From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org To: fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Reply-To: fegmaniax@ecto.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Subject: Feg Digest V5 #69 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 69 Friday April 11 1997 To post, send mail to fegmaniax@ecto.org To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@ecto.org with the words "unsubscribe fegmaniax-digest" in the message body. Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@ecto.org FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/index.html Archives are available at ftp://www.ecto.org/pub/lists/fegmaniax/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Magick Heads etc. Cleaners from Mars / Game Theory/ Sugarplastic (No RH) Flying Nun stuff - long! (RH content perilously low) Cleaners from Venus Start a bonefire! Cat's Cradle tree? Cleaners From VENUS / Game Theory / PLASTICLAND (No RH) Recommendations (No RH but Pavement and Custard aplenty) apologies to Susan Glass Flesh Fegmaniax....? Just checking one long pair of eyes Lucifer Crab Season's cycle London gig Re: production goo oozing from my headphones and into my brain... the element of silence ISO hitchcock on wutk-fm Feb27 hello? Production notes... Re: Fegmaniax....? Re: London gig N.Z. bands Re: Season's cycle Re: Season's cycle Re: Season's cycle ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:48:14 -0400 From: wpb9826@is2.nyu.edu (Pete Bilderback) Subject: Magick Heads etc. Eb asks: >Can you describe the sound of these two bands, please? Do the Magick Heads >sound like the Bats? I didn't write the original post in question, but I can certainly field this one. The Magick Heads are a Robert Scott side-project. They do sound a lot like the Bats, but with a more overt 60s folk-rock groove (ala early Fairport Convention), and frequent female lead vocals. _Before We Go Under_ is a really fantastic album. BTW, the song "B4 We Go Under" was originally written by Scott for Barbara Manning, and released on teenbeat records as a 7". If you ever see that around I would strongly recommend picking it up--it's fantastic. The song may be available on some teenbeat sampler or another as well. Eb then had the temerity to write: >Re: Cardinal/Davies/Matthews: Adored the Eric Matthews album, liked the >Cardinal album OK, couldn't warm up to Richard Davies' solo disc (for a >'60s pop record, it sure is tuneless :( ). Well, there's no accounting for taste, but you might reverse your opinion if you got to see Richard live. I had the good fortune to see one of 2 shows he did with the Flaming Lips as his back-up band, and the show was mind-shatteringly good. The Lips actually were ideally suited to the task, providing a very subtle (but still kind of heavy) touch. Walking out of the show I had the feeling that all other music was irrelevant (of course Robyn's shows have made me feel that way too). I heard a tape of Eric's upcoming CD, which sounded good--not very different from the first album though. Pete ------------------------------ From: "Baker, David(KWI-C09)" Subject: Cleaners from Mars / Game Theory/ Sugarplastic (No RH) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:23:03 -0400 On the topic of getting introduced to new bands using the discerning tastes of fellow fegs, these are three names I have heard come up on this list a few times which I am interested in hearing. Can some of the people who are fans of these bands please give my an idea of where to start and what the highs and lows for these bands are (including solo albums, side-projects, etc). Much appreciated, Dave. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 15:25:40 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Flying Nun stuff - long! (RH content perilously low) >From: RIELWJ@sbu.edu >Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:25:09 EDT >Subject: Flying Nun > >Thanks to James for his info on The Clean/Chris knox, etc. >You don't happen to know if FN has a web page, do you? >I'm very interested in this. Around 1993 was when there was a lot of >press about the NZ music scene and a lot of good music was being >released widely. I was able to find stuff at some very mainstream >store. Bats, Straijacket Fits, and, I think, JPSE did a package tour. >Anyway, I've heard of all the others you mentioned but don't much >info on them here, or I'm not looking in the right places. Any info >you may have would be swell. Last I heard the Bats broke up (before >and after "Couchmaster"?), Verlaines dissolved once or twice (Graeme-- >is thatr spoelling correct?