Errors-To: ecto-owner@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #1091 ecto, Number 1091 Friday, 29 April 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Kate Con etc ... Moxy Fruvous in Chicago tonight? Wendy Matthews? Re: Wendy Matthews? SpellChecto--take 2 :-) disappear fear, Sheryl Crow, Moon 7x, The Story, T. Amos... Re: disappear fear, Sheryl Crow, Moon 7x, The Story, T. Amos... Silly me, off by a week... HaPpY Birthdays Bay Area Ecto Sampler Kim Wilde Mylene Farmer Sam Brown (article) goodbye (for now) ecto Today's your birthday friend.... Re: goodbye (for now) ecto Re: goodbye (for now) ecto Hellay, Bday, Thanka & Other Sucha ======================================================================== From: boek Subject: Kate Con etc ... Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 00:44:31 +0200 (MET DST) Hi People, Can somebody who knows tell me what the form is for a Kate Con? Like, do I need to book a ticket for it or something or do we just show up, and when and where and for how long and such minor details. I guess if we all meet at Geoff's we can go together, but just in case ... Thanks!! Chris. ======================================================================== From: kmorrey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kathleen Morrey) Subject: Moxy Fruvous in Chicago tonight? Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 18:11:37 -0500 (CDT) Argh, just rechecked MJM's message and saw that the show at Schuba's is tonight. I don't feel motivated enough to actually CALL Schuba's and find out when it was, I will leave that up in the air to any Chicago Ectophiles who are planning to attend and would like to enlighten me. El or bus directions (from around Chicago & State) would be welcomed as well. Blah, I'm tired. I'm not sure whether I want someone to get back to me or not :) Tossing the dice, Kath ======================================================================== From: Philip Sainty Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 14:52:03 +1200 Subject: Wendy Matthews? Wow... the list isn't often this quiet... I think I've only had about 6 ecto messages arrive in the last six hours! reminds me of #ecto meditation sessions :) Anyway I thought I'd break (or at least dent :) the silence by asking about Wendy Matthews... I've seen a couple of albums by her I think, but I don't have a clue about her or her music and I don't remember seeing any mentions of her here... I keep meaning to ask about her 'the next time I have something to post' and then forget, but seeing as how nothing much has been posted today, I figured noone would mind if I just sent the question by itself :) Philip _ _ ___ _ _ _ (_ / | / \ |_) |_| | | (_ Philip Sainty (_ \_ | \_/ | | | | |_ (_ psainty@comp.vuw.ac.nz -------------------------------------------------------------- "This is where I want to be, this is what I need." --Kate Bush ======================================================================== From: iago@merle.acns.nwu.edu Subject: Re: Wendy Matthews? Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 22:40:19 CDT Philip Sainty says: > Wow... the list isn't often this quiet... Yeah, isn't it amazing? I think the cosmic forces drove _everyone_ to post yesterday, however. I didn't log on for 24 hours, and I was greeted by something like 80 messages. Ecto-overdrive. > > reminds me of #ecto meditation sessions :) Om mani, pad me... (well, it _is_ appropriate, isn't it?) Musically, I've been listening to the Milla album almost non-stop. Milla in the morning, Milla at night. So how would I rate this album? Well on the Milla-Meter (sorry!), it's incredible, amazing. Let's just say that I like this album! The song Charlie is creepy. The subject matter is serious, but the music is very childlike, a musicbox tune. The juxtaposition of the innocent music with the cold, stark lyrics sends chills up my spine. Another song, one I haven't seen mentioned here, is Ruby Lane. A simple, pathetic description of a prostitute (IMHO). Strong lyrics, and the music highlights the destitute feel of the song. It's really frightening that she's only 18 years old. I certainly didn't have the maturity to write those lyrics at that age, and I definitely couldn't have composed the music (but alas, I will _never_ be able to do that!). BTW, there are 2 reviews of the album in Entertainment Weekly, and Milla does the double-whammy: in one she's compared to Kate, and in the other, to Tori. Does this mean that Tori has finally made it? ==> valerie only 10 more days to the Sarah concert! ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 22:17 PDT From: buck@satyr.sylvan.com (Michael Butler) Subject: SpellChecto--take 2 :-) apple!uicvm.bitnet!U15289 writes: > Is Michael talking about the same Joanna Lumley who was in _The New Avengers_ > on telly? She never was able to hold a candle to Mrs. Peel, but then, who > on earth could? :-) If this were a.s.b, someone might say something about that last--particularly given the amount of "Tony" SM, catsuits etc. *Sigh* She deserved to marry James Bond, all right, but Sean Connery, dammit, not George Lazenby. (Sheesh!) Diana Rigg--She Really Is (notice you never see Diana R. and Kate Bush in the same place? Concidence? Or...?). Sorry--I'm cruising on too little sleep. Random maunderings of a diseased mind. Impossible shoes for J. L. to fill, agreed. ............................................................................... "The problem with any unwritten law is that | buck@satyr.sylvan.com you don't know where to go to erase it." -- attributed to Glaser and Way ======================================================================== Date: 21 Apr 94 05:17:05 EDT From: "Wendy E." <72064.3606@compuserve.com> Subject: disappear fear, Sheryl Crow, Moon 7x, The Story, T. Amos... Hi folks, Tonight, I found tape of disappear fear "Echo My Call" (haven't listened to it yet), tape of Sheryl Crow "Tuesday Night Music Club" (loved it - a keeper!), tape of The Moon 7 Times "7=49" (loved it - another keeper for sure), and a cd of Tori Amos "Little Earthquakes" (Oh God/Goddess it is almost too much for me to bear. Everytime I play it, it just keeps getting bigger and better. It's must be the ECTO effect! Definitely another keeper. You'll never believe it, but this CD was just sitting at the front of all the used "A" CDs waiting for me to see it. Wow I love that good ole' synchronicity!). I'll be seeing one of my favorite groups, The Story, on Thursday, May 12th at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center (a great intimate place located in downtown Santa Cruz, seats about 250, serving wine, beer, some eats and there's no smoking and it's not just jazz that plays there). By any chance, are there any The Story fans out here? I like Sinead O'Connor a lot but I must say her CD "Am I Not Your Girl? is definitely *not* worth having. I was shocked and totally dismayed by it. She sounded very out of place with the type of music she was singing (Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday type). I bought it thinking it would be Sinead O'Connor, but it wasn't. I only heard it once and haven't been able to try it again. She dedicates the album "to the people of New York City. especially the people who are living in its streets. and most especially to the people I met in St. Marks Place. not forgetting blitzo the lovely rat and to the angel peter gabriel". She also writes "these are the songs I grew up listening to. they are the songs that made me want to be a singer. that's the 'why?'". I am trying to be compassionate, but if I knew that it was going to be like this I would have never laid my $11.98 down for this. Oh well... I'm glad CDs are recyclable. What do you think of it? I finally took heed to Meredith and Jeff's shaking their Ectological fingers at me about buying a Heidi Berry CD used a week ago and returning it. I went back to Baseline Records to rebuy it but it was no longer available. It was a short CD - just a few songs. I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't get into it. Sorry! Next time I see one I'll grab it though. )))) / \(((( >}>)>}/ \{<(<{< >}>)/\ ^ ^ /\(<{< *)/ [@] [@] \(* || \ oo / |/!! \ <> / === \ / | | \/\/endy e. (No, this is not what I look like!) ======================================================================== From: Philip Sainty Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 22:16:17 +1200 Subject: Re: disappear fear, Sheryl Crow, Moon 7x, The Story, T. Amos... Wendy E'd > I finally took heed to Meredith and Jeff's shaking their Ectological > fingers at me about buying a Heidi Berry CD used a week ago and returning > it. I went back to Baseline Records to rebuy it but it was no longer > available. It was a short CD - just a few songs. I really wanted to > like it, but I just couldn't get into it. Sorry! Next time I see one > I'll grab it though. hmmm... I had assumed it was her latest (eponymous) album you had found, but unless it was a CD single (I can't remember which ones are available) perhaps it was the "Firefly" EP... ?? Do you remember the name of it? If you see "Heidi Berry" about (the front cover has a picture of a venus flytrap on it with 'Heidi Berry' in fancy squiggly lettering) do have a listen to it - it really is a beautiful album... (all IMHO naturally, but don't feel compelled to take that into account :) > )))) / \(((( > >}>)>}/ \{<(<{< > >}>)/\ ^ ^ /\(<{< > *)/ [@] [@] \(* || > \ oo / |/!! > \ <> / === > \ / | | > \/\/endy e. (No, this is not what I look like!) :-) Philip _ _ ___ _ _ _ (_ / | / \ |_) |_| | | (_ Philip Sainty (_ \_ | \_/ | | | | |_ (_ psainty@comp.vuw.ac.nz -------------------------------------------------------------- "This is where I want to be, this is what I need." --Kate Bush ======================================================================== From: kmorrey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kathleen Morrey) Subject: Silly me, off by a week... Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 08:24:06 -0500 (CDT) I think I realized at around 5 this morning that MJM had said the Moxy Fruvous concert at Schuba's was indeed on Wednesday, but the 27th, not the 20th. Therefore, my hasty request for information was unfounded... But, I'd still appreciate if someone could mention time and way-to-get-there, if possible :) Kath, who apparently does her best thinking while she is asleep. ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 14:27:54 +0100 From: Terry Partis Subject: HaPpY Birthdays Heres wishing HAPPY Birthdays to Harry Foster on 21st April and to Angelos Kyrlidis on 22nd April Have great days folks Peace Terry === Only in your eyes lies your soul ========================= Happy Rhodes === _ __ Jolly Hockeysticks _ __ / `-' ( ,,, / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] Terry (Tel Boy) Partis | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' (tgp@ukc.ac.uk) \_.-._( ''' With a smile and a song - I'm HaPpy Let me sleep awhile and dream of Avalon and the Beltane fires.................. ............................................our souls entwined for all eternity ZZ ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 10:14:20 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Bay Area Ecto Sampler OK, I finally finished the Bay Area Ecto Sampler last night, and it should be off to dbx soon. Here's the track listing: Side A Amy X Neuburg All Right Penelope Houston Sweetheart D'Cuckoo King of the Jungle Linda Brady Unattainable Michael McNevin Secondhand Story Emily Bezar Rest Me Here Ali Katz On the Green Barbara Manning Scissors Niki Leeman Life David Dixon Cruel Sky Side B Negativland Happy the Harmonica D'Cuckoo One World Chuck Brodsky Blow 'em Away Linda Brady Nothing Emily Bezar Grandmother's Tea Leaves The Potato Eaters Fine Life Penelope Houston Corpus Christi Barbara Manning Someone Wants You Dead S. Eric Scribner Heterophony Amy X Neuburg This Is The Last Linda Brady Never Getting Where I Want To Be D^2 ======================================================================== Date: 21 Apr 94 14:00:52 EDT From: Marcel Rijs <100276.2176@compuserve.com> Subject: Kim Wilde Hi, Well, since I was told repeatedly (thanks to all who replied to my first message, I feel at home already :-) ) everything is acceptable, I thought I'd start a few discussions in this and the following messages. First and foremost, my favourite artiste is Kim Wilde. I have an awful lot of records of her, and am always trying to expand on that, particularly the US and Japan territories - at reasonable prices or swaps (Anyone?). Now, I got a snailmail letter from France the other day, and it said (a.o.): > I've heard there's a reggae-style remix of "Kids in America" in > Finland! I don't know anything about this. Anyone know more about it? On a related note, there was a techno cover of that same song, by "Euphrasia", a Belgian group. It's weird, but not half as weird as the recent '93 remix released promo-only in the UK. I hope to construct a Kim mailing list some day - the technicalities of which are hard to find out. Help (& a site?) is very appreciated... ................................................................. Marcel F G Rijs CIS: 100276,2176 Den Haag Internet: mfgr@sara.nl Netherlands a71599mr@hasara11.bitnet ................................................................. ======================================================================== Date: 21 Apr 94 14:01:11 EDT From: Marcel Rijs <100276.2176@compuserve.com> Subject: Mylene Farmer Hi, My second message is about Mylene Farmer. I had a few responses of people that don't know her, so I thought to myself just to spread the word about her. She had a small hit in the Netherlands a few years ago with "Desenchantee". That's how I got to know her. As you can probably make up from the above title, she is French and most of the time sings in French. Now, I wasn't very good at French in highschool, but despite that she's very enjoyable to listen to. She's been called the French Kate Bush by the local press, probably for the live shows which I understand are very theatrical. So far, she's released three studio albums, "Cendres de lune", "Ainsi soit je..." and "L'autre", a live double album, "En concert", and a remix