Scandinavian Indie Digest Vol.3 Issue #11
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Digest
Vol.3 #11
Feb 18, 1996
There are 40 messages totalling 1231 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Erik's Cessna review (3)
2. Cardigans
3. singers (was Re: Erik's Cessna review)
4. Popundret's 'Montmartre 15 40' reviewed
5. Trastockfestivalen '96 (3)
6. Erik's Cessna review part 1000
7. About summerfestivals
8. newsflash on Super!
9. unsubscribe (6)
10. singers/Popsicle
11. Candysuck
12. Topp40's TV list..
13. Tindersticks p} P3's live
14. Pineforest Crunch. (2)
15. Sin's Selected News [11-Feb-96]
16. Salt Live Internet Broadcast
17. Bob Hund (2)
18. NON-SCAN: Seam's like 'chunk spirit (2)
19. Swedish Indie Tape (Stage 2) (2)
20. The Contests!
21. Him (?) Kerosene (2)
22. Fireside / Teddybears Videos
23. Motor Tour List _Update_ [12-Feb-96]
24. List Statistics [14-Feb-96]
25. Fireside / Teddybears
26. Votes for the swedish indie tape
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 22:59:54 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: Re: Erik's Cessna review
I don't know if it's net-politically correct to speak about one's own
band on this (or any) list, so apologies to those who are offended by
this...
First of all, thanks to Erik for his analytical review of our little
tape (and Robert too, who did the same thing some time ago). Your
thoughts are so enlightening!
According to chief@lysator.liu.se:
* 2. cardamom kiss
* A picking Bear Quartet guitar starts the song. Great similarity to the
* soft BQ vocals we've heared from Matti lately as well, but not at all
* times. During the chorus, a Cardiganesque bass leads the way.
That BQ comparison is a good point - I never thought about it
myself...Robert's referring to Popsicle was a bit more predictable (as
we happened to be playing "Abstinence" in the studio while mixing the
song as 'inspiration'). So we got the cream of Swedish pop in just one
song, not bad?
* 4. my blue anglia
* There's only one word for this song: Cardigans.
Funny thing is that the song was written long before I had even
heard *about* Cardigans...
*6. this will end in tears
* I think
* the "quiet" parts should've been removed and the chorus would fill the
* whole song from beginning to end.
Hmmm...interesting idea...but if you had studied some linguistics
(structuralism to be more exact) you'd know that 'differences create
the meaning', hence if the song would have only that one part, I
doubt you would like it as much, as it would be, in a manner of
speaking, without a proper framework... :) :)
* 7. non-stop
* When me and my girlfriend heard this track the first time, we both
* thought of one thing. Ride. I can't pin-point what Ride song it sounds
* like, but it's an older one, and I wanted to write a fast review so
* I haven't had the time to search through my Ride records. :-)
That's interesting...let me know when you have discovered which Ride
song we have ripped off! :)
* All in all, this demo is a gem. I'd send a copy to West Side if I
* were you, even only if just to see what kind of reply you'd get and
Yeah, maybe we should...so far we haven't actually sent any copies of
the demo tape to record companies (well actually I sent one to
Southern Studios, but I didn't know it was a record company...but it's
another story altogether...)
* On the down-side: the cover of the demo tape needs more attention
* to catch the eyes of the reviewers :-) - that is, if you're going to
* send it to some magazines, which I hope you will. SA and Pop for example.
I don't know...somehow I'm not sure if it would be of any use. My
impression is that having a demo reviewed in some magazine does not
do very much good to the band (at least to a band like ours, at least
here in Finland). Have you ever heard of a band that would have been
offered eg. a record deal because of a demo review in some
magazine/newspaper? Here in Finland, I get the feeling that most bands
who sent out demos to be reviewed in magazines are sort of
no-hopers...of course this is only my cynical opinion :)
Naturally, fanzines are a totally different story, because they are
written by people who are excited about what they write and review
only stuff they really like, and usually they have made the effort to
get hold of that music; instead of getting tens of demos in the mail
each day by young hopeful bands.
