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Today's Topics:
	 Invitation to join mainline@onelist.com
	 Yet another Slowdive Compilation update...
	 Envidia!
	 Re: Australian Bands
	 Re: Australian Bands
	 Australian Bands
	 Re: Australian Bands
	 new list for SFBay people
	 Nice Pix of Rachal in Toronto!
	 Slowdive reformed!
	 burning man
	 Re: Australian Bands

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:48:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From: jroth@nassau.cv.net
Subject: Invitation to join mainline@onelist.com

Hello,

I would like to invite you to join the mainline mailing list.

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Thanks,

jroth@nassau.cv.net
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:20:48 -0400
From: "Mark Stancombe" 
Subject: Yet another Slowdive Compilation update...

Greetings Shoegazers...! :-]

Sorry for my errancy in keeping everyone posted about this compilation, I
have been extremely busy. Anyways, we have a big problem - no on has sent
me any tapes yet - I might have confused some people with my last posting
when I mentioned that we "tracked down" most of the material - I actually
didn't imply that I recieved the tapes, just that I had located those that
had them - anyways - those mailing me tapes, please e-mail me a list of
what you have again so that I can re-compile my own master list. Let it be
known that anyone contributing to the comp will get a free one at my
expense - just pay for the Maxell Type II tape and the cost of shipping to
my address - I would have to suggest haste in this matter because the
window of free time that I currently have to devote to this project is
rapidly diminishing - again - please -email me if you have tapes so that we
can arrange a gathering of these recorded treasures. 

By the way, I will give out a new address so that I can be sure that this
gets done sooner than later - if you have tapes, e-mail me and I will
e-mail this new address privately to you - hopefully we can pull this
impossible task off - but I'll need everyone's help to do it...thanks again
to everyone for their patience - I have just been swamped lately...

			Sincerely, Sillabyss (ie: Mark, etc)

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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 01:00:28 +0200
From: Jorge Palomar 
Subject: Envidia!

Hi:
I've just come from the FIB festival in Spain and there's a couple of
things you do need to know:
1.- I saw Kevin Shields playing four songs with Primal Scream.
2.- I Interviewed our Neil!!!!!!!!!!! -Bernard Butler played there as well-
More info soon. Gotta go

Love

Jorge

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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:16:03 +1000 (EST)
From: athomas@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Alister Thomas)
Subject: Re: Australian Bands

Glad to know that there's another sentient being in the universe who knows
about Swirl!!!! What's the "Touch" CD, then??? I've never heard of it!!!
All I was aware that they'd ever released was their album called "The last
unicorn" and the EP from that album also called "The last unicorn".

As far as Australian shoegazing bands go, they're about the only one I'm
aware of. There isn't much of a shoegazing scene here at all. In fact, to
the best of my knowledge, the only other Australian band that delved into
"shoegazing" territory was the Underground Lovers when they went through a
phase around about 1991-92 where they sounded remarkably like My Bloody
Valentine. In fact, when the Cure toured Australia in 1992 (the "Wish"
tour), Robert Smith asked them to support the band at all their Australian
venues which, I suspect, had something to do with the fact that he was
listening to MBV a lot at that time. Underground Lovers have since become a
fairly unremarkable indie-pop band...

But, yeah, the Oz music scene is a load of rubbish, for the most part. All
we have to offer to the rest of the world, musically, is just boring
pub-rock in the vein of Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel, Tumbleweed, or... or....
I dunno!!! It's all really quite boring here - bands NEVER do anything
different. We just haven't got the population to support anything that
sounds 'different' - people just aren't interested.

I wouldn't hold your breath looking around for any decent Oz 'shoegazing'
type bands (or otherwise)... there just isn't anything here. The only money
to be made for musicians here is for cover bands at nightclubs doing music
to keep the crowds happy... sad but true...

Alister

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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 18:49:07 +0930
From: "Gary Dawson" 
Subject: Re: Australian Bands

Don't know if this was meant to be a private message to someone  Alister,
but I think I'll respond in defence of Australian bands to the whole list...


>Glad to know that there's another sentient being in the universe who knows
>about Swirl!!!! What's the "Touch" CD, then??? I've never heard of it!!!
>All I was aware that they'd ever released was their album called "The last
>unicorn" and the EP from that album also called "The last unicorn".


