From: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org (velvet-station-digest) To: velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Subject: velvet-station-digest V2 #2 Reply-To: velvet-station@smoe.org Sender: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk velvet-station-digest Wednesday, January 6 1999 Volume 02 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [VS] another norwegian joins [Yngve Hauge ] [VS] Some info [Yngve Hauge ] [VS] >:^O [Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk] Re: [VS] >:^O [Yngve Hauge ] Re: [VS] >:^O [Yngve Hauge ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:18:06 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: [VS] another norwegian joins > > Finally I too discovered this list. Just thought I'd send an hello message > and wish y'all a happy newyear :) Some of you know me from before, mostly And a Happy New Year to you and of course Welcome!!! > btw, take a look at: > http://www.nvg.org/~thomasr/setlist.jpg > I scanned the setlist from the VB/Biosphere show at Studentersamfundet i > Trondhjem. Dunno if its very interesting, but what the heck :) Should be part of the upcoming Velvet Station webpage, when that one gets to being :) - -- Yngve Your humble Admin ... n.p. Velvet Belly (of course) n.r. CJ Cherryh - Foreigner ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:05:46 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: [VS] Some info Hi again, Back from Oslo after having an amazing (!!!!) new year celebration and dinner with Anne Marie and Henning. Wow, are those people wonderful, or what? Oh ... here are the facts The Velvet Station Gift Project No. 1 (first part) was given to 2 VERY awed Velvet Belly members last Sunday. First they had been invited to dinner, then Elin made a birthday song to them and then they get a gift on the top. It was just amazing to see how much they did appreciate it. From the list Tine, Elin and I were representated. Tine and I decided to do something about the dinner thing at the party last Thursday, and I did try to call Anne Marie on Friday with no luck (I'm actually not sure if it was her I did talk to that day 'cause she said she was going to call me back but never did ... wonder who it was though :) Tine did call Henning on Saturday after not being able to get hold on Anne Marie (who did call her back just after getting off the phone talking to Henning), and he did like the idea. So it was 3 very excited and kinda nervous people finishing up the gift and song at my parents appartment in Oslo before going to meet Anne Marie and Henning. The fun thing was that we did end up standing there waiting in 3 different spots not far away from each other (we were together of course :). It was just such a weird feeling to meet them again ... just like I wasn't really there. They are really wonderful people to talk to - very natural and they both seem very interested in what you say. We had a nice dinner and the conversation was very pleasant indeed. When leaving the place Henning had to get home right away, while Elin, Tine and I went to some other place to continue the evening (night ... whatever :) And that was about it ... Elin, Tine - Something I've forgot in there? Oh, the gift ... The gift did consist of a tape from Phillippa with a spoken msg and a song, a tape with a copy of a radio show from 1995 with Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, Victoria Williams, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Tim Ray and 3 samplers on minidisc with music from Tine and myself + music chosen by people from the Ecto and Velvet Station mailinglists. The following artists were represented on the samplers : Over the Rhine, Sarah McLachlan, Victoria Williams, Jane Siberry, Big Hat, Maria McKee, October Project, Radio Iodine, Veda Hille, Emily Bezar, Potato Eaters, Happy Rhodes, Nields, Dead Can Dance, Ingrid Karklins, Kate Bush, Perfume Tree, Miranda Sex Garden, Texas, Moon Seven Times, Cranes, Mo'a (hmm, I think it was written like that). If you want to hear any of the above send me a note ... Another sampler is in the making with traditional music from around the world : english, irish, latvian, chinese, bulgarian, russian, latin american ... that's what I got this far. I hope people will send me tapes with spoken greetings, own songs or music they want Velvet Belly to hear etc etc ... use your imagination. There will be a new VB album this year - nothing else is known at this point. If any of you should find, hear some more info then let us know. And there might be a live album released from their last tour with Biosphere (can't wait to hear that one) There might be a concert in London later this year. We should be representated there by as many as possible, so if you would like to be there at this historic event, then drop Tine a mail (if that is ok for you Tine - to keep track of people who want to go there that is) I guess that was it for now - -- Yngve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:54:19 +0100 From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk Subject: [VS] >:^O Wow Such activity from Velvet Station masters! Many pats on many backs (not least to Yngve, Tine, Elin and Daniel for the beginnings of a web page!) The news I have seems small in comparison - Velvet Belly may or may not be getting a UK release in March. (I'm not going to celebrate until I actually see their CD's in the record shops and hear their music on the radio!) Watch this space. ...and if they come over to London (and maybe a few other places in England to do some gigs), and a group of you want to come over, maybe you could get cheaper air tickets if you book them together (if you are under the age of 26, you can get cheaper air fares with SAS anyway, you lucky things!) - I could sort out some accommodation + any info. you need at this end (since I'm already in London.....hey, Rune Lindbaek was here last week) Yngve - if you want some more examples