From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V2 #160 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Monday, November 8 1999 Volume 02 : Number 160 In This Digest: ----------------- Nov. 4 ["Christine Evans" ] Re: Nov. 4 [James McGarry ] Nov. 4th HMV ["=?iso-8859-1?B?Sm9yZGFusg==?=" ] vertigo [Jennifer.M.Pease@Dartmouth.EDU (Jennifer M. Pease)] Re: vertigo [Paul Schreiber ] Re: vertigo [James McGarry ] Re: vertigo [Jennifer.M.Pease@Dartmouth.EDU (Jennifer M. Pease)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 03:14:27 -0400 From: "Christine Evans" Subject: Nov. 4 Hello All, Unfortunately, due to an acute case of overprotective mother, I was unable to attend the Nov. 4 Riv show as I had hoped and planned for, and made such a big stink about. I guess it came along to ensure that I wasn't so cocky about show attendance in the future. (???) However, although I couldn't go to the Riv, my mum DID eventually relent and let me go to Sarah's short 6:00 pm set at HMV. This, of course, was better than nothing, so I'm not doing any complaining. The show itself was great (just Sarah and the Roland), and Sarah was luminous and wonderful as always (there go those Slean-adjectives again...). She did play a song that I've never heard before, that she didn't give a title to, only saying that it was a song, "... about driving at night and being so happy and so scared to die at the same time", which I thought was a pretty interesting way to put it. No piano accompaniment, even. Just her voice. Very brave, very memorable, very beautiful. I've decided that one of my many reasons to get to concerts is because I keep forgetting the absolutely haunting melody of the verses of 'Last Year's War', and it's always such an ethereal and chilling reminder to hear them again, and break down into tears... AGAIN. Any way, at the HMV show, before playing Last Year's War, Sarah stated, "This song is for Christine, because she wanted me to play it." I was pretty thrilled at her name-remembering capacity, and also - of course - that she was playing Last Year's War. Now I've been walking around singing it incessantly to ensure that I don't forget the melody. Any way, even though HMV was a very strange setting for a Sarah show - so... out in the open, so commercial, so bright, and those TV sets surrounding the 'stage' with "Sarah Slean" on them certainly made it look very... Orwellian - her performance and stage presence were still great, as usual. Anyone who attended the Riv show, please tell me how it went! I just kind of went home and stewed after the HMV show finished. Tab, it was nice to see you there! Love you all, - - Christine Evans :-) evans_ent@msn.com http://nevermind.thesociety.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 23:07:12 -0500 (EST) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: Nov. 4 On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Christine Evans wrote: > She did play a song that I've never heard before, that she didn't give a > title to, only saying that it was a song, "... about driving at night and > being so happy and so scared to die at the same time", which I thought was a > pretty interesting way to put it. No piano accompaniment, even. Just her > voice. Very brave, very memorable, very beautiful. Vertigo. > keep forgetting the absolutely haunting melody of the verses of 'Last Year's > War', and it's always such an ethereal and chilling reminder to hear them LYW, Duncan, Vertigo, Close Your Eyes, Sweet One... better and better. One day I'll stopped being surprised. At the Riv gig, you could've heard a pin drop between songs. Respect. Awe. It was akin to Jewel's legendary Bathurst Street Theatre gig. In many ways, the gig that started this all. Steve, Dan, Heather P, Sarah, Tab, Me. All in the same room. A magic moment where everything... ..changed. > again, and break down into tears... AGAIN. Any way, at the HMV show, before I did this too. I'd feel silly but someone ran up to Sarah after the show and metnioned that they cried too. Its just so, so overwhelming; the distillation of sadness into those notes. > very... Orwellian - her performance and stage presence were still great, as > usual. :-) Did she play Angel? :-) That's would've fit in a beautiful ironic way. > Anyone who attended the Riv show, please tell me how it went! I just > kind of went home and stewed after the HMV show finished. Very well! I was there the next night as well (for Aaron Riches) and Sarah had the house _packed_. Set List Habit Duncan Me & Jerome My Invitation High Ogoni Star Vertigo Narcolepsy Weed Eliot Sweet Ones Last Year's War Encore Twin Moon Playing Cards with Judas James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr. ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 23:15:46 -0500 From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?Sm9yZGFusg==?=" Subject: Nov. 4th HMV I was at the HMV gig too. I couldn't make it to the Riv cause of a little "age problem" ; ) oh well... the HMV show was an excellent consolation, an amazing show. Loved the new song, does it have a name? I've just been calling it the "really happy, but scared to die" song. Anyway, it was a great show but I am severely envious of those who went to the Riv.... Jordan P.S. good to see you again Tab! (see, I'm making a post!) ------------------------------ Date: 07 Nov 1999 23:23:53 EST From: Jennifer.M.Pease@Dartmouth.EDU (Jennifer M. Pease) Subject: vertigo hey y'all "Vertigo" was the one she sang in Kingston last week and said she had written like "half an hour ago". just wondering... is that true? or have you heard it before? i could very well have taken an exaggerated statement and taken her seriously... - -jennpease ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 23:46:14 -0000 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Re: vertigo Jennifer M. Pease wrote: >hey y'all "Vertigo" was the one she sang in Kingston last week and said >she had written like "half an hour ago". just wondering... is that true? >or have you heard it before? i could very well have taken an exaggerated >statement and taken her seriously... Yes, Sarah -really did- write that just before the Kingston show. She's been known to play stuff she's written minutes before the gig. Paul shad 96c / 3B CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / jewel / sophie b. / sarah slean / steve poltz / emm gryner / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / habs / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. illusion never changed / into something real / - --Natalie Imbruglia, "Torn" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 23:48:22 -0500 (EST) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: vertigo On 7 Nov 1999, Jennifer M. Pease wrote: > hey y'all "Vertigo" was the one she sang in Kingston last week and said she had > written like "half an hour ago". just wondering... is that true? or have you Yes, this is true. Sarah wrote it just before the show. She didn't even have a keyboard with her when she wrote it. As confirmed by Heather and Sarah herself. I hadn't heard it before. > heard it before? i could very well have taken an exaggerated statement and > taken her seriously... Take her seriously. "Duncan" was written the day of the Riv show. I've seen her do complete string arrangements 20 minutes or so before the curtain. I was floored that night. I would've said it was impossible; that it couldn't be done. But its true. Its all true! :-) James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: 07 Nov 1999 23:50:17 EST From: Jennifer.M.Pease@Dartmouth.EDU (Jennifer M. Pease) Subject: Re: vertigo - --- Paul Schreiber wrote: Yes, Sarah -really did- write that just before the Kingston show. She's been known to play stuff she's written minutes before the gig. - --- end of quote --- i should have known, she looked just a wee bit nervous before singing it. i thought it was gorgeous, though, in fact i still have it in my head... - -jennpease :) ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V2 #160 *******************************