re: setting up a show
just my own two cents -- you can check out the massive article/piece on setting up shows (spec. all ages) in the august '95 Discorder magazine, which is on line (and fully hyper-texted!) at http://www.ams.ubc.ca/citr later brian, who's just returned from the completion of another self-promo'd show!
bud nipping?
i hold in my hot little hands a copy of this new sloan release. in my humble opinion, it actually sounds more like van halen. it truly takes them in the direction we all know they wanted to go in, but were always held back from whilst on geffen. patrick's two-handed tapping performance is truly a tour de force, perhaps only topped by chris murphy's john entwhistle-esque bass playing. Further, the string section was most effective. I wasn't aware that David Foster was still arranging music these days but i guess you can never say never? well, maybe not. sincerely, brian
Re: sloan, geffen, matador
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Gord Dimitrieff wrote: > great bands they have also, i really have no sound basis for this, > but i belive that sloan had played a national tour before being > signed? at least i think they were signed after some geffen-guy saw > them in vancouver (which means that they had to *get to* vancouver first).. > as best as i know, that's part of musicwest lore, that Sloan was signed because of Musicwest, but i thought i'd heard the truth of the matter was that the deal was *signed* in vancouver, and nothing more was the result of the tour. am i right? wrong? brian, who's _finally_ got a copy of DGC rarities... PS -- the superfriendz shows this weekend were great! friday with pluto and al tuck (pluto headlined, speaking of major label types...lotsa virgin LA people were there)...al tuck went over okay i suppose, but they're too quiet for a bar like the starfish room. i wish i could have seen them saturday at the railway club, which must have been the ideal venue, but i somehow wound up at the sfz all ages show;) which i daresay was better than their performance the night before. even better than them tho, was thee smugglers who followed them up quite well. Lotsa people, lotsa great bands (6!) and just a really neat time...
Re: "you shouldn't believe everything you read"..
> ok, so i read in one mag (i think it was _chart_) that alyson (macleod) > has joined hardship post (as we all know) BUT hardship post as we know it > will cease -- i think i read (and i'm not so sure anymore so if i'm wrong > flame me via private e-mail) that she'll play guitar, seb on bass, and > mike on drums, and alyson will become the primary song writer!?!?! !@&@! Exclaim just reported that it was a new band, not giving the impression that it was ending HP, and that they've played around as Speedo -- how are they, anyone? later brian
Re: new Sloan album
On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, McHugh,Janet;Med; wrote: > Perhaps, but most big record contracts sorta state that if you break up > then you can't play together for a set period of time under any moniker > otherwise you are still under contract. I heard that Sloan had such a > clause in their contract with DGC so.I dunno, what does that mean. > Either they aren't breaking up for real or they've mutually ended their > contract with DGC? Just some thoughts. when i interviewed patrick last year, he said there was a "window" in their contract following twice removed which would allow either Sloan or DGC to back out of the contract (and remember when everyone was saying twice removed was going to be the album that would get them dropped from DGC?)...i don't know any specifics other than that tho... later brian
Indie-List Volume 4 No. 39 - ridin' in the car car (fwd)
attn: all indie-heads. just in case you've never seen/heard of this, it's just a really neat digest of reviews and things, usually weekly and usually a lot more up to date. there's a good long review of edgefest in the middle third of this email, but you wade through some interesting stuff to get there. just thuoght some of ya might like it... brian, who won't be going to popx:( -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 12:01:38 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bloofga Matic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Indie-List Volume 4 No. 39 - ridin' in the car car Hard as a rock, Harder than a rock. # Indie List Digest! Sept 24, 1995 Volume 4 Number 39 # Laika SWIM~ TOO PURE Super Friendz, Jale, Edgefest 3 got to get to omar's house ANNOUNCE: Fringe Music web site AD: the miracle of levitation