From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V3 #409 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Friday, October 29 2004 Volume 03 : Number 409 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:53:45 +0100 From: "Noose Boy" Subject: seven-seas Nick Cave Cave being interviewed on XFM right now, plus tracks off the wonderful new LPs. Anyone hear his DJ set at the recent Primal Scream/Spiritualised gig at Brixton. Got there too late myself. ============================ Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ ============================ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:00:19 +0100 From: "KPJ" Subject: seven-seas Peely Rcvd this from Colchester Arts Centre - Great venue......remember the Bunnygig there?? 'Dear kpjacques@nwwwm.freeserve.co.uk A small voice to add to the wealth of affection and respect that greeted the news of John Peel's death. At around 2pm on Tuesday afternoon we got an email from a friend. It said John Peel had died. Following that first contact we began to get a stream of phone calls, texts and more emails from all directions. Personal friends, professional contacts, arts centre regulars, artists, bands - all of a sudden everyone needed to share this news. The stream became something of a torrent. Well... it says something about a man when word of mouth spreads faster than the broadcast media. As most of you will know, Peelie played here as a DJ recently and was generous enough to get involved with some of our other projects. Although it would be a wild exaggeration to say he was a friend of ours he always gave more than originally agreed, he came to watch Colchester Utd with us and we enjoyed the odd lunch. He was every bit as interesting off the radio as on. Maybe off air he was a little less guarded about his Fab FM colleagues - Bates, Dave Lee Travis, Edmonds - they did receive a bit of a lashing, he was indeed pithily condemnatory about these guys - as well as being frankly hilarious. My favourite story was how he and Paul Burnett had once hidden in the underground car park at the BBC waiting for Simon Bates. They'd had enough. They couldn't take it any more - after one particular Radio One dinner they hatched the plan to jump him in the car park and duff him in. I questioned him at this point wanting to make sure I'd understood correctly. He and Paul Burnett were going to physically attack Simon Bates for..... for being Simon Bates basically! Absolutely correct. No room for misunderstanding there. The plan was to bundle him over and set about him in no uncertain terms. Action had to be taken. How ironic then when who do I see on ITV news at 6.30pm that night, dragged out to eulogise about his erstwhile colleague? It's Bates! In all his unctuous glory. The very sight made me want to hatch a similar plan. John's championing of new bands, his enthusiasm to give air-time to acts who would never receive a space elsewhere was an inspiration. It's a principle we've tried to emulate. Only a few months ago I'm driving home from Ipswich listening to Peel on Radio One. Okay, Home Truths did pick up a batch of awards but it was always Radio One, always music for me that made him sound most at home. A track comes on from an artist purporting to be named V/Vm. It was a classic Peel moment. What the hell is that??!! I'd never heard a thing like it before in my life ever. Someone appeared to have taken the Chris de Burgh classic "Lady In Red" and somehow remixed, or mangled it up in some such way as to produce a utterly grotesque dirge. It's difficult to describe really. It sounded as if Chris de Burgh's dead body had been placed alongside you in your coffin, and now this cold white corpse was pressed against you, crooning slowly and out of tune directly into your ear. There was no escape. This was the hell that had become your new home. Most disturbing. Gave me a shiver. The same shiver I'd had some 30 years earlier when the Ramones jumped out of my wireless in 1976. I found out a contact and booked him for the arts centre immediately. John Peel never became an anachronism. He never descended into self parody. He never lost his edge, his taste, his bias for the new, his wit, his humanity. And much as the BBC now trumpet their praise today they never really understood him like we did. He changed my life. In January we shall celebrate John Peel with a night dedicated to the man on January 29 2005. V/vm appear next Thursday 4 November. Anthony Roberts Director Colchester Arts Centre Thurs 4 November 2004: V/Vm, Fast Lady, Clippety Clop, The Amputee Cliniq Sat 29 January 2005: John Peel Night - details to follow' ============================ Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ ============================ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:09:24 +0100 From: "KPJ" Subject: seven-seas Colchester arts centre Actually speaking of the Centre when the Bunnymen played a coupla years back they came on well late and a coupla people had to leave early in order to catch last train back to London........... erm I just wondered......was that anyone from round these parts coz....well just coz......face name all that jazzzzzzzzzzz ;-) ============================ Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ ============================ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:15:31 +0100 From: "KPJ" Subject: seven-seas Whilst....... on the subject of John Peel...........I still miss his old producer John Waters mastermind behind someof the best radio ever. Saturday afternoons radio 1 waters followed by kershaw (andy)........and then if my memory serves me right Peelie........could that be right? I'm sure that was it. Damn i'm getting old......the memory is going....... ============================ Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ ============================ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:45:39 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: Boston > Ever notice that bands named after places are terrible? Boston, > Kansas, Chicago, Europe, Asia Yeah.... I suppose they couldn't be bothered to come up with something more creative. I don't think much of the Scottish band Texas but there may be a fan here ;-) I'm having a hard time not laughing imagining these Scots saying, "We're Texas...." I think Altered Images was a much better name for Johnny McElhone's prior band. ============================ Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ ============================ ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V3 #409 ********************************