From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V2 #283 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 Saturday, November 27 1999 Volume 02 : Number 283 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Ron Sexsmith review in NOW ["Julian C. Dunn" ] Re: Ron Sexsmith review in NOW [James McGarry ] Re: Ron Sexsmith review in NOW [Steve I ] Re: Ron Sexsmith review in NOW [Piggio@aol.com] [none] [steve.ito@utoronto.ca] Re: Kevin Fox in Toronto tonight ["Tab Siddiqui" ] Death to Matt Galloway! ["Tab Siddiqui" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:26:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Ron Sexsmith review in NOW It looks like the reviewer likes Ron a lot, but wasn't that impressed with Emm and Holly. Here's the relevant excerpt: "Sexsmith's subtle service" by Matt Galloway Emm Gryner's been spending some quality time of late on tour singing backup vocals for David Bowie, so when press releases for her set at Trinity-St. Paul's opening for Ron Sexsmith promised "special guests", it was no surprise that some folks believed, however irrationally, that the pop chameleon might actually show up. He didn't. Gryner, however, did bring fellow backup vocalist Holly Palmer to coo on her overwrought pop songs, but the effect was more comical than entertaining. Palmer's greatest talent appeared to be snapping her fingers on the beat, and while shoop-shooping dramatically might look fabulous when you're in front of 60,000 people, in the intimate confines of Trinity Church, it looks pretty foolish. Palmer's own ghastly song suggested that she'd do best staying at the back of the stage, while Gryner's bass and drum demolition of Massive Attack's Protection somehow managed to strip the sensuality from one of the sexier pop songs. - -- Julian C. Dunn ASIC Validation Group, Matrox Graphics Inc. Tel: (905) 944-4900 x7006 Fax: (905) 944-4909 istream >> ostream >> "We all scream for ice cream"; ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:51:47 -0500 (EST) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: Ron Sexsmith review in NOW On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Julian C. Dunn quoted: > of the stage, while Gryner's bass and drum demolition of Massive Attack's > Protection somehow managed to strip the sensuality from one of the sexier > pop songs. Umm, everything else aside,...um... did they see the same show we did? This _rocked_, it was one of the best things about the whole set. Geez Louise. There's being a jaded music critic and there's being just plain dense. James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:44:31 -0500 From: Steve I Subject: Re: Ron Sexsmith review in NOW Julian transcribed the following from NOW: >Emm Gryner's been spending some quality time of late on tour singing >backup vocals for David Bowie, so when press releases for her set at >Trinity-St. Paul's opening for Ron Sexsmith promised "special guests", it >was no surprise that some folks believed, however irrationally, that the >pop chameleon might actually show up. And then he proceeds to trash Emm and Holly. I wonder who he meant by "some folks"? Sounds like *somebody* had his heart set on seeing Mr. Bowie, and was a little disappointed when Holly showed up instead. :-) Poor hapless NOW writer, doesn't get to write the big surprise Bowie piece he'd dreamed of writing... Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:36:54 EST From: Piggio@aol.com Subject: Re: Ron Sexsmith review in NOW With apologies to Bowie, sounds like Mr. NOW writer wouldn't know good music if it fell on his face. I saw her play the Massive Attack song in London and if she played it anywhere near as well at Toronto as she did there, I'm sure it flat out rocked. Like James said, I'm sure this guy was just plain being dense. Pay him no mind. Rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:57:27 -0500 From: steve.ito@utoronto.ca Subject: [none] NO-IDENT-SERVICE [port 1307]) by bureau6.utcc.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <464281-16101>; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:57:09 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19991126125605.007cc220@mailbox66.utcc.utoronto.ca> X-Sender: steve.ito@mailbox66.utcc.utoronto.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:56:14 -0500 To: Headline Girl Mailing List , Navy Soup Mailing List From: Steve I Subject: Kevin Fox in Toronto tonight Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hey folks, I've been meaning all week to post about this but I kept forgetting... sorry for the late notice. Anyway Kevin Fox is opening for Mia Sheard at C'est What tonight. Many of you will be familiar with Kevin from his supporting roles in Emm Gryner and Sarah Slean's bands (etc. etc.) I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it tonight which really sucks but you guys should all go, Kevin's AMAZING. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 16:49:23 PST From: "Tab Siddiqui" Subject: Re: Kevin Fox in Toronto tonight Steve wrote: >Anyway Kevin Fox is opening for Mia Sheard at C'est What tonight. >Many of >you will be familiar with Kevin from his supporting roles in >Emm Gryner >and Sarah Slean's bands (etc. etc.) > >I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it tonight which really >sucks >but you guys should all go, Kevin's AMAZING. Kevin's also playing Monday night at Ted's Wrecking Yeard at their weekly singer-songwriter showcase, which has a really great lineup every week. He's been playing that show at lot lately, I notice from the listings, alhtough I unfortunately haven't made it out to one yet myself. Also on the bill that night are some of the great musicians from Kim Stockwood's current band (all well-known local musicians in their own right). - - Tab :) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 16:57:05 PST From: "Tab Siddiqui" Subject: Death to Matt Galloway! Yet *another* stupid review of the Emm/Ron show - it's not online, sorry, and I don't have time to type it up, but Toronto weekly NOW Magazine did a review of the show which really slagged Emm pretty hard. The reviewer, Matt Galloway, from what I know, is usually more of a hip-hop/urban music writer - that doesn't mean he can't review a folk/pop show, but I don't think he'd bring the same level of understanding and sensitivity to it as maybe, say, his fellow NOW music writer Kim Hughes, who's known and appreciated both Emm and Ron for a long time. The show actually got *4* N's (stars), because he basically said Ron was quite good, but it's also a bit confusing because he then goes on to criticize several aspects on Ron's performance. Weird. He called Emm's songs "overwrought" and really didn't like Holly Palmer at all, which is ridiculous, because she was great and the audience really responded well to her. If anyone really wants to vent, I'd suggest firing off an e-mail or letter to NOW - they're usually quite good about printing most of the feedback they get. - - Tab :) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V2 #283 ***********************************