From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #524 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Saturday, November 5 2005 Volume 04 : Number 524 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:34:44 -0000 From: "jswee" Subject: seven-seas Music & Films O/T Hi, Bought a great comedy today called the "Rutles" fantastic & I would recommend it to anyone ! I watched it years ago & now it's on DVD. It's a spoof documentay about a fictional band called the "Rutles" based on the Beatles. It has characters like Dirk McQuickly (Paul mcCartney based on), Ron Nasty (John Lennon Character), Barry Wom (Ringo Starr) & a George Harrison character who becomes a air hostess for air india. It has classic album's like "Tragical History Tour", "Let it Rot" & many more. There is a cameo roll by George Harrison as a reporter. The funniest part is where Eric Idle as the documentary bloke goes to the Rat Kueller (in Hamburg) - priceless humour. It had me in stitches all afternoon ! The part in New Orleans was just brilliant as well ! I watch world cinema films (arteficial eye films are normally brilliant !), comedy & have a really good DVD sellection. I recently ordered the Clayhill album "small circle" which is brilliant from Virgin. I now have both the acoustic album & limited addition ! "Northern Soul" is better than any track I've heard for a long time & "Grasscutter" is just fantastic ! It's hard to pidgeon hole the style of music very much Bunnymen/Neil Young & lyrically as clever as McCulloch. I would suggest this is a must album the lyrics are melancoly at times, some possible allegories & sung from the heart ! all the best Jon Sweeney. Ps Raj I think it is tough moving universities & I think it is important to educate yourself ! I do think literature in school is not eclectic enough & perhaps even at universities. I learn alot from the internet about things like Mythology & poetry. In Seamus Heaney there are references to Nordic Mythology for example, I prefer other poets but it does interest me ! There are a lot of books now I wish I read from my time as a student. Globalisation & political geography I loved at Leeds Uni 1 I'd read a book by a lecturer called Trevor Jones at Leeds which delt with spacial aspects of crime & subcultural theory. He taught at JMU & I'd wished I'd had a greater conversation about these aspects. I think it would be great to surpass a lecturer in theories but I love being a TA at a special needs school. ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:36:20 -0000 From: "jswee" Subject: seven-seas Fw: Music & Films O/T - ----- Original Message ----- From: jswee To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 6:34 PM Subject: Music & Films O/T Hi, Bought a great comedy today called the "Rutles" fantastic & I would recommend it to anyone ! I watched it years ago & now it's on DVD. It's a spoof documentay about a fictional band called the "Rutles" based on the Beatles. It has characters like Dirk McQuickly (Paul mcCartney based on), Ron Nasty (John Lennon Character), Barry Wom (Ringo Starr) & a George Harrison character who becomes a air hostess for air india. It has classic album's like "Tragical History Tour", "Let it Rot" & many more. There is a cameo roll by George Harrison as a reporter. The funniest part is where Eric Idle as the documentary bloke goes to the Rat Kueller (in Hamburg) - priceless humour. It had me in stitches all afternoon ! The part in New Orleans was just brilliant as well ! I watch world cinema films (arteficial eye films are normally brilliant !), comedy & have a really good DVD sellection. I recently ordered the Clayhill album "small circle" which is brilliant from Virgin. I now have both the acoustic album & limited addition ! "Northern Soul" is better than any track I've heard for a long time & "Grasscutter" is just fantastic ! It's hard to pidgeon hole the style of music very much Bunnymen/Neil Young & lyrically as clever as McCulloch. I would suggest this is a must album the lyrics are melancoly at times, some possible allegories & sung from the heart ! all the best Jon Sweeney. Ps Raj I think it is tough moving universities & I think it is important to educate yourself ! I do think literature in school is not eclectic enough & perhaps even at universities. I learn alot from the internet about things like Mythology & poetry. In Seamus Heaney there are references to Nordic Mythology for example, I prefer other poets but it does interest me ! There are a lot of books now I wish I read from my time as a student. Globalisation & political geography I loved at Leeds Uni 1 I'd read a book by a lecturer called Trevor Jones at Leeds which delt with spacial aspects of crime & subcultural theory. He taught at JMU & I'd wished I'd had a greater conversation about these aspects. I think it would be great to surpass a lecturer in theories but I love being a TA at a special needs school. ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:21:59 +1300 From: "Kristin Smith" Subject: seven-seas www.zeromag.com (1 of 2) 1 of 2 http://www.zeromag.com/articles/article_view.php?id=508&pi=0 Echo and the Bunnymen Come In From The Cold by Larry Trujillo Send This Article to a Friend On a long distance phone call from Liverpool, England, Ian McCulloch is making wisecracks about the connection. bYoubre hearing an echo, Ibm the Bunnyman.b bHey thatbs funny, huh?b I remark as we both begin this epic interview with laughter. bIbve never used that one, honestly, Ibve never said that before,b he quickly adds. Wow, a Zero Magazine one-liner exclusive...I sense this conversation is going to go well. With the release of their latest CD, Siberia, Echo and the Bunnymen are preparing to embark on a US tour that will hit San Francisco on December 5th at the Fillmore. Along with Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen are one of the top three bands who defined 80bs dance rock and have influenced countless bands over the past two decades. Bringing back Hugh Jones, who produced the bands early material, Siberia sounds more like early Echo and the Bunnymen than any of their later releases. The album was recorded using the original chemistry of co-founders Will Sergeant (guitars) and McCulloch (vocals) with each taking separate day and night shifts in the studio. bWe put ourselves on a very strict time limit when we recorded this album. We didnbt want it to go on and on,b says McCulloch. The release cycle for Echo and the Bunnymen has been roughly a new record every four years, but when the band decides it is time to go into the studio, they take the job very seriously. bWe would record swings (nights) and days without even an hour off.b The result has been, according to McCulloch, bThe most Bunnymen sounding album since Porcupine.b And indeed it is. From the opening track bStormy Weatherb to bWhat If We Are,b Siberia is classic Bunnymen. bItbs partly because webve given ourselves some time since the last studio album also. With this album, webve had three years with the current line-up before we went into the studio. When we recorded Crocodiles (1980) the band had only been together a year.b Given the hot-and-cold relationship that Sergeant and McCulloch have had over the past quarter-century, it is a wonder that they can still get together and produce such great music, but it almost seems as though the drama fuels the creativity within the band. bWill is not the most eloquent when it comes to saying what it is about Bunnymen that needs saying. Hebll kind of go off on mundane tangents, bOh yeah, Ibd go in and do my bits, then go home and then Mac would go in...b Thatbs why we have Hugh because he stays away from all those kind of comments,b remarks McCulloch about the tension that is in the air during studio sessions. Not only does this formula seem to work, but Echo and the Bunnymen are an institution in the world of alternative rock. Ever since the 80bs and all the way through today, the band has influenced countless acts across the world, some of which have gone onto become bigger than Echo themselves. bThe fact that bands such as Coldplay have cited us as an influence has made this current album do better than the rest,b notes McCulloch, implying that it rubs off in terms of record sales. And what of these new fans who are discovering a band that has been around for so long? When discussing this topic, McCulloch makes one of the most profound statements Ibve ever heard in an interview. bA lot of young people in America come to our shows, but Ibm not surprised because Americanbs seek out their musical heritage. In England, music fans seemed to be led by the flavor of the month. Magazinebs such as NME are not going to sustain your career, it is your fan base.b ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #524 ********************************