From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Wed Feb 4 13:11:54 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i14IBr8K000441 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:54 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i14IBrep000440 for jewel-news-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:53 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f Received: from smtp4.na.baesystems.com (smtp4.na.baesystems.com [63.164.202.13]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i14IBo8K000429; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from BLUMS0022.bluelnk.net ([10.40.96.145]) by smtp4.na.baesystems.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i14IBogF013340; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from usa07.cs.na.baesystems.com ([166.18.21.62]) by smtp-core.na.baesystems.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i14IBmgO001533; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by usa07.cs.na.baesystems.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <117AHQSN>; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:47 -0500 Message-ID: <41575B2947B7D411A03C00508BCFF16217D63419@usa07.cs.na.baesys tems.com> From: "Connell, Michael P" To: "'ducksoup@quackquack.net'" Subject: Jewel-News: Jewel performing in New York tonight? Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on jane.smoe.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.97c-p1 X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk This post below just came through to the normal list. Not sure if it is true, but just in case any NY area folk want to check it out... Mike -----Original Message----- From: Chris Groves [cmgroves@easynet.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:30 PM Subject: [EDA] Jewel performing in New York tonight? Can't find this on the official site (no surprise there!) but if this article is true then Jewel will be performing at the Shops at Columbus Circle this evening... http://www.newsday.com/business/printedition/ny-bzaol043655060feb04,0,842839 .story?coll=ny-business-print Chris. http://www.jewelfan.co.uk : Jewel - Pieces Of UK http://pub39.ezboard.com/bthedutchjewelforum : Jewel's International Forum From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Thu Feb 5 18:35:24 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i15NZO8K006055 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:35:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i15NZNON006054 for jewel-news-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:35:23 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402052335.i15NZNON006054@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f From: "michiel" To: Subject: Jewel-News: jewel4s new hair style Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:32:05 +0100 Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 Hey Jewelfans, you can look her Jewel4s most recent hair style change! http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040205/capt.nyr13102050434.time_warner_center_nyr131.jpg Stunning new look of Jewel, very mature woman! Very very nice! I think she looks more beautiful every day! bye Michiel www.jewelkilcher.nl the nr#1 jewel fan site From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Fri Feb 6 04:42:30 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i169gU8K012899 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 04:42:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i169gU2G012897 for jewel-news-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 04:42:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402060942.i169gU2G012897@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f From: "Allison Crowe Band Management" To: Subject: Jewel-News: Jewel and Counting Crows live webcast Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:32:24 -0800 Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 I saw the following item on a Pearl Jam chat board. Not sure if it's known here: "Counting Crows and Jewel live webcast... http://media.yahoo.com/blueformusic/ It's on Saturday night live from the HOB in Hollywood. If you're a fan of either, I think it's at 8pm Pacific time, but I'm not a 100% sure..." cheers, Adrian "Why music?" "Why breathing?" ~ www.allisoncrowe.com From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Fri Feb 6 19:12:47 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i170Cl8K001209 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:12:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i170CkTO001206 for jewel-news-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:12:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402070012.i170CkTO001206@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f From: "Allison Crowe Band Management" To: "Deb Hall" , Subject: Jewel-News: Re: Jewel and Counting Crows live NOT webcast Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:09:06 -0800 Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 Sorry, Deborah and everyone! I got home late last night from a business trip, and was joyed to see the post about the webcast on a PJ board. I didn't check the link before going to sleep. And, as Mike has pointed out, the site has an asterisk