
Jamie N Commons: Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. As I understand it Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters wrote this title track about former band member Syd Barrett’s slow detachment from reality due to drug abuse. So to me this songs all about loving someone whose motor’s still running, but there’s no one at the wheel… which is a weird feeling. Being able to talk to and see someone who’s basically already lost to you. I had a very similar circumstance recently, so this song has been really helpful.
The Dø: Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones. We chose it because it’s not so well known and it was a challenge to make it ours while still sticking to the original mood.
What is your favourite lyric from the song?
Jamie N Commons: So many great lines I’m gonna say the whole second verse…”How, how I wish you were here, Cause we’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year, Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here.”
The Dø: “I have my freedom but I don’t have much time.”
Who or what was your first love?
Jamie N Commons: Lindsay Lohan in the Parent Trap!
The Dø: A musician in my first band when I was 13.
What is love?
Jamie N Commons: Al Green’s vocal delivery in “How can You Mend A Broken Heart?”
The Dø: “Baby don’t hurt me.”
Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey are a bona fide couple and make up London-based duo Summer Camp, who cover their favourite British love song for the Mix Tape Tour.
French-Finnish duo The Do perform their cover of a classic British love song for the Mix Tape Tour.
We’re celebrating the sound of love this Valentine’s Day as part of the Mix Tape Tour. Up and coming duos or bands have covered their favourite British love songs exclusively for us, captured on film at The Roost, an atmospheric house in London’s Hackney that’s all hard-wood floors, fireplaces and squashy sofas – perfect for our musical love-in!
Follow the tour and see performances from Citizens!, Big Deal, Jamie N Commons and Tribes.
London-based indie-pop group Citizens! got in on the act performing their favourite British love song cover exclusively for the Mix Tape Tour.
Camden-based NME darlings Tribes chose to perform Love in Vain for the Mix Tape Tour Valentine’s exclusive- a blues song from the 1930′s that was most famously covered by The Rolling Stones on their 1969 album, Let It Bleed.
