Scandinavian Indie Digest Sun Aug 10, 1997 Volume 4 : Issue 31 There are 35 messages totalling 1149 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Latvian Indie comments (3) 2. lollipop 3. Enter's first CD out now! 4. This Perfect Day on P3 Live 5. LolliPOP report! 6. A band by the name Gordon 7. Gordon (2) 8. Estonia's Bizarre in Future Music 9. Shake, rattle and Liberator (2) 10. Motor Tour List _Update_ [30-Jul-97] 11. ZTV, saturday and sunday! 12. Gig Guide I (Skrikhult BA) 13. Gig Guide II (Luger BA) 14. Complaints complaints ... (4) 15. Sin's Music on the Radio [04-Aug-97] 16. Sin's Music on the TV [01-Aug-97] 17. Updated The Bear Quartet Fan Page 18. Check + Emmaboda 19. A Scan/Indie Column 20. trastocksfestivalen..!? (2) 21. review - Smash Hit Wonders 22. Malmo festival 23. present Bordeaux by CESSNA 24. Sin's Music on the TV [08-Aug-97] 25. Complaints... 26. Sin's Music on the Radio [11-Aug-97] 27. Gig Guide (Luger) [10-Aug-97] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:31:58 +0200 From: Michael Rehnstrom Subject: Latvian Indie comments I have finally listened to the latvian indie compilation a couple of times and it was a quite nice exercise. As usual it is hard to have an opinion about bands after just hearing one or two songs with them. I also find it quite frustrating (because I love a good pop/rock text) listening to the texts and, mostly, not understanding one single word (OK, some of the texts were in english). So I had to look for good melodies and harmonies (which is not bad either) instead. But first: good work with the CD, Roberts :-) Big favourites were Pienvedeja Piedzivojumi (believe me, the language they use in their texts is not their only obstacle before reaching world fame :-). The first tune, with aggressive guitar attacs, was great. Their second tune sounded more slick, but still good (sometimes "experience" and "slickness" seem to be the same, don't they?). Since I like music consisting of a mix between rock/pop and folk and/or classical music It was almost an obligation for me to like Lucius and their acoustic "Untouchable things". And I did like it. A beautiful voice and a beautiful violin, indeed. Why do I get the feeling that, at least, the violin player has a background in classical music? I also liked the contributions from Prata Vetra, Parks and Jauns Meness, though none of them had anything that really "stood out" and made it more interesting. I agree, with Roberts, that Sarkanais Oktobris were really bad, mostly because the female vocalist seemed to have no knowledge about the existence of any other tones than the false ones. And I also have two questions to Roberts: 1) Are you sure that the band "How Much Personalities" isn't just Nirvana without Kurt Cobain? 2) Does the female vocalist in the gothic rock(?) band Skumju Akmeni look like she sounds - I would not like to hear a voice like that in a dark alley? Finally, I am right in the middle of changing to a new e-mail address at the moment. I have notified Erik about it but I am still not sure whether I will receive any letters from the list the next few days. If Roberts or anyone else wants to reply to this message please Cc this address: micre215@student.liu.se /Micke, who would have liked to watch when those two members of Primal Scream realized that the swedish police were about to arrest them for drug possession. That would have been entertainment :-) ------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:21:48 +0100 From: totte.pop@swipnet.se (Totte Pop) Subject: lollipop hi, please give your coments/rewiev on this year lollipop festival to us who didnt make it to the site! thanks....tack! --------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 08:56:04 +0300 (EET DST) From: Pete Korhonen Subject: Enter's first CD out now! Hello lovely list people! After over one year delay on the release time table, Enter (Fin) has finally released it's first album (CD). The album is titled 'Yah-Hah!' and is available from a small indie label Metamorphos. Yah-Hah! has the following 9 tracks: River, Stormy Monday (Again), Cosmic Flow, Moon, Hi-Ho, One Goes Up, True Angels, Velvet Flames and Christianity(*). All tracks by the Band, except * by Jouni M|mm| - (* is actually a version of Kristinusko from Mana Mana's brilliant Totuus Palaa LP). Yah-Hah! was recorded during spring 1996 in Joensuu, Finland is Jackmaster Production Studios by Enter's original trio-line-up (Otra/Osku/Pete) (currently Enter has two more guitarists, Riite and Asko) and while in studio band had visiting players ie from Xysma and Babylon Whores. Also Teho (currently with Ismo Alanko) played some synthetizers to Yah-Hah!. The big delay was caused by maybe a million different things all the way from the recording sessios via mastering problems to some sample work that took way too long as well as problems with the artwork for the covers. But