by Jewel's name (and the Counting Crows, too) noting that these shows are NOT being webcast (unlike concerts by The Strokes and others). So, we won't be sharing in this experience. Anyway, I'll make sure to check out links in future so as to not make the same error again ( : peace, Adrian "Why music?" "Why breathing?" ~ www.allisoncrowe.com From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Thu Feb 12 04:55:45 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1C9ti8K018527 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 04:55:44 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1C9thOw018526 for jewel-news-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 04:55:43 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402120955.i1C9thOw018526@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:42:22 +1100 From: "Stephen H." To: jewel@smoe.org Subject: Jewel-News: Article - I won't pretend: Jewel Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 This is from the Australian paper "The Daily Telegraph": I won't pretend: Jewel By Nui Te Koha February 12, 2004 JEWEL has a reputation. She's a hard arse. She's difficult. She's a bitch. Her record label is always advising her to "be nice". "But, God, I hate it when I pretend, and I used to do that a lot in my life," she says. Jewel Kilcher stopped pretending 10 years ago. She quit a string of nowhere jobs to follow her creative heart, even if it meant poverty. And initially it did. Jewel was homeless, living in a car as she fought to have her songs heard in a small cafe near San Diego."As I get older, I am happier," Jewel, 29, says. "I really feel I have love in my life. My only focus isn't just trying to get out of my car to make a living. "I can finally say: 'Jewel, enjoy yourself, you don't have to fight every day the way you used to'. I was fighting for the most basic thing: survival. I couldn't afford water or to go to a movie or buy a new dress or medication. I was trying to get by in a world that just sucks." Even the mad scramble by record companies to sign Jewel for her 1997 breakthrough album, /Pieces of You/, meant an artistic fight. "I was fighting every day to make a folk record at the height of grunge," she says. "But I don't have to fight like that any more. And for me that is an amazing, amazing thing." Amazing, too, that in a culture of fallen pop tarts, Jewel has followed her instincts for nearly a decade and won every time. Her latest album, /0304/, is a perfect example. It was a dance-pop record at a time when most observers felt the genre had imploded, yet in Jewel's left-field hands, the possibilities were curiously expanded. Intuition, the first single, blended dance, urban, folk, pop and an iron-fisted message to sellouts. Elsewhere on /0304/, it was Jewel in flip mode, juxtaposing sweetness-and-light lyrics to darker, menacing electronic sounds. That America's favourite folk girl next-door dug a hole into the electronica underground was not lost on critics either. Suddenly, it was all about the transformation of Jewel. Naturally she finds the commentary hilarious. "Racism and fascism in the music industry are still rampant," she says. "Open-minded people suddenly become closed-minded when a folk artist uses a dance or urban beat. That is stupid. It is like telling an artist not to use yellow." Jewel says the ideas on /0304/ are truthful. "There is nothing phony about what I'm doing. There is nothing underhanded. I'm rich. I don't need a hit. I am doing things I think are right," she says. "I know a lot of artists who stay and do the same things because they are afraid that, if they change, they'll be called sellouts. This is retarded. Everybody changes, everybody evolves. "Today my music shows all the influences I've had in my life, from The Cure to Run DMC to Bob Dylan." Besides, Jewel has already told her record label she'll never write another /You Were Meant For Me./ "To stay authentic," Jewel says. "That is a vow I took when I started my career and it's what I've stuck to." In that way, Jewel is proudly old-fashioned. Word is bond. Say what you mean. Her longtime boyfriend, rodeo star Ty Murray, insists on those values. "He is very Old West. Right is right, wrong is wrong. You choose what's right and you have character. You make amends for your mistakes and you have character. I really value that. It's a good kind of old-fashioned," she says. "I do love belonging to him and I enjoy serving him. And I think he enjoys the same. It's a mutual give." Jewel shrugs when asked about the secret to a strong and viable career. She is not the ideal case study, she says. She hates the recording studio and in 1998, after increasing boredom with the music industry, there was a two-year hiatus. "In this business, you could be obscure tomorrow but I just don't care," she says. "Will I always be in the spotlight? Probably not. But those things have never been interesting to me. Expressing myself, provoking, saying something with layers - that is interesting." And change? "Ah, yes," she laughs. "That transformation of Jewel thing. People have strict ideas on what a sellout is. Sometimes you can do something that is perceived to be a sellout but it's actually quite authentic. "I know a lot