Scandinavian Indie Digest Fri Feb 11, 1994 Volume 1 : Issue 01 There are 12 messages totalling 469 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Welcome to the Scandinavian Indie List! 2. Semi-introduction :) 3. snooper from afar 4. 5. Bad Vugum (3) 6. Hello there! (2) 7. Another newcomer... 8. chief 9. Good Day! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 21:15:04 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Welcome to the Scandinavian Indie List! ======================================================================== 1994:02:09 ad88888ba d8" "8b Y8, `Y8aaaaa, ,adPPYba, ,adPPYYba, 8b,dPPYba, `"""""8b, a8" "" "" `Y8 88P' `"8a `8b 8b ,adPPPPP88 88 88 d888888a Y8a a8P "8a, ,aa 88, ,88 88 88 "888888" "Y88888P" `"Ybbd8"' `"8bbdP"Y8 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 "" 88 88 88 8b,dPPYba, ,adPPYb,88 88 ,adPPYba, 88 88P' `"8a a8" `Y88 88 a8P_____88 88 88 88 8b 88 88 8PP""""""" 88 88 88 "8a, ,d88 88 "8b, ,aa 88 88 88 `"8bbdP"Y8 88 `"Ybbd8"' Welcome to the Scandinavian Independent Music Mailing List! ======================================================================== As you probably already know, this mailing list is dedicated to the discussion of independent music coming from any scandinavian country. (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Sweden). There has been some discussion going on for a while with plans on starting a mailing list, because, even though there are lists for independent music, they are UK, US or label-specific ones, and as the independent scene is growing rapidly in the scandinavian countries, we'd like to be able to talk about it (and we hope others would too) :) The instructions for this list is the same as any other list; a) To submit an article to the scandinavian indie mailing list, email to: scan-indie@lysator.liu.se b) Questions about the list or any administrative requests such as "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" should be addressed to: scan-indie-request@lysator.liu.se c) Error messages regarding the list should be sent to: chief@lysator.liu.se To get the ball rolling for this brand new list, why don't you write a brief message and let the others on the list know that you're out there? Maybe include a few notes on your favourite groups? FTP - Well, we have ftp.uwp.edu out there, so I can't se a reason to make another one. There are discographies, lyrics etc. for scandinavian bands there already. Digest - I will keep all messages sent to the list, and make weekly (or rather, when there's about 10 or 15k) digests. E-mail me (chief@lysator.liu.se) if you'd like to subscribe to the digest version. Just remember that if the traffic is low, there will be some time before a digest is sent out. Again, welcome to the list! /Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) Scan-Indie Mailing List owner [ The Scandinavian Independent Music Mailing List ] [ Mail to the list at scan-indie@lysator.liu.se ] [ Administrivia goes to scan-indie-request@lysator.liu.se ] ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 21:16:08 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Semi-introduction :) Hello all! As the list owner, I thought I'd post a little something about what's going on here. As I live in Sweden, most of the info I'll be posting will be about swedish bands, concerts etc, so I hope that others will bring information from the other scandinavian countries. Right now, I am in the process of compiling discographies for the Swedish labels "A West Side Fabrication" and "Ceilidh", and if time allows, I'll do the "North Of No South" label discography as well. I will post these as soon as possible. Unfortunately, they are not complete, but I hope that people on this list are better informed than me, and will help me with the missing information. :) On the lyrics scene - here's what I have transcribed (from listening to the albums/CDs mind you :)): Group/Artist Album/EP/Single/etc. (on uwp) ----------------------------- ------------------------ --------- A Shrine Li & Friends Y Pleasurehouse Marseille Y Suredo Swell Y I have also made an interview with Pleasurehouse (23 April 1993) that is available from ftp.lysator.liu.se in /pub/texts/uxu/uxu-120.lzh. Another interview (with Souls) will be available as well, as soon as I find some time to type it in from my more-than-torn notes. Well, that about wraps it up from me this time. Some misc. concert dates (in Sweden) for misc. groups will be posted here in a couple of days. Have fun! Erik chief@lysator.liu.se ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 09:27:02 +0100 From: bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TK ) Subject: snooper from afar Hello All, Since I am an American living in Germany and have never been to Scandinavia, I doubt I can contribute much to this list in the near future. Still, what I have heard from music from up there [music, yes, but also talk :-)] gives a welcome new twist to the whole scene. I am particularly interested in news of very out-of-the-ordinary music with a distinctive voice to it, and how I might find it down here in the Bavarian Cultural Wasteland. Good luck to the success of the list. Gruss, Dr Bruce Scott The deadliest bullshit is Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik odorless and transparent bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de -- W Gibson ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 9:14 GMT From: HMC4@VAX.YORK.AC.UK Subject: Hi, I don't know much about Scandanavian Indie Music but I do remember being at a party with some Danish friends. They played a CD by a Danish or Norwegian band called something like Her Personal Pain or Her Private Pain> If I remember rightly it sound a bit like Curve. After the obligatory pickled herring and copious bottles of Tuborg everything became a blur. If anyone has any info. on who this band was ie discographies, etc it would be appreciated. Also, what has happened to ShoobaDooa or however you spell it. 