Besides, we (well, at least I) don't consider 'Hobby-like' as a
*demo*, it's a *tape* which someone out there might even like to
release, if I'm allowed to daydream in public...
* And how about a homepage for Cessna?
Well,it's in the works...there is some boring stuff already at
http://www.uta.fi/~trkisa/cessna.html, and if time & energy allow,
there may be some more in the future.
Well, I've gone too long already, sorry if this was self-indulgent,
boring, pointless and whatever.
Kimmo
trkisa@uta.fi
...listening to "The Singular Adventures of Style Council"
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 10:27:41 +0100
From: Nicolas Moch
Subject: Re: Cardigans
chief@lysator.liu.se wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 1996, Nicolas Moch wrote:
>
> > According to some icelandic subscribers to the Cardigans mailing list,
> > Emiliana Torini is a "bad karaoke cover singer"...
>
> Uh-oh. Cardigans are really in for some ... mixed gigs. I just read that
> they (Cardigans) will play in Tokyo, Japan in April with Stakka Bo (!).
As for Emiliana Torini I don't know, but the fact that Stakka Bo and the
Cardigans are on the label (Stockholm Records) and that Stakka Bo's
younger brother made the design of Life has certainly something to do
with these concerts in Japan.
BTW Erik, don't you like Stakka Bo ? ;-)
Nicolas
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 96 13:43:41 +0100
From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming)
Subject: Re: Erik's Cessna review
In <199602072059.WAA06971@kielo.uta.fi>, Kimmo (trkisa@uta.fi) wrote:
> I don't know if it's net-politically correct to speak about one's own
> band on this (or any) list, so apologies to those who are offended by
> this...
They don't call you Kimmo 'the self-centred self-publicist'
S{{skilahti for nothing, you know. In fact, they don't call you that
at all!
> According to chief@lysator.liu.se:
> * 2. cardamom kiss
> That BQ comparison is a good point - I never thought about it
> myself...Robert's referring to Popsicle was a bit more predictable (as
> we happened to be playing "Abstinence" in the studio while mixing the
> song as 'inspiration'). So we got the cream of Swedish pop in just one
> song, not bad?
I don't know if I'm the only one here that's getting increasingly
frustrated at Popsicle. They write really pretty good songs, their
lyrics are fine these days, and they're perfectly good
instrumentalists. But they go and ruin it all because they
_just_can't_sing_. Listen to that middle eight in 'Not Forever' -- I
find it's just too embarrassing to listen to. It's beyond excusable
Pastels-ism, I think: it's a real waste of good pop music, and it's
time they did something about it.
> * 6. this will end in tears
> * I think
> * the "quiet" parts should've been removed and the chorus would fill the=
> * whole song from beginning to end.
> Hmmm...interesting idea...but if you had studied some linguistics
> (structuralism to be more exact) you'd know that 'differences create
> the meaning', hence if the song would have only that one part, I
> doubt you would like it as much, as it would be, in a manner of
> speaking, without a proper framework... :) :)
Well I actually like the way Cessna do this contrast-thing, so I don't
agree with Erik. The point maybe is that Cessna have quite _big_
contrasts in their songs, and I suppose you could argue that they
overdo it. My feeling is that the world is so full of bands that
can't get more than one half-baked idea into a song, so this way of
doing things is refreshing. But like I said before, letting a song go
on for longer than three minutes is something that Cessna can
certainly afford to do.
> * All in all, this demo is a gem. I'd send a copy to West Side if I
> * were you, even only if just to see what kind of reply you'd get and
> Yeah, maybe we should...so far we haven't actually sent any copies of
> the demo tape to record companies
Kimmo, get yourself a stamp, and an envelope, right? Now write on the
front: Jocke, West Side, Skelleftea...
