From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-moderated-digest) To: seven-seas-moderated-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #299 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 Tuesday, December 2 2003 Volume 02 : Number 299 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 00:47:28 -0800 (PST) From: Anne Gleeson Subject: seven-seas-moderated Liverpool Hi, all. Fantastic to see everyone on Saturday - I know I missed some, but it was a total pleasure talking to those I did see. I'll echo (ehem...) Stu by saying that this is a great bunch of people. It sounds weird, but having been on this list for so damn long now, I can honestly say that my life is richer for knowing you all. As for the gig.... I had to chew on it for a few days (and let the ear ringing die down to a manageable level) before I was ready to comment.... I actually had a fabulous time, but not necissarily because of the quality (which was, indeed, spotty to say the least.) I spent a lot of time thinking as I listened and watched about 25 years of Bunnymen and why they touched me like they did and how music of that era had really and truly changed my life and I think it was those thoughts that lifted me up above the flaws of the gig. Combine that with my boyfriend's enjoyment (it was his first Bunnymen gig) and I think all-in-all I was really happy about the whole thing. Jamie said the exact same thing that Chris said when I read him some of the press yesterday and some of the posts here - maybe the fact that we've all seen them so many times is making us harsher critics than average.... Anyway, you're all a great lot regardless. :) Cheers, Anne __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:04:42 -0800 (PST) From: Anne Gleeson Subject: seven-seas-moderated Evening Standard - Shepherds Bush Review Couldn't find this online, but happened upon it on my commute home last night.... Since I'm stuck at home waiting for the contractors to show up and tear down our leaking back wall, I thought I'd type it up.... From the Evening Standard, 1 December, 2003: Sporadic Echo of former greatness Echo & the Bunnymen - Shepherds Bush Empire By John Aizlewood Ultimately, there is little point in a band existing without self-belief. In their pomp, Echo And The Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch routinely described them as the greatest band in existence. They weren't, of course, but their hubris gave the Liverpool quartet an aura of greatness. Twenty years later, that bustling swagger has almost evaporated over the six years of a re-formation which has rendered them merely quite good. These days, they bathe chiefly in the sepia-tinged waters of nostalgia. Once their erudite focus, the croaky-voiced McCulloch gave every impression of having given up. Chain-smoking in the way that only the truly bored can chain-smoke and with his buttoned-up jacket suggesting he had a more pressing engagement elsewhere, McCulloch delivered such surging anthems of high passion as The Killing Moon and Rescue with virtual disdain. He used to have banter to spare, last night he chided the crowd for singing along on the still-gorgeous Ocean Rain ("do you want to hear it or not?"), which he had half-heartedly described as "the greatest song ever written". And when he slipped in a few verses of Walk On The Wild Side during Do It Clean, the change to Walk On The Merseyside was as predictable as it was heart-sinking. Once he was cool; now he is cold. These though are still terrific songs and they were sculpted by the other remaining Bunnyman, guitarist Will Sergeant (four hired hands fleshed out the sound). Unshowy and peering from beneath a Planetagenet haircut, Sergeant was a revelation. His guitar work was exemplary on The Killing Moon, supremely inventive on Bring On The Dancing Horses and jaw-droppingly magnificent on The Back Of Love. Without him, the evening would have crumbled. With him, it was a sporadic reminder of how close Echo And The Bunnymen came to living up to their former self-billing. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:57:40 +0000 From: "Dan Nicolson" Subject: seven-seas-moderated RE: seven-seas Liverpool As someone who has seen them nowhere near as many times as you lot all I can say is what a fantastic gig. Brilliant crowd (especially right down at the front!), pretty good setlist and a quite animated Mac! I have recordings/videos of The Killing Moon and Nothing Ever Lasts Forever (quality ain't that good) as well as about half a dozen little snippets of video from other songs. Also I've got some pics, I will try and get them on some webspace in the next day or two. Dan >From: Anne Gleeson >Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org >To: seven-seas@smoe.org >Subject: seven-seas Liverpool >Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 00:47:28 -0800 (PST) > >Hi, all. Fantastic to see everyone on Saturday - I >know I missed some, but it was a total pleasure >talking to those I did see. I'll echo (ehem...) Stu by >saying that this is a great bunch of people. It sounds >weird, but having been on this list for so damn long >now, I can honestly say that my life is richer for >knowing you all. > >As for the gig.... I had to chew on it for a few days >(and let the ear ringing die down to a manageable >level) before I was ready to comment.... I actually >had a fabulous time, but not necissarily because of >the quality (which was, indeed, spotty to say the >least.) > >I spent a lot of time thinking as I listened and >watched about 25 years of Bunnymen and why they >touched me like they did and how music of that era had >really and truly changed my life and I think it was >those thoughts that lifted me up above the flaws of >the gig. Combine that with my boyfriend's enjoyment >(it was his first Bunnymen gig) and I think all-in-all >I was really happy about the whole thing. > >Jamie said the exact same thing that Chris said when I >read him some of the press yesterday and some of the >posts here - maybe the fact that we've all seen them >so many times is making us harsher critics than >average.... > >Anyway, you're all a great lot regardless. :) > >Cheers, >Anne > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now >http://companion.yahoo.com/ > > > >====================================== >http://www.bunnymenlist.com > >====================================== > _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #299 ******************************************