From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V7 #12 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Tuesday, February 1 2005 Volume 07 : Number 012 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: OT: Devlins Tour Info [doug brown ] OV: forgotten Scottish classics, article [MinervAthene@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:10:55 -0800 (PST) From: doug brown Subject: OV: OT: Devlins Tour Info I know a lot of you all fell in love with The Devlins when they toured with the Dels way back when. Maybe everyone except Nigel? I still remember him yelling during the pause in Waiting at that Cardiff show ... Their latest album Waves is right up there with their others IMO, was just released in the US and they are actually coming here to support it! http://www.thedevlins.com/tour/index.html ===== - -Doug . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:00:51 EST From: MinervAthene@aol.com Subject: OV: forgotten Scottish classics, article Spotted a mention of Kevin McDermott in the Scotsman, article about 'forgotten Scottish classics', thought people might be interest. Didn't realise there was a Dels mention until I went to copy it in here - but what a mention! *grin* - - Sarah Kevin McDermott Orchestra Mother Nature's Kitchen (Island, 1991) You may struggle to get this on CD. The copy I'm listening to now is on tape and well-worn. But you should try. It's difficult to be anthem-like without being pompous, to sound intimate without being pretentious - and that's just when you write a review. When you write and produce a record, it's even tougher. This, in its understated but defiant tunefulness, is a very Scottish record but that's no bad thing. What Comes to Pass and the title track would have had scarves swaying in a different era, and Wheels of Wonder and Healing at the Harbour could have had bigger venues punching the air in unison. If Del Amitri managed to be massive, only bad luck, music press disinterest and lack of record company support (they were dropped after one album) stopped KMO from finding a decent-sized audience. _http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1218&id=108302005_ (http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1218&id=108302005) ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V7 #12 *********************************