From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #164 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 6 2005 Volume 14 : Number 164 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Arthurly? [Tulloch ] Re: MTV & Live 8 [The Great Quail ] Re: MTV & Live 8 [Tom Clark ] The Four Croakers MP3s [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #163 [James Dignan ] Re: The Four Croakers MP3s [Eb ] Probably already well known by now, but... ["Marc Holden" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:34:15 +0100 (BST) From: Tulloch Subject: Re: Arthurly? That's a real bummer, Matt, but on a selfish note, I can stop kicking myself for not realising that Love were playing so near until it was too late and I couldn't make it. We saw Arthur and the lads (but not Echols) last year at the Forum down in That London, and it was a superb night with Arthur on top form with the added bonus of Sky Saxon and the (New) Seeds in support (not everyone's cup of meat, I know, but I just love 'em!). The reson we can't make the Love gig is that we were lucky enough to win weekend tickets to the Cornbury Festival, just up the road from us in West Oxfordshire, which is headlined by Elvis Costello, and I was only able to get one day off work. I haven't seen Costello live since '95 so I'm really quite excited about it, particularly having seen his great set at Glastonbury on the TV the other week. So, my commiserations again to you, Matt, but I've got to go and make my daily sacrifice to the Weather Gods in preperation for the festival (we're under canvas for the weekend and I don't fancy a re-enaction of the Somme, sorry, I mean Glastonbury). Tulloch (wondering if he can persuade Catherine to go to the Stooges...) Matt Sewell wrote: Hmm... bad news this end - it appears that Arthur Lee won't make the upcoming UK tour, even though the rest of the band are having to do the shows 'cos it's all paid for... rumour has it (and I hope it has it wrong) that Arthur's in rehab... I can't believe my terrible gig luck so far this year - missed The Magic Band here in Oxford (did an ill-advised gig on the same night), The MC5 (with surprise guest Julian Cope) here too. Then I missed the Meltdown (too slow for tix to the Horses gig, a mate's birthday on the Robyn night). Cheers Matt, determined to make the Stooges gig in Aug... - --------------------------------- Does your mail provider give you access to messages sent to other POP email accounts, like your work account? Get Yahoo! Mail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:46:15 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: MTV & Live 8 > Nah.... Ah, maybe if you Scotsmen could put aside that inexplicable love for malt sugars and brew something that doesn't feel like it wants to crawl back out of your throat.... But I am glad you didn't let it pass unnoticed! Now your goddamn Scotch, though...sigh..... Is it only 11:30 am? - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:58:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: MTV & Live 8 On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:28 AM, The Great Quail wrote: >> Cutting away >> from Pink Floyd in the midst of Comfortably Numb takes the cake. >> > > Aaaaargh! LJ and I tuned in just to watch that (and the U2, for me) > and we > were simply aghast. If I ever needed any more proof that MTV is run by > soulless wonks in grey suits who have no passion for music > whatsoever, that > was it. It was so flagrantly awful -- and then adding to that, the > narcissistic, savagely banal, self-consuming patter of the VJ-bots -- > Aaaaaaargh! I kept the TiVo on "pause" most of the day whilst doing housework, and every half-hour or so I'd fast forward through the VH-1 coverage. At that rate it just amazed me how little they actually showed: Commercial break, second half of Stevie Wonder's duet with some idiot, VJ spew, commercial break. There's 30 minutes gone. Then the Floyd debacle. I thought they sounded great, and the whole reunion back story made it even more exciting. I loved when Waters and Gilmour doubled the vocal on Wish You Were Here: "We're just two lost souls living in a fish bowl year after year, running over the same old ground..." I almost expected them to glance over over at each other at that point. Of course the coverage of Comfortably Numb was just plain disrespectful. How about the irony of cutting away from the performance to hear two micro-encephalics rant on *about the performance*? Ugh... I think it's true that the shitty coverage was intentional so they could market the DVD's later on. What a wonderful world. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:39:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: The Four Croakers MP3s The Four Croakers (Ken [Stringfellow], Scott McCaughey, Robyn Hitchcock and Mike Mills) live at the Borderline, London UK on 11 November 2001. ("I've Been High" is an R.E.M. cover, and "Here Comes The Sun" is a Beatles cover.) http://www.theposies.net/media.htm "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:59:19 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #163 > > guess Tony Blair is about to find out just how much > > political capital his support for the war in Iraq has > > garnered when the G8 discusses climate change! > >Which means he's the last person to know that Bush will, in >so many words, tell him to fuck off.... oh the US government will eventually decide to agree to the climate change protocols. The Chinese economy is growing so fast that sooner or later Chinese companies will try to take over US oil companies. If it gets to the stage (as it probably will) that the majority of the companies are in foreign hands, the US will be falling over itself to sign up. James - -- 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: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:00:55 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: The Four Croakers MP3s > The Four Croakers (Ken [Stringfellow], Scott McCaughey, > Robyn Hitchcock and Mike Mills) live at the Borderline, > London UK on 11 November 2001. ("I've Been High" is an > R.E.M. cover, and "Here Comes The Sun" is a Beatles cover.) > > http://www.theposies.net/media.htm Huh...that Posies site has really improved a lot, since I last looked! Now, when is someone going to mount a decent Pavement site? Such a gaping hole in weblore...inexcusable. There's a big brushfire going, maybe 20 minutes east of here...woo. After two weeks of apocalyptic computer problems, I am back online. Eb PS By popular demand, I will not be posting a report from yesterday's 10k race. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 18:45:41 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Probably already well known by now, but... Tour Dates US Dates July 9 Largo Los Angeles, CA September 2 The Crocodile Seattle, WA September 8 Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR UK Dates September 26 Barbican (Dylan tribute) London ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:53:59 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: Probably already well known by now, but... Now who's this touring now? Tony Blair or somebody? On 7/5/05, Marc Holden wrote: > Tour Dates > US Dates > > July 9 > Largo > Los Angeles, CA > > September 2 > The Crocodile > Seattle, WA > > September 8 > Crystal Ballroom > Portland, OR > > UK Dates > September 26 > Barbican (Dylan tribute) > London > - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 07:15:11 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: Bayardmaniax! hey Fegs! I will be in the SF bayard area the first week in August, and would love to see some fegs, either those I know well or some new ones to add to my list ... let me know if you are interested in hanging out and your availability! I'll also be heading down to San Jose for "california extreme", if anyone has interest in that: www.caextreme.com Mark says I'm the most relaxed person from the east coast he's ever met, and Jeme says I'm the nicest person in the world other than him, so I do come highly recommended. Grin Oh, and here are some links to .mov files from live 8: http://blog.adamjacobmuller.com/2005/07/05/live-8-download/ =b ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #164 ********************************