From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #579 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, July 24 2003 Volume 02 : Number 579 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:16:16 +0100 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: Re: seven-seas Robert Plant/Ashton Court Festival(my nightmare - long post) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stu Bird" >> I was pleased as punch that I got to see The Blue Aeroplanes acoustic as it was a late programme change, How the Blue Aeroplanes sounding these days, Stu ? Still Gerard Langley and collective ? Saw them many a-time during my years in Bristol. They did a gig circa 1990 at the Bierkeller which would definitely rank in my all time top ten list if I had one. Sorry to hear about your troubles, Sharon. - -- Barry Whiting barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:26:12 +0100 From: "Shaz" Subject: Re: seven-seas Robert Plant/Ashton Court Festival(my nightmare - long post) I liked the Blue Aeroplanes - never heard or seen them before. The singer looked like Mac when he's about 70 he he Shaz - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Whiting" To: Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:16 AM Subject: Re: seven-seas Robert Plant/Ashton Court Festival(my nightmare - long post) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stu Bird" > > > >> I was pleased as punch that I got to see The Blue Aeroplanes acoustic as > it was a late programme change, > > How the Blue Aeroplanes sounding these days, Stu ? Still Gerard Langley and > collective ? Saw them many a-time during my years in Bristol. They did a gig > circa 1990 at the Bierkeller which would definitely rank in my all time top > ten list if I had one. > > > Sorry to hear about your troubles, Sharon. > > -- > Barry Whiting > barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:35:31 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stu=20Bird?= Subject: Re: seven-seas Robert Plant/Ashton Court Festival(my nightmare - long post) Hi Barry, They are sounding more or less like they did way back. Still Gerard fronting the band ( plus a lot of black hair dye ), but this was an acoustic set with just a guitar and a mandolin. They finished with Jacket Hangs which is my fav track of theirs. Due to the spoken word style of lyric, they really needed a better mic as the sound wavered a bit, but it was still a great set.. Stu Barry Whiting wrote: - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stu Bird" >> I was pleased as punch that I got to see The Blue Aeroplanes acoustic as it was a late programme change, How the Blue Aeroplanes sounding these days, Stu ? Still Gerard Langley and collective ? Saw them many a-time during my years in Bristol. They did a gig circa 1990 at the Bierkeller which would definitely rank in my all time top ten list if I had one. Sorry to hear about your troubles, Sharon. - -- Barry Whiting barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== - --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:57:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: Re: seven-seas re:- KJ Always thought there should have been more groups like Killing Joke, anyone know their tour dates. A.I. I've > also read an interview recently with Jaz Coleman, > Killing Joke's > frontman, who says that their forthcoming tour will > include numerous > songs from all their early albums as well as > promoting their soon-to- > be-released new album (which is awesome, if, like > me, you like 'em > hard 'n heavy!) > > 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 > > ====================================== > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:01:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Anne Gleeson Subject: seven-seas Adam Kray Hi, guys. Sorry to use the forum for such frivolity, but my address book seems to have self-destructed and Adam, will you email me? I'm putting together my leaving do and need to send you the evite. On the other side of the pond, see you all in about six weeks. Cheers, Anne __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:51:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: OT: Monster > That is the only REM album I have... > cause I saw them once only live and they > played Star 69. Much better live. > It's awesome to see a band you haven't > followed, and then hear certain great songs for > the very first time ever, songs you have never > heard before, performed for you live. > (Songs to learn and sing!) I have only seen REM once, though I started getting their albums from _Murmur_ on. It was the _Monster_ tour, and GOD am I glad I went. Though sorry I didn't care enough to even listen to Radiohead, who were opening (this was what, 1995? and I had a three-year-old and I just wasn't out from under my rock yet). That concert was abso-fucking-lutely *magical*, and the last one with Bill Berry on drums. The one where Michael Stipe was showing off his hiatal hernia scar; Mills had had an appendectomy and Berry of course the near-fatal brain aneurysm in Lausanne Switzerland. So everyone but Buck had scars, and he of course was sporting the extra weight the damn press wouldn't shut up about. So it's Texas, and it's an outdoor concert, and Natalie Merchant played in between Radiohead and REM. How is that for a concert that was, like, $20 US? They opened with "WTFK" which made the crowd go fucking wild as it's the opener off _Monster_. How many bands can release a new album and open with a track from it and have the crowd go insane? Not many! And even better -- Natalie Merchant zoomed onto the stage and started dancing like a possessed whirling dervish -- she can dance like a dream. At that point the crowd was at near orgasmic frenzy level and dancing and singing and screaming. Mike Mills was beaming in his Nudie suit; Stipe was looking skeletal in shaved hair and loads of eyeliner (as in Crush With), and Buck was sawing away in his four-martini-lunch businessman's suit and tie.... what an amazing image, this pudgy suited guy ripping out all of the guitar I'd grown up playing.... and Berry, poor Berry, soldiering on and occasionally smiling. At one point Stipe told the story about living in Copperas Cove, about 50 miles north of here (he was an Army brat) and how he'd asked his teacher (honestly) what "masturbation" meant, and how this teacher, who was 40-something then, was straight with him and said "it means playing with yourself!" The teacher was in the audience that night and we all were wild for this now grey-haired little old lady who had come to see her most famous pupil. The stars hung low and bright in the sky and it was truly probably (she says in a whisper) the most awesome concert I have ever been to, despite liking other bands and attending many more gigs. There was just something about that night. Now they are playing three nights in Texas in a row and it's a no-kids weekend and I am going to go to ALL of them, it's only like 150-250 miles between each show ;-) and sorta the familiar I-10-I-45- I-35 triangle (Austin, Houston and Dallas) that I've done so many times for Rush. Sounds like, MCH, you were on a bit of an Athens binge with REM and the B-52s! The B-52s headlined SXSW this past year but couldn't get out for them that night..... So it's three REM dates on the third weekend in September and then Radiohead October 1st in Houston..... anyone going to these gigs please let me know, and we can do a pre-gig meet. I doubt The Woodlands is going to be much of a place to have a party (God their sheriffs are right-winged thugs) but surely there's SOME life outside Montgomery County. Both REM & Radiohead are playing there. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #579 ********************************