enough whining. Go and check it out. If your local dealer doesn't have it yet, you can contact our record label directly: Metamorphos Rantam{ki 2 B 6 FIN-02330 ESPOO FINLAND tel & fax: +358-(0)9-8558 212 Thanks and bye! Pete ----------------------------------------------------- Pete Korhonen / Enter email: pkorho@cs.joensuu.fi tel: +358-(0)400-986 048 web: http://www.media.jns.fi/enternet ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:32:42 +0300 (WET) From: Roberts Galvans Subject: Re: Latvian Indie comments > And I also have two > questions to Roberts: 1) Are you sure that the band "How Much > Personalities" isn't just Nirvana without Kurt Cobain? I'm not into mirvana stuff and that's why I can`t comment this --- but I`m sure that this band is 100% Latvian :-) > 2) Does the female > vocalist in the gothic rock(?) band Skumju Akmeni look like she sounds - I > would not like to hear a voice like that in a dark alley? Heh heh... believe or not that girl (really, she's 16 or smth.) looks like not bad --- let's say she's little nice girlie with a fucking ??? heavy voice (if i didn't tell that is a girl ya would thing it a bloke) thats in brief all peace RoberC //se51097@lanet.lv ---------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:39:06 +0300 (EDT) From: postmaster@slayer.pp.fi (Toni Järvinen) Subject: This Perfect Day on P3 Live Hello everyone; Let this be my last wish: did anyone get This Perfect Day's P3 Live performance last Monday? If so and you are willing to copy it for me please be so kind and write me: postmaster@slayer.pp.fi I'll pay the cassette and postage fee to Finland, of course, so that you won't lose anything except one hour of your day in recording the live. Toni - who is more than sad when he missed that show -------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 19:06:19 +0200 From: Micke Rehnstrom Subject: Re: Latvian Indie comments >> And I also have two >> questions to Roberts: 1) Are you sure that the band "How Much >> Personalities" isn¥t just Nirvana without Kurt Cobain? > > i'm not into mirvana stuff and that's why i can`t coment this --- but i`m > sure that this band is 100% latvian :-) Well, it sounded as if they had borrowed more than just one chord from "Polly" :-). But I guess it might have been incidental, it was not a "carbon copy" anyway. And I shouldn't bother - all this recycling of music makes life much more exciting, doesn't it? Just an example: The first part (before the singing begins) of "Every breath you take" by The Police. You can gather your friends, turn on the radio and when you hear this particular piece of music you can start the betting about which song it really is - The Police themselves, "I'll be missing you" with Puff Daddy & Faith Evans or "Who are you" with Speaker. If you are lucky you can win a serious amount of money :-) /Micke, who also wonders if the choruses in "The Distance" with Cake and "Buildings" with Honey Is Cool are twins or, at least, brother and sister? -------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 19:47:04 +0200 From: Cilja Kwon Subject: LolliPOP report! Hey! Lollipop report on swedish on http://www.pulse.no/~daniel/diary.html Only in swedish, I'm sorry. No time and no ... WANTED! - The man at Lollipop who asked me if I knew "Cilja.Kwon" ---------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:46:48 +0300 From: Joakim Schonert Subject: A band by the name Gordon Hello! Can anyone out there tell me if there is a band called Gordon operating in Sweden / Scandinavia. If there is, can you tell me something about it. Thanks, Joakim. ----------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:26:29 +0200 From: Calle Jershed Subject: Re: Gordon Gordon is a ska-band from Gothenburg. They have toured a bit and played at a couple of the festivals last summer. They have also released an album on Roligan records in Gothenburg. The title escapes me, but it's pretty OK stuff. They are better live (as most ska-bands are). I think they are in the process of breaking up. cheerio, Calle J. ------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:10:28 +0300 (EET DST) From: Siim Kalder Subject: Estonia's Bizarre in Future Music "Future Music" has named Bizarre's song "Any day" the demo of the month in its August issue. "Any Day" is now available on the demo CD included with the issue. Estonia's largest daily "Postimees" says, that the August issue of "Future Music" has a picture and a column-long review of Bizarre, or more precisely of how the song "Any Day" was made. Bizarre formed in 1992, it has released two albums since: "Beautica" (1994) and "Cafe de Flor" (1996), the first having a lot of influences from different indie-groups (Lush, My Bloody Valentine...), the second being quite experimental and with modern ambient and drum n' bass sounds. Both albums under the label Sally Cinnamon. "Any Day" is a