Scandinavian Indie Digest Vol.3 Issue #07
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Digest
Vol.3 #07
Jan 29, 1996
There are 33 messages totalling 1142 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Swervies full scandinavian tourdates
2. Selected Finnish News
3. Swedish synth/body/electro bands
4. That Salt US Tour
5. Sin's Selected News [23-Jan-96] *EXCLUSIVE*
6. Finnish tape: the final reminder
7. Swervedriver (scan-indie-ish content) (2)
8. Finnish Selected News / Baltic
9. Penniless People of Bulgaria
10. Sin's Selected News [24-Jan-96]
11. Baltic
12. Warner showcase (4)
13. The Cardigans in the footsteps of Salt (3)
14. Salt - new biography
15. The Estonian tape
16. Swervedriver in Linkoping
17. The Charlatans Digest Mailing List
18. Petrol
19. Wannadies in the UK
20. Cessna: 'Hobby-like' (2)
21. Sin's Selected News [25-Jan-96] (3)
22. Press Release Press Release
23. Pineforest Crunch (was Re: Sin's Selected News [25-Jan-96])
24. Petrol/3 years' deal
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 11:09:01 -0800
From: Morten Wendell Pedersen
Subject: Swervies full scandinavian tourdates
Jan Sundstrom writes:
> I haven't seen the full listing of the dates on S-I, so here it comes:
> 23/1 Lund, Mejeriet
> 24 Linkoping, Skylten
> 25 Goteborg, Underground
> 26 B=F6 i Telemark, Kro & Kultur (North Norway?!?)
> 27 Bergen, Hulen
> 29 Oslo, So What
> 30 Stockholm, Studion
> 31 Copenhagen, Loppen
> 1/2 Arhus, Blitz
>
> Someone from Lund said that the entrance was only 30 SEK ($4.50). Lucky you!
>
> Here in Stockholm it's 135 SEK ($20).
Mhh... I don't even think there is advance sale here in Aarhus (I was
told there wasn't in Copenhagen) Maybe I should try to find out in my
lunch break. It's really awesome that the Swervies are coming to
Aarhus, but it's a rotten venue they're going to play at. I didn't
believe my eyes when I saw it announced... But well I guess I will
survive ;-)
-Morten
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:38:23 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: re: Selected Finnish News
According to chief@lysator.liu.se:
* On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) wrote:
*
* > In the spirit of Erik's 'Selected News' extravaganza, I thought I'd
* > drop in a couple of tidbits from the Finnish pop scene:
*
* A great idea, and I hope you'll keep us on the list updated in
* the future as well?
Sure, provided I hear or read something worth shouting about on a
global platform like this! Of course anyone out there can give a
helping hand and post whatever they think is interesting or fun - I am
not such an 'in with the in-crowd' person that I would know
everything, you see :)
Kimmo
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:21:59 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: Swedish synth/body/electro bands
>> Adolphson & Falk
>
>I actually have all of their albums. I was truly a fan and hooked when
>I heard "10010", and what was it called.. "Signalen Blinkar Bl}"
Kontrollen Blinkar Bla (they also made english versions, The Control Is
Flashing Blue...)
>They remind me of Stockholm when I was younger
>every time I hear them nowadays.
True, they were an intellectual Stockholm band. The also made poppy
"Stockholm Serenad", almost like the signature melody of Stockholm in the
early eighties, when synth fanatics stood against hardrockers.
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 05:17:41 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: That Salt US Tour
Regarding the Salt US tour - I will hopefully be in Boston to check them
out, while visiting my sister (who lives there). They play there on
February 29th - I have an exam here in Link|ping on Feburary 28th. Hmm.
Well, it'll be pretty tough. :-) Maybe I should forget about that exam...
Or go to the gig in New York on March 1st? Only, that one is at a
High School if I interpret "Coney Island High" correctly? Or maybe
when they return to NY on March 9th. Mouth played at "Brownies"
when they were over there, as well, by the way. Swede-takeover huh? :-)
Anyway, I was thinking, if there's anyone in the Boston area or NY
area on this list, going to see them, maybe we could meet up or
something, before the gig? I can definitely arrange a meeting with the
band. Oh well, it's a month away, so maybe it's a bit early to start
talk about it now. I'm just so happy that I _will_ see them when they're
over there!