double album, aptly titled "Dance remixes". Aside from that numerous 7"singles, 12"es and CDsingles, which I am currently hunting down, as some of them contain rare B-side tracks and all of them contain very tasteful sleeves... One English titled song has been released last year, called "My soul is slashed", which tells you a little about the contents of Mylene's work. From what I can understand, most of her lyrics talk about suicidal tendencies, problems and the sad side of life. Nonetheless the songs sound very bright, some have a eurodisco feel to them, but also ballads, which are absolute gems. Are there more people on this list that know Mylene, and are maybe even fan of her? Is there enough interest in her to justify a tape to be sent to the tape dubbing project? (If not, I will of course continue to spread the word on this list... :-) ) You have no reason to believe a newbie of course, but take it from me: she's one hell of a talented lady. (Despite the fact that she doesn't use a civilized language ;-) ) ................................................................. Marcel F G Rijs CIS: 100276,2176 Den Haag Internet: mfgr@sara.nl Netherlands a71599mr@hasara11.bitnet ................................................................. ======================================================================== Date: 21 Apr 94 14:01:37 EDT From: Marcel Rijs <100276.2176@compuserve.com> Subject: Sam Brown (article) Hi, I was very astonished when I read the following in my local newspaper, the "Haagsche Courant". This was published on 26th of March (yeah, I know, I should've come with it earlier but I needed the time to translate :-) ). Sam Brown, as you may be aware, released a brilliant album "43 minutes" (BUY IT!) last year, but it had no press coverage at all. I expect enough interest in her on this list, so enjoy. -------- SAM BROWN ON TOUR FOR RUSSIAN ORPHANS The English singer Sam Brown (27) doesn't want to talk about her former record company A&M. "I could tell you marvellous stories, but I have signed a contract. I got the tapes for my album '43 minutes' back in return for my silence. A&M didn't think the material was commercial enough", she says in a countryside hotel in 's Graveland [that's a small place somewhere here in the Netherlands]. It's just one of the reasons why it's been so quiet around Sam Brown for some time. "I have thought for a long time that they were right. That changed when I met Herbie Flowers, an old friend of my father. He asked me if I wanted to help him with some charity work. We performed together in churches. Then in 1992 the Edinburgh festival followed. I got such enthusiastic responses, that I thought, these people _do_ want to hear these songs. Sam Brown took control and founded her own company, POD Music. "I just had to. No-one was interested in me, despite the success of my single 'Stop' and the 'April moon' album. Her love for the material wasn't gone, because the work represents an important part of Sam Browns life. "The songs are very personal. 'Fear of life' is about a dream I had just after my mother Vicky had died. She died of cancer at the beginning of 1991. The dream was about having courage, about daring to confront reality. You can't hide all your life for problems. Her death opened my eyes. I have become more determined than ever to make my dreams become reality . Life's so short. What I've also found out is that money doesn't interest me at all. On top of it all I am not ambitious." She hasn't overcome the death of her mother yet. "I wonder if I ever will. Her death was so sudden that it was such a shock. I didn't get more than five months to get used to the idea that she wouldn't be there anymore. The doctors never told me she would die, despite her two years of illness. Maybe because Vicky had the opinion that she wasn't ill." Sam is also a mother now. That's some surprise, because the singer had expressed no such desire in the past. Now she still says: "Of course I love Vicky. She's got beautiful long fingers. She's bound to be a pianist. But my interest in children has stayed the same. I will never be a children lover. That doesn't mean I didn't think about becoming a mother. We have been busy with it for two years before she was there. I just don't think in children's verses now and won't play with trains for her. " Sam suspects that her desire to be a mother are closely tied with the illness of her mother. "I was home a lot at the time. The were no promotional activities or concert tours to be done. I had time to kill." Before the birth of Vicky she was invited for a concert in Russia. "I would've performed on a festival, but it turned out to be a TV show with a lot of viewers'potential. The reactions were very pleasing. It was good for my ego, but not a surprise. 