From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V3 #153 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, June 12 2000 Volume 03 : Number 153 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: NXNE notes (NEC) ["Julian C. Dunn" ] RE: NXNE notes (NEC) [Isaac Greenwald ] NEC: Cicero gets dissed [Paul Schreiber ] i'm stoopid--URL for rayanne's site [Songbird22@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 01:57:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: RE: NXNE notes (NEC) On 10-Jun-2000 Julian C. Dunn wrote: > I'm just off to take a quick nap now and then I'm heading down to see Simon > Wilcox at C'est What, followed by Alla Kadysh at Oasis again. If I feel up to > it I'll head back to C'est What at 12 to catch Mia Sheard. So I'm back from seeing these shows and my nap has caused me to be wide awake - -- as a result you get immediate, one-off reviews! :-) (or, I could be doing the dishes from dinner right now, but hmm, what's more entertaining?) Started the night off at C'est What with Simon Wilcox. I ran into Tabassum and James (hmm, that kinda sounds like "McMaster and James" ... sorry kids :) ) and their friends. Simon was extraordinarily funny; she joked that she could always fall back on doing comedy if she failed at music. I would say that her songs are vocally rich, instrumentally sparse; she doesn't use her guitar to carry tunes but instead relies on her wonderful voice. This point was driven home by the fact that she did a great acapella number. Often when singers do acapella material I cringe slightly because it is VERY difficult to pull off, and many appear openly self-conscious about it. Not Simon -- this is probably one of the best acapella songs I've heard from anyone. It didn't feel like it was missing any instrumentation, either, like it was MEANT to be an acapella number. Needless to say I was quite impressed. Next I moved on to Oasis to hear Alla Kadysh. I've had her CD, "Perichole's Sincerity Theory", for a while, and it's very cool. Picture, if you will, a typical Latino band. Now imagine all the songs are sung in Russian or French (she does have some English material too). That might be approaching a rough description of Alla's music. One also imagines influences from Eastern European folk music thrown in there for good measure. In any case, it is very compelling, and Alla has a wonderfully sultry voice that's suited for the music. It's perfect music for a cozy venue like Oasis. Since I had an hour to kill before Mia Sheard, I headed over to Ted's to see this band called Mr. Brown. I have never heard of them and the only reason I went over there is because the NXNE program listed them as being from Melbourne, so I figured that I can tell my Australian friend Alana that I've seen a band from her city :-) They totally rocked out; they were loud, excited, and had great tunes. It was really funny to see the frontman dressed in a two piece suit with his shirt collar buttoned right up to the top, with a necktie; it seemed wholly inappropriate attire for the temperature in Ted's, which must have been at least forty degrees. It didn't seem to faze him that he was sweating buckets, since he got increasingly more animated as their set wore on. I'd describe the songs as catchy and very melodic; I don't think the lyrics mean much :-) I finished off the evening by rushing back to C'est What to catch Mia Sheard's set. It was a good thing I took a taxi because she only played a half-hour set, and I got there right as she was starting. Let me say, she sounds a hell of a lot better with a band. The last few times I've seen her (opening for Sarah Slean et. al.) she has played solo, and her songs can be, to put it lightly, somewhat depressing if unaccompanied. She's also got this kind of bohemian look (I don't know if I'm using the word right, but I can't find my farking dictionary right now) about her that evokes (rather stereotypical) notions of the starving singer-songwriter who has had all kinds of other things go bad in their lives, which only compounds the melancholy of seeing her play /without/ a band. So it was a pleasant change to hear familiar songs done with different arrangements -- and believe me, the arrangements were very unique and obviously not just cobbled together. The only distraction was that I sat beside the SAME yahoo who was taking a thousand pictures with a flashbulb at her last show. Only this time he wasn't equipped with a camera, but a package of cigarettes that he insisted on chain-smoking and letting the smoke burn off in the direction of my EYES. I could kill these people, I swear to God :-) (and his wife/girlfriend almost burned my knee with a cigarette, neither of whom apologized for the accident) Anyway, I guess that means I have to do the dishes now :-( Hope that all of you who went to NXNE had a good time -- Rannie it sounds like you kids had quite the day! -- and I'm looking forward to next year's edition! - - Julian [ Julian C. Dunn - jdunn@aquezada.com WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/ ] [ FuE exfe94 a+++ Ifte/slc lonca r- ps++ bs+ t++/*t C+++$/C! w+++ p7 LF+++ ] [N++/N! cd350 pr++ g+++ S-/S *x++ Fa+++/Fa$/Fa! m1 b+ fc+++/ E>+ rl-- *d s!] [ "i sold my computer for a used acoustic guitar" -- the nields ] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 02:54:45 -0400 From: Isaac Greenwald Subject: RE: NXNE notes (NEC) Wow I just got back from NXNE.... I heard two INCREDIBLE bands!!! Starling lived up to all the hype they have created around this city AND MORE!!! AND... Roni Hawkins who as always KICKS ASS!! He played half from his new album (to be released called War& Meat) and half from greasing the star machine ...if you have never checked them out b4 I highly recommend you do so! only drawback was.... that the temperature was like 100% in the place (Ted's)... I think i am still a bit hungover so I will grab another beer b4 sleep takes me over! Cheers, Isaac ____________________________________________________________ woof! woof! I'm @dog.com Get your free @dog e-mail at http://www.dog.