> * that is, if you're going to
> * send it to some magazines, which I hope you will. SA and Pop for examp
> I don't know...somehow I'm not sure if it would be of any use. My
> impression is that having a demo reviewed in some magazine does not
> do very much good to the band (at least to a band like ours, at least
> here in Finland). Have you ever heard of a band that would have been
> offered eg. a record deal because of a demo review in some
> magazine/newspaper? Here in Finland, I get the feeling that most bands
> who sent out demos to be reviewed in magazines are sort of
> no-hopers...of course this is only my cynical opinion :)
Maybe you haven't seen the demo page in Pop. It might be worth
checking if Terry Ericsson takes non-Swedish stuff, but don't worry,
plenty of successful Swedish bands have passed through his frustrated
hands. Naked spring to mind. Besides, you get your name recognised,
and all publicity is good publicity. Besides, Cessna are easily good
enough. Or do you have a deal with Sub Pop in the pipeline?
> Besides, we (well, at least I) don't consider 'Hobby-like' as a
> *demo*, it's a *tape* which someone out there might even like to
> release, if I'm allowed to daydream in public...
Well, how much would it cost to release a mini-CD? I bet you could
sell it.
> Well, I've gone too long already, sorry if this was self-indulgent,
> boring, pointless and whatever.
It wasn't. Try harder next time... ;)
Robert, who'd be listening to Popundret's 'Montmartre 15 40' if he had
a CD player here
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:35:11 +0200 (EET)
From: Sami Rouhento
Subject: singers (was Re: Erik's Cessna review)
Robert wrote:
> instrumentalists. But they go and ruin it all because they
> _just_can't_sing_. Listen to that middle eight in 'Not Forever' -- I
> find it's just too embarrassing to listen to. It's beyond excusable
> Pastels-ism, I think: it's a real waste of good pop music, and it's
> time they did something about it.
Hey, hey, what is all this..? I'll admit the bald guy in Popsicle can
get on my nerves, more and more so as time goes on, but the other
vocalist's voice is just perfection! And sure, hardly anyone of
the Pastels could hit the right note even on a good day but I think
that's really not the point. The Pastels are my friends, and I love
them.
sami
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 96 19:51:50 +0100
From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming)
Subject: Popundret's 'Montmartre 15 40' reviewed
Don't scratch your ears -- the two-minute guitar-pop song is back,
courtesy of Skellefteaa's Popundret. Unfortunately, so is the
37-minute CD, but (mindful of 'The La's', 'It's a Shame about Ray' and
other miniature gems) we won't take issue with that. Listening to
Popundret's neatly-crafted debut is a half-hour-and-a-bit well spent.
Magnus Nilsson's voice dominates, which is both Popundret's
strength and their weakness. At his best, he's exhilarating to listen
to, attacking the variously acerbic and joyful lyrics with obvious
relish. At times, however, he sounds a little too much like Morrissey
for comfort, and anyone who remembers early James material might feel
awkwardly transported back to 1991. This is less of a problem on the
slower, more melancholy tracks, than it is in the upbeat ones where
things otherwise to work best. There, Popundret shine. Occasionally,
as in 'Shiver Gone', they positively shimmer: you realise sheepishly
that any record that makes you grin like this can't possibly be the
Smiths. Music, indeed, which would go just fine with that second cafe
au lait at twenty to four on a languid Parisian afternoon...
Robert, tur att han inte kan det haer paa svenska aen, va
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:06:46 +0100
From: magnus@lousy.pp.se (Lousy)
Subject: Re: Erik's Cessna review
>I don't know...somehow I'm not sure if it would be of any use. My
>impression is that having a demo reviewed in some magazine does not
>do very much good to the band (at least to a band like ours, at least
>here in Finland).
Hi,
I'm in a band called Lousy and we're a sad bunch of no-hopers. :) Umm,
just thought that I'd mention that after a nice review of our last demo
in Pop we received a couple of letters from a couple of labels asking
for a copy of the demo, EMI being one of them.
