From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #71 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Wednesday, March 14 2001 Volume 03 : Number 071 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: RE: Tracey Emin [Hopping James W ] Re: OV: Tracey Emin [Kevin Cawthorne ] OV: re: Tracy Emin [Kevin Cawthorne ] OV: NRBQ ["S Meyer" ] OV: dear diary ["Susan & C. Reid Gardner" ] OV: Dotmusic [Kevin Cawthorne ] Re: OV: Dotmusic [Jennifer Woyan ] Re: OV: NRBQ [Darren Holmquist ] Re: OV: Tracey Emin [Jennifer Woyan ] Re: OV: NRBQ ["B M" ] Re: OV: Two more diary entries [Debbie Cushing ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:12:40 -0000 From: Hopping James W Subject: OV: RE: Tracey Emin I always told my mum that I was an artist while I was growing up! You should see the artistic masterpiece that is my dirty washing basket! Jim - -----Original Message----- From: Jane Armstrong [mailto:janea@delamitri.co.uk] Sent: 13 March 2001 09:46 To: Dels Subject: OV: Tracey Emin Just discovered who Tracey Emin is as mentioned in Justin's diary. She's a so-called artist, who recently called her unmade bed a work of art and sold it for #150,000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_835000/835932.stm I wonder how much anyone would pay for our untidy bedroom. Heck, you can't even get near the bed without climbing over a mound of clothes. All draped around in a very artistic manner. Any offers???? Jane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join us for our weekly chat - 9pm GMT Thursdays on http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea/chat.html Please note my new URL: http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea Del Amitri Pages: http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea/Delpage.html Join The Devlins Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedevlins/join ICQ # 34643730 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:21:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Kevin Cawthorne Subject: Re: OV: Tracey Emin Tracy Enim is also a loud mouth bitch - I remember one late evening whilst nothing else was on telly seeing her in this boring circle of other unknowns talking about things people talk about in trendy wine bars. Tacy was nissed as a pute and was mouthing and effing and blinding throughout the 15 minutes she stayed - before she threatened to walk off as her friends were still waiting in a bar - to which the other guests said yes thats a great idea f*** off will you! Another case of someone being famous for the wrong reasons - where's the justice in this world? Kevin Cawthorne webmaster - The Official Del Amitri Website http://www.delamitri.co.uk - -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Jane Armstrong wrote: > Just discovered who Tracey Emin is as mentioned in Justin's diary. She's a > so-called artist, who recently called her unmade bed a work of art and sold > it for #150,000. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_835000/835932.stm > > I wonder how much anyone would pay for our untidy bedroom. Heck, you can't > even get near the bed without climbing over a mound of clothes. All draped > around in a very artistic manner. Any offers???? > > Jane > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Join us for our weekly chat - 9pm GMT Thursdays on > http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea/chat.html > Please note my new URL: http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea > Del Amitri Pages: http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea/Delpage.html > Join The Devlins Mailing List: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedevlins/join > ICQ # 34643730 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:31:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Kevin Cawthorne Subject: OV: re: Tracy Emin Just so you get the idea, this is a picture of her soiled bed http://uk.fc.yahoo.com/000717/61/ada3d.html Kevin Cawthorne webmaster - The Official Del Amitri Website http://www.delamitri.co.uk - -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:07:29 -0600 From: "S Meyer" Subject: OV: NRBQ NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet) . . I don't know who they are, I just looked it up on the web search engine. Thanks for all the translating, Jane! Cindy - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Armstrong" To: "Dels" Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:30 AM Subject: OV: Two more diary entries > One from Iain and one from Justin written, er tomorrow..... > > I doubt very much if many of you in the US will understand the half of > Justin what writes, mostly because it is very British, referring to > personalities from British TV and Sport and telly programmes. > > On the other hand, Iain writes about watching NRBQ - what's that please? > > Bit of a translation: > Oasis - hopefully you all know them. Manchester band with Liam and Noel > Gallagher. > Benny Hill - deceased British comedian whose shows always ended with him > being chased round a park by scantily clad females (including her that plays > Daphne in Frasier) > Ready Steady Cook - Show where people bring in a bag of shopping and two > "celebrity" chefs have to make a meal out of what they've brought in under > half an