Hi there (said in a sing-song voice). Thought you might like to see this posted to the e-pop list about the Gentle Waves gig. Hope Dan doesn't mind my posting it. Linda ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 16:38:50 EST From: DJYork11@aol.com To: europop@alcd.soton.ac.uk Subject: E-POP: Gentle Waves Gentle Waves in Leeds: The venue was the Leeds City Varities Theatre (World Famous, apparently) and it was all very strange. It's an old fashioned music hall type of place, and this didn't seem like the sort of thing they normally put on. Future events included Rabbi Lionel Blue, Roy Walker and (I kid you not) the Whitbread Senior Citizens Talent Contest (Leeds Heat). There was *no-one* there - it was probably over two-thirds empty. And being a theatre it was all seated, so unlike at Looper nobody felt the urge to shout "stand up you twee fuckers" at the crowd. The films were both French, one about a group of boys obsessed with an older woman and the other (much better) one was about a boy who befriends a magical red balloon which follows him everywhere. It was good, honest. The Gentle Waves themselves turned out to be pretty much all of B&S. Isobel was *very* nervous. It was all a bit chaotic between songs (in true B&S style, I suppose) what with unplugging of guitar leads causing earth-shattering THUMPS and lost triangle strings (major hold up, that one) and set list confusion. But despite all that it was very good - definitely leaning towards the more whimsy bits of B&S but there were only a couple of songs that sounded a bit too lightweight on first hearing. They even managed an instrumental "jam", involving something that sounded like a cowbell and was fantastic - you really couldn't tell they were making it up until Chris told us afterwards. And another song (Kinky Love) that was written about 5 minutes before they came on, apparently. Ric was right with the IYFS comparisons - there was plenty of trumpets, flutes and xylophones involved. On the whole it was excellent stuff, I probably enjoyed it more than Looper despite not having heard any of the songs beforehand. Dan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+