Scandinavian Indie Digest Sun Apr 24, 1994 Volume 1 : Issue 09 There are 14 messages totalling 754 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Re: Varttina & Ottopasuuna (2) 2. Hardy Nilsson? (2) 3. Re: Souls Interview 4. Re: some stuff 5. Red Sleeping Beauty thoughts (and show date) 6. The new Popsicle album?! (2) 7. Liimanarina 8. A West Side Fabrication Discography v1.1 9. Mufflon 5 Interview 10. is the ball rolling? 11. I'm new on this list --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 11:37:17 +0300 (EET DST) From: Sami Rouhento Subject: Re: Varttina & Ottopasuuna Kimmo wrote about Varttina: > Anyway, their second album, the name of which escapes me at the > moment, was not as huge a success as its predecessor. No, it certainly wasn't. By the way, the album was called "Seleniko". > Kimmo Sami -- ...absoluuttinen mies... -------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 12:42:05 +0300 (EET DST) From: Kimmo S{{skilahti Subject: Re: Varttina & Ottopasuuna According to Sami Rouhento: * Kimmo wrote about Varttina: * * > Anyway, their second album, the name of which escapes me at the * > moment, was not as huge a success as its predecessor. * * No, it certainly wasn't. By the way, the album was called "Seleniko". Actually, what I meant to say was "their third album", not their second. Or then I meant to say "their second major album". To sum up, they have done three albums: Musta Lindu, Oi Dai, Seleniko. Sorry if I confused. (An appropriate .sig today as well :-) Kimmo ~-- Kimmo Saaskilahti * "Why can't I ever say what I mean" trkisa@uta.fi * - Wedding Present ------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 13:31:05 +0300 (EET DST) From: Kimmo S{{skilahti Subject: Hardy Nilsson? Hello all Scansters! The Swedish band Hardy Nilsson (or something close to that) is coming to play a gig in our town. What are they like? Should I go and see them? If memory serves, they are another West Side Fabrication band and have released an album (or EP?) in the end of last year. Kimmo -- Kimmo Saaskilahti * "I never met chocolate trkisa@uta.fi * I didn't like" * - Deanna Troi ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 12:38:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Petter Tiilikainen Subject: Re: hardy nilsson Hardy Nilsson... A swedish pop-band with out 'edges' I think, they sing in swedish. But they write nice pop songs though, if the entrance fee isn't too high , go see them! best regards, Petter. Ps. Kimmo, got my snail-mail address??? ------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 13:41:23 +0300 (EET DST) From: Kimmo S{{skilahti Subject: Re: Souls Interview First of all, thanks for this interview! (I finally had time to read it properly). According to chief: * Q. HAVE YOU RELEASED SOMETHING? ALBUMS OR SINGLES? * A. No, nothing like that. Yet. We have had two songs on two compilation CDs. * "It's Absence" on Snapology and "Boring In A Proper Way" on Life Is A * Joke. This is rather surprising to me, because the song "It's Absence" was one of my favourite songs last winter! I think it's a very good pop song! And the New Order cover sounds also great, though it would have been more interensting to hear another of their own songs. * Q. WILL YOU RELEASE SOMETHING IN THE NEAR FUTURE? * A. Yes. A single, hopefully in April. We haven't decided what to put on it * yet though, but it feels right. It feels right to release something now. * Wait and see. [Andreas: It will probably be in May.] Any news on this? Is the single already out? (...) * No, but we have only two songs out on CD, on compilations, that * aren't very representative any more, but those who have heard them * writes us. So I guess there are two who have heard them now. Can anyone give any idea how their sound or songs have possibly changed? What did they sound like live? Anything else? Kimmo -- Kimmo Saaskilahti * "I never met chocolate trkisa@uta.fi * I didn't like" * - Deanna Troi --------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 15:29:00 +0300 (EET DST) From: Kimmo S{{skilahti Subject: Re: some stuff According to David Bennison: * LIIMANARINA - Masilmann Tyisin Vittumaisuus (Bad Vugum, Finland) * Juutaiaiset (Bad Vugum, Finland) * Lantinen Pornokatu (Bad Vugum, Finland) First of all, the correct titles for these 7" EP's (with rough translations, though their lyrical style is quite incomparable :-) Maailman Tylsin Vittumaisuus ('The Most Boring Fucked-Upness On Earth') Juutalaiset ('Jews') Lantinen Pornokatu 12 & 35 (Western Porn Street 12 & 35) I'd like to believe that the numbers in the name of the last EP are an allusion to Bob Dylan song 'Rainy Day Women 12 & 35'). (!) * Hailed as the misunderstood geniuses of the Finnish underground, you * really have to try this stuff. One can really say 'misunderstood' in the sense that they aren't exactly the cover stars of local rock/pop magazine(s)... I can't remember ever reading a Liimanarina interview, but I don't really follow the fanzine scene, maybe someone else can shed more light on that matter. And it's been ages since they last played live even here in Tampere, where they are from. One reason for this may be the fact that the background singer Tarja Anarkia is currently studying cinema in Turku? * A full length coming out on Drag City in '94 too I'll believe that when I see it :-) It's been a couple of years since the last 7" EP already, and as I said before, no gigs (as far as I know). The last time I saw them they had one 'new' song, but it's been a couple of years now... * 'Almost noise, almost music...Great' - Flipside This sums it up pretty well. The first EP fits nicely into the 'low-fi' category, and the last into 'no-fi', the second being somewhere between. They sound like they've been practising in a basement and somebody has forgotten a portable cassette recorder running in the next room :-) But the songs have mostly quite incredible drive and even a mad groove every now and then... My favourite being still the opening track of the first EP, "Kuinka Aku Ankasta tehdaan poliisi" ('How To Turn Donald Duck Into A Policeman'). Their lyrics are surreal, absurd, and utterly rude, but always funny. In case somebody wants to have translations into English, I might try to get something done. * SWEETHEART - Well Dressed Meat (Bad Vugum, Finland) * Acclaimed from all directions by many writers, this full-lengther sees * Sweetheart at their warped out best, taking 'garage dementia' to it's * beautiful extreme. Like four Syd Barrets with electrified wires up their * asses. Yeah, 'warped' is the word. Warped noise. To me they sound like a hardcore band has decided to start to play Captain Beefheart, with a singer who tries all he can *not* to sound like the singer of Troggs or 22-Pistepirkko, but fails to do so... * THE BEAR QUARTET - Penny Century/Family Affair/Cosy Den (AWSF,Sweden) * - 10.49 CD only (damn - I don't have a CD player) I'm telling you, this band is a good enough reason to buy a CD player! * BLITHE - Head Is Mighty (AWSF, Sweden) * ------ * * These four guys from Umea, Sweden, have just recorded a Peel Session * (only the 3rd Swedish band to do so). I know Bear Quartet have done a Peel session, but which band is the third? * PUFFIN - Carnivore (AWSF, Sweden) Some time ago, I wrote something about this album, and now that I've had time to listen to it better, I'd like to re-recommend it to you all, if you're into elegant guitar pop with loud guitars. They do sound a bit like the mighty Quartet (and Blithe from what I've heard them), but somehow they have similar approach to their music to Boo Radleys (one of my favourite bands), with their various musical styles, usage of horns etc. The album has very different moods, changing rapidly, but there is some kind of an overall vision, which makes the whole thing work. Or something. * Back to me talking...all I can add is that I ordered some * Radiopuhelimet, Liimanarina and Deep Turtle and wow these three bands * are onto something - blisteringly raw, chaotic and pure. I'd suggest * snatching everything you can get ahold of by these bands. Also, * there's no excuse for not catching them live - they're playing all * round Europe, the UK the natural exception of course! Radiopuhelimet might well tour in the continent (in fact a couple of weeks ago they had a live karaoke show here in Tampere, where their fans could get on the stage and 'sing' (ie. scream :-) their favourite Radiopuhelimet tune. Sadly, I wasn't able to be there.) Don't know if Deep Turtle are touring, but don't hold your breath for the Liimanarina European Tour, though :-) Kimmo -- Kimmo Saaskilahti * "One note is enough" trkisa@uta.fi * - Neil Young ------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 17:39:13 EDT From: stephen wood Subject: Red Sleeping Beauty thoughts (and show date) Greetings! I received a letter from Mikael yesterday who is one of the guitarists in RSB. I have to admit that I'm crazy about this guitar driven band. It's very pop and might be a bit too sweet for some people's taste but it's really fine matterial if you are drawn to Sarah/Bring-On-The-Bull/ Pillarbox Red/Marsh Marigold label music. Anyhow, he says the band played an Easter party show in Stockholm to which the drummer from Popsicle came. Oh, also a Swedish soap opera star named Regina Lund... he says she liked it. Mikael says that Red Sleeping Beauty plays a show at the Cafe 44 in Stockholm this Thursday (April 14.) If someone from the list goes please tell me what you thought of the show and, if you get a chance, tell Mikael I said hello!!! Stephen ----------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 13:15:04 +0300 (EET DST) From: Kimmo S{{skilahti Subject: The new Popsicle album?! Hello! Is the new Popsicle album out already in Sweden? Has anyone got it yet, or seen it or anything?! Any reviews in the press? Kimmo -- Kimmo Saaskilahti * "I accept chaos, I don't know trkisa@uta.fi * whether it accepts me" * - Bob Dylan ------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:03:33 +0300 (EET DST) From: Sami Rouhento Subject: Liimanarina According to Kimmo Saaskilahti: > One can really say 'misunderstood' in the sense that they aren't > exactly the cover stars of local rock/pop magazine(s)... I can't > remember ever reading a Liimanarina interview, but I don't really > follow the fanzine scene, maybe someone else can shed more light on > that matter. It is a known fact that Liimanarina are not very keen on giving interviews, which is probably due to their "anti-everything" attitude. But, there was a long-ish interview with the band's main man Olli Pauke in the Finnish fanzine Rhythm & Blues (now that's a misleading name if I ever saw one) which was a fun read. What he mainly had to say was that he thinks he is pretty much the one and only personality on the Finnish scene with anything to say. A general mistrust toward the whole indie rock culture and the people involved in it was easily detectable. A lone wolf certainly, a genius... well, perhaps. But I do enjoy the racket they make. > Kimmo Sami -- ...absoluuttinen mies... ----------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 16:00:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: Henrik Sjodin Subject: Re: The new Popsicle album?! On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Kimmo S{{skilahti wrote: > Hello! > > Is the new Popsicle album out already in Sweden? Yes, since last Thursday. > Has anyone got it yet, or seen it or anything?! Yes, both. :) Seriously, it's a very good album. The production is more conventional, that is not as "indie"-sounding as Lacquer. A lot of songs are more "dynamic" than before. Sometimes you don't recognize the sound, but the Popsicle trademarks (nice harmonies, walls of guitars, catchy choruses etc.) are still there. If you're a Lacquer-lover who's not afraid of giving up some of the loud volume, then BUY IT! > > Any reviews in the press? The reviews have been pretty good in all the newspapers I've read. Henrik ----------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 01:35:02 +0200 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: A West Side Fabrication Discography v1.1 A WEST SIDE FABRICATION v1.1 22-Apr-94 Label discography by chief@lysator.liu.se ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catalog# Form Year Group/Artist Title We 001 MC 86 West European Politics God's Name In Vain We 002 7" 87 West European Politics Delirium Is A Disease Of The Night We 003 MC 87 Compilation Musikfabriken We 004 MC 87 This Perfect Day Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei We 005 7" 88 West European Politics Dej  Vu We 006 7" 88 Genre Happy Hit The Happiness We 007 7" 88 This Perfect Day Songs About Love And Affection We 008 7" 89 Tekman Welcome We 009 7" 89 Wannadies The Beast Cures The Lover We 010 LP 89 West European Politics Slugging For... We 011 7" 89 West European Politics Women WeTS 012 TS 92 T-shirt Popmusic Ruins Your Brain We 013 LP 90 Compilation From A Northern Place We 014 7" 90 This Perfect Day Balcony Love We 015 7" 90 Livingstone Half A Lifetime We 016 7" 90 Mary*Go*Round Plays Golden Hits We 017 MP 90 Holger Danske Holger Danske We 018 7" 90 The Waiting Rain Sail We 019 7" 90 Mindre Modiga M„n Tysta M„n We 020 7" 91 The Boom Band Osynlig V„n We 021 LP 91 Compilation A West Side Fabrication Vol 2 We 022 7" 91 Holger Danske Water From The Moon We 023 7" 91 This Perfect Day Postcard Summers We 024 7" 91 Tins & Cans Mission We 025 7" 91 Send No Flowers Learning French We 026 7" 91 Mindre Modiga M„n Vackra Ann We 027 LP 91 Tins & Cans Trancemission WeCD 027 CD 91 Tins & Cans Trancemission We 028 LP 91 Mindre Modiga M„n L”gnerna Och Sanningen WeCD 028 CD 91 Mindre Modiga M„n L”gnerna Och Sanningen We 029 MC 91 Popsicle Popsicle WeCD 030 CD 92 Compilation This Is A West Side Fabrication WeCD 031 CD 92 Compilation 15 Songs To The Spring We 032 LP 92 Cod Lovers Pretty Things WeCD 032 CD 92 Cod Lovers Pretty Things WeCD 033 CD 92 Popsicle Template WeCD 034 CD 92 Mindre Modiga M„n Sn„lla Mamma We 035 7" 92 The Bugs Bumble Bee WeCD 036 CD 92 The Waiting Rain Another Mental Earthquake WeCD 037 CD 92 The Bear Quartet Penny Century WeCD 038 CD 92 Blithe Pagan Rituals Under A Midnight Sun WeCD 039 CD5 93 Holger Danske I Am Here WeCD 040 CD5 93 Mindre Modiga M„n Lyckligare D† WeCD 041 CD 93 Stardog Champions WeCD 042 CD 93 Pleasurehouse Marseille WeCD 043 CD 93 Holger Danske Hank vs Hank WeCD 044 CD 93 Mindre Modiga M„n K†gedalen WeCD 045 CD 93 The Bear Quartet Cosy Den WeCD 046 CD 93 Compilation West Side Strikes Back Vol IV WeCD 047 CD5 93 Stardog The Godrats EP WeCD 048 CD5 93 Holger Danske Pitch Vs Frequenzy EP WeCD 049 CD5 93 Mindre Modiga M„n Sa Dom P† Radion WeCD 050 CD5 93 Hardy Nilsson 1973/Hon Som G†r Bredvid WeTS 051 TS 93 West Side Fabrication Got A Cooler Sounding Name WeTS 052 TS 93 The Bear Quartet Cosy Den WeTS 053 TS 93 A Shrine Friendly Friends WePO 054 PO 93 Stardog Stardog WePO 055 PO 93 Compilation Got A Cooler Sounding Name WeCD 056 CD5 93 A Shrine Glace WeCD 057 CD 93 Blithe Head Is Mighty WeCD 058 CD5 93 Hardy Nilsson Pops†ng/Din Match WeCD 059 CD 93 Mufflon 5 Boca Juniors WeCD 060 CD5 93 Fireside Softboy WeCD 061 CD 93 The Bear Quartet Family Affair WeCD 062 CD 93 Puffin Carnivore WeCD 063 CD5 93 Blue Popsong EP WeCD 064 CD 93 Hardy Nilsson Žr Det V„rt Det? WePO 065 PO -- Compilation Never Trust A Teenage Popstar WeMC 066 MC -- Compilation NS West Side WeCD 067 CD5 -- Carpe Wade Porch Light WeCD 068 CD5 -- Hardy Nilsson Gud I Mikrofon EP WeCD 069 CD5 94 Puffin Medium Cool EP WeCD 070 CD 94 Carpe Wade Full Circle WeCD 071 CD5 94 The Bear Quartet Revisited EP WeCD 072 CD5 94 Fireside Jupiter WeCD 073 CD 94 Compilation We're All Part Of A Family WeCD 074 CD5 94 A Shrine 48k WeCD 075 CD 94 Fireside Fantastic Four (West Side together with Telegram Records:) WeT 1 CD 93 A Shrine Li & Friends WeT 2 CD 93 Blue Blue (West Side under the JB label:) JB 01 CD5 93 SUSS von AHN River Of Love JB 02 CD5 94 SUSS von AHN Bet I Would Fall In Love Again (West Side under the BUFFEL label:) BUF.S 01 CD5 94 Garp Faller En, Faller Alla... EP ---------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 01:34:44 +0200 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Mufflon 5 Interview Interview with "Mufflon 5" 8 April 1994 - by