Fegmaniax Digest <==----------==> (Send posts to the list to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send adminstrative requests to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send comments, etc to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) <==----------==> Volume 3 Number 81 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Chord thankx Lewes? 'Secret gig' Tickets. Leicester Gig Cancelled :-( Lewes? The thoughts of Chairman Newell Union Chapel american tours [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 07:57:36 GMT From: sweetums To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Lewes? Umm ... I know my geography is totally and utterly pathetic, but this is a cri de coeur: where the berloody 'ell is Lewes? And am I going to this non-secret gig with anyone in my leetle French carr? Constructive suggestions only .... Lizzie "sweetums get that frog and *smash*, turn old frog to froggie *hash*!" --from "The Frog Prince" by Jim Henson, ca 1972 F-U-N-E-M-N-Ms? I-F-N-N-E-M-N-Ms. I-8-M. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 10:21:37 +0100 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: flo@pavilion.co.uk (Flo) Subject: 'Secret gig' Tickets. Whoops, sorry folks, The price of the tickets for the 'Secret' Lewes gig is 6 UKpounds ( six UK pounds ). Flo. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 10:57:42 +0100 To: sweetums , fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: andyh@pavilion.co.uk (Andy Holyer) Subject: Re: Lewes? At 7:57 am 22/5/95 +0000, sweetums wrote: >Umm ... I know my geography is totally and utterly pathetic, but this is a cri >de coeur: where the berloody 'ell is Lewes? And am I going to this >non-secret >gig with anyone in my leetle French carr? > Lewes is about 9 miles east of Brighton. Either take the M23 and turn left a Brighton, ir take the A21 through East Grinstead :-). For the All Saints, the best place to park is in the Pay and display behind the Shopping Centre. The All Saints Center is in Monks' Walk about 50 yards away. Andy Holyer, Pavilion Internet plc, Brighton, UK http://www.pavilion.co.uk/ [][][][][][][][][][] From: A.N.Pryke@cs.bham.ac.uk Date: Mon, 22 May 95 12:23:06 BST To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Leicester Gig Cancelled :-( Cc: A.N.Pryke@cs.bham.ac.uk Hi folks, I've just talked to the Leicester University ent's officer and they've told me that the Leicester gig on Wednesday is off. No replacement gig is planned. Damn - I was really looking forward to that. Andy P.s. If anyone needs to ring them (e.g. about refunds) the number for the student union is 0116-25562832 --- Andy Pryke, Research Student, Computer Science, Birmingham University Data Mining Information [][][][][][][][][][] From: Robert Butterworth Date: Mon, 22 May 95 13:17:02 BST To: sweetums@froggie.demon.co.uk Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Lewes? Lewes is a short train journey down the coast from Brighton. Good place for bonfires (unless you're a sensitive, orthodox Catholic ;-). Rob -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Butterworth, Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge email : robert@harlequin.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dip me in the custard, Treat me flat and blubbery, Cover me with mustard, Treat me lean and rubbery, As long as we are clustered, Let's go to the shrubbery, It's alright; I've got a message for you. I got a message for you. [][][][][][][][][][] From: A.N.Pryke@cs.bham.ac.uk Date: Mon, 22 May 95 13:23:33 BST To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Leicester Gig Cancelled :-( Oops the phone number for Leicester University Union was wrong, it should be 0116 2556282. Andy --- Andy Pryke, Research Student, Computer Science, Birmingham University Data Mining Information [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 06:39:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Elisabeth Perrin To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: american tours in mrs. wafflehead's last newsletter, she gave some dates for the rhino rerelease tour (all in march and april). however, there were no west coast dates; most were on the east coast, and there was nothing farther west than chicago. what i'd like to know is whether he'll be coming back at some point to cover the other half of the country, or whether we're just out of luck on this one man, i envy you uk people. i'm sitting here drooling with envy over all these discussions of impromptu robyn concerts and soft boys reunions and all that good stuff all we have here in seattle is a lot of boring grunge :) [][][][][][][][][][] From: simon roberts Subject: Re: Union Chapel To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 17:59:38 +0100 (BST) Just a few extra words about the Union Chapel gig, besides it being one of the best gigs I've attended and yes "Glass Hotel" did moisten my eyes somewhat. Heavenly - not that it sounded like "Heaven" which would have fitted the venue. At times I could've sworn that I heard