From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V3 #147 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, April 28 2004 Volume 03 : Number 147 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:51:26 +0100 From: "shaz" Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: Muse (I need a reality check!) > If you're really telling me that even ECHO have this problem, > that's ridiculous. No, not ridiculous...... I can't believe you don't remember all the posts in which I/we have posted that I/we had bruises after a Bunnymen gig!!!!!!!!! Most of the time it's not a problem, it's just people getting a bit carried away by the music, they mean no harm but with that sort of emotion and that number of people you are gonna get crushed. Occasionally, you do get a very rough crowd at a UK Bunnygig, where the guys are pissed and deliberately trying to crash into people to cause trouble and/or just to get to the front. I hate it like that, but that has only happened to me once (I think it was at Sheffield and you can sense how things are gonna go, so I stayed further back :-(........)...... Me and loo were just saying the other day how boring a lot of gigs are coz they don't evoke that passionate reaction.....(I don't mean the aggressive kind). Some of the bands I have been to see have a young audience and yet they all just stand there like they are waiting for a bus or something...and I always think we may be older and the Bunnymen are older but at least we're all still passionate!! I always say I'm gonna stay at the back for the next Bunnygig but I can't help going to the front for the Bunnymen, it's (usually) such a great atmosphere even if it is a bit scary sometimes... Shaz ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:23:07 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: Muse (I need a reality check!) Well said Shaz! :-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:26:02 -0700 From: Charles Pham Subject: seven-seas Ian McCulloch - Live & Acoustic in Liverpool as posted on Bunnymen.com... Ian McCulloch Live in Liverpool posted Tuesday, 27 April, 2004 $ Mac has announced two shows at "Prohibition" on Bold Street on the 9th & 10th of June. The cappacity of the venue is only 150. Tickets will go on sale next Monday, details to follow. Ticket price is #20.00 It will be seated, and will be an intermit acoustic affair ; candlelit tables, Dubonnet on ice, listening to Mac sing Songs for Swinging Lovers. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:54:13 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: Muse (I need a reality check!) > 'stop it'....coz that just makes them do it more. Really... > the only way to avoid getting slammed into, pushed into > the stage, knocked down, etc etc etc...is to stand at the back. > I'm just flabbergasted that you think you can just expect > NOT to have these things happen! I'm equally flabbergasted that you think that this is okay. Again, it's like saying that if you go to a certain part of town and you get mugged, you should expect it -- but does that make it right?! All I can say regarding the difference between your experiences and mine are thank God I didn't grow up or live where you did, because I've seen GA shows for plenty of bands, of all genres, since I was 15, and NEVER did any crowd act like the animals they were Monday night. I saw the TexxasJam in 1984 at the Houston Astrodome -- the entire floor of the stadium, or roughly a football field, was GA. NO one acted like that. As to the bruises -- sure there's pushing and getting squeezed a bit -- but not to the extent that went on in St Louis. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:09:37 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: Muse (I need a reality check!) > >I think for the first time, I've seen more gigs this year > >than have you, thank you. > > Oh hardy har har! and HOW do you know? > I've been to gigs I haven't mentioned! thank you! Well, hmmm..... suppose we could count, but that would be petty. > >Getting beaten up by someone is criminal assault, if you > >ask them to stop and they don't. > > Stand at the back.....coz that doesn't work at gigs! It works in all 50 states. It's a crime. If someone steals your pocketbook at a gig, is that okay too? You don't enter a lawless land when you step inside a club. > >If you're really telling me that even ECHO have this problem, > >that's ridiculous. > > Are you REALLY that naive??????? > > If I were you....I wouldn't go to any more gigs.... > or else...stand at the back! If there's no back at which to stand, your choice is to LEAVE. I'm not naive, I obviously live in a part of the world where people don't beat the crap out of each other just to see a live show. Hmmm. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V3 #147 ********************************