From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #174 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Thursday, April 1 1999 Volume 04 : Number 174 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Jewel tour dates, go to: * http://jewel.zoonation.com and click on "TOUR" * OR * go to the OFFICIAL Jewel home page at http://www.jeweljk.com * and go to the "What, When, Where" section * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V4 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Jewel on Oprah (For UK eyes only) ["Chris Groves" ] Re: the Spirit question [Stacey Mancarella ] NJC Question about Jewel In Forbes [iheartjewel@bigfoot.com] Another review (Jewel/Singapore)... ["Jason Cheow" ] Full text of the second(?) Singapore/Jewel article [Mike Connell Subject: Jewel on Oprah (For UK eyes only) Hello, Just a short message to let you know that Channel 5 are repeating Jewel's Oprah appearance on Tuesday 6th April at 9:35 am. Chris. Jewel:Pieces Of UK : http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cmgroves/Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:37:03 EST From: NikosSong@aol.com Subject: Screen Savers (again!) hey all! I changed my screen name, as you may remember, and when I did that, It erased all of my old mail. I remember you guys wrote of a lot of places that had Jewel screen savers. Can you guys email me again and tell me those sites? thanks! Jenni The "Human" angel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:42:20 EST From: Nubbay@aol.com Subject: North Star Is Back Up ! (Jewel web site) After 3 Days Of Non-Stop Work On My Website, Today Is The Day That It Is Open Again To Everyone ! Wahooo, And It's Better Than EVER !!!!!! Go Take A Look: http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/blackflag/598/ Zac ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:40:43 +0100 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: Australian concert review in Q May 1999 The following is a review of one of Jewel's Australian concerts and is in the latest issue (May 1999) of the UK magazine Q. The pictures that accompany the review can be found on my web site "Pieces Of UK" at http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cmgroves/Jewel There you'll also find the text from the recent article in the UK newspaper The Mail On Sunday. - ------------------------------------------------- This One's About Me. And This One... She's got herself a band and she's beginning to blossom. Jewel The Palais, Melbourne, Australia March 4, 1999 Alone on a scarlet-lit stage the tiny woman in the over-sized Stetson is wiggling her be-denimed posterior in time to the bump-and-grind of her low-slung guitar riffing. On and on she goes, quivering booty aimed resolutely stalls-wards, hammering out primitive ZZ Top chops with the remorseless swagger of the small-town show-off let loose in a local music store. Slowly the hip-swivelling rocker is joined by an ambling retinue of dark-clad figures who mass around the various instruments that litter the stage; and, as she notices their arrival, the petite hat act reluctantly halts her voracious twanging. But there is no respite. For even as her final clanging chord fades away, another cacophonous din commences, the apocalyptic screeching only Formula One racing cars can make. Jewel and her six-piece band kick in to reduce even the over-revving endeavours of Schumacher, Irvine and co to a background buzz. Melbourne, right now, is a very noisy place to be. For 24-year-old multi-million-selling, 20-gallon-hat-wearing troubadour Jewel Kilcher being a big noise is all in a day's work. And while she and her band soundcheck at this Ocean-side Victorian music hall, the eyes, not to mention ears, of the sporting world are concentrated on nearby Albert Park and practice sessions for the Australian Grand Prix. The town is buzzing with anticipation and though local taxi drivers are better informed about Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve than about visiting Swiss-American folk pop divas, the city's bookshops are full of Jewel's two-million-selling poetry volume A Night Without Armour and Spirit, while the follow-up to her all-conquering debut Pieces Of You, remains a fixture in the upper echelons of the Australian charts. Soundcheck over, cars garaged, Jewel, shakes her blonde mane free from the headgear, nestles in a front row seat alongside Q to chew the fat about touring ensemble after five years spent emoting to the world with just an acoustic guitar and an ambitious streak as wide as Alaska for company. "This is a breeze compared to the solo years," she confides, flashing that wonky-toothed smile (she prefers not to have it fixed, perhaps fearing crown-in-the-Jewel puns). "It's so much less lonely now. We get along and have a lot of fun together, which makes a change from doing a show, getting straight back in the car and heading off." But surely for someone with time-consuming passions for sculpture, poetry and acting (a part in Ang Lee's forthcoming Ride With The Devil), the mega-tour must seem a mite stifling? "All my heroes - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Stones - toured constantly. It's the intimate contact that counts. The strict promotional bit is a drag sometimes, but a necessary evil. Basically I love doing shows. Touring is like being an astronaut though: essentially it's about where you are in your head. It's a unique privilege to be able to get up there and say something to people every night." Three months into the Spirit world tour, tonight's show at the Palais - a crumbling mirage on the palm-strewn St. Kilda beach for which the term "faded grandeur" might have been coined - confirms Jewel's penchant