Robyn harmonising with his vocals - I remember this from the very beginning ("Surgery") but also a few other times. Maybe they had a gospel choir behind the font. Probably just me I expect. "Shuffling over the Flagstones" was the incidental music for Robyn's reading of the "Prince of Cones" on Mark Radcliffe's show, Feb.'94 (I think that's the date). I love these instrumentals - in the same vein as the Beefhearty "Heartful of Leaves" (Not on Fegmania! as claimed by the "Robyn Hitchcock" sampler CD including "Statue with a Walkman", but instead on "I Often Dream of Trains" called "Heart Full of Leaves". Where's my anorak?), "College of Ice" and "Chinese Water Python". I don't like to talk about Robyn the Man BUT I was surprised how he came across on stage - he certainly wasn't the person I expected. From his cheery songs he sounds very confident and out-going, and he sounds downright cocky with the Soft Boys - but he seemed extremely nervous and uncomfortable at Union Chapel. Was this a bad day or is this typical? Maybe it's a stage act? I also expected him to be an obviously fun person - of course his music is great fun but his delivery is very dry. Dead-pan comedians can often pull things off that wouldn't work for clowns. I think it was "Only The Stones Remain" when he repeatedly flicked back his hair on a certain guitar "lick" - and his serious expression made it all the more funnier. Have I missed discussion about Robyn's stage presence or was I the only one who expected him to be different? Anyway, I walked back beaming with a headful of colliding RH songs. This could've been the night I've been waiting for all my life, without even a malignant chord. Simon [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 22 May 95 15:42:52 EDT From: KeN SaBaTiNi Subject: Chord thankx To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Mike Daniel James Arif Hello all, I wanted to thank all of you who are responsible for the recent flourish of chords to Robyn tunes. So: Thank you, thank you, thank you--Mike, Daniel, James, and Arif--a few of the most recent transcribers. Please continue your efforts, as they are much appreciated by others who play guitar but have less well-developed transcribing abilities. If you've got a notebook or head full of Robyn chords, please consider periodically posting them here. Right! :-) Ken PS The band Denzel were mentioned as opening for Robyn's church gig. I must add that he (there is one principal lyricist/songwriter/singer) is an under- written about and underplayed talent. Very strong acoustic guitar based songs with intelligent lyrics. In terms of vocal style and delivery, Denzel sounds like an English Michael Penn--although Denzel's voice is stronger. The debut Denzel CD is called Pub. Check the used CD bins, if interested; I've seen a lot of promos floating around. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Ken Sabatini ~ ~ Dept. of Psychology ~ ~ University of Georgia ~ ~ Athens, GA ~ [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 11:03:33 +0100 To: jangly@pavilion.co.uk, fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu, chalkhills@presto.ig.com From: andyh@pavilion.co.uk (Andy Holyer) Subject: The thoughts of Chairman Newell I'm sending this message to Jangly and also to Fegmaniax and Chalkhills, since there is a certain amount of common interest here. All future letters will just be sent to Jangly. Mail jangly-request@pavilion.co.uk to subscribe. Feel free to repost this to any other groups/servers/etc that you may feel is appropriate. Apologies to anyone else for waste of bandwidth. I recieved this by Snail mail on Saturday morning. Typos are mine :-) ---------------------------------- Cut Here ------------------------------------------------- Planet Newell, Wivenhoe. Ah hallo Janglies, Having recieved a handful of missives from various 'pop listeners' and Internet surfers, I reckoned that the least I could do was post one back. Who knows? I may even start doing it regularly. In the old d.i.y casette days, after the invention of the Portastudio we all used to write lots of letters. We're talking late seventies/early eighties here. A bunch of bands and fanzine writers who didn't want to belong to the YupFest, communicated and distributed chiefly be post. It was slow but it was cheap and we formed postal friendships, many of which still last to this day. Some music biz people are getting paranoid about the Internet and I know certain governments are. Any kind of communicatoin is a sacred thing and in a shrinking world this may be the last great frontier. It may also restore the great lost art of letter-writing, albeit in a convoluted way. The vaguely autumnal musical style which I belong to is not actually a movement as such but it's a belief in a certain _way_ of songwriting. I share this neglected garden with people like Captain Sensible, XTC, Robyn Hitchcock, Stephen Duffy of Lilac Time, Julian Cope and a number of other people. What we all share at the moment, is a kind of exile-in-our-own-land. We all make reords, we're