From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #337 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, May 29 2003 Volume 02 : Number 337 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:34:07 -0400 From: Rob Maher Subject: Re: seven-seas House of Love (OT) > Guy Chadwick and the Dashing Badminton Fellows I love that. LOL! ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 22:28:42 +0100 From: "Noose Boy" Subject: seven-seas Big Brother I'm not a watcher of this program but had it on in the background whilst doing my Spanish revision (honest). Anyway they were singing songs by bands in alphabetical order and were on E, one of them did say Echo and the Bunnymen. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 22:52:39 +0100 From: "Shaz" Subject: Re: seven-seas CTC mmmm - I think I would've given Amy an easier on the ear one than Panzer Attack to start off with!! Amy, try Did You Miss Me - great atmosphere on that one... Shaz - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt H" To: Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 6:57 AM Subject: Re: seven-seas CTC > >Hey Matt > >What's your favourite CTC tune on See This Through and Leave? > > Tricky one off the top of my head.....can I pick more than one? > > I'd probably go for Film-maker or Murder Song, but then again, > there's also The Lake or Digital Observations..... > > Oh, and Amber.... > > And I love the way Did You Miss Me builds up and up..... > > Panzer Attack's a pretty good Rocker, too..... > > Echo and the Bunnymen | the official website: http://www.bunnymen.com > ___________________________________________________________ > Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:21:47 +0100 From: "Shaz" Subject: seven-seas Mac interview by Crud magazine (Sid) Just found this.....interesting.......videos on the re-masters eh?? :-) Shaz ___________________________________________ IAN MCCULLOCH [INTERVIEW] Ian McCulloch Interview 6th April 2003 With a new album, 'Slideling' due out on Cooking Vinyl this week, Sid thought it was about time he faced the insurmountable confidence and swagger of the Mac. There are the leaders and the led. There are legends and bygones. Some stand and take their fellows forward. They are respected and revered, have the quality and the conscience and above all they must be loved. One such man is willing to lead any new principality of Liverpool. That man is Ian McCulloch, the leader of the Bunnymen, a true British musical legend. He is bringing a God sent power to steady a new regime and to lift your souls. Echo and the Bunnymen are one of the greatest bands of the post-punk era, greater still as they still survive today. They split at the end of the eighties; they lost friend and drummer Pete De Freitas and suffered 'average ' solo letdowns. But since a return in 1997 with the acclaimed Evergreen album, they have stuck defiantly around and subsequent albums have seen the band forge a rightful place in today's musical landscape. In that time away from the band in the early nineties Ian had, what even he accepts was, a less than successful solo career. What's changed this time around is a return to typical Mac; the swagger and confidence that sees him describe the Bunnymen as "one of the greatest bands of all time" now plays through this new project. "It's the first record I've made solo-wise where I am happy with the reasons why I'm doing it and with the way that it turned out," he says. This break from the band let him take control of some personal sketches. "After Flowers, which got good praise and sales, I was ready to be a whole, less a =, <, 1/5 or whatever of a project," he explained. "There was no need for the super-mellow-man vibe", something that Ian and Will Sergeant speak of often in the Bunnymen, "on this album, I wanted to really enjoy this in my own way". "I am believable, always have been mate" he says of his song writing, "it's proven. I have put my name to some of the best songs ever, and I include these in that." Ian's reasoning as to why he does what he does so well reflects that believability, "I feel blessed, (it's) written in the stars that I could do this, so you have to do it in the right place. I could have been a bloody oil baron or something, still writing great tunes. I'd have been a wicked oil baron but I'm an even better songwriter in my world now. S 'all part of that journey into whatever that everyone is on. You have to know when you are in the right place at the right time. It's the right time for this record." Slideling is Ian's first solo album since Mysterio nearly eleven years ago and it has inspirations from across McCulloch's life, loves and, yes even at 40 plus, his hopes. Influences such as the Velvet Underground, "now they are the greatest band of all time, I love the Velvets" I am instructed, or his beloved home of Liverpool all play a part in taking you into this record. The beautiful poetry of his lyrics really stands out on a track like Playgrounds and City Parks, its childhood optimism is so infectious. The first single to be taken from the album is (confusingly) Sliding. It features some guest musicians that Ian has been 'helping' of late. Chris and Jonny of Coldplay learn from the master, later appearing on another track. "You should watch out for them" I am recommended, "Chris had little to do but he did those La,La,La's pretty good." The magnanimous man's tutelage of Coldplay has extended into taking them on 'his' tour too. The gigs I'm told are planned so you can enjoy Ian's set before hanging around a bit to catch Coldplay, "a good way for them to get some attention". He may jest but these shows will be great for fans of Ian too. Most won't have tickets for Coldplay but Ian will really thrive in the large arenas, so that come the solo tour proper something special is in store. A recent Mac show stealing turn at the One Big No anti-war protest in London, in March, is further testament to his charisma and power live. "I loved that show, so did they (the crowd). Don't reckon they expected it, but they loved it" he said, "some guy on a piano helped us out on a few tracks", he's on about Chris Martin again, "still, playing Walk On The Wildside is a blast anytime!" Expect "a proper fucking rock'n'roll show" when Ian takes Slideling on tour. Bunnymen gems such as Stars Are Stars, What You Going To Do and Satellite are "more than likely, ones that don't have Will all over them" he joked. "Seriously though a song like Baby Rain can just sound better on it's own a bit. And there'll be some covers too, ...Wild Side, maybe Waiting For The Man. And of course lots of my solo stuff too." I asked about his recent spate of superb covers; Waiting For The Man for BBC3's Re: Covered series (to be shown in April) plus Lennon and Bowie tracks on the Uncut magazine CDs. "It's that believable thing again. John, Dave, Lou Reed, they are all legends, believable stars who wrote great tracks and who you could believe in." There's more praise for newer acts like The Coral ("true cosmic rock"), Richard Hawley and, yes, Coldplay too. There's no fear that all the confidence with which he has enthused about Slideling and his solo tour is going to mean another extended hiatus for Echo and the Bunnymen. "After I have done what I need to do", which includes US and Far East solo gigs, "we'll be at the festivals. Warming up for a big fuck-off tour and party for the birthday." Twenty-five years old, still "the greatest band of all time", I wondered what could be expected in the way of a celebration, and Ian got his priorities straight right away. "The tour's the big thing. Warner's (the band's early record label) are going to fiddle with the first few records, add those videos you never saw and remaster them, but it's the tour first. Mid-November we are having a hometown show and that will be awesome." He jokingly hinted that playing at home will mean an earlier night in his own bed but that's just more Mac wit. You know wherever it is and whenever it is an Echo and the Bunnymen party led by Ian McCulloch is one to get an invite too. All rise for the Prince Regent of the City Of Liverpool. Sir Mac is back and he's loving it.mate. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #337 ********************************