for chat. Interspersed with consummate readings of her oeuvre, the 3,000-strong, mainly female audience are treated to extended monologues essayed with the ιlan and timing of a seasoned raconteuse. One particularly engaging yarn concerns a jaunt to Mexico with guitarist Steve Poltz that begins as a whale-watching holiday and closes with the duo entangled in a police drug bust. It's hilarious, partly because its urbane, streetwise delivery seems so incongruous coming from a woman notorious for the preciousness of her lyrics, a good deal of which make Alanis Morissette's sound like Lemmy by comparison. And it's those lyrics that most have turned out for tonight. Right from the songstrel's discreet entrance - or as discreet as it's possible for anyone to be wearing leather trousers and a vest - the Melbournites sing along to practically every syllable with a restrained reverence that evolves into football chant accompaniment on the hits. They're also keener to clap along in rhythm than any audience since the demise of The Good Old Days. After the practically a cappella opening, Near You Always, the band slink on and launch into the country-ish Deep Water with Doug Pettibone's spiralling electric guitar freeing a mic-wielding Jewel to prowl the stage-front and throw kittenish shapes that involve catching her navel in the spotlight glare. It's the full rock-chic shtick. Spirited folk-rock workings of the homily-laden What's Simple Is True and melodious paean to self-improvement Hands follow, highlighting Jewel's coruscating vocal arsenal, capable of swinging from helium-like soprano to feisty Patsy Cline baritone in the space of a bar. The emotive force of those vocal chords would melt even the hardest antipodean heart, not that there are many of those tonight. In fact, as many gravelish male voices as votive female ones repeat the "we love you Jewel" mantra that punctuates proceedings. Even the odd old-school wolf whistle gets chucked in, notably after a vamping Jewel purrs the puckish, "I could spend my life travelling the length of your body," line that distinguishes the downright steamy Jupiter. After a short solo interlude, during which she takes and plays requests from the crowd, the singer who's worked them like a circus barker all night, invites the throng to vacate their seats. They dutifully respond by stampeding to the front for a scorching Down So Long - Steven George's florid electric piano to the fore - followed by a new song, Love Me Just Leave Me Alone. It's as immediately familiar as the ersatz Texan boogie number Jewel was banging out at the soundcheck and it unfurls into blistering bluesiness that fans of her stark early work would barely recognise. Likewise the jovial reggaefied makeover of Who Will Save Your Soul? but not the signature jaw-dropping, heckler confounding speed-yodelling that rounds off the set to tumultuous applause. Australia seems to have taken to Jewel. "I really like it here, it's like the best bits of England and the States. People are unaffected. It reminds me of Alaska too, all the wide open spaces." And what of the world tour, is it playing catch-up with a 10-million-selling debut? "My goal is not to sell so many million records every time. When you get too concerned with sales it starts making you write backwards. You can't be cheerleader every year." With a straightforward live show is she trying to shake the mythology of tortured sub-Arctic melancholia that surrounds her? "All that raised by wolves, yodelling at the moon stuff is funny. It's not so bad in Europe but in the States I still get the whole freak thing attached to me. Alaska's an odd place, the rest of the States doesn't really get it: they can't understand someone coming from a working rural background, they assume you have hippy parents. They have no concept of farmers or where their food comes from." Touring so much are her boyfriends destined to be road-widowers? "It's funny, the better known I've become, the more men seem to want to take care of me. Before, I was just so self-sufficient. Who knows, maybe one day I'll want to have kids and slow down, but at the moment I'm enjoying the pace of my life." **** David Sheppard - ---------------------------------------------- Chris. Jewel:Pieces Of UK : http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cmgroves/Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 00:49:11 GMT From: "Everything Breaks" Subject: Let Me Fly I just wanted to let you all know that my website has been GREATLY improved since last time I posted about it.. I've added new things, changed the look, and am still constantly updating everything.. So go take a look! scott evans scott@jewelkilcher.com let me fly! a jewel kilcher tribute http://listen.to/jewelfly - -- maybe i could've loved you better maybe you should've loved me more maybe our hearts were just next in line maybe.. everything breaks sometime.. Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:18:10 -0800 (PST) From: Stacey Mancarella Subject: Re: the Spirit question I think it also means that no matter what we might feel like, we are never really alone becasue there is always someone who loves us. - --- Courtney M Gordon wrote: > >< since I bought the > >"Spirit" album. What does the saying, "We are loved > beyond our ability > >to comprehend." mean?>> > I think it means that so many people love us and > there are a certain few > that love us so much. But we will never understand > how much that is > because we are, after all, human. > just my two cents. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:12:56 -0800 From: iheartjewel@bigfoot.com Subject: NJC Question about Jewel In Forbes Hey I know this is really stupid of me, but I didn't save the email about Jewel in Forbes (I remember something about Jerry Seinfeld on the cover), I had written it down, and searched my small town over for the magazine, I'd almost given up hope, but I have a dentist apointment now, and well I KNOW they sell Forbes in this store next to my Dentist And well Now I can't find my dinky paper, and I cant remember any thing about where the "Jewel mention" is in the magazine (My mom won't let me flip through every page of them any more *L*) So, I'm begging anyone who has this email (or the person who sent it? :), please forward it to me... Help me keep my prize winning Jewel Scrap book (Yeah I won a prize for it :) up to date and going.. Pretty please? Please? :) ...Oh yeah, btw my apointment is tomarrow, I would have sent this earlier, but well, I thought I could find the paper....I'm sorry - ---- i-heart-jewel, "The angel who hearts Jewel" .· •°•·..· •°.· •°•·..· •°.· •°•·..· •°.· •°•·..· •°•·..· •°.· •° "Just so happens~ That I'm walking out the door~ And PS, and by the way~ I don't love you anymore.." --Jewel, "Just So Happens" .· •°•·..· •°.· •°•·..· •°.· •°•·..· •°.· •°•·..· •°•·..· •°.· •° ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:24:10 +0800 From: "Jason Cheow" Subject: Another review (Jewel/Singapore)... Hi, Here's a review from another local newspaper... http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/lif/life17_0402.html Have fun reading it, Jason ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:53:45 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Full text of the second(?) Singapore/Jewel article For those of you without internet access, here's the full text of the article Jason Cheow just posted about. Mike :-) *********** >From http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/lif/life17_0402.html Marry me, men shouted Alaskan Gem Singer Jewel was that charming, with her touching ballads and intimate chats with the crowd MUSIC JEWEL SPIRIT TOUR '99 WTC Harbour Pavilion Wednesday By REBECCA LIM JEWEL sang about her Hands being small. But she did not have any problems holding her audience captive in her first Singapore concert on Wednesday night. Part of the enthusiasm, one suspects, was sparked off by her radiant looks. When she walked quietly onto the darkened stage at 9.10 pm with the opening number, Near You Always, her hair was clipped back in a fashionably messy bunch. She was togged in a sleeveless, V-necked leather top and stretch, blue slacks, looking clean-cut and alluring. As the night wore on, she unclipped her hair, only to fasten it back again in a more loosely-secured bundle. Her cherubic face glistened with perspiration, and contorted into a series of pained, emotional expressions as she sang. But she always finished with a wide grin for her crowd. For two hours, the singer-songwriter from Alaska kept the crowd of more than 3,500 at the Harbour Pavilion enchanted. She shared pieces of herself in the mellow, folksy tunes from her debut album Pieces Of You and current release Spirit. Her gig of mostly ballads may not have had the audience jumpin' and jivin' but the spirit was soaring all the same. The crowd cheered each time they recognised the opening bars of her hits: Hands, Foolish Games, You Were Meant For Me and Who Will Save Your Soul. They loved her. Especially, the men. Throughout, the concert was peppered with shouts from wistful males: "Marry me!" or "Be my wife". Proclamations of "I love you, Jewel!" came from the women too. For five songs and half an hour, it almost seemed as if she was just going to sing. Then, she offered a sugary "hi" that was met with a warm chorus returning the greeting. She went on to talk about how she had met her "best friend" -- Steve Poltz, who opened her show with a half-hour set and played acoustic guitar in her backup band -- six years ago, when she was 18. She was a waitress in a cafe and he came in to play gigs. "Just like Friends, who's the girl?" "Phoebe," the auditorium answered. >From that moment, her rapport with the crowd was rock-solid. She was a standup comic act with a guitar. She tickled the audience silly with a tale of a songwriting trip with Poltz -- who co-wrote You Were Meant For Me -- that ended up with them joining in a drug bust. Earlier on, Poltz -- who has a solo album on the Polygram label that is not released in Asia -- had already prepped the crowd for laughs in his opening routine, singing quirky, self-penned tunes on the feelings of a chair and Star Wars. The crowd liked him obviously, for they obliged when he asked them to yell "huuuhhhh" like the Chewbacca character in the movie. He and other band members -- Doug Pettibone (guitar), Steve George (keyboards), Brady Blade (drums) and Tony Hall (bass) -- also scored points when they appeared in Chinese suits bought from Chinatown. But what really pleased the crowd was Jewel coming to the edge of the stage, close to them. At one point, she even stepped off and balanced precariously on a speaker. "Danger girl, huh?" she asked, pleased with the squeals she evoked. More than an hour into her gig, she invited members of the audience to leave their seats and flock forward. "I have a couple of new songs and I want you to tell me what you think," she said. The two middle-of-the-road rock tunes she belted out sounded like a paler version of Sheryl Crow. She closed the show at 11.15 pm with the yodelling song her live act is famed for. As she spit out "yo-de-le-yi" faster and faster, the claps and cheers just got louder and louder. Jewel left Singapore wanting more, and with no doubt that she was the "angel standing by" whom she was singing about. ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #174 ***************************