new song, composed for performing with the jungle-duo Spring Heel Jack in January. Bizarre web site is available at with "Any Day" and three other songs of about the same age as well as some brand new material. siimk ----------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:23:51 +0200 From: Micke Rehnstrom Subject: Re: Gordon Calle Jershed wrote: >Gordon is a ska-band from Gothenburg. They have toured a bit and played at >a couple of the festivals last summer. They have also released an album on >Roligan records in Gothenburg. The title escapes me, but it's pretty OK >stuff. They are better live (as most ska-bands are). I think they are in >the process of breaking up. Gordon is not a "traditional" ska-band, at least not live. I do not know how they make records but when they play live they use keyboards instead of trumpets, saxophones and stuff like that. More Clash-style than jamaican-style ska if you ask me. I consider Liberator to be the best ska-band in Sweden, though (and they sound much more "traditional" too). /Micke, not conservative - just thinking that "traditional" sound is better in this case -------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:53:17 +0200 From: Calle Jershed Subject: Shake, rattle and Liberator >Gordon is not a "traditional" ska-band, at least not live. I do not know >how they make records but when they play live they use keyboards instead of >trumpets, saxophones and stuff like that. More Clash-style than >jamaican-style ska if you ask me. I consider Liberator to be the best >ska-band in Sweden, though (and they sound much more "traditional" too). > >/Micke, not conservative - just thinking that "traditional" sound is better >in this case Could not agree more. Gordon is on the "punky"-edge of the swedish ska-scene. (Even though they wear sharp suits..). Liberator is one of the best liveacts I have ever seen. Hopefully I will be able to see them in Malmo in the middle of August. Talking about Clash, did anyone see Two Sevens Clash at the Lollipop-festival? /Calle --------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:49:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Motor Tour List _Update_ [30-Jul-97] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Motor Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie July 30th, 1997 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCANDINAVIAN: The Trampolines (S) (Independent) *NEW* 31/10 Nagoya - Club Quattro (JP) 1/11 Osaka - Club Quattro (JP) 2/11 Tokyo - Club Quattro (JP) 3/11 Tokyo - Club Quattro (JP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NON-SCANDINAVIAN: Howie B (UK) Polygram *NEW* 2/8 Goteborg - Park Lane 4/8 Copenhagen - Stereo Bar (DK) 6/8 Oslo - Head On (N) 9/8 Helsinki - Tavastia (SF) 10/8 Stockholm - Lindgarden Prodigy (UK) XL/MNW *NEW* 15/11 Stockholm - Johanneshovs Isstadion 16/11 Goteborg - Scandinavium ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete Motor Tour List is posted once / month to the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:39:21 +0100 From: totte.pop@swipnet.se (Totte Pop) Subject: ZTV, saturday and sunday! hi, dont miss the ZTV show 'p} v{g' this saturday and sunday at 18.00, interviews with yvonne, superswirls, polythene and gentle tuesday, videos and lots of fun stuff.....something for the weekend i rekon :) ----------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:28:01 -0500 From: mqo4365@is4.nyu.edu (Martin Olson) Subject: Re: Shake, rattle and Liberator At 7:53 PM 7/30/97, Calle Jershed wrote: > Could not agree more. Gordon is on the "punky"-edge of the swedish > ska-scene. (Even though they wear sharp suits..). Liberator is one of the > best liveacts I have ever seen. Hopefully I will be able to see them in Just to add my two cents to the whole ska traditionalism discussion: There's kindof a time and place for both. Personally, I'm more in favor of "trad" ska like New Yorks Scofflaws (If you like ska, I recomend you look this band up. I think you can even buy their stuff in sweden these days) and California's Hepcat. Even liberator who have a more 2nd wave 2tone sound are, in my opinion just as enjoyable as punkier bands like Less than Jake, Op Ivy or I guess, heck, the band I play in Heft, just somehow in smaller doses. It's always fun though when groups throw in a sortof special hook to their style of ska (that's one of my major complaints about punk-ska bands these days: they all sound the same!). Take Girlsmen, a swedish group from Stockholm who apparently these days are more just pop, or something. Either way, their self-titled album earlier album was really cool because a lot of the bass lines and guitar and horn parts were actually samples from old 1st wave ska classics like "Man on the Street". It's a pretty cool album if you can find it (and they were really good at hultsfred a few years back...). Anyway, that's what I