of rock bands that want to change their music. They want to create and explore but don't because they will be called sellouts. The fact that they won't change makes them sissy-hearted sellouts. The thing is, nobody knows you better than you. Maybe your mum, if you're lucky." Is sexuality in music a sellout? "Contrived sexuality is a card that is used very commonly. But I don't think anybody has the right to sit back and say how anybody else should make a living. "But sexuality is something that should not be separated out of you, like a lobotomy. Every other artist in every other genre, from sculptors to painters and poets, a woman's sexuality in these fields is really intrinsic to what they do. "But somehow in music, you fall into two categories: you are either sexually exploitative or lyrically exploitative." Her /0304/ attempts a balance: "Sexuality and intelligence can co-exist," she says. Jewel performs at A Day on the Green, Bimbadgen Estate, Hunter Valley, on Saturday and Sydney Opera House on February 18 to 20. /The Daily Telegraph/ From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Sun Feb 15 08:45:34 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1FDjX8K026337 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 08:45:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1FDjXbT026336 for jewel-news-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 08:45:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402151345.i1FDjXbT026336@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:30:05 +1100 To: jewel@smoe.org From: Barry Howarth Subject: Jewel-News: 1st Australian show (review) Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 Hi Angels, Jewel did her first show of her Australian tour last night, and her 2nd show in Hobart (a good 1200 km to the south) is at present well under way . I've been waiting almost five years to see her again live and it was well worth the wait. She was wonderful. And she was stunningly beautiful! She wore a diaphanous pink top closed only at the bustline, with a red bra underneath, and jeans. Her hair was blown by the wind throughout the show, which created a lovely effect. She said at the beginning she was very tired and still jet-lagged, but it didn't really show. She did have some trouble with her guitars, which kept going out of tune. It was a hot day -- mid-30s -- and humid; a thunder storm threatened for a while but luckily passed us by. It was an outside venue, set in a vineyard and winery in the Hunter Valley, about 250km north of Sydney. I drove with my daughter and her partner from Canberra, over 600 km away. My daughter's partner was not a fan, but was very impressed by what he saw and heard. How could anyone not be? Jewel presented a fairly conservative setlist, almost all the songs coming from her CDs, especially POY. Here is what she did: 1. Near You Always -- a "traditional" opening 2. You Were Meant For Me 3. Little Sister -- "Bob Dylan must be gay" story 4. Sometimes It Be That Way 5. Hands 6. Life Uncommon -- she gave up half way through the song as the guitar was out of tune 7. Cold Song -- "Can I see your boobs?" story 8. Race Car Driver 9. Stand 10. 2 Become 1 11. Who Will Save Your Soul -- with a great scat section Encores: 12. Foolish Games 13. Break Me -- the highlight of the show for me, but I just love this song, acoustic 14. Morning Song 15. Down So Long -- This was requested. Jewel said she couldn't remember it but spent some time with a guy trying to get the words. Finally she gave up on him and got a girl to come up on stage; this girl, whose name was Sarah, said she could play it and knew the words. So Jewel gave her the guitar and they did the song together, a duet towards the end. Sarah played it very well and really did know all the words. It was great and the audience -- about 6000 of them -- loved it. Then Jewel asked the audience if Sarah could sing one of her own songs, since she was a songwriter too. Naturally the they roared their approval, and Sarah sang a song called "Butterflies", which was quite Jewelesque. She was terrific and got an ovation. 16. Intuition -- Jewel asked for 5 girls to come up on stage to dance while she did "intuition". There was a mad scramble and about 15 ended up on stage, despite the efforts of the security people to keep the numbers down. I guess many of the girls were at least tipsy if not drunk -- we were at a winery that was promoting its product after all. Jewel had all these girls dancing around her, many trying to get as near to her as possible. But she kept on singing. At the end they mobbed her, all wanting to hug her. And Jewel kept smiling all the while. Then she was gone and the show was over. Fifteen and a bit songs -- about 90 minutes. Singles from the albums were the core, with Race Car Driver as the only non-album song ("Sometimes It Be That Way" was on "This Way" and "Cold Song" was on the 2 CD POY and the vinyl POY). Jewel was surprised when someone requested Violet Eyes, amazed that anyone knew the song. I heard calls for Emily and Nicotine Love -- my two favourites -- but as you can see she didn't do them. Maybe in Sydney, where I shall see her again on Wednesday, and on Thursday and on Friday. Take care, Barry Howarth