From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V11 #111 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, July 11 2009 Volume 11 : Number 111 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [idealcopy] Awaydays ["keith a" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:11:04 +0100 From: "keith a" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Awaydays I liked both myself. Thought there were some really strong performances. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Hold Sent: 10 July 2009 03:56 Cc: idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Awaydays Er, why are random producers listed alongside the performers on the soundtrack?!? "Control meets This Is England". Hmm, a match made in Hell. Sorry, but two of the most overrated films in recent memory. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, keith a wrote: > Anyone seen this as yet? > > > http://www.awaydaysthemovie.com/ > > > > Film based in 1979, with ex-Dalek I member as producer. A quote from one > review says- "Control meets This Is England" > > > > Wire on the soundtrack LP > > http://www.awaydaysthemovie.com/soundtrack.html > > > > And Hughes mentions Wire in the press blurb below. > > > > > http://www.awaydaysthemovie.com/music.html > > > > Erics, Liverpool > > By David A Hughes, Awaydays Producer > > The club featured in the movie is based on the legendary 'Erics'. Most of > the bands whose tracks feature in AWAYDAYS played at the club. It was on > Mathew Street in Liverpool, the same tacky backstreet where The Cavern used > to be. Kevin Sampson and I were both members. During 1978 & 79 , Eric's was > the center of my universe. I started going in 1977 during the punk > explosion, and from Erics dedicated audience of arty show-offs and moody > Bowie clones came bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes and > OMD. > One of my bands was Dalek I Love You, briefly mentioned in the the film > when > Elvis says 'Thought we was going to see Dalek tonight'. > > > We all had become used to watching emerging acts like Talking Heads, > Television, Devo, Magazine, The Human League and Wire and reckoned we could > do something ourselves. If you managed to think of a quirky band name and > had a couple of edgy songs, you could be supporting The Clash the following > week. > > There weren't many members early on. You got to know most of the audience. > Thursday was local bands night, free to members and 50 whole pee to guests! > Most of the Liverpool scene and Zoo bands made their debuts on a Thursday > at > Erics. > > We saw a lot of raw, art-punk bands who went on to become platinum-selling > pop bands. The Police, Simple Minds, Ultravox, for 75p or a pound. I > remember about 30 people watching The Human League knowing the best days of > punk were now over, electro had arrived... and I was staggered to see how > Joy Division progressed from being a pile of shite in one very early gig to > jaw-dropping brilliance a couple of months later. > > I never heard a Beatles track played at Eric's. The regulars had a dogged > (and predictable) anti-Beatles stance, and we all moved to the bar when > Souxsie & The Banshees played 'Helter Skelter'. Whatever they'd done to put > Liverpool on the map, we knew that Eric's was giving the city a chance to > move on from the burden of The Fab Four. Through Roger Eagle's (Erics > owner) > zealous love of music from all nooks and crannies, we got to hear lots of > reggae, weird Louisiana blues, Dub, German Electro and Rockabilly. All > these > sounds filtered through to the emerging local bands. From Rockin Dopsie & > His Cajun Twisters to Tapper Zukie and Matumbi, a night at Eric's was an > education - truly the world in one city. > > Erics opened your eyes to other things as well. The gents toilets were > unusable. Everything went on in the Ladies - and I mean everything. The > club > was in a basement, so when there was a high tide you could feel the damp in > the floor and the girls in their fishnet stocking feet would put their > painful pointy boots back on before the rising Mersey tide sent a few rats > scurrying across the dance floor. > > Above all else Eric's made me , a runty twerp from Birkenhead, feel > impossibly cool for long enough to land the drop dead gorgeous love of my > life. > - -- Steven H hold.one@gmail.com 718.775.6940 ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V11 #111 ********************************