think, so there. later, Martin. ---------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:14:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Gig Guide I (Skrikhult BA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Skrikhult Tour List _Update_ Scandinavian Indie August 2nd, 1997 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCANDINAVIAN: A-BOMBS - Outside Soceity / House of Kicks 16/8 Lindesberg Luft New Date 20/8 Stockholm Tuben New Date COCA CAROLA - Beat Butchers / MD 6/9 Stockholm Kafe 44 New Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NON-SCANDINAVIAN: EXTREME NOISE TERROR (UK) - Earache / House of Kicks *NEW* 29/8 Kalmar Alcatraz 30/8 Uppsala Rockcentrum VICE SQUAD (US) *NEW* 31/10 Copenhagen Stengade 30 (DK) 1/11 Uppsala Rockcentrum ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete Skrikhult Production Tour List is posted once/month ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:15:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Gig Guide II (Luger BA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Luger Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie August 2nd, 1997 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCANDINAVIAN: BREACH (S) - Burning Heart / MD Aug 30 Hassleholm (S) Perrong 23 New Date FIRESIDE (S) - Startracks/BMG / House Of Kicks Aug 10 Varberg (S) TBA New Date GRAND TONE MUSIC (S) - MVG Records / MD Aug 24 Stockholm (S) Bottleneck/Tre Kronor New Date HONEY IS COOL (S) - MVG Records / MD Sep 05 Goteborg (S) Pusterviksbaren New Date w/FUCK (US) MONSTER (S) - Startracks / House Of Kicks Aug 15 Mora (S) Moraparken New Date Aug 24 Stockholm (S) Bottleneck/Tre Kronor New Date REFUSED (S) - Startracks / House Of Kicks Aug 14 Koln (D) TBA (Part of Popkomm) New Date STARMARKET (S) - Dolores / MD + Abhinanda (S) Aug 7-10, 15-29 Aug 09 Torsby (S) TBA New Date Aug 14 Speyer (D) Halle 101 New Date w/Loosegoats TEDDYBEARS STHLM (S) - MVG Records / MD Aug 08 Orebro (S) Gnallbaltsrock New Date Aug 17 Stockholm (S) Bottleneck/Tre Kronor New Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NON-SCANDINAVIAN: FUCK (US) - Matador / Border *NEW* Sep 03 Vaxjo (S) Cafe Stina Sep 04 Stockholm (S) Tanto Sep 05 Goteborg (S) Pusterviksbaren w/Honey Is Cool ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The COMPLETE Luger Tour List is posted to the mailing list now and then. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:15:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Complaints complaints ... Okay - this might seem like a petty thing to complain about, but someone's got to bring it up. Do you ever read Swedish evening paper Expressen's friday edition "Fredag" and check out their tour guide to see what's going on - who's playing where and when? Right, and you're not alone either. So why can't the guy handling this simple task, Robert Borjesson, do his job? I mean, I have never seen one single guide that was correct. It almost seems like he doesn't even realize it is pretty important to those who read the guide - and probably doesn't care at all. He simply can't handle this easy job. Some examples (there are numerous each week): 1. For about two months, Phil Collins was listed twice, with the same date. After about one month, I thought I'd save him from embarrassing himself even more, and told him about it. He never replied (in fact, he has never replied to one single e-mail I've sent to him) and it took him another month to remove it. 2. Check out the latest copy (from yesterday - August 1st): * Grand Tone Music (ie. ex-"Salt") are listed under "Foreign Artists" - and has been for some time. * Nerf Herder are listed to tour with Bloodhound Gang, even though they cancelled that tour three-four weeks ago. * Catherine are listed to play with Matthew Sweet on their Scandinavian tour - and that's okay, because it is true, but they are listed to play together on _all_ dates, and that's incorrect. They will not play together at the Stockholm Water Festival. * Silverbullet had to change their name to Silverbullit - because of copyright problems with the UK rap artist with the same name - but there's no change in this guide. * The Emmaboda festival schedule has been out for weeks, but Fidget are still listed to play on August 8th _or_ 9th. (They play on August 9th). * Fireside are listed to play at the Lollipop Festival July 25th. Umm.. when was this guide published - oh yeah, on August 1st... * Loosegoats are listed to play in Pitea on July 26th. But this guide came out on August 1st. Yeah. * Oasis gig in Copenhagen on Sep 10 is nowhere to be found. Okay, I think this is enough. Just remember to double check whatever you see listed in Fredag's tour guide before anything else (like buying tickets or planning a trip to see your favourite band). //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:15:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Music on the Radio [04-Aug-97] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE RADIO Scandinavian Indie August 4 -> 7, 1997 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) Day Date Artist Recorded --- ----- --------------------------------- -------------------------------- Mon 4/8 The Cardigans Hultsfred Festival -97 Tue 5/8 Claes Yngstr|m Lule} 08-May-97 Wed 6/8 Wu Tang Clan Hultsfred Festival -97 Thu 7/8 Speaker Sundsvall, Gatufesten 11-Jul-97 This list covers the Swedish National Channel P3's "Live" - at 21.03-22.00 or 18.03-19.00 where marked with a '*'. (R) = Rerun ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie site at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/uprad.