Scandinavian Indie Digest Sat Apr 20, 1996 Volume 3 : Issue 19 There are 39 messages totalling 1363 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. red sleeping beauty (once again) (4) 2. Pineforest Crunch, Kent and The Creeps (2) 3. shallow soundwave demo 4. Stockholm Studion gigs 5. NON-SCAN: Stereolab (4) 6. Bob hund interviewed in DN 7. Bear Quartet (5) 8. Easy does it... 9. Swedish tape (2) 10. Razzmatazz 11. Swedish tape - Yvonne 12. Swedish tape - demos/new stuff 13. MM review of Salt's Auscultate 14. Radio Bandit 15. Shallow Soundwave 16. P3 Live on Thursday 17. Shallow 18. Red Sleeping Beauty (2) 19. Sin's Upcoming Promotion Visits [15-Apr-96] 20. Sin's Music on the TV [15-Apr-96] 21. Fidget (Was Re: Swedish tape) (2) 22. Rock Festival in Lulea 23. Motor Tour List UPDATE [17-Apr-96] 24. Sin's Selected News [17-Apr-96] 25. Sin's Festival Lists - Hultsfred [17-Apr-96] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:49:26 +0300 (EET DST) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) Subject: red sleeping beauty (once again) Yep, it's time for my semi-regular Red Sleeping Beauty plug... :) According to xander@sirius.com: * I will make this short suggestion though, regarding Red Sleeping Beauty * about whom relatively few people on this list seem to be informed. I would * recommend starting with the new 8 song CD, "Bedroom", on Marsh Marigold. * "Pop Song" or "Selfish" would probably be good bets for the tape. (You can * get the disc from Joerg Winzer's Mind the Gap Mailorder in Germany: * <1winzer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>). Or my favorite: "Her Favourite * Clich=E9" from the EuroPop 7" compilation on Siesta. I second Alexander's "Europop" recommendation - besides the fabulous RSB track, you'll get fine summery tunes by La Buena Vida, Arabesque and Moving Pictures! All top quality! Surely the "Bedroom" CD will also serve as a good introduction to the band, however, for some reason, I wasn't as thrilled by it as I could have been. On the other hand, a three-track tape of theirs that passed through my hands some time ago was quite brilliant! I think they were newer songs, at least the band sound was a bit different from "Bedroom", slightly less synthetic in a 'more organic' kind of way. And yes, that Tortoise CD is quite amazing... Kimmo ps. Erik, I'll get your tape done one of these days... :) ---------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:25:24 +0200 From: Johan.Gille@romanska.uu.se (Johan Gille) Subject: Re: Pineforest Crunch, Kent and The Creeps >Pineforest Crunch, Kent and The Creeps play at K=E5ren, Lule=E5 >at the "rock festival" 9-11 May. Uhm not 100% sure about the >dates, let me get back to you about that together with facts >on which bands play which dates. > >/Petter I thought the festival only stretched from Friday to Saturday (10-11). On Saturday, 2 bands featuring listmembers, Blake Carringtons and Able, both from Uppsala, will play. Johan, on the way towards realizing what an astonisihing artist Victoria Williams is. -------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:22:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Petter Tiilikainen Subject: Re: Pineforest Crunch, Kent and The Creeps According to Johan Gille: > I thought the festival only stretched from Friday to Saturday (10-11). On > Saturday, 2 bands featuring listmembers, Blake Carringtons and Able, both > from Uppsala, will play. The posters and their homepage say 9-11, but I think the first day is just a "warm up". Nor the posters or homepage tell much more than that apart from before mentioned bands, also KSMB and Javlar Anamma plays. http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/lurf is url anyway. cheers, Petter who's not listening to the amazing Sea & Cake album "the biz". ;-) --------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:52:36 +0300 (EET DST) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) Subject: shallow soundwave demo Hello there, some of you may remember Erik's rave review of the Shallow Soundwave demo from some time ago. Well, after reading that I wrote them, but got no reply until this morning, when an envelope containing their demo tape arrived! I had expected the tape would be rather good, but I was quite surprised to find out how incredibly wonderful it is! Four great songs with beautiful vocals and guitars with lots of effectboxes used in the right way, and great melodies to boot! I think this may be the best demo tape I have ever heard - I listened to it at least ten times in a row this morning and it just keeps on getting better!!! Soon I need to ask for a new copy to replace this doomed-to-be-worn-out one :) I can't remember which bands Erik compared them to, but while listening to the tape I couldn't help but think of Curve, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, (early) Boo Radleys, Swallow, Slowdive, Coctaeu Twins...etc etc. - in other words all the great dreampop/shoegaze bands that ruled my world in the early 90's...oh, those sweet memories... anyway, I don't mean to say that Shallow Soundwave are just copyists, rather they exist in the same musical environment than those bands, sharing the similar ideology and concepts. Need I say more? Write to them pronto and tell you want to hear this tape!! Kimmo ...shoegaze will never die...dreampop will never end... :) -------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:56:29 -0700 From: xander@sirius.com Subject: Re: red sleeping beauty (once again) About the "Europop" ep, Kimmo said: >... besides the fabulous RSB track, you'll get fine summery tunes by La >Buena >Vida, Arabesque and Moving Pictures! All top quality! I've got to follow this up by saying: Normally I take a steady diet of pop and difficult listening (noise, classical, jazz, whatever) and I avoid most of the music that falls in the middle. The difficult listening stuff goes a long way towards carrying me through the dry pop spells. Getting Europop and Grimsey #1 (RSB/Benito split - Benito is Jim & Stephanie Ruiz) in the mail one day last October completely and thoroughly upset my musical equilibrim. Aside from finally turning me on to RSB (their 3" CD on Marsh Marigold hadn't done very much for me), these two records reignited my passion for pop music. Ever since, I've been on a pure pop diet. I've also entered a new phase of massive record acquisition. All this has been very hard on my poor accountant's nerves. >...On the other hand, a three-track tape of theirs [RSB] that passed >through my hands some time ago was quite brilliant! I think they were >newer songs, at least the band sound was a bit different from >"Bedroom", slightly less synthetic in a 'more organic' kind of way. Could this be the "Sick & Tired" ep on Siesta (very late 95, I think) or something newer? Another recent release on Siesta is "Me Too" by Club 8. They're from Lund, and I don't really know much about them other than that it was supposed to be Johan from such and such band and his girlfriend Karolina (big question mark). They work in a similar vein to RSB, maybe a tad mellower and slightly less wimpy. If you like the former, I'd recommend this. I got it from Mind the Gap. I can't say enough good things about Siesta. Everything I've heard on the label has been tops, with the exception of Throw That Beat (Germany) and the Wedding Present. They should really just leave England to rot. (I can say this as I spent all of the 80's listening to British pop). Does anyone know what the deal with Acid House Kings is? Are they still working as a side project of one or two members of RSB? At times the two bands can be all but indistinguishable. My latest contribution to this thread done, now it's back to Kimmo... Alexander ------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 14:29:36 +0200 From: tobbe@ccn.se (toby) Subject: Re: red sleeping beauty (once again) ok this is the story so far... red sleeping beauty are mikael matsson along with kristina, callis and niklas angerg=E5rd. basicly they started out as a one man project taking the name from the awsome mccarthy song "red sleeping beauty". kristina is mikaels girlfriend and callis sort of slipped into the band when kristina realised she was never going to be a bassplayer. niklas moved to stockholm from =E5hus and due to their similar t-shirt taste (heavenly, orchids et al) he asked if he could join rsb as well. nowadays rsb are also joined by tilda who rattl=F6es a pretty mean tambourine and sings a bit. no drummer though. yet. niklas in turn is one of the acid house kings alongside his brother, johan and another =E5hus popkid, the threesome are also known as semester doing the ahks style pop in swedish. johan and his girlfriend are club 8 and somehow poprace also gets tied in somewhere along the same lines. acid house kings were on a european tour and got fellow sk=E5ninge popstrers leslies a deal with the french label la belle pop. and even the kristianastad threepiece starlet are good freinds of all bands and are well worth looking out for. the threesong demo that was raved about is not the siesta "rise and shine" EP but a new demo recorded this winter and it is indeed their best stuff yet, and if thats not enough the 3 song "smile" ep on sunday is a good bet aswell, a little more synthetic but then again it is produced by mike of they-go-boom and the rumour is that the field mice original drummachine was used in the recording process. i'll join in on the siesta praise aswell, very cool label, but we mustn't forget elephant their spanish little brother, there's loads of cool stuff coming out there as well. whateever... toby --------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 15:38:09 +0200 From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming) Subject: Stockholm Studion gigs Fr 12/4 Glue + Caesar's Palace (free entry) Lö 13/4 Starmarket + Candymen 80:- Ti 16/4 Broder Daniel 40:- On 17/4 Joyrider + Crazy Gods of Endless Love 80:- To 18/4 Busty + Standards 60:- Fr 19/4 Brick + Albatross 80:- Lö 20/4 Nausea Hits + Honeysuckle (free entry) Lö 20/4 Jackie Leven + Andy White 120:- Fr 26/4 Tic Tox + Weeping Willows 100:- Lö 27/4 Bob Hund (matinee 16h, no age limit) 80:- Lö 27/4 Bob Hund (evening 20h) 100:- Må 29/4 Neurosis + Unsane 100:- Robert ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:51:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Forsberg Subject: NON-SCAN: Stereolab Hi all, Well, I'd been hearing about this band Stereolab on this list for awhile now, and the descriptions sounded cool, so the other day I listened to thier new CD (something about "emperor ketchup") at the CD shop. I was pretty much blown away. Waaaaaaaay better than I was expecting. It was actually the coolest, most inventive thing I've heard in some time! Now I know this band has a decent sized back catalog, so the question is: is their other stuff as good as this new release? What would be a good "next" Stereolab album to purchase? Could someone who is into this band help me out here? Many thanx in advance, -Chris --------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 21:00:26 +0200 From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming) Subject: Bob hund interviewed in DN Yesterday's Dagens Nyheter had bob hund all over the front page of the Arts section... First with a fresh translation, yours truly! Robert, actually a bit miffed that it's only going to be an EP ---- "YOU HAVE TO LOOK AFTER YOUR FAULTS" by Ann Persson, trans Robert Cumming Rock music usually smells of beer, _stor stark_ beer. Bob hund have strawberry juice in their glass and a heart jumping like popcorn popping. They sing about fully-grown popkids who don't want to be boring distanced men. An EP and hard gigging in Soedermalm's clubs gave birth to rumours about a band that wasn't quite like any other. They appeared from nowhere just when I had almost given up keeping up with all those new promising Swedish pop bands. The singer climbed out on the crowd's arms and sang synth-psalms with a brittle, hesitant voice, trembling with child-like faith, bursting out into clashing punk noise. -- Three chords everyone knows and the wrong tune. That's what makes it really great. You have to turn up the volume on the mistakes, says singer Thomas Oeberg. Bob hund are a slimline band who have proved themselves to be