of world music, I've got loads!!! Should have put a bit of Sheila Chandra on the Christmas tape for your delight (she "sings" like Kay Rune drums - say out loud "digga-da-digga-da-dum" and you'll understand what I mean...maybe) and some African drumming and a bit of Ruben Gonzalez....... Thanks to the January sales, I also now have CDs by V.B. favourites Lou Reed (Metal Machine Music), Can, King Crimson, Fripp/Eno....all of which I would highly recommend. Anyway, I have to go, but for today's lunchtime survey I would like to know about how you first discovered the delights of Velvet Belly. - Philippa > -----Original Message----- > From: Yngve Hauge [SMTP:onealien@mo.himolde.no] > Sent: 05 January 1999 08:06 > To: Velvet Station > Subject: [VS] Some info > > Hi again, > > Back from Oslo after having an amazing (!!!!) new year > celebration and dinner with Anne Marie and Henning. Wow, > are those people wonderful, or what? Oh ... here are the > facts > > The Velvet Station Gift Project No. 1 > > Oh, the gift ... > > Another sampler is in the making with traditional music from > around the world > > There will be a new VB album this year - nothing else is known > at this point. If any of you should find, hear some more info > then let us know. And there might be a live album released from > their last tour with Biosphere (can't wait to hear that one) > > There might be a concert in London later this year. We should > be representated there by as many as possible, so if you would > like to be there at this historic event, then drop Tine a mail > (if that is ok for you Tine - to keep track of people who want > to go there that is) > > I guess that was it for now > > -- Yngve > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 19:13:01 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: [VS] >:^O > Such activity from Velvet Station masters! Many pats on many backs (not > least to Yngve, Tine, Elin and Daniel for the beginnings of a web page!) We got the pictures together sort of kinda like :) > ...and if they come over to London (and maybe a few other places in England > to do some gigs), and a group of you want to come over, maybe you could get > cheaper air tickets if you book them together (if you are under the age of > 26, you can get cheaper air fares with SAS anyway, you lucky things!) - I > could sort out some accommodation + any info. you need at this end (since > I'm already in London.....hey, Rune Lindbaek was here last week) We've talked about getting someone with a licence for a small buss or something to drive us down there. Would be even cheaper if we are following them around a bit. If we get that many that is. > > Yngve - if you want some more examples of world music, I've got loads!!! > Should have put a bit of Sheila Chandra on the Christmas tape for your > delight (she "sings" like Kay Rune drums - say out loud > "digga-da-digga-da-dum" and you'll understand what I mean...maybe) and some > African drumming and a bit of Ruben Gonzalez....... Thanks to the January > sales, I also now have CDs by V.B. favourites Lou Reed (Metal Machine > Music), Can, King Crimson, Fripp/Eno....all of which I would highly > recommend. They are already on my list actually ... and concerning Sheila Chandra she is among my alltime favorites - I just mentioned countries from the top of my head so of course India will be on there. about my first experience with VB in the following mail ... - -- Yngve n.p. The sound of some boat out on the sea and the cars down on the street (no music that is) n.r. Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Harvest (I got a bunch of Buffy novels and a Comic book today !!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 19:37:59 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: [VS] >:^O Hi again :) > Anyway, I have to go, but for today's lunchtime survey I would like to know > about how you first discovered the delights of Velvet Belly. My first experience was in 1993 when I had just read a very nice review of one of their albums (I don't recall exactly which right now), and at the same time saw that they were playing at the Quart Festival that year. As I'm always eager to here new music I thought this was a great chance to see something new (and norwegian as well - didn't know they were from Kristiansand at that time). I did get there early so I got the soundcheck as well, and that didn't make me less excited. After that concert I was a fan - especially after Flowers (so sad they never play that one anymore) which is one of my alltime favorite songs. Btw Has anyone got the release date for Window Tree (the dBut release that is) - I'm a bit confuzed right now :) It was the second time they played at Quart (that much I do know) cause I actually think that '92 was the first time Quart did happen so it would have been hard for them to play there before that :) Aha, now I understand why my brain didn't agree on my first thought ... I thought of '91 as their first album year ... but it was '92. So I first heard them the year before Window Tree was released. Damn, I love that first Window Tree cover - though the CD itself looks nicer on the BMG release (something about the cover photo that bugs me). Back to the concert. As far as I remember Anne Marie had 2 breaks in the set and did leave the stage before the set was finished. They did the instrumental stuff from Little Lies on the concert (so she had nothing onstage to do really :) They did a few new songs I think even though Window Tree was released the year after - might be that Little Lies was released so eary that year that they were sorta thinking toward the next album already. Hard to remember so far back ... and I'm just rambling (waiting for the rain to stop so I can get back home) :) *hugs* - -- Yngve, who hopes the weather will clear some. nothing new concerning n.p. or n.r. :) ------------------------------ End of velvet-station-digest V2 #2 **********************************