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 #1123 ecto, Number 1123 Wednesday, 25 May 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: (fwd) Re: *KRISTIN HERSH* World Tour Dates Re: Bismark Theater - Tori Concert Marie Fredriksson Re: Eddi Reader alert Sorry to burst Valerie's bubble, but... Re: Sorry to burst Valerie's bubble, but... Happy Mention in FM Eddi Reader alert Memorial Day Weekend Upcoming musical guests on late night talk shows New (?) Happy track on _Alternative Woodstock_ compilation Re: Sorry to burst Valerie's bubble, but... Sam Phillips - Concert Review Heather Nova Biography Neile & Jim have a new address! ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 May 94 19:58:35 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: *KRISTIN HERSH* World Tour Dates Jeff says: > Anthony writes: > > Uli finds: (confused yet? :-) > >> > Kristin Hersh World Tour Dates > >> > >> > June 12 Charleston WV Mountain Stage > > >> > June 16 Sydney AUS Metro Theatre > > > >Ha! She's putting Australia ahead of the US! Thank you Kristen. Take that, Ms > >Amos *smop* :-) > > Excuse me? How do you figure, Anthony? Hersh will be in West Virginia 4 > days before she's in Australia. And that not withstanding, she's been > touring around the US for at least a month. I know she was in DC back near > the end of April. :-) I was just being humorous in a vague kind of way; the dates Uli posted only listed one US date and a pile of Australia and New Zealand dates, which made a nice change. Sorry if I offended. :) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 May 94 20:09:12 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Bismark Theater - Tori Concert In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <9405231046.23444@storax.bnr.co.uk>, you wrote: > At 11:38 am 20/5/94 -0500, Kathleen Morrey wrote: > >Oh, btw, I got engaged on Monday :) > > Hehe! Congratulations! :-) > > I like the low-key announcement, just slipped in as an afterthought! :-) That reminds me of a letter I received last week from a close friend of mine, Lynne, who's been living in Scotland since last August, and is scheduled to arrive back in Australia in August of this year. After a page and a half of telling me about the weather, her job in a cafe, the bands she's seen recently, how much she misses Australia and the nightclub I work at, and her new car, she continues: "Hmmm... what else... Oh yeah, Mel and I have decided we will be getting married about 6 months after we get back to Australia." I was almost expecting the last page to tell of how that, by the way, forgot to mention, Scotland's declared nuclear war on the Isle Of Man... :-) Congratulations from me as well, Kathleen! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Tue, 24 May 94 17:03:20 BST Subject: Marie Fredriksson If no-one minds listening to a CD in Swedish then this is an excellent album (thanks Klaus). Marie is probably better known as one half of Roxette. tim ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 May 94 9:37:16 PDT From: John Relph Subject: Re: Eddi Reader alert >Eddi Reader has a new single out - "Patience of Angels" (containing two Which reminds me, I think Eddi Reader sang backing vocals on an album by The Gang of Four (with Sara Lee on bass). Just a point of interest. -- John ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 14:15:24 CDT From: Subject: Sorry to burst Valerie's bubble, but... According to my reading of the wire copy, the front runner for the Idaho gov- ernorship's name is actually EchoHawk. Seemed like a good idea at the time, though. :-) There is no reason why the original last Champagne Jam can't remain in Doug's catalog alongside the true last Champagne Jam. After all, Garrison Keillor was able to do several Final Prairie Home Companion shows in the years after the original show folded. Happy birthday-plus-a-few to the forgotten ectophile, our seal maven in resid- ence, Beth Perry. Mitch ======================================================================== From: iago@merle.acns.nwu.edu Subject: Re: Sorry to burst Valerie's bubble, but... Date: Tue, 24 May 94 14:51:49 CDT > > According to my reading of the wire copy, the front runner for the Idaho gov- > ernorship's name is actually EchoHawk. Seemed like a good idea at the time, > though. :-) Huh? I'll have to check...That would make more sense, though. Since I keep forgetting, congratulations to Kathy on her engagement! ==> valerie ======================================================================== Date: 24 May 94 15:55:23 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Happy Mention in FM This was posted yesterday by the moderator (no pseudo here, folks) of FM, the folk_music mailing list. If you read very carefully, you'll see why it is of interest here... Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 00:22:35 -0500 From: alanr@nysernet.ORG (Alan Rowoth) To: folk_music Subject: Administrivia and Nobody's Girls Message-ID: <199405220359.XAA03500@nysernet.ORG> There's this cool young group out of Albany NY that sends me their calendar once in a while, but they never put any contact info on it, so I have no way of getting ahold of them to tell them that they are goofballs for not putting any contact info on their calendar. Here are some of their dates. If you go see them, tell them to put a phone number at least on the postcard. It's 3 women, sometimes they play alone, although I saw them with a backup band once and that was cool too. They have some rough edges but good voices. I enjoyed them. Sun 5/22 WXLE Radio show - Backstage Pass 8-10pm Thu 6/9 Lark Tavern, Albany NY Fri 6/10 Bogies, Albany NY Fri 6/17 The Waterhole #3, Saranac lake NY Sat 6/18 Valentine, Albany NY They mention that they will be featured on an upcoming Albany release called "A Little Nip" with Happy Rhodes, Blue Jeanne Blue, Kim Caffe, Amy Abdoll, Caroline Johnston and others. ------ On other fronts: I ***LOVE*** the one Ani Difranco CD I have acquired thus far, Not So Soft. This is tremendous music and absolutely ectographic. I am going to see Sam Phillips at the Park West (Chicago) tonight, so I've been listening to her new one as well. It's good, but I listened to Cruel Inventions in my car this morning, and there's no question it is her strongest album. CI has some drop-dead *brilliant* tracks... not only writing -wise, but production-wise as well. I also think of SP and KM together since they are both married to bigshot producers, and they are both excellent songwriters and rockin' babes. Did I mention I *love* ani difranco. Her voice, her writing, her playing, everything... it is offbeat and interesting and great and very different. She's also great live, BTW. I really hope Sam plays lots of songs from CI. -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 May 94 23:21:03 MET From: brage@sphere.home.id.dth.dk (Jens P. Brage) Subject: Eddi Reader alert Hi! Tim blessedly writes: > Eddi Reader has a new single out - "Patience of Angels" (containing two > other tracks - "Red Face, Big Sky" and "Shirt and Comb") as a prelude to > her album being released in the U.K. (on June 6th I think). YEAH! And I'll be in the U.K. on the 10th... Now all I need is for Eddi Reader to give a concert somewhere in Scotland while I'm there... Didn't somebody mention that she's Scottish? ;-) And a new Happy CD is coming... Hmm, what will the next be? World peace? Oh yeah, this is also my official confirmation that I'll be in Edinburgh for the ectogettogether, booked my ticket today... See you all! PS: Too bad about your show getting cut off, Meredith. Otherwise I'd have won the distance prize! ;-) Jens P. Brage | And I looked up and there they were: Millions brage@sphere.home.id.dth.dk | of tiny teardrops just sort of hanging there. /\ | And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. \SphereSoft | And I said to myself: What next big sky? ======================================================================== Subject: Memorial Day Weekend Date: Tue, 24 May 94 20:34:34 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Hey, folks... Yeah, I know, this is short notice, but I wanted to post it anyway. This weekend, I'll be competing at the East Coast Stunt Kite Championship IX, in Wildwood, NJ. Why is this of particular Ecto Interest? Well, Saturday, I'll be competing in Experienced Individual Quad Ballet. I'll be performing my successful routine to KaTe's "The Red Shoes." Sunday evening, I'll be competing in the Individual Indoor Ballet, flying to Happy's "Summer." Yes, that's right, *indoor* kite flying. It's slow, graceful, and loads of fun. As I said, the event is in Wildwood, New Jersey. It's held on the beach, right at the intersection of Rio with the boardwalk. You can't miss it. The EIQ ("The Red Shoes") is slated for Saturday afternoon, between 2 and 3. You can't miss my kite...it's all black, with the red TWW logo sewn onto the left