I'll be back. :-)
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 05:17:18 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Sin's Selected News [23-Jan-96] *EXCLUSIVE*
Scandinavian Indie's Selected News
[23-Jan-96]
Salt - the fantastic band on the MVG label will, as you know, tour the US
starting February. And I couldn't think of a more appropriate place
to present the full tour list than here, which also happens to be
the _first_ (!) place it is presented, straight from the band's
US manager. That's Scandinavian Indie for ya. :-)
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Salt's US Tour 1996
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Date City Venue
February
Th 08 Portland, OR EJ's
F 09 Vancouver, BC Town Pump
S 10 Seattle, WA MOE
Su 11 off
M 12 San Jose, CA Cactus Club
T 13 SF, CA Bottom Of The Hill
W 14 off
Th 15 LA, CA Whisky
F 16 San Diego, CA The Casbah
S 17 off
Su 18 Phoenix, AZ Mason Jar
M 19 off
T 20 Denver, CO Mercury Cafe
W 21 off
Th 22 Kansas City, MO The Hurricane
F 23 Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry
S 24 Chicago, IL Lounge Ax
Su 25 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
M 26 Detroit, MI Shelter
T 27 Toronto, Ont. The Horseshoe Tavern
W 28 off
Th 29 Boston, MA Middle East
March
F 01 New York, NY Coney Island High
S 02 Philadelphia, PA Khyber Pass
Su 03 Baltimore, MD 8 X 10
M 04 Washington DC 9:30 Club
T 05 off
W 06 Atlanta, GA The Point
Th 07 off
F 08 off
S 09 New York, NY Brownies
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:25:46 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: Finnish tape: the final reminder
Hi again,
I will be accepting signups for the Finnish Tape Chain until Friday
this week (26th I think). So, if in doubt, it's time for you to make
up your mind now!
I'll work out the schedule and other essential thingies during the
weekend and the ball should be rolling in about a week or so. All the
participants will be notified of this via personal e-mail.
Kimmo
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:17:38 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Swervedriver (scan-indie-ish content)
On Mon, 22 Jan 96, Morten Wendell Pedersen wrote:
> Mhh... I don't even think there is advance sale here in Aarhus (I was
> told there wasn't in Copenhagen) Maybe I should try to find out in my
> lunch break. It's really awesome that the Swervies are coming to
> Aarhus, but it's a rotten venue they're going to play at. I didn't
> believe my eyes when I saw it announced... But well I guess I will
> survive ;-)
No advance sale here in Linkoping either, though I think the tickets
are 80 for members of the club "Rock d'Amour" who arranges the whole
thing, and 100 for non-members. It's a pretty lousy venue here as well,
on the second floor of an abandoned industrial-type building, but it's
the best one in this town, and bigger bands have played there. :-)
On the topic of Swervedriver - those of you who went to the Lund
gig tonight (23/1) - please let the rest of us (at least me) know
what happened, if they played songs from all three albums, etc?
And did they have an opening band? I think the posters here in
Linkoping said that a band called "Swell" would be the opening band?
Anyone know something about them?
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:17:58 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: Finnish Selected News / Baltic
On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) wrote:
>> A great idea, and I hope you'll keep us on the list updated in
>> the future as well?
>
> Sure, provided I hear or read something worth shouting about on a
> global platform like this! Of course anyone out there can give a
> helping hand and post whatever they think is interesting or fun - I am
> not such an 'in with the in-crowd' person that I would know
> everything, you see :)
I think that would be great. If everyone pitched in with small bits
and pieces of news from all corners, we could have a Selected News
section for each Scandinavian / Baltic country on our hands! That
wouldn't be too bad would it?
On another topic - anyone knows what's happening in any of the three
baltic countries these days? I don't think we have _one_ subscriber
from any of those countries even, which I feel is really sad.
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:26:26 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Penniless People of Bulgaria
I heard them (the Finnish band, signed to A West Side Fabrications)
on the swedish national radio, P3, on "Musikjournalen" today, and
boy was I surprised!
They played a song called "Motorhead" if I'm not mistaken. They
sound like a Bob Mould/Sugar/Starmarket/Loosegoats mixture! Did
they sound that way before?
I remember listening to their album "Mould" last year, but never
made the connection until today, because from what I remember,
they did not sound like that on that album!?
Is "Motorhead" a new song? Does anyone know?
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 03:08:04 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Sin's Selected News [24-Jan-96]
Scandinavian Indie's Selected News
[24-Jan-96]
Salt - will do a massive amount of interviews, both press and radio while
they're in the US, as well as some in-store promotion. MTV 120
minutes in the US will also start to show the video "Bluster".
More info will be posted about that when I know more, but for now,
here's something that will be interesting for ALL people connected
to the Internet:
Salt's show in Seattle, Saturday February 10 will be broadcast live -
worldwide - via Internet. Since it is via Internet, it will be
available internationally! Hear Salt 'live' from MOE in Seattle!
