From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V3 #272 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Monday, August 16 2004 Volume 03 : Number 272 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:53:34 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas Mac live on BBC6 At 09:05 AM 8/16/04 +0100, you wrote: >I wish they'd included the bit he did with Richard Hawley >coz that was great and funny when Richard went into >Eastern guitar mode and Mac made some comment in >and Indian accent "oh bloody ell" as if it was some sort of >Indian Restaurant type music :-) :-DDDDDD >Richard Hawley played before Mac so you maybe able >to 'listen again' to that too.... That'd be cool! :-) Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:36:52 -0600 From: "Kristin Smith" Subject: seven-seas Website This was posted on the forum by Peter: Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject: Website The website has been moved to the new server & will be viewable in 24hrs. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:18:35 -0700 From: Charles Pham Subject: seven-seas RE: Inland Invasion? Looks like no Ian McCulloch or the Bunnymen. Here's the lineup: Morrissey Siouxsie Devo Billy Idol Tears For Fears Ian Brown (of the Stone Roses) Missing Persons A Flock of Seagulls X Franz Ferdinand The Killers Muse Death Cab For Cutie The Walkmen Tix are $45, on sale this saturday. > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Pham > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:41 AM > To: 'seven-seas@smoe.org' > Subject: Inland Invasion? > > KROQ Inland Invasion 4 > Saturday, September 18th > Venue TBA (but all previous shows have been @ the Hyundai Pavilion) > > confirmed acts so far from various sources: > Morrissey (of the Smiths), headliner > Ian Brown (of the Stone Roses) > > Why, you ask, did I put the former bands in parentheses? Well, my guess > would be is that its the running theme of this year's > festival--frontmen/frontwomen gone solo. Again, this is just a guess! > > Further, there are others that will be performing their own shows in the > area during the same time, so perhaps they may be joining the bill (AGAIN, > JUST A GUESS): > **Souxsie (of Sousxie and the Banshees / The Creatures) will be in town > playing her own solo shows > **Ian McCulloch; the Bunnymen will be in town the following weekend. > hmmm... > **Billy Idol; playing in the area with the 18th date open. > > [i enjoy devoting valuable work time to investigate such important things] > > Charles Pham > Web Producer > charlesp@eonline.com > AIM: PicturesOnMyWall > WORK: 323.692.4676 > CELL: 323.273.1550 > E! Online ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:35:16 +0100 From: "KPJ" Subject: seven-seas Nick Cave Review This in Observer Get your Greek on=20 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus = (=A314.00, Mute) Will Hodgkinson finds Nick Cave embracing maturity on = his new double release=20 Sunday August 15, 2004 The Observer=20 As Abattoir Blues opens with 'Get Ready For Love', a darkly glamorous = blast of a song reminiscent of Roxy Music at their most decadent, it = seems as if Nick Cave has metamorphosed into the id of Bryan Ferry. Cave = has been heading towards sophisticated, adult-oriented songwriting for = the past decade or so, emerging from his underground hinterland to take = on the lyrical mantle of existentialist crooners such as Jacques Brel = and Scott Walker - so a jump into Ferry-style suave isn't that = surprising. But then on the distorted 'Cannibal's Hymn' he sings about = enticing a woman down to the river to defrock her, and you realise that = knocking out smooth standards to genteel audiences with champagne and = picnic hampers isn't going to happen for him just yet.=20 Packaged together, Abattoir Blues and The Lyre Of Orpheus are two = separate albums with very different moods. The first is the rougher of = the two, with a primitive drum punch from Jim Sclavunos and backing = vocals from the London Community Gospel Choir that sound strangely = impure against some pretty brutal songs. On 'Hiding All Away' Cave = growls about famous chefs shoving women into ovens while the choir's = harmonies glide over the Bad Seeds' monolithic blues.=20 Other songs, such as 'There She Goes', 'My Beautiful World' and 'Nature = Boy', are more conventional, with big choruses and driving beats made = uplifting by the choir's dulcet tones. Cave is at his best when = approaching writing songs as a novelist would, and the title track, a = beautifully tragic plea for help by a trapped man, is a reminder of why = his lyrical wit, which owes something to Leonard Cohen, is still so = relevant. 'I woke up this morning with a frappucino in my hands,' he = sings mournfully, before going on to describe hurrying off to work, and = you feel he understands the quiet, everyday banality of modern life = perfectly. The album finishes with 'The Fable Of The Brown Ape', a = rather biblical story of a farmer, a serpent and an ape who appear to = have developed a symbiotic relationship, much to the disapproval of the = locals.=20 The Lyre Of Orpheus, beginning as it does with the title track's = comically violent interpretation of the Greek myth, is no less dark, but = it is less discordant, and its mood is more like a quiet Sunday morning = as compared to Abattoir Blues' charged Saturday night. 'Breathless' = comes close to being a sweet folk song, and 'Babe You Turn Me On' is the = kind of man's lament you might expect from Kris Kristofferson or Johnny = Cash. Sometimes this more subtle approach doesn't fully work, but Cave = has kept his palette wide open. 'Easy Money' is followed by = 'Supernaturally', which gallops along with the fury of one of Ennio = Morricone's spaghetti western soundtracks; in fact with its shouts of = 'hey, ho' and lilting strings, it's clear where the song's inspiration = came from. As for the orchestral ambition and imagination of 'Carry Me', = and the haunting gospel of 'O Children' - the best track - they are the = products of an artist who has hit maturity without hitting complacency. = They complete Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' most fully realised album = since 1997's The Boatman's Call .=20 Burn it: Abbatoir Blues, Hiding All Away, O Children [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of 4stars.gif] ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V3 #272 ********************************