side. Gorgeous. The indoor ballet is on Sunday, but I've not been given an exact time yet; if anyone's interested, I'll try to look into it. That'll be held in the Wildwood Convention Center, which is just a couple of blocks north of Rio on the boardwalk. If any Ectophiles want to drop by and root me on, I'd love to see you! Jeff (who usually gets some reaction from at least one spectator when he performs to KaTe, but wonders if anyone will recognize Happy...perhaps there will be some Philadelphians there who've heard her on the radio) |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Everything is still with a fear of never coming out | |Suffering Bad Grammar| Never following through / Never ever finishing | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | What we wanted to do." -- Melissa Ferrick | ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 22:06:17 -0400 (EDT) From: S Trowbridge Subject: Upcoming musical guests on late night talk shows Don't! Forget! To! Watch! Frente! On! Conan O'Brien! Tonight! LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, 11:35 P.M. EST, CBS 5/25 Chris Isaak 5/27 The Pretenders 5/30 Aerosmith (rerun) 5/31 ZZ Top (rerun) 6/1 Sting (rerun) 6/3 Willie Nelson (rerun) 6/6 Tony Toni Tone 6/7 David Sanborn 6/9 Randy Newman 6/10 Johnny Cash THE TONIGHT SHOW, 11:35 P.M. EST, NBC 5/24 Allman Brothers Band 5/27 Gin Blossoms 5/30 All 4 One 5/31 Crosby Stills and Nash 6/1 Rodney Crowell LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN, 12:35 A.M. EST, NBC 5/24 Frente! 5/25 Sam Phillips 5/26 The Radiators 5/30 Lemonheads (rerun) 5/31 David Wilcox (rerun) 6/2 BOP(harvey) (rerun) *** People who receive ecto in digest form may subscribe to the ectotv mailing list and receive these bulletins immediately -- including late- breaking updates, if we get 'em! Send mail to trow@access.digex.net. *** --Posted by Sue Trowbridge ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 00:47:22 -0400 (EDT) From: HOCHBERG@albnyvms.bitnet Subject: New (?) Happy track on _Alternative Woodstock_ compilation Hello everyone... Let me first point out that I'm *not* subscribed to this mailing list, so any replies to this message should be e-mailed to me directly. Anyway, to the subject at hand. There has just been a brand new CD called _Alternative Woodstock_ released, featuring a bunch of Woodstock, NY area artists, including Happy Rhodes. I don't know how wide the distribution is on this thing, but I'd imagine it's pretty limited, at least for the time being. The Happy song is called "I Say". I don't know if it's new or not, because I really don't follow her music at all... but I thought this might be of interest to folks on the ecto list. Anyone interested in a copy of this CD can e-mail me and I'll hook you up with one. You'll not only be receiving a cool Happy Rhodes tunes, but also 14 other songs from one of the coolest local music scenes on the map. (Hey, you can't blame me for plugging my hometown, can you?) :D Like I said, send e-mail for further details. Jeff hochberg@albnyvms.bitnet jhochber@nyx.cs.du.edu ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 11:33:59 +0000 From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk (Nightwol) Subject: Re: Sorry to burst Valerie's bubble, but... At 2:15 pm 24/5/94 -0500, U15289 wrote: >According to my reading of the wire copy, the front runner for the Idaho gov- >ernorship's name is actually EchoHawk. Seemed like a good idea at the time, >though. :-) Rats! Sounds like a more likely name :-( Disenfranchised by a typo! :-) >There is no reason why the original last Champagne Jam can't remain in Doug's >catalog alongside the true last Champagne Jam. Amen to that sentiment. The first last Champagne Jam was great, it would be a shame to see it disapear from the list just because there has been a second last Champagne Jam. And who knows, maybe there will (in the fullness of time) be a third last Champagne Jam... >Happy birthday-plus-a-few to the forgotten ectophile, our seal maven in resid- >ence, Beth Perry. Hey! Not *entirely* forgotten! :-) -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** We tried to add it all up and got merely sunrise. *** *** Try putting that in a letter to someone in exile. *** ======================================================================== Date: 25 May 94 11:17:45 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Sam Phillips - Concert Review I attended the Sam Phillips show at Park