Other bands that have done this include 7 Year Bitch, Blur, The
Rentals, Pavement, Silkworm, TAD, Presidents Of The USA and the
Posies. URL and time information will be posted here real soon.
And if that weren't enough, SALT will tour the UK before they're
heading for the US. Here are their upcoming tour dates for the UK:
26/1 BIRMINGHAM, Foundry
27/1 NOTTINGHAM, Rock City
29/1 LONDON, Dublin Castle
30/1 LONDON, Camden Palace
31/1 BUCKLEY, Tivoli
1/2 LIVERPOOL, Krazyhouse
2/2 STOKE, The Stage
3/2 GLASGOW, The Garage.
Wannadies - who toured the UK with Sleeper last year and who are back on
January 29th with Frank Black on tour, will make an appearence
on one of UK's biggest TV-shows on February 16th, with, among
others, Blur.
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 08:28:14 +0100
From: ludde@kore.lk.se (Ludvig Borgne)
Subject: Swervedriver (scan-indie-ish content)
> On the topic of Swervedriver...
...
> And did they have an opening band? I think the posters here in
> Linkoping said that a band called "Swell" would be the opening band?
> Anyone know something about them?
They're... hmm, simply swell! :)
>From San Fransisco, in the same tradition as bands like Red House Painters
and American Music Club, i.e. mellow and beautiful, yet powerful.
If it's true they're supporting Swervedriver, that's definitely one more
reason to go see them, if you for some strange reason haven't already
decided to go, that is...
(Apologies for any envy this rambling about concerts in Sweden may cause
among our Finnish (and other non-Swedish) friends... :)
/Ludde
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 13:00:37 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: Baltic
>On another topic - anyone knows what's happening in any of the three
>baltic countries these days? I don't think we have _one_ subscriber
>from any of those countries even, which I feel is really sad.
Yeah, well, I went to Riga (Latvia) to celebrate new year. It was massive!
Much better than any new years eve i've had in Stockholm.
First, we went to an old style inn, with traditional latvian countryside
food, we also ordered a full bottle of vodka to our table, price $6 (40
SEK).
Later, we came to the great club in downtown Riga, called Slepenais
Experiments. That's "secret experiment" for all you non-latvians ;)
If you go to Riga, you _have_ to check this out!!! The club was packed,
really stylish architecture, huge bar, and the latest coool music. I mean,
they played NIN, Curve, Sisters, Frontline Assembly, Morrisey but also more
danceable mainstream, but a good selection. And every third song or so was
latvian indie, (hmmm), i couldn't understand the lyrics, but it sounded
pretty underground.
Not much swedish/scandinavian though...
Go to Riga on your next vacation. Even if it's just for partying out over
the weekend, i think you spend less money in total, cause the booze is so
dirt cheap!
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:02:02 +0100
From: pong@algonet.se (Magnus =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5str=F6m?= )
Subject: Warner showcase
I don't know if anybody on the list is interested, and it's also a bit
late, but I post this just in case:
There's been talk about the annual Warner showcase here on the list.
This year's showcase is tonight (24/1) at Sturehof, or rather in the
back room of Sturehof, where F=F6reningen O usually have their evenings.
(that's O as in Oxygen, a club for people working in advertising(!) )
The evening starts at 8 pm, and aparrently there are no invitations, anybody
who knows about the secret time and place is welcome ;-) Mind you, it's a
tiny venue, but lots of performances!
Magnus
pong@algonet.se
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:40:33 -0800
From: Christer Nilsson
Subject: The Cardigans in the footsteps of Salt
The Cardigans were just released on the Canadian(?) label
Minty Fresh which will make them domestically available
in the United States and Canada.
So far I've only heard them being played on non-commercial
radio here in the LA-area. I think people are getting
tired of 'grunge-lite', when they hear something like
The Cardigans it sounds really different and fresh.
Why not end submissions to scan-indie with what the sender is
listening to right now?
On now: Uh, nothing, but I still think the idea is good :-)
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 02:29:07 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Salt - new biography
Straight from Salt's label, MVG, here's their new english biography:
SALT
It's hard to imagine a band christening itself more appropriately than this
jaggedly enticing Swedish trio. Like the mineral itself, Salt can prompt the
nerve endings in any number of ways. It can entice with its stimulating
flavor or make an existing wound ache with even more intensity. Above all,
Salt makes you feel - a commodity that's all too rare these days.
"We consider ourselves to be a rock band, and to me that means you have to
make people react," says bassist Daniel Ewerman with a chuckle. "We've never
wanted to be cool or distant - we've always wanted to, well, rock."