>Have you ever heard of a band that would have been
>offered eg. a record deal because of a demo review in some
>magazine/newspaper?
Um... well... we're not one of them... that's for sure.
>Here in Finland, I get the feeling that most bands
>who sent out demos to be reviewed in magazines are sort of
>no-hopers...of course this is only my cynical opinion :)
Well, I (we) feel the same way, that's why we keep sending them. :)
Take care,
Magnus
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:29:43 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: Trastockfestivalen '96
According to chief@lysator.liu.se:
* Trastocksfestivalen 96 - the Swedish Woodstock, will be held July 19 - 20
* this year. And as usual it is for free. Jocke said
* they were thinking of stepping down a bit this year,
* as it was almost too much people there last year,
* but he had no plans on how. All the West Side bands
* will be there, and Jocke hoped that Salt would come
* back and play this year again.
Great news! I hope Salt will return (still bummed after missing them
last year). It's interesting to hear that there were 'too much people'
there last summer... it was indeed the cosiest and friendliest (and
smallest) festival I have ever been to!
Only five and a half month's wait... :) Let's start making those plans
for the summer now!
Kimmo
trkisa@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~trkisa/
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 96 11:33:12 +0100
From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming)
Subject: Re: Trastockfestivalen '96
> * Trastocksfestivalen 96 - the Swedish Woodstock, will be held July 19 -
> 20
> * this year. And as usual it is for free. Jocke
> said
Hey, keep your lines short man!! :)
> Only five and a half month's wait... :) Let's start making those plans
> for the summer now!
Got it down in my diary!
While I'm here... (1) what did you think of Shack and GZM? (2) one of
my spies Turussa said that Aknestik had been playing live on the radio
and had alluded to a new album *studsar* -- know anything about this?
And does this mean that they're _touring_? *reaches for ferry-booking
equipment*
Got that tape off to West Side yet?
Robert
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 13:52:15 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: Re: Erik's Cessna review part 1000
According to Robert Cumming:
* I don't know if I'm the only one here that's getting increasingly
* frustrated at Popsicle. They write really pretty good songs, their
* lyrics are fine these days, and they're perfectly good
* instrumentalists. But they go and ruin it all because they
* _just_can't_sing_. Listen to that middle eight in 'Not Forever' -- I
* find it's just too embarrassing to listen to. It's beyond excusable
* Pastels-ism, I think: it's a real waste of good pop music, and it's
* time they did something about it.
I don't know...I've got a soft spot for, er...'not quite perfect'
vocalists... I can identify with them, or something... :)
* Well I actually like the way Cessna do this contrast-thing, so I don't
* agree with Erik. The point maybe is that Cessna have quite _big_
* contrasts in their songs, and I suppose you could argue that they
* overdo it.
Well...it's the good old shoegaze/dreampop arrangement ideology, or
even a mannerism or sorts, at least it was for bands like Ride at
their early stage. I remember reading an interview where they guys
talked about writing the song "Twisterella", and how they realized
that they don't necessarily need to include the usual 'loud part' in
the song.
* doing things is refreshing. But like I said before, letting a song go
* on for longer than three minutes is something that Cessna can
* certainly afford to do.
OK, watch out for a forthcoming 20-minute Spiritualized/Stereolab
workout... :)
* Kimmo, get yourself a stamp, and an envelope, right? Now write on the
* front: Jocke, West Side, Skellefte=E5...
Well, that does it! I've had enough!!! I'll do it! I'LL DO IT!!! But
only to get you guys off my back!!!!! If someone mentions this once
more, I'll scream!!! :)
* Or do you have a deal with Sub Pop in the pipeline?
Well, now that you mention it... yeah, we came close to a deal with
them, but at the end of the day they wouldn't agree on releasing all
our stuff on the double 10" format only, the sleeve of each copy
individually finger-painted by the label's boss. What a sad label.
