From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V8 #145 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Tuesday, May 31 2005 Volume 08 : Number 145 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] STAR WARS ["Keith A" ] Re: [idealcopy] Fall antics [MarkBursa@aol.com] [idealcopy] [OT] House of the Rising Punk [Bart van Damme Subject: [idealcopy] STAR WARS For Veggie SW fans... http://www.storewars.org/flash/ And for Nerdie SW fans... http://seanism.com/dlarea/?action=watch&id=43 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 11:42:27 EDT From: MarkBursa@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Fall antics >>I just wonder why Wire never were asked to appear! << Not on a major label, I guess - so no convenient PR for the BBC bookers to ring up. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 18:41:51 +0200 From: Bart van Damme Subject: [idealcopy] [OT] House of the Rising Punk For those lucky lucky people who can receive German television: Pop Odyssee: House of the Rising Punk (ZDF - 0:45) With: Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, Jim Jarmusch, Ramones, Legs McNeil, Alan Vega, Amos Poe, Roberta Bayley, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Blondie, New York Dolls, Talking Heads http://tinyurl.com/d4eyo Bart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 19:20:02 EDT From: HowardJSpencer@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] Re: Penguin Cafe Orchestra << As for The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, I don't know a great deal about them save to say I *think* they were the brainchild of a Guy called Giles Farnaby (Now deceased, I think) who gathered together a varied band of musicians, and dabbled in all sorts of (mainly accoustic) musical styles, often with quite odd instruments, inc Xylophones, glockenspiels, mandolins , banjos, guitars cellos, violins:- you name it, they used it. Style-wise they covered every base from string quartets to ethno-music and back again. They were all, so far as I know, classically trained, and were beloved of advertising execs, and their stuff often shows up as music for voice-overs on documentaries, and ads. I guarantee most of you will have heard *something* by them, though you might not have known it. The one I guess that most of you will have heard is "Telephone and rubber band", which was used in a 1-to-1 phone network ad. It sounded, unsurprisingly, just like a telephone and a rubber band: consist! ing as it did of a looped 'dial-tone', with some accoustic upright bass noodling, and topped off with a scrapy violin or two. Also their piece "Perpetuum Mobile" and "Music for a Found Harmonium" crops up all the time on TV. For the curious, I'd recommend the compilation "Airs and Yodels:- a Penguin Cafe primer".......To hear that Bez has name-checked them, though, is something I find utterly astounding, as nothing he's ever been involved with points in that direction AT ALL !!!!!>> I've been a Penguin Cafe Orchestra fan in a low-level-constant kind of way for 20 odd years. The main man was called Simon Jeffes, and he died in 1997, far too young, of motor neurone disease or something equally awful. Some of their stuff has become horribly overexposed thanks to its use for adverts, but Telephone and Rubber Band sounded terrific in pre-sampling days (the first album was around 1978 I think, and was on Eno's Obscure label). Music for a Found Harmonium is a big favourite of mine too. Some might find them too mannered-ly English, too Bonzo Dog, and too damn melodic but they're fine by me. Giles Farnaby was mentioned in the title of one of their tracks - I am pretty sure he was a 16th or 17th century English composer. Howard ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 19:38:14 EDT From: CHRISWIRE@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Re: Penguin Cafe Orchestra Nice one Howard I too have been a low level Penguin Cafe fan for about the same time.IIRC The South Bank Show did a piece about them but my memory like everything is hazy ! Simon Jeffes was the main man & I still play the albums occasionally.Bought a CD off E-Bay a couple of years ago too. I agree they were very English but utterly charming with that touch of eccentricity. I have a 6 CD changer in my car & have gotten to playing all 6 during the week as I drive about doing my job.I pick them randomly - honest. Last weeks 6 were; Talk Talk - Live 1986 in London Bob Mould - Modulator Stereolab - Dots & Loops Philip Glass - Qum kwatcha sumthing (haven't got the damned thing here) but hopefully you get my drift. Brian Eno -Jah Wobble - Spinner (Mentioned this week on the list ! 24 Hour Party People Soundtrack It's a good way to give the music attention as it's pretty difficult in the evening with so many distractions. So another easy 6 points for the Baggies next year as West Ham stake their place in the Premiership. Cheers Chris ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V8 #145 *******************************