They succeeded on that count, but as borne out by the band's island debut,
Auscultate, they're just as interested in rocking the boat. From the moment
the dissonant album-opening improvisation fades into the wiry carnality of
"Honour Me", it's evident that Salt aren't likely to conform to
easily-delineated, alterna-rock standards. Salt's spartan playing informs
songs like "Beauty" with a compelling astringency, while Nina's commanding
vocal presence mandates undivided attention.
"People say it must be difficult to put as much emotion into singing as I do,
but it's not at all if you mean it," says Ramsby. "The songs are all about
love and relationships, but more importantly, they're things I've
experienced. I know what it's like to be obsessed with someone. I know how it
feels to be treated like shit."
Those basic feelings are at the core of Salt, and have been since the three
members formed the group after meeting at a Stockholm art school three years
back. The initial five-piece lineup proved too unwieldy to properly convey
Ramsby's minimal, forthright songs, so they pared down to a trio format that
allowed ample room for the strikingly individual contributions of Ramsby,
Ewerman and drummer Jim Tegman to resonate vividly. Before long, the trio
moved onto a houseboat decidedly lacking in creature comforts like heat and
running water. Although the rationale behind the move wasn't entirely
artistic in nature ("we couldn't afford anything better," recalls Tegman), it
ended up forging a bond that would not be easily broken.
"We learned to live together and learned to interact with each other in a way
that has really helped the dynamic of the band," says Ramsby. "We came up
with the sound we have by jamming, but we came up with the band by living
together."
While the embryonic Salt had developed an underground reputation - thanks in
part to performances at late-night, peace-disturbing parties on the
aforementioned houseboat - the band first gained wider notice after stealing
the thunder of a goodly number of bigger names at 1994's edition of Sweden's
biggest rock gathering, the Hultsfred Festival. "We weren't exactly natural
performers, but we knew we had to play to get people to notice us and that
meant trying very hard to look cool," says Tegman, tongue deeply in cheek. "I
suppose it worked because no one's ever accused us of faking it."
Take that last statement with a grain of you-know what. There's not a whit of
artifice in the 13 bracing songs that comprise Auscultate - the title, for
those without access to a thesaurus, is a synonym for "listen". Ramsby's
effortless whisper-to-a-scream maneuvers - which add a harrowing edge to the
tumultuous "Witty" and a disarming vulnerability to the sinuous "Sense" -
are only the first line of attack. Ewerman and Tegman likewise churn through
the songs with shamanistic single-mindedness, fused stylistically like
siamese twins joined at the soul.
"What we do is very much the product of all of us together, not one
individual," says Ramsby. "Although I'm in front, I'd say we all share the
responsibility of 'fronting' the band - we rely on each other totally. It's
very real, very simple...it just ends up sounding complicated."
You couldn't ask for a better definition of the trio. Listen for yourself and
prepare for a glorious sensory overload. No matter what the doctors say, this
kind of Salt is just what the heart needs.
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:32:00 +0200 (EET)
From: Sami Rouhento
Subject: The Estonian tape
Hello all,
the promised Baltic tape is now ready, except that it's really more
of an Estonian tape! I don't have the track listing with me right now,
but among the bands included you'll find at least the extensively
touted DALLAS and BORAX, BIZARRE, FM VIOLET, 1983, =D6=C4K, etc. etc. so=
it's really a "something-for-everyone" type of a tape. I mean,
provided you like pop music! Anyways, I'm trying to put together a
chain of sorts now so anyone who'd like to receive it, email to me
personally to trsaro@uta.fi right now, and I'll work something out.
You've got a week or so to send in your snail-mail address, okay?
Cheers,
Sami
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:36:13 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: Warner showcase
>There's been talk about the annual Warner showcase here on the list.
>This year's showcase is tonight (24/1) at Sturehof,
Fuck, fuck, fuck i missed it! :(
OK, the might not have been great music there, but usually there are loads
of free beer and stuff anyway...
I know i'm throwing stones in a greenhouse here, but please tell us sooner,
so that everybody has a chance to join in when something happens!
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 02:28:42 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Swervedriver in Linkoping
I met Swervedriver tonight, after a gig here in Linkoping (Sweden),
and talked a bit about their latest stuff, the Creation deal, the,
by Neil and Simon from Slowdive, reported fact that it was Swervedriver
who got Slowdive signed to Creation and a bit about their future plans.
The Slowdive connection discussion went like this, after I asked if
it was true that they got them [Slowdive] signed to Creation:
Steve (bass, vocals) looked at Adam (vocals, guitar) and said:
- 'umm.. well, that's for you to answer'.
Then Adam asked:
- 'who said that? Neil and Rachel?'
I replied:
- 'no, Neil and Simon, when I asked them about it after they played
in Stockholm in 93'
And Adam said:
- 'well I don't know, really. Did we?'