Hmmm...maybe that was just a dream someone told me.
* > Well, I've gone too long already, sorry if this was self-indulgent,
* > boring, pointless and whatever.
*
* It wasn't. Try harder next time... ;)
Hey, was this better! Practise makes perfect, you know - one of these
days I'll be able to post a message that makes half of the members
unsubscribe pronto...
Kimmo
feeling slightly irrational because of
the beautiful winter day outside
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:53:12 +0100
From: Ann Nilsson och Magnus Skarbo
Subject: About summerfestivals
Magnus here.
Is there anyone on the list who knows anything about "deadline" dates for
the summerfestivals. I wanna send them our new material.
Love Magnus
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:20:29 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: Re: Trastockfestivalen '96
According to Robert Cumming:
* While I'm here... (1) what did you think of Shack and GZM?
Sorry, haven't had time to listen to them properly yet...the damn
flu... %(
*(2) one of
* my spies Turussa said that Aknestik had been playing live on the radio
* and had alluded to a new album *studsar* -- know anything about this?
* And does this mean that they're _touring_? *reaches for ferry-booking
* equipment*
Hey, great news!! I haven't heard a thing about this, but I'll try and
do some research; I hope I'll find something!
* Got that tape off to West Side yet?
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!! Not again!!!!!!!
Kimmo
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:36:39 +0200 (EET)
From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: newsflash on Super!
Yesterday an excited female voice announced in my telephone answering
machine that the much talked-about band Super have clinched a recording deal
with a (relatively new?) Finnish label Odor (some kind of a
sub-division of Spinefarm, who some listers might recognize).
There will be a single and probably an album of sorts coming out later
this year...don't have any details at the moment, though.
They will also be playing a gig in Helsinki tomorrow (Feb the 10th),
with Poverty Stinks (are they really still alive?); and another one in
that beautiful city later in March.
Finally, the Super web site seems now to up and running, so navigate your
favourite brower to the following cyberlocation now!
http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~phartika/super/
Err...that's it? Yes, that's it.
Share and enjoy,
Kimmo
trkisa@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~trkisa/
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:06:28 +0100
From: "Mondini, Massimo"
Subject: unsubscribe
unsubscribe massimo mondini
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:27:17 +0200 (EET)
From: Sami Rouhento
Subject: Re: unsubscribe
> unsubscribe massimo mondini
see what you guys have done now? one more post about cessna and i'll bet the
rest will be out the door, too...
sami
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:48:41 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: singers/Popsicle
I listened to the Popsicle's gig on the radio yesterday, and i recognized
one of the new songs as a pure Teenage Fanclub rip-off. The guitar _was_
"Versimillitude" by TFC. I've got no problem with song thefts as long as
they are good, but this was sooo obvious.
I don't know the name of the Popsicle song (haven't bought the album yet),
but those who have, check it out.
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 21:22:38 +0100
From: allfn@algonet.se (Magnus Jansson)
Subject: Candysuck
Hi Punx
I just have to write regarding the name of the fothcoming Candysuck CD.
The name of the fullength CD will be "Score !".Enough said about that. I
spoke with one of the girls in the band today and she told me that they will
release a cd-single with the name "Popcorn"(that=B4s the name
they have in mind right now).
Both the cd-single and the CD will be released by Soundfront.
Sorry chief, you can't trust "Topp 40" anymore...
The new Refused CD and the new Fireside cd-single are out on Monday (12/2),
recommended by Bella Stenberg (Aftonbladet) and Martin Carlsson (Expressen).
Magnus
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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 04:52:07 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Topp40's TV list..
It's pretty flattering (?) to see that the swedish music business magazine
Topp40 changed the look of their list of "music on the television" in the
latest issue (thursday 8/2) into something that looks _exactly_ like the
Scandinavian Indie Upcoming Music on the TV list, except they also list
what record label the artist is on as well.
