From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #155 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, August 20 1999 Volume 02 : Number 155 Today's Subjects: ----------------- mute bank [paul.rabjohn@ssab.com] Re: mute bank [Mark Short ] Re[2]: mute bank [paul.rabjohn@ssab.com] Boston Globe's review of C&M's show [aschi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu] Wire Concerts in Real Audio [Patrick Follon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:51:25 +0100 From: paul.rabjohn@ssab.com Subject: mute bank just had a look at the mute web page (www.mutelibtech.com) after thinking i might buy the duet emmo 12". its amazing how much stuff is still available , just about all the ac marias/he said/bruce/duet emmo releases are still there , this stuff is often sold second hand as "rare". took the plunge and bought the "shivering man" lp and "one of our girls" cd single as well. £15 for the 3 including freight which is pretty good i thought. you can also get the 2 "visible evidence" videos too , i got the one with "so and slow" on it , i vaguely recall the other one was something i thought about getting but i can't recall what was on it now. no wire stuff i think. they are also advertising a video called "boardheadz" , a windsurfing video including music by ac marias and fortran 5 amongst others. sounds interesting......p ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:30:16 +0100 From: Mark Short Subject: Re: mute bank paul.rabjohn@ssab.com wrote: > > just had a look at the mute web page (www.mutelibtech.com) after thinking i might buy the duet emmo 12". its amazing how much stuff is still available , just about all the ac marias/he said/bruce/duet emmo releases are still there , this stuff is often sold second hand as "rare". took the plunge and bought the "shivering man" lp and "one of our girls" cd single as well. £15 for the 3 including freight which is pretty good i thought. > > you can also get the 2 "visible evidence" videos too , i got the one with "so and slow" on it , i vaguely recall the other one was something i thought about getting but i can't recall what was on it now. no wire stuff i think. they are also advertising a video called "boardheadz" , a windsurfing video including music by ac marias and fortran 5 amongst others. sounds interesting......p I bought the "Visible Evidence" videos some time ago, thinking that the whole Mute roster would be as hip and groovy as Wire. How wrong I was! However, most of the films on the videos do have a Wire connection, being directed by Angela Conway. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:41:58 +0100 From: paul.rabjohn@ssab.com Subject: Re[2]: mute bank paul.rabjohn@ssab.com wrote: > > just had a look at the mute web page (www.mutelibtech.com) after thinking i might buy the duet emmo 12". its amazing how much stuff is still available , just about all the ac marias/he said/bruce/duet emmo releases are still there , this stuff is often sold second hand as "rare". took the plunge and bought the "shivering man" lp and "one of our girls" cd single as well. £15 for the 3 including freight which is pretty good i thought. > > you can also get the 2 "visible evidence" videos too , i got the one with "so and slow" on it , i vaguely recall the other one was something i thought about getting but i can't recall what was on it now. no wire stuff i think. they are also advertising a video called "boardheadz" , a windsurfing video including music by ac marias and fortran 5 amongst others. sounds interesting......p I bought the "Visible Evidence" videos some time ago, thinking that the whole Mute roster would be as hip and groovy as Wire. How wrong I was! However, most of the films on the videos do have a Wire connection, being directed by Angela Conway. >>>> i thought the fortran 5 videos were pretty good , also renegade soundwave (don't think ac did theirs) and barry adamson. however i can live without the numerous vince clarke acts in all honesty. and nitzer ebb are pretty silly too. shame they didn't put any he said out as nobody seems to have these in a complete high-quality form. given that they're all paid for you'd think a mute-era wire video compilation (including he said and ac marias) would have been worth them doing. p ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:03:28 -0500 (EST) From: aschi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Boston Globe's review of C&M's show Colin Newman's entrancing Swim at Middle East By Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff, 08/19/99 CAMBRIDGE - Guitarist-singer Colin Newman has an impressive pedigree. He was one of the key players in Wire, an art-noise-pop band that arose in postpunk Britain during the late 1970s, and had an influence on everyone from U2 to R.E.M. and My Bloody Valentine. (All those groups have covered Wire songs.) Newman later embarked upon a solo career in which the music was less noisy, more sculpted, and quite sad and compelling. (Check out ''A-Z'' and ''Not To.'') Wire re-formed in 1988, but they were somewhat stilted and remote when they played town. Throughout the '90s, Newman has continued to work both solo and in numerous other combinations, recording for his own Swim label. It's fair to say he's flown well under the radar of most modern pop fans, and it was but a hearty handful that greeted him and his wife, guitarist-singer Malka Spigel, at the Middle East Downstairs Tuesday night. The duo was billed as Swim, but Spigel explained postset, that really is just the name of the company they formed in 1992, six years after they were married. (Spigel, an Israeli, played in the band Minimal Compact and met Newman in Amsterdam.) For the set, it was just the two of them plus a CD player from whence comes the bass and drum tracks. They played for an hour, choosing songs from both Newman's and Spigel's catalogs. They played gently entrancing songs that hovered between a couple of chords or notes, rocking back and forth. Newman did say hello to the audience, but he and Spigel aren't about give-and-take; they do what they do, looking down, mostly, and spin the musical web. There was a nod to Eastern music; there was one chiming number that actually recalled Mike Oldfield's ''Tubular Bells.'' Vocals happened occasionally, bits about being ''scared'' and, the best line, ''I have an idea - a concept you wouldn't understand.'' It was fairly simple stuff, but as we all know, simple stuff in the pop world can be incredibly riveting. See: Velvet Underground. Newman and Spigel moved in and out of that orbit. They were enticing at times, too lulling at others. Near the end of the set, Newman wisely stepped on a pedal kicking up the volume and the grittiness, lending a welcome Wire-y edge. It was, on the whole, an evening of modest off-center pleasures. The Peer Group opened with a set that was clanging and clamorous, and yet, had a springy foundation and an appealing fluidity. The roughness comes in guitarist-singer Peter Prescott's voice. He's a barker from way back, and his vocals give the band a punk-rock kick, sometimes welcome, sometimes not. This story ran on page E2 of the Boston Globe on 08/19/99. ) Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:50:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Patrick Follon Subject: Wire Concerts in Real Audio Hi, In addition to my posting a week ago about Wire interviews in Real Audio, I added live-concerts in Real Audio SureStream-format on my Wire-site. Also I added an interview/radioprogramme with Colin, made before his 1988 concerts in the Netherlands. The URL: http://patrick.op.het.net.je/wire Comments are still welcome. Best regards, Patrick ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #155 *******************************