So the drummer, Jez said to Adam:
- 'yes, it was You! You were the guy who got them signed!'
And Adam replied:
- 'well, maybe it was our manager. Their [Slowdive] demo tape circulated
a lot around that time, and maybe he got hold of it and brought it
to Creation? I honestly don't know.'
So I dropped that subject and asked about the Slowdive/Swervedriver
misprint (Slowdive's first EP "Slowdive" was released in ? of copies
containing Swervedriver's album "Raise"). Adam said:
- 'yeah, I know about that. It's a really rare item you know?'
And I told him I had a copy of that one, so he asked:
- 'is it our cover and their EP on the CD or...'
So I replied:
- 'no, the other way around. Their cover and your album. When I bought
it and got home and listened to it, I said "whoa, this isn't Slowdive!"'
And Adam said:
- 'no way! Well, it's just like Creation. Misprints, whatever...'
So I didn't ask more about that, though I did ask Adam what he thought
about the Mojave 3 stuff and he said:
- 'I love it! It's a Cowboy Junkies thing you know?'
And Steve said:
- 'Mazzy Star kind of..'
Well, that's it for the Slowdive questions at least. :-) They [Swervedriver]
are signed to Geffen now, in case anyone was wondering, and their latest
album "Ejector Seat Reservation" is being released in the US by Geffen
in April, with a following tour by the band. The reason they aren't on
Creation any more, Adam said, was because they didn't like it when they
had to contact people on several locations (ie. Sony in the US and
Creation in the UK) when they needed something or wanted to ask something,
or whatever. He continued telling about a lot of companies that are like
that nowadays, and that Geffen were at one place, you just called ONE
number, and everything was okay.
Their deal with Geffen includes a couple of albums, and Adam said they
had material for two albums right now, but because their latest album
hasn't been released in the US, the label won't allow them to record
anything new yet.
I told them I thought their latest album was closer to their first
"Raise" one than to the second "Mezcal Head" one, and also asked if
maybe "Mezcal Head" was their "experiment album" sort of (I hoped it
was, because that's the album I like the least) and Adam said that
maybe it was. He hadn't thought about it. So I asked what the next
album would sould like, and Steve joked about it and said that it was
going to be another "Mezcal Head" one.
On a side note: they played a lot of songs from their first album, "Raise"
tonight, I think five or six ones, at least all of my favourite ones from
that album (I only have the Slowdive mis-print, so I have no clue to what
the songs are called), four songs from "Mezcal Head", 'Duel' and 'Duress'
being two of them of course, and a lot of songs from "Ejector Seat
Reservation", 'Bring Me The Head of the Fortune Teller', 'The Other Jesus',
'Ejector Seat Reservation', 'Son of Jaguar "E"', 'How Does It Feel To
Look Like Candy?' and 'I Am Superman'. The reason they played so many from
"Raise", Adam explained, was because that album was never released in
Australia, and they recently played there, so they thought, why not play
some of our old songs, and rehearsed them again, and to their surprise,
they sounded really good! So they decided to include them on the rest of
their tour. :-)
When I asked them about their upcoming gigs, they did know about the
three ones in Norway, and that one of the were really "waaaaaay up
north". :-) Some of the people there (in the back room) also said
like "see you in Copenhagen" when they left.
I also asked about their "surprise gig" in Lubeck a couple of days ago
(that I read about on the UK Indie list), and Adam said they were fully
aware that there probably weren't going to be a lot of people there,
but the guy handling the "put up posters around town" did a really
great job, in the four days he had, and there were about 200 people there.
We were about 60 people (!) at the gig in Linkoping, so I also asked
what it felt like to play to such a small crowd (after being the
opening act for bands like Smashing Pumpkins), and Adam said it was
just a matter of getting into it. After two songs, he said, he was
completely "in the music" and it didn't matter how big a crowd it was.
Well, we did manage to get them to play two extra songs, one from
"Mezcal Head" and one from the latest one, even though we were so few!
Not bad huh? :-)
And their opening act tonight was not the L.A. Swell, but the
Linkoping Swell. I didn't see them though, because a friend of mine
told me they were pretty lousy. Oh well.
Oh, Steve had two big bruises on his forhead, that he scratched all
the time. Anyone know what happened? And the gig lasted for about 90
minutes.
I'd definitely recommend all of you to go and see them. It was a really
great gig. And Swervedriver remain at the top five of my favourite bands
ever!
I guess that's enough babbling from me now. My ears are ringing. :-)
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:57:31 +0100
From: Marten.Sahlen@eua.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen)
Subject: Re: Warner showcase
d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom) wrote:
> Fuck, fuck, fuck i missed it! :(
> OK, the might not have been great music there, but usually there are loads
> of free beer and stuff anyway...
