From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #89 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, April 1 2003 Volume 09 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The new Velvet Belly album [Yngve Hauge ] Why Celine Isn't Ectophilic ["Michael Pearce" ] Re: Vienna Teng at the Freight [meredith ] Re: Vienna Teng at the Freight [carnivore@att.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:33:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: The new Velvet Belly album Hi, I'll comment more on the album when I've actually listened to all of it. It sounds very promising this far though. What I really wanted to inform you about is the the official website is up (finally) at www.velvetbelly.com They are selling the first 1000 copies of the album with a bonus CD of never released material. It can be ordered from akersmic.no or cdplanet.no. - -- Yngve n.p. Velvet Belly - Velvet Belly n.r. Janet Evanovich - Seven Up ****************************************** * E-mail: onealien@mo.himolde.no ********* * Cell: +47 41330571 ********************* ***** Blessed be!!! ********************** ------------------------------ Date: 31 Mar 2003 09:25:18 -0800 From: "Michael Pearce" Subject: Why Celine Isn't Ectophilic Sometimes SFGate Newsletter goes beyond the top. I always knew there was something about Dion (not DiMucci) that left wanting, but these guys have nailed her. ____________________ == Oh Dear God Please No #75 == Celine Dion headed to the stage Tuesday night at Caesars Palace in Vegas to debut her show, "A New Day," a multimillion dollar extravaganza that figures to test the French-Canadian superstar's staying power. The world's best-selling and most terrifyingly obnoxious and cloyingly vacuous female vocalist in the known universe will begin a demanding and soul-curdling three-year run at a newly built $95 million theater, the 4,100-seat Colosseum. She'll be crooning and dancing five nights a week to Belgian director Franco Dragone's latest creation, actively working to eviscerate every sort of warm-hearted funky positive energy we all work so hard to cultivate in our daily lives. The $30 million production includes 48 very miserable dancers and the world's largest LED screen that serves as a backdrop. Dion will sing more than 20 songs each night -- likely a 90-minute performance to a soul-numbed mostly drunk audience somehow cajoled into forking over $87.50 to $200 per ticket because they long ago lost anything resembling decent musical taste and because Celine has now taken her rightful place in the pantheon of uber-tackiness, right alongside Engelbert Humperdinck and the odious wooden creepily homoerotic heavily shellacked visages of the walking corpses known as Siegfried and Roy. "It really is a whole New Day!" squealed Dion, from somewhere deep in a pile of fluffy pink pillows, as small cute birds nearby found no more reason to sing, ever. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2003/03/25/state2011EST0133.DTL&nl=fix ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:02:12 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Vienna Teng at the Freight Hi, >Exciting news for SF Bay Area fans of Vienna Teng; >she has been booked to play the Freight & Salvage, >one of the premiere small venues on the west coast. Oh wow ... I didn't see this while she was still here, so I couldn't congratulate her in person. That's really cool. We had a great weekend with Vienna. She performed two shows in our living room for a total of about 60 people, and both were stunningly wonderful. It was fun to just hang out with her, too -- it's always fun to spend time with ectophiles, since there is no lack of stuff to talk about. :) Any and all who can go see her play simply cannot afford to miss her. She's the real deal, folks -- we are lucky to have such a talent in our midst. =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://muzak.smoe.org NEXT UP: Vienna Teng, 3/29-30 =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:55:41 +0000 From: carnivore@att.net Subject: Re: Vienna Teng at the Freight Vienna's Sunday show was well worth the 5-hour round trip it took to get there (including the blood-boiling hour-long+ traffic jam getting out of NYC and then snowfall on the way home. Isn't it spring yet?) I think one of things I liked most about the performance (besides the welcoming atmosphere at Meredith & Woj's house of course) was Vienna's thoroughly detailed explanation of where most of the songs came from. Of course not every artist likes to do that, but Vienna is very forthcoming with her stories and I found them especially interesting. In case anybody doesn't already know, there are east coast dates coming up for the next couple of weeks, including NYC Wednesday. I just called The Cutting Room to check on advance tix, and while there aren't any, the woman on the phone (who sounded suspiciously like Julia Darling) said she had received "a lot of calls" and advised arriving early. Vienna is also part of a Tori Amos tribute weekend in North Carolina in mid April? Interesting. Dan_Stark ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #89 *************************