broader than that. Their only LP ended up in the charts. And when Pop magazine let Blur listen to Swedish music, bob hund's record was the only one they wanted to take home with them. In a week or so bob hund will once again do something untypical of the music business. They're releasing a new EP with four songs, on both vinyl and CD. -- People have learnt to like the scratches on vinyl records. The ones who do all that smart polishing don't realise that people actually like defects. They don't realise that machines have to be made to adapt to people who arrive too late, people who forget, people who are unhappy or have a sore stomach. Things that are clinically perfect don't need my love. They don't need me, says Thomas Oeberg. When the press wanted nothing other than to show off the new, fresh and gifted, bob hund kept their distance. It takes a week before they decide to say yes to this interview. If you care about things and there are six members in the band, things take time. Finally bob hund decide unanimously to let singer Thomas Oeberg and guitarist Conny Nimmersjoe meet DN at a cafe called The Bakery. New negotiations are required before the photographer can get all six in the same picture. Bob hund don't want to waste rehearsal time, you see; the band is made up of young parents and the sort that live Dracula lives till five in the morning. Jonas Jonasson and Thomas Oeberg were in a synth duo; Conny began as a post-punk and managed to play a fair bit before the punk clubs closed in the mid-80s. What brought the band together was a love of human frailty. They met in the rehearsal studio without protective ice-hockey gear, and without polite chatter about the best films of the 90s. -- Everyone in the band has faults that it took turning thirty to discover. A lot of the charm of it is because we like each other's faults, says Thomas. Conny continues: -- Our music isn't muscle-stretching music. If we play, we don't sound like Soundgarden, says Conny. None of us got to do military service. We wanted to. But we didn't get to. The band's lyrics are a crusade against entrenched certainty: "It would be easy for me to say I don't really like you. But I do, I think." Fragile, hesitating and trembling. And in another song: "Boy's bedroom and a girl, terror or joy?" -- I sometimes think it's fun to take off my shirt on stage. But it's just because I'm so incredibly skinny. It gets a bit ridiculous when the Rolling Stones radiate the feeling that everything will be fine if you just drink cans of beer, burp, slam the door, get nosebleeds and sweat under the arms. But then there are interesting macho types, like Gregory Peck, says Thomas. Instead of Bob Dylan he cites his old Swedish teacher as a source of inspiration. And Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's account of student life 'Three Terms', with its fanatstic swings between half-crazy drunken humour and hypersentimental romance. -- Rock music that only lives in a rock world is the most boring thing possible, says Conny. [translated without permission from DN] ----------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 21:38:36 +0300 (EET DST) From: Sami Rouhento Subject: Re: red sleeping beauty (once again) Toby wrote: > they-go-boom and the rumour is that the field mice original drummachine was > used in the recording process. Ooh...*swoon* My fave drum machine ever...:) Sami ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 14:15:33 +0100 From: Ann Nilsson och Magnus Skarbo Subject: Re: NON-SCAN: Stereolab At 12.51 1996-04-12 -0400, Chris Forsberg wrote: >Hi all, >Well, I'd been hearing about this band Stereolab on this list for awhile >now, and the descriptions sounded cool, so the other day I listened to >thier new CD (something about "emperor ketchup") at the CD shop. I was >pretty much blown away. Waaaaaaaay better than I was expecting. It was >actually the coolest, most inventive thing I've heard in some >time! Now I know this band has a decent sized back catalog, so the >question is: is their other stuff as good as this new release? What would >be a good "next" Stereolab album to purchase? Could someone who is >into this band help me out here? Many thanx in advance, To Chris and other Stereolabs I recommend the Stereolab single collection "Refried Ectoplasm(switched on volume 2)".Listen to the cool tune "LO BOOB OSCILLATOR". You can buy the record without listen to It in advance. Its great. ---------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 11:12:25 -0700 From: xander@sirius.com Subject: Bear Quartet I'm about to get an order from MTG but Joerg is writing and telling me that there is more room in my package to add a few more records (and still pay the same amount for p&p - that's great mailorder service, BTW). I was wondering about adding something by BEAR QUARTET to my order. Joerg's got: "To Create a Monster" CD5 - 10DM, and "Everybody Else" CD - 25DM This is what he says about them: "These B.Z. releases are the best they ever did (I think). Warm and melancholic pop that reminds me somehow of the Apartments (except the voice)." Second opinions anyone? Recommendations? Other thoughts? Cheers, Alexander ------------------------ Date: 13 Apr 96 16:26:11 EDT From: Mo Holkar / UKG <100745.3625@CompuServe.COM> Subject: NON-SCAN: Stereolab Although this isn't scan-indie, Chris asked about Stereolab and I hope no-one else will mind seeing it here. Actually, if you like the new album Emperor Tomato Ketchup, you'll like everything they've ever done, because it's all extremely similar in style and consistent in quality. It's a tremendously powerful musical vision which they've managed to develop to such a large extent it's quite frightening. Look out for last year's Music from the Amorphous Body Centre (this was limited edition so may be difficult to find), the compilation which is called Refried Ectoplasm Switched On (Volume Two), the album Mars Audiac Quintet... and anything else you can find, really, you won't be disappointed. For anyone who doesn't know the band, their sound is tremendously lush and hpnotically repetitive but at the same time tuneful and engaging, with Hammond organ to the