From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #281 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, July 21 2003 Volume 12 : Number 281 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: the cow beneath the sea [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Words to live by... [Perry Amberson ] fille molle [Jim Davies ] Clerkenwell Festival [Jim Davies ] Clerkenwell Saturday [Jim Davies ] Re: Clerkenwell Festival; also fax'n'info [Michael R Godwin ] Re: omg the scots are soft and buttery [gshell@metronet.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:45:19 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: the cow beneath the sea >>Primus/Greet the Sacred Cow >>Blur/When the Cows Come Home >>Foo Fighters/For All the Cows >>They Might Be Giants/Cowtown >>Snow Patrol/Holy Cow >>Polyrock/Mean Cow >>K. McCarty/Walking the Cow >>Firehose/Walking the Cow >>Wir/No Cows on the Ice >>Pond/Happy Cow Farm Family >>The Wonder Stuff/The Size of a Cow >>The Kinks/Milk Cow Blues >>Elvis Costello/Sour Milk Cow Blues > >Cows With Guns by Dana Lyons is a staple of my live set. Infinite cow - Forest for the trees Moo!(Bring me edelweiss) - Edelweiss project Holy Cow! - Think tree The cow's wrong - Beta band Worth remembering, too, that one of AC/DC's guitarists was an Angus. James (surrounded by invisible pogo-skiing slime-cows (Pogotherium glutinopoda)) James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 04:31:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Words to live by... Howdy, Some unknown force told me to listen to Pere Ubu last week, and I obeyed it. I've also been taking advantage of the wealth of information available about them on the Internet and found the following memorable blank verse: "Lost in Art" Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! I want my shoes, and I'm gonna walk, walk, walk! Here I go... Listen to me! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! I want it all I want it all, now! Okay Now, I'm gonna sing sweet Now, I'm gonna sing pretty now Ooaaaaaah-oooo-oo! I want more I want my shoes (Tie 'em for me please!) Watch me go I can feel it Uh Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! I've sung my song, and I've beat my drum I've sung my song, and I've beat my drum Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Hey, where's everybody going? Come back Wait! Hey, I'm over here! I didn't mean it Come back I didn't mean it Bye for now, P ________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:38:01 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Davies Subject: fille molle I've been only half-reading the posts for the last couple of weeks, so someone may already have straightened me out in the meantime - if so, just indulge me. You remember that I was guessing that it might have been Paul Noble in Paris, based on his recent displays of courage and talent, but: Jim, Jim, you really should have been there, for it was none other than Kimberley's lovely partner Lee, a longtime devotee of the Seligman style, and probably the only person who could have done the job so beautifully note perfect!! It was a wonderful gig, albeit a short one, and the crowd, consisting predominantly and I guess obviously of Parisian B D Boy fans loved it. Like about a thousand other people, had I known that this would be the last Soft Boys gig - for ever? for a while? - I would have covered myself in greasepaint and swum the channel as a mime. Or ridden through the tunnel on the back of a eurostar, with Jean Reno grinning and coming at me in a helicopter. Anything. It seems that those who were present have been rather tactful - not wanting to make those who missed it feel too bad. (And, besides, how could anyone replace the irreplaceable Matthew?). But it does sound as if Lee made it an incredible show. And, yes, I (you) really should have been there. x Jim ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:42:52 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Davies Subject: Clerkenwell Festival `Robyn Hitchcock and Heavy Friends' headlined Friday night at the small-but-wonderful Clerkenwell Festival. A tighter, shorter, more powerful version of the Naff Hits set - Funky Town, Another Girl Another Planet, Love Don't Live Here Anymore, Come Up And See Me (Make Me Smile), Dancing Queen, Sound and Vision (medley) - with some amazing additions - Are Friends Electric/Tired of Waiting, Lucifer Sam, Kingdom of Love. Lucifer Sam just took off; guitars, horns, bass, drums, vocals, all so powerful, so overwhelming that - despite the fact that a fair proportion of the audience had no idea what the hell was happening - it was the best received song of the whole evening. Kingdom of Love was a close second. Followed by Come Up And See Me, then Funky Town. Robyn was wearing an excellent shirt and singing incredibly well; Kimberley's guitar was even better than last time; Morris was perfect, without monitors; Terry Edwards was sporting three horns; Paul Noble made everything happen. And everyone was smiling, laughing, dancing, and generally very happy indeed. Oh, and it was all free. Who could ask for anything more? x Jim ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:43:31 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Davies Subject: Clerkenwell Saturday A short, solo, acoustic set. Following A Girl Called Bob (talented Kiwi), a female poet whose name escapes me (great), a `country motherfucker' called Rod Stern (talented, but more attitude than judgement), a band with lots of hair (good guitar, excellent vocals), and then another poet (different). And then Robyn; joined mid-set, or so, by Paul Noble. `Cynthia Mask', `I Something You', and a couple of covers, including The Band's `Up on Cripple Creek'. But there were two songs that stood above everything else. The first of these was `Raymond Chandler Evening'. The second was a perfect reading of `My Wife And My Dead Wife'; this did the impossible: stopping conversation at the bar, even at the other end of the pub. Just perfect. All in all, pure, generous entertainment: Robyn - and Paul, and Alice, and Deke - making sure that everyone had a wonderful time. x Jim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:14:01 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Clerkenwell Festival; also fax'n'info On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jim Davies wrote: > Lucifer Sam just took off; guitars, horns, bass, drums, vocals, all so > powerful, so overwhelming that - despite the fact that a fair > proportion of the audience had no idea what the hell was happening - > it was the best received song of the whole evening. Kingdom of Love > was a close second. Followed by Come Up And See Me, then Funky Town. Grump! However, I do have some fax'n'info for all you cataloguers of members of the Soft Boys. Lee Cave-Berry just e-mailed me to say that she played bass on the very last Soft Boys gig in Paris: So we missed the first gig by a Soft Girl! I think so, anyway. Has anyone done a full up-to-date Pete Frame Soft Boys chart? That Cambridge bands one didn't include either the first (Sean Lyons) or the second (recent) reunion. - - Mike Godwin n.p. The Nice: Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:35:23 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: test test ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:23:38 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: omg the scots are soft and buttery On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Groove Puppy wrote: > gss sed > > i disagree. the culture of fear is what has made > > carrying a pocket knife a crime in scotland. > > This is a wholly incorrect statement! so are you saying that carrying a pocket is not a crime in scotland, or that this queer paranoia is a result of something other than "the culture of fear"? why then didn't you reply when stewart wrote this? "Now carrying any kind of blade at all -- unless you can prove you need it for your daily business -- is likely to get you a jail term. You can be stopped and searched." is this true or not true? gSs ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #281 ********************************