Scandinavian Indie Digest Sun Jun 9, 1996 Volume 3 : Issue 28 There are 21 messages totalling 1200 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Icy Icy Tape (2) 2. Review Bob Hund at Mejeriet 3. Sin's Festival Lists - Hultsfred [03-Jun-96] (2) 4. Sin's Music on the Radio [10-Jun-96] 5. Motor Tour List _Update_ [03-Jun-96] 6. Tivolirock 7. Swedish Indie Tape Chain - FINAL - 8. Tivolirock x-tra 9. Cardigans Summer tour dates. 10. It's ooooh so quiet 11. "Rock Summer" (2) 12. Fireside 13. Short Quick Notes... 14. Sin's Selected News [05-Jun-96] 15. Swedish Indie Tape Chain [960606] 16. Sin's Scandinavian CD Reviews [May 1996] 17. Sin's Non-Scan CD Reviews [May 1996] 18. Swedish Indie Tape [Contents] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:44:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Forsberg Subject: Re: Icy Icy Tape On Wed, 29 May 1996, Marten Sahlen wrote: > I have Albert's tape in my possession at the moment. After listening > to it a couple of times I'm bound to agree with whoever (Erik?) said > that Unun stands out here. I especially love the track together with > Pall Oskar, "Love Wins" -- how true :) But is it only me, or do Unun > sound very much like Darling Buds at times? Especially the first 2 songs. Haven't heard much Darling Buds, and I'm not sure what songs albert put on the Icy tape, but I am very familiar with Unun....great, great band. I hope Albert put stuff on there from "ae" rather than "super shiny dreams", as (IMO) their stuff sounds so much better sung in Icelandic than translated in English....and that's what they do, translate it, cos it's originally written in Icelandic. Gunni told me that after finishing up the Anglo version (super shiny dreams), he thought it felt like a dubbed movie or something, I feeling I shared when I heard it. Gunni just took a trip to the country to work on tunes for their next album. And a record deal is in the works too.....don't know if they've inked the deal yet, but he said he just quit his day job at Japis (record store), so... >From Erik's "Music on the TV" lists, I've seen Unun listed more than once......maybe now some of you will tape them (and I can get a copy.....!) > But Bellatrix/Kolrassa are very enjoyable. They rule. "Kynjasogur" is just an unbelievably great album!! > I was happy to see that included were tracks by Purrkur Pillnikk and > Tappi Tikarrass, I've been very curious to hear these seminal Icelandic > bands for a long time. I just wish there had been material by Theyr and > Kukl on the tape too, but I suppose I can't get everything. I can tape any of that stuff for ya....I've got all the original Icelandic vinyl by Tappi, Kukl & Theyr (except for the VERY first Theyr album, "Pagad i Hel"....which is kinda rare (understatement). Siggi himself was looking for a copy for me, but couldn't get one. I'd love to even get it on tape at this point, I've got all their other stuff.... > The song by Ornamental, with the lovely Rose McDowall of Strawberry > Switchblade fame, is a gem. I just love her soothing voice. Oh cool, that's on there?! I've heard that was good....I have one Ornamental album which sucks, I think it's called "no pain", but the other one is supposed to be better. > And I was really happy that you taped a track from the wonderful > HOH/Current 93 collaboration "Island", but I can't believe you didn't > choose the opening track "Falling", with Bjork on backing vocals. It's > probably the best song she was ever involved in (imho of course). Yes, her voice is pure honey on that track, I agree!! But even better is her voice on a track called "Visur Vatsenda-Rosu" which is found on Hector Zazou's album, "songs from the cold seas" (it has a differnet title in Europe, tho....something in French). It is an album with songs from lots of Scandinavian and "northern" female singers, mostly...also on there is Lena Willemark, Varttina, and others.... > Speaking of HOH, just recently I picked up the "Temperature Of Blood" > album by Reptilicus (not on the tape, and not to be confused with Reptile), > which is produced by HOH. Reptilicus is an Icelandic duo that is > something like a mix of Current 93 and Skinny Puppy, pretty great if > you're into synth/industrial music. I met one of the guys in that band when I was in Reykjavik a couple of summers ago. Joey was his name (not sure if that's how you write it). Nice guy. > Whatever became of Ham, btw? They broke up, I believe,there is now a band called Olympia, that has Sigurjon Kjartsson.....am I right, Albert? Also, Ottar Proppe is also acting in film too...check out "Remote Control", it has live Ham, pretty hilarious. Ottar is also in a sorta Parliament/ 70's funk band called Funkstrasse. can't wait to get the tape, -Chris ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:26:33 +0200 (CED) From: Martin Eksten Subject: Re: Review Bob Hund at Mejeriet On Thu, 30 May 1996 jensa@loranga.df.lth.se wrote: > Martin said: > > >A band called Sive opened for them. They only played about five songs, but > >sounded quite ok to me (though my friends thought they really sucked). > > > >Martin > > Yeah, your friends were right indeed. Pathetic! Maybe they were, I really didn't listen that much - I was in the other part of the building. > As Sound Affects put it in their latest issue (#30): > > " As a really lousy Bob Hund, but in Stockholmish. > And then I mean REALLY lousy. 