From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #325 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, May 28 2003 Volume 02 : Number 325 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:54:08 +0000 From: "carlito way" Subject: Re: seven-seas Mac's Uncut Bowie track >kept for me in England till I went over.......but.....I can't help >wondering how Mac feels about having his track followed by >Culture Club doing Starman of all songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please! I think the whole CD is AWESOME & a real bargain (for a change). Mac does a great job and Edwyn Collins' track is worth the price of the whole thing on it's own. my 2 cents, - -Carlito _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:22:57 -0400 From: Rob Maher Subject: Re: seven-seas mac article (for chris) Interesting article. Every time I want him to elaborate on something, he goes off on some other tangent though. What I want to know is, what is the story with the breakfast food backstage? How odd. Rob > From: "Zap" > Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 18:09:00 -0400 > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Subject: FW: seven-seas mac article (for chris) > > Here's the original email. > Cheers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Leslie Jen > Sent: May 25, 2003 11:58 PM > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Subject: seven-seas mac article > > > Hi... > > I'm sort of in and out of this list so I don't know if this article has been > brought up or not, but what's the deal? It's written from Mac's point of > view and is rather interesting, but I can't imagine he actually had anything > to do with it. He's not usually this earnest or so directly confessional. > > Comments? > > > > http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,935937,00.html > > This Much I Know > > Ian McCulloch, singer, 43, London > > Andrew Harrison > Sunday April 13, 2003 > The Observer > > It's easier to sing something than say it. > The most important quality is honesty. And I haven't got it, not truly. > That's why you go for drugs and drink, because you're hiding something. At > least the songs can be the alibi. > > My dad was a compulsive gambler. He spent the rent, forged the rentbook, we > had the bailiffs round all the time. But for all that, he was the greatest. > He was like Eric Morecambe meets Bill Shankly. I've turned into him, > totally. I always think you can get away with anything by being a cheeky > little bastard. > > I've got compulsive tendencies. I have to repeat what people say to me back > to myself, in my head, and count the syllables. It used to have to fit > iambic pentameters, but now it's OK if it's just an even number of > syllables, so I must be getting better. > > There's no such word as 'couth'. My brother used it in an essay. The teacher > told him not to be so clever. > > The older you get, the less you like the night. When I was a kid I loved > dark nights because it meant I could play Leonard Cohen and David Bowie. I > hate the dark now. I can understand why old people sod off to Spain. The > sun's a sign of life. You need it more the older you get. > > It's hard to handle your own mouth sometimes. > > We were the first band to split up because of culinary differences. If > you're in a band, there are some things you just don't do. Will Sergeant > [guitar] and Les Pattinson [bass] would have an 'egg butty' just after they > came offstage at the Albert Hall. Can you imagine? Towards the end of the > band, we had frying pans backstage, camping stoves, the stink of bacon... it > was disgusting. > > Turning 40 made me realise that I want to get to 80. Prior to that I thought > I was invincible, that nothing happens to you if you're having a crack. > > You can't teach these posh people the true meaning of soul, and belonging. > Our drummer Pete de Freitas wasn't from Liverpool, he was posh. He was > dragged off to New Orleans by his mates and they spent all his money. > Looking back, Pete seemed to be on a long suicide mission. He'd been on to > ecstasy when it first started, before any of the Manchester dudes, and he > was hammering it. He schizo'd out. More than anything I thought: 'You cheeky > git, how can you do this to the Bunnymen?' > > I don't do breakdowns. Everybody has thought some time in their life: 'Could > I ever kill myself, if it got that bad?' But I always think: 'Not if there's > football on.' > > My dad died the same day I left the Bunnymen, 26 April 1988. I'd told him > that this gig in Osaka was going to be the end of it for me. My dad was in > hospital in Liverpool and I knew he was dying before I went onstage. I'd > been crying my eyes out, but I thought, 'What a cool, cool dude, to say > "I'll get out now. You've got to do the last one on your own."' Not that he > guided me through life, but it was too coincidental. > > I felt great for a year after my dad died and the band ended. I felt > propelled forward for a change, plus I was totally bongo'd for a couple of > years with the drink and the drugs. I was always having a laugh, or I > thought I was. In fact, I was completely lost, really. But to be honest, it > was good to go to that place, and I'm not sure I've come back from it. It's > normal for me to be confused, and all over the shop emotionally. > > The band decided to go on with another singer. I don't like to talk about > it. Sometimes I do wonder how I let Will back in my life after a stab in the > back like that - bringing in some no-mark to front the band. Talking to > yourself is not a bad thing. Everybody has loads of voices rattling on in > their head. The only difference is, I talk back to them. I don't know what > quiet sounds like. > > Once a Bunnyman, always a Bunnyman. That's why we had to get back together. > The thought of it sometimes reduces me to panic, but when I sing 'The > Killing Moon' I know there isn't a band in the world who's got a song > anywhere near that. > > The secret of a good marriage is being a good liar. I don't mean to hurt > people, but it happens. Me and Lorraine have been together for 20 years so > it works somehow. Love helps, too. > > Football is more important than music. Football is the only time I like > being part of 40,000 people. And with music, the last thing I want to be is > part of a crowd. I want to be me, on my own. > > Speak before you think. The sentence will usually be better than the > thought. > > Ian McCulloch's third solo album, Slideling, is released on 28 April. > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #325 ********************************