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:59:31 -0700 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: NEC: Cicero gets dissed dead daisy artist: http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2000/06/0931.cfm Chart says boo, hiss. Paul shad 96c / 3B 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. i'm still recalling the things you said to make me feel alright / i carried them with me today / - -- Sophie B. Hawkins, "As I Lay Me Down" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:36:40 EDT From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: SEC: What's up with Much Music? What's the deal? Do they ever play anything Canadian? We just got cable yesterday and get Much Music now... which is cool, except that during the 3 hours I flipped stations yesterday, everytime I stopped on MM it was either Britney or some horrible American boy band or (c)rap or something... Just wondering when they play like... Chantal, Tara, Emm, Jann Arden, Matthew Good Band, etc? I want to catch the Chantal "Souls" video--if there is one--they play it, right? Jess www.jessicaweiser.com | mp3.com/jessweiser ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:57:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: RE: SEC: What's up with Much Music? On 11-Jun-2000 Songbird22@aol.com wrote: > What's the deal? Do they ever play anything Canadian? We just got cable > yesterday and get Much Music now... which is cool, except that during the 3 > hours I flipped stations yesterday, everytime I stopped on MM it was either > Britney or some horrible American boy band or (c)rap or something... Just > wondering when they play like... Chantal, Tara, Emm, Jann Arden, Matthew Good > Band, etc? I want to catch the Chantal "Souls" video--if there is one--they > play it, right? MuchMusic has changed its format quite a bit since they started MuchMoreMusic. MMM plays a lot more of the so-called AC songs, whereas nowadays MM itself is no better than eMpTyV, minus the annoying teenybopper shows. - - Julian [ Julian C. Dunn - jdunn@aquezada.com WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/ ] [ FuE exfe94 a+++ Ifte/slc lonca r- ps++ bs+ t++/*t C+++$/C! w+++ p7 LF+++ ] [N++/N! cd350 pr++ g+++ S-/S *x++ Fa+++/Fa$/Fa! m1 b+ fc+++/ E>+ rl-- *d s!] [ "i sold my computer for a used acoustic guitar" -- the nields ] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 17:28:49 EDT From: AuroraSparkle@aol.com Subject: Re: SEC: What's up with Much Music? In a message dated 6/11/00 5:22:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jdunn@aquezada.com writes: << MuchMusic has changed its format quite a bit since they started MuchMoreMusic. MMM plays a lot more of the so-called AC songs, whereas nowadays MM itself is no better than eMpTyV, minus the annoying teenybopper shows. >> MuchMusic is still way better than MTV. They play rock videos. VH1 lately has gotten a lot hipper. That's sad. - --Rachael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:31:59 EDT From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: new website design for singer-songwriter rayanne! hey peeps: for the past few weeks i've been working extremely hard on a new concept/design for rayanne's website. along w/ my graphic and web design, the site is filled with photos from 3 extremely talented photographers: rannie turingan, roberto wright, and alvin mamuyac. though i haven't finished the photo section yet, soon you will be able to see who took every single picture on the site, many new photos of rayanne, and see all of the non-photoshop-manipulated photos... anyway, check it out and see what's new w/ rayanne and look at the new design... one thing i should note, there's a ton of graphics and the page takes a minute or two to load... those w/ adsl line will not mind... those still using a 14.4 modem will... :) sign the guestbook! i'd love to know what you think -- and let me know if there's any problems. thanks!! best, jessica www.jessicaweiser.com | mp3.com/jessweiser ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:28:32 -0400 (EDT) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: SEC: What's up with Much Music? On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 Songbird22@aol.com wrote: > What's the deal? Do they ever play anything Canadian? We just got cable > yesterday and get Much Music now... which is cool, except that during the 3 MuchMusic or MuchUSA? There's a difference, though it's growing less and less, within a couple of years I don't expect MUCH to play anything _not_ currently in the Top 100. James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:40:53 EDT From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: i'm stoopid--URL for rayanne's site forgot one vital piece of info in that message: www.aquezada.com/rayanne :) jw ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V3 #153 ***********************************