Writer Stephen Humphries recently interviewed Robert Plant and writes about the experience in his blog. The article also contains links to the article from the interview, as well as to a previous interview and review.

Stephen Humphries

Robert Plant will appear on the Jimmy Fallon show tonight, December 9, 2010. The Jimmy Fallon show airs at 12:30 on NBC, right after the Tonight Show. Check your local listings.

Robert Plant will join Jeff Beck, Debbie Harry and the Who for A Concert For Killing Cancer in January. The concert will raise funds for trials in photodynamic therapy treatment.

The concert will take place January 13, 2011 at the Hammersmith Apollo.

Robert Plant will be appearing on Later With Jools Holland on BBC2. The show will air on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 10pm and again on Friday at midnight.

According to Pollstar, Robert Plant has added more U.S. dates for 2011.

Jan. 18–Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville NC
Jan. 19–Peterson Events Center, Pittsburgh PA
Jan. 21–Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor MI
Jan. 22–Sony Centre for Performing Arts, Toronto CAN
Jan. 25–House of Blues, Boston MA
Jan. 29–Beacon Theater, New York NY
Feb. 1–DAR Constitution All, Washington DC
Feb. 5–Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA
Feb. 8 & 9–War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville TN

A Robert Plant documentary, “Robert Plant: By Myself” will air on BBC 2 on November 6, 2010 at 10:15pm. Robert talks about his long musical career, while the documentary takes a look at his various solo outings including Strange Sensation and recording with Alison Krauss.

TV Listings

You can listen to Robert Plant’s October 29, 2010 performance at Electric Proms on the BBC website. Also on the site are photos, interviews and other Robert Plant items.

Electric Proms

Everett True’s interview with Low’s Alan Sparhawk appears on The Vine. Robert Plant included two Low songs, “Monkey” and “Silver Rider” on his “Band of Joy” album. Of those inclusions Sparhawk says:

That’s pretty exciting. I have no idea how it came about. Near as I can tell, he heard our stuff at some point and obviously owned The Great Destroyer. I read an interview where he said he was a big fan. His versions are pretty cool. ‘Monkey’ is more of a really driving blues riff that moves along, and he ends up taking it some place really mellow, very eerie. And I think they do a phenomenal job of ‘Silver Rider’. It’s beautiful. It’s actually very similar to the way we do it, but he’s a great singer. It’d be hard to find anyone else now who’s got that much credibility. Barbra Streisand, maybe? It was a huge honour. I hope at some point we’ll see the show. He’s doing us a favour. It blew me off my seat.

Itunes currently has “Central Two-O-Nine” from Robert Plant’s “Band of Joy” album available for free download. The entire album can be purchased from iTunes for $7.99.

Robert Plant is the first major artist to release an app for Blackberry(r). The app is free to download and offers access to music samples and video which includes exclusive interviews. This is the first app to be built by Universal Music specifically for Blackberry(r) Smartphones.

Get the App here.