From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #235 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, August 20 2003 Volume 09 : Number 235 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: Cure, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes to Invade L.A. [Neb Rodgers ] Blow up the pokies [Karen Eisenberg ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:04:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Neb Rodgers Subject: Fwd: Cure, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes to Invade L.A. Absolute 80's! - -Neb - ---Original Message--- Cure, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes to Invade L.A. 2 hours, 20 minutes ago http://tinylink.com/?4jCkQDnQ1j By Troy Carpenter NEW YORK (Billboard) - The Cure, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes, Echo & the Bunnymen and the Psychedelic Furs will headline the third annual Inland Invasion concert set for Sept. 20 east of Los Angeles. While last year's concert was defiantly punk-themed, with bands like the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, X and the Circle Jerks on the bill, this year's event will be a largely '80s affair, spiced with a smattering of current acts. Also on tap for Inland Invasion III, which will take place at the Glen Helen Hyundai Pavilion in Devore, Calif., are Hot Hot Heat, Dashboard Confessional, Bow Wow Wow, Interpol, General Public, Fountains Of Wayne, Soft Cell, Berlin and Dramarama. Tickets go on sale Saturday (Aug. 23) at 10 a.m. PDT, with many to be given away by organizer KROQ-FM throughout the next month. Reuters/Billboard __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:19:19 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: new Lili Haydn Her new CD is out tomorrow: http://www.lilihaydn.com/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:00:56 -0500 From: Karen Eisenberg Subject: Blow up the pokies Hi everyone I haven't posted before but this topic caught my eye and I felt compelled to respond to Andrew's post.... The absolute cheek of that Tim Freedman....how dare he aspire to more than playing at the local pub. Probably because a lot of people recognise he is very talented and want to hear his songs.....even if he only wrote the words to them, that's why. Blow up the Pokies is a great song....both words and music....off an excellent cd that shines with The Whitlams' talent. I don't know what else Greta has done but Tim has written some great music, as well as lyrics. Your post makes it sound like Greta has ALL the talent.....seems to me, BOTH of them are very talented and should consider collaborating together sometime. Andrew, you said in your post that Tim never acknowledged the fact he was using someone else's tune. If you looked at the credits on the "Love this City" cd it says words and music by Tim Freedman and Greta Gertler. That sounds like acknowledgement to me. Here's to all the great aussie talent out there...... Karen Eisenberg On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 14:06, Andrew Fries wrote: > GRETA GERTLER !!! She's the voice (and brains) behind one of my > all-time local faves and inventors of a new genre they called "chamber > pop": Peccadillo. Just to add to my previous post, because I'm currently busy procrastinating.. I bet every Australian and possibly Kiwi reading this knows at least one Greta Gertler song - sing along with me: ".. And I wish I, wish I knew the right words To blow up the pokies and drag them away..." Yep, that big hit for The Whitlams, JJJ's top one hundred or whatever, was in fact penned by Greta Gertler and recorded by Peccadillo as "Dwell" good few years before it became the base for "The Pokies". Tim Freedman who can be often heard saying things like "I wrote blow up the pokies..." only wrote the words. I always got very annoyed by him never acknowledging the fact he was using someone else's tune. But then, Tim Freedman always struck me as a bit of an ass... it 's not a tall poppy syndrome speaking - I didn't like him when he was a nobody playing Tuesday nights at the Sando, just around the corner from my house, and I don't like him still. In case anyone's wondering, pokie = poker machine :) OK, shutting up now... back to work! ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #235 **************************