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:11:58 +0100
From: Jan Mattsson
Subject: Re: Tindersticks p} P3's live
Aha! Det m]ste nog lyssnas p}.
Lycka till med l{genhetsf|rs{ljningen.
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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 17:12:44 +0100
From: Nicolas Moch
Subject: Pineforest Crunch.
Hello,
A French fanzine, as well as some European student radio stations would
like to interview Pineforest Crunch. Does anyone know how to contact the
band, or the management ?
Thanks in advance
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:48:16 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Sin's Selected News [11-Feb-96]
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Scandinavian Indie's Selected News
[11-Feb-96]
Contains:
Cardigans, Hultsfredsfestivalen, Kent, Record Reviews, Rockbjornen.
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Cardigans - two gigs together with Stakka Bo in Japan in April was also
noted with surprise by evening paper Aftonbladet on Friday
February 9th in a small "article". Maybe they should subscribe
to the Scandinavian Indie mailing list, to get the background
"scoop" posted to the list earlier by Nicolas Moch. More
Cardigans: Peter Svensson (guitar) is going to produce the
Confusions (from Sundsvall) upcoming full-length album.
Hultsfredsfestivalen 95 - have a "releaseparty" February 13th at Hard Rock
Cafe in Stockholm, about the headliners for this
year's festival. Invited only. (Source: Magnus
Jansson)
Kent - releases a single on February 19th called "Kr{m (s} n{ra f}r ingen
g})" from the forthcoming album "Verkligen" which will be released
in March.
Record Reviews - noted this weekend includes swedish hardcore meisters
Refused's full-length "Songs to Fan The Flames of Discontent"
on Startrec (4 out of 5 points in both Aftonbladet and
Expressen) and the CD compilation "Quality Punk Rock" on
Bad Taste Records, with among others, Loosegoats (3 out of 5
points from both Aftonbladet and Expressen (who also noted
that Loosegoats was the best band of them all on it)).
Rockbjornen - the gala held monday February 12th, by swedish evening paper
Aftonbladet, will have a live site on the Internet during the
event at http://www.aftonbladet.se/puls/puls.html, where you
can follow what's happening with comments from the winners and
audience, pictures and chat with others. The time to log on
is set to: 19.00. (performances from among others: Naked and
Fireside).
*** All news always at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/selnews.html ***
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 14:21:42 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: unsubscribe
>> unsubscribe massimo mondini
>
>see what you guys have done now? one more post about cessna and i'll bet the
>rest will be out the door, too...
Well, i actually was confronted by a girl (yes there are girls on our
list!!!) on my school, who was (is?) also on scan-indie. She made some
serious complaint that i was too talkative and posted a lot of non-relevant
shit!
Maybe she's right?! Maybe were irrellevant? Maybe we should clean our acts
up? It can't be that fun for the rest of the world to always hear what's
going on in Stockholm?!
Can we have a debate on this???
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:16:01 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: Salt Live Internet Broadcast
>The Swedish band Salt will be broadcasting live on the Internet Saturday,
>February 10 from Seattle. Their set time is Midnight. That would be 9:00 AM
>Sunday morning February 11 in Sweden...
Did anyone "attend" this??? I certainly did not. 9 am a sunday morning is
no time to be at school :P
Was it good??? Stupid question, i know it was...
Reviews, please!
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 15:33:32 +0100
From: Marten.Sahlen@uab.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen)
Subject: Re: unsubscribe
d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom) wrote:
> Well, i actually was confronted by a girl (yes there are girls on our
> list!!!) on my school, who was (is?) also on scan-indie. She made some
> serious complaint that i was too talkative and posted a lot of non-relevant
> shit!
Yes you're a loudmouth, Jan ;-) But I think we can live with that, since
not that many other people are talkative on the list.