From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Sun Feb 15 17:08:44 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1FM8h8K002645 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:08:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1FM8h9V002644 for jewel-news-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:08:43 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402152208.i1FM8h9V002644@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:25:24 +1100 From: "Stephen H." To: jewel@smoe.org Subject: Jewel-News: Article - Diamond in the Rough Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 This is from the Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 16th February: *Jewel's fairytale ride got bumpy when fans didn't like the irony, writes Bernard Zuel, who spoke to her ahead of her concerts at the Opera House.* In what was then her earnest, almost born-again-Christian-on-Sunday-morning-TV way, Jewel Kilcher asked what no doubt she considered the "big question" with her first single: "Who will save your soul if you won't save your own?" Sung as a gentle folkish tune with a sound far removed from the then dominating forces of grunge and big-beat dance, /Who Will Save Your Soul?/ helped her debut album, /Pieces of You/, find a home - 11 million of them, actually - in 1995. A few years earlier the Alaskan-raised singer had been living in a trailer; now she could buy a street or two. Without the complicating surname - known only, in the finest pop tradition, by her first name - Jewel became the acceptable face of folk for a pop audience and a happy medium for those who weren't ready to curl up with "classic hits" radio but missed the days of songs "that meant something". There were subsidiary cultural landmarks for Jewel too. Though she was barely into her 20s, an ability to put together words that by comparison with, say, the Spice Girls, looked like poetry even landed her a book contract and eventually two top-selling collections of, yes, poetry. Naturally a film role followed, playing a stoic frontier woman. With two subsequent albums mixing country into the folk mix, more songs about innocence and sensitivity (for example, /Innocence Maintained/ and /I'm Sensitive/) and a charitable foundation funded by her, all culturally correct boxes were being ticked. Jewel was do-right and all right. And then - hello! To launch her fifth album, last year Jewel appeared on the cover of the lads' mag /Blender/ in a bustier and high-riding G-string. Her first single from that album, /Intuition/, not only sounded like pop princesses such as Jennifer Lopez or Britney Spears - programmed beats, girlish twitter - but had a film clip where Jewel dressed and flounced about like one of them. The album proper, /0304/, mined similar musical ground, bringing in established chart-topping co-writers and sounding more like Kylie Minogue than Tracy Chapman. Though the album sold very well initially, critics grizzled and some long-term fans went not so politely feral, asking pointedly of Jewel, who will save your soul if you won't save your own? "Yeah, I was pretty surprised [at the reaction]," says Jewel, who by now, nearly a year later, sounds polite but near terminally bored with talking about herself. "This record, I've seen it in me since I was 18. I grew up with really versatile influences. I grew up in the '80s with Run DMC and Public Enemy, and I grew up with the Cure and Depeche Mode and I also grew up with Cole Porter and Nina Simone. My goal with that record was to combine all my influences. It took me a long time to know how to do it technically and not sound contrived or sound like somebody else's idea of how to mesh those influences." From the outside, however, it looked nothing less than contrived, that she was making a bid to recapture the attention of CD buyers whose numbers on her account had dropped from that 11 million to something around 1 million with her fourth album. "I think the video [for /Intuition/] probably didn't help," Jewel responds. "I don't think people got the video. It was taken very seriously even when it got so over the top that it had to be a parody. And the lyrics talking about fads and trends were so obvious. I tried to use the video to marry the images about J.Lo and Kate Moss and Charlie Sheen as pop images that represent fads with the theme, being follow your own intuition, wherever it takes you." Of course it didn't hurt that the album and single were being bought by the same people in effect being parodied, the fans of mindless but brilliantly assembled pop. But the startling sexuality confused or angered the existing fans who thought they had their sister well pegged, particularly after having read quotes from her such as this one from a Canadian newspaper interview only two years earlier: "I don't feel any pressure to put on a mini skirt. "I've never felt like 'Oh geez, I'd better show more cleavage so that people will like me better' and I've always spent so much time on my lyrics that I don't want anything to overshadow them. So I'm pretty careful about not being a cartoon." So, weren't we entitled to wonder if /0304/ was the beginning of the cartoon? "I really feel as a musician I've been asked to choose between being