Erik Soderstrom after a gig at "Herrgar'n", Linkoping, Sweden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mufflon 5 are: Karl Mogren (vocals, guitars) Daniel Mannheimer (drums) Fabian Edmar (guitar, backing vocals) Lars Johansson (bass, backing vocals) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (if the answer is "A." it was answered by someone. If the answer came from someone special, the initials are written.) Q. WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE GIG TONIGHT? A. Small Place. Warm, but it was a good crowd down there. It was packed. The stage here swayed a bit, but it wasn't too troublesome really. We heard ourselves pretty too much though. The bass and the guitars were the worst. We played 11 songs, of which four are new ones. Stars, Closer To The Door, Cpop, Freewheeling, Come Again, The Wheel, NY Pop, Come Show Me, Don't Let Them Know, The Size Of Buddha and Almagest. The Size Of Buddha, which is a slow-ish song, about 8 minutes long, is on a new collection from A West Side which is due any day now by the way with 20 other bands. [The collection 'We're All Part Of A Family' was released two weeks later.] The four new songs were Stars, Cpop, NY Pop and Almagest which we "try out" right now. They will probably be included on the forthcoming album. We got 3.000 SEK for this gig, so now we own our tour-bus (haha). Q. DO YOU OFTEN HAVE OPENING BANDS [they had one this night] ? KM. No, almost never. We're looking for a group with sort of a similar sound that we could tour with, but we haven't found one yet. Q. YOU'RE SHAKING YOUR HANDS, DM. WHAT HAPPENED? DM. I got blisters from the drum stick a while ago, and had to have some sort of bandage to protect it, but the bandage fell off real early tonight, and I had to concentrate on holding the stick right, pushing it back all the time to be able to play with it. It hurts. Did you notice? Q. ARE YOU TOURING RIGHT NOW? KM. We played in Lund yesterday, Linkoping today and Uppsala tomorrow, and all gigs are arranged by Smalands Nation [It's like a club for people from the same part of Sweden (in this case, Smaland) at the universities]. Tonight was better than yesterday in Lund though. Q. WHEN DID MUFFLON 5 START AND WHERE ARE YOU FROM? FE. About two years ago. Lars, Kalle and Daniel played in other groups before that. We're from Gothenburg. Earlier we were called Happy Everly After (they played us on the radio show 'Bommen') and then we changed it to Pipelines. Pet Sounds handled the distribution back then, but well, you know, they went down the drain and now we're called Mufflon 5. We're the same now as we were when we were signed to A West Side. Q. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH YOUR NAME, AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN? KM. Well, in an old sketch with Tage Danielsson [famous, now dead, swedish comedian], he said something about Mufflon sheep, which are some sort of sheep from Australia they have in Halland [a part of Sweden] and we grabbed that. We were in a hurry, and had to decide. We couldn't use just 'Mufflon' because it didn't sound right and we couldn't use 'Mufflon 4' which we wanted (with four members), because it would have been too much (haha). [4 is pronounced 'four' in swedish as well, but is also pronounced like 'f}r' which means 'sheep' in swedish.] so we just added 1. You know, there are a lot of groups with '5' in their names. Like The Jackson 5 and so on. DM. It's till a bit embarrasing when someone asks what group I'm a member of. I say 'Mufflon 5' and they just say 'uh..', or they ask what the hell it means. But my dad thinks it's a great name (haha). Q. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING ON THE A WEST SIDE FABRICATION LABEL? KM. It's really good. We like it. SNAP takes care of the distribution outside Sweden, and A West Side handles the domestic. We were up there [in Skelleftea, where the label headquarters are located] two months ago and met Bear Quartet, A Shrine, Blithe and Jocke. It was really great. Q. HOW DID YOU GET SIGNED TO THE A WEST SIDE FABRICATION LABEL? A. First, we sent a porta-studio demo to Jocke [the owner of A WS] but he lost the cover, so he didn't know who we were, but he liked it. Thought it was Bear Quartet and called them and asked even! Well, we didn't know anything about this then, but we sent another demo later on, around spring 1993, and he recognized the sound, and signed us on the spot. Then in october, 'Boca Juniors' was released. Q. HOW ABOUT RELEASES? DOMESTIC AND OUTSIDE SWEDEN? KM. This week actually, SNAP is releasing a single we made for foreign distribution, called 'Freewheeling', througout Europe. It has 'The Size Of Buddha' on the back side. SNAP is changing name by the way to SOUP pretty soon now, because, you know, the group, Snap, wanting to take the case to court and all.. Oh well, we've been talking through our fax with a label in Canada/USA as well. They contacted us, after going through the complete A West Side stable and said they liked our sound. Pretty amazing isn't it? Well, it's the same label as Skinny Puppy is on [Northwood?] We're also looking at Japan through SNAP [or SOUP] as well. We've released a full-length CD, 'Boca Juniors' and a new full-length CD is to be released this autumn where the soft songs will be softer and the hard ones will be harder. Q. OTHER THINGS YOU HAVE RECORDED? A. We did a Peel Session which is to be broadcasted really soon. Three new songs and one old one. It sounded awful though (haha). I wish we could have worked with them some more before we went into the studio. Q. DID YOU LISTEN TO PEEL SESSIONS BY OTHER SWEDISH GROUPS BEFORE? A. Yeah. The Bear Quartet Peel Session. It didn't sound like a live session, but it was great anyway. Q. HOW BIG ARE YOU TODAY? A. We're still handling pretty much everything ourselves, for example, no-one moves our stuff for us. We have to do that, but everything has moved really fast. They play our songs on the radio even! We find that amazing, really. Q. HOW ABOUT INFLUENCES? KM. Well, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Rolling Stones, Television, Cumberland, 22 Pistepirkko, Sebadoh. 70's stuff, funk, jazz, whatever comes to mind. Did you hear any jazz influences tonight? In the slow songs? But yeah, we do have a lot of guitar-walls, and it's really extreme when we play live (haha). Q. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE BRITISH/AMERICAN INDIE SCENE? KM. Both are really lousy these days. I mean, Suede. Even the latest stuff from Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr are low-marks. Q. ANY PROMOTIONAL STUFF? A. Yeah, we made a video. We sent it to Intensiven [Indie show on the swedish television] but they thought it was too lousy to show. MTV did show it once though. On 120 Minutes. Paul King talked about us for a long while before he showed the video too! It was sometime in february 1994. Later, people told us they thought it was so 'B' it was cool. (Haha). Q. HOW ABOUT OTHER SWEDISH INDIE GROUPS? KM. Whipped Cream... they're boring. Easy is okay. I saw Fleshquartet last weekend - they're really good live. Really good. It's a pity Union Carbide doesn't exist anymore. They were great. Popsicle? Ahem.. naah. I really like one song by A Shrine by the way. On their first, or second EP. A slow one. Q. HOW ABOUT TALES FROM EARLIER GIGS? A. (Hahaha). We played in Karlstad once, and they had a disco (played dance music) before we were to play. There were about 800 people dancing in front of the stage. When we started to play, everyone left the floor. Everyone but eight people of which five were dressed in suits, loaded to the limit. They stage-dived.. Q. HOW ABOUT COVERS? HAVE YOU MADE ANY? A. No. No covers. Except once, a couple of years ago, when we played at a birthday party (one of ours) we played Neil Young, Beatles, Iggy Pop etc. Q. ARE YOU USED TO PLAYING LIVE? KM. Ahem. Well I was pretty nervous tonight. FE. Me too. DM. I thought it was great tonight. I wasn't nervous at all. KM. We were all nervous yesterday though. It was our first gig since the 13th of december last year. Q. WHO WRITES THE LYRICS AND ARE THEY PERSONAL? WRITTEN FOR SOMEONE? KM. I write the lyrics. Some of them are personal, but they get less and less personal these days. I work really hard with them. Sitting on my bed, thinking: 'Ok, I have to write lyrics to this music I'm listening to' and I get frustrated, which more than often, you can hear if you listen to them. I only write in english, because if I were to write in swedish, people listen a lot more to them, they seem to mean a lot more when they are in swedish, and I don't want that. It's the music that's important. The new ones, on the new CD is a lot more.. "out there" you know? Misty. Umm. I like swedish lyrics though, but there are so few who can write good swedish lyrics. Q. ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO TELL ME? KM. (Haha) Yeah.. we were interviewed by a guy from MM [Media for Musiker, a serious magazine for people in the music business.] and the headline in the magazine was "It ain't Easy". The story behind this: we have our studio below Easy's studio (in the same building), and we mentioned that they stole a riff they heard through the floor once, but we told him not to print that, because we like the guys, and we didn't mind them using that piece of music in one of their songs, but he used it as the headline. Embarrasing. When we asked him why the hell he wrote what we told him not to write, he just said "it was too hot to leave out". And we meet the guys in Easy every day in the stairs. Embarrasing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 94 12:22:45 +0200 From: markt@damek.kth.se Subject: is the ball rolling? Hi! Just got my subscription reply which suggests a gratuitous opening post to let people know I'm here- here goes! I have just moved to Stockholm from Sydney Australia. I really enjoyed the local/'indie'/generally unknown music scene there and I would like to tap into a similar one in Stockholm. I don't know many names yet, but the kind I'm after don't often appear in newspapers, and you don't have to pay hundreds of crowns in overcrowded places to see them. I thought I'd just listen to the discussion here and see if anything interesting comes up. Some news (in case you live in stockholm and are interested and didn't know) Brainpool are playing at stockholms university tonight (friday 22). I don't know if they're good or not, but I have heard vaguely positive things from some hip swedes. mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 11:25:52 EET From: "Albert Sigurdsson" Subject: I'm new on this list Hi there I have a couple of Q's for you: - Is the normal language for the list English ? - How many subscrivers are there ? I'm Icelandic, living in Finland (Helsinki). I have extensive knowledge of the Icelandic 'indie' scene and I am rapidly learning about the Finnish one. My faves: Iceland: Risaedlan (Reptile), Dr Gunni, Bless, Sykurmolarnir (Sugarcubes), Purrkur Pillnikk, Theyr/Peir, Jupiters, Kolrassa, Texas Jesus,...etc. Finland: Radiopuhelimet, Sweetheart, Raptori, Scumbags, 22 Pistepirrkko, Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet & Ne Luumaet. Sweden: Nomads. Norway: Bel Canto, Imperiet. I have to admit that my knowledge of Dan, Swe, Nor music is quite limited. Of course I'm aware of Eddie Skoller, Roxette & A-ha but the underground does'nt travel easily btw. countries. I purchased a Combilation of Estonian Underground while visiting in Tallin last summer. So I've heard some samples from there, and I like them, but I'd like to know more. Oak is now on the Bad Vugum label so I hope to see them this summer. Does anyone have some info on a music festival in late may in Lithuania ? I saw in Rumba (Finnish 'alt-music' magazine) that Cocteau Twins are coming there. Is anyone going there ? And what about the festival in Estonia in august ? Well, enough of my crap. I dont even know if there is anyone on the list to read this : -) Albert _________________ Ce n'est pas un P.S. _________________ Albert Svan Sigurdsson, Sigurdsson@KATK.Helsinki.Fi, Student of Geography, University of Helsinki. End of SI Digest #1.09 **********************