From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-moderated-digest) To: seven-seas-moderated-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #241 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-moderated-digest Sunday, September 21 2003 Volume 02 : Number 241 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:13:30 +0100 From: "stevie g" Subject: seven-seas-moderated teardrop explodes on BBC6 radio Could be worth a listen.... On 23/09/03 between 22.00-23.00 and 21/09/03 between 07.00-08.00 BBC 6 music will be playing an archive concert from the Teardrop Explodes from the Guilford Civic Hall 1981. Stevie G. ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:49:53 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: seven-seas-moderated back on topic with an audio interview In the hope that these posts may become worthwhile, here is a link to an Ian McCulloch audio interview I found the other day. It is from April, but I don't think it has been posted here before: http://www.neilchase.com/CDs/IanMcCulloch.htm There is also an interesting link at the bottom of the page. ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:46:10 -0700 From: Charles Pham Subject: seven-seas-moderated V2003 To Be Televised According to Coldplay.com: "V2003 TO BE TELEVISED V2003 Festival coverage will be split between ITV1 and ITV2. They will be showing performances from the main stage. The ITV2 shows will transmit as live on the 16th and 17th August from 10.30pm and the ITV1 shows from midnight on 16th and 17th August. There will also be 2 x 30 minute shows on ITV1 on the 30th August and the 6th September straight after CD:UK." Here's hoping those with ITV will catch the Bunnymen...they're on 2nd. According to Eisley.com, the scheduled order (last to first) are as follows: 1. Coldplay 2. Foo Fighters 3. Ash 4. The Hives 5. The Cardigans 6. Echo and the Bunnymen 7. Eisley Charles Pham Web Producer charlesp@eonline.com AIM: PicturesOnMyWall WORK: 323.692.4676 CELL: 323.273.1550 E! Online ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 08:00:18 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Slideling review Not a very nice one, unfortunately. http://www.ink19.com/issues/july2003/musicReviews/musicM/ianMcculloch.html Ian McCulloch Slideling Cooking Vinyl / spinART A couple of years ago I caught one of the Echo and the Bunnymen reunion shows in Washington, DC. It was probably the first time I'd seen them since the late-'80s. As it turned out, the show felt very familiar: the same fog machine, the same Leonard Cohen/Lou Reed/David Bowie/Jim Morrison fixation, the same tunes from classic records like 1984's Ocean Rain, and the same leather jacket on the back of singer Ian McCulloch. Of course, a few things have changed since those days. In 2003, McCulloch (Mac to his pals) writes songs that are a bit sunnier, less Messianic. On his first solo album since 1992's weak Mysterio, Mac still sounds in fine voice and his melodic gifts are intact for the most part. The problem is he just doesn't have much left to say. And without Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant around, there's nothing really sonically interesting to make this one worth more than a couple of spins. The opening "Love In Veins" has some basic crunchy anthemic guitar chords and a catchy melody, but irritatingly silly lyrics. "Got you in my sun sun / Yeah, got you in my rain / And I got you in my blood, blood," McCulloch sings. Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland of Coldplay turn up on "Sliding" and "Arthur," which features a spooky, cello-tinged, Ocean Rain-like melody on the verses and a bouncy chorus that ultimately goes nowhere. McCulloch does come up with a couple of sweetly elegiac tunes in "Playgrounds and City Parks" and "Seasons." On the latter he sings, "Running out of time / It's half past yours and mine / Forgetting more than we remember / Still trying to find things we left behind / In Januarys to Decembers." He sings about a woman waiting for her time to come on the pretty "She Sings (All My Life)." The character isn't sketched with much definition but at least McCulloch sounds great using his lower register on the effective chorus. That's about as good as it gets, though. On "Baby Hold On," Mac reassures a loved one with empty, generic Hallmark card rhymes. "High Wires" is the tune that screams hit single here but even it seems to lack surprises. "Another Train" sounds like two songs fused together, neither very good. The set0closing "Stake Your Claim" has some decent axe work from guitarist Pete Byrne, virtually aping Sergeant. Unfortunately it's a fairly uninteresting, repetitive song. Slideling isn't a terrible album by any means. It just doesn't have a whole lot of depth to it. Call it Bunnymen extra-lite. How long can it be until they roll out that fog machine and kick into "The Killing Moon" one more time? Sean Slone ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:48:29 -0700 From: "Ivan Smith" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas New Avalanche CD ? still waiting for mine from management as well... and they said they'd mail mine first it's quite likely they're busy with summer tour / 25th anniversary tour details, as well as details of the re-issues, and haven't had the chance to do a mail-out lately... thanks for your patience - -Ivan - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Rice" To: Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 3:59 PM Subject: seven-seas New Avalanche CD ? > Everyone get their new avalanche CD yet in the mail? I have not gotten mine > yet and was wondering if I am the only one or are they still working > on getting them out? > > robert > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== > - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.504 / Virus Database: 302 - Release Date: 7/24/2003 ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #241 ******************************************