yep, that's my motto. mailing lists always need a little push in the time
between releases by the band. so i'm trying to think of questions to ask
the stuarts during the upcoming chats. that is, if they're still speaking
to us after the questions that tag and peter asked. the big ones are
probably when the album and singles are going to be released, and perhaps
their titles. does anyone know what the next album will be called? and
especially, the extrememly important, when are their next shows going to
be?! and when are they coming back to new york!? i'm practically ready to
make my plans for the summer around getting to see the band at some point,
so this is definitely important.
also, so we have about five people going to the autour de lucie show? i'm
on the web page now, so you can come up to me and tell me what a wonderful
person you think i am. or you can tell me to get off the damned list and
watch me beat you to a bloody pulp!!! grr... ok, really, i'm a nice
person. i won't be too mean, i know some other new yorkers and haven't
attacked them yet, so see, i'm not that violent. usually. ok, um, maybe i
should just scratch all that.
so anyway, i will be there and ready to gush about belle and sebastian
should the opportunity arise. that's all. see you there!
xox
megan
mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu
visit the magnetic fields web page at:
http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/
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In a message dated 98-02-21 11:37:03 EST, samiam2(a)ix.netcom.com writes:
<< The Catcher's album 'Mute' is terrific. I think B&S fans would fancy
the atmosphere of their music. I recall an article comparing them to
the Cranberries a few years ago. Other than the fact they're both Irish
and play somewhat jangly guitar pop, I don't quite see the connection.
The lyrics are quite different from the Cranberries. In my opinion,
their music is somewhat reminiscient of mid-80s REM. Other than the new
single, the only releases I know of is the album 'Mute' and the EP
'Shifting' (which might be a promo, not an official release). >>
I had a chance to see them open up for the Innocence Mission, but they got
mysteriously ill. I'm guessing what really happenned is they looked out at
the audience and saw that there were only 80 people out there and took off to
a bar.
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Hi, Clem!
Here's the info for the BBC Radio One 'Evening Session' B&S Session, which I
have on DAT, and can transfer to Cassette, Minidisk, or DAT copy.
Original broadcast dates:
08/09/97 Lazy line painter Jane
09/09/97 Sleep the clock around
10/09/97 Slow graffiti
11/09/97 Seymour Stein
Sounds like you are missing 'Seymour Stein'.
I have a DAT of the Saturday night Manchester show from December
Do you have any B&S live stuff to trade?
Do you know of any other radio or TV sessions?
They apparently played at least one track live on the Evening Session, a few
weeks before the above session was broadcast.
Cheers!
Rocker,
rocker(a)andyclin.exnet.com
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I was just reading the uk.music.alternative newsgroup this afternoon, when I
got a message telling me to go to
http://www.angelfire.com/sd/TechnoWonderland/Rant.html
I went because Belle & Sebastian were in the header.
When I got there, I was outraged. To save you all having to go there
yourselves, here is what this person said:
>CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH THE VERBAL BLENDER ARE...
>
>BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
>Ooooohhhh, they're so nice aren't they? I mean, you sit down in a comfy
armchair next to the hi-fi, wearing >your cosy pink slippers, drinking some
of that lovely tea that Auntie gave you for Christmas, and after a >while
you just can't help but be envelopped in their fluffy bunny-wunny harmonies
and cutesy pop >sensabilites. Right?
>WRONG!
>
>Belle and Sebastian are turgid pop execrement accidentally diverted from
the planet Crap, sent down to >Earth when their sewage system went wrong and
the engineers couldn't be called out 'cos they were >spending the evening
watching 'The Fast Show' (3rd series). This is music for people who are
turned by >the sight of paint drying, people who wet their pants at the
promising thought of seeing Derek Jarman's >"Blue" on TV for the 17th time
(this time, though, they're going to remember to tape it so they can watch
it >whenever they want to).
>
>God knows how or why they have attained a position, at least in Britain, of
being a band on the pinnacle of >great success. Radio 1's Evening Session
has of course got something and everything to do with it, a >show which
quite unashamedly denies the chance for decent music like Puressence and
Dweeb to be >played whilst promoting unmittigated bollocks like
>Ocean Colour Scene.