all still developing but we don't often get played or written about in England. This is more than just an unfashionable age/haircut/trousers situation but not much more. Another thing we share is a defiant determination to press on in that great songwriting tradition which was all but abandoned in the late seventies. I believe that a good song should have lots of interesting little corners in it, rather like an old house with secret rooms. I don't hate dance music as such but I've begun to think of the beat as a tyrant.The message from the mainstream is, "This is the beat wh have selected for you for the current five years. If you are a customer you WILL listen to it. If you are a musician you WILL use it. Or you will be considered unfashionable and unworthy of attention and will be banished to the hinterland." So are we all eccentrics/nuts? Sensible and Andy Partridge I know fairly well. Robyn Hichcock I've met once or twice. The only time I ever saw Julian Cope, he was climbing up the side of a hill at Avebury Stone Circles with a small child. So are we all nuts? Er, possibly. If being nuts means not roaring around in cars listening to hideous dance mantras and throwing Big Mac wrappers at hapless cyclists we might be nut yes. So I suppose I'd better do something useful and tell you what I know is coming up soon. I have an e.p. c/d/ out. It's called Lets Kiosk. It's on Numbug Records no. BAH10. If distribution is patchy, I'm sorry. My record company tries valiantly to stretch their tenticles worldwide, but they too are in the Indie Ghetto. In July I have a brand spanking new l.p. out. Probably called The Off-White Album it will contain about 13 songs... 12 by me and one bt Morrisey. The Greatest Living Englishman is available again in a few weeks. You'll be able to get it on vinyl soon from Joachim Reinbold in Germany. There will be a secong Cleaners form Venus retrospective out in September, BackFrom The Cleaners. This c.d. will include some songs which I guarantee have never been released before. As well as the two poetry books already out, I am working on a third, In Search f Ted Jarvis. It's written but needs to be re-written. Might com out autumn but Christmas is more likely. For those of you who wnat to see a truly unlikely specatcle on 17th of June, at All Saints' Community Centre, Lewes, Sussex, UK I am performing with Robyn Hitchcock. I will do spoken word and then he will do music and spoken word - I think. Useful Addresses: Humbug Records, Suite 4N Leroy House, 436 Essex Road, London N13 3QP. Tangerine Records, 12 The Close, Queens Walk, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancs FY5 1JX. Books by mail order from Essex Festival, Lit. Dept., Essex University, Colchester Essex CO4 2SQ >From the Home For The Terminally Fab..er that's it. So goodbye til next. Martin Newell. Andy Holyer, Pavilion Internet plc, Brighton, UK http://www.pavilion.co.uk/ [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 19:45:28 -0400 From: wombat toga party To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: american tours Elisabeth Perrin sez: >what i'd like to know is whether he'll be coming back >at some point to cover the other half of the country, or whether we're >just out of luck on this one gee, this sounds just like the east coasters (myself included) last fall when robyn played a number of gigs on the western half of north america. elisabeth, the west coast portion of this tour took place last september and october. at this point, the only upcoming definite gigs is a couple shows in england. who knows what'll happen next? i'm sure robyn will come back to america sometime - there is too much interest for him not to do so - but it's unknown when. woj [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 22:02:29 GMT From: sweetums To: robert@harlequin.co.uk, fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu, andyh@pavilion.co.uk Subject: Re: Re: Lewes? Thanks to all for Lewes info. Sounds promising. Might even get there. Good excuse to visit cousin in Brighton. Err, do Christians not believe in bonfires? Speaking as an atheistic bad Jew, I have no earthly (and very little unearthly) idea. C4N (that's "Ciao for now") Lizzie "sweetums get that frog and *smash*, turn old frog to froggie *hash*!" --from "The Frog Prince" by Jim Henson, ca 1972 F-U-N-E-M-N-Ms? I-F-N-N-E-M-N-Ms. I-8-M. [][][][][][][][][][] From: mikester@bix.com Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 21:08:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: american tours To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu >west than chicago. what i'd like to know is whether he'll be coming back >at some point to cover the other half of the country, or whether we're >just out of luck on this one Hey now! You guys had your chance at the end of last year!!! 8) ---Mike (Nickname o' the month (extended into May) - "Rickenbacker Boy") mikester@bix.com mikeb@usa1.com [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. 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