1 out of 5 stars. " :) Martin -------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 03:12:00 +0300 (EET DST) From: Albert Svan Sigurdsson Subject: Re: Icy Icy Tape On Thu, 30 May 1996, Chris Forsberg wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 1996, Marten Sahlen wrote: > Haven't heard much Darling Buds, and I'm not sure what songs albert put > on the Icy tape, but I am very familiar with Unun....great, great band. > I hope Albert put stuff on there from "ae" rather than "super shiny > dreams", as (IMO) their stuff sounds so much better sung in Icelandic How true, I also thing that most of the Sugarcbes and Bjork stuff sounds better in Icelandic than in English, of course I understand Icelandic more than most people (abroad). Just that I think the Icelandic lyrics are more concentrated than the English. On the other hand, regarding Unun, Heida the singer told me that when they translated the lyrics to English Thor, one of the song/lyrics writers, was happier than with the Icelandic lyrics, since it was more like his original meaning at least in some songs. > than translated in English....and that's what they do, translate it, cos > it's originally written in Icelandic. Gunni told me that after finishing > up the Anglo version (super shiny dreams), he thought it felt like a > dubbed movie or something, I feeling I shared when I heard it. Gunni just > took a trip to the country to work on tunes for their next album. And a > record deal is in the works too.....don't know if they've inked the deal > yet, but he said he just quit his day job at Japis (record store), so... No, no deal yet. But the offers keep coming in. Perhaps Unun will be on everybodys lips soon, including Mtv's. I sure hope not. They deserve worldwide recognition, but IMO popularity (like being on Mtv) is not what they need. People can buy the records without them being popular. > >From Erik's "Music on the TV" lists, I've seen Unun listed more than > once......maybe now some of you will tape them (and I can get a copy.....!) I can get all the Unun videos plus some concertson videotape, if somebody just payes for the tapes and mailing cost. > > But Bellatrix/Kolrassa are very enjoyable. > They rule. "Kynjasogur" is just an unbelievably great album!! I have extra copies of Kolrassa/Bellatirx's CD's. I have both the first CD (called Drapa) and the second (Kynjasogur). They sell for 80 FIM (ca. 20 dollars, including mail). The money goes straight to the girls in the band, since they gave me the CDs to sell last year when they were her in Finland. > > I was happy to see that included were tracks by Purrkur Pillnikk and > > Tappi Tikarrass, I've been very curious to hear these seminal Icelandic > > bands for a long time. I just wish there had been material by Theyr and > > Kukl on the tape too, but I suppose I can't get everything. > I can tape any of that stuff for ya....I've got all the original > Icelandic vinyl by Tappi, Kukl & Theyr (except for the VERY first Theyr > album, "Pagad i Hel"....which is kinda rare (understatement). Siggi > himself was looking for a copy for me, but couldn't get one. I'd love to > even get it on tape at this point, I've got all their other stuff.... I have the same situation. I have all the Theyr, Tappi and Kukl stuff, except for the Theyr's first album. I had a chance to buy an unplayed copy of that LP in 1980, but was short on cash at the time and have regretted that moment ever since. > > The song by Ornamental, with the lovely Rose McDowall of Strawberry > > Switchblade fame, is a gem. I just love her soothing voice. > Oh cool, that's on there?! I've heard that was good....I have one > Ornamental album which sucks, I think it's called "no pain", but the > other one is supposed to be better. > > And I was really happy that you taped a track from the wonderful > > HOH/Current 93 collaboration "Island", but I can't believe you didn't > > choose the opening track "Falling", with Bjork on backing vocals. It's > > probably the best song she was ever involved in (imho of course). I personally think that Bjork's best collaborations are with Bjorgvin Gislason and with Megas. Megas' albums are easily available from any Icelandic record store, but the song 'Afi' where Bjork sings to the tune by Bjorgvin Gislason, is getting rarer by the day. > > Speaking of HOH, just recently I picked up the "Temperature Of Blood" > > album by Reptilicus (not on the tape, and not to be confused with Reptile), > > which is produced by HOH. Reptilicus is an Icelandic duo that is > > something like a mix of Current 93 and Skinny Puppy, pretty great if > > you're into synth/industrial music. That is barely half the story of Reptilicus, they are also heavily into magic and Asatru, as is Hilmar Orn or HOH of Current 93. Much of their power comes from their strange believes and traditions. > > Whatever became of Ham, btw? > > They broke up, I believe,there is now a band called Olympia, that has > Sigurjon Kjartsson.....am I right, Albert? Also, Ottar Proppe is also > acting in film Right. > too...check out "Remote Control", it has live Ham, pretty hilarious. > Ottar is also in a sorta Parliament/ 70's funk band called Funkstrasse. I have this movie on video (illegal) with no subtitles. If somebody wants a copy I can try it out. You of course pay all the costs. Svona nu, -------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 04:29:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Festival Lists - Hultsfred [03-Jun-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Festival Lists Scandinavian Indie Hultsfred Festival 1996 (June 13-15 1996) Updated 03-Jun-96 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-swedish artists: Bjork (Iceland), Blur (UK), Ministry (US), Iggy Pop (US), Pulp (UK), Cure (UK), The Prodigy (UK), Bad Religion (US), Frank Black (US), Emmylou Harris (US), Terrorvision (UK), Sick Of It All (US), Moby (US), Skunk Anansie (UK), The Bluetones (UK), Dog Eat Dog (US), Rocket From The Crypt (US), Northen Uproar (UK), Barkmarket (US), Super Furry Animals (UK), Artis The Spoonman (US), Gypsys From Rajastan (India), Pennywise (US), Walkabouts (US), Fear Factory (US), The Mike Flowers Pops (UK), K's Choice (B), Southen Culture On The Skids (US), Joykiller (US), Baby Chaos (UK), Skin (UK), Bif Naked (CAN), Mustard Seeds (USA), Sneaker Pimps (UK)*, Bruce Dickinson Skunkwork (UK)*, Holy Barbarians (UK)*, Ganbold (Mong)*. Swedish artists: Popsicle, Kent, Olle Ljungstrom, Teddybears Sthlm, 59 Times The Pain, Bazooka!