compilation cd AD: Nation of Lies welcome to the ever-lovin Indie-List, the first one of the Fall of '95. It's already rainy and cool in Chicago, and the shows are rolling in faster than we can report 'em. (incidentally, is it a coincidence that I *dreamt* about buying new records the other night? due to unemployment, i haven't bought a new record since, em, July.) onward. on Monday the 11th, saw Pram & The Sea & Cake at Lounge Ax. Pram were, for the most part, enjoyable, with plenty of tinkling keyboard and drony, sonorous melodies. It was electronic-sounding music that gave the impression of being a little bit precious and antiqued. Occasionally they lapsed into "jamming," always an unfortunate sign in my book, but for the most part it was atmospheric and loopy. I seem to review Sea & Cake constantly, so I won't go into great detail. They played what seemed to be a lot of new material, and a new CD threatens to appear soon. More show reviews from us to follow in our next installment -az <--> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joep Vermaat) Laika SWIM~ TOO PURE Finally! The weather has turned bad again. Again I'm able to sit in my room without making pools of sweat. Sitting behind a new Pentium computer, writing while music is blasting through the room. These have been, and still are, busy times for a music journalist. Lots and lots of excellent things have been coming this way. Too Pure festival, Matador package show, Mu-ziq concert, all together with many interviews. So expect some great stuff in future postings: Catherine Wheel, Mu-ziq, Tarnation, Bailter Space, and many reviews. The Two Pure will soon be up and running again. Loz, my partner in music, has finished his busy studying and finally got enough money to catch up with me. With out a doubt, he'll be buying more records than me soon. But let's get started. In this posting, the long-awaited Laika article. Swim~-records-review. And the Too Pure live experience. LAIKA Experimental, avant rock, art rock, post rock, isolationism, all names of categories in which Laika has been put during the past year. Without a doubt they belong in those kind of catagories, together with Disco Inferno, Pram, Moonshake, Seefeel, Main and Bark Psychosis. But saying they belong there will probably scare most readers and inexperienced listeners. Which is pity, because while Moonshake (of which Laika used be one half) often was too sharp and painful to understand in one go, Laika slips into your ears and brain without a problem the first time you hear it. Musically they have more in common with for instance Luscious Jackson, ambient house or triphop. "Yeah, it's just like triphop, but much much faster," says the smiling face of the group, Margaret Fiedler. "That kind of music is a lot better compared to what the inkies are supporting at the moment, Elastica, Blur, Supergrass and Menswear. I detest the so-called 'new' Britpop." During the interview Margaret slags off almost any band I mention. Even bands Laika has been compared with. Smiling she excuses herself, "I almost never buy records of contemporary music. So I base my opinion on what I've heard on the radio or have seen live. At home I listen to a lot of jazz and dub. So please don't put any names of the bands I slag off in the article. I know a lot of these people and I know if they read this, they are going to hate us." The frustration against all those popular non innovative music is understandable. But while Laika are being ignored by press and public, they get a lot of praise from fellow musicians. They were asked to support The Young Gods for a major part of their tour. And earlier this year Tricky asked them to work with him on an EP. "He called Too Pure after he heard the record. A wonderful compliment. But he got very busy after the release of 'maxinquaye'. Our schedules haven't met since. But I think we'll soon get together. A lot goes wrong. We were going to do a r
rare chris murphy recording circa 1991!
i was just wandering the CiTR cd library, when i happened to pull out a cd entitled "North By Northeast"...so anyway, wouldn't ya knowit, but track 5 is by Chris Murphy! it's a celtic number, and he plays fiddle on this instrumental track. and it says he's from boston. and it's probably not too likely that this is thee chris murphy thee from halifax, but i just thought i'd mention it. actually, it's a comp of stuff from boston from '91. there's even a track by an old Mark Sandman (of Morphine) group called "Early Men" later, nothing notable, just wasting bandwith brian
c'est incroyable!
for those of you with music plus, check it out, like now! jale is on -- i think it's jennifer and eve, talking some in french, some english. hey, my french is only good enough to understand hockey games, and i can figure out what they're saying. ANyway, i think they're on for another 10 mins, and i don't know when it repeats. au revoir! :)
superfriendz*pluto*all ages*vancouver* <---cheezy plug:)
hey'all, thanks for the murder #s. Here's the scoop SAT. AUG. 19 Superfriendz Pluto Gaze The Mach 3's The Tonebursts (formerly known as Plus Guests) St. James Community Square, 3214 W.10th Ave. Vancouver show 7:15pm, tix $5 adv. from track, scratch, zulu or from me $6 at the door all ages Tell yer friends -- i expect to se every sloannetter from west of the Lakehead there:) later brian
Re: the hardship post in calgary/ zumpano!!!!
tara lee wrote... > > i didn't watch zumpano or six finger satellite. who cares. > who cares??? who cares zumpano are one of th finest bands on this or any other fine planet. Yeah, they're outerworldly! Sloannet content: hardship post were scheduled to be interviewed by nardwuar thee human serviette for his show today. About a minute into the interview, after speaking with Mike a voice pipes up "this is sebastian...blah, blah..." and about 30 seconds later it was realized that it was in fact carl newman of superconductor/zumpano:) Quite the humourous "interview," and it's not actually known if that was matt who portrayed himself. ..and an interview of marc gaudet was also aired on the show if anyone cares -brian, who will sadly be attending the supergrass show (are they any good?) instead of hardship post on monday
Re: Sloan's Linament
> > >you know, i'm really enjoying this thread of "how many tangents > >can we go on from the name 'sloan'?", believe it or not. always remember and never forget: sloan, ferris beuller's girlfriend! late rbria n
sizzling teens
the same night sloan played Vancouver in 1993, at another venue in town, one of those blaise pascal side-projects were playing. Their name? The sizzleteens. As i understand it, that's where the name came from (someone correct me if i'm wrong?) brian
more money market conspiracies!
Ok everyone, just in case you weren't following the happenings on the TSE this week, seems like there may be some corporate restructurings which would make the halifax music scene look as follows... sloan jale, ET, hardship post | | | | DGC records sub pop records | | distributed by MCA partially owned | by Time Warner \| soon to be ownedcontolling interest by Seagram'sowned by Seagram's \ / \ / thus establishing hegemony by a canadian corporation in the east coast scene! *Sniff* don't it make you feel proud?:) later brian
Sub-Pop/Warner stuff...
hi all...ok, so if warner has indeed bought 49% of sub-pop, here's how it looks to me Sub-Pop /\ / \ 51% owned by the same peopleWarner Bros Records (49%) | | Time/Warner - 100% WB Records / / Seagram's, who owns the largest single block of Time/Warner (~11%) | | The Bronfmanns, who own a controlling interest in Seagram's Thus, Sub-Pop's fate is now in the hand of a few wealthy Canadians! :) well, i think this is somewhat accurate...someone please correct me if i'm wrong... later, brian
...here comes the net
Greetings Alrighty...the new Discorder is mostly on the net. There're still some rough spots, and i'm looking to clean them up, but for now it seems we've got some problems in the translation from Mac Pagemaker to IBM rtf formats - hopefully it'll get remedied by next week sometime, but for now it's there. INCLUDING AN INTERVIEW WITH THRUSH HERMIT! Hey Cliff! I can't remember if i posted this before, but if not here's what to do 1. telnet to UBC by selecting the UBC gopher at any of the myriad of ways to get here 2. at the View UBC prompt, choose "the campus" 3. choose "the student" 4. choose "AMS - the UBC student association" 5. choose "AMS clubs, constituencies and service organizations" 6. choose "service organizations" 7. choose "CiTR general information" and that should get you there - it's buried right now but i'm trying to get other gopher sites to connect directly to it - again, it's kind of messy but it should be cleaned up sometime next week. Anyone got other ideas as to what could go there? Later Brian