--has probably my favorite R&R voice). has >Shayne from SF done mych since they split? Don't mean to be a pest, >just intensely curious! Part of this has already been answered: >now about fn. flying nun's web site is: www.flyingnun.nz.com >and if you didn't know they now have a US office and it's run by Mike Wolf. his >e-mail address is: flynunus@interpath.com. he is a great guy and extremely >knowledgable about the FN catalog. The rest: The Bats are still a going concern AFAIK, the problem is that Robert Scott is in so many bands that he 'takes it in turn' with his bands. Whcih means that the Bats go into recess while the Clean tour or (as now) the Magick Heads promote their new album. The Verlaines are still a going concern too, although Graeme Downes now lives in Auckland and the rest of the band is still in Dunedin, which makes life a bit more difficult for them. Shayne Carter's new band, Dimmer, has its first EP out - "Don't make me buy out your silence". There's an album in the works from them, too, hopefully to be released about October. Straitjacket Fits member Andrew Brough has also released an EP with his new band Bike. There is a mailing list for indie music from New Zealand, NZPop, run by Katie Livingston. To subscribe, email To James again: Look Blue Go Purple has a member(s) of the 3Ds, no? I have an old Nun catalog stashed away somewhere that I never got to use. Able Tasmans? That's right - Denise Roughan, IIRC. Able Tasmans are good, especially their first album, "A cuppa tea and a lie down". Towards the lighter, brighter end of the flying nun sound, with more of an emphasis on bubbly keyboards others wrote: >Jefferies's first solo album (long title something along the lines of "The Last Great Challenge on a Dull Earth" -- that's not it but it goes something like it) is great moody stark pop. Anyone who likes I Often Dream of Trains or Eye should give it a listen, especially the song "On An Unknown Beach.". "LGC in a dull world". Good oody stuff, as is his recent compilation of singles and other stuff, "A chorus of interludes". >>The Verlaines newest >>album "Over the moon" is out now in NZ, and hopefully will be available in >>the US before too long. > >Anything strikingly different about it? from what I've heard of it (which, I must admit, isn't all pf it), nothing strikingly different, but it continues the lushness of some of the songs on recent albums (think "Moonlight on snow", "Cathedrals under the sea") >>They've managed to raise a stir here in NZ with the >>cover art of the new album > >Why? What's on the cover? dead cattle lying in a field. It's got the NZ meat industry up in arms, and has also been branded "insensitive to British record buyers" after their recent cattle scares. >>Other kiwi bands you'd probably like: The Magick Heads, The Muttonbirds > >Can you describe the sound of these two bands, please? Do the Magick Heads >sound like the Bats? Magick heads are very like the Bats - partly because one of their two singers is Robert Scott. They're a bit quieter and more pastoral, with a lot of female vocals (from Jane Sinnott) >I have about 40-50 >Flying Nun records total, but I'll gladly admit that I must have a bunch of >import-only releases left to discover. It's impossible to fully keep up >with that stuff unless you're in New Zealand! even then it's difficult! Today's thought on postmodernism: "Space Jam", a movie based on a commercial, starring a sports star, a cartoon character, and no actors. James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:57:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Cleaners from Venus 1) It's the Cleaners from Venus 2) Check out anything by Martin Newell/The Cleaners from Venus/The Brotherhood of Lizards (I've yet to see a lizard band that I didn't like) 3) "Greatest Living Englishman" by Martin Newell is Worth Picking Up. File it with Underwater Moonlight, Smile or Village Green Preservation Society. Get it. Most of the Cleaners stuff that I have, I'd reccomend too. Terry (ps. Dave-Since I'm sending you a tape, I'll throw some stuff onto it..) ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:36:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Start a bonefire! <<>(note...you never hear production bashers say things like "Who was that >jerk that added the violin and horns to DeChirico Street? This is a Robyn >Hitchcock album and I want to hear Hitchcock, not some crap that some dude >piled on top of it.." Sorry..had to say it) On the other hand, I would like "Sinister But She Was Happy" a LOT better minus the John Tesh violin part. >> Whoever suggested I was tossing an oily rag in the work shed in terms of dising Keef Richards should warn 'ol Eb about the same thing. "John Tesh violin part"?????????????????? Consider my sport coat off and my sleeves rolled up! ;) Jay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:59:12 -0500 From: Lobsterman Subject: Cat's Cradle tree? Hi fegs- Whatever happened to the tape tree for cory's cat's cradle show?? I haven't heard anything about it in quite awhile. -jbj /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-//-/-/-/-/-/-/- John B. Jones e-mail:jojones@mailbox.syr.edu web: http://web.syr.edu/~jojones "Driving Aloud" was originally called "Driving to Portland." -Robyn Hitchcock \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- ------------------------------ From: "Baker, David(KWI-C09)" Subject: Cleaners From VENUS / Game Theory / PLASTICLAND (No RH) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 21:00:01 -0400 No-one seemed to have heard of the band The Cleaners from Mars who I was interested in hearing about but a couple of people were pretty keen to tell me about the Cleaners From Venus. After hearing a few raves, I'm now more interested in hearing about the Cleaners ------------------------------ anything about them then please let me know. :) I also asked for information about the Sugarplastic when I wanted to know more about an 80's band called Plasticland. So if anyone has got any advice on them........... Many thanks, Dave (who promises to take more care with the details of his requests in future). ------------------------------ From: "Baker, David(KWI-C09)" Subject: Recommendations (No RH but Pavement and Custard aplenty) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:47:06 -0400 I would like to recommend two bands who I think would be of interest to fellow fegs. The first one is the new album from Pavement, Brighten the Corners. I know it is not an obscure recommendation but I have been totally addicted to playing this album since I got it about two months ago. Apart from a few tracks, it is more laid back than their previous records but still provides a very intense experience. They manage the rare and outstanding feat of displaying intelligence and wit while at the same time producing moving, compassionate music (sound familiar?). I get the impression that some fegs have written them off as another OK 'indi-rawk' band but I feel that the path they are carving now is a lot closer to Dylan or Barrett at their liquid mercury poetry best. The other album I want to recommend is Wisenheimer (1995), by Australian band Custard. I would place it as a fresher take on Frank Black's Teenager of the Year, being an intelligent, inventive (and yes, that word, eccentric) melodic pop album which rocks, baby! The link to TotY is unsurprising given that they got Eric Drew Fieldman (ex-Beefheart, Pere Ubu and Frank Black) to produce it. Extremely enjoyable and highly recommended! Dave. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 18:50:43 -0400 From: WISNIEWSKI Subject: apologies to Susan -- Kay Lord Wisniewski Wis@Worldnet.Att.Net I was wandering my local bookstore recently, and saw a paperback of X-Ray, which I purchased. I apologize for an earlier remark on the obnoxious tone of a quote you had entered from it. Its a darn good book--far better than Townsends Horses Mouth. the use of different narrators, and the fact it made quite clear the point that anything might be fiction or might be true--allowed me to read it as a novel and be touched by it. At the end, you're really left with an almost translucent sense of the idea that--a person was here, and existance was here--right here, in this minute particular, and that minute particuliar--and therefore we all were there, and there, and there, wherever alittle consiousness lights up in the dark--there we all are. Well, that last sentance got pretty incoherent, but Im trying to say that the book left me with a feeling, not just an idea, that had something to do with the dignity(part and parcel with the pathos) of being human. Which isnt usually how you feel after reading a"stars" bio or autobio. Anyway susan, thanks for reminding me of the books existance. And may I recommend it to all Robyn fans (Robyn content: Robyns Dad wrote a book which was turned into a movie for which Ray Davies wrote the soundtrack, which includes the song "Gods Children" which reaffirms human dignity. I am still curious as to whether a teen-age Robyn met Davies, and how it might have gone(hmm- susan, any ideas). I have noticed that Robyn has never mentioned the Kinks as an influence--even thou I think I can hear it(Susan, care to take the bait/) People like the Jazz Butcher are quite vocal about their Kinks jones. And lately Robyns been doing a cover of Waterloo Sunset. Hmmm... I might just be coming out