From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V3 #59 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, March 9 2000 Volume 03 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Garage [Wireviews ] NME review [Jack Steinmann ] Re: NME review ["MackDaddyD" ] Re: NME review ["Stephen Jackson" ] Re: NME review [Wireviews ] Re: michaellewissteger [CHRISWIRE@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 01:32:10 -0800 (PST) From: Wireviews Subject: Re: The Garage - --- Steve Finch wrote: > type venue as is the Garage at Highbury which I > believe holds approx 300 > persons at full capacity. The interface between band > and crowd at that > venue is always 'in your face'. Ish. The stage is actually quite high at the Garage, so it's not quite "in yer face". Capacity is obviously more limited than the likes of RFH though, so the atmosphere will be somewhat altered. > Rumour is, they are doing a different set each > night?.... To quote Colin, "No we're bloody not!". There may be the odd difference in running order or the odd track removed from the set, but they won't be playing completely different sets every night. Craig/Wireviews. ===== - ------- Craig Grannell / Wireviews --- http://welcome.to/wireviews News, reviews and dugga. Snub.Comms: http://welcome.to/snub Veer Audio: http://listen.to/veer - -------------- wireviews@yahoo.com --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: 08 Mar 2000 12:49:15 -0600 From: Jack Steinmann Subject: NME review Wire - London South Bank Royal Festival Hall http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/20000308163811.html Jack ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:13:17 -0600 From: "MackDaddyD" Subject: Re: NME review so... should wire have taken blur and elastica's influence into account when selecting a setlist and... by my recolection (possibly faulty - i AM a yank after all) NME have never been wire boosters at the moment i sold a NME compilation cassette from 1986 last week on eBay the principal reason i sold it was that the sole track of interest in 2000 was 'we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it' the rest of the pack is emminently forgetable and forgotten (and i happen to LIKE bad artSchool vids - they kick ass on the *good* ones) d > > Wire - London South Bank Royal Festival Hall > http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/20000308163811.html > > > > Jack > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:27:14 -0000 From: "Stephen Jackson" Subject: Re: NME review Pity the pic they put in the NME was Michael Clark, and not even a member of Wire....They also said the set was too 80s heavy...Can't win. Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Out of the Void. - -----Original Message----- From: Jack Steinmann To: Ideal Copy Date: 08 March 2000 19:09 Subject: NME review > >Wire - London South Bank Royal Festival Hall >http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/20000308163811.html > > > >Jack > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:22:26 -0800 (PST) From: Wireviews Subject: Re: NME review Hi all, Thought I'd bung in my 2p regarding the NME. You have to remember that they are very much at the cutting edge of whatever bullshit remains in the UK music scene, i.e.: not that much. You see, they *used* to be interested in the "indie" scene, but became complacent when it moved to mainstream. Hence, the NME think they're being exciting by printing articles about Oasis. As for Wire, and indeed the solo work, I think the writer is an idiot. Whilst the Mute He Said albums were very '80s, the set Graham did at RFH had a lot in common with HSO - very '90s if anything, but hardly '80s pop. And as for Immersion - well, there wasn't a great deal of stuff like that around in the '80s either, save for the seeds that would become The Orb. Myabe this guy equates electronics with '80s? Very naive if that's the case. As for the videos, yes, some of them weren't that great, but then some of them were. Can't win 'em all with a/v! And Wire: well, they couldn't win either way. Personally, I admire them for their honesty and the fact that they attempted a reasonable cross-section of their work (although a band-based So and Slow it Grows really should have been in the set in my opinion). As for it being full of their '80s stuff - quite right. I really enjoyed those '80s tracks Pink Flag, 12XU, and ... oh, what's the point? I think this just highlights why I gave up with the UK press ages ago. Craig/Wireviews ===== - ------- Craig Grannell / Wireviews --- http://welcome.to/wireviews News, reviews and dugga. Snub.Comms: http://welcome.to/snub Veer Audio: http://listen.to/veer - -------------- wireviews@yahoo.com --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:56:15 EST From: CHRISWIRE@aol.com Subject: Re: michaellewissteger Hi Paul, I have an L.P. copy of The Band Of Susans "Hope Against Hope".Susan Stenger is indeed the bass player with 2 other Susans Tallman & Lyle on guitars .Robert Poss on guitar & Ron Spitzer on drums.Need I say the album is heavily grungy guitar orientated 7 quite simply a little gem.A tape on its way if you need it! It was released on Blast First in 88.It should be still quite available .Good picture of the band on the inner sleeve too. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V3 #59 ******************************