>
>But the rise of B&S to prominence goes way beyond this. This 'outfit' is
one of the forefathers of the >NWOLMIC ('New Wave of Look at Me; I'm Cool')
movement, a harkback to the heady daze of the early >nineties when you liked
'indie' bands cos you were 'trendy'. Spiritualised, My Bloody Valentine,
Indie >Shmindie Pap Krap - you liked these cos no-one else did. Didn't
matter, of course, that the reason no-one >else bought the records was cos
they were the sort of bland, anaemic tosh that a sloth could make on one >of
his days off.
>These days it's the same; we've recently had the inexplicable rise of
Embrace to power - a group so >backward you'd think they had based their
whole existence on Kriss Kross - and the rebirth of Radiohead, >perfect
perveyors of the funereal dirge. Both of these encapsulate the late-nineties
ethos of 'NWOLMIC'. >Iffy songs? Boring live? Who cares? They're 'cool', so
I'm going to buy all their records and parade round >like a total gimp until
either a) I connect spiritually with loads of other 'cool' people who 'like'
the same stuff >as me and we live forever and ever in total musical harmony
(Amen), or b) I get twatted by a stranger for >being a dull-witted,
non-thinking tosser.
>
>Ultimately, though, I feel sorry for B&S, 'cos I'm sure they never wanted
this sort of adulation. I mean, if >you actually went into a recording
studio and laid down the kind of colourless aural wallpaper that they did,
>you wouldn't want others to hear it for fear of being laughed at. Obviously
some studio technician stole the >master tapes and went round to Melody
Maker for a joke, saying they were the 'Next Big Thing', and >events sort of
spiralled out of control.
>
>Still, I'm sure with your excellent musical taste you haven't bought
anything by them, anyway.
>**17th January 1998**
>
>
>If you believe the above to be TOTAL BOLLOCKS or alternatively GODLIKE
GENIUS,
>then e-mail me with a well-considered response.
>Thanks to the CB Boy (Warwick), Tom (Nottingham) and Graham (Glasgow), but
here's the best one so >far.
>Keep 'em coming...
>"'Sans' a whisper of a lie, I have never wet my pants at seeing 'Blue' on
TV, but as an indominatible Belle & >Sebastian fan, the opening bars of
'Blue' from 'A Storm In Heaven' have been known to strangle my >presence and
cause all sorts of mass hysteria including ejaculation. Just thought I'd set
the record straight. >PS Is indominatible a word?"
>Benita (Warwick)
>
>
>RE-ENTER THE SCENE
>
>Email: frujx(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk
Response? I say the whole list should email him back to tell him that we
believe the above to be total bollocks, but that's just my opinion. Maybe
we should get his address and then wait outside the butchers for him with a
knife and a bike chain. If I kill him now, who's going to miss him?
I notice from the sinister site that mauab(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk -
eculb(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk -mavgc(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk and pyuja(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk
are on the list with csv.warwick.ac.uk email addresses. Do you know this
bloke frujx(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk ?(A long shot - to know someone in a huge
institution by their email address, but you might do(!)). Ahhh - looking at
the newsgroup posting, his name is Rob Learner. This is getting pretty
dangerous for rob now - we know his name and where he lives!!!!
jon g.
jon.g(a)btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/
ps - belle & sebastian won both the album of 1997 and the single of 1997 on
my website voting thingy, so they should be receiving a polystyrene award
statue thingy in about two months time....
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The Catcher's album 'Mute' is terrific. I think B&S fans would fancy
the atmosphere of their music. I recall an article comparing them to
the Cranberries a few years ago. Other than the fact they're both Irish
and play somewhat jangly guitar pop, I don't quite see the connection.
The lyrics are quite different from the Cranberries. In my opinion,
their music is somewhat reminiscient of mid-80s REM. Other than the new
single, the only releases I know of is the album 'Mute' and the EP
'Shifting' (which might be a promo, not an official release).