of hibernation K ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 17:02:16 -0700 From: Lorrie and Grant CC: "bayard.catron"@[158.72.85.155] Subject: Glass Flesh hi fegs, are you all still there? haven't received any messages from this list since sunday night, which is somewhat of a cause for concern! we got our copy of "glass flesh" yesterday and i just wanted to let you all know how incredible i think it is; it's doing heavy-duty time in the player the last couple of days. if you haven't already gotten a copy, do so immediately! the songs are great (well, of course :) ), the performances top-notch, and the artwork, design, and layout are beautiful! everyone involved did an excellent job, made all the more impressive by the fact that it's a labor of love for them. and extra, extra special thanks have to go to bayard for coming up with the idea in the first place, and for his concern & customer service in getting the cd into my hands! lorrie ------------------------------ Subject: Fegmaniax....? From: guambat@juno.com (What's a guambat?) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 14:12:42 EDT Where are yooooooooooooooooooooooo...???????????? The Yodeling Guambat ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 97 15:55:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Just checking am I the only one who hasn't gotten any fegMail in the last couple of days? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:10:59 -0400 From: Nadine Miller <105361.1070@CompuServe.COM> Subject: one long pair of eyes Hi, I'm a big robyn hitchcock fan and i'm working out One Long Pair of Eyes on the guitar. I have the chords but I can't figure out the strum that he does for the verses. Does anyone have the tablature? Much obliged... Nadine ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:26:24 +0600 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Lucifer Crab In a fit of errant weirdness, our favourite Guambat scrawled: >>Giant Small Amish Puritan Community =========================== (AP) PENNSLYVANIA. The tiny Amish crab, referred to as "Lucifer Crab", wanderered into sight with enormous pincers and started cuttin' Sarah in half, then he wondered... why Lucifer? He squirted Maimonides' wife on the bottom and then got a lawsuit against either a plant or a refrigerator. Finally, Elijah confessed to a hidden tellyvision set that he watched OJ punish Timothy McVeigh with a whoopee cushion, and ended up spendin' the night in the crab village. << A useless suggestion for you - try to hunt out "A Humument - a treated Victorian novel" by Tom Phillips. In this weird but wonderful book, Phillips, an artist, takes a dusty old Victorian novel and liberally daubs paint, ink and doodles over about 95% of the words, leaving... the remaining 5%, which tell a completely different, surreal, and poetic story. This is one of the more truly bizarre and wonderful books. >(what's a guambat?) maybe it's what you get when you cross a Pacific island with a wombat. It must be possible - after all Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants... James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:31:32 +0600 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Season's cycle a message from Daniel Saunders was found chiselled into a cliffside of a small subantarctic island. It read: >> I always find spring/summer to be heavy RH rotation time for me. Does >> anyone else experience this phenomenon? Certain seasons for certaion >> music? >Funny you should mention that. I've always felt that Eye and especially I >Often Dream of Trains were very much winter albums. I always pick IODOT, and also Y&O, as an Autumn album. Summer sees me in EoL mode. And it's not just true of Robyn's music. Try this little selection (three per season, some a little bizarre, but with one guaranteed Robyn in each): SPRING: Fegmania! (RH); Psonic Psunspots (Dukes of Stratosphear); I'm the Man (Joe Jackson); Taking Tiger Mountain (Brian Eno). SUMMER: Skylarking (XTC); EoL (RH); Moondance (Van Morrison); Ladies of the Canyon (Joni Mitchell). AUTUMN: IODOT (RH); The Blurred Crusade (The Church); Year of the Cat (Al Stewart); Paris 1919 (John Cale). WINTER: Low (David Bowie); Little Earthquakes (Tori Amos); Respect (RH); Bright Red (Laurie Anderson) James (writing about Robyn! Wonders will never cease) small unusual animal of the day: the coatimundi ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 97 10:12:43 BST From: jturner@rpms.ac.uk (Jonathan Turner) Subject: London gig London gig at Dingwalls next Tuesday (April 15th). No news on support or cones. Dingwalls: 0171 267 1577 JT ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 