From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V1 #135 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, October 3 1998 Volume 01 : Number 135 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Newsletter 2.5 ["charles / wmo" ] Re: Wire Influences and my intro [Max Schmid ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:43:30 -0700 From: "charles / wmo" Subject: Newsletter 2.5 NEWSLETTER 2.5 September 1998 EDITORIAL Hello and welcome to the Autumn Newsletter. Please note our NEW USA address, thus why you may be receiving this missive via post! A quietish summer not helped by the summer's appalling weather (too wet in the UK and too hot in the US!!). Continued efforts to release WMO products are coming to fruition following various frustrations (see below). Bruce, Colin and Graham continue their respective activities. WMO P'o and Dugga are out on November 10th, having been pushed back slightly due to manufacturing and distribution problems. For those of you who may forget, the P'o CD is a reissue of the 1983 cult classic band effort on the Court Label, featuring Gilbert/Lewis, A.C. Marias, Peter Price and David Tidball. Dugga is our second album of Wire covers, this time everyone doing "Drill". The 14 tracks were mixed DJ-style by Mark Gage aka Vapourspace. Our web page and the Merchandise List give details of mail order offers applying to these titles. Order Now! MAIL ORDER Please note that due to the vagaries of Record Distribution, and in particular to our customers in Europe, you may ensure yourself a copy of both Dugga and P'o by purchasing through the Mail Order. Merchandise Lists may be obtained by sending e-mail to catalog@wiremailorder.com and for our UK and European customers, please send e-mail to uklist@wiremailorder.com. Just have a valid ReplyTo and the respective list will automatically be sent to you. T_SHIRT? YES! The official Dugga t-shirt is here! Limited to a print run of only 100, the white XL only shirt features the Dugga Dugga Dugga cover on the back and the WMO logo on the front. THIS IS A ONE TIME OFFER OVER THE INTERNET! Cost is $15.00 plus $3.00 postage and handling. Order Now! SET SALE The Mail Order is having a close-out sale on a few rarities and titles from the Merchandise list. You may obtain this Set Sale list by sending e-mail to setsale@wiremailorder.com. Please note that quantities are limited and all orders must be confirmed via e-mail! BRUCE The Festival of Drifting continues when Bruce collaborates with the CONET Project at a performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on September 25th. Also the bill are LaBradford, Durutti Column and Pan Sonic. The following statements come from the South Bank magazine: 'A night fit to bursting with the history and future of alternative music. Former stalwarts of Factory Records and instrumental in so much British indie music of the last 15 years, Durutti Column move toward a heavily trance -influenced sound. From Virginia, La Bradford have created a soundtrack for our times. Their albums A Stable Preference and LaBradford, an electro mix of brooding Krautrock and dark ambience, hailed an important birth. Pan Sonic are the main Artic groovers, re-mixing Bjork, recording an album with Alan "Suicide" Vega, creating avant-dubadelic electro-shag-fest (?!), and finally, importantly, being "the future of music" (Independent). Ex-Wire guitarist Bruce Gilbert teams with numerical radio sound experts CONET Project while the 'audacious minimalism' (Q) of Ludovico Einaudi's Stanze, sixteen 'gorgeous' (Sunday Times) pieces for harp, is played by Cecilia Chailly.' SWIM Malka Spigel's new album "My Pet Fish" (WM10) is due this month. It features contribution from Mark Gage (Vapourspace), Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Charles Snider (WMO US), and Ben Newman. Due in October is the debut album from Silo entitled "Instar". The post-rockers hail from Copenhagen and their debut is a "stunning" guitar album produced by Colin Newman. Colin and Malka head out on the road, with Ronnie & Clyde, for a brief tour around the hot spots of Europe. Further information can be found on the Swim web site: http://www.kleber.net/swim/ GRAHAM Ocsid perform in Vienna at the Ars Festival in September. Further information can be found on the Origin web siteL http://www.freq.se/origin. The He Said Omala remix CD "Matching Crosses" is receiving a US release from World Domination Recordings on October 12th. It is distributed by ADA. AHEAD With the release of