From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #84 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, March 22 2003 Volume 02 : Number 084 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 02:40:55 -0000 From: "Deb Jones" Subject: seven-seas Dalek I love you Completely off topic BUT i just found out that there is a CD compilation from this band and wondered if anyone knew where I might get a copy. All I know is that it was published by Korova. For those not lucky enough to have heard DILY, they consisted of Alan Gill, Dave Hughes, Dave Balfe, Chris Teepee, Gordon Hon, Keith Hartley, Kenny Peers, Andy McCluskey, Marin Cooper all at various stages! Any info gratefully received Ta la Mikey ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:40:40 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas OT: The Coral live (review) I think it's hilarious that The Coral busked for hours in front of a club here and NO ONE recognised them! And it is so true about swollen feet.... four nights straight of club hopping and concerts and late nights and drinking really exhaust you. EVERYONE was trying to sit down in some way, but it didn't work. :-) The Coral Stubb's, Saturday, March 15 Already heralded from Esquire to Pop Culture Press, the Coral are h-u-g-e, and you don't even know it. You limped past the Liverpool sixpiece on your way to the Supergrass show at Stubb's; you know, those buskers out front of Elysium, where at one point, five whole passersby jangled the change in their pocket while eyeing the recent high schoolers. By 11pm, 2,000 or so backyard burnouts -- SXSW Saturday night separates the Survivors from the swill hounds and swollen shoes -- still wouldn't have recognized the generic-looking blokes. By then, however, they had been properly rocked by the Coral's first generation Brit pop: Gerry & the Pacemakers, Zombies, Kinks. The stalking riff opening the group's eponymous debut brought on goose bumps similar to those raised by SXSW 02 Liverpool headliners Clinic, and between shove-off "Spanish Main" and the extended roil of closer "Goodbye," the Coral's wayfaring pirate ditties announced another isle-based invasion. Marching war hoarse "I Remember When" provided the same Eric Burdon bark as "Dreaming of You," while the militia nursery rhyme "Simon Diamond" threw its own terrible pop tantrum. Organ-roasted castigator "Bad Man" was both bratty and brawny. It was the long sunspot flair of "Goodbye" that threw the somewhat disjointed string of two-minute pop stampedes into stark relief. Two guitars, heave-ho keyboards, and a mutiny onstage weren't quite as Sixties galactic as Camper Van Beethoven ending their New Times day party at Antone's several hours earlier with Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdive," but the Coral left a shore full of buzz seekers with their ear to a new shell. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:45:07 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas OT: KaitO play a *second* unannounced SXSW show This foursome from Norwich are awesome in a way weird way, and beloved here.... no idea why they're referred to as a trio, cos they couldn't have played without all *four* of them.... Kait0 3800-A S. Congress, Saturday, March 15 You have to give the fire marshals credit for being thorough. They didn't forget to check in on this gathering at the aptly named Big Blue Warehouse, next to South Congress sanctuary Dee & Jim's -- one of the places least likely to ever have a SXSW stampede. What the officers found were enough people to effect moving the entertainment from the warehouse's second floor to the parking lot of the thrift store/organic restaurant/Grateful Shed complex. Earlier, local stalwarts Black Lipstick, Bedbug, Subset, Fivehead, and Prescott Curlywolf all played as friends and neighbors partook of the free beer and watched traffic diverted from the closed I-35 crawl along the avenue. (The most Austin thing about the party was how it ran two hours behind schedule and no one cared.) Around nightfall, Brit trio Kait0, looking as tousled and sleep-deprived as everyone else, came on to a sustained cheer from the crowd. "You haven't heard us yet," cautioned the young lass on guitar, but the twentysomething foursome validated their enthusiastic reception with a half-dozen or so songs of disheveled sweetness fueled by an over-caffeinated drive. Loosely hung on a framework of punch-drunk guitars and haywire sound effects -- they obviously have a Le Tigre album or two -- Kait0 could've passed for one of those Hello Kitty-core bands over at Japan Nite. As it was, their striking, unusual sound was ideal for late in the fourth day of the SXSW party vortex: jangled, hypertensive, ready to snap at any second. Except the funniest thing happened. Their on-edge music revitalized the suddenly amped-up audience, who let the loose-knit shards of Link Wray and the Raincoats work their sub-garage magic, and by the end, were again yelling long and loud for an encore. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:49:32 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas OT: Interview with Paul Duffy of The Coral Hmmm, Mr Duffy, the most charismatic member of the group live MHO, seems to share Mac's opinion of Bono.... ====== These days, you'd figure mentioning Texas to an Englishman would be an open invitation to discuss foreign policy and George W. Bush. "Texas? The only thing I can picture is Stone Cold Steve Austin sitting on his porch with a big rifle," says Coral bassist Paul Duffy. By their own admission, these Liverpudlians' world-view is drawn less from newspapers than Hemingway novels, dwarf porn, Easy Rider, and yes, the WWF. With the members' median age hovering around 19, the group's self-titled debut is a psychedelic ride through sea shanties and power-pop chock-full of everything from the Beatles and Beefheart to the Zombies and Zappa. Across the pond, this approach has yielded reams of four-star notices and at least some concern that American audiences might not be ready for such catholic tastes. "It's probably more curse than blessing," says Duffy. "But it's kind of the little thing we have going, isn't it? It's just that we like so many different types of music. It's not like we're thieves. It's just inspiration and influence talking. We'll hear something and say, 'I'd love to write a song like that.' And we do." Although they recently completed recording what Duffy described as an acoustic-oriented follow-up, their debut has been in American record stores just over a week. That's hardly long enough to gauge any kind of reaction, but Duffy says folks at home are paying too much attention to the band NME has dubbed "The Best New Band in the Country." "The fact of the matter is we're all still living at home with our parents," points out Duffy. "We're not coming here in position to save the world. We'll probably never save the world. "That's the thing about musicians like Bono -- they go past the music to where they're saviors. I don't like that kind of ego. With us it's, 'Th is is our music. Like it or don't.' We'll just wait and see." ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #84 *******************************