From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #89 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Wednesday, April 4 2001 Volume 03 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OV: Re: Wedding Congratulations [doug brown ] RE: Re: OV: Re: Wedding Congratulations ["leigh@swiftva.com" ] OV: Diary update coming ["Kevin Cawthorne" ] OV: What a great event at which to preview the new songs..... ["Jen Woyan] OV: OT from NME - Neil Finn's star-studded gigs a 'mind-expanding' experiment ["Jen Woyan" Subject: Re: OV: Re: Wedding Congratulations Thanks Jen, got that quote just in time, you barely beat out: > > HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK? > > > > Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she > > looks like a truck. - Ricky, age 10 - --- Jen Woyan wrote: > Peace, love & joy to the adorable couple! > > Love is not just looking at each other, it's > standing side-by-side, looking > in the same direction. > -- Antoine de Saint-Exupiry (Wind, Sand, and Stars) Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:00:29 -0400 From: "leigh@swiftva.com" Subject: RE: Re: OV: Re: Wedding Congratulations OK,OK ..... IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED? > > > > It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. > > Boys need someone to clean up after them. - Anita, age 9 Leigh Brown Original Message: - ----------------- From: doug brown douge_brown@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:10:56 -0700 (PDT) To: oppositeview@smoe.org Subject: Re: OV: Re: Wedding Congratulations Thanks Jen, got that quote just in time, you barely beat out: > > HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK? > > > > Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she > > looks like a truck. - Ricky, age 10 - --- Jen Woyan wrote: > Peace, love & joy to the adorable couple! > > Love is not just looking at each other, it's > standing side-by-side, looking > in the same direction. > -- Antoine de Saint-Exupiry (Wind, Sand, and Stars) Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 16:09:10 -0400 From: "Susan & C. Reid Gardner" Subject: Re: OV: Quote Hilary Gray wrote: > Just checking out Eileen Rose's site. "She introduces her band and it > transpires that two of them used to play > with Del Amitri. Oh dear. Their services are employed well here though, and > it has to be said that she's a lot easier on the eyes than that clown with > the giant sideburns. " At first thought them's fightin' words, until I remember the line from 'Tell Her This': "Tell her something in my heart/ Needs her more than even clowns need the laughter of the crowd." Clowns are one of his most often used images, aren't they... I could remember more but I've just come from the studio and the pastel dust is cloudin' up my brain... TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 00:50:40 +0100 From: "Kevin Cawthorne" Subject: OV: Diary update coming Hi all, Iain has mailed me and he has promised another diary update tomorrow (Wednesday) New news also posted. Kevin Cawthorne www.delamitri.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:50:29 -0500 From: "Jen Woyan" Subject: OV: What a great event at which to preview the new songs..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/news/010330_eavis.shtml Glastonbury: Eavis fined Updated: 30 Mar 2001 The organiser of Glastonbury, Michael Eavis, has been fined #6,000 and will have to pay #9,000 costs, because too many people got into the festival last year. Michael Eavis admitted to exceeding the attendance limit at Glastonbury 2000 and failing to secure the perimeter fence. Officials at Frome Magistrates court also told him to improve security for future festivals. Eavis plans charity gig Meanwhile, the Glastomeister is planning a concert for farmers hit by foot and mouth. All money raised will go to help with the crisis. It'll be held in September near his farm in Somerset. Michael Eavis told Radio 1 he's going to give Radiohead a ring to see if they're interested: "We've been getting support from a lot of artists. It's good idea and a lot of people think it's well worth doing." [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of tiny.gif] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:54:34 -0500 From: "Jen Woyan" Subject: OV: OT from NME - Neil Finn's star-studded gigs a 'mind-expanding' experiment http://www.nme.com/NME/External/News/News_Story/0,1004,23405,00.html EVERYWHERE YOU GO, YOU ALWAYS TAKE THE VEDDER WITH YOU NEIL FINN has told NME.COM that his superstar-studded five-night stand in AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, is a "mind-expanding" experiment. Finn was speaking before the show last night (Tuesday, April 3), and acknowledged that the artists joining him onstage had very different musical backgrounds - Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway, Johnny Marr formerly of The Smiths, Lisa Germano, and guests including his brother Tim and 17-year-old son Liam. But he commented: "There was just a willingness for the show [Monday's opening night] to be good, and so it was. When you get people who are really good onstage, even when they don't come from the same background - as we obviously don't - if there's a combined will to make good music, it's a mind-expanding thing, really.'' The group began rehearsals at Crowded House's studio at Karekare, on Auckland's west coast, a week ago. He had already sent out the set-list - which included much of the Finn back catalogue, from Split Enz to Crowded House and material from his acclaimed new solo album, 'One Nil' - and "scared the shit out of everyone". The original barrage of songs was whittled down to an interchangeable set of 40 numbers, which will vary from gig to gig. "We had an amazing rehearsal out in a barn. We worked for 10 hours a day, with jetlag, but it felt effortless. It was like we were on holiday because we were having such a brilliant time.'' In a concert packed with highlights, standouts included Finn making a more than decent stab at The Smiths' 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' and a fiery rendition by Vedder of 'Better Man' - which he announced by saying these were his first shows since the US election and he had a lot of anger stored up, and so it proved. Vedder also sang the Split Enz classics 'I Got You' and 'History Never Repeats' with Betchadupa, Finn's son Liam's band, as his backing band. It was Finn's own songs people had come to hear, however, and the biggest cheers were reserved for 'Four Seasons In One Day', 'Weather With You', and the perfect closing number, 'Don't Dream It's Over'. As much as being a brilliant exercise in music-making, the gigs have also been a great excuse for the musicians to play with some of their own personal heroes, Finn said: "Last night onstage I was looking at Ed O'Brien, and he's a major, major Johnny Marr fan. I was going, 'It's Johnny Marr' to him, and he knew exactly what I was going on about.'' Film crews have been recording the concerts, being staged at Auckland's turn-of-the-century St James Theatre. ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #89 *********************************