intelligent and credible and being sexy," Jewel complains. "Generally the people who want to be taken as serious singer-songwriters have to dress down. I've looked at artists, female painters, poetesses; sexuality is such a unique and intrinsic part of their whole art and I thought, 'Why are we being asked to chop off a side of you and shy away from exploring it because it's generally done in a contrived way?' I started to toy with it, poke fun at it and experiment with it." Fair enough too. Then again maybe it's not the cleavage but the glossy and ultimately shallow songs that caused the damage to the reputation. Should we read anything into the fact that Jewel's tour of Australia is solo and acoustic - folk style - rather than a band-backed pop show? "I guess I just enjoy constantly turning the other way," she says. "It's all the same thing. It's all music, it's all art. It's not rocket science." *Jewel performs at the Concert Hall, Opera House, from Wednesday to Friday.* From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Wed Feb 18 18:11:02 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1INB1K3029782 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:11:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1INB1tf029781 for jewel-news-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:11:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402182311.i1INB1tf029781@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:35:22 +1100 From: "Stephen H." To: jewel@smoe.org Subject: Jewel-News: Newspaper Review - Melbourne, February 17 2004 Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 Here's a review from The Age newspapers of Jewel's Melbourne show: *The Palais Theatre, February 17 * Jewel Kilcher's first album, /Pieces of You/, was a tremendous international success story and it was followed by a best-selling poetry book and three more records of varying success. Jewel's last album, /0304/, was a bold reinvention that her fans would not have seen coming. Transforming herself from a wispy guitar-folk singer to a foxy, ironic pop diva was an audacious move. It's odd, then, that with her first Melbourne show in five years, she opted for a minimalist solo show with only an acoustic guitar. Over two hours, Jewel skimmed her catalogue, adding several non-album curios, and enhanced her show with some amusing anecdotes. We learnt how she wrote her first song, her experiences as a teenager living in her car in California, and her dream of opening for Bob Dylan. Typifying the candid, stripped-back feel, a young fan - Linda - wandered up to the stage and asked Jewel to read her a poem from her book. Jewel obliged and upon returning the book to Linda, offered to sign it. The fan momentarily fainted, and when she woke up, Jewel playfully joked with her. Live, Jewel's voice is eccentric, to say the least. Unlike most contemporary pop vocalists, her traditional operatic training has left an indelible mark on her singing style. On /Foolish Games/ and /You Were Meant For Me/, she slowed the pace and deliberately laboured over each note. However /2 Becomes 1/ was a highlight, and an improvement on the studio version. Other standouts included the Dylan-influenced /Sometimes It Be That Way/, /Break Me/ and the amusing /Race Car Driver/. Singing her first single /Who Will Save Your Soul/, Jewel incorporated a large amount of scatting. For the first encore, she launched into an operatic song full of vocal histrionics - and after much begging from the audience, delivered a stunning yodelling performance. It was an appropriate end for a diversely entertaining night. From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Sat Feb 21 19:24:28 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1M0ORK3029420 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:24:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1M0ORRX029419 for jewel-news-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:24:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402220024.i1M0ORRX029419@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:17:27 +1100 To: jewel@smoe.org From: Barry Howarth Subject: Jewel-News: Sydney shows Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 Hi Angels, The Hunter Valley show was great but the Sydney shows were just so much better. Jewel was much more relaxed and in really great voice. And the set lists were much more varied and all contained very pleasant surprises: "Per la gloria d'adorarvi" on Wednesday night stunned the audience -- she pulled it off brilliantly; so in the encores she went from opera to pop parody( "Intuition") to yodelling! the woman's a marvel; on Thursday night she opened with "Everything Breaks Sometime", then she sang a new song!! -- at least I haven't heard this one before -- I've called it "If your heart were made of gold" -- and it's a return of sorts to "old style" ballads; then "It's Too Darn Hot" followed by "ABCD All of the Above"!! (I wanted "A Very Big Girl" to come next) -- the whole set had a jazzy flavour to it, which I hope is a portent for the next record; and then she sang "Carnivore" -- I never thought I'd ever hear her do it live (but she didn't do "Emily", "Nicotine Love" or "Louisa and her Blue Guitar"); and on