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:16:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Music on the TV [01-Aug-97] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE TV Scandinavian Indie August 1 -> 7, 1997 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) Day Date Artist/What TV Program Channel Time --- ----- ---------------------- ------------------- ----------- ----- Fri 1/8 Rock Am Ring 97 Festivals 97 MTV Europe 20.00 Sat 2/8 Roskilde Festival 97 Weekend MTV Europe 14.00 St Moores, Gentle Tuesday ZTV P} V{g ZTV 18.00 St Moores, Gentle Tuesday ZTV P} V{g ZTV 19.30 Gary Numan, Kula Shaker, Everything But The Girl, Massive Attack The White Room ZTV 20.30 Aerosmith Live'N Direct MTV Europe 21.00 R Rock Am Ring 97 Festivals 97 MTV Europe 22.00 St Moores, Gentle Tuesday ZTV P} V{g ZTV 00.35 R St Moores, Gentle Tuesday ZTV P} V{g ZTV 02.05 R Sun 3/8 Roskilde Festival 97 Weekend MTV Europe 14.00 Yvonne, Superswirls ZTV P} V{g ZTV 18.00 Yvonne, Superswirls ZTV P} V{g ZTV 19.30 Neneh Cherry, Mark Morrison, Kula Shaker, Roger Chapman & Jay Darlington, My Life Story The White Room ZTV 20.30 Yvonne, Superswirls ZTV P} V{g ZTV 23.55 R Yvonne, Superswirls ZTV P} V{g ZTV 01.25 R Mon 4/8 - Tue 5/8 Live 'N' Direct Live 'N' Direct MTV Europe 20.00 Man or AstroMan live session. Videos with: Jimi Tenor, Spaceman 3, Soul Sonic Force, Herbie Hancock, The Cybermen, Blues Explosion, The Bubblemen, Urusei Yatsura, Servotron, Beck, Moog Cookbook, OP8, Inspiral Carpets, Spiritualized Alternative Nation MTV Europe 00.00 Wed 6/8 Erykah Badu MTV Unplugged MTV Europe 01.00 Thu 7/8 Finnish Top List Lista FTV 17.40 R = Rerun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie website at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/uptv.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 16:52:42 +0100 From: Micke Rehnstrom Subject: Re: Complaints complaints ... Chief wrote >Do you ever read Swedish evening paper Expressen's friday edition "Fredag" >and check out their tour guide to see what's going on - who's playing >where and when? Right, and you're not alone either. So why can't the >guy handling this simple task, Robert Borjesson, do his job? I mean, >I have never seen one single guide that was correct. Don't be too hard on the guys at "Fredag", Erik. Remember that they have a huge responsibility. I mean, if they wouldn't give advice about how pre- and after parties should be organized or propagate for the use of helicopters in every rock video - who would? /Micke, feeling hmm, how should I put it? Ah, yes - _ironic_ it is ;-). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:16:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Forsberg Subject: Re: Complaints complaints ... On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Micke Rehnstrom wrote: >> Chief wrote >> Do you ever read Swedish evening paper Expressen's friday edition "Fredag" >> and check out their tour guide to see what's going on - who's playing >> where and when? Right, and you're not alone either. So why can't the >> guy handling this simple task, Robert Borjesson, do his job? I mean, >> I have never seen one single guide that was correct. > > Don't be too hard on the guys at "Fredag", Erik. Remember that they have a > huge responsibility. I mean, if they wouldn't give advice about how pre- > and after parties should be organized or propagate for the use of > helicopters in every rock video - who would? > > /Micke, feeling hmm, how should I put it? Ah, yes - _ironic_ it is ;-). Heh, I'm not even familiar with Fredag, and I could sorta tell you were being sarcastic! Isn't it a shame that the people at the top of their profession often don't put the care and time in that people doing it on the grassroots level (like Erik) do? Maybe I shouldnt' be surprised, but I always am... Chris -------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 23:01:10 +0200 From: "Daniel Hansson" Subject: Updated The Bear Quartet Fan Page Hello! The Bear Quartet Fan Pages -- A West Side Story -- have been totally redone and you might want to take a look at them. New releases in august and right now you have the opportunity to ask the band any question for an interview. Take a look at http://hem.passagen.se/b4/bq/ /Daniel H. ------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:15:55 +0200 From: Micke Rehnstrom Subject: Re: Complaints complaints ... Chris Forsberg wrote: > Heh, I'm not even familiar with Fredag, and I could sorta tell you were > being sarcastic! Isn't it a shame that the people at the top of their > profession often don't put the care and time in that people doing it on > the grassroots level (like Erik) do? Maybe I shouldnt' be surprised, but I > always am... It sure is strange that the largest and most obvious mistakes are committed by the so-called professionals. I mean, anyone can make mistakes, especially when it comes to details but the large papers seem cross the border between "details" and "big mistakes" quite often. If you really are interested in what you are writing about I think that you put more effort in making things correct, true? For example, I doubt that a fanzine, at least one committed to swedish pop, would write that Tambourine Studios are situated in Lund (it is in Malmo, which is close to Lund but still not the same place) like my local newspaper "Ostgota Correspondenten" did. A fanzine might write that Lush is going to play in Stockholm but I doubt that they would have written it one week after Chris Acklands suicide, like "Dagens Nyheter" did. Both these are good _news_papers but I doubt whether they are really interested in pop music. And if you are not interested enough to see to it that you get things as correct as possible I do not think you should write about it at all. /Micke, sometimes committing the major mistake of trying to get out of bed early ------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 19:29:05 +0200 From: Micke Rehnstrom Subject: Check + Emmaboda There are two purposes with this message. One is to check whether my new email address is registered on the subscriber list. The second, and most important one, is to give orders to those of you who are travelling to the Emmaboda festival this weekend. I am not able to do it myself, unfortunately. The orders are: Go see Sonic Surf City. This is their last gig ever, in the history of this universe, and they deserve your attention. And even if you should not like surf punk-pop you should go there and wave "bye-bye and thanx very much" to Ola Hermanson, vocalist in Sonic Surf City and a guy who has meant more to swedish pop music than most people realize. Who knows if we would ever have heard about bands like The Cardigans, Brainpool, The Bear Quartet, HappyDeadMen, Cod Lovers etc etc if he had not "discovered" them and signed record deals with them. So, go and celebrate him, and his band, before he moves (temporarily) to USA to continue his research in cell biology (how come biology is such a popular career choice among pop/rock musicians?). /Micke -------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:03:44 -0700 From: "Dave Liljengren" Subject: A Scan/Indie Column Friends-- Johanna Hillgren, of this list, has begun writing a Scan/Indie column for Pandemonium Online, an American e-zine based in Seattle. You can find her column by going to http://www.seattlesquare.com/pandemonium and clicking on The Bashful Swede. I would very much like to hear your comments. Tusen Tack, Dave Liljengren --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 23:37:43 +0200 From: Petter Tiilikainen Subject: trastocksfestivalen..!? From http://www.svt.se Kanal 1, Fredag 20.30 Tra, pop och karlek [ED - swedish text cut out - this is an english only mailing list] Does this mean there was a festival this year too after all? Hrmpf. It's not like there's enough events up here for me to feel happy about missing it. B-( Petter ---------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 00:48:16 +0100 From: totte.pop@swipnet.se (Totte Pop) Subject: review - Smash Hit Wonders hi, i've been doin some homework, and im late as always, a couple of albums that i have been listening to! Smash Hit Wonders - Love Your Wife (Sunspot Rec) There's no point whingeing any more, the slacker battle has moved on....There's enough people out there to dig these Smash Hit Wonders and I'm sometimes one of them! 