hour. > Martine McCutcheon - former soap star who left Eastenders to become a pop > star and who is now appearing as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady in the West > End. > Kevin Keegan - former footballer, now does commentary and things. Was well > known in the 70's for his awful perm. > Barnsley - Northern town with a less than spectacular football team (hope > I'm not upsetting anyone here!) > Ground Force - popular BBC TV gardening show - watched by many dirty old and > young men because the female "water feature" expert never wears a bra whist > she's digging up people's lawns or laying paving slaps whilst the male > presenters watch on. > Tracey Emin - I have NO idea who she is! > tosser - another word for wanker. Someone who plays with themselves. Used > as a derogatory term. > Anthony Worrel Thompson - one of many TV chefs. Particularly unattractive > one, who apparently was responsible for Nouvelle Cuisine in the 80's > (according to a TV programme last weekend). So rip-off merchant should be > added to his job description too. > Tatty Bye - Goodbye - another old comedian, Ken Dodd, used this phrase a > lot. > > Methinks Mr Currie watches waaaaaay to much TV! > > Jane > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Join us for our weekly chat - 9pm GMT Thursdays on > http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea/chat.html > Please note my new URL: http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea > Del Amitri Pages: http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea/Delpage.html > Join The Devlins Mailing List: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedevlins/join > ICQ # 34643730 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:14:03 -0500 From: "Susan & C. Reid Gardner" Subject: OV: dear diary I haven't been able to receive emails since Saturday but was able to visit the band diary and see the most recent and most puzzling of the entries. Somebody please take away the computer from Justin and let Iain keep it from now on. Interesting trains of thought but I'll sure never look at a whisk again in the same way. TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:08:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Kevin Cawthorne Subject: OV: Dotmusic OK, this is ammo time! www.dotmusic.com - I have emailed on numerous occasions asking them to give Del Amitri some coverage on their new album - e.g. mentioning the new tracks, progress in NYC etc etc (which they had been doing something very similar wih other artists) What do I get? NUDDA! zilch, diddly squat. Not even an automated reply thankign me! So now its everyones turn - what the mass want they get. right? visit their site and complain about the lack of Del coverage! Kevin Cawthorne webmaster - The Official Del Amitri Website http://www.delamitri.co.uk - -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:30:44 -0600 From: Jennifer Woyan Subject: Re: OV: Dotmusic Here's a shocker.... this is because usually news sources only accept updates on bands from official representatives of the band and (technically & unfortunately) you don't officially represent the band....their MANAGEMENT does....AAANNDD, what has their MANAGEMENT DONE? NOTHING! AARRGGHH!!!!! I've been trying to get similar coverage on WXRT (for new OV'ers - BIG nationally-respected & reporting AAA radio station & long-time friend of the Dels), but the DJ's & MD won't do or say anything until they receive confirmation from the label or the band's management...so we're back to square one. I'm gonna go take a pill & lay down... Cheers, Jen in Chicago P.S. Keep fighting the good fight..... > From: Kevin Cawthorne > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:08:26 +0000 (GMT) > To: Opposite View > Subject: OV: Dotmusic > > OK, this is ammo time! > > www.dotmusic.com - I have emailed on numerous occasions asking them to > give Del Amitri some coverage on their new album - e.g. mentioning the new > tracks, progress in NYC etc etc (which they had been doing something very > similar wih other artists) > > What do I get? NUDDA! zilch, diddly squat. Not even an automated reply > thankign me! > > So now its everyones turn - what the mass want they get. right? visit > their site and complain about the lack of Del coverage! > > Kevin Cawthorne > webmaster - The Official Del Amitri Website > http://www.delamitri.co.uk > -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:15:46 -0800 From: Darren Holmquist Subject: Re: OV: NRBQ At 07:07 AM 3/13/01 -0600, S Meyer wrote: >NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet) . . I don't know who they are, I just >looked it up on the web search engine. I've tried to get into them before, and just couldn't... they count Bonnie Raitt as one of their biggest fans. It's kind of a rhythm & blues version of the "contemporary jazz". No good melodies to get ahold of... at least, not when I saw them, and the disc I bought. Hmmmm Benny Hill. Now why was it I loved that show so much as a teen??? Darren ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:32:45 -0600 From: Jennifer Woyan Subject: Re: OV: Tracey Emin Yup.... #150,000 would just about cover a nice term of recording studio time or an indie-produced music video... >>sigh<< Cheers, Jen in Chicago. (No, really, I'm going to take a nap now...really...) > From: "Jane Armstrong" > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:45:30 -0000 > To: "Dels" > Subject: OV: Tracey Emin > > Just discovered who Tracey Emin is as mentioned in Justin's diary. She's a > so-called artist, who recently called her unmade bed a work of art and sold > it for #150,000. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_835000/835932.stm > > I wonder how much anyone would pay for our untidy bedroom. Heck, you can't > even get near the bed without climbing over a mound of clothes. All draped > around in a very artistic manner. Any offers???? > > Jane > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Join us for our weekly chat - 9pm GMT Thursdays on > http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea/chat.html > Please note my new URL: http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea > Del Amitri Pages: http://www.delamitri.co.uk/~janea/Delpage.html > Join The Devlins Mailing List: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedevlins/join > ICQ # 34643730 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:23:07 -0500 From: "B M" Subject: Re: OV: NRBQ NRBQ!!!! WHOOOHOOO!!! The worlds hardest working bar band!!! I LOVE NRBQ! I've seen them 20+ times. NRBQ is one of those bands that you have to see live, their albums can't really capture their sound, and if you do see them live it has to be in a crappy, run down, smelly, dive of a bar. Some of the songs that you may of heard from them is "Me and the Boys" or "Wild Weekend". Those songs get played in every low rent "buddy/drinking/roadtrip" movie, like "Spring Break" and "Revenge of the Nerds". Not great songs, but popular. If you have Napster try downloading "I love her, she loves me", it's a great sappy love song, one of my favs from them. Trust me when I say this, if Ian is listening to NRBQ, it's not for the lyrics, but the music. NRBQ tends to write very simple songs like "Wacky Tobacky" (pssst...it's about smokin pot!) and "Ridin in my car" but the music is outstanding. It's not song writing that will make you ponder the existence of god or anything, but maybe ponder if there is any more beer in the cooler. True story: I once was back stage at a show where I saw them write a song in between sets called "Spampinato", it's a song about their bass player, they wrote it on bar napkin, walked up on stage and played it right then. Now that song is a standard in their sets. I think that sums up their writing style. Years ago they would have a box on the stage that anyone could put in a request for ANY song, and I mean any song. They would pick a song out of the box and try to play it even if they know it or not. Surprisingly they even seemed to know most of the songs. The guitar player plays with an amazing picking style that is a mix of R&B and country. A good CD to pick up from them is Peek-A-Boo: Best Of 1969-89, you can pick this up in just about any used CD store. They are always on tour in the USA, especially in the summer, check them out if you can! Bill [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:11:31 -0800 (PST) From: Debbie Cushing Subject: Re: OV: Two more diary entries - --- Jane Armstrong wrote: > One from Iain and one from Justin written, er > tomorrow..... > > I doubt very much if many of you in the US will > understand the half of > Justin what writes, mostly because it is very > British, referring to > personalities from British TV and Sport and telly > programmes. > > On the other hand, Iain writes about watching NRBQ - > what's that please? If I'm not mistaken, they're a R&B band...maybe funk, but I think R&B (Rhthym & Blues, just in case, but you probably already knew that :-) > > Bit of a translation: > Oasis - hopefully you all know them. Manchester > band with Liam and Noel > Gallagher. Yep...Wonderwall was probably they're biggest hit over here. (side note: if I'm not misunderstanding, Travis makes fun of this in one of their songs.) > Benny Hill - deceased British comedian whose shows > always ended with him > being chased round a park by scantily clad females > (including her that plays > Daphne in Frasier) I didn't know about the Daphne chick, but unfortunately, we've been subjected to Benny Hill here in Dallas, at least. We've got a huge block of Britcoms on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Apparently, it was our PBS station that got Monty Python's Flying Circus shown for the first time in the U.S. :-) I can't wait 'til the pledge drive is over, 'cause supposedly they're going to start showing Father Ted now! > Ground Force - popular BBC TV gardening show - > watched by many dirty old and > young men because the female "water feature" expert > never wears a bra whist > she's digging up people's lawns or laying paving > slaps whilst the male > presenters watch on. Oh, I think I've seen her...well, at least there was a little story I saw on TV once about her show. > > Methinks Mr Currie watches waaaaaay to much TV! > > Jane > LOL....that's ok, at least he still has plenty of time to write and entertain us. :-) have a great day, debbie, who's sniffling and sneezing her head off like crazy today! YUCK! Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #71 *********************************