'Stop' and 'April moon' were both much loved products on the black market. I was a testing rabbit in some ways. Now the market is slowly opemning for Western products, my publishers wanted to know how the audience would react. I am now contemplating a short tour. I visited an orphanige in Moscow, which triggered the idea. I thought, maybe I can also visit such orphanidges between concert rooms and theatres. Maybe even give part of the proceeds to thos orphaniges. It would be wonderful. It would be a way to contribute to the happiness of those people. They have so little." --------------- The article also features a nice photograph of Sam. Well, she's a mum now, and she's still alive and well, but it is the only press coverage I have seen since the apparent release mid-1993! ................................................................. Marcel F G Rijs CIS: 100276,2176 Den Haag Internet: mfgr@sara.nl Netherlands a71599mr@hasara11.bitnet ................................................................. "And all my sadness lives deep in the bottom of my heart / It sleeps most times / but sometimes / I can hear it beat its wings / when I'm alone..." - Sam Brown, 'Come into my world' ................................................................. ======================================================================== From: ezust@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Ezust) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 16:55:14 -0400 Subject: goodbye (for now) ecto I just unsubscribed to ecto... I can't keep up with the messages anymore... But I am going to try to create a newsgroup called "alt.music.ecto" devoted to discussion of ecto-type music... By virtue of being a newsgroup, I can skim through the messages with a more advanced newsreader, and I think ecto has become big enough to warrant such a spinoff. It won't have a gateway to the mailing list though (at least, I am quite sure that people on this list will object to such a thing), so messages posted here and there will be independent... So perhaps I'll see some of you there... Cheers ! --Alan -- | Alan Ezust ezust@cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| ======================================================================== From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 07:35:59 Subject: Today's your birthday friend.... i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ***** Harry Foster **** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Angelos Kyrlidis Fri April 22 1966 Taurus Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Pablo Iglesias Thu April 23 1964 Positive Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus William Morse Tue April 30 1968 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 2 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 3 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian May 3 Taurus Mark Semich Thu May 6 1965 Yield Joe Dembski Wed May 7 1952 Rumple Brian Gregory Thu May 9 1963 Eclectic Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.wupper.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== From: Ethan_Straffin@next.com (Ethan Straffin) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 18:30:28 -0700 Subject: Re: goodbye (for now) ecto Alan writes: >I just unsubscribed to ecto... I can't keep up with the messages >anymore... But I am going to try to create a newsgroup called >"alt.music.ecto" devoted to discussion of ecto-type music... By virtue of >being a newsgroup, I can skim through the messages with a more advanced >newsreader, and I think ecto has become big enough to warrant such a >spinoff. It won't have a gateway to the mailing list though (at least, I >am quite sure that people on this list will object to such a thing), so >messages posted here and there will be independent... Hmm. Interesting idea, and I don't want to be a wet blanket or anything, but I have to warn you that your chances of getting such a group created by a legitimate vote are slim to none. alt.music groups are hard to create in general; there are a lot of people on the net opposed to further splintering of the hierarchy. When the idea of a newsgroup came up on the Tori list a while back, the consensus was that there simply wasn't enough support for it, and Happy is nowhere near as popular as Tori. The inhabitants of alt.config are going to say, "But we already have rec.music.gaffa and alt.music.alternative.female." By the way, that latter group sounds *very* close to what you're looking for in terms of "ecto-type material." It's reasonably new, but I believe it was newgrouped legitimately, so contact your newsadmin if you're not getting it. The quality of discussion on a.m.a.f is not all that