From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-moderated-digest) To: seven-seas-moderated-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #286 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 Thursday, November 20 2003 Volume 02 : Number 286 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:41:11 -0700 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: seven-seas-moderated The Age, Australia -- Review http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/18/1069027095525.html Echo and the BunnymenReviewer Jo Roberts November 19, 2003 Review: ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Prince of Wales, November 14 Four days before Liverpool's Echo and the Bunnymen brought their 25th anniversary tour here, there was Here and Now at Rod Laver Arena, a revival bill featuring many acts who enjoyed their high-haired heyday around the same time as the Bunnymen: Human League, Paul Young, Kim Wilde, Go West. Here and Now was billed as a nostalgia event, and there was plenty of nostalgia in the room when the Bunnymen played the Prince of Wales on Friday night, on their third visit to Australia in 25 years. But the Bunnymen are touring on their own merits, not reliving their new-wave days, and they're still recording and releasing new material to boot. Echo and the Bunnymen's fulsome-mouthed singer, Ian McCulloch, and floppy-haired guitarist, Will Sergeant, are the only original members left from the band that formed in 1978. But, as the Bunnymen learned during their brief dalliance with a new singer (one album, Reverberation) when McCulloch left to pursue a solo career in 1988, it is McCulloch's soaring voice that remains the flagship of the Bunnymen. McCulloch, wearing dark glasses and looking fit, opened the show with Show of Strength, from the band's second album, 1981's Heaven Up Here, which was released the same year the Bunnymen first visited Australia (and not followed up until 20 years later). McCulloch's thick Liverpudlian accent made him hard to understand (I deciphered one "Ow ya doin'?") but, musically, there was no cause for complaint. It was a great selection of songs - a tried-and-true set list - - and they sounded exactly as they should; vast, powerful, iconic. And McCulloch's voice sounded as good as it did 20 years ago. Highlights were Crocodiles (the title track of the band's 1979 debut album), I'll Fly Tonight, the relentless Over The Wall, Lips Like Sugar (one of their happier, poppier moments) and - unquestionably the band's biggest hit - the wonderfully anthemic The Cutter. They returned for two encores (the first ending with a cheeky segue into Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side), before ending with Heads Will Roll and Ocean Rain. They could probably have done a third encore, given the audience's delirium. But after almost two hours - not to mention the 25 years - McCulloch and Sergeant, in particular, were entitled to call it a night. Actually, I'd call it a great night. ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:20:19 -0300 From: Clovis Yutaka Harada Subject: seven-seas-moderated last night if anyone is interested :) here is last night setlist 1.Show of strength (problems with the monitor speaker) 2.rescue (still problems with the monitor speaker) 3.silver (still problems with the monitor speaker) 4.seven seas (still problems with the monitor speaker) 5.the game (still problems with the monitor/feedback speaker) 6.rust 7.crocodiles 8.dancing horses 9.bellyhoo 10.back of love 11.killing moon 12.cutter 13.zimbo 14.i'll fly tonight 15.over the wall (every time i here this is better. this song creates an amazing atmosphere when played live) 16.do it clean (w/ sex machine/roadhouse blues - something i could not identify before roadhouse blues, sounded like someone was playing something different from the rest, for a moment i had the impression Will was playing she lost control bass and Mac saying lirics from waygtdwyl - don't know if i was stoned/dreaming or floatting in the space) break 17.nothing last forever (w/take a walk on the wild side/dont let me down) 18.lips (changed the microphone with the spare one in the middle of the song) break 19.heads will roll 20.ocean rain Clsvis When hype overtakes a person's ability to appraise a technology objectively, then of course it's going to start to be used for the wrong things. ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:58:09 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?stevie=20g?= Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: Will was playing she lost control bass will also did that when 'supporting' new order last year [this year?] in manchester. stevie g. - --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? 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