>
> I know i'm throwing stones in a greenhouse here, but please tell us sooner,
> so that everybody has a chance to join in when something happens!
I was still at work when the mail came. I went there for a short while
between 10:00-10:30 but it was pretty dead. No performances. I guess
some people maybe went to see Tindersticks at Gino down the road aroundthat time. You didn't miss much from what I could see.
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 02:30:43 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: The Charlatans Digest Mailing List
The Charlatans Digest mailing list
After reading the Charlatans mailing list for a while, and gathering
messages into digests for my own use, and receiving requests for them
from a bunch of people, I've finally set up a distribution list for the
Digest, with the consent from Eirik (who runs this live list).
The list is called "Then", and the administratrivia (ie. "Subscribe",
"Unsubscribe" and so on) address is:
then-request@lysator.liu.se
It's not a "Daily" Digest. Rather, digests are sent out to the subscribers
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:50:31 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Petrol
> De skrev p} kontrakt ig}r. 3 }r med Warner och troligen ett skivkontrakt
>med Telegram. R|ta, r|ta, r|ta.
Yeah, this is a guy i know that knows the girls in Petrol. He just says
that they signed on the dotted line yesterday with Warner/Telegram for 3
years!
And they are just two ordinary girls from small town Vasteras. Some guys
have all the luck...
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 17:21:44 +0100 (MET)
From: Carl Bjorklund
Subject: Wannadies in the UK
Just thought I'd mention it: the Wannadies were referred to as "hugely
underrated" on the Mark Radcliffe Radio1 show here (UK) last night. The
show is quite popular, and quite good - these two guys (Mark and his
friend "Lard", who really is an ex member of the Fall (?)) are just
sitting around, talking about everything and nothing and playing their
favourite tunes.
Anyone going to see them (Wannadies) at the Garage(London) feb 22nd? I
probably will, so if anyone else on this list is - why don't we join forces?
/Carl
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 19:43:30 +0100
From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming)
Subject: Cessna: 'Hobby-like'
Indie music from Finland has traditionally died a bit of a death beyond
Finnish shores. The Penniless People of Bulgaria have a deal with
West Side, sure, but that's about it. Things, I venture to say, may
be about to change...
Cessna could fit easily into the current Swedish indie scene, and
probably wouldn't mind that much either. We're certainly closer here
to the cafe music of Cinnamon and the Cardigans than to Elastica and
Supergrass, but then these days Swedishness is getting cooler by the
minute, so this is nothing to complain about. Especially as Cessna
have better ideas than a whole array of better-known Swedish bands,
and still haven't committed any of them to vinyl yet. This is one
exciting demo.
'Utterly Alone' would make a good single. The verse's classically
simple tune leads into a noisier chorus-break, a twiddly guitar riff
hiding in the feedback under the two vocal lines. A dark little
winter-night of a song.
'Cardamom Kiss' and 'Reconcile', which follow, don't work as well.
The first is a competent song, but in the end Popsicle did this sort
of thing first, and with more assurance. 'Reconcile', another one of
those tunes that you feel must have been done before, has its own
charm, and some nice noisy bits, but suffers from a weak vocal that's
not mixed quite far enough down to spare us some very dodgy rhymes.
With 'My Blue Anglia' we're very much back on track. Cessna show
themselves to be the masters of diminished sevenths (or whatever those
cool jazzy chords are) and come up with a song that beats Blissful at
their own game, evoking a whole breezy Nordic summer lake-scene just
in the final syllable of 'Anglia' before the laid-back guitar break.
'Oh Grey' takes us on a melancholy trip through urban normality, a
moody melody giving way to the catchiest of Cessna's impeccably-timed
guitar breaks -- the musical equivalent, perhaps, of that spark that
keeps the Finns alive in the face of the cold and dark. For once, a
song that needs less 'ba-ba-ba-ba'-s rather than more, but that's a
small criticism.
The feedback reappears on 'This Will End in Tears', and the words
'Teenage' and 'Fanclub' spring irrestistibly to mind. Things go a bit
awry with the melody line during the verse, but this is another very
serviceable pop-song, and shows that this lot know how much noise to
put in and how much to leave out. Basic indie 101, passed with merit.
In 'Non-stop' Cessna provide another all-too-brief pop gem, crammed
to bursting (in a paradoxically relaxed sort of way) with rhythm
shifts, wryly simple lyrics and -- yes, really -- tambourine and
glockenspiel. You almost wish they'd give themselves five minutes to
spread themselves out a bit more, but this is twee-indie-with-teeth
Finnish style, and it's nothing if not concise.
