From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #165 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, May 5 2003 Volume 12 : Number 165 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: no question [Barbara Soutar ] Re: Woolley Bulley [AidMerr@aol.com] Re: no question ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Woolley Bulley [Tom Clark ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] eh? [steve ] Andy Metcalf ["Marc Holden" ] Re: eh? [Mike Swedene ] Re: eh? [Eb ] Re: eh? [steve ] gnatmaniax + a smidgen of bragging ["Natalie Jane" Subject: Re: no question "Jill, who wants to know what Nanaimo is" I will tell you since I live just south of the recently famous city. It's the place where Diana Krall comes from. A fairly industrial small city on Vancouver Island, mainly to do with lumber processing, etc. Oh, and there is a great dessert called Nanaimo Bars, not sure of the connection but highly recommended. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 20:37:45 EDT From: AidMerr@aol.com Subject: Re: Woolley Bulley Warning; if you became a fan after 1996 this will mean nothing to you - delete it now. >PS thanks to Adian for PV! Is he still alive? Well, thanks for the vote of confidence! We're all (as far as I know) still alive; I'm in North London (living literally across the road from the place Robyn & Peter Buck first met) doing Government work I'm not allowed to discuss (no, really); Barbara became a Christian fundamentalist, moved to Austin and is now comics correspondent for "Sequential Tart" magazine (no, me neither), Tracy's still in Indiana and is refusing to have anything more to do with RH & co as she suffered more from the whole Matthew S debacle; David & Bethan Fallon (the main artists/cartoonists) seem to have vanished; Harin & Liz are a fairly large act on the UK electro circuit (and have been supported in the last couple of months by Matthew Seligman, Kimberley Rew and Bevis Frond, among others) and were described the other day on this list as "just stunningly good". Incidentally, as well as the early Thompson Twins, Matthew S also played bass on Tori Amos's later albums, and played (uncredited) on a couple of tracks on _Absolute Beginners_ (the title track and 'That's Motivation'). He also - rather improbably - recorded four tracks with Eddie Van Halen. If anyone wants to see Matthew in his other life, check out his law firm at www.39essex.co.uk. There's something I find deeply ironic about the fact that he specialises in "band disputes, unpaid fees and mental health issues". For some reason - can't think why - 39 Essex also seem very coy about mentioning their best-known client, a certain Louis Farrakhan. Aidan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 20:51:11 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: no question Barbara Soutar wrote: > > ... a great dessert called Nanaimo Bars, not sure of the > connection but highly recommended. namechecked in "A Might Wind", which gives away the large Canadian cast content in there. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 19:08:42 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Woolley Bulley on 5/3/03 5:37 PM, AidMerr@aol.com at AidMerr@aol.com wrote: > Tracy's still in Indiana and is > refusing to have anything more to do with RH & co as she suffered more from > the whole Matthew S debacle; Oh man, it just gets more intriguing every day. Toast! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 23:08:23 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap hmv.com (assimilated into Big Ass River.com) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 13:45:53 -0500 From: steve Subject: eh? Mandy Moore covers album - http://www.mandymoore.com/ - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 11:57:20 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Andy Metcalf >Is there some sort of rift between Robyn and Andy that has prevented them >from playing together in, what, 9 years now? A bit over 5 1/2 years, unless there was one after this: http://www.jh3.com/robyn/base/gig.asp?chubb=668 Robyn Hitchcock with Andy Metcalfe, Jon Brion, Ethan.? Concert appearance: Fri., 14 Nov. 1997 Cafe Largo West Hollywood, California US re: Andy vs. Matthew As much as I like Andy's work, I'd pick Matthew, and not just because he happens to be one of the nicest people that Robyn works with (along with Grant Lee Phillips). Matthew seems a bit more willing to take risks as a player--I really liked the detuning effects when the Soft Boys played Underwater Moonlight live. Even though I usually really like it when a bass player takes the lead (ex. John Entwistle or Tony Levin), there were times when seeing the Egyptians live, Andy's competition with Robyn seemed a bit too serious (cry "BULLSHIT!" if you want, it's just my impression). I'd still love to see the Egyptians get together again at some point. Also, I like the sound of the double bass in the mix, but I wasn't too impressed with Chris Cox at the QEH show this year. Maybe it's not fair to judge based on a one-off show. Later, Marc If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. Jack Handy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 12:49:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: eh? - --- steve wrote: > Mandy Moore covers album - > > http://www.mandymoore.com/ > > > > - Steve I guess the BIGGER question aside from who is going to buy how many copies of it for their personal collections on this list is: WHAT WERE YOU DOING ON HER WEBSITE Steve??? Herbie np -> "The Bed's Too Big Without You" Police "Rockpalast 1980" ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 13:16:14 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: eh? >--- steve wrote: >> Mandy Moore covers album - >> > > http://www.mandymoore.com/ > >I guess the BIGGER question aside from who is going to >buy how many copies of it for their personal >collections on this list is: WHAT WERE YOU DOING ON >HER WEBSITE Steve??? Obviously the travails of being a complete XTC junkie. To be clearer, he might have posted something like "I hear Mandy Moore is going to cover 'Senses Working Overtime' on her next album...can you believe that?" etc., but that would require creating a thought rather than just forwarding a link. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 16:40:20 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: eh? >> Mandy Moore covers album - >> >> http://www.mandymoore.com/ On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 02:49 PM, Mike Swedene wrote: > I guess the BIGGER question aside from who is going to > buy how many copies of it for their personal > collections on this list is: WHAT WERE YOU DOING ON > HER WEBSITE Steve??? The short hair suits her, don't you think? Someone posted the Rolling Stone blurb on the very occasional XTC digest. I report, you decide. - - Steve - ---------- Americans sometimes wonder why so many non-Americans view the United States as a bully. Are they jealous, resentful, irrationally afraid? Perhaps. But there's a simpler explanation for the widespread perception that the United States is vindictive, arrogant, and petty. Under this administration, it's true. - Peter Beinart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 21:50:52 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: gnatmaniax + a smidgen of bragging First, the bragging. So I went to see Iron & Wine a couple of months ago, as previously mentioned, and gave their woolly frontman Sam Beam a tinfoil Horned God... and then, a couple of days ago, my sharp-eyed friend Mike spotted this on the Iron & Wine website: http://www.ironandwine.com/webfotos/images/SamGift.jpg I hope this will provide further impetus for you all to go buy Iron & Wine's lovely album "The Creek Drank the Cradle." Iron & Wine recently did a cover of "Such Great Heights" by the Postal Service, which leads me neatly into my next subject, namely, the Postal Service show I saw on Friday night. The opening act was Cex, a skinny, shirtless, crazy-eyed guy with bleach-blond hair who did rapid-fire rapping over electronic beats. He had a microphone with a long cord and stood out in the middle of the crowd while he performed. He was fun to watch, despite not having a backing band, and what I could make out of his lyrics were pretty funny, like a song called "Stop Eating" with the chorus "Food is disgusting!" At one point, he announced, "OK, this is a call-and-response thing, I'm going to divide the audience into two halves. The dumb ones can continue their conversation over by the bar. The smart ones..." I can't remember what we were supposed to do. At another point, he crowd-surfed with only about five people at a time to hold him up, and he ended up tumbling to the concrete floor and getting scrapes all over his back.I think if the Postal Service had cancelled their set, I still would have felt like I'd gotten my money's worth. They didn't cancel their set, though, which was good. The Postal Service, as I mentioned before, are Ben Gibbard, the cherubic lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie, and Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, whom I know nothing about. Actually, I could hardly see him for most of the show - he spent the show crouched over a laptop and other equipment to the far left of the stage, adding his glitchy beats to the proceedings. Gibbard played guitar, sang, played the maracas and tambourine, and several times switched from guitar to drums in mid-song, which I've never seen anyone do before. The duo was joined by Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, who somehow managed to look simultaneously frumpy and cool in her torn T-shirt and shoulder-length flip. She provided backing vocals (as she does on the album) and played bass and keyboards. There were also background films made by someone else from Death Cab. I think Aaron was right about the mix being a little muddy - I couldn't hear Gibbard very well, and as his vocals are one of the main reasons I like the Postal Service, this was a bit of a drawback. But he came through all right. He does a funny sort of dance while he sings, swaying back away from the microphone between lyrics, then swaying back again to sing. When he and Lewis did their big duet, "Nothing Better," they faced each other a la Sonny and Cher, and Lewis made melodramatic gestures as if to ward Gibbard off as she sang about having to leave him. It was hard to work up much of a sweat while listening to them - they're pretty low-key and not very "danceable" considering that electronic music is so often linked with dancing - but it was a lot of fun, and they played all my favorite songs from the album, including the aforementioned "Such Great Heights." Unfortunately, the encore was a cover of some dopey Phil Collins song which sent the audience into throes of kitschy ecstasy and had me grinding my teeth. But that was only a small blot on the evening. After the show, egged on by my friend Kara, I gave a tinfoil devil to Gibbard. He has purty eyes and a cute smile, and was charmingly flushed from his on-stage exertions. He thanked me. I did not kiss him, though perhaps I should have. n. (sorry to disappoint you...) _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #165 ********************************