From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #516 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, June 13 2008 Volume 13 : Number 516 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] other reviews of Thea Gilmore in London [Adam Kimmel ] laura marling, London 12th June [Adam Kimmel ] al and howie [Michael Mendelson ] Re: al and howie [Valerie Nozick ] Re: al and howie [Timothy Jones-Yelvington ] re: Laura Marling [morayati@email.unc.edu] re: Laura Marling [Ellen Rawson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:00:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Joerg Plate (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joerg Plate Mon June 12 1967 Gemini Chris Montville Tue June 13 1978 Gemini Ectoplasm (original name) Mailing List Thu June 13 1991 Fuzzier blue Paul Huesman Wed June 14 1967 coffee drinker Mark R. 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Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:13:11 -0800 From: Adam Kimmel Subject: other reviews of Thea Gilmore in London http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 114614.ece http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 44194.html Adam K (trying to think how to reviw last night's Laura Marling gig) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:52:14 -0800 From: Adam Kimmel Subject: laura marling, London 12th June I've been trying to figure out how to start this review and I then noted that Laura will be playing the Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn on the 16th of June and the Mercury Lounge on the 18th. So, if anyone's interested, the short version is....go along. Okay: Most, if not all of you, will have probably stopped reading, already. Safe in the knowledge that very few people are watching, however, I will indulge myself in a longer review. Laura Marling is apparently the new folk sensation. She has quite a team behind her, in that the papers drop her name with amazing regularity. (Actually, there's a good interview with her at http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2252029,00.html) When the 2008 Glastonbury line up was announced, for instance,it was always Laura's name, along with Kings of Leon, Jay Z and Leonard Cohen, that was thrown out as an indicator of the line up. Never mind the fact that Joan Baez, Joan Armatrading and, yes, Thea Gilmore are playing: someone's got a better PR squad. Okay, so I'm cynical. Her debut, "Alas I cannot Swim" is actually very good, though I like it more than I love it, and it has to be admitted that at 18 years old, it's stunningly mature music and she's got a hell of a delivery (think traditional Brit folkie, a more deadpan Sandy Denny/Kirsty Macoll, although I'm open to better comparisons). I thought that this would be an ideal venue to check her out properly, being a church. For some reason, I expected something intimate, but the place is a brick barn with memorial plaques. In the queue beforehand, I spoke to some fans, one of whom told me that Laura had actually been signed up in 2006 (when she was 16? Bleedin' 'ell) and "groomed" by her label, who told her to drop the mockney and sing with a more celtic lilt and who waited for an opening in the market. I also learnt that Laura is part of a whole new folk scene which includes Noah and the Whale, Johnny Flynn and the Slow Club, and I'm sure that somewhere out there is an NME hack just itching to earn his paycheck by branding it as the Next Big Thing and splashing Laura and her ilk over the cover for three weeks. The place was packed, absolutely jammed, and the crowd was...interesting. Mostly younger, often very young, as if a sixth-form college (High School) was on a field trip. Lots of Kate Nash lookalikes, short Empire-line dresses and cardigan combinations, the guys with Converse trainers, shoulder bags and side partings: it was like a casting call for "Ghost World: The series". I felt old. Very, very old. Two opening bands, Mumford & Sons (interesting but samey) and the Wave Pictures (oblique, artsy, smug and irritating. It's been years since I've wanted to kill an entire band) as well as some personal friction blackened my mood to the extent that I seriously considered leaving before the main attraction. In mitigation, I was also very tired as it was my third night out in a row and I'm far too old for this. But I hung on and...oh, the punchline to this extremely shaggy dog story is that she was very, very good. Excellent, even. Frail and slight,practically elfin, she looks about 12. Not a lot of stagecraft, eyes lowered as she sings and plays an amazingly decent acoustic guitar, and her voice even stronger than on the CD. A strange, haunting, delicate kind of strength it is, like a finely wrought steel latticework, spiralling upwards. She had a full band behind her, a talented bunch, plus a string section, and while the sound was sometimes muddied by the