> Maybe she's right?! Maybe were irrellevant? Maybe we should clean our acts
> up? It can't be that fun for the rest of the world to always hear what's
> going on in Stockholm?! Can we have a debate on this???
So what's the problem? Many of us live in Stockholm... many of the
bands we talk about live here... it's kind of natural that the contents
of this list reflect this situation.
Saturday night I did some barhopping, and from what I remember I met/saw
people from Kent, Cinnamon, Fireside, Teddybears, Bob Hund, and Atomic
Swing (and more often than not you see the people from Popsicle, Nomads,
and This Perfect Day too). My point is that more than half of these bands
are not Stockholmers originally, but yet they are drawn to the city like
flies to s**t, which of course is understandable if they want to get their
careers going. Given this, it's not very strange that the list's content
has a high Sthlm content.
I more than welcome people talking about the scenes in Linkoping, Goteborg,
Lulea, Lund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Tampere, Tallinn, Kaliningrad, whatever.
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:35:46 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Bob Hund
>Saturday night I did some barhopping, and from what I remember I met/saw
>people from Bob Hund....
YES????
What did they say about the new Album???? [Approx. one million eager Bob
Hund fans, tearing their hair off as they wait for anything new...]
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 18:55:08 +0100
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: Bob Hund
>> YES????
>> What did they say about the new Album???? [Approx. one million eager Bob
>> Hund fans, tearing their hair off as they wait for anything new...]
>
>I saw Essing at Kvarnen, but I didn't speak to him.
Ok, well then, he's not the talkative guy. I've hardly ever heard him utter
a word on stage.
> Apparently I don't have the same urge as you to pester every
> celebrity I run into (but then I never studied journalism :)
hah hah! Very funny. ;P It's my job to be curious, you know. And to talk
a lot of shit, as i'm rumoured to...
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:18:33 +0100 (MET)
From: Petter Tiilikainen
Subject: Re: unsubscribe
According to Marten Sahlen:
> I more than welcome people talking about the scenes in Linkoping, Goteborg,
> Lulea, Lund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Tampere, Tallinn, Kaliningrad, whatever.
^^^^^
*giggle*
There's no pop scene here atleast. But however, I guess it's scene
gossip that ex-bq guitarist Johan Forsling plays with Him Kerosene
now. I look forward to their future releases.
Did anyone catch "tryck till" on Z-tv, they played "left rustle"
by Fireside, the video was pretty funny, altough Jean-Pierre Barda
didn't get their wit.
Petter
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:31:40 +0100 (MET)
From: Per L}ngstr|m
Subject: Re: unsubscribe
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Petter Tiilikainen wrote:
> Did anyone catch "tryck till" on Z-tv, they played "left rustle"
> by Fireside, the video was pretty funny, altough Jean-Pierre Barda
> didn't get their wit.
..which wasn't all too surprising. i wouldn't imagine that fireside and
aol share any views and approaches whatsoever when it comes to music.
fireside likes superchunk. jean-pierre likes vaseline.
anyhow.. the fireside video was alright, but much better was the new
teddybears which "tryck till" run a few weeks back. it was very
"sabotage"ish along with a somewhat murky jesus lizard soundtrack.
hilarious slow-motion fighting poses along with some great faces and
furniture trashing.
very cool if you ask me. overly-excessive violence rules. :)
.per
----------------------
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 16:05:29 +0100
From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming)
Subject: NON-SCAN: Seam's like 'chunk spirit
Anybody for Superchunk and Seam at Studion tomorrow? I got my ticket
yesterday...
ObScanIndie: I've also got a ticket for Naked (supported by the
wonderfully-named Punnet -- anybody know who they are?) on March 8th
at Studion. Only 20kr, for some weird reason.
