From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #910 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, December 2 2003 Volume 02 : Number 910 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:57:40 +0000 From: "Dan Nicolson" Subject: RE: seven-seas Liverpool As someone who has seen them nowhere near as many times as you lot all I can say is what a fantastic gig. Brilliant crowd (especially right down at the front!), pretty good setlist and a quite animated Mac! I have recordings/videos of The Killing Moon and Nothing Ever Lasts Forever (quality ain't that good) as well as about half a dozen little snippets of video from other songs. Also I've got some pics, I will try and get them on some webspace in the next day or two. Dan >From: Anne Gleeson >Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org >To: seven-seas@smoe.org >Subject: seven-seas Liverpool >Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 00:47:28 -0800 (PST) > >Hi, all. Fantastic to see everyone on Saturday - I >know I missed some, but it was a total pleasure >talking to those I did see. I'll echo (ehem...) Stu by >saying that this is a great bunch of people. It sounds >weird, but having been on this list for so damn long >now, I can honestly say that my life is richer for >knowing you all. > >As for the gig.... I had to chew on it for a few days >(and let the ear ringing die down to a manageable >level) before I was ready to comment.... I actually >had a fabulous time, but not necissarily because of >the quality (which was, indeed, spotty to say the >least.) > >I spent a lot of time thinking as I listened and >watched about 25 years of Bunnymen and why they >touched me like they did and how music of that era had >really and truly changed my life and I think it was >those thoughts that lifted me up above the flaws of >the gig. Combine that with my boyfriend's enjoyment >(it was his first Bunnymen gig) and I think all-in-all >I was really happy about the whole thing. > >Jamie said the exact same thing that Chris said when I >read him some of the press yesterday and some of the >posts here - maybe the fact that we've all seen them >so many times is making us harsher critics than >average.... > >Anyway, you're all a great lot regardless. :) > >Cheers, >Anne > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now >http://companion.yahoo.com/ > > > >====================================== >http://www.bunnymenlist.com > >====================================== > _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:03:53 -0000 From: "Noose Boy" Subject: RE: seven-seas liverpool gig I thought he seemed a bit tired and disinterested at the London show but thought that might have been due to the efforts of the previous night. - -----Original Message----- From: stevie g am i in the minority?- it was the worse bunymen gig i've ever been to. what was mac up to?- did he not want to be there? seemed like he couldn't be arsed to sing the songs. sad to say but i left after 'nothing lasts... on the wild side'. [to be fair, he belted out some in fine style, 'the cutter' for one.] steve g. p.s. nothing ever lasts forever...... how true. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:11:54 -0000 From: "Noose Boy" Subject: RE: seven-seas setlists Sorry I missed everyone at the London show. Was feeling pretty rough, went in early to catch the support. They made a lot of noise and the few Stranglers songs that followed were much better. Catch you at the next one... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org] On Behalf Of looloo Sent: 01 December 2003 01:05 To: Seven-Seas; villiers-terrace@yahoogroups.com Subject: seven-seas setlists hey KP !! I got a setlist from london AND L'pool Did ya get one at the bowie gig !! ;-))) heehee looloo ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:12:38 -0500 From: "tony schinella" Subject: Re: seven-seas Evening Standard - Shepherds Bush Review Ouch. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Gleeson" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:04 AM Subject: seven-seas Evening Standard - Shepherds Bush Review > Couldn't find this online, but happened upon it on my > commute home last night.... Since I'm stuck at home > waiting for the contractors to show up and tear down > our leaking back wall, I thought I'd type it up.... > > From the Evening Standard, 1 December, 2003: > > Sporadic Echo of former greatness > Echo & the Bunnymen - Shepherds Bush Empire > By John Aizlewood > > Ultimately, there is little point in a band existing > without self-belief. In their pomp, Echo And The > Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch routinely described them > as the greatest band in existence. They weren't, of > course, but their hubris gave the Liverpool quartet an > aura of greatness. > > Twenty years later, that bustling swagger has almost > evaporated over the six years of a re-formation which > has rendered them merely quite good. These days, they > bathe chiefly in the sepia-tinged waters of nostalgia. > > Once their erudite focus, the croaky-voiced McCulloch > gave every impression of having given up. > Chain-smoking in the way that only the truly bored can > chain-smoke and with his buttoned-up jacket suggesting > he had a more pressing engagement elsewhere, McCulloch > delivered such surging anthems of high passion as The > Killing Moon and Rescue with virtual disdain. > > He used to have banter to spare, last night he chided > the crowd for singing along on the still-gorgeous > Ocean Rain ("do you want to hear it or not?"), which > he had half-heartedly described as "the greatest song > ever written". > > And when he slipped in a few verses of Walk On The > Wild Side during Do It Clean, the change to Walk On > The Merseyside was as predictable as it was > heart-sinking. Once he was cool; now he is cold. > > These though are still terrific songs and they were > sculpted by the other remaining Bunnyman, guitarist > Will Sergeant (four hired hands fleshed out the > sound). Unshowy and peering from beneath a > Planetagenet haircut, Sergeant was a revelation. His > guitar work was exemplary on The Killing Moon, > supremely inventive on Bring On The Dancing Horses and > jaw-droppingly magnificent on The Back Of Love. > > Without him, the evening would have crumbled. With > him, it was a sporadic reminder of how close Echo And > The Bunnymen came to living up to their former self-billing. > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/ > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #910 ********************************