In short, perhaps not yet a challenge for the Swindie bands making it
right now, but if Cessna carry on like this they could end up being
serious competition for the likes of Blissful and Cinnamon when the
international talent scouts head north this summer.
Robert
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:04:47 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Sin's Selected News [25-Jan-96]
Scandinavian Indie Selected News
[25-Jan-96]
Beat Butchers - has a small party (invited only) at Studion on Friday
January 26th for the new releases from Coca Carola,
Svart Sn| and Radioaktiva R{ker.
Drain - the all female band on MVG, released their debut album "Horror
Wrestling" in Sweden on January 22nd, and it will be released
in the UK and the rest of Europe at the end of February on WEA /
East / West. Their sound is best described as heavy hardcore,
disted guitar-walls with influences from Alice In Chains. They
are going on tour with Clawfinger in Switzerland, Austria and
Germany, and will play a gig on their own in London on February
2nd.
MVG - the record label presented a couple of spring releases today,
Teddybears Sthlm will release a new 3-track single on February 5th
called "Magic Finger" with the songs 'Magic Finger', 'When They
Grow Up' and 'To The Swiftest Goes The meal'. After a first listen
to it, I'd say it sounds like Teddybears. :-) Hardcore with a twist.
Their album "I Can't Believe It's Teddybears Sthlm" will be released
on February 26th. There's also a small party for the new releases
in Stockholm at the movie theater "Sibirien" on Friday, January 26th,
invited only though.
Pineforest Crunch - have released a video to the song "Cup Noodle Song"
and will probably release another single before the
album is released on February 26th. A good guess on
the single would be the song "Barbie". On Polygram.
Roskilde Festival - reported that they made 2.290.000 danish crowns from
last year's festival. Everything will go to organizations
working for humanity, cultural and social work. The
festival this year will (the say) have 1.000 meters of
pee-channels from the start, thursday June 27th, and they
are also considering making the festival train rides free
of charge, as well as having new demands on the raw
material and sortiment of food to be sold.
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:05:07 +0100 (MET)
From: Erik S|derstr|m
Subject: Press Release Press Release
PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
Smashing Pumpkins + special guest; Filter visits
Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo !
Smashing Pumpkins, follow up their new album, and
visits KB-Hallen in Copenhagen April 9th, Isstadion in
Stockholm April 10th and Spektrum in Oslo April 12h.
After their break-through 1993 with "Siamese Dream"
they have established themselves as one of the best bands in
their genre.
The new double-CD "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" went
in, as newcomer, straight to the Top 40 list's 1:st place. The
quartet from Chicago really deserve all the attention they've got!
The american band Filter who played an attracted gig at last year's
Hultsfred Festivalen will be the opening act.
Tickets are released on Friday January 26th.
Questions? - Contact Anna Johansson at Motor; +46-31-7742595
Motor AB, Box 53045, 400 14 Gothenburg, Sweden,
Phone: +46-31-7742595, Fax: +46-31-7742590
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:23:44 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: Sin's Selected News [25-Jan-96]
>Roskilde Festival - The
> festival this year will (the say) have 1.000 meters of
> pee-channels from the start, thursday June 27th,...
WOW! So we can have swim races this time. The last one in is a coward!
Jan Sundstrom
--------------------------
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:51:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Forsberg
Subject: Re: The Cardigans in the footsteps of Salt
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Christer Nilsson wrote:
> The Cardigans were just released on the Canadian(?) label
> Minty Fresh which will make them domestically available
> in the United States and Canada.
I believe Minty Fresh is an American indie label, based in Chicago.
Veruca Salt is on that label, and I've got a couple of their 10"s.
Looking on the back, it gives a Chicago address and telephone number.
> So far I've only heard them being played on non-commercial
> radio here in the LA-area. I think people are getting
> tired of 'grunge-lite', when they hear something like
> The Cardigans it sounds really different and fresh.
Yeah, I think the Cardigans should do real well here on "modern rock"
radio; I think they sound a bit like Frente!, who get airplay, at least
here in Baltimore. I agree that heavy guitar-based music cannot be
dominant forever - eventually it will fade in popularity just like the
glam metal of the mid/late 80's!
> Why not end submissions to scan-indie with what the sender is
> listening to right now?
OK, I'll bite! Well, nothing too indie or even scandinavian right now,
it's Blue Oyster Cult's "Fire of Unknown Origin". So what, they're not
the hippest, but guess what? They make me feel nostalgic for my early
teens (I'm 27 now) and I like 'em!
Tjare!