Robert, who now has contact lenses and is tempted to stagedive in
celebration
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:52:23 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Swedish Indie Tape (Stage 2)
Okay, I have received song votes for the Scandinavian Indie - Swedish Indie
tape from the following people:
1) Daniel Hansson
2) Robert Cumming
3) David M|llerstedt
4) Chris Forsberg
5) Jan Sundstr|m
6) Ludvig Borgne
Remember, you do not _have_ to vote for what songs to include on the
tape to be on the tape chain when it's realized in a couple of
weeks.
**********************************************************************
*** Last date to send in your song votes: 15-Feb-96 (2 days left!) ***
**********************************************************************
If you want to vote and help decide what songs to put on the tape,
e-mail me (chief@lysator.liu.se) with your songs reflecting what
songs you'd like to see included on the tape.
If you don't know which groups we're including on the tape, e-mail me
(chief@lysator.liu.se) and request the list.
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:51:55 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: Pineforest Crunch.
On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Nicolas Moch wrote:
> A French fanzine, as well as some European student radio stations would
> like to interview Pineforest Crunch. Does anyone know how to contact the
> band, or the management ?
I can always ask them when they play here on thursday with Popsicle
if you want - if not, you can always call Polygram (that _is_ the label
they're on isn't it?) and ask them about who to contact.
Polygram: 08-629 53 00
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:52:38 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: The Contests!
*** And don't forget about the 2 ***
CONTESTS
*** going on right now on the Scandinavian Indie WWW pages! ***
---> The Scandinavian Indie contest closes February 20th, 1996.
---> The Beat Butchers contest closes March 31st, 1996.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/scan.html
for more info!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
-------------------------
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:34:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Forsberg
Subject: Re: Swedish Indie Tape (Stage 2)
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996 chief@lysator.liu.se wrote:
> Remember, you do not _have_ to vote for what songs to include on the
> tape to be on the tape chain when it's realized in a couple of
> weeks.
Hey Chief, tell them they _have_ to!! :P Maybe you'd get more
suggestions! heehee.........(oops, was this a frivolous post?!?)
----------------------
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:29:56 +0100 (MET)
From: Per L}ngstr|m
Subject: Re: NON-SCAN: Seam's like 'chunk spirit
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Robert Cumming wrote:
> Anybody for Superchunk and Seam at Studion tomorrow? I got my ticket
> yesterday...
he he i can't believe you had the guts to do this.. he he i mean, go
on and tease everyone who doesn't have a ticket/live too far away from sthlm
for this amazing event..! well, i am willing to risk being flamed for
this too so, yes, i will be there for sure so count me in ! :) :) and i
can't believe that there are still tickets left! i got mine *weeks* ago..!
go superchunk! go seam! rock me! :)
.per , who will be wearing his newly shrunk pitchblende shirt and will
*not* stagedive in it. (stagediving is hazardous to you clothes :) )
-----------------------
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 05:58:11 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: Him (?) Kerosene
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Petter Tiilikainen wrote:
>> Lulea,
> ^^^^^
> *giggle*
> There's no pop scene here atleast. But however, I guess it's scene
> gossip that ex-bq guitarist Johan Forsling plays with Him Kerosene
> now. I look forward to their future releases.
Right! The Bear Quartet had only nice things to say about Him Kerosene
(is it "Him" and not "Hin"?). They had Nils from that band with them
on guitar when they played here last time (and David from Popundret/
The Spacious Mind on drums, and Kristian from Breach on bass) (I STILL
HAVE TO TYPE IN THAT INTERVIEW I KNOW!), which filled the interview
pretty much with info on HK instead of TBQ.. According to TBQ though,
HK is labeled as playing hardcore/ska, but is really playing rock/pop.
Anyway... Johan Forsling.. wasn't the reason he quit TBQ that he
was going to concentrate on his studies? Matti said that he (Johan)
didn't quite succeed with that all the way back in october last year,
and I guess that's what we can se now. :-) But, "hrrn hrrn" was
Johan's song, and one of my all-time-favourites, so with him in HK,
I agree with you and will definitely keