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Scoop
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
UK Post-Punks SHAME Share New Single + Video 'Quiet Life'
Today, shame release 'Quiet Life', the second single/video from their new album Cutthroat, out 5th September via Dead Oceans. On the heels of title track, 'Cutthroat', praised by DIY as 'Crashing in with an urgent, alluring energy, shame's return is here to blow the cobwebs away…,' 'Quiet Life' is a snarling rockabilly track in the vein of The Gun Club and The Cramps. Of the track, vocalist Charlie Steen says: ''Quiet Life' is about someone in a shitty relationship. It's about the judgment they receive and the struggle that they have to go through, trying to understand the conflict they face, of wanting a better life… but being stuck.' In the song's opening lines, Steen sings, 'Spent too much time on my knees. / Round here nothing's good for me, / But I still can't make the choice to leave.' The video, directed by Pedro Takahashi and produced by FRIEND, features the band and friends venting their pent-up frustrations in a run-down office building. Cutthroat is Shame at their blistering best; an unapologetic new album made with Grammy winning producer John Congleton at the helm. 'It's about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites,' says vocalist Charlie Steen. 'Let's face it, there's a lot of them around right now.' Still in their twenties and having proved themselves several times over via legendary live shows and three critically-acclaimed albums, the five childhood friends - Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green, bassist Josh Finerty and drummer Charlie Forbes - went into Cutthroat ready to create a new Ground Zero. 'This is about who we are,' says Steen. 'Our live shows aren't performance art - they're direct, confrontational and raw. That's always been the root of us. We live in crazy times. But it's not about 'Poor me.' It's about 'Fuck you'.' Crucial to this incendiary new outlook was producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen). From their initial meeting, Congleton's no-bullshit approach became a guiding force to streamline the band's ideas. Stamped throughout with Shame's trademark sense of humour, the album takes on the big issues of today and gleefully toys with them. With Trump in the Whitehouse and Shame holed up in Salvation Studios in Brighton, they cast a merciless eye on themes of conflict and corruption; hunger and desire; lust, envy and the omnipresent shadow of cowardice. Musically, too, the record plays with visceral new ideas. Making electronic music on tour for fun, Coyle-Smith had previously seen the loops he was crafting as a separate entity to the things he wrote for Shame. Then, he realised, maybe they didn't have to be. 'This time, anything could go if it sounded good and you got it right,' he says. Musically, too, the record plays with visceral new ideas. Making electronic music on tour for fun, Coyle-Smith had previously seen the loops he was crafting as a separate entity to the things he wrote for shame. Then, he realised, maybe they didn't have to be. ' This time, anything could go if it sounded good and you got it right,' he says. This cheeky self-awareness, too, is important. The result is an album that revels in the idiosyncrasies of life, raising an eyebrow and asking the ugly questions that so often get tactfully brushed over. But the one answer that Cutthroat gives with a resounding flourish is that, right now, shame have never sounded better.
Sydney Morning Herald
11-06-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness list $60 million New York penthouse
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness have listed their lavish Manhattan penthouse as the former high-profile couple navigate their divorce. The X-Men star and Shame actress want $US38.9 million ($59.6 million) for the apartment at 176 Perry Street, reported. The listing is their second New York real estate move since Furness filed for divorce from Jackman last month. Property records show that a company associated with Furness paid $US11.7 million ($17.8 million) – half the property's value – to a company associated with Jackman for a second Manhattan penthouse at 100 Eleventh Avenue. The deal was finalised on May 21, two days before Furness filed for divorce, according to The Real Deal, which broke the news. Now, just two weeks later, the penthouse at 176 Perry Street is on the market. Jackson and Furness bought the property in 2008 for $US21 million.
The Age
11-06-2025
- Business
- The Age
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness list $60 million New York penthouse
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness have listed their lavish Manhattan penthouse as the former high-profile couple navigate their divorce. The X-Men star and Shame actress want $US38.9 million ($59.6 million) for the apartment at 176 Perry Street, reported. The listing is their second New York real estate move since Furness filed for divorce from Jackman last month. Property records show that a company associated with Furness paid $US11.7 million ($17.8 million) – half the property's value – to a company associated with Jackman for a second Manhattan penthouse at 100 Eleventh Avenue. The deal was finalised on May 21, two days before Furness filed for divorce, according to The Real Deal, which broke the news. Now, just two weeks later, the penthouse at 176 Perry Street is on the market. Jackson and Furness bought the property in 2008 for $US21 million.
American Military News
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- American Military News
Deborra-Lee Furness files to divorce Hugh Jackman 2 years after split
Hugh Jackman's estranged wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, filed for divorce in New York, nearly two years after the pair announced they were ending their 27-year marriage. Furness, 69, filed for divorce on Friday in Suffolk County Supreme Court, according to court documents obtained by TMZ. The outlet reports the divorce will be finalized once the judge signs off on the complaint and other documents Furness submitted — filings regarding continuing health care coverage, a medical child support order, the New York State child support registry form, the exes' settlement deal, a proposed judgement of divorce and official certificate of dissolution. The 'Deadpool & Wolverine' star and award-winning 'Shame' actress met in 1995, working on the Australian miniseries 'Correlli,' and married the following year. They later adopted son Oscar and daughter Ava, now 25 and 19 respectively. In September 2023, the couple announced their separation in a joint statement to People. 'We have been blessed to share almost three decades together as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage,' the actors said at the time. 'Our journey now is shifting and we have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth. … We undertake this next chapter with gratitude, love and kindness.' Jackman sparked romance rumors with his 'Music Man' co-star Sutton Foster as far back as 2022, though the Broadway stars only confirmed their relationship earlier this year. Furness' filing comes seven months after 50-year-old Foster filed to divorce screenwriter Ted Griffin in October, after a decade of marriage. The exes share daughter Emily, whom they also welcomed via adoption. Prior to Griffin, Foster was married to fellow Broadway veteran Christian Borle, who, like Jackman and the 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' actress, has won two Tony Awards. ___ © 2025 New York Daily News. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Scoop
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
UK Post-Punks SHAME Announce New Album Cutthroat
Shame have announced their return with new album Cutthroat, out 5th September 2025 via Dead Oceans, and have shared the thrilling new video for the album's title track, directed by, featuring the band performing within a motorcycle wall of death. Cutthroat is Shame at their blistering best; an unapologetic new album made with Grammy winning producer John Congleton at the helm. 'It's about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites,' says vocalist Charlie Steen. 'Let's face it, there's a lot of them around right now.' Still in their twenties and having proved themselves several times over via legendary live shows and three critically-acclaimed albums, the five childhood friends - Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green, bassist Josh Finerty and drummer Charlie Forbes - went into Cutthroat ready to create a new Ground Zero. 'This is about who we are,' says Steen. 'Our live shows aren't performance art - they're direct, confrontational and raw. That's always been the root of us. We live in crazy times. But it's not about 'Poor me.' It's about 'Fuck you'.' Crucial to this incendiary new outlook was producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen). From their initial meeting, Congleton's no-bullshit approach became a guiding force to streamline the band's ideas. Stamped throughout with Shame's trademark sense of humour, the album takes on the big issues of today and gleefully toys with them. With Trump in the Whitehouse and Shame holed up in Salvation Studios in Brighton, they cast a merciless eye on themes of conflict and corruption; hunger and desire; lust, envy and the omnipresent shadow of cowardice. Musically, too, the record plays with visceral new ideas. Making electronic music on tour for fun, Coyle-Smith had previously seen the loops he was crafting as a separate entity to the things he wrote for Shame. Then, he realised, maybe they didn't have to be. 'This time, anything could go if it sounded good and you got it right,' he says. Cutthroat's first single and title track takes this idea and runs with it into, quite possibly, the best song Shame have ever laid to tape. It's a ball of barely-contained attitude packed into three minutes of indie dancefloor hedonism. It also masterfully introduces the lyrical outlook of the record: one where cocksure arrogance and deep insecurity are two sides of the same coin. 'I was reading a lot of Oscar Wilde plays where everything was about paradox,' Steen explains. 'In 'Cutthroat', it's that whole idea from Lady Windermere's Fan, 'Life's far too important to be taken seriously'.' This cheeky self-awareness, too, is important. As much as Shame want to burst the bubbles of bluster and ego, encouraging us to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, 'He who casts the first stone…', they also understand that, at its heart, life is often ridiculous. The result is an album that revels in the idiosyncrasies of life, raising an eyebrow and asking the ugly questions that so often get tactfully brushed over. But the one answer that Cutthroat gives with a resounding flourish is that, right now, Shame have never sounded better.