08:24:08 -0400 From: Dolph Chaney CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Re: production goo oozing from my headphones and into my brain... WARNING!!! COP-OUT ALERT!!! Whatever production best suits the songs and performances is the production that's best. 8-) Seriously, though, there are albums that just need to be grand-scale big-budget things and there are others that need to be more intimate. I'm not sure that PERSPEX ISLAND would've worked if recorded the same way EYE had been. Can you imagine a lo-fi Jellyfish album? Or a Guided By Voices album without tape hiss? Jellyfish painted in very broad strokes; as charming as their songs often were, they would've been much weaker (IMDesputablyHO) without the gigantic settings they received. Conversely, GbV songs are about very small mental buzzings that occasionally add up to an insightful psychological portrait. BELLYBUTTON and BEE THOUSAND both score very high on the Hook-O-Meter, but I think if the approaches were flipped, the albums wouldn't work as well. (a similar analogy -- PET SOUNDS vs. BARRETT) [More kerosene for the flames o' debate? Ho yus!!!] Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 22:23:36 -0400 From: mr bean jeans Subject: the element of silence fegs, as i'm sure most of you noticed, fegmaniax has been silent since monday. as i'm sure most of you have also noticed, fegmaniax is back up and running as of thursday evening. at this point, all i know is that ecto.org was not connected to the network during that time. dunno what the cause was, but things seem to be okay again. in addition to next week's dingwall's gig that jonathan mentioned, there is also a gig at the boat race in cambridge on july 17th. tickets will be available sometime in june. more info is at . thanks to ian goold for spotting this one. woj ------------------------------ From: "Bayard Catron" Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 01:03:38 +0000 Subject: ISO hitchcock on wutk-fm Feb27 Did anyone tape Robyn Hitchcock on WUTK-FM (knoxville) 2-23-97 [preferably on DAT]? please let me know, y'all... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 17:55:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Truman Peyote Subject: hello? Have I been unsubscribed suddenly or is everyone dead? Just curious. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 23:05:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Production notes... Hmmm, I missed the beginnings of the "production = evil" thread. What to make of it? I really don't think it matters much. Some music I love for its conent, some just because it sounds good. It's so damned subjective. I find that "produced" music gets under my skin depending on my mood. There are a bunch of records that I really like that have little to no content in terms of songwriting-- the single or the album that somebody was playing in the background just happened to sound really good to me at a vulnerable moment, and that got it across to me at the time (usually something kind of guitar-pop derived). However, if I'm in a bad mood, I get really irked at lazy, vacuous songwriting relying on a catchy "sound" to get across. This leads to some really unreasoning and hilarious (to me, at least) incongruities in my musical likes and dislikes. I mean, I love the one album that the La's put out, but I never got into the Posies, who sounded basically exactly the same at the point in time. Whatever... so I'm emotionally and critically unstable. Sue me. (I have a friend who likes anything that sounds vaguely like the Beatles. No problem; I like a lot of the same stuff he does. But life's too short for ELO and Todd Rundgren and the Tubes, IMHO. This is the kind of guy who still is prone to fits of rage over Michael Stipe's dismissal of the Beatles, as if that's heresy. Whatever. I like the Beatles, but I can't stand Led Zepplin, and that's probably an equally verboten opinion among modern rock folk...) Where this applies to Robyn, I'm glad he's played both sides of the court... to have put out "Eye" and "Perspex" within a year is a triumph. I love both records, and they give me the option of listening to Robyn's music in completely different moods, for completely different reasons. I think there's a dangerous divergence between "songs" and "sounds" right now, and it's hurting the overall quality of music at large. Artists who are serious about writing get stuck feeling like they can only emulate the sounds of the records their role models made, and that really leads to some boring presentations. Does EVERYTHING have to sound like the Beatles (or the Replacements, for that matter), really? I can't even listen to any