fore in the earlier stuff especially, and bizarre Marxist vocals mostly in French... difficult to describe! Perhaps like a cross between St Etienne and Kraftwerk (hmm...) Mo ---------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 23:46:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Forsberg Subject: Re: NON-SCAN: Stereolab On 13 Apr 1996, Mo Holkar / UKG wrote: > For anyone who doesn't know the band, their sound is tremendously lush and > hpnotically repetitive but at the same time tuneful and engaging, with Hammond > organ to the fore in the earlier stuff especially, and bizarre Marxist vocals > mostly in French... difficult to describe! Perhaps like a cross between St > Etienne and Kraftwerk (hmm...) First, I'd like to say thanks to everyone who gave me Stereolab suggestions. And as far as comparisons go, I'd also add in early 70's Funkadelic and Pink Floyd (those psychedelic, swirling organs),...anyone who likes the song "Metronomic Underground" (I love it) should check out Funkadelic's "Free Your Mind and your Ass Will Follow"....it's got the exact same vibe and spacey, psychey atmosphere! --------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 12:10:04 +0300 (EET DST) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) Subject: Re: Bear Quartet According to xander@sirius.com: * I was wondering about adding something by BEAR QUARTET to my order. * Joerg's got: * * Second opinions anyone? Recommendations? Other thoughts? I'd definitely recommend you get "Everybody Else" - it's my favourite album by them (well, haven't heard their latest yet, maybe it's even better? Any opinions on this, anyone?). It's very mellow, laidback, soft and melancholic (as Jorg said in his description)...and the guitarwork is simply amazing. Kimmo ------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:19:28 +0100 From: u9503665@bournemouth.ac.uk (Daniel Hansson) Subject: Re: Bear Quartet >According to xander@sirius.com: > >* I was wondering about adding something by BEAR QUARTET to my order. >* Joerg's got: >* >* Second opinions anyone? Recommendations? Other thoughts? > >I'd definitely recommend you get "Everybody Else" - it's my favourite >album by them (well, haven't heard their latest yet, maybe it's even >better? Any opinions on this, anyone?). I'd recommend you all of their albums; Bear Quartet is simply the best Scandinavian band by far. The three first albums, "Penny Century", "Cosy Den", and "Family Affair" are more guitar based, with inspiration from the likes of Pavement, Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr, Television and Smiths. While the two latest; "Everybody Else" and "Holy Holy" are more easy listening, influenced by Stereolab, Burt Bacharach, Go-Betweens and Carole King (?). On the whole, Bear Quartet differs from all other Swedish, and Scandinavian bands, mostly because of the brilliant, sad and melancholic lyrics - absolutely ace. Like Smiths without humour. My favourite album is "Cosy Den", but the "Revisited EP" with the wondrous "Capital Breath" track (best intro in swedish pop history?), I'd recommend you as well. Their last album, "Holy Holy" continues where "Everybody Else" ended but is in some way lacking energy, it feels like some songs not are fully completed yet. However, there are as usual some brilliant lyrics and songs, "Same Spell On Everyone", a cynical story, and "Born With Teeth", about themselves (?), are rather swell. regards Daniel -------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:24:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Easy does it... Just wanted to let you all know that I will post all the lists, replies, posts and whatever people are waiting for as soon as possible - why I haven't done it yet? Well, the whole modempool here at Lysator is packed to the limit (and it has been for two-three days now) and I just can't get in (this message is sent from another machine). The Fidget article/interview will be posted as well - but not before a week from now, which is when I will know if the magazine wants it or not. Keep the faith. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:40:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Swedish tape On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, siri@algonet.se (siri ahmed) wrote: > couldn't we add fidget to the tape, pleeeeease. that would be just > wonderful. besides aquadays, that's the demo-band that seems to be the > best. And trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) replied: > I agree completely. After all the talk about them it would be really > great to actually hear what they sound like, especially because they > decided to cancel their Tampere gig a couple of weeks ago... (they are > going to hear about this until they come back :) And Chris Forsberg agreed: > Me too!!!! ;-) Okay then, so there are at least four (including me) people _for_ including Fidget on the Swedish Indie Tape. I bet that there will be similar voices heard about Shallow Soundwave too, so why not just include them on the tape too, right? Well, hopefully I can squeeze one song/band onto the tape, but I can't say for sure until we decide on the rest of the tape! ************************************** ** TIME TO VOTE AGAIN! ** ************************************** So here goes: Please let me (email: chief@lysator.liu.se) know which of the following songs _you_ would like to see included on the Swedish Indie Tape as soon as possible! Bear Quartet -> - Blizzard * Carsick * One Final, Sandi Cardigans -> - Black letter day - Celia Inside * Gordons Gardenparty Eggstone -> - Have You Seen Mary - My Trumpets Red Sleeping Beauty -> - ? Popsicle -> * A Song Called Liberty - Blow Up * Diving Bell * Hey Princess * Make Up - Not Forever - Power Ballad #1 - Slow * Soul Laquer Drug * Sunkissed Wannadies -> - My Hometown * Never Killed Anyone Yvonne -> * Drifter - Frozen - the demo songs from that fanzine //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:40:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Razzmatazz On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) wrote: >> (nina natri are also responsible for this very good fanzine >> 'razzmatazz', but i guess you already knew that. anyway, it really is a >> fine fanzine.) > > Well, I for one didn't know that. How can I get a copy? And on Fri, 5 Apr 1996, siri@algonet.se (siri ahmed) answered: > this should work (at least in sweden): > put in 30 SEK + money for sending the fanzine to you at PG(PostGiro): > RAZZMATAZZ c/o Lars Nordgren 4675952-8 > > i don't know if it works but that's the way they describe it in the fanzine. Hold that money Kimmo! Razzmatazz doesn't exist anymore! Nina told me during the interview thingie that they had to stop making it because they just couldn't afford it anymore (there's the damn economy thing again..). So, you'd better off keeping your money. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:41:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Swedish tape - Yvonne On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, siri@algonet.se (siri ahmed) wrote: >> Yvonne -> * Drifter >> - Frozen >> - the demo songs from that fanzine > > i don't know about drifter, but frozen is better than a big part of > yvonne's cd. the whole ep (which contains "frozen", "...in grief" and > "systematic") is in fact way better (imho). Well, Drifter is probably their only released "indie pop style" song, which I think is nice, but then again, it is hardly representative to what they sound like today. And then again, Drifter is the only song by them that I have. :-) But we'll vote again (see previous message) and see what happens. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:41:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Swedish tape - demos/new stuff On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, xander@sirius.com wrote: > Although I hope to be on the tape pipeline, I never voted because I want to > hear all things that I know nothing about. With that in mind, I think it > would be great to put the emphasis on demos/new stuff etc. I totally agree with you there, but it looks like we're going for some kind of mix of it all on this tape. But that doesn't stop us from making a second Swedish Indie tape does it? :-) //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:42:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: MM review of Salt's Auscultate On Tue, 9 Apr 96, ludde@kore.lk.se (Ludvig Borgne) wrote cheeringly: > Did anyone see the review of Auscultate in last week's Melody Maker...? > Pretty fun reading... I have never seen, and probably never will see, a > more negative record review in my life... No! I never buy them magazines (unless there's something really interesting in them, that is). Could you type in the review and post it on the list? I'd appreciate it! //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:42:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Radio Bandit On Mon, 8 Apr 96, robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming) wrote: >> Yeah, i'm sad about this. Apparently, they didn't get enough >> commercials, so they changed their profile. Stupid move, i think. >> Now it sucks a lot. This used to be the only listenable radio >> channel in Sweden, and now it's "gone". > > On Saturday I saw a sticker stuck to a Bankomat on Drottninggatan that > said 'FUCK SWEDISH BANDIT' on it... Yeah, I saw stickers all around town (Stockholm) saying something about what a crap move from Radio BANDIT it was to sack all their english DJs, and that everyone should call or mail or fax or whatever them and tell them that. (yes, I did leave out the foul words in the "translation" here.. :-)) //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:43:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Shallow Soundwave On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) wrote: > I had expected the tape would be rather good, but I was quite > surprised to find out how incredibly wonderful it is! Four great songs > with beautiful vocals and guitars with lots of effectboxes used in the > right way, and great melodies to boot! I think this may be the best > demo tape I have ever heard - I listened to it at least ten times in a > row this morning and it just keeps on getting better!!! Soon I need to > ask for a new copy to replace this doomed-to-be-worn-out one :) I just had to quote that whole section. It can't be said enough times. :-) And I'm glad that you liked it - I was pretty sure that you would, but it's always comforting to hear that one wasn't mistaken. And the band- comparisons couldn't be more correct. They're really *smashing*. > Need I say more? Write to them pronto and tell you want to hear this tape!! And I second that recommendation. > ...shoegaze will never die...dreampop will never end... :) Amen to that! //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:44:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: P3 Live on Thursday And the P3 Live broadcast on Thursday (18/4) (that was "tba" earlier in the list posted) is going to be: Presidents of the United States Of America - Stockholm, Studion 29-Mar-96 //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:43:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Bear Quartet On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, xander@sirius.com wrote: > I was wondering about adding something by BEAR QUARTET to my order. > Joerg's got: > > "To Create a Monster" CD5 - 10DM, and > "Everybody Else" CD - 25DM > > This is what he says about them: > > "These B.Z. releases are the best they ever did (I think). Warm and > melancholic pop that reminds me somehow of the Apartments (except the > voice)." > > Second opinions anyone? Recommendations? Other thoughts? It really all depends on what you're looking for here. The ones above shows you a BQ that has changed somewhat from their previously usual experimental guitar-noise-wall-ish sound, that was what made me love the band. That is to say that all their earlier albums and EPs differ from the two CDs above. But I am not saying that the above ones are bad or something. I like them too, just not as much, because the alarming guitars are simply _gone_ there. More melodies, trumpets, trombones (right? - I just can't remember right now) and Matti really singing in high tones (which was pretty umm, surprising for me, the first time I heard it...). In a nutshell - if you want guitar-walls: go for their earlier releases. My 5 euro cents.. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:41:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Shallow On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Per L}ngstr|m wrote: >> Shallow - have finally changed their name, due to the number of bands with >> the same name, which has been discussed a lot here earlier. Their >> blah blah blah > > hmm, the canadian version was forced to changed their name too, due to > this problem. they're called "north dakota" these days, but i doubt they > have gotten any better. hmm, i wonder who the third band was who made > these other two bands change their names? uh, i guess it doesn't matter.. > the third band probably had a bunch of dick-sucking lawers on some major > label to back them up.. There were even 4 bands called Shallow - the Canadian one, the UK one and two Swedish ones (one from Link|ping and one from Gothenburg). So, now there are only two left, the Link|ping and the UK ones. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:43:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Red Sleeping Beauty And with regards to the _Red Sleeping Beauty_ discussion, I leave it to you guys out there to select what song to include on the Swedish tape because, like I said before, I haven't even heard them (which is a bit embarrasing to say nowadays...). And then someone will have to send me a tape or CD or 7" or something, so that I can finally hear what they sound like (and include them on the tape)! Help! //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:44:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Upcoming Promotion Visits [15-Apr-96] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie UPCOMING PROMOTION VISITS Scandinavian Indie April 15th, 1996 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AC/DC (Warner) 21/4 Stockholm China Drum (MNW ILR) 9-11/5 Malmo, Gothenburg, Stockholm Elvis Costello (Warner) 17/4 Stockholm (+ Showcase) Crazy Gods Of Endless Noice (BMG) 17/4 Stockholm Francis Dunnery (Warner) 27/5 Stockholm Hootie & The Blowfish (Warner) 27/5 Stockholm Psyked Up Janis (MNW ILR) 9-11/5 Malmo, Gothenburg, Stockholm Raw Stylus (BMG) 7-9/5 Stockholm Shaggy (Virgin) 17/4 Uppsala 18/4 Salen 20/4 Overlida Specials (Virgin) 20/5 Lund Super Furry Animals (Sony) 16/4 Stockholm Terrorvision (EMI) 17-18/4 Stockholm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:45:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Music on the TV [15-Apr-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE TV Scandinavian Indie April 15th -> April 18th Day Date Artist/What TV Program Channel Time --- ----- ---------------------- ------------------- ----------- ----- Mon 15/4 Starmarket Soda SVT 1 19.15 Toppen Toppen ZTV 19.15 Tue 16/4 Pop & Indie Pop & Indie ZTV 19.15 Toppen Toppen ZTV 21.00 R Alternative Nation Alternative Nation MTV Europe 00.00 Wed 17/4 Musikrevyn Musikrevyn SVT 1 19.15 Red Hot Chili Peppers Bootleg MTV Europe 21.00 The Cranberries Unplugged MTV Europe 00.00 Thu 18/4 Terrorvision N|jesrevyn SVT 1 22.30 R = Rerun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie WWW pages at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/uptv.html //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:33:42 -0700 From: xander@sirius.com Subject: Re: Bear Quartet Thanks to everyone who spoke up and gave me opinions about BQ. I much the wiser for it. >...More >melodies, trumpets, trombones (right? - I just can't remember right now) and >Matti really singing in high tones (which was pretty umm, surprising for me, >the first time I heard it...). Make mine with horns. I adore trombones. Cheers, Alexander ----------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:34:29 -0700 From: xander@sirius.com Subject: Re: Swedish tape >Okay then, so there are at least four (including me) people _for_ including >Fidget on the Swedish Indie Tape. I bet that there will be similar voices >heard about Shallow Soundwave too, so why not just include them on the tape >too, right? Well, hopefully I can squeeze one song/band onto the tape, but >I can't say for sure until we decide on the rest of the tape! Does this sound crazy? I happen to be very fond of the Cardigans, but this is probably the one band that everyone on the list *has* heard already. And chances are, everyone knows whether they like them or not. So maybe it would work in the interest of introducing new music to new listeners to drop them from the tape line up and donate their space to some lesser known act? Anyway, I still find it hard to vote, because I keep hoping that everything on the tape will be new to me, but in the spirit of passing the best songs along to everyone on the tape chain, I'll cast these votes: Eggstone: My Trumpets (of the songs offered. "Beach Boy" and "Good Morning" are probably my two favorites, though). Red Sleeping Beauty: Her Favorite Cliche (I know little or nothing about the rest of the bands). Alexander ------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 96 09:53:05 +0200 From: etxsahm@cyber.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen) Subject: Fidget (Was Re: Swedish tape) chief@lysator.liu.se wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, siri@algonet.se (siri ahmed) wrote: >> >> couldn't we add fidget to the tape, pleeeeease. that would be just >> wonderful. besides aquadays, that's the demo-band that seems to be the >> best. > > Okay then, so there are at least four (including me) people _for_ including > Fidget on the Swedish Indie Tape. Count me in also. I might have missed some discussions about Fidget while I was unsubscribed, but I just want to say that I thought they were very good when they played at Sturehof in Stockholm last Friday. There are still some rough spots, but they have tremendous potential. I got the feeling that Sugarcubes would have sounded like this if they were signed to Creation. ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 12:52:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Forsberg Subject: Re: Fidget (Was Re: Swedish tape) On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Marten Sahlen wrote: > Count me in also. I might have missed some discussions about Fidget while > I was unsubscribed, but I just want to say that I thought they were very > good when they played at Sturehof in Stockholm last Friday. There are still > some rough spots, but they have tremendous potential. I got the feeling > that Sugarcubes would have sounded like this if they were signed to Creation. What is the "Creation sound"? Being really new to the Swedish indie scene, I'm dying to know, because your comment above has really piqued my interest now......the Sugarcubes are my favorite band *of all time*. Any band that sounds even remotely similar to them is a "must-listen" for me! Please, more info!! -------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 01:04:15 +0300 (EET DST) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) Subject: Re: Red Sleeping Beauty According to chief@lysator.liu.se: * And with regards to the _Red Sleeping Beauty_ discussion, I leave it to * you guys out there to select what song to include on the Swedish tape * because, like I said before, I haven't even heard them (which is a bit * embarrasing to say nowadays...). And then someone will have to send me * a tape or CD or 7" or something, so that I can finally hear what they * sound like (and include them on the tape)! Help! OK, I'll see what I can do, as I'm going to send you a tape anyway (as you already know...) I'll include the three-song demo which was talked about earlier at least. In case you can't wait until my incompetence disappears temporarily, you can always try some of the friendly mail-order services who carry RSB stuff. It's not really that hard, Erik, I have done it successfully several times, so anybody can do it! :) The Four Letter Words mail order had the Siesta Europop 7" a while ago, you can check their catalog at http://www2.best.com/~bliss/ or mail Clint Barnes at bliss@best.com and if you don't want to be such an idiot as I have been and order European releases from the US, you can go for the Mind The Gap mail order. Some resourceful lister will surely give their address and the URL to their on-line catalogue (I seem to remember that they have one as well). there's nothing like receiving a fresh package of 7"'s and CD's once in a while. Kimmo listening to "Boomania" by Betty Boo (no kidding!) --------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 06:21:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Rock Festival in Lulea On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Petter Tiilikainen wrote: >> I thought the festival only stretched from Friday to Saturday (10-11). On >> Saturday, 2 bands featuring listmembers, Blake Carringtons and Able, both >> from Uppsala, will play. > > The posters and their homepage say 9-11, but I think the first > day is just a "warm up". Nor the posters or homepage tell much > more than that apart from before mentioned bands, also KSMB > and Javlar Anamma plays. http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/lurf > is url anyway. Interesting! Can someone (Petter?) post more information about the festival? Like more bands that are playing there? Price? Email and Postal addresses to the festival? Please? Thanks! //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ----------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 06:22:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Motor Tour List UPDATE [17-Apr-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Motor Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie April 17th 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWEDISH ARTISTS: 59 Times The Pain Burning Heart 9/6 Provinsi rock (SF) New Date Bob Hund *NEW* Silence 10/5 Umea - Humlan 30/5 Malmo - KB 1/6 Lidkoping - Solkult Martin Hall *NEW* Virgin 2/5 Copenhagen - Cirkusbygningen Liberator Burning Heart 1/6 Fagersta - Bergslagsrock New Date 2/6 Handen - Mera Hitlatar New Date Millencolin Burning Heart 19/4 Denton, TX New Date 20/4 Houston, TX New Date 23/4 Jacksonville, Fl New Date 24/4 Palm Bay, FL New Date 25/4 Miami, FL New Date 26/4 St.Petersburg, FL New Date 27/4 Atlandta, GA New Date 28/4 Columbia, SC New Date 1/5 Philadelphia, PS New Date 2/5 Asbury Park, N New Date 3/5 Danbury, CT New Date 4/5 New York New Date 6/5 Quebec New Date 7/5 Montreal, CAN New Date 8/5 Toronto, CAN New Date 9/5 Buffalo, NY New Date 10/5 Lakewood, OH New Date 11/5 Detroit New Date 12/5 Chicago, Il New Date No Fun at all Burning Heart 1/6 Fagersta - Bergslagsrocken New Date 20/6 Nummirock New Date 21/6 Lahti - Midsummer Festival New Date 29/6 Roskilde - Festival New Date Popsicle Telegram/Wea 7/6 Soderhamnsfestivalen Cancelled Satanic Surfers Burning Heart 25/4 Dortmund New Date 26/4 Hengelo New Date 27/4 Sneek New Date 28/4 Rotterdam New Date 29/4 Amsterdam New Date 30/4 Den Bosch New Date 1/5 Oostende New Date 3/5 Kontich New Date 4/5 Dilsen New Date 6/5 Ulm New Date 7/5 Freiburg New Date 8/5 Zug New Date 9/5 Wil New Date 10/5 Zurich New Date 11/5 Geneve New Date 12/5 Albi New Date 13/5 Bordeaux New Date 14/5 Poitiers New Date 15/5 Paris New Date 17/5 Saarbrucken New Date 18/5 Dusseldorf New Date 19/5 Wilhelmshafen New Date 20/5 Walsrode New Date 21/5 Bochum New Date 22/5 Munchen New Date 23/5 Karlsruhe New Date 24/5 Wailblingen New Date 26/5 Eindhoven New Date -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NON SWEDISH ARTISTS: Jeff Dahl (US) Border 1/5 Copenhagen - Stengade 30 New Date Psyched Up Janis This Way Up/Island special guests : Shed Seven & Schwarzwald Library New Extra Guest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete Motor Tour List can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW : http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/motor.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 06:23:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Selected News [17-Apr-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie SELECTED NEWS Scandinavian Indie April 17th, 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) "Remember where you heard it first" Contents: A West Side Fabrication, Fidget, Roskilde Festival, Salt, Sound Affects, Trastocksfestivalen, Wannadies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A West Side Fabrication - the Skelleftea label that would sign yet another band to their stable (reported earlier here) has not yet done so. The owner, Jocke, says that he really has had way too much to do lately, and that there really has not been time for it, but that he would work on it. So keep him busy with your demo cassettes! Address: A West Side Fabrication, Box 183, 931 22 Skelleftea, Sweden. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Fidget - the planned showcase April 12th in Stockholm was moved to the club "O" at the last minute, and they had to start as early as 19:30. "So that we wouldn't disturb the guests at Sturehof" Daniel (guitar) explained afterwards. The gig went very well, even though an effect- pedal did not want to work from the start and a cord that did not want to stay put in Daniel's guitar. A&R people from ten (!) record labels were present in the audience, which made the band very nervous, but they were very well received and played an extra number too. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Roskilde Festival - in Denmark June 27-30 adds a bunch of new names to their already impressive list of bands/artists appearing: Bel Canto (N), Bluetones (The) (UK), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (AUS), D.A.D. (DK), Foo Fighters (US), Frontline Assembly (CAN), Kinky Vibes (N), Mole Session (The) (S), Schweinhund (N), Underworld (UK) and Walkabouts (The) (US). (Source: Roskilde Information) Salt - (MVG/Island) are starting their next US tour the day after tomorrow in Baltimore. That we know. But their US label, Island, has not decided whether or not they will actually make a CD single of the song "So". If it will be released, it will also come with a couple of non-album tracks, which means _new_ songs. There is no change in the plans for the 'Mission Impossible: the Soundtrack' CD though. "So" will still appear on it. The CD will be released in the US in May and the movie comes out at the end of May (also in the US). (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Sound Affects - one of the best swedish Pop magazines will _not_ release their next issue in June, as stated in current issue. This is no surprise to its readers, as it has taken about a year between issues lately. What _is_ a surprise is that the new issue will be released at the end of April (!) instead! Time for miracles! (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Trastocksfestivalen - the Swedish Woodstock (yes it is for free) that takes place in Skelleftea July 19-20 will have a very strong emphasis on "indie" music this year, says record label guru Jocke at West Side. Indie Mecca sort of. The line- up will start to be presented in about a week, but as usual, most of the West Side bands will perform. The festival will be opened on July 18th with a big party in downtown Skelleftea with all the West Side bands, but from what I know, this is not a public happening. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Wannadies - (Soap/Indolent) entered the UK single chart directly at number 18 this week with their single "You And Me Song". Indolent will because of this start to promote their album(s) once again. The band will go on a 10-gig tour by themselves in the UK starting at the end of April. (Source: ZTV) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- All news always at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/selnews.html Quote the source, _and the link_, if Scandinavian Indie is the source! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 06:21:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Festival Lists - Hultsfred [17-Apr-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Festival Lists Scandinavian Indie Hultsfred Festival 1996 (June 13-15 1996) Updated 17-Apr-96 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artis The Spoonman (US) Bad Religion (US) Sony Barkmarket (US) American Recordings Bjork (Island) PolyGram Frank Black (US) Sony Bluetones (The) (UK) PolyGram Blur (UK) EMI Edwyn Collins (UK) Virgin NEW Cure (The) (UK) Virgin Dog Eat Dog (US) MNW ILR Fear Factory (US) MNW ILR Gypsys From Rajastan (Indien) Emmylou Harris (US) MD Iggy Pop (US) Virgin Joykiller (US) Border Mike Flowers Pops (The) (UK) PolyGram Ministry (US) Wea NEW Moby (US) Virgin Northen Uproar (UK) BMG Pennywise (US) Border Prodigy (The) (UK) XL/MNW ILR Pulp (UK) PolyGram Sick Of It All (UK) Wea Skunk Anansie (UK) Virgin Southen Culture On The Skids (US) Geffen/MCA Walkabouts (US) Virgin 59 Times The Pain Burning Heart Olle Adolphson MNW Chester Copperpot Dolores/MD Cirkus Cirkor Drain MVG Fireside House of Kicks Ali Hussein Kent BMG Kumekameli Liberator Burning Heart Lifvens Vannerr Olle Ljungstrom Wea Melony Soap Naked Stockholm Records No Fun At All Burning Heart Passage 4 Popsicle Telegram/Wea NEW Refused House of Kicks Sanktum Cold meat Industry/HOK Teddybears Sthlm MVG Tongue Gongue Yvonne Energy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cancelled so far: At The Gates Afghan Whigs Lush ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Complete festival information can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW : http://www.lysator.liu.se/festival.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- End of SI Digest #3.19 ********************** * To subscribe/unsubscribe to the Digest version of the list, send your request to: scan-indie-d-request@lysator.liu.se * To subscribe/unsubscribe to the Live version of the list, send your request to: scan-indie-request@lysator.liu.se * All messages to the Scandinavian Indie mailing list should be sent to: scan-indie@lysator.liu.se * The maintainer of both mailing lists is: chief@lysator.liu.se, and can also be reached at: owner-scan-indie@lysator.liu.se * The digests can also be found in ASCII format at ftp.lysator.liu.se /pub/texts/uxu/SID and ftp.uwp.edu /pub/music/lists/scan-indie as well as in HTML format at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/sid.html