*, Drain, Liberator, Soundtrack of Our lives, Olle Adolphson, Refused, No Fun At All, Fireside, Yvonne, Kumekameli, Ali Hussein, Cirkus Cirkor, Sigge Hill*. Stora Dansbanan stage: Face Down, Sludge Nation, Gordon, Busty, Jumper, The Drowners, Slapdash, Dipper, Disfear, Sinn Finn, Abstain, Psychic Kids United, Out Of Steets, Melony, Naked, Tongue Gongue, Passage 4, Chester Copperpot, Sanktum, Lifvens Vanner, Mindjive*, Abhinanda*. Kosmos Club (The Hultsfred Festival's new "dance event"): Stakka Bo, Nova Nova, The Aloof, Cedric Marszewski, Micromoon, Jonas Lonna, Alex Reece, Larry Heard, Mourad Liti, Calico, Ivan Smagghe, Bender Boys, Eva, Naid, Joel Mull, Charlie Hall, Bandulu, Cari Lekebusch, Philippe Monrose, Stephan Grieder. * = new since last update ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 04:29:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Music on the Radio [10-Jun-96] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE RADIO Scandinavian Indie June 10th -> June 16th Day Date Artist Recorded --- ----- --------------------------------- -------------------------------- Mon 10/6 High Llamas Goteborg, Underground 17-May-96 Tue 11/6 Rickard Wolff Stockholm, Cirkus 03-May-96 Wed 12/6 Goldmine Goteborg, Nefertiti 20-Mar-96 Thu 13/6 Backyard Babies (R) Ljungby 23-Nov-95 Sun 16/6 Groups from Norrbotten Lulea, Live This list covers the Swedish National Channel P3's "Live" - always at 21.03 (R) = Rerun ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie WWW pages at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/uprad.html //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 04:29:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Motor Tour List _Update_ [03-Jun-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Motor Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie June 3rd 1996 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWEDISH ARTISTS: Bob Hund Silence 19/7 Skelleftea - Trastocksfestivalen Changed Gordon Roligan 19/7 Pitea - Pitea Dansar & Ler New date 27/7 Ostersund - Storsjoyran New date Liberator Burning Heart 5/6 Potsdam - Ska Festival New date 13/7 Hedemora - Dalarocken New date 19/7 Arvika - Festival New date 21/7 Angelholm - Tullakrok New date 10/8 Stockholm - Water Festival New date Millencolin *NEW* Burning Heart 21/6 Lahti - Midsummer Festival (SF) 27/6 Bollnas - Festival 29/6 Rock am zee (D) 30/6 Munchen - Machtwerk (D) 5/7 Peine - UTZ (D) 6/7 Bremen - Hard Pop (D) 7/7 Rotterdam - Metropolis (N) 13/7 Grebbestad - Folkpark 18/8 Koln - Beizarre Festival (D) 23/8 Winterhur - Festival (CH) 24/8 Leysin - Alp Festival (CH) No Fun at all Burning Heart 8/6 Malmo - Folkfesten New date 10/6 Oberhaussen - Cirkus Krone (D) New date 11/6 Koln - Underground (D) New date 21/6 Numijarvi - Nummi Rock (SF) Added Popsicle Telegram/Wea 2/8 Trollhattan - Westgotha Festival Date decided 7/8 Lulea - Roxy New date 30/8 Falkoping - Folkets Park New date Stakka Bo *NEW* Sonet 22/6 Skelleftea - Festival Stonefunkers *NEW* Sonet 7/6 Goteborg - Chalmers Sommarklubb ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete Motor Tour List can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW : http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/motor.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:34:14 +0100 From: bjn@krs.owell.se Subject: Tivolirock Hi everybody. Here is an almost complete list of bands that will show up on Tivolirock in Kristianstad, on the 6 of July. Kent Olle Ljungstr=F6m Broder Daniel Lars Demian Sex Pettersson Kjell H=F6glund Leslies Zodiac Fistfunk Colubrids Mutts Smash Hit Wonders Big Fish Milky Softside Mindface Endless Shame Starlet Rosk Sludge Nation Sounds good? Come and see for yourself! This day is also one of the first days of the Christianstadsdagarna, a ten day long festival with a lot of beer and music. The Jazzfestival is also taking place in the same week, so if you like both indie and jazz, this week is a killer! And if you are into the 70's, Hoola Bandoola Band plays on the Tuesday (July 9). If there are any new info, I will submit it as soon as possible. Also, if there are any questions about the festival, send me a note and I will answer as soon as I can (I'm on the digest list). Have a nice day and an even better night! BeO O- bjn@krs.owell.se -------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 05:13:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Swedish Indie Tape Chain - FINAL - Okay, now it is the final time to sign up to the Scandinavian Indie Compilation tape #3 - Swedish Indie, tape chain. If you have no idea what I am talking about, please do not hesitate to ask (by sending email to me at chief@lysator.liu.se). I will compile the tape during the next days, and will send it out on the chain next week. Unfortunately I will not have the time to make a cover, as promised before, before I send the tape, but I will make one, and post it to the list and put it on the Web-pages so if you want one, just grab it when it is ready and print it out. These are the people currently _on_ the tape chain, and if you're not on the list, but want to be on it, please follow the simple step listed below the list. PEOPLE ON THE SCANDINAVIAN INDIE - SWEDISH INDIE TAPE CHAIN: Andreas Kierst Stephen Wood Jan Sundstrom David M|llerstedt Joacim Carlsson Elin Olson Jari H Hilden Johan Jeppsson Christoforos Kakkos Ulf Harnhammar Magnus Johansson Petter Edstrom Sean Kyle-Price Alexander Bailey To be added to the Swedish tape chain: -------------------------------------- Email me (chief@lysator.liu.se) with your full postal address. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:54:44 +0100 From: bjn@krs.owell.se Subject: Tivolirock x-tra Hello again. Yesterday I heard that Pineforest Crunch also will show up at the Tivolirock, so that's another reason for YOU to show up. The complete list looks like this now: Kent Olle Ljungstr=F6m Broder Daniel Lars Demian Pineforest Crunch Sex Pettersson Kjell H=F6glund Leslies Zodiac Fistfunk Colubrids Mutts Smash Hit Wonders Big Fish Milky Softside Mindface Endless Shame Starlet Rosk Sludge Nation See you all there! BeO O- bjn@krs.owell.se ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:23:28 +0300 (EET DST) From: Roberts Galvans Subject: Re: Sin's Festival Lists - Hultsfred [03-Jun-96] On Mon, 3 Jun 1996 chief@lysator.liu.se wrote: > Hultsfred Festival 1996 (June 13-15 1996) > Updated 03-Jun-96 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) Hello! That seems to bee a c00l festival ... :) Yeah.... I know that i can get more info on homepage,but would ya just tell info abt tickets ...i mean prices :) Thanx RoberC se51097@lanet.lv ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 11:30:50 +0200 From: Nicolas Moch Subject: Cardigans Summer tour dates. Hello, Here are the dates of the Cardigans tour in Europe for this Summer The Cardigans Summer 10/6 Hoboken (US) - Maxwells 11/6 New York (US)- Tramps w/Papas Fritas NY NYC 12:30pm Virgin Megastore FREE SHOW (say"hi") 12/6 MA Boston Paradise w/ Papas Fritas 13/6 Providence - WBRU Live Show Waterplace Park 5:00pm w/ Papas Fritas 14/6 Chicago - Double Door w/ Legendary Jim Ruiz Group 16/6 San Diego - Open Air Theatre w/ Squeeze 3:00p 17/6 Los Angeles - El Rey Theatre w/ Papas Fritas + Sugarplastic 19/6 San Francisco - KCRW Bene 20/6 San Francisco - Bimbo's 27/6 Roskilde - Festivalen 29/6 Oslo - Kalvya Festivalen 30/6 St. Gallen(CH) - Open Air Festival 2/7 Aten (GR) - Rocking Athens Festival 13/7 Glasgow (GB) - T In The Park 20/7 Zeebrgge (B) - Belga Beach Festival 21/7 Stratford-Upon-Avon (GB) - Phoenix Festival 28/7 Galway (IRL) - Festival Support to Radiohead 18/8 Chelmsford (GB) - V'96 Festival There are still unsecure dates around SFrancisco and Los angeles, but I will let you know. Regards, ------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 17:12:40 +0200 From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom) Subject: It's ooooh so quiet Hey! What's the silence? Didn't anyone go to the Pop Dakar festival? We want reports! ;) OK, seriously. I wasn't able to go, but i wnet to the Mera Hitlatar Festival in Haninge. Yuck, i really feel like i'm to old for this, in these surroundings. Just a lot of drop-out punk kids hanging around, and to my big surprise Terry Ericsson from the Pop magazine. Anyway, i basically wnet there for Bob Hund, but i also catched a glimpse of Sindy Kills Me. Not my style, but very intense never the less. That typical punk attitude, but the female singer had a certain weird charm. She spoke in finnish between some songs, and looked like som baby "seriefigur" cartoon character from hell, violently spitting and screaming. The bass player was cute too. Bob Hund made a good show as always. A few new tracks, one called Upp Upp Ner that was _really_ nice: slow, subtle lyrics. And "Reinkarnerad Precis Som F=F6rut" has evolved to an excellent hommage to Kraftwerk. Jonas put in some sequencers that make it ressemble "Europe Endless", a synthesizer favourite! Beautiful light show too. Second gig of the weekend, i went to see secret gig of Kjell Hoglund yesterday, at Gamla Stan pub Magnus Ladul=E5s. It was crammed, there were maybe 25 seats, but almost 100 people there. OK, i know it's not very indie-ish, mail me for full report. It was good anyway. Anyone going to Yvonne/Singer/Melony showcase at Kungstragarden on 6 june?! This line-up looks massive!!! They walk on at 20:00, be there! Jan Sundstrom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 18:51:29 +0300 (EET DST) From: Roberts Galvans Subject: "Rock Summer" Hello So now I have a bit more info abt "Rock Summer" in Riga There'll bee such artists as: ZZ Top (USA(?)) - rock Status Q (UK) - rock East 17 (UK) - sux Bjork (Iceland) - alt.rock ...this is c00l Republica (?) - guess c00l,playin' guitarz The Mike Flouwers Pop (UK) - makin' coverz on The DOORS,Oasis,popo of `60 or `70 ...so so Moralny Codex (Russia) - 1 of the progresive Russian bands,playin' alt. rock Jauns Meness (Latvia) - Latvian "U2",playin' alternative rock...this is really c00l band :))) Rebel (Latvia) - kinda blues or smth.,havin' few ...good songs Mednis & Amber Blues (Latvia) - band kind aproject what havin' album on Holland Top 10 album chart, playin' blues,live is ...good,i saw them in live :)) Babylon Zoo (UK) - music of Levi's jeans ;) ,mixin' beats with guitarz Midge Ure (UK) - classic pop song-singer ...guess so,new single "Breath' quite good May-B some more bands,butt there's no more info abt this festival I hope that I'll get more info l8er...but actually now I'll have hollydayz and examz... :( it meanz that now I`ll unsubscribe "Scan-Indie",be back in end of August ... If ya wanna some more info abt happenings in Riga,or some info Latvia and etc. dom't hazitate e-mail me (se51097@lanet.lv) P3ac3 in the world !! Cheerz :) RoberC se51097@lanet.lv P.S. there`ll be also "Rock Summer" in Tallinn ...in 12-14 July guess the sane artists ...except Latvian bands (noone in Tallinn) and there'll be Shaggy in Tallinn :) Also in 14th June in "Mad Mix" 'll play 2 Finnish hardcore/punk bands...i'll check them out .....comment will follow ------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:47:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: allfn@algonet.se (Magnus Jansson) Subject: Fireside Fireside will play Lollapaloza this year !!! With Metallica, Soundgarden, Sex Pistols, Rancid, Melvins and some more bands. How about that.. They have to cancel some swedish festivals, but nothing compares to Lollapaloza. Brutality and bloodshed for all Magnus ------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 05:44:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Short Quick Notes... Short ones... * If you are in Stockholm on thursday (June 6th), do not hesitate to visit Hyndans Horna - where you will be able to see Komeda! If you are in Borlange the day after (June 7th), you will also be able to see the band! * If you happen to be in Linkoping on thursday (June 6th), you might as well come to the last "thursday" at Herrgar'n before the summer takes over where Daybehaviour and Flakes will play. * If you're into British Pop Music, don't miss the program "Britpop" on SVT1 this thursday (June 6th). Damon Albarn presents a bunch of bands playing live in a studio including Blur, Supergrass, Elastica, Boo Radleys, Menswear, Gene, Sleeper, Marion and Powder. The program starts 22.30. * If you missed Soda with Loosegoats, Ola Hermanson, festival special and actually a funny Kent-animation yesterday (monday), don't worry, the rerun is this saturday (June 8th) on SVT2. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ----------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 05:45:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Selected News [05-Jun-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie SELECTED NEWS Scandinavian Indie June 5th, 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) "Remember where you heard it first" Contents: Aloon, Aquadays, Beat Butchers Contest, The Cardigans, Coach Bob, Definitivt 50 Spann, The Drowners, Jumper, Popundret, Riviera, Salt, Speaker, Starlet, The Wannadies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aloon - fronted by ex-Suredo member Mikael Myrnerts have recorded about 20 songs, which has resulted in a couple of record labels showing interest in the band, Telegram being one of them, though nothing major has happened yet. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Aquadays - received a phone call in the middle of the night not long ago. Who was it, you ask? Minty Fresh! The label in the US that handles Cardigans, and more recently Komeda. They had visited the Scandinavian Indie pages, read about the band and became interested enough to ask them to send a demo tape. The band's planned debut CD has been delayed, but is still planned to be released on Dorian Records in July-August. Martin and Lisa (two of the three members) are getting married on midsummer's eve by the way. Congratulations! (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Beat Butchers - the record label based in Stockholm have opened their new contest on their Web-pages! This time it is a Solar Lodge contest, and you better answer the simple questions in a hurry at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/beatcont.html. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) The Cardigans - (Trampolene) are on their way to the US. They will play eight dates starting in Hoboken at Maxwells on June 10th then 11/6 New York at Tramps, 13/6 Providence a WBRU Live Show, 14/6 Chicago at Double Door, 16/6 San Diego at Open Air Theatre, 17/6 Los Angeles at El Rey Theatre, 19/6 San Francisco at KCRW Bene and finally 20/6 San Francisco at Bimbo's. The band will also play a number of festivals in Europe. Roskilde in Denmark, Kalvoya (Norway), Open Air Festival (CH), Rocking Athens Festival (Greece), T In The Park, Phoenix and Chelmsford (UK), Belga Beach Festival (Belgium) and Galway (Ireland) as support to Radiohead. (Source: Motor Booking Agency) Coach Bob - the rest of ex-Suredo recorded a demo with three songs, during the autumn last year under the name Auntie Nell. The band changed their name to Coach Bob this spring, when Ulf Stenport (previously on drums) changed to guitar and Cloudberry Jam-member Per Bystrom joined on drums. Apparently they are planning to do some recording late this summer, and try to get some gigs this coming autumn! (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Definitivt 50 Spann - (Rabb) the 50 SEK compilation CD series continues. This is the fifth in the series and it is going to be released on June 11th. Rabb records are a gathering of the Birdnest, Kamel and Beat Butchers labels. The following bands are included: Brandgul, Guineapigs, Human Error, Johan Johansson, Ellen Jamesians, Coca Carola, Svart Sno, Radioaktiva Raker, Hydrogenium, Sober, Robert Johnson, Kottgrottorna, DLK, Skumdum, Mogel, Charles, Aka Bil, The Solar Lodge, Roger Karlsson and Big Fish. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) The Drowners - (AWSF) played at AWSF's own club in Skelleftea "Pele" on May 18th and Jeff Eyrich (A&R at Island Independent US and Salt's US Manager) was there to watch and listen. Apparently it was Salt who had recommended the band as "Sweden's Best"! Jeff said that he had a great time there, and described the band as "great, raw, young, unpolished but really good." He will hopefully be back in Sweden for the Trastocksfestivalen. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Jumper - (WEA) recorded a demo in Hakan Gostas (from Love Scuds) studio (which is the old Sunlight Studio) a while ago, and this demo (which was one of the three first from Hakan's studio) got them signed to WEA. They are described to sound like "a poppier Kent". (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Popundret - (AWSF) and The Drowners had a combined release party at AWSF's own club "Pele" in Skelleftea at the end of January this year. Popundret was first on stage, and Ekan said "Hi, we're Popundret and this is OUR release party... and then some other band is playing too I think." When The Drowners came on stage, Leif said "Hi, I'm Leif and this is MY release party." of course. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Riviera - (Trampolene) also recorded a demo in Hakan Gosta's studio some time ago (with Hakan Gostas on bass), and the demo got them signed to Trampolene. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Salt - (MVG) are back on tour in the US. This time they travel together with Screaming Trees. The schedule looks like this (all dates in June): 11 Boston, MA at Avalon Ballroom, 12 Philadelphia, PA at Trocadero, 14 Carrboro, NC at Cat's Cradle, 15 Atlanta, GA at Cotton Club, 16 Birmingham, AL at City Stages Festival, 17 Knoxville, TN (tba), 18 Cincinnati, OH at Bogarts, 20 Cleveland, OH at Odeon, 21 Detroit, MI at Phoenix Center/CIMX, 22 Chicago, IL at Metro and finally on the 23rd Minneapolis, MI at First Avenue. (Source: Jeff at GreenTeam) Speaker - (PolyGram) actually recorded a demo in HG's studio a while ago, and what do you expect? Yes, this demo (which also was one of the three first from the studio) got them a record contract with, that's right, PolyGram. A single is scheduled for release any day now. A successful studio. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Starlet - played in Stockholm May 20th, and Jeff (see The Drowners news) was there to watch and listen. He could not say enough positive things about the band, and the band will most certainly be signed to MVG here in Sweden in the very near future and to GreenTeam (Island US) in the US. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) The Wannadies - (Soap) have been included on two compilation CDs lately. One is a double CD set called "Untitled" released in the US (probably also in the UK). It contains 40 tracks all together. The other one is number 15 in the "Volume" series. It is called "Technology Alert!" and is a double CD set + a CD-ROM disc for Mac/PC - and the usual 192 page booklet. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 5 Jun 1996 14:47:46 +0300 (EET DST) From: Roberts Galvans Subject: Re: "Rock Summer" Hello So now I have a bit more info abt "Rock Summer" in Riga There'll bee such artists as: ZZ Top (USA(?)) - rock Status Q (UK) - rock East 17 (UK) - sux Bjork (Iceland) - alt.rock ...this is c00l Republica (?) - guess c00l,playin' guitarz The Mike Flouwers Pops (UK) - makin' coverz on The DOORS,Oasis,pop of `60 or `70 ...so so Moralny Codex (Russia) - 1 of the progresive Russian bands,playin' alt. rock Jauns Meness (Latvia) - Latvian "U2",playin' alternative rock...this is really c00l band :))) Rebel (Latvia) - kinda blues or smth.,havin' few ...good songs Mednis & Amber Blues (Latvia) - band kind aproject what havin' album on Holland Top 10 album chart, playin' blues,live is ...good,i saw them in live :)) Babylon Zoo (UK) - music of Levi's jeans ;) ,mixin' beats with guitarz Midge Ure (UK) - classic pop song-singer ...guess so,new single "Breath' quite good *60. Ft. Dolls (?) - playin` (?) Cheerz RoberC se51097@lanet.lv P.S. (*)-means,previously not mentioned ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 04:37:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Swedish Indie Tape Chain [960606] Okay, so far these people have signed up to the Scandinavian Indie Compilation tape #3 - Swedish Indie, tape chain. If you have no idea what I am talking about, please do not hesitate to ask (by sending email to me at chief@lysator.liu.se). The list of what is on the tape will be posted in a minute (yes, I am ready! :-)) Unfortunately, three of the bands had to be left out, because no one helped me out with them, and I had to add other bands in their places, plus a couple more to fill out the tape. PEOPLE ON THE SCANDINAVIAN INDIE - SWEDISH INDIE TAPE CHAIN: Mo Holkar <100745.3625@CompuServe.COM> Andreas Kierst Stephen Wood Christer Nilsson Jan Sundstrom David M|llerstedt Joacim Carlsson Elin Olson Marten Sahlen Chris Forsberg Jari H Hilden Johan Jeppsson Christoforos Kakkos Ulf Harnhammar Magnus Johansson Petter Edstrom Robert Cumming Roberts Galvans Sean Kyle-Price Albert S. Sigurdsson Alexander Bailey To be added to the Swedish tape chain: -------------------------------------- Email me (chief@lysator.liu.se) with your _full_ snail mail (postal) address. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 04:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Scandinavian CD Reviews [May 1996] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie SCANDINAVIAN CD REVIEWS Scandinavian Indie June 6th, 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) "Never paid, always honest." Contents: Dry Dive - "Ass Hole As Possible" CD Lemonator - "EP" CD5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dry Dive - "Ass Hole As Possible" (CD, ReSuBo 1995, Time: 45.18) 1. Something (0.34) 2. Nothing (3.14) 3. Mistreated (4.00) 4. Funny Vibe (2.30) 5. Ashes (5.13) 6. The Doomed And The Blamed (3.34) 7. Whore (3.09) 8. The Sleeping (5.59) 9. Apocalyptic (3.56) 10. Rub It In (3.50) 11. Faces (5.03) 12. No Promise To (3.48) Scandinavian Indie Review: I find it kind of hard to review this album, as I am not as familiar with this kind of rock, but I will try. Dry Dive is sometimes in the fast, captivating hard rock/metal room, and sometimes they are visiting the rock-ballad room. Actually, the last group I listened to when it comes to this mix was _Europe_ but it is definitely wrong to compare Dry Dive to them. Alas, I have no bands to compare them to, and maybe that is only a good thing. "The Doomed And The Blamed" is a perfect example of both these rooms, and also my personal favourite. Hard guitars and drums lead the way into echo- filled ballad segments with an acoustic guitar. "Ashes" and "The Sleeping" are on the other hand long ballads from the start to the end with extremely beautiful vocals. I get a strange feeling that I have heard "No Promise To" somewhere before! Slow acoustic sections interrupted by harder electric ones. The chorus goes like this: "Preach your love, promise me. Preach your love, religiously. Preach your love, deep in me. Preach you love, undoubtedly." But I can't place it! It is a great song though. I have to give credit to the band, because this is tight as hell! You can tell that these guys have been around and have definitely played together for some time. And _Thomas Rehn_ (lead vocals) has a _fantastic voice_. Screaming, whispering, talking or just singing, high or low, it does not matter. It still sounds extremely good. I more than often compare his voice to _Eddie Vedder_ (Pearl Jam), like in "Rub It In" (my second favourite) and "Nothing" (third favourite), sometimes to _Axl Rose_ (Guns'n'Roses), like in "Apocalyptic" and then sometimes to _Joey Tempest_ (Europe), like in "Mistreated". And it fits perfectly together with the other members' voices as well. Just take a listen to the slow and floating "Faces" and you will know what I am talking about. (May 1996 Review by: Erik S|derstr|m) Dry Dive, c/o Allan Sundberg, S}gstuv{gen 1M 2tr, 141 49 Huddinge, Sweden. Phone: +46-8-689-7225. Fax: +46-8-774-8620. Email: parskaos@algonet.se ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lemonator - "EP" (CD5, Grandpop Records 1995, Time: 18.34) 1. Playing With Dinosaur (2.26) 2. Tourist (3.55) 3. Round (4.43) 4. Moovie (7.25) Scandinavian Indie Review: Lemonator are from Finland. I would never have guessed it if I did not know about it from the start. But these days it seems as if our fellow nordic country to the east is producing more and more great pop groups, and what can be more satisfying than that?! Just listen to the unbeleivably good group _Dada Girl_ for example. But, this is a Lemonator review, so I better skip this love-bombing on Finnish pop now! Lemonator plays power-pop quite frankly. I could say that this band must be the Finnish mix between _Popsicle_ and _Naked_, but I won't. Because this is way better than both bands. Faster than Popsicle. A more cool, low and captivating bass. Okay, they do have the "Sha la la la"'s in "Round" and with the chorus "We go round, we go wrong, we go round, we go wrong - It's neverending. We go round, we go wrong, we go round, we go wrong - It's every evening." (I think) it actually is the song that sounds most similar to the bands mentioned. They have duet male vocals that sounds just great. They have alarming guitars. They have a bit of the 60's there too. The have that low bass. They have an extremely long end section in "Moovie" with walls of noise that leaves you hanging, waiting for the burst when the chorus kicks in again, even though it never does. Though I have to say that I hear a bit of really early _Duran Duran_ (!) vocals in there too. "Playing With Dinosaur" is definitely the hit here. Fast, in the "Dad Around" (Naked) way. Heavy guitars, with breaks that reminds me of _Nirvana_. Actually the vocals in this song also sounds a bit like _Nirvana_ when they reach the "It's So Alarming, It's So Alarming" parts. I can not help to sing along with the chorus, and that is a sure sign of a hit. "Tourist" is my favourite song though. Slow and pounding. I feel as it it is always building up to the utterly beautiful chorus, where the duet vocals make me shiver, because it is _so right_. And the scratchy heavy guitar that kicks in at the end is ingenious. Lemonator has great musicians, great singers with confident voices that match eachother remarkably well. And they have the hits. I just wish I could hear more of the lyrics, because now I have to settle with only attempting to sing along. Not that this is something bad - remember that I love Slowdive and Curve... Well, I definitely recommend this EP and I bet that I will recommend their debut album too, planned to be released this summer! (May 1996 Review by: Erik S|derstr|m) Grandpop Records, P.O.Box 76, 00501 Helsinki, Finland. Fax: +358-0-694-9657 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All CD reviews are available on the Scandinavian Indie WWW: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/reviews.