Friday night there was "New Wild West" (a great surprise). But each night "Break Me" just stood out -- one of the most beautiful songs she's ever done. then every song was done just so well, and she put so much into them all. Truly wonderful! And it seems she was in her "blue period" (like Picasso's), as each night she wore a pale blue top (short sleeves, no sleeves, longish short sleeves) and a short blue denim shirt, jeans and a short dark blue skirt. Very much the "simple girl" but also a beautiful, stylish mature woman. The photo shoot story: She did a photo shoot for Vogue, I think she said. Something to do with athletes and the olympics. She couldn't see the connection with her and seemed to think the whole thing was a bit of a wank. She parodied the photographer and the make-up people. The photographer seemed pleased with it, though, and said that it was "very real". Jewel thought it couldn't be more unreal (a major theme of 0304) ! Anyway Steve has already filled you in on this story. She was very funny and chatty every night. Here are the set lists (each set was a bit under 2 hours): Wednesday 18 February 1. Near You Always 2. Passing Time 3. 1000 Miles Away 4. Grey Matter 5. Stephenville Texas -- "Bob Dylan must be gay" story 6. Sometimes It Be That Way 7. Little Sister 8. Jesus Loves You 9. Deep Water 10. Life Uncommon 11. Hands 12. Break Me 13. 2 Become 1 14. Cold Song -- "Can I see your boobs?" story 15. Race Car Driver 16. Stand 17. You Were Meant For Me 18. Foolish Games -- "I sang like Kermit the Frog" story 19. Who Will Save Your Soul Encores: 20. Per la gloria d'adorarvi - ""I always wanted to sing opera in the Sydney Opera House" -- Jewel 21. Intuition 22. Chime Bells Thursday 19 February 1. Everything Breaks Sometime 2. 1000 Miles Away 3. NEW SONG "If your heart were made of gold" 4. Near You Always 5. Passing Time 6. It's Too Darn Hot 7. ABCD All of the Above -- Photo shoot story 8. Morning Song -- she forgot the words a couple of times 9. Carnivore -- "Bob Dylan must be gay" story 10. Sometimes It Be That Way 11. Little Sister 12. Life Uncommon 13. Hands 14. Stand 15. Break Me 16. 2 Become 1 17. Foolish Games 18. You Were Meant For Me 19. Down So Long 20. Angel (Cowboy Waltz) -- "I sang like Kermit the Frog" story 21. Who Will Save Your Soul Encores: 22. Intuition 23. Angel Standing By Friday 20 February 1. Near You Always 2. Passing Time 3. 1000 Miles Away -- Photo shoot story 4. Morning Song 5. Stephenville Texas 6. Standing Still 7. New Wild West 8. Life Uncommon 9. Hands 10. It's Too Darn Hot -- her song that is up in the class of Cole Porter's songs: 11. Cold Song -- "Can I see your boobs?" story 12. Race Car Driver 13. Break Me 14. 2 Become 1 15. Angel (Cowboy Waltz) 16. Stand 17. Foolish Games 18. You Were Meant For Me -- "I sang like Kermit the Frog" story 19. Who Will Save Your Soul Encores: 20. Chime bells 21. Intuition 22. Angel Standing By And then it was all over -- hopefully not for another 5 years. There is nothing as good as seeing Jewel perform live and I want to feel that good many more times. Take care, Barry Howarth PS The 2 Become 1 video was shown on Rage early this morning (Saturday 21st) just as Stand dropped off the top 50. And it was really nice to catch up with some names on this and the OzEDAs list and put faces to them on Friday night. Really nice people. EDAs. From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Tue Feb 24 17:31:18 2004 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1OMVIK3003060 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:31:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1OMVHui003059 for jewel-news-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:31:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402242231.i1OMVHui003059@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f From: "Nicole" To: Subject: Jewel-News: To: list, re: presales question Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:39:24 -0500 Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 Hi everyone. I should be able to clear up the presale confusion. Basically, there are 3 types of tickets available to UNEDITED. 1) General presale tickets - these are done through MusicToday, and you link to these presales from Grab Bag on jewelJK. You'll get your seat locations before you buy them. These presales generally happen 3-4 days before the public onsale. 2) Preferred Tickets - these are purchased through UNEDITED (FansRULE), and are located in the first 20 rows (unless the venue has casino seating or something, in which case we tell you which table). You won't see your exact seat location when you purchase though. You also receive an UNEDITED 'Leave the Lights On' T-shirt with your order. 3) Velvet Rope Backstage - this is also purchased through UNEDITED/FansRULE, and includes a seat in the first 10 rows, T-shirt and backstage pass, backstage tour, and meet & greet with Jewel before the show. I hope that clears up the confusion a little. Often the Preferred Tickets and Velvet Rope go on presale all at once, before the general presale tickets. Then the general ticket presales follow in shifts. That's why you saw the Lowell and Hampton Beach offers in that order. Thanks!! - Nicole, Manager - UNEDITED