of the thousands of White Albums that have been released lately-- it's so damned BORING. And the people who are sonically adventurous seem to feel no real need to write anything decent for the boffo tracks they labor over... I'm left scrounging for anything that sounds DIFFERENT and seems to rise above the level of cliche at the same time. Mebbe I'm getting old, and not so prone to writing out favorite lyrics on the back of my high school notebooks anymore. Yeah. that's probably it... Rex PS-- recently selected a bunch of random CD's for listening at work. Among them were the Feelies' "Crazy Rhythms" and the Rhino Kinks compilation "Kinks- Size Kinkdom". What I didn't realize until I'd listened to both of them was that they appear to have EXACTLY THE SAME COVER ART, featuring the four band members from mid torso at the bottom, against a baby-blue background with the title floating abouve them!!! The Kinks record is a sort of repository of leftovers from '63- '65 or so, sort of a Kinks "Past Masters" if you will-- the cover art is a cut-and paste deal--, and the Feelies record was originally issued in 1980-- the CD duplicates the LP art. But oddly, they were bot first issued on CD in the same year-- 1987 or '88, I think. Coincidence, or clandestine retroactive Rhino homage? ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 00:12:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Fegmaniax....? Near the lampshade. Look to the left and you can't miss it. Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy Remember-Jesus is your friend. normal@grove.ufl.edu On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, What's a guambat? wrote: > Where are yooooooooooooooooooooooo...???????????? > > The Yodeling Guambat > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 97 09:04:52 BST From: jturner@rpms.ac.uk (Jonathan Turner) Subject: Re: London gig At 10:12 AM 9/4/97 BST, Jonathan Turner wrote: >London gig at Dingwalls next Tuesday (April 15th). > >No news on support or cones. > >Dingwalls: 0171 267 1577 > I've just called the venue; their rather lengthy ansaphone message lists "The Flaming Stars" as playing on Tuesday, with no mention of Robyn at all for any date. I'll try to confirm one way or another by talking to a real human. Sorry for any confusion - I took the "Time Out" listing at face value. JT ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:04:30 -0500 From: martin gellert Subject: N.Z. bands Fegs: Drawn out of my lurk mode by the discussion of N.Z.music, which is currently my passion. Two points: someone asked about what the Mutton Birds sound like: strong, guitar oriented pop music-their lead singer and main songwriter, Don McGlashan, has a great voice, and their songs are strong on melody-his lyrics are quite interesting as well because of his ability to to capture moments in time and bring them into sharp focus. He also writes about the experience of living in N.Z. and being an ex-pat in poetic ways. The Mutton Birds have a unique sound and I can't recommend them too highly-unfortunately, as far as I know, they don't have a record deal in the U.S. They are on Virgin and their new C.D. "Envy of Angels" will be released in the U.K. on May 15. If you are interested, I e-mail me privately for more info. Second point: No one mentioned my Flying Nun favorite, the Able Tasmans! "Store in a Cool Place" is a great CD, but totally undescribable-it doesn't sound like anything I"ve ever heard, but I love it! Sorry for no Robyn content. Barbara Gellert ------------------------------ From: tanter@econs.umass.edu Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 08:05:10 -0400 Subject: Re: Season's cycle Perspex Island can only be played on a hot summer day with the windows wide open! Marcy ------------------------------ From: Ross Overbury Date: Fri, 11 Apr 97 8:57:16 EDT Subject: Re: Season's cycle Marcy said: > > Perspex Island can only be played on a hot summer day with the windows > wide open! > What's hot summer? Another Microsoft product? It's been 12 deg F here this week; snow and ice are everywhere. All abord Brenda's Iron Sledge! -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada "Canada's Deep South" email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ From: tanter@econs.umass.edu Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:03:06 -0400 Subject: Re: Season's cycle On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 globetec@mail.netlink.co.uk wrote: > > Check this out; > English : > http://www.globetech.co.uk/ > Français > http://www.globetech.co.uk/hyper_marche I looked and have no idea what I was there for. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .