girl's got rhythm

1995-12-30 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey y'all... my sister (she thinks collective soul is wicked, to put this story into some sort of context) and i (no need for explanations, i defy them all) were driving home from our parents house tonight and i was dominating the car stereo. she asked me to play "something goodyou know, li

Purple Blue Christmas

1995-12-24 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
a few days ago, the editor at vox handed me my first christmas present, the new eric's trip album on cassette. i gotta go home (ie/ away from my computer) for a few days, but i wanted to post a few comments about this album first. it's too good to wait. first of all, it sounds great. the only c

Re: the republic(maybe)

1995-12-18 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
seek and ye shall find lame ob. sloan net references within... On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Jeremy Harris Clarke wrote: > since i live in shitholeland i don't know where this is and my question > is only about "the republic" and not about the cure ripoff band that sold > 6 t-shirts. i'd just like to kno

rich

1995-12-18 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
what the *HELL* happened to stinkin rich a.k.a. the buck sixty fifth a.k.a. DJ critical a.k.a. richard terfry??? i always figured his beard was like, a constant, as inevitable as death and taxes, as right as rain. tonight on much*subliminalhatemessagestojonbartlett*east, there was footage from

les AMIS du sloan/"Breeze" video

1995-12-13 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey y'all i just thought i'd post a little update on what's up with this fun project. if my math skills are what they were in high school, i guess we've got about 25 songs contributed in total, with a few more slack ass losers swearing they'll get songs sent in for volume II. coolness. also, ta

Re: Snailhouse.. on Sappy? + SFriendz etc.

1995-12-10 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey... sappy records 008 is a two song 7'' by snailhouse. the two songs are "plan" and "have a good time" and are performed really well. it's pretty moody stuff. i bought one for catano after he whined for a whole minute and then i traded a state champs 7'' with julie for one. julie took the p

Re: biased towards Cinnamon Toast/Murderecords bands

1995-12-10 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Michael Ligon wrote: > I have to agree with sizzle teen that they are pretty awful(well that's poor carol, getting misquoted like that. how can anyone mix her up with that idiot? :) :) > excite me). Are there any good non-CT/murder bands that anyone can > suggest? um, ev

Re: sticktoitiveness

1995-12-08 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Joey Charron wrote: > about a year ago i copied stickto... from someone but i forgot > to write down the names of the songs,,could someone please send > the list of them (in order) Karate Man (i like this version much better than the album one) Optimists Rescue Us From Boredo

Re: Review of Superfriendz, Al Tuck and Pluto

1995-12-06 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, rod thurber transcribed the following from the Kevin Smith review in the Georgia Strait: [note: pluto do not suck. only justin sucks. :) ] > being a sucker for the type of lo-fi, lemon drop pop found on the SFZ's > Murderedords debut album, Mock Up, Scale Down. Live the grou

shiny decal tshirts suck :)

1995-12-06 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
rip off or tribute? al tuck named his first release after the Arhoolie record label out of California and then as if that wasn't bad enough :) his old bassist decides to rip off their logo for the Al Tuck and No Action shirts. someone was saying (i think it might have been al but it could have

Re: New sloan

1995-12-03 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
Hey Christian, didn't you read the original post? Brendan said all of this in it... :) On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Christian Rodericks wrote: > a) How long has this album been out? five days (but i live across the country so maybe longer) > b) What is it called? _Shaken by Speed_ > c) How many track

cbc, how i love thee

1995-12-02 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
ok pardon me for being so vague and stuff, it's what happens when you don't sleep much or somethin'... anyway, as i was getting all my records in a pile to take down to cjsw with me, i overheard the announcer on cbc (am) talking about a program coming on tonight that is supposed to feature peop

Re: Coax me

1995-11-28 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, DERYL GALLANT wrote: > In Coax me...the second verseIs the last line before the > chorus."3 cans. Water provokes Me" 3 cans of water perverts me. old story that has been told here before, but anyway...last september when sloan played here, Vox magazine ran a fea

hardship post geography and those pesky tshirts...

1995-11-25 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
can you guys PLEASE take this t-shirt discussion to private e-mail, i'd hate to see it escalate into what happened last spring also, for anyone who might actually *know* sebastian, when he wrote "new wave", was he talking about Placentia, Newfoundland, or Placentia, California? i didn't eve

subpopjockbars

1995-11-23 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
joyce asked: > >What on earth is a sub-pop jock bar? don't you read sloan net posts? :) seriously, if you've ever read one of the kids from ottawa's reviews of any subpop show in that city, you'll know *exactly* what they mean. jeremy explained it in explicit terms. the thing i don't get, is i

regarding fun things (murphy, television, zines....)

1995-11-21 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey!!! re: chris murphy being mean. no. not true. today in my mailbox, what did i find? a cassette and a letter from mr. murphy. he has found his special versions of "snowsuit sound" for les amis du sloan and not only did he include the one he wants on the tape, but he also sent me a longer ve

Re: mucheast: the reply

1995-11-21 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey too bad campbell didn't reply to jon's (i can't add but i can spell) fax with a little less condescension. i get the feeling he figures jon is just one of the kiddies who knows nothing about how the media works. knowing jon personally, it's safe to say campbell assumes wrong. :) while jon *

laying blame by sloan/moonsocket discography

1995-11-17 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
> wondering how I can get the Sloan (not the ET) versionof Laying Blame? the sloan version can be found on the "I am the cancer" single, the one with "two seater" (album version) and "ragdoll". pretty blue cover. moonsocket does a really sweet sped up version of "laying blame" on the self title

Re: Sloan for once.

1995-11-16 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
the sloan flexi was put out by Chart magazine and contains a different version of "coax me" (slow slow slow but not on purpose `icks nay on the evie stay micks) and an otherwise unreleased track called "one professional" care. andrew sings it and it really doesn't sound like any other sloan son

Re: halifax poster problem (AGAIN)

1995-11-15 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Gord Dimitrieff wrote: > well for most smaller drawing bands their fans and their friends are > exactly the same people. hahahaha!!! :) :) sorry, but that's funny if you put it in the context of a city like halifax. most smaller and medium and heck, even larger drawing bands

Re: Thruster!! @The KLR mem. Ward Room

1995-11-14 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
> Thruster rocked hard, and were up to their usual fallen choirboy > shenanigans. Spitting beer is a well-worn standby but playing shoeless and > slinging sweaty socks at an audience of frat pledges is a new one. so the fratboy mentality of their fans isn't just my own perception. > Something

eric's trip in cornwall, ontario November 21

1995-11-14 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
yeah yeah, you all know about it i'm sure. guess who is opening for them? not just orange glass, but *hitchiked*. yay! in case you haven't been paying attention, that would be the band tara da costa plays in. :) hooray for you, tara dc!! :) :) :) i hope everyone within 1,000 km goes to this s

les adventures avec moi, al tuck et les nerdz du super

1995-11-11 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
my mother always said good things come to those who wait. and it's always true. i've been waiting to see the super friendz and al tuck on the same bill since they last played together at the oasis this summer and man, was i pleased to hear they'd be touring together this november. and then, pow

strawberry at the pop explosion

1995-11-08 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
for anyone who was at the first all ages show at the gravitee club during the pop explosion, i'm not sure if i'm imagining this or not, but i seem to remember strawberry doing a cover during their set. for some reason i think it was a cure song but then again, i could be completely imagining th

more ridiculous rhetoric, just the thing to take your mind off those , stupid midterms

1995-11-06 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
..and now...james covey, ladies and gentlemen. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 16:59:29 -0300 From: James R. Covey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: in-dyd mc>On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, "Macho Man" James R. Covey wrote: wow, no one ever calls me "mac

the good old days on the eric's trip list

1995-11-06 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
while reading mike's little rant (he's such a charmer :) ), i was reminded of one of my favourite little debates he was involved in. watch out for james' killer rebuttal, coming soon -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 13:15:12 -0300 (ADT) From: Michael Damian Cata

Charts From CFRC-FM (fwd)

1995-11-06 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
only east coast entries this time -- Forwarded message -- CHARTS FOR THE WEEK OF October 23rd to 29th, 1995: ^ TOP 35 TC LC Artist/Record/Label 2 1* Plumtree/Water Had Leaked Into My Suit/45/Cinnamon Toast 15 -- * E

Charts From CFRC-FM (fwd)

1995-11-05 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
Who knew they were good? I always figured it was because james, jim and i could charm the pants off our friends at radio stations and magazines. but we don't actually know anyone at queen's so maybe these state champs guys are really good and you should all buy their record. see james' sig for

cjsw chart action and a reply to eric lapointe, all in one

1995-11-03 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
on the CJSW singles and demo charts...because i know you all care... 1. b'ehl/cheerleader _fourteen and crushed_ (endearing records!!) 3. state champs _nevada downs_ (daydream records!!) 7. moonsocket _accept fear_ (subpop) 8. nerdy girl _new jersey_ (rightwide) on our album charts, Fire Engin

excLAME :) reviews the state champs, hooray!

1995-11-03 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
yay, i just finished delivering four billion copies of exclaim all over freezing cold snowy calgary and finally got a chance to read it for myself. well i'm just so darn proud of those state champs, i'm gonna post the review for all to see. who cares if its self serving. i gotta eat somehow... "

thee very end, one last sloan net get together

1995-11-02 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
so the pop explosion was over but i had one last night in halifax with my good friends. many of the sloan net kids who had travelled from across canada and the states had to leave on sunday, which is too bad. i hope they come back this summer. jim cooper, grumpy old man to all of you, called me

for those about to rock...where did you get the energy anyway?

1995-11-02 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
Sunday Night, Bar Show, Birdland, Last night of the Halifax Pop Explosion Wooden Stars were up first and i only caught the last two or three songs and they were bizarre. i'm afraid i didn't see enough of it to fully appreciate what they were trying to do. a LOT of the really cool :) boys i know

Sunday Night, it's almost all over :(

1995-11-01 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
what a surprise, elevator to hell were SOOO LOUD!!! they played an awesome version of "clearly see me" and "why i didn't like august 93" and a few other songs. ron is a madman on the keyboards, no kidding. it has a very different feel than watching eric's trip live, even though it's still rick

sunday, a day of rest

1995-11-01 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
on sunday, the cinnamon toast brunch was held at birdland. i know everyone was having trouble with venues and all but it was really hard to feel like eating much in the dirty dark old birdland. there was a lot of food, scrambled eggs, blueberry pancakes, bagels, homefries, and of course, lots n

saturday what a day groovin all week with you...

1995-11-01 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
so i kinda slept in a LOT this day. you have no idea how exhausting it is watching all those bands and walking up and down those hills and getting used to the atlantic climate again and blah blah blah... anyway, we wandered over to wormwood's in the middle of the afternoon. the indie record lab

part one billion of the pop x

1995-11-01 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
being the lameass losers we were, four of us were sitting at roderick's spacing out and missing bad luck #13. luckily (HAHA!!) we got to birdland for nerdy girl's set only four songs into it. this was the all ages show on friday, by the way. the performance was one of the best. if it wasn't for

friDAY at the pop explosion...

1995-10-31 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
..bored yet? then STOP reading these, chump! :) anyway, for those of you who care, i could barely stand up friday AFTERNOON when i woke up, thanks to halifax being a bunch of stupid hills (just ask warren and d'arcy how much they enjoyed it). much as i hate the prairies, i love the flatness of

birdland thursday pop explosion

1995-10-31 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
i missed the first few acts due to the sloannet event. i can't remember if i was there for made or not. isn't that silly of me? coyote, however, i remember, as they kicked my ass all over the floor. they were off to an ok start but then something happened and they just fuckin ROCKED. i've never

thursday night at the pop explosion

1995-10-31 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
SADLY (i mean this) i missed the hip hop showcase which was taking place at the same time as the sloan net event at jimcee's. i felt really bad, since i had promised cory i would come and watch his band play. i also was curious to see six too especially, since cory and brian had mentioned him

some pop explosion stuff

1995-10-31 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
if you're totally sick to death of hearing about it, press delete now, baby. however, i finally got through the four metric tonnes of email i had while i was away and it seems there were only a few reviews. i thought i'd write a bit about some of the things that stuck in my mind. i think i'll do

Re: mucheast

1995-10-30 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
this is really long but i haven't posted anything in ages and this has been in my head for a few months so come on, at least glance over what i have to say cause i think this list needs some serious discussion once in a while. last night's MuchEast got me thinking about a lot of things. people

Re: Tara S'appart tape

1995-10-28 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Dorian Dawson wrote: > Someone mentioned a tara s'appart tape/demo/something a few weeks ago. If > I recall correctly, there was an address from which it was availble. I > have lost the address. If anyone knows to what I am referring, could you > re-post the address? the ad

state champs top the freakin charts

1995-10-26 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey i just got home and finally finally finally i get to read the october issue of vox...state champs _nevada downs_ 7'' is sitting proudly at the top of the vox singles charts (based on CJSW airplay). and i didn't even play them...well, maybe once. by the way, vox is probably the coolest campu

Re: Superfriendz By Request

1995-10-25 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hi warren i miss you lots and your laugh too my sfz 7'' says the same thing on the cover ("when they pay me") but on the actual record on side b it says copyright 1994 stinkin rich. hee hee. well who really cares, but anyway. tara -- "A lot of people think Matt's Kato Kaelin."

sometimes it feels good when i am not clean

1995-10-25 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hi kids, i made it home to calgary in one dirty smelly disgusting piece. yick, no showers or change of clothes for three days plus living eating sleeping in a smokey grungey band is no fun. :( jon b - chixdiggit have your space needle cd. ask the merch guy for it. thanks to all sloan net ki

Re: flashing -- the new halifax trend

1995-10-03 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, James Cooper wrote: > ...and that the "Tara S'appart" tape isn't really that available, > > where do your write to get a copy? you can order _space so pretty_ from Tara S'appart at: 94 someset drive moncton, nb e14 3t9 my copy of this 9 song/soundscape cassette cost me six

Re: flashing -- the new halifax trend

1995-10-03 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
> them. this is the band that features tara, as in > _love tara_ (and as in elevator to hell), and ron or Tara as in "Tara S'appart". I mean, she does have her *own* tape out. I could say something about how it's sad when girls (!) get their own projects put aside while we all rave about the b

Re: Please disregard message: Re. Uh...What?

1995-09-30 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
a big request. as soon as the pop explosion schedule is available can someone please email me the WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY schedule asap? thanks. i'm not sure what's up with our STUPID university accounts either but i would recommend to anyone who wants to make sure i get email to send it to [E

realtime@cbcstereo.com yay!

1995-09-28 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
sorry for filling all your mailboxes today but it's the last chance i have to mention these things before we leave on saturday. if you live in canada or if you can pick up realtime on cbcstereo try to tune in for the next few saturdays cause me and the kids from fire engine red will be calling

Re: Amis du Sloan... I gotta see it to believe it.

1995-09-28 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, Shawn Stackhouse wrote: > I've been getting the impression that the Amis du Sloan thing just isn't > working out as planned. I sent out money for those two tapes about 1/2 > year ago (along w/ T-shirt money for which I've received nothing), and > I'm wondering if there will

Re: eric's trip

1995-09-26 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Tue, 26 Sep 1995, Joyce Linehan wrote: > > Eric's Trip just finsihed recording their third album for Sub Pop. It's > called Purple Blue. It is released in January. The band has said that didn't somebody make a comment about the whole colour thing with eric's trip albums, like with even t

State Champs on a dying medium

1995-09-26 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
yeah, cassettes! i just got a tape with the latest State Champs hits on it, and if you were ever into them before you'll probably adore this latest collection. they are sharpening up their *pretty* guitar skills and they're sure to make you happy to know them. "southern hadley accents" brings

Re: Les Amis Du Sloan

1995-09-23 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey for anyone who doesn't know here's the update: you can get a copy of this tape for six bucks by ordering it from tara da costa or me tara da costa tara lee wittchen 1501 roberval avenue 2444-44 street s.e. o

RealTime Live Concert sched (fwd)

1995-09-23 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: 23 SEP 1995 21:09:20 GMT From: RoUiMeT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newgroups: alt.music.canada Subject: RealTime Live Concert sched Hi All, the latest schedule of RealTime live concerts can always be found at http://realtime.cbcstereo.com/RealTime/RealTime.H

campfire songs

1995-09-23 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
a CD ep you all should pick up... Trike's new self-titled CD, on their own label campfire. six songs in the pop/power pop/sweet pop/boy-girl pop vein. you know? produced and mixed by mario bradet and patrick pentland this may. trike - Melanie Rusinak, voice guitar Todd Calder, voice g

Re: pop explosion online

1995-09-22 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
listmanager wrote: > HALIFAX POP EXPLOSION III > October 11-15, 1995 > web page: http://www.ips.ca/popx/ > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > just so you know. also 1 800 325 1887. and just so you know, the web page has NO information on bands, schedules, etc. but you CAN enter a contest to win a fre

Re: ET

1995-09-20 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
> > has some really good stuffhas some really bad stuff... shut up shant, the whole album is so good you should all thank mr. serviette for letting you hear this compilation!!! :) write to the man who isn't afraid to ask sloan "why *don't* you sound like shit?" at: nardwuar the human servi

Re: superfriendz/murder spotted in europe!

1995-09-18 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Per L}ngstr|m wrote: > ever! woo! it was the superfriendz cd and i even got the owner of the > store to play it out loud! wow! _karate man_!!! yeah!!! hey loser university types...did your school's students union/campus radio station give away MCA compilation cds with stuff

self serving [revolt into] stylus

1995-09-16 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
ncement (a "psa" to those of us in the biz) for Daydream Records. Buy our records, be cool. personal friend of lou barlow, Tara Lee Wittchen

Again...Re: That band-list thingy again in case anybody cares.

1995-09-14 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
I nearly forgot. I don't think Todd is on Sloan Net anymore but he was for a while. His band is Trike, the first band I saw live in Halifax. Yay! Anyway, they rock, get their new CD, it's on Campfire records, I think. Duh, if you don't know, Trike is made up of kids from the Quahogs (hooray!! t

Re: That band-list thingy again in case anybody cares.

1995-09-13 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey i was just wondering...i *think* the pope joan is no more. ask dave. and isn't emily vey duke still a part of sloan net? well she *was*. i remember her getting mocked in a prizewinner zine for being on sloan net. ;) and i know of at least one or two more americans who *were* in a band that r

Chart of August 1995

1995-09-13 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
yeah shut up i know it's an older issue but hey, I was out of the country when it came out. i was browsing through the magazines here at cjsw tonight and started reading this issue. hey, in the halifax regional report, there's a bit that i just *had* to share with you all... "It's not the summe

Re: I'Back Sloan Netters !!! :)

1995-09-12 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Tue, 12 Sep 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >if you want to learn rapidly & eazily(sp?) the guitars playing of > >twice removed e-mail me and receive a.s.a.p. a copy of Tricks Removed, > is this an ascii or mail order deal?? > did anyone get it?? it's a little booklet yan put together and even

Re: Broken Girl

1995-09-11 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, mike pasquale wrote: > Are any of the broken girl 7"s worth getting? both of them are wicked good. if you like eric's trip for the noisy stuff only, maybe you might not like broken girl, cause it's very sad and quiet and acoustic and simple. "dance music" from _nora_ and "sa

Re: Sloan Filmography

1995-09-11 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Robert M Keefe wrote: > How old is Chris, anyway? old enough to know better. 26 --> november 7 1968 all this attention is probably hideously embarrassing for them all, huh? tara lee ps/ my money's on windsor ontario but what the hell do i know.

Re: Sloan Filmography

1995-09-10 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey tara dc, what were the names of the movies the real sloan chris murphy was in? "the man inside" and "the man inside" right??? :) :) and that pool party film ;) hee hee... he's so much more than a sleeping bag model. it's true. tara lee ps/ did you all hear the PARKADES!!! on real

super friendz on realtime

1995-09-09 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
i love canada. super friendz are supposed to be on realtime and its on in every single time zone now, so if you are dumb :) and don't have the cd yet or just plain old can't get enough of them, make sure to tune in NOW to cbc stereo. hey, email them a request. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] love tara

Re: sappy birthdays and junk

1995-09-09 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
it's true. shant is the biggest hall and oates freak ever. it's bordering on frightening. he has more hall and oates paraphenilia in his basement than most of us have in our entire record/poster collections. it's gross. just teasin', shant. you freak :) :) who am i to talk, i listened to t

the pursuit of sappyness

1995-09-09 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey today i was sitting at the stupid mac at cjsw and reading alt.music.canada and reading this post on the pursuit of happiness and i looked up from my computer and there was moe berg. weird. anyway, i showed him where the on air booth was so he could have his interview. later on, after all th

sappy birthdays and junk

1995-09-08 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
woo i'm so happy, it's so nice to have yan and jon back on sloan net. :) happy birthday to two really nice sloan net kids, too... endearing matt and the world's biggest darryl hall fan, shant. woo! i know i asked this before but no one has answered me. Is sloan playing in windsor with Juliana H

mark's wacko theory on the bazillion people

1995-09-08 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
> MARK'S HOT TOPIC FOR CONVERSATION: > I have a theory that everyone in the world has to have someone > who looks exactly like them. I mean there are a bazillion people in the > world, eh. > (So here's the sloanet related part) > Does anoyone on here agree with me that Charles Austi

Change Of Heart - R.I.P. (fwd)

