From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V2 #156 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 Monday, July 19 1999 Volume 02 : Number 156 Today's Subjects: ----------------- completely INSANE emmfest... ["Julian C. Dunn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:00:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: completely INSANE emmfest... Today's backyard show in Orangeville was the third and final Emm show that I've seen in the last four days. I think I'll probably have to listen to something else for the next few days... I mean, Emm is really good, but there's a limit to everything :-P (Hmm... maybe I'll just listen to Trish's CD until I've overplayed it too :) ) Anyway, about today's show -- the "venue" (<-- picture the finger quotes) was in the backyard of Gian's friend, Michael Pitcher. Michael lives in Orangeville which is about an hour's drive north of Toronto, "where the highway don't run". Basically you get on the 410 and drive until the highway ends, and keep driving until the road becomes more and more narrow, until it turns into a dirt lane. :) There's much to be said about living out in the country, though -- complete silence, except for the sounds of nature, is one benefit. The dead silence was really quite awesome, especially during some of Emm's songs where she pauses for a brief moment with no instrumentation; it was completely quiet and very powerful. Trish "opened" for Emm, playing four songs: Power Trip, Ticket 152, Breathe, and Nonsense. I'm going to mention the "dead silence" again -- it really made an impact to hear 'Breathe' outside of the confines of a venue like C'est What or the Free Times, where there is inevitably someone talking away in the back, or dropping dishes in the kitchen. Anyway it was nice to hear Trish's voice and the instrumentation come through clearly. Emm's set was rather unconventional -- she played a bunch of songs that I didn't expect her to play, and she didn't play some songs I was expecting her to play. As Steve Ito mentioned to me in the car on the way back, it's nice that artists like Emm can be rather spontaneous with what they do (in terms of what songs they play, what venues they play at, and so on). You don't see that kind of spontaneity with people like Sarah McLachlan -- she's so huge that if you go to see a Sarah show, you pretty much know what songs you're going to get, and you're probably going to have to see her at some huge monument to concrete, like the Molson Mistake-By-The-Lake, I mean, the Amphitheatre. :) Emm opened with "Southern Dreamer", which is an interesting song to start with. It's starting to grow on me, though; it's "different". (I love the part where she sings "blue moon over Malibu..."; it's so SULTRY!) Next she played "the hit", as in "let's get the hit out of the way" -- in other words, Summerlong. I believe she followed this with "Doomsday", which is a song I've never heard her play live before. I was VERY impressed with it; I think the song is wonderful in its own right, but the atmosphere (which I've already babbled about enough) just added to the power of the song. I think she played "Wisdom Bus" right after that, and then I don't remember what else she played (Stereochrome was sometime after that, as I recall) Anyway, to sum up, it was a wonderful escape from the confines of the city, at least for an afternoon. By the way, Trish kicks ass at hacky-sack -- that drop-kick move must be a Detroit thing, huh? :-P yawn (off to bed), Julian [ 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 ] ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V2 #156 ***********************************