West, Chicago, yesterday. As usual the doors opened at 6:30, not 6:00 as advertised. The show was sold out. I was able to secure a seat right in front, and proceeded to wait for the 7:30 start. When I'd called earlier in the day, they'd said no opening act. But of course there was one anyways: the Mary Janes, who are a local guitar/violin pair one of whom sings. I'm sure I saw them open for some other group once (Indigo Girls?). They were very boring and I had a pleasant nap while they sang and played. Then it was time to read Newsweek again because it was almost an hour before Sam came on. I had heard that she plays really short shows, and that prophesy was to be realized. The first song was just her singing and hubby-cum-producer T-Bone Burnett playing guitar. He is great to watch -- a really charismatic guy. He was wearing a pin stripe suit with sunglasses, and he played sitting down on a chair on stage basically the whole time. Sam Phillips is very thin, truly a "waif", and extremely enigmatic, shall we say. For me, part of the reason I go to see live music is to see who the players are, how they look when they sing/play, basically how do they generate the sounds that I hear on the CD. Some people say when they see a live show they don't want to hear an exact replication of the sound and song on the recording -- they want spontaneity and creativity. However, personally, I am intrigued just to see them create *exactly* the sound achieved on CD, just to see how they do it and what they look like doing it. To me this is fascinating. Sure it's fun to see some innovation, but I am happy to hear exact replication to know for sure that what is on the CD isn't just smoke and mirrors or "studio"/production tricks. Sam did a good job of this. The only thing really missing was backing vocals, which figure so prominently, esp. on her latest release (Martinis and Bikinis) and in particular on the (originally title-) song, I Need Love. Get ye some backup singers, Sam! Anyways, Sam's voice is great. It is a little raw, but I like that. Her speaking voice, OTOH, is quite sweet and not raw or raspy at all. Her singing style is nothing if not disarming. She stands straight up, arms straight at her sides, barely moves at all, doesn't smile, makes some funny, suspicious-looking eye movements and sings. When she's not singing, she's usually looking down, or in some way preparing herself for the next vocal. She is virtually lifeless. And extremely enigmatic. You have no idea what she's thinking or where her mind is. I must say I ***loved*** this show. It lasted just barely an hour and the crowd sat there, jaws dropped wide open when they all went off the stage after playing 40 minutes. No wonder they make you wait so long... so it'll seem as if the whole show was lengthier! They came back on after a 3 minute hiatus and played another couple of tracks ("we forgot something," she said -- it was their hit from Indescribable Wow -- great song), and to end the show, Sam played two incredibly effective songs without the band, Sam playing the acoustic guitar for the first time that evening. Her deep gift truly shone through, but so did her vulnerability, esp. when she alluded to her "Stephen King"-worthy childhood. Almost surprisingly, Sam's entre-song anecdotes and comments were quite genuine and funny. She even laughed freely. This was in sharp contrast to the stoic motionlessness adopted while she performed. It was good to see she was real. She even whipped out a harmonica during one of the encores. There were obviously many songs she did not get to, due to the brevity of the appearence. Everything played was superb. The band was fantastic, featuring a frenetic and feverishly grinning drummer guy, and a bass-legend something-Sheff, who apparently has played with "both Elvis's" and many others. He was fantastic to watch and listen to, as was the swanky guitar-playing of T-Bone (who was actually smiling most of the time). A cooler guitar persona I have never seen. So that was Sam Phillips. A memorable and intriguing evening of music. I would certainly recommend seeing her, as long as you know that she will only play for an hour. For me, I went as much to pay homage to a brilliant singer/songwriter as to hear and see how music I love is actually played. -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 25 May 94 17:27:33 EST From: Ilka Heber Subject: Heather Nova Biography Hi everybody, I just got a very interesting biography of Heather Nova from her manage- ment in London. I thought I should share it with you. Let me add in advance that this bio must have been written in 1993. The new album will be out in October 1994, a tour will follow afterwards (Nov.?). It is possible that Heather will play at the PopKomm in Cologne on August 18. Enjoy, Ilka = ) ***************************************************************************** Heather was born and grew up in Bermuda. Her father, absorbed by the spirit of the Sixties, quit his job as an architect, invested his savings in a two acre piece of land in the Bermuda Sound and set about designing and building a basic family home and a boat. Whether at sea or on the island, the family developed a self sufficient life style, and aside from being taught by her parents, Heather also picked up on their musical tastes, Neil Young, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, et al. At 19, Heather left Bermuda for Providence, Rhode Island to study film and painting at art school. It was through the necessity to create soundtracks for her filmwork that Heather began to become more and more interested in music. Inspired by old favourites, as well as new influ- ences like Patti Smith and Lou Reed, she began to explore songwriting. It was music that brought Heather to England, with a demo tape of basic songs, she managed to blag gigs at the Cafe De Piaf, the Borderline and and the Camden Falcon. Heather was approached by various managers and publishers, but ended up recording a single for Big Cat Records. The release of the single coincided a week later with the demise of Rough Trade. A planned tour, supporting the Violent Femmes, still went ahead, which led to a subsequent tour supporting Bob Mould a few months later. Per- forming at venues including Manchester International, Glasgow Sub Club, Newcastle Riverside, Leicester Princess Charlotte, these tours provided Heather with invaluable experience. With this in mind she returned to her South London home and started working on her 8 track home recording set up. 14 tracks later, she pestered a shortlist of producers, from Lenny Kaye to Tony Visconti to Youth with her tape. Heather decided to work with Youth, who encouraged her to release the songs as they were, feeling that they did not need embellishing with additional production, and offered to release them through his own Butterfly Recordings. The resulting record, entitled "Glowstars", was released in a limited edition of 5,000 copies in the UK and France, whilst Heather prepared to record her first album proper with Youth producing. In six weeks all the records were gone and the critics on both sides of the Channel were raving: "a perfect antidote to rock's increasingly dreary lack of invention... Glowstarrs is a spectacular debut from a mercurial new talent " NME Review "excellent... Recommendably ravishint." The Wire - the National Jazz and avant garde bible! "Patti, Kate, Sinead.... Heather" Show - the national French music magazine It was on the back of these reviews that Heather hurriedly put a tem- porary band together to get out and do some live dates. Her voice and her songs, on top of her stunning looks, brought total enthusiasm from the audiences (even the ultra cynical NME, at only the third show, gave a rave review). She will be starting to record her first album proper, with Youth pro- ducing, which will be due for a release in the New Year. In the mean- time a 6 track mini album, recorded live at a recent London show, will be released on October 18th (1993), with some UK dates to follow. ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 08:52:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Neile Graham Subject: Neile & Jim have a new address! Hello to all ectophiles! Just wanted to announce to those of you who don't know already that Jim (jmg@rocket.com, mostly a lurker here) and I have just bought a piece of Seattle (a very small piece, mind) with a house on it (a cute white house with blue trim and strawberries outside). So we're moving. Our new address (as of Saturday) for the records (and the ectofile, woj): Neile Graham & Jim Gurley 906 NW 75th Street Seattle, WA 98117 new phone #: 206-706-1061 The phone number even rhymes. It even rhymes with the street address. Everyone, update your address books! --Neile ======================================================================== 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)