From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V2 #84 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, April 22 1999 Volume 02 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- emm on da radio [Paul Schreiber ] Re: Dead Daisy Records signs a new artist! [James McGarry ] Attention Emmbassadors! [Joni Daniels ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 01:23:52 -0400 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: emm on da radio so what if i sound like a 12-year-old eda :P :) I was in the Subway the other day, and we're walking out, and all of a sudden I hear "ON THE WISDOM BUS / HEADING INTO TOWN" and I'm like "omigod, Emm's on the radio! cool!" i'm not sure what station it was, I'm thinking 105.3 or 103.5 or something like that. (This is southern ontario i'm refeerring to.) Paul shad 96c / 3A CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / jewel / sophie b. / sarah slean / steve poltz / emm gryner / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / habs / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. "Nobody gets into heaven without a glowstick" -- Homer Simpson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:21:22 -0400 (EDT) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: Dead Daisy Records signs a new artist! On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Andrea wrote: > If not tho, it'd definetely be amazing to have a whole album of the awesome > Emm covers... > > Bobcaygeon, Crazy Train (again), Sabotage, Julia (OLP version > right?)...ohhh heaven. That's Sarah Slean with the OLP Julia cover... ...Emm's Julia is "about a her in New York" (sans notebook). But yeah, Emm's covers are great covers, because the are so _right_ and yet so not at all what the originals were. I _must_ hear her version of Bobcaygeon... MUST! :-) Sabotage was definitely FUN! James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:14:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Emm's interivew in _Elm Street_ I'm taking a break from studying for finals. Enjoy! It appeared in the March 1999 issue of _Elm Street_, a Canadian magazine for women (along with great articles about Tara Maclean and Dayna Manning) Any typos are the fault of the OCR software (it seems to turn 'Gryner' into 'Cryner' :) ) - - Julian Emm Gryner BY ELIZABETH RENZETTI THREE YEARS AGO, EMM Gryner arrived in Toronto from the relative obscurity of Forest, Ont., quickly realized that she needed a manager and found that there was a tested method for gaining one. It involved bribery. The budding singer-songwriter opened a directory of personal managers in the music industry and sent each of them a basket of fruit along with a tape of her songs. None of them acknowledged the package. "Except one:' says Gryner. "He said he liked the fruit, but not my music." She says this with a wry but triumphant smile. She graciously refrains from adding, Isn't he the sorry one? Gryner no longer needs to cold-call the music industry: The Toronto-based singer already has record deals with major labels in Canada and the United States that resulted in last year's successful debut, Public. She has a manager and a band, and she's toured with everyone from Toronto's Philosopher Kings to the Swedish pop artists The Cardigans. She's a budding industry kingpin too; as owner of Dead Daisy Records, she nourishes talent from the independent-music scene. There is also the small matter of destiny. Apparently, a psychic enlisted to prophesy Gryner's future when she was still in diapers predicted that she would fall in love when she was 23. Guess who's just reached the magical age! "I'm interested in astrology and astronomy," Gryner admits, though as a good child of the skeptical era she squirms as she says it, aware that this admission brings her dangerously close to the Age of Aquarius. The lyrics in Public - when they aren't bemoaning a breakup - are filled with pictures of the cosmos, the wonder of its planets and unseen forces. The lush, pretty record is also, however, tinged with low-level angst, the kind of woe-is-me hand-wringing that can happen only between the ages of 18 and 22 (when Gryner, who's been making music since childhood, wrote the songs on Public). Lyrics like "There are scars too deep to heal alone you know" prompt a second look at the petite singer: Is she really messed up and just hiding it extremely well? No, but...maybe. "On the surface," says Gryner, "I can be pretty well adjusted. But I think, sometimes, that I push down the other things and they come out only when I write." She laughs: "And that's my therapy session for the day." Gryner wants the tone of the next record, which she's writing now, to be less focussed on inner turmoil lyrical ly and to be more spare, stripped-down musically. On Public, she was a one- woman orchestra, playing guitar, bass and piano, as well as those relies of bygone eras the mellotron and the Wurlitzer organ. The roots of Gryner's normal-on-the- surface musical talents are found south- west of Toronto in the town of Forest, which is home to North America's only paper for poultry lovers, The Feather Fancier. The newspaper is run by Gryner's father, a former real estate broker, and her mother, a nurse who emigrated to Canada from the Philippines. Yes, Gryner confirms, hiding her face in mock shame, she had a pet chicken growing up. After the chicken came the bands. Gryner found herself in a couple of teen pop outfits, including one with her brothers called Noise R Us. In the time- honoured tradition of fledgling rock stars everywhere, Gryner played cover tunes, in this case thundering numbers by her heroes Nirvana and Pearl Jam. It is several hours' drive and a few years' musical growth between that and the kind of lyrical guitar-and-piano- based pop that Gryner now practises. It was that luscious sound that the organizers of the all-female Lilith Fair concert tour were looking to add to their mix when they came knocking at Gryner's door in 1997. When any other young singer-songwriter might have flung her- self wholeheartedly into Lilith's lucrative embrace, Gryner remained coy - at first. The product of an age of Girl Power, she says she's never been drawn "to champion any sort of art based on gender. "It was something I was skeptical to get involved with:' she says. "But being part of it changed my mind. There really is a sense of empowerment behind the scenes - here are all these great women who can play and write so well." [ Julian C. Dunn - jdunn@aquezada.com WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/ ] [ programmer, web designer, unix user, fumbler, writer, and future engineer] [ FuE exfe94 a+++ Ifte/slc lonca r- ps++ bs+ t++/*t C+++$/C! w+++ p7 LF+++ ] [N++/N! cd260 pr++ g+++ S-/S *x++ Fa+++/Fa$/Fa! m1 b+ fc+++/ E>+ rl-- *d s!] [ "you're cruel and unkind when i can't read your mind " - lenni jabour ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:20:28 -0400 From: Joni Daniels Subject: Attention Emmbassadors! Emm appreciates that you guys have been so loyal, creative and passionate in your support of her and her music. Because she is still relatively "undiscovered", playing in clubs everywhere is not that realistic. Emm really wants to get out and play her new songs for you and we came up with an idea. What would you guys think about a grass-roots Emm Gryner tour? Goes something like this: Emm will come to your dorm/ local coffee house/ even your living room and play a free concert for your invited guests! It would be up to you to gather an audience of friends and family or whomever and entertain them in whatever way you choose. Emm would not charge for the show, but would sell CDs (all personally autographed). It would be fun for her to be able to visit a lot of the places that she can't get to on a regular tour. What do you think? If anyone would be interested in Emm visiting and playing, please get back to us. Any other suggestions are welcome. Thanks. Joni jd@interlog.com ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V2 #84 **********************************