From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V1 #89 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Saturday, December 21 2002 Volume 01 : Number 089 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:37:16 -0500 From: "Zap" Subject: seven-seas JJ72-EATB mention www.jj72.com. Below are the relevant extracts. "Every person has a view of what I To Sky is about. If you were a journalist writing about your album, how would you go about it? Mark Greaney (mainman): The way that I'd pick it up would be... It's almost like a reinvention or a rejuvenation of the days of The Cure and bands like that, scary pop music. You know, pop music that's huge, it's big sound, and it shouldn't work because it's 'depressing' supposedly. But like Depeche Mode, that's why I always go on about these bands, Look at Depeche Mode, that film that was made of them when they were playing the Rosebowl, to how many, eighty thousand Californians and they're playing music which is gothy or that now wouldn't really be given a chance of being a stadium type of music. What I'd write, I don't know where this album fits in right now because we don't wear skinny ties and think we're Blondie but that I hope that it'll convert a lot of people. I hope there's going to be a lot of people who maybe weren't particularly interested in other bands or other music which will pick this up the way they picked up Nevermind or the way a lot of teenagers picked up Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and we end up playing a stadium one day. What is it about I To Sky that you appreciate in it? Fergal Matthews (drummer): What I love about the album is that there's such an openness, there's not a closed view of "this is what the song's about, you can hear it straight through the lyrics" It's open to any sort of interpretation that you want. Like so many tunes these days. It's that old Cure feel that Mark was saying about it, you can place anything in there, plus the way the songs are written. See the first album, they were kind of undigested songs, they went through the studio and came out recorded but this way we really became a band in the studio because we really played together and listened and acted on what we were doing. Do you worry that not having commercial, radio friendly songs will limit the number of people you want to hear your music. Mark Greaney: The risk you take you know. But you know, you've got to decide what radio stations play as opposed to them deciding. In other words, you've got to decide that you're going to write something that's so damn good that's so important and so necessary and so addictive that people have to play it on the radio. And that I believe is what they call infiltrating the mainstream and that is the aim. Again I'm harking back to the idea of The Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen. Listen to some of those songs that were hit singles and you're going "Put that on the radio today and no one will play it, no one will touch it with a bargepoll. That doesn't make radio stations right today. I mean Miss Dynamite is great but Sinking is better. Just as a song on it's own, as far as I'm concerned. But you know, what would I know." ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 07:18:52 -0000 From: "Bruce Carter" Subject: seven-seas yesterdays sun Did anyone else see in yesterday 'Sun' 'newspaper' (uk) the name game clue: "known as Mac the mouth, also lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen" - looking forward to getting to work today to see if i got it right! Merry Christmas all Bruce ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V1 #89 *******************************