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 04:39:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Non-Scan CD Reviews [May 1996] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie NON-SCANDINAVIAN CD REVIEWS Scandinavian Indie June 6th, 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) "Never paid, always honest." Contents: Mark Slamzkis - "Modifyd" CD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Slamzkis - "Modifyd" (CD, 4orward Slip 1995, Time: 41.46) 1. Cauldera (4.28) 2. Candlelight Over (5.20) 3. n Linear Dance #1 (5.18) 4. The Albatross Notion (8.32) 5. At The Sign Of Right (5.08) 6. HallWay (5.10) 7. Dom / The Sky Bows Down (7.04) Scandinavian Indie Review: Imagine that you got stuck over night in a toy store without any chance of turning off those self-playing $20.00 keyboards. You know the ones Casio puts out for example. Or imagine a whole orchestra where the members are playing such keyboards for the first time in their life. Right, they are trying _everything_! Sometimes pressing all the keys at the same time, sometimes trying out different drum beats, pulling the bender right and left furiously. Or do you remember the PC games before the 16-bit soundcards came on the market and you had to put up with 8-bit? Well, all of this actually describes the sound of Mark Slamzkis. The first time I listened to it, I thought that maybe, just maybe, someone was pulling my leg. No way can someone listen to this without going mad? It is definitely enough to drive me mad in a couple of minutes. But when I read the letter that came with the CD, I understand that this is no joke. This man has been well received and has generated airplay all over the world, they say. People are listening to this CD. Further in the letter, they say that the style is unique, and that he is using old and new electronic equipment, playing music that has few comparisons. That I definitely agree with. It is almost an understatement! But when they say that people who listen to _Pink Floyd_ and _Depeche Mode_ will have a place for this CD in their collection, I must protest. I have listened to both groups myself when I was younger, and I can assure everyone that this CD would not be in my collection. The description "Heavily Thematic / Progressive / Avant Garde Music performed by a equally Heavily Synthesized Group." is a very good one and so my recommendation is that if you are a _Jean Michel Jarre_ fan, and you are looking for something you have never heard before, something that will baffle you up to a point where you scream, but still with a touch of _Jarre_, this is the CD for you. (May 1996 Review by: Erik Soderstrom) Forward Slip Productions Inc., P.O.Box 2403, Broken Arrow OK 74013, USA. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All CD reviews are available on the Scandinavian Indie WWW: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/reviews.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 04:39:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Swedish Indie Tape [Contents] I'm not sure how much information I should send _with_ the tape. Are all of you on the list happy if I just post the complete information to you instead of including four A4 pages (which makes it a bit cheaper to send too), and you can all print the information out if you want? Anyway, here is the list of what is on the Scandinavian Indie Compilation Tape #3 - Swedish Indie: A-SIDE: Artist/Group Song Length Label ------------------- -------------------------------- ------ ----------------- Fidget Semi-naked (3.03) -none- Shallow Soundwave Hyper (3.47) -none- Lousy Downer (2.25) -none- Aquadays June (4.07) -none- Bob Hund 15 Ar Bakat Och 15 Ar Framat (3.00) Silence Hardy Nilsson Det Blir Aldrig Battre (3.25) AWSF Cloudberry Jam Elevator (2.44) NONS Fireside Al Tonno Q (3.02) StartRec Bear Quartet Carsick (3.35) AWSF Honey Is Cool Georgia (5.55) MVG Kent Kram (2.44) BMG Loosegoats Small Planet (2.08) StartRec Blissful To Freshville (4.31) AWSF Melony Mirror On The Freeway (3.24) Soap Mouth Cracks (2.00) Telegram B-SIDE: Artist/Group Song Length Label ------------------- -------------------------------- ------ ----------------- Salt Honour Me (3.55) MVG Yvonne Drifter (3.53) Energy Puffin While You're Gone (3.14) AWSF Cardigans Black Letter Day (4.32) Trampolene Eggstone Have You Seen Mary (2.36) Soap Popsicle A Song Called Liberty (3.06) Telegram Wannadies My Home Town (3.24) Soap Red Sleeping Beauty Stay (2.01) -none- Komeda Rocket Plane (3.32) NONS Waterbug The Stallion (2.43) AWSF Popundret I'm Going Out She Said (3.21) AWSF Sonic Surf City Another Day In The Sun (2.36) Trampolene Puffin Hard To Quit (2.41) AWSF Cloudberry Jam Direction Still Unknown (3.27) NONS Sindy Kills Me Still (3.38) Energy No one helped out with these, so they are not included on the tape: Mazarine Street - Get It On (?.??) ##.## FineTone Smash Hit Wonders - Sell It To Spielberg (?.??) ##.## Sun Spot This Perfect Day - Headache (?.??) ##.## Soap Please note that the labels listed are the labels the bands are signed to now, and perhaps not when the song was recorded/released (as in the case of the Fireside song - they were signed to AWSF, Loosegoats were signed to Bad Taste, Honey Is Cool were signed to Sun Spot, and Yvonne were not signed at all, for example.) //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ End of SI Digest #3.28 ********************** * 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