'H'y Stockholm Environment Institute at York University of York, UK. ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 09:52:18 GMT From: davidb@dbadmin2.amgen.com (David Bennison) Subject: Bad Vugum Well, I guess what I'd like to know most are details about Bad Vugum releases, particularly Radiopuhelimets and who the Swinging Hufvuds are (another Finnish Band). Other than that, I'm another guy who is going to have to lurk as I have nothing scandinavian to contribute other than I had an amazing cheese fondue last weekend. David... ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 11:53:00 +0200 (EET) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo S{{skilahti) Subject: Hello there! Hello folks! Nice to see that things are start to get rolling! According to HMC4@VAX.YORK.AC.UK: * I don't know much about Scandanavian Indie Music * but I do remember being at a party with some * Danish friends. They played a CD by a Danish or * Norwegian band called something like Her Personal * Pain or Her Private Pain> If I remember rightly it * sound a bit like Curve. Hey, you have uttered the magic word 'Curve'!! :-) Anyone from Denmark or Norway on this list, who could provide some info? As I'm posting, I might as well make a short introduction of myself. As you see from my e-address, I'm from Finland (from the city of Tampere to be more exact). I'll try to provide as much information, gossip, news, reviews and whatever I can think of about what's hot in the Finnish Indie scene. I might start with a short mention of two albums that have been released lately: Poverty Stinks: Hello Sister I guess this is the fourth album by this heavily-60's-influenced slightly retro-ish pop band, and the first after the departure of their original guitarist (who found Miss Right and quit the band - currently he plays in a Smiths tribute band called The Joneses). I'm not a very big Poverty Stinks fan, so I can't really comment on the album, except for what I've read in the press. "Hello Sister" should be a return to their original sound and style, in other words, beautiful straightforward pop songs, like on their first two albums (Gargle Blaster and Getting Deeper). Their third album was an attempt at a more ambitious arrangements and sound, but I guess it more or less failed. The new album will be released also in Sweden shortly, and maybe also elsewhere on the continent, and maybe even in the UK. Last year Snap Records released a compilation album from the tracks of their two first albums (it had a thumbs-up review in an issue of the magazine/cd Volume). The bands has also toured quite a lot in Sweden and on the continent. Another new release is from the band with the longest name in the show business: Electric Blue Peggy Sue And The Revolutionions From Mars. Their latest album is called "Family Affair" (if memory serves). However, I don't know much about it (haven't bought it yet), but from what I've read it's still another step into a 'mellower' sound - at the early days they were more or less a straightforward noise band. At the course of time, they have picked up a variety of influences from different music styles (funk mainly, but even afro) and they can kick up a mad groove live. I'll come back to this band, soon as I get the new album, and I might as well write a discography, when I'm bored enough to do anything more productive... That's all from me now, I hope I wasn't too verbose :-) Kimmo -- Kimmo Saaskilahti * "I don't know my future after trkisa@uta.fi * this weekend...and I don't want to" * - Bjork ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 14:47:27 +0200 (EET) From: trsaro@uta.fi (Sami Rouhento) Subject: Re: Bad Vugum David Bennison wrote: > Well, I guess what I'd like to know most are details about > Bad Vugum releases, particularly Radiopuhelimets and who the > Swinging Hufvuds are (another Finnish Band). It's a good thing indeed that someone is interested in Bad Vugum, who could rightfully be called one of the few *really* independent labels in Finland... Telling you about all of the releases on Vugum would probably make this turn into a short book, cos there's forty of them by now, but give me names and I'll try to unveil whatever mysteries there seem to be... About Radiopuhelimet, the best thing us Finns have been able to come up with so far IMHO: as far as I know they were the basically the reason for starting up Bad Vugum - their drummer is 1/3 of the label - but released only two (long since deleted) 7" ep's on BV. They then released one album on Euros records called "Rokkir{j{hdys" (half of which was then again re-released on Bad Vugum along with the first two ep's - complicated?) before being signed to Spirit, which is owned by Sonet, which in turn is owned by PolyGram, in case somebody could give a shit. Four more albums have followed, the most recent of which, "Maalla", came out a few months back. I suppose all of these are available also through the Bad Vugum mail order. About the Swinghufvuds I can't tell you a whole lot except that that's the correct spelling of the name (an allusion to P.E. Svinhufvud, one of the past presidents of Finland BTW - hogs head anyone?). Perhaps someone else can elaborate? And yeah, I'm Sami and I like indie rock. ...absoluuttinen mies... ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 15:13:22 +0100 From: " (Superette)" Subject: Re: Hello there! Kimmo me friend-taking-care-of-our-orange-tree wrote this bit: > As I'm posting, I might as well make a short introduction of myself. > As you see from my e-address, I'm from Finland (from the city of > Tampere to be more exact). I'll try to provide as much information, > gossip, news, reviews and whatever I can think of about what's hot in > the Finnish Indie scene. My short intro: Though you can't see it from my email, I'm from Tampere, Finland :) A bit more personal info perhaps.. I'm 22, into the British popscene (since I'm marooned here in Guildford 'til March) (Suedette, if you must know) and have been around just long enough to think the good old days were when the Roses did their last live show -- and that was in Finland... What Kimmo sadly neglected to mention about the Finnish pop scene is that the best bands don't tend to release too many records since there are so few indie children around. What do you expect, with a population smaller than that of London... So, it's going to take a long time before you get to hear my fave band in the whole wide world, Super. They hail from Tampere, with quite a few strong tunes of their own. They're an utterly wondrous live act. The lead singer is an amazing young woman called Minna, essentially not your stereotypical rock chick, nor your stereotypical shy and frightened indie-babe.. she's beautiful and charismatic and _powerful_ on stage, like a smart young babe full of energy and life, about to spread her wings and soar over the audience. There's a lot of pop-attitude in the rest of the band as well, they could beat Jarvis Cocker of Pulp in his own game :) There have been plans for Minna to appear on the new Happy Ever After album, and for the whole band to go on Finnish national television, but if any of this materializes I'll mail you well in advance... Happily yours, superette reetu ..doesn't really matter.. ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 16:13:57 +0200 (EET) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo S{{skilahti) Subject: Re: Bad Vugum According to Sami Rouhento: * About Radiopuhelimet, the best thing us Finns have been able to * come up with so far IMHO For those who are not familiar with the Bad Vugum sound, I might say that they don't have exactly the coolest popsters of Finland in their roster... but if you're (like me, among other things) into hard-hitting metallic schizophrenic noise with melodic screaming o n the top (that doesn't really mean anything, I admit... :-), go for Radiopuhelimet. Other Bad Vugum bands that spring to mind are Sweetheart, Generators, Faff-Bey, Vacuum Cleaners...but maybe more about those later (or maybe not). * About the Swinghufvuds I can't tell you a whole lot except that * that's the correct spelling of the name (an allusion to * P.E. Svinhufvud, one of the past presidents of Finland BTW - * hogs head anyone?). Perhaps someone else can elaborate? * As far as I understand, Swinghufvuds are not a *real* band (whatever that means) but more of a 'project'...oh well, can't help a lot either, I'm afraid. It's -18 C outside, the sun is shining, and I'm off for the weekend. Have a nice one! Kimmo PS. and start writing! Make local go global! Bring global issues local! detsamma. -- Kimmo Saaskilahti * "MTV is not about music, trkisa@uta.fi * it's about women in their underwear" * - Mark E Smith ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 15:43:26 +0100 From: Andre.van.Leeuwen@cwi.nl Subject: Another newcomer... Hello you all, I just subscribed to this list, mainly because I am interested in getting to know new Indie stuff. I don't know many scandinavian bands (Bel Canto, Velvet Belly, ... (Lets NOT mention ABBA)) and think there must be more to know. One other band I once got to hear whilst I was on a vacation in Greece, is The Backstreet Girls (if my memory serves me well). I have been looking for their album 'Boogie until you puke' for several years, but wasn't able to get my hands on a copy. Anyone on this list knows this band? Maybe it is a good idea if some of you who do know of a lot of Scandie bands, could put together a various artist collection on tape, so we (the non scandinavians on this list) can get an impression of what's happening out there in the cold. BTW, I can put together a tape with Dutch bands on them but that is not a subject for this list I suppose... Andre van Leeuwen ---------------------------- Date: 11 Feb 1994 22:34:14 +0100 From: HENRIK@biokemi.su.se Subject: Re:chief Good evening! My names Henrik and this is the beginning. First, the best 1993 indie record was This Perfect Day (new). Second, Easy will never make it again. Third, Stevepops can make it. See you? ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 21:40:23 +0000 (GMT) From: King James IV Subject: Good Day! You will undoubtedly be happy to note that i have joined this list for one sole purpose.... Sugarcubes/Bjork Ok. Broaden my mind.... What else is out there? I've been listening to the Sugarcubes since Life's Too Good came out, and bjork has to have the best voice around...*sigh* Anyway, hope to hear from y'all soon! james =) ---------------------------- End of SI Digest #1.01 **********************