'Love Your Wife' opens with 'Me and Malin', it cuts from gorgeous 'country-slide-pavment' to a 'full- blown-beatifully-framed-picture-of- lo-fi-power-pop'! Also songs like 'Breaking The Bonds Of male Power', 'Summer Of 89', 'Sunday 19th of May' and 'Got Nothing To Say', works very well somewhere around Neil Young and Dinosaur Jr, and that's OK with me. It's high quality pop songs and hey, that's always what you a wanted to hear, right! Mid tempo songs crossing over to great power pop tunes works well as long Smash Hit Wonders looks 'over there', the only time I think they loose concentration is when they throw in a 'Bob Hund' chorus or trying to have a nasty attitude as in 'Socialism' or 'The fever' or in 'I'm On My Way', they'll do just fine without that! What moves me most about Smash Hit Wonders is the sense of discovery that I'll share with the band, the feeling that they have the chops and curiosity, the ability and will to try anything to take you along with them each wide-eyed step of the way. It's a Smash in Indie land! more to come from the tott..... totte.pop@swipnet.se (Totte Pop) -------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:30:10 +0200 From: Micke Rehnstrom Subject: Re: trastocksfestivalen..!? Petter Tiilikainen wrote: >Does this mean there was a festival this year too after all? >Hrmpf. It's not like there's enough events up here for me to >feel happy about missing it. B-( You do not have to be angry and/or sad. According to Aftonbladets TV Magazine this is from last years festival. This year there was no festival, because of troubles with the police, as has been reported to the list previously. BTW, since complaining about things seems to help (suddenly Grand Tone Music is a swedish band in Expressen Fredags tour guide too - good work, Erik) one remark about the info from SVT (swedish public television company): Why call Backfish a "girl band"? OK, there are three girls in the band but as long as David Johansson plays the drums in the band it should be rather stupid to call them a "girl band". In addition, Aftonbladet calls Backfish an "_indy_ pop" band. Pop music for race car drivers, perhaps? Hooked up on details? Me? :-) /Micke, reaching Andromeda Heights --------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 22:13:34 +0200 From: iggystooge.livevid@mailbox.swipnet.se Subject: Malmo festival hi is there anyone that have any info about peace love and pitbulls and dilevas (and other bands i would like to see) gigs at malmo festival that will start next friday? prices, locations, dates, time etc jerker ps: dont mention any www since my netscape suxx big times for the moment --------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 03:23:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: present Bordeaux by CESSNA Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:28:12 -0700 From: xander@sirius.com (Radio Khartoum) Subject: present Bordeaux by CESSNA Radio Khartoum presents its premiere release, the debut album from Finland's own kings of smooth DIY pop, Cessna. Elegant and eclectic by turns, "Bordeaux" blends laidback bubblegum riffs with flavors as diverse as Razorcuts, early Daily Planet, early Monochrome Set, the Monkees, Young Marble Giants, warbling basslines à la Field Mice or Factory-era Wake and vocals reminiscent of Holiday. The antique "Lira" organ, which accents many of the songs, is of suspected Italian origin, and deserves a sentence all of its own. "Bordeaux" contains the following songs: Birds Skyscrapers So Unreal Explain To Me Again Sunday So Soon Oh Grey Rainy Season Nikosia and Dreamt Of You Continental Diner Cardamom Kiss Non-Stop We Can Still Be Friends This, all in a uniquely decadent digital format! "Bordeaux" is available now from Roundabout, Jigsaw, Mind the Gap, and Parasol mailorder services, as well as from Cessna . Copies of "Bordeaux" are also available from Radio Khartoum for U.S. $11, postpaid to any destination in the world. Checks or money orders should be in U.S. funds and payable to Alexander Bailey. Radio Khartoum also accepts crispy paper money from France, U.K., Sweden, Finland, Canada, Holland (only because Dutch money looks so great!), Germany, and Japan, (and possibly other countries), but please add about 10% for bank costs, and be discreet as Radio Khartoum cannot be responsible for cash lost in the mail. Distributor inquiries are also welcome. Radio Khartoum 722 Alcatraz Ave. No. 106 Oakland CA 94609 USA xander@sirius.com Cessna can also be heard on: "McBain" compilation cassette (Runaway Balloon) "Holiday On Ice" 7" EP (Jigsaw) Forthcoming compilations from Dorian and Sandcastle, and a 3 track 7" from Fantastic. Upcoming releases from Radio Khartoum will include an EP by Watoo Watoo, and a series of imaginary soundtracks featuring new works by Seashells, Chocolate Barry, Caramel, Booly, Christine, Gypsophile, Beth Custer, Danny Manners & David Longdon, Louis Philippe, and a host of other artists from Sweden, France, Finland, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Estonia and the US, some legendary, some obscure... ................................................................. Alexander Bailey/Radio Khartoum or: c/o KMESA 722 Alcatraz Ave. 171 Twelfth St. No. 106 Third Floor Oakland CA 94609, USA Oakland CA 94607, USA tel: ++1 510/420.0468 tel: ++1 510/465.7728 e-mail: xander@sirius.com fax: ++1 510/835.4913 --------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 03:23:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Music on the TV [08-Aug-97] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE TV Scandinavian Indie August 8 -> 14, 1997 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) Day Date Artist/What TV Program Channel Time --- ----- ---------------------- ------------------- ----------- ----- Fri 8/8 Festivals '97 Special MTV Europe 20.00 Tr{stocksfestivalen, Carpe Wade, Backfish Tr{, pop & k{rlek SVT 1 20.30 Sat 9/8 Stockholm Water Fest. Vattenfestivalen TV 4 16.15 Paul Weller, Suede, Ricardo da Force, Elvis Costello, Dodgy, Alisha's Attic The White Room ZTV 20.30 Suede Live 'N' Direct MTV Europe 21.00 Festivals '97 Special MTV Europe 22.00 Stockholm Water Fest. Vattenfestivalen TV 4 00.40 R Sun 10/8 East 17, Nicolette, Courtney Pine & Ruby Turner, Boo Radleys, Fun Lovin' Criminals The White Room ZTV 20.30 Mon 11/8 Jumper, Lost Libidos, Paul Oxley's Unit, Tomas Ledin etc. Popkalaset 1997 FTV 21.10 The Hellacopters Extranummer SVT 2 21.45 Tue 12/8 Jon Bon Jovi Live 'N' Direct MTV Europe 20.00 James Dean Bradfield co-hosts. Videos with: Dinosaur Jr, Evil Superstars, Nick Cave, Girls Vs Boys, Southern Culture on the Skids, Joy Division, Vampyros Lesbos, Primal Scream, Folk Implosion, Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, Happy Mondays, Flowered Up, DJ Hype, The Specials. Alternative Nation MTV Europe 00.00 Wed 13/8 - Thu 14/8 The Wannadies Star Trax MTV Europe 14.00 Finnish Top List Lista FTV 17.36 R = Rerun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie website at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/uptv.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 03:24:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Complaints... Well, you know that anal retentive complaint about evening newspaper Expressen's entertainment/weekend edition "Friday"'s tour guide I posted to the list last week. Well, I decided I'd pass on a copy of it to the guy handling the guide at the paper as well - and to my great surprise, _everything_ was corrected in yesterday's paper! Well, almost at least. He left out Catherine completely now - but I guess that's okay. Stunned is a good word - I've never seen him act on hints so quickly before. Maybe it was because a copy of the message was also sent to the editor-in-chief. ;-) So, things do happen. But I'll leave it up to him to find out about "Lynard Skynard" - which should be Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Coca Cola" - which should be Coca Carola and "Arvidsaur" - which should be Arvidsjaur... this (and last) week's eye-catchers... (and I'm not even looking for them!) I'm a bit surprised that none of the evening papers have picked up on the Spiritualized tour yet though. But they'll find out, one day. //Erik (who just won't quit - ha ha) ---------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 03:24:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Music on the Radio [11-Aug-97] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE RADIO Scandinavian Indie August 11 -> 14, 1997 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) Day Date Artist Recorded --- ----- -------------------------- --------------------------------------- Mon 11/8 Son Volt Hultsfred, Festival -97 Tue 12/8 Natascha Atlas Stockholm, Re-Orient Festival 14-Jun-97 Wed 13/8 Juri Hulkkonen Denmark, Roskilde Festival -97 Thu 14/8 The Dictators Stockholm, Gino 02-Oct-96 This list covers the Swedish National Channel P3's "Live" - at 21.03-22.00 or 18.03-19.00 where marked with a '*'. (R) = Rerun ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie site at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/uprad.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 03:25:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Gig Guide (Luger) [10-Aug-97] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Luger Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie August 10th, 1997 by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCANDINAVIAN: FIRESIDE (S) - Startracks/BMG / House Of Kicks Aug 10 Varberg (S) Majas Strandcafe Venue Decided KOMEDA (S) - Nons-MD / Pinnacle / Minty Fresh Aug 28 Uppsala (S) Kalmar Nation New Date Aug 31 Stockholm (S) Studion New Date LOOSEGOATS (S) - Startracks / House Of Kicks Aug 18 Malmo (S) Malmo Festival New Date REFUSED (S) - Startracks / House Of Kicks Aug 14 Koln (D) BUZE Ehrenfeld (Popkomm) Venue Decided STARMARKET (S) - Dolores / MD + Abhinanda (S) Aug 7-10, 15-29 Aug 10 Varberg (S) Majas Strandcafe New Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NON-SCANDINAVIAN: SAMMY (US) - Fire Records / Border Aug 16 Hassleholm (S) Perrong 23 New Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The COMPLETE Luger Tour List is posted to the mailing list now and then. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- End of SIN Digest #4.31 *********************** * 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