bad acoustics, her voice shone through, and the arrangements pulled it forward. I was won over, no doubt about it, even in my grouchy, cynical mood. She only played for about 45 minutes, threw in a couple of new songs not on the album, and kept banter to a minimum. When she did speak, it was diffident and good humoured, but she was obviously nervous. So, that's the full-fat version. It you're into folk, or folk-pop, or Nu Folk or whatever they're calling it, I recommend her highly. Buy the album and, if you're in NYC, take a chance. Despite my reservations, she delivers the goods. Adam K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:14:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Mendelson Subject: al and howie Did anyone else hear alannis on howard yesterday? When howard asked her what artists she liked, she said she Loved Sara Slean. Howard had no clue. Talk about an ecto moment. BTW, it was great interview and "appearance". - -mjm ________________________________ Michael Mendelson Email mjmjminla@yahoo.com IM AIM,GoogleTalk,ICQ mjmjminla WinLiveMesngr mjmjminla@yahoo.com Voice home 310-876-9711 cell 310-995-1319 office 626-775-3856 fax 626-775-3701 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:38:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Valerie Nozick Subject: Re: al and howie Alanis also mentioned Sarah Slean in the June 9 issue of Entertainment Weekly. EW has a tiny photo of Sarah next to the blurb! - ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Mendelson To: Submit Ecto Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:14:45 AM Subject: al and howie Did anyone else hear alannis on howard yesterday? When howard asked her what artists she liked, she said she Loved Sara Slean. Howard had no clue. Talk about an ecto moment. BTW, it was great interview and "appearance". - -mjm ________________________________ Michael Mendelson Email mjmjminla@yahoo.com IM AIM,GoogleTalk,ICQ mjmjminla WinLiveMesngr mjmjminla@yahoo.com Voice home 310-876-9711 cell 310-995-1319 office 626-775-3856 fax 626-775-3701 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:11:22 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: al and howie She's always had really great taste. She says Jane Siberry is a big influence. It always makes you shake your head a little at why she's so frequently settled for mediocrity on her own records when she's capable of so much more. On 6/12/08 9:14 AM, "Michael Mendelson" wrote: > Did anyone else hear alannis on howard yesterday? > When howard asked her what > artists she liked, she said she Loved Sara Slean. > Howard had no clue. Talk > about an ecto moment. BTW, it was great interview and "appearance". > -mjm > > ________________________________ > > Michael Mendelson > Email mjmjminla@yahoo.com > IM AIM,GoogleTalk,ICQ mjmjminla WinLiveMesngr mjmjminla@yahoo.com > Voice home > 310-876-9711 cell 310-995-1319 office 626-775-3856 fax 626-775-3701 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:49:45 -0400 From: morayati@email.unc.edu Subject: re: Laura Marling And here I resist the urge to go "I told you so"! Heh. In the States, at least, the hype's down to a dull roar. Most of it's focused on whoever they're promoting as the next Amy Winehouse today. - -Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:17:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: re: Laura Marling - --- On Thu, 6/12/08, morayati@email.unc.edu wrote: > > In the States, at least, the hype's down to a dull > roar. Most of it's > focused on whoever they're promoting as the next Amy > Winehouse today. What, you mean they're promoting the next talented young woman who will drink too much, do too many drugs, marry a man who gets arrested etc.? Part of me is glad that Ian isn't working a contract in London right now, which means he doesn't bring home the free evening papers. The London Lite, in particular, which seems to very light on real journalism, tends to feature Amy in her drunken escapades. *sigh* Since Adam didn't link to it, I will link to the Guardian's review of Thea Gilmore's Manchester gig, as it starts like this... "Thea Gilmore has never sung songs penned by a Womble, sung about Rehab while in treatment or been pictured falling out of nightclubs. She is not as famous as Katie, Amy and Lily, although none of them can count Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez among their fans. The gulf between Gilmore and some of her more showbiz twentysomething rivals is obvious the moment she walks on and dedicates the set to blues legend Bo Diddley, who died last week." http://music.guardian.co.uk/live/story/0,,2284704,00.html I like 'Liejacker' a lot, btw. I keep rotating between it and Rachael Sage's 'Chandelier'. Am waiting for Eliza Carthy's new on on the 23rd, Dreams of Breathing Underwater. Ellen ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #516 ***************************