Sam
>i really think that they are just the sort of band that a lot of belle and
>sebastian people will like. Dale's songs are so gooood, and just keep
>getting better every time i see them. He used write poetry, literally, in
>format, style and vocab, but now they are getting a bit rockier. They've
>been around for a while now, i know they started when dale was doing his a
>levels, which he told me he dropped three months before his exams for the
>music. errm he's around 26 now i think , so that's... errm, 8 years, i
>might be wrong though, they always tell me and i always forget. they've
>got a beautiful abum out called MUTE and you can get that and the new
>single, Call Her Name from setanta :
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Three! Yeah, me too. Lighthouse Family, or at least all their previous
singles, are really lovely. Both of you are spot-on in your analogies.
Cool,
See ya later,
GIDEONxxx
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:04:58 +0000 Richard Anderson
<R.J.Anderson(a)durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Ruth McCurry wrote:
> > 1. Am I alone in my love of the Lighthouse Family? I simply cannot hear
> > Ocean Drive, Lifted or High without grinning and feeling like a newborn
> > kitten. I would really appreciate it if I could know that there are others
> > out there like me.>
>
> Oh My God.!!.(janice Impression:o)
> There are two of us. Ocean Drive(single) and High are just plain
> perfection. They are the kind of song that make you feel like you are
> falling from the sky through fluffy clouds. Trouble is once you've
> heard the the other LHF stuff doesn't sound as good. Is this true of
> the new album or is the final, and title track, Postcard from Heaven
> just as good. Advise me on this purchase soon as "Slain By Urusei
> Yatsura" comes out March 2nd and thats a definite buy.
>
> Richard Anderson
> http://www.dur.ac.uk/PurpleFM/presenters/anderson.html
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Three things I need help with - in the case of the first, probably medical.
1. Am I alone in my love of the Lighthouse Family? I simply cannot hear
Ocean Drive, Lifted or High without grinning and feeling like a newborn
kitten. I would really appreciate it if I could know that there are others
out there like me.
2. I realise this is two months late, but could somebody tell me what the
Sunday evening Manchester show was like? I thought the Saturday night was
good and the matinee show was just the most gorgeous thing I've ever
witnessed. Did they do any more new stuff on Sunday evening? Did the crowd
mosh and go wild a la Steven Wells? I sincerely hope not.
3. Does anyone know what happened to Aberdeen? One of their songs, Fran,
was on Sarah 90something and still makes me cry every time I listen to it
(soft, huh?) I think they were from Oregon or somewhere. I heard a song on
XFM the other night by a band that sounded remarkably similar (Gaze? Graze?
Gays???) but apparently they're from British Columbia. It's on the K label.
All help would be gratefully received.
Much love
DAVID
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Just by way of information.
The score is currently :
Airwolf 6
Blue Thunder 1
Which confirms me and my pals suspicion that Airwolf's definitely the
coolest helicopter, this'll help in future pub arguments.
Right, now, Street Hawk or Knight Rider.
Thanks to everyone who voted.
Keith.
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Hi,
Sad to say it but Bill Clinton is probably the most famous living
person.
Richard Anderson
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Hi,
I'm just writing in response to the talk about the three o'clock. I
assume Paul's talking about the Uncut interview with Ian Brown. In one of
the little side interviews, Alan McGee says that no one knows this, but
one of the influences on the Roses first album was a us band called the
three o'clock.
But what does he know?
Also, in this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian, there's an interview by
Johnny Ray Huston, the same guy who wrote the B&S article last week, with
Momus, who was supposed to be playing at the Cafe Du Nord on Monday, but
I called the club, and they said that the show was cancelled because he
stayed in the US longer than he was supposed to. Anyway, in the article
they mention B&S. Here's the quote:
"Though Momus is a musical loner, he has found kinship
with other musical loners. In the cover painting of his
debut album, Circus Maximus, arrows pierce his body a la
St. Sebastian, so I'm not surprised when he says Stuart
Murdoch of the Scottish group Belle and Sebastian wrote
him last year offering back-up for future tours. ('I'm
glad I didn't reply,' he says, 'because I might have
stopped him from making If You're Feeling Sinister.')
Momus also..."
If anyone wants the whole interview, I can transcribe it.Just send me an
email.
Take care,
Birjinder
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