From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V8 #256 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, September 23 2005 Volume 08 : Number 256 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] The Scottish Play [Wireviews ] RE: [idealcopy] OT: Go4 on Saturday ["Keith Knight" ] Re: [idealcopy] The Mahden Daaance ["Keith A" Subject: [idealcopy] The Scottish Play :: As for the 'Scottish play' release, I thought they *perhaps* missed :: a trick not putting out a PAL variant at least, as apart from the UK, :: I think all the ex-Eastern bloc countries use PAL-D, as does :: Australasia, [I think?], so that would have caught plenty of :: other possible sales...... My understanding of the reasoning is that projected sales meant PF could afford to release only ONE format for this discNTSC _or_ PAL. With the USA being the biggest market, and modern kit in PAL countries generally working fine with NTSC, the decision to create a region-free NTSC disc was a no-brainer. This really isn't uncommon eithera lot of music DVDs that aren't by "megastars" (i.e. U2, REM) do this, as do some TV shows. IIRC, TSP has several cameras, too, and there's a "bonus" CD with the audio on it, to save you have to rip it to disc yourself. Craig - ------- Craig Grannell / Wireviews --- http://www.wireviews.com News, reviews and dugga. VMU: http://www.vmuonline.com SVA: http://www.snubcommunications.com - -------------- wireviews@yahoo.com --- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:22:18 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] OT: Go4 on Saturday Research over, I think it was the Shakespeare on Goswell Road - and I think it was chosen because not all pubs in the area open on a Saturday. Amenable to meeting there or on site as preferred. We'd better take the arrangements off-list before everyone else collapses in boredom. Is no-one else coming - Paul? Alistair? Uri? Another the Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Keith Knight Sent: 22 September 2005 07:54 To: MarkBursa@aol.com; idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: RE: [idealcopy] OT: Go4 on Saturday There was that pub we met in before flag:burning, just up from Barbican tube. Can't remember the name but can research later. - -----Original Message----- From: MarkBursa@aol.com [mailto:MarkBursa@aol.com] Sent: 21 September 2005 21:55 To: steeleknight@lineone.net; idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: Go4 on Saturday >>So, who's going to see the Gang of Four play Entertainment! at the Barbican on Saturday? I shall be there and am amenable to a meeting place.<< I'll be there - any ideas or shall we meet in the bar? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:52:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.T: For Neil Young fans........ ...listen to the album.. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4850911 or http://tinyurl.com/bjgox __________________________________ Yahoo! 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They played Dublin last Wednesday, and were highly entertaining. New material was leavened by the old classics, which were performed really well. The present band is very tight. Well, they'd want to be with someone like David Thomas at the helm. He certainly doesn't suffer fools gladly. He really is like a bear with a sore arse at times. Patience count zero. He looks a little bit like a cross between Oliver Hardy and Dan Van Vliet. Or maybe what D.Boon might look like now. The Wire's own Keith Moline (guitar) reminds me a bit of Jim O' Rourke... At one point someone shouted something while David Thomas was doing a preamble to a song... Thomas: " Do you think it's WISE to interupt me while I'm talking ?? " Punter laughs nervously Thomas: "I mean, who the fuck are YOU ?? .. I'm David fuckin' Thomas maan..." Gig photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/998453/ Fergus __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:54:32 +0100 From: "Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] The Mahden Daaance > Anyone see UBU in London ? They played Dublin last > Wednesday, and were highly entertaining. Spooky. Just got back from seeing PU in Manchester with fellow IC-er, Tim. Not seen 'em before but was really impressed - David Thomas is such a cool bloke. I liked the way he would sit down on a chair behind the mic stand btwn numbers or during the odd instrumental break and take a drink from his beer bottle, followed by another from his hip flask! And what a raconteur - 'that Gallagher' ripped off his moves ("I was doing those when he was still shitting yellow!"), writing a song for Kylie, talking about choosing the set-list (basically don't believe musicians who say they put effort into it - 'we choose it alphabetically' - before adding "this isnt sweat, it's passion"). It was great - his chat was almost on a par with my old fave Mr Cope!! As for the music...well, I've only got the odd PU LP, but they played a few I know - Modern Dance, Non-Alignment Pact and We Have The Technology. And - get this! - a cover of the Dead Boys Sonic Reducer!! The band were great, and despite Thomas suggesting otherwise and saying he'd had too much to drink, he was in good voice. And I loved the salesman bit at the end, where Thomas sat at the end of the stage with a box of cd's. He didn't say a word till someone eventually asked, "How much are the cd's, David?", whereupon he flogged them to the audience from there. I got Dub Housing and a big shake of the hand from the big man himself. It was that sort of intimate gig. A great night! ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V8 #256 *******************************