Dugga and P'o, WMO closes its fourth year of operation! Next year will see the release of Colin Newman's Vox Pop, a collection of home recordings from 1980-1990, a compilation of unreleased Dome material entitled TBA, the reissue of the eponymous Michael O'Shea album, and more! SUPPORT Please note that by purchasing items from Wire Mail Order not only helps us continue this service, but provides us with the resources to produce further WMO titles. Being a self-financed record label is not easy business and your support is what keeps us releasing titles. It's that simple. Please support independent music by purchasing directly from Wire Mail Order or from your local independent record store. It does make a difference! This newsletter © 1998 Wire Mail Order - -------------------------------------------- wmo@interserv.com http://wiremailorder.com/ catalog@wiremailorder.com updated: September 25, 1998 - -------------------------------------------- ***new mailing address*** Wire Mail Order PO Box 29133 Los Angeles, CA 90029-0133 - -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 11:18:37 -0400 From: Max Schmid Subject: Re: Wire Influences and my intro At 04:30 AM 10/2/98 -0400, "charles / wmo" wrote: >>> Does anyone know what albums or bands the boys in Wire liked before >>> making "Pink Flag"? > >They liked all the cool bands - Can, Velvets, etc... but Colin was a big T. >Rex and Nick Drake fan and had a "Beatles" background. Graham loved Free to >boot, but his vocals are straight Kevin Ayres. And of course, everyone loved >Eno/Roxy. Listen to Manzanera's Diamond Head. It's really 154 in disguise. Finally! Some references that an old fart like myself can relate to. I wonder if I'm the oldest coot on this list. I just passed my 47th birthday. This is my first posting here, so a bit of background. I've been broadcasting Old-Time Radio on independent Pacifica radio's WBAI-FM in NYC for over 20 years. That show is strictly formatted as the title suggests. I've also been doing a late-night show called Mass Backwards for about ten years. On this free-form show I can indulge (and inflict) my various tastes on an unsleeping public. Needless to say it has included much Wire lately. I first came upon them through The Ideal Copy, then picked up the catalog in both directions. Sadly my main stash of CDs got lost in a recent station move, so I have reverted to old LPs and the "On Returning" collection for airplay. While it would be difficult for me to select a favorite track, Advantage In Height would certainly be one of them, and it was a pleasure to play Mr Suit upon the station moving to Wall Street. My own musical tastes have expanded over the years, from getting my first transistor radio at the age of ten, preferring doo-wop and r&b oldies over most of the then-current fare, until the British Invasion. Since then I tend to prefer British bands over American output. The Beatles, Free, Yes, The Move are all favorites from the '60s and '70s. Elvis Costello (without Burt Bacharach) was great throughout his rock years. Favorite band of the '80s: Shriekback! Any other fans out there?? Lately I tend to prefer industrial and noise (KMFDM, Die Krupps, The Flaming Lips are often heard, and - flame away - Rammstein), much to the dismay of my older listeners who tune in to hear the radio dramas that follow. Lately most of my free time is spent in transferring old airchecks of NYC radio performer Jean Shepherd from rotting reels for preservation. You may know him as the author and narrator of "A Christmas Story", but he was also the most talented man ever to crack a mike, spinning tales of his mid-west childhood, army life, and exposing the foibles of modern media-obsessed man. His every prediction regarding the show-biz taking over all aspects of culture has come to pass, and hearing these shows from the '60s is a revelation. He is brilliantly funny. He was a beat in the '50s, and toured with the Beatles in 1964 for Playboy, where his short stories won several annual humor awards. Preserving and sharing his wit is my passion and mission. So it's off-topic - it's my introduction! I'll say no more about it, and only once post my sig file for those who may be curious. -Max Max Schmid - Producer - WBAI-FM, NYC GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO and MASS BACKWARDS http://www.oldtimeradio.com Jean Shepherd Catalog: http://www.intercall.com/~jsadur/shepcat.htm ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V1 #135 *******************************