Album review: Eels - 'Tomorrow Morning' (E Works)
Hold on to your heartstrings because Mark ‘E’ Everett ’s bi-polar emotional gauge is on the upswing. It’s not exactly the party soundtrack of the summer, but ‘Tomorrow Morning’ finds the Eels mainman nervously emerging from the...
Album review: Eels - End Times...
We like to hope that lawyers specialising in heartbreak and bitter recriminations have Eels ’ eighth studio effort, aka Mark ‘E’ Everett ’s “divorce album”, looping in their waiting rooms. Still brimming with depressing song subjects...
Album review: Eels - 'Hombre Lobo'
Another set of photos of Mark ‘E’ Everett sporting an implausibly large beard, another new Eels album. They’ll probably keep popping out with the regularity and predictability of strangulation threats on Eminem records. Last year E...
Eels : Souljacker
E from Eels has the potential to be among the best rock stars in the world. Reclusive and intelligent, he falls somewhere between Chris Morris (for comic effect, publicity shots show him as the Unabomber) and - Marilyn Manson ('Souljacker' is...
Eels : Oh What A Beautiful Morning
He tries, he really does, to look on the bright side of life. He tries to look at the daisies and the sunshine, tries to look up at the sky and say, "Goddamn right it's a beautiful day", but somehow, for Mark 'E' Everett, the effort is always...
Oxford Apollo
Apparently The Webb Brothers have a famous dad who wrote a few classic '60s tunes. Fair play to them. Does this explain why they confine themselves to recreating the pop period 1964-66? Ask their therapist. Do they rock? Kinda,...
San Francisco - Great American Music Hall
The last time Eels played in San Francisco was the day singer E 's sister committed suicide. On the next tour, their Frisco gig was cancelled due to his mother's death. "It is time," E announces to the sold out Music Hall , "to end this...
London W1 Dominion Theatre
The mind boggles at what might actually pass for 'bizarre' in the world of Eels . After all, they're the band who donned 18th-century funeral togs for their last London date, who eke uplifting ecstasies from cancer, dementia and death. So when...
Daisies Of The Galaxy
It ain't easy being cheesy. In the self-obsessed world of rock'n'roll, kudos is a priceless commodity. But blighted by the sudden, unrepeatable success of their debut album, 'Beautiful Freak' , Eels were immediately robbed of that earnest,...
Mr E's Beautiful Blues
Eels Mr E's Beautiful Blues (DreamWorks) You can ride your luck but when things turn for the worse, it's important not to get run over by it. 'Electro-Shock Blues' from 1998 was one of the most criminally overlooked...