high yet...all the more reason for (ex-)ectophiles to head over there and evangelize a bit! (Although I personally have a hard enough time deciding which of ecto, rdt, fte, etc. to post to without worrying about newsgroups as well.) Anyway, best of luck in whatever you decide to do, Alan! Ethan ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 22:35:14 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (uffda!) Subject: Re: goodbye (for now) ecto >Alan writes: >>But I am going to try to create a newsgroup called >>"alt.music.ecto" devoted to discussion of ecto-type music... Ethan_Straffin@next.com (Ethan Straffin) replies: >Hmm. Interesting idea, and I don't want to be a wet blanket or anything, >but I have to warn you that your chances of getting such a group created >by a legitimate vote are slim to none. are they voting for groups in alt.* now? sheesh. the chaos of alt.* was the one thing that made it so appealing. >(Although I personally have a hard enough time deciding which of ecto, >rdt, fte, etc. to post to without worrying about newsgroups as well.) yeah, i've been thinking about this plethora of mailing lists that i now belong to. i don't have trouble keeping up with them, but it'd be nice if there was just one place that all of it was coming from. with the breadth of ecto (and the tangents of rdt), many discussions end up taking place on at least two, usually more, lists. i think a lot of people could benefit from some sort of crossfertilization - both in the time consumption and the musical knowledge departments. i don't feel that a newsgroup is the way to go through. usenet is pretty much a wasteland these days and i don't expect it to get any better. +woj ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 22:42:47 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Hellay, Bday, Thanka & Other Sucha WELCOME BACK to seanympf...it's good to have you back!! HELLAYS to all the recently-ectophiled Ectophiles!! THANK YOU to Marcel for the Sam Brown article, it was nice to catch up with what she's been up to. G'Bye Yngve :-( G'BYE Alan :-( alt.music.ecto? At one time, I would have thought it a *great* idea, but since amaf is up and running (for some people, anyway) I think it wil be much harder to get an ame newgrouped. The first problem will be the name. Obviously, *I* like it :-), but the crowd in alt.config will be scratching their heads and going "huh?"...then once you explain, they'll say there's already something like that. I wish you luck though. I'd be the first to jump up and down with joy if a non-mirrored alt.music.ecto were to happen. I've heard from 2 sources that alt.music.alternative.female is 1) NOT being carried by many sites and 2) might be rmgrouped, *because* it should be (? not totally clear here) alt.music.alternative-female. (Gotta watch those .'s and -'s, I guess). I received a card from Sharon at Rhodeways today. Has anyone else? I'm very curious to find out if Happy and Kevin have given Sharon their mailing list. Has anyone heard the group The Wild Colonials? There's a short but interesting review in People Magazine (I know, I know, but they really *like* female vocalists and always give great reviews to the goddesses) The Wild Colonials "Fruit Of Life" Scottish singer Angela McCluskey has a husky voice that's made her a star at LA's hippest nightspots. The debut album by her folk-rock quartet is likely to expand her fame. McCluskey's earthy vocals enhance her group's Celtic-tinged original tunes. She trades melodies with her musicians as if their instruments were voices. On "Rainbow" violinist Paul Cantelon plays a bluegrass version of a love theme from Bizet's _Carmen_. McCluskey cuts him off with a rollicking chorus about a victim of midlife crisis "who forgot the need to kiss." McCluskey writes most of the lively lyrics, including "Philadelphia Story", which honors a lover who's as sauve as Cary Grant. This singer's multiple talents create a rare commodity-an album that is entertaining from beginning to end. (Geffen) (Michael Small, reviewer) Could be good, could be bad...but it sounds interesting enough for me to ask about. Forgive me if someone's brought this group up before... please refresh my memory. (This is in the People with Kurt Cobain on the cover) Lastly, for those of us who have been waiting for the mini-series "The Stand"....mark you calandars! It airs on ABC May 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th. I've been looking forward (sometimes with worry) to this for a *LOMG* time, but so far, I've heard enough good things about it to make me breathe easier, and whet my appitite. (yep, we'll be setting our VCR, and won't see it until we return from England) Vickie ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)