From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V1 #18 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Thursday, September 17 1998 Volume 01 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- U Magazine Article [Paul Schreiber ] EC: new Emm section on her Merc. website [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu] Re: EC: hello [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu] EC: A way to get people to buy Emm's CD--$10 off Music Blvd! [00jnweiser@] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:58:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Schreiber Subject: U Magazine Article The exact URL is: http://www.umagazine.com/Entertainment/content/10Rock/ Summer_Concert_Tours/Lilith_Fair/emmgryner.html The text: Lilith Fair Q&A: Emm Gryner By Marisa Laudadio, Associate Editor From Alanis Morisette to Celine Dion to Sarah McLachlan, our neighbors to the north have blessed pop music with the musical musings of some of the most successful female artists around. Canada's latest gift? Twenty-two-year-old singer-songwriter Emm Gryner, who makes her major label debut on Mercury Records this month with Public. Gryner talked with us about her new record, the inevitable comparisons to fellow songstress McLachlan and her second stint as a performer on the Lilith Fair tour. U. Magazine: People have started comparing you to Sarah McLachlan in terms of your songwriting abilities and your musical styles. Do you see the similarities? Emm Gryner: I'm definitely a fan of Sarah's, but I think that sometimes people grab for the nearest comparison, and she happens to be the woman in music right now. I see myself as someone who's a little bit different. She's very poetic and very romantic in her lyric writing, and I don't know if we're quite similar when it comes to lyrics. U.: So where do you think you fit in today's music scene? Gryner: People are really searching for what's going to be the next thing in music and I tend to not get caught up in that. I'm more of a songwriter, and I like bands and artists who write good songs. So in terms of where I fit in, I guess I'd just like to be recognized as a strong songwriter and beyond that, as a strong artist as well. U.: How would you describe your sound? Gryner: It's sort of a variety. The sound changes from song to song. Sometimes I like playing a piano ballad with a vocal and other times I prefer a whole band approach. They're essentially pop songs, but I don't think that's all they are. I think there's some darkness and depth to them at times. U.: When did all that darkness and depth stop being your hobby and turn into a career? Gryner: When I was 16 or 17, I decided to approach songwriting a little more seriously because I felt like I was doing it more and more. And I wanted to record more because I'd started to record at home and in the studio a little bit and I just found it all fascinating. U.:We hear that you went to school to learn how to produce and engineer records yourself. Did that help when you headed into the studio to record your own independent releases as well as Public? Gryner: I decided to take recording and production because I knew that I wanted to make my own records. Not that I was interested in doing it all myself, but I felt that I needed some sort of creative control in the studio, so from that standpoint, it was very worthwhile. U.: Where did you study recording and production? Gryner: It's a program within a college. The program was called Music Industry Arts and the college was Fanshawe College in London (Canada). U.: What's the best thing about the new record? Gryner: I really like the songs a lot, and how they're recorded. I think that when you make a record, it should be your favorite record at the time, and it really is. I had a fun time making it and I love listening to it. U.: How long did it take to write the music for Public? Gryner: Some of the songs have been around for a few years, but about half of them are brand new. U.: Will you be touring? Gryner: I'm going out solo. I'm not sure of all my dates yet, but the first run-around will be a solo thing. I'll play on guitar and piano and see how that goes. I've got some U.S. dates and I'll probably be playing in Canada as well. I'll be playing solo for Lilith on the acoustic stage. U.: Which Lilith Fair dates will you be playing? Are you looking forward to those performances? Gryner: A date in Philadelphia and two in Washington, D.C. It's pretty exciting. I was fortunate enough to be on it last year for three dates. Something really great about that was that I wasn't signed [yet] and Sarah McLachlan asked me to be on it, and it was just one of those things that doesn't happen to an unsigned artist, so in that way it's very unique and very empowering for young female artists. If the line-up isn't someone's cup of tea, that's okay, but to be a part of it is very empowering, because [Lilith Fair] has a great energy. U.: Should we look out for any videos? Gryner: We're working on it right now. The first single's called "Summerlong," and we hope to have a video done by the end of [May]. U.: Where did your love of music come from - -- were your parents musicians or music lovers? Gryner: They're fans of music, but they don't really play instruments. But my grandmother had a piano, and it was handed down to my dad, and it was in the house, so they decided that we'd have music lessons. U.: What sort of music did you listen to growing up? And what are you listening to now? Gryner: Growing up was funny, because I basically just listened to the radio. There wasn't any one special artist that I latched on to, so as a result of growing up listening to '80s pop, I found that I wasn't aware of some deeper music that was out there. It's hard to say what my influences were, but right now I'm listening to a lot of different stuff, from Ron Sexsmith to Beck to Peter Gabriel to Tindersticks. U.: How old were you when you started playing music? What instruments did you play? Gryner: I was 5 when I started to play piano, and when I was 14, I started to play the bass, and just lately, I've been playing guitar. U.: If you weren't playing music, what would you be doing? Gryner: I would probably be writing in some way, because after high school I was debating whether I should go to university for journalism or whether I should really just go full-force into music. U.: What advice would you have for other young artists? Gryner: You have to really believe in what you're doing. That sounds like such a cop out, but if you don't believe in what you're doing, then every time someone shoots you down you're just going to fold. So whether it's writing songs or singing or playing in a band, it just has to be something you believe strongly in. Paul shad 96c / 3A CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / montreal canadiens / jewel / sophie b. hawkins / sarah slean / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:20:49 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: EC: new Emm section on her Merc. website Hey guys, Umm...post! :) I was surfing the web today during class and noticed a new section on Emm's Mercury website: faves, it has her list of some of her favorite artists (mmm...Beth Orton, Radiohead, Mazzy Starr :) ) Go here to see: www.mercuryrecords.com/mercury/artists/emm_gryner/fav.html jessica n. weiser - http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess "they'll be sorry when the star buries the girl, so help me vanish, help me get myself outta here" - e. gryner ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:25:02 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Re: EC: hello Hey guys, Mark writes: >I guess it's about time I wrote something. I got my local >newspaper-music-critic to write a review of Public. You can see it along >with another newish review on my Emm page at >http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Tidepool/2123 Just wanted to add that Mark has a great website with a couple of reviews, the transcript from the Public Speaking tape (if you didn't get one) and included the Fall '98 mailout contents, which I typed out and sent to the list but it never quite made it...;) He's also got a guestbook that only has a few entries--so get crackin' ;) jessica n. weiser - http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess "they'll be sorry when the star buries the girl, so help me vanish, help me get myself outta here" - e. gryner ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:31:07 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: EC: A way to get people to buy Emm's CD--$10 off Music Blvd! My apologies to those who got this on other lists ;) but here's a link to how to get $10 off a CD at Music Boulevard. I've ordered from them a few times and they're reliable. So whatcha do is, send the link to friends and tell them that the Emm Gryner CD is a great way to use the $10 off! ;) Really.:) http://www.musicblvd.com/webstakes/ Enjoy, jessica n. weiser - http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess "they'll be sorry when the star buries the girl, so help me vanish, help me get myself outta here" - e. gryner ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V1 #18 **********************************