From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #6 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, January 8 2003 Volume 02 : Number 006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 07:30:37 -0500 From: Red Subject: seven-seas Weekly Chat Anybunny interested in starting our weekly chat back up again now that Xmas is over? www.echoingthebunnymen.co.uk click on MEDIA.....then CHAT! TONIGHT!! 9 pm England 4 pm USA (east coast) Sometimes it's closer to 10/5 pm till people arrive due to work, etc. so if you don't see anybunny there...check back in a bit. Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:13:58 -0800 From: Charles Pham Subject: seven-seas British Sea Power support Flaming Lips on UK tour http://www.nme.com/news/103868.htm FLAMING LIPS - WITH ADDED POWER! BRITISH SEA POWER will support THE FLAMING LIPS on their January tour of the UK. The Brighton-based band, currently recording Echo And The Bunnymen's Will Sergeant , will play all seven shows, kicking off in Glasgow on January 15 and finishing up with two nights in London (January 21/22). The dates are as follows: The full tour calls at: Glasgow Barrowlands (January 15) Manchester University (January 16) Birmingham Academy (17) Bristol Academy (18) Nottingham Rock City (20) London Forum (21-22) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:20:08 -0600 From: "Ted Turner" Subject: Re: seven-seas British Sea Power support Flaming Lips on UK tour they are "recording Will" doing what? thx tt <---------------------------------------------------> Ted Turner - UWSA / CKUW 95.9 FM Advertising Manager Ph: 204 786 9779 *** Fx: 204 783 7080 tturner2@uwinnipeg.ca <---------------------------------------------------> Rates: CKUW - www.ckuw.org/ratecard.jpg Stylus - www.ckuw.org/stylusrates.pdf Handbook- www.ckuw.org/UWSA_handbook.jpg - www.ckuw.org/Handbook_Specs.tif - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Pham" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:13 AM Subject: seven-seas British Sea Power support Flaming Lips on UK tour > http://www.nme.com/news/103868.htm > > FLAMING LIPS - WITH ADDED POWER! > > BRITISH SEA POWER will support THE FLAMING LIPS on their January tour of the > UK. The Brighton-based band, currently recording Echo And The Bunnymen's > Will Sergeant , will play all seven shows, kicking off in Glasgow on January > 15 and finishing up with two nights in London (January 21/22). > > The dates are as follows: > > The full tour calls at: > > Glasgow Barrowlands (January 15) > Manchester University (January 16) > Birmingham Academy (17) > Bristol Academy (18) > Nottingham Rock City (20) > London Forum (21-22) > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:49:42 -0500 From: "Chris Adams" Subject: seven-seas New Mac album: press release "The new Ian McCulloch album we've been eagerly awaiting, entitled 'Slideling', will be out in April, preceded by the similarly-titled single, 'Sliding'. Registered users of Ian McCulloch's website, http://www.ianmcculloch.com, will get the opportunity to hear four tracks from the album in the coming weeks and months. Keep your eyes on your inbox, as you'll soon receive a special URL and password, where you'll be able to download full-length preview (96kbps) versions of the following: Sliding Arthur Baby Hold On Stake Your Claim Each track will be available to download for a limited time, and will only be available to you, the registered users of IanMcCulloch.com. Ian McCulloch comments on "Slideling", his first album without cohort Will Sergeant for more than a decade, "there may be no Will, but there's a lot of willpower." When the Bunnymen returned from the wilderness in 1997 with the hit album 'Evergreen', it was regarded by many in the know as "the greatest comeback of all time". But no mere flash-in-the-pan was this; the Bunnymen had the audacity to stick around afterwards, delivering two more studio releases and the emotionally charged 'Live In Liverpool' collection. With the band on hiatus, McCulloch has returned to the studio and come up with a set of songs which, while not straying too far from the Bunnymen ethos, seem to have a more personal stamp on them. "I'm much more confident now than I was when I last did any solo stuff," suggests Mac. "It's the first record I've made solo-wise where I'm happy with the reasons why I'm doing it and with the way it's turned out." From the upbeat, eternal optimism of the opening 'Love In Veins', through anthemic jangle of 'Seasons', to the dirty strut of 'High Wires', it's the sound of a man who knows his time and place - and it's now, it's here. Special mention should go to 'Sliding', possessing as it does a deceptive little hook that worms its way into your soul long after the song is over, the heartfelt 'Baby Hold On', which somehow manages to merge the worlds of Smokey Robinson and Lou Reed, the unsettling, shuffling semi-ballad that wouldn't have sounded out of place on the Bunnymen's 'Ocean Rain', and the lachrymose ode to Liverpool childhood that is 'Playgrounds And City Parks' "It's all about me at school, always bein' late, always on detention," says Mac. "It's about playin' footie until it's so dark you can't even see the ball, but knowin' that isn't the point. "I may be beautifying things a little, but to me it really was beautiful. It's a song about workin' class kids especially. As I've got older, I've got closer to where I'm from. But even at the age of 12 it wasn't just rock 'n' roll that gave me a thirst for life." Anyone who's ever met McCulloch will know that he likes to talk, and one afternoon's conversation can touch many bases, be it the Liverpool poets ("I love Brian Patten! At school I was always goin', 'Give me Patten, not Arthur f***in' Miller!'"), the notion of a dyslexic Frank Sinatra ('I've Got You Under My Sink'), or any other bizarre tangent "How come historians live longer than history? You never see a young historian, do ya?". But McCulloch is especially good at talking about McCulloch, and the fine music he's been making since his teenage years. He stresses that the new record does not mark the end of the Bunnymen: "I'm looking forward to going back to the Bunnymen, and Will comin' to the table with a whole new bag of riffs, it's gonna be great." Mac isn't alone in his fondness for the band. In recent months they have been ceaselessly championed by the likes of Coldplay's Chris Martin, and were given a prestigious Inspiration Award by the UK's biggest-selling rock publication, Q ("Not before time!" as Ian said when accepting the gong). "Initially I was a bit, if not cynical then certainly sceptical about it. It came out of the blue, but the more it sinks in the more I'm proud of it. It's as if people understood us all along, they understood our reasons for bein' who we are. It's kind of like a vindication. "We never did this for the money - I'd rob a bank if that was my motivation. At our best, we were always head-and-shoulders above the rest. In those days (1979-1988) we flew the flag of cool for so long in a world that was so un-cool. It was hard to carry on, so we didn't. "There's the old adage that life begins at 40, but in truth life begins when you realise just who the f**k you are." Ian McCulloch is about to begin again." - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.435 / Virus Database: 244 - Release Date: 12/31/2002 ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #6 ******************************