1995-09-08 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: 8 SEP 95 05:20:54 GMT From: Noise Eee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newgroups: alt.music.canada Subject: Change Of Heart - R.I.P. hey the worst news today. mr ian blurton announced that change of heart have cancelled all shows after friday night's

CHIXDIGGIT (was Re: local rabbits)

1995-09-08 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
dream wondered: > P.S. What is CHIXDIGGIT - that's got to be the coolest word I've ever > seen, up there with the canadian spelling for rocks (rawks), you guys put > extra letters in everything! Spread-eagled, LOW slung geetars, full on rock poses, two minute three chord R - A - W - K, that's

b'ehl on realtime

1995-09-07 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
yeah, i know b'ehl are from winnipeg but hey that isn't their fault. :) anyway, two of the coolest sloan net guys around run endearing records and put out this split 7'' with b'ehl and cheerleader andin case you haven't heard what b'ehl sound like, make sure you're listening to realtime thi

Re: Jay makes his mark on the acting world!

1995-09-06 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
and hey kids don't forget about Jay Ferguson's many solo albums, including _All Alone in the End Zone_ which came out in 1976 on Asylum records (a division of Elektra, home to metallica and stereolab!). He is joined by Joe Walsh (!!) on a few tracks and Steve Winwood co-wrote one of the songs.

sloan/les amis du sloan/ceasefire/super friendz haters

1995-09-04 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hi has anyone heard about SLOAN playing in windsor? what's up with that? reminder to slacker band kids: send your fifteen bucks to tara or me to be on the tape or yer in big trouble. we'll say MEAN things about you on the band info sheet!! don't make us do it!! :) i'm just wondering also...anyo

super nerdz on much

1995-09-02 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
by the way, that WAS murderecords lackey marc brown staring right into the tv camera not once, but twice. what a goof. i'm sure his mom was proud. nice GWAR shirt. i made my mother and grandmother watch the wedge at midnight just to show them. a charlatans uk video came on and my grandfather go

"Stood Up" lyrics - help??

1995-09-02 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey kids, the u of c server blows big time. just had to get that out of the way. did anyone post anything to sloan net today? just wondering cause i lost a TONNE of mail today. the real reason for this post, however, is for clarification on the lyrics to "Stood Up". my friend eric is doing a d

Re: pop explosion info

1995-08-30 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
carl the formerly lost soul wrote: > What am I trying to say? I guess I'm trying to say: If you ever go > looking for your hearts desire, come to Halifax. it's true. :-) oh, it's *sooo* true. a lot of people that i talk to back home and stuff always think the reason why i went to halifax was to

Les Amis dooo Sloan

1995-08-28 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey kids it's the end of august. i have seven sloan covers, i think tara dc has 9. that's totally enough for a tape...so if you still wanted to be on it, you have to email us and say "wait please i'll have it in by this weekend" or you've missed the boat this time around. we are still waiting

Laura Stein on RealTime

1995-08-27 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
Hey!! Did you all listen to RealTime on CBC STereo last night?? Well, if you didn't, you missed the new moonsocket song (which I missed thanks to a certain listmanager phoning :P ), new plumtree song (which i honestly didn't like all that much except for the vocals which were really cool), and

it must be embarassing but so what?

1995-08-27 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
HALIFAX - Former Sloan Net listmanagerboy Scott Schuman gave up the single life without much of a struggle at his own wedding ceremony earlier today. Sources report the groom was calm and prone to making dry, sarcastic comments throughout the day. "How does this differ from his behavior any

in a word, SUPER

1995-08-25 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey kids quel surprise, it's about the super friendz who came back to calgary last night, but played the *good* night club, the Night Gallery. this day was off to a relatively bad start as my car was rearended and jane and i foolishly watched "beyond rangoon" before we went to the gig. by the w

Re: Johnnie Cox/Hardship Post

1995-08-23 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
my evil twin france wrote: > I think it was just a whim on Johnnie's part, never got to the bottom of it > but at one show at Birdland, one of them was wearing a t-shirt that said > "who the f*ck is Johnnie Cox" they had to put the star there (maybe it was a > space, I don't remember) because the

RealTime at CBC dot Com

1995-08-20 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
Hey everybody, did you listen to RealTime tonight? Woo, live on location, a guy called up from the Super Friendz show in Vancouver! Know what else? He talked about your e-friend and mine, Brian Wieser, who gallantly organized the whole ALL AGES shebang. what a guy. :) And they played my third f

All talk about Al Tuck

1995-08-17 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
Hey Al Tuck is supposed to be touring this fair land of ours in the fall and it's high time we had some discussion on the man, the myth, the legend himself. He's written some of the best songs to ever come out of Halifax as far as I'm concerned and doesn't get one millionth the attention he des

Re: Pop 'Splosion III - whassup?

1995-08-15 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hi not like i'm a mover and shaker but i would say eve and laura from jale are. so they were saying they think the grifters have been invited. mike seemed to think it would happen round october 13 or so...all of them say it's a *probable* but not for sure thing. -- "...but i know some morning w

alyson ---> hardship post, plus new jale video

1995-08-15 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
laura and eve of jale said that according to seb and mike, alyson is in hardship post. however, they were unsure as to whether or not this was a permanent situation. the new video for "double edge" is apparently a "film noir with a super hero" kinda thing, according to video director laura stei

boring record reviews

1995-08-15 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hi... well james our beloved listmanager and i were talking the other day and there seems to be a lack of record reviews on sloan net lately... well even though these are old, maybe there's a few of you who still don't have these albums and might wonder what some kid thinks of them. jes' my dum

the new grand and radio blaster shows

1995-08-15 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey, anyone who goes to lee's palace on wednesday, please post a review or email me news on the show. yeah, neither band is an east coast sensation, but come on, they're pretty darn close to thrush hermit... has anyone seen the new murderecords mailout flyer thing? it's great, very very funny,

the cure for what ails me

1995-08-15 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
the super friendz, the inbreds, and jale all played in calgary tonight at the republik nightclub. it was the fourth time in calgary for the inbreds, but the first time for both super friendz and jale. however, it was *my* first time seeing the inbreds. super friendz were up first. i was going t

Let The Bad Times Roll

1995-08-13 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
here kids, an article on the hardship post in the july 29 edition of New Musical Express... by Mike Goldsmith. " Oh Cripes! They look just like Buddy Holly! Mike Pick, bass player with Canadian new wavers The Hardship Post, has committed a fatal error: he has just divulged that while he owns a

les amis du those jerks who never play in calgary

1995-08-12 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hi me and tara duh (ha ha!) were sorta talking about this hell project of ours, the sloan tribute tape, and i think that if there's anyone out there who is dead serious and wants to do a song for it, they should contact one of us (tdc is at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) cause man, the tapes are coming in

dumb stupid part one

1995-08-11 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
um just in case anyone was wondering, there's a reason why everyone hates the french. but anyway... when i wasn't trying to patch things up between di and chuck (god, those two are so impossible), i saw a lot of interesting things in england. unfortunately, sloan wasn't one of them. oh well wha

are you stupid? you too can work at muchmusic

1995-07-25 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
"Halifax favourites Super Friendz knew what to do when they needed a drummer for a recent CD release party. They enlisted the guitar player's brother. Now he knows how to play because in fact he's Sloan's frontman, Chris Murphy..." - Lance Chilton on _fax_ on muchmusic h

the hardship post in calgary

1995-07-22 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
subtle. innovative. low key. wonderful. yes, sebastian lippa and mike pick made it out to calgary tonight to open for zumpano and six finger satellite at the republik night club. this was my first time seeing them as a two piece because when they started their tour in halifax exactly two weeks

top of the VOX/CJSW charts

1995-07-21 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
(based on air-play on cjsw 90.9 fm Calgary during June 1995) singles and demos (top 10) 1. sloan stood up murder albums (top 40) 11. thrush hermit the great pacific epmurder 12. hardship post somebody spoke sub pop tara, annoying media type "...Don't leave the house

sloan breakup rumors

1995-07-20 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
here's two more things... my friend lisa says when thrush hermit played here in calgary in june, she was talking to joel and ian after the show for a while and they said that sloan was breaking up for sure, as far as they knew. but... when i was talking to cory last night, he said that althoug

murphy gets dissed by hcg and friends

1995-07-20 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey, want to see sloan's chris murphy get slammed by his good friends in hip club groove? also making an appearance in this brief encounter are drew and marc from len, greig from treble charger, and the ever bubbly jesse s. proudfoot, of the galapagos raygun. it all began with a seemingly innoc

cory and brian, live from the republik

1995-07-20 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey kids, some people here on sloan net were cool enough to send me some questions to ask hip club groove so i thought i would write a few of their answers out. i was really surprised by them, i was totally afraid to talk to them cause i don't listen to hip hop and i always get the feeling that

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