From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #877 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Tuesday, November 18 2003 Volume 02 : Number 877 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:41:42 -0000 From: "Noose Boy" Subject: seven-seas FW: [ianmcnabb] Ian McCulloch o/t In case you missed it - -----Original Message----- Here's an interview with the Bunnyman from last Friday's Independent: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/interviews/story.jsp?story=4634 14 ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:17:13 -0500 From: "Zap" Subject: FW: seven-seas let it be...naked - -----Original Message----- From: Andy Durrant [mailto:durr-ch0@wpmail.paisley.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:13 AM To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Subject: Re: seven-seas let it be...naked There's a more lo-fi but more important job in being a "producer" - the ability to knock on the window and tell the group to do it again because the last take was mince. A job that was sorely needed for the vocal performances on "Grey", and no technology can fix. Will's Bottleneck Legal disclaimer - -------------------------- The information transmitted is the property of the University of Paisley and is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail may not represent those of the company. Any review, retransmission, dissemination and other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. - -------------------------- ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:41:11 -0700 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: seven-seas The Age, Australia -- Review http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/18/1069027095525.html Echo and the BunnymenReviewer Jo Roberts November 19, 2003 Review: ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Prince of Wales, November 14 Four days before Liverpool's Echo and the Bunnymen brought their 25th anniversary tour here, there was Here and Now at Rod Laver Arena, a revival bill featuring many acts who enjoyed their high-haired heyday around the same time as the Bunnymen: Human League, Paul Young, Kim Wilde, Go West. Here and Now was billed as a nostalgia event, and there was plenty of nostalgia in the room when the Bunnymen played the Prince of Wales on Friday night, on their third visit to Australia in 25 years. But the Bunnymen are touring on their own merits, not reliving their new-wave days, and they're still recording and releasing new material to boot. Echo and the Bunnymen's fulsome-mouthed singer, Ian McCulloch, and floppy-haired guitarist, Will Sergeant, are the only original members left from the band that formed in 1978. But, as the Bunnymen learned during their brief dalliance with a new singer (one album, Reverberation) when McCulloch left to pursue a solo career in 1988, it is McCulloch's soaring voice that remains the flagship of the Bunnymen. McCulloch, wearing dark glasses and looking fit, opened the show with Show of Strength, from the band's second album, 1981's Heaven Up Here, which was released the same year the Bunnymen first visited Australia (and not followed up until 20 years later). McCulloch's thick Liverpudlian accent made him hard to understand (I deciphered one "Ow ya doin'?") but, musically, there was no cause for complaint. It was a great selection of songs - a tried-and-true set list - and they sounded exactly as they should; vast, powerful, iconic. And McCulloch's voice sounded as good as it did 20 years ago. Highlights were Crocodiles (the title track of the band's 1979 debut album), I'll Fly Tonight, the relentless Over The Wall, Lips Like Sugar (one of their happier, poppier moments) and - unquestionably the band's biggest hit - the wonderfully anthemic The Cutter. They returned for two encores (the first ending with a cheeky segue into Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side), before ending with Heads Will Roll and Ocean Rain. They could probably have done a third encore, given the audience's delirium. But after almost two hours - not to mention the 25 years - McCulloch and Sergeant, in particular, were entitled to call it a night. Actually, I'd call it a great night. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:38:33 -0000 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: Re: seven-seas Remixed Remiss - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Biedenkapp" > Can anybody name other remixes by famous song / artist. I don't hear > anything new in 95% of the remixes from Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Cure and > many other bands from the 80's. Just seems to me to be more of a marketing > tool to get our money. Of the guitar-bass-drums bands, the most obvious example were Primal Scream circa Screamadelica (esp. "Come Together" // "Higher Than The Sun") where the remix often twatted the original off the pitch. The Boo Radleys remixes usually were great slice'n'dice jobs, too ; pity they were often stuck away on B-sides. Generally, I think things have moved on heaps since the days (~1980s) when a remix merely meant adding a bit to the beginning, a lot to the end and a some superfluous backing vocals here and there...."The Killing Moon (All Night Version)" apart, of course. Majestic. - -- Barry Whiting barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:59:07 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Remixed Remiss > Generally, I think things have moved on heaps since the days (~1980s) when a > remix merely meant adding a bit to the beginning, a lot to the end and a > some superfluous backing vocals here and there...."The Killing Moon (All > Night Version)" apart, of course. Majestic. I was actually lying in bed last night unable to sleep, thinking about this! (LOL) The one song that came immediately to mind was Mac's "Candleland" -- the "Second Coming" version is very different in mood to the album version. It's got a faster tempo and loads of smooth strings as opposed to the more stark version on the album. They are both interesting though. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #877 ********************************