From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V4 #19 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Friday, April 21 2000 Volume 04 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- rheostatics- tour [Sabrina Kuffer ] Re: rheostatics- tour [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:30:14 +0100 From: Sabrina Kuffer Subject: rheostatics- tour hello to all of you yes, there is someone else from germany... heh..not sure if my english is better though...heh i have seen veda with her skilled and devoted band and with two members of the rheostatics (martin tielli and don kerr) in fulda (germany) last week. they played in the "kulturkeller", a small, candlelight-flooded room in the basement - somewhere in the center of the small city of fulda. unfortunately only at around 50 people were there to see the show. and i believe that most of them had never heard of veda hille before, and so they seemed to be pretty scepticall at the beginning of the concert. the audience got a little bit more enthusiastic after the first couple of songs...but mostly they stayed reserved. nevertheless that didnīt affect the mood of the musicians too much, they did an amazing show - it was obvious that they did enjoy the show very much - and i did too .. :)) in the first set veda and the guys were performing songs from "hereīs a picture" and the rheostatics-cd "inspired by the group of 7". i have to admit that i havenīt heard of the rheostatics ever before (exept of in the lyrics of driven..heh) - and that i was captured immediately after the first note i heard. veda and martin tielli were singing those very beautiful and charming duets, which were i think were from the rheostatics cd... in the second set they were performing songs from "you do not live in this world alone", and 2 songs from berthold brecht and hans eisler. aswell slumber queen as the only song from spine. for me it was definitely worth the trip (3 hours drive one way) to see veda again, doing this truly amazing show with her band and the rhoestatics - i hope sheīll continue to work with them! brilliant! all in all a great performance. again i think among many thereīs one thing that makes it all so peculiar valuable: itīs fascinating how veda and her songs can be so powerful, fierce and breathtaking...and at the same time be so emotional, gentle and sweet - thatīs just very impressing! warm greetings to all of you bye sabrina skuffer@gmx.de some news: during the concert one guy was filming; later veda said that they are documenting the rheostatics-tour for a canadian tv-station ( i think), where the germany-tour will be broadcasted. she announced that sheīll probably come back to germany at the end of the year to do some shows - yippee :)) and ...that in the further future (in two years or so) sheīll maybe work as an actress for the bbc london; they wanted to use her music for a 6 episode-series about a pianoplayer...and they wanted veda to play the pianoplayer aswell.... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:58:49 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: rheostatics- tour Hi! Sabrina (herzlich willkommen!) reported: >i have seen veda with her skilled and devoted band and with two >members of the rheostatics (martin tielli and don kerr) in fulda >(germany) last week. It sounds like it was a wonderful performance! >i have to admit that i havenīt heard of the rheostatics ever before >(exept of in the lyrics of driven..heh) - and that i was captured >immediately after the first note i heard. Veda wasn't kidding when she said they're a really great band. :) >again i think among many thereīs one thing that makes it all so >peculiar valuable: itīs fascinating how veda and her songs can be so >powerful, fierce and breathtaking...and at the same time be so >emotional, gentle and sweet - thatīs just very impressing! "This is I am/so beautiful and fierce/This is violence/and holy words..." >during the concert one guy was filming; later veda said that they are >documenting the rheostatics-tour for a canadian tv-station ( i >think), where the germany-tour will be broadcasted. Oooh! Must keep an eye open for this. Thanks for the information! >and ...that in the further future (in two years or so) sheīll maybe >work as an actress for the bbc london; they wanted to use her music >for a 6 episode-series about a pianoplayer...and they wanted veda to >play the pianoplayer aswell.... Oh. My. God. So that actually looks like it might happen after all. I'm not going to get too excited until there's an official announcement, mind, but I'm going to be as mutely excited as I can in the meantime!!! +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V4 #19 *******************************