I'm a big fan of Swirl, and don't know what's happened to them since "the
last unicorn" album - the only ep I know of is the "on my own" ep...but yes,
they are one of our only shoegazing bands that are relatively known...

There are other bands if you look harder though that have dabbled in
shoegazing, and added their own sound to it, unlike a lot of English bands
that just reinvented the MBV sound. Bands like The Wash, Crow, Drop City,
Sidewinder, the Clouds have all taken elements of the shoegazing sound and
mutated it...the Church is an example of longevity in doing this...


>But, yeah, the Oz music scene is a load of rubbish, for the most part. All
>we have to offer to the rest of the world, musically, is just boring
>pub-rock in the vein of Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel, Tumbleweed, or... or....
>I dunno!!! It's all really quite boring here - bands NEVER do anything
>different. We just haven't got the population to support anything that
>sounds 'different' - people just aren't interested.


True, people aren't interested, and the small population doesn't help, but
it's there if you look hard enough...

>I wouldn't hold your breath looking around for any decent Oz 'shoegazing'
>type bands (or otherwise)... there just isn't anything here. The only money
>to be made for musicians here is for cover bands at nightclubs doing music
>to keep the crowds happy... sad but true...


Yeah, I come from Adelaide - Cover Band City of Australia....


Gary

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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 15:37:41 -0400
From: "Alejandro Alaluf B." 
Subject: Australian Bands

The "Touch" CD, as the liner notes say, is a compilation of the "Touch"
and "Aurora" EP's.
Question: is "The Last Unicorn" as good as their early recordings? Is it
domestically available in the U.S. as well of other australian
shoegazing bands?

Thnaxs in advance,
Alejandro

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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 09:10:01 +1000
From: Anthony Cornish 
Subject: Re: Australian Bands

>I'm a big fan of Swirl, and don't know what's happened to them since "the
>last unicorn" album - the only ep I know of is the "on my own" ep...but yes,
>they are one of our only shoegazing bands that are relatively known...

I spoke to Ben the last time they toured here (Jan 1997) and he said they
were starting a new record to be released in August (1997). Since then,
nothing on the album, and no gigs. To end any quiries about their back
catelogue go to :

www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/1392/swirl.html

Anthony.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/1392/

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:24:50 -0700
From: Kevin Wood 
Subject: new list for SFBay people

Hi all....just letting you all know that there is a new email list
dedicated to San Francisco/Bay Area indie music...

It is mainly for posting about Bay Area bands, shows, etc....

to subscribe, go to:

http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/sf_indie

here is some more info on it as well:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2817/

kevin wood

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:58:47 PDT
From: "Avalyn1 Avalyn1" 
Subject: Nice Pix of Rachal in Toronto!

Hey Slowdive fans,

If anyone wants me to send them a very cool pix of Rachel at a Gig in 
Toronto, Canada a few years back let me know. (6years ago I think) The 
pix is from that show that Rachel chats about in her Slowdive newsletter 
(the orange one) where the stage rotates and is out doors.

Drop me a line @   Avalyn1@hotmail.com

Dave

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:22:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alvin de Leon 
Subject: Slowdive reformed!

yeah...in my  dreams... he he he j/k =)

btw, thanks to all who participated in my record auction...

cheers,
allan

* Kurt Verweire can you please send me an email privately...

thanks again =)

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:17:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gage Crump 
Subject: burning man

hey, is anyone going to burning man? my girlfriend and i are going and our
band (daisies and sunflowers) will try to play there, probably at the
Disturbia stage. if there are other musicians who are going who play
slowdive/mbv/etc. type stuff it would be cool to get together and make
some noise in the desert. maybe you could even join us onstage for some of
the songs, as we are only two people. anything goes. the first time i went
to burning man (2 years ago) i listened to labradford driving into the
desert in the middle of the night (the first song of prazision and i
finally understood labradford). playing washed out, reverbed, delayed
music in the hot desert really works... -gage

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:31:17 EDT
From: Espsummer@aol.com
Subject: Re: Australian Bands

isn't the band called "jupitor" from australia?  Someone told me that,
perhaps they were wrong.  I have one song by them and its great

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