----------------------
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 09:07:14 +0100
From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming)
Subject: Pineforest Crunch (was Re: Sin's Selected News [25-Jan-96])
Erik wrote:
> Pineforest Crunch - have released a video to the song "Cup Noodle Song"
> and will probably release another single before the
> album is released on February 26th. A good guess on
> the single would be the song "Barbie". On Polygram.
Saw them on 'Svart eller Vitt' on TV4 last night (big Swedish debate
programme) doing 'Cup Noodle Song' and they looked and sounded OK,
very poppy and not very indie mind you...
Robert, wondering where Erik gets all the time to do all these posts :)
------------------------
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:51:09 +0100
From: Marten.Sahlen@eua.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen)
Subject: Re: Sin's Selected News [25-Jan-96]
> Their album "I Can't Believe It's Teddybears Sthlm" will be released
> on February 26th. There's also a small party for the new releases
> in Stockholm at the movie theater "Sibirien" on Friday, January 26th,
> invited only though.
I'm invited :) This thing at Sibirien is kind of a matinee, it starts already
at 15:00. Then later tonight there will be another race at Mikaels Bar on
Karlaplan where I think anyone interested can come.
> Pineforest Crunch - have released a video to the song "Cup Noodle Song"
> and will probably release another single before the
> album is released on February 26th. A good guess on
> the single would be the song "Barbie". On Polygram.
They did "Cup Noodle Song" on TV last night, on the "Svart Eller Vitt"
talk show. That black midget host Thabo introduced them as Pain-forest
Crunch, which I thought was pretty funny. What about the song then...
a pretty mellow and poppy thing, not bad but not really my cup of lipton.
---------------------
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:42:18 +0100
From: pong@algonet.se (Magnus =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5str=F6m?= )
Subject: Re: Warner showcase
>Fuck, fuck, fuck i missed it! :(
>OK, the might not have been great music there, but usually there are loads
>of free beer and stuff anyway...
>
>I know i'm throwing stones in a greenhouse here, but please tell us sooner,
>so that everybody has a chance to join in when something happens!
This will make you feel better: I misunderstood the people at Warner, this
wasn't THE showcase, just a special showcase for Nicloai Dunger, one of
their new acts, which I'm designing for at the moment. My apologies for
misleading you. You didn't really miss anything, other than a really good
performance... OK, there was some free beer but the atmosphere was still
more "after work" than party.
When I get news about the "real" showcase I'll post it here.
Magnus
pong@algonet.se
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:14:40 +0100
From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming)
Subject: Re: Cessna's 'Hobby-like'
I wrote:
[a big review-thing]
I should of course have mentioned that you can get more information
about Cessna (or 'The Finnish Stone Roses' as I call them: Aknestik
are the Finnish Blur, of course, but then Laika and the Cosmonauts are
the Finnish Shadows ;) from Kimmo and Sami, trkisa@uta.fi and
trsaro@uta.fi, who are both, umm, Cessnalaiset. Kimmo sent me the
tape, but no money to go with it, so the review was I think pretty
unbiased. See them at Tr{stockfestivalen: Jocke, are you hearing
this??
Robert, thinking of reporting back from his tours of the UK and Chile
---------------------------
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:35:32 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: Re: The Cardigans in the footsteps of Salt
According to Chris Forsberg:
* I believe Minty Fresh is an American indie label, based in Chicago.
* Veruca Salt is on that label, and I've got a couple of their 10"s.
That's what I think too. They have The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group in
their roster too - recommended listening for all you bossanova/easy
listening fans out there!
I'm not quite sure about how 'indie' Minty Fresh really is... I think
they have a distribution and manufacturing deal with some major
(perhaps our US readers can enlighten?). This will probably mean
another one million Cardigans CD's will find a new home :)
* I agree that heavy guitar-based music cannot be
* dominant forever - eventually it will fade in popularity just like the=
* glam metal of the mid/late 80's!
Amen.
* > Why not end submissions to scan-indie with what the sender is
* > listening to right now?
Err..nothing, as I am at the University computer room right now. But
in the morning the first thing I played (again) was "Something Strange
Happen" by Allen Clapp, because of the lyrics that go something like
"sun came up this morning, for the first time in a long time...",
because that's exactly what happened yesterday!
Kimmo
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:38:51 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: Re: Petrol/3 years' deal
According to Jan Sundstrom:
* Yeah, this is a guy i know that knows the girls in Petrol. He just says
* that they signed on the dotted line yesterday with Warner/Telegram for 3
* years!
I'm curious...I always thought bands are signed for a number of
*albums*, not years? (Or even album sides, hence the contract-killing
double live LP's of the past :) This sounds like they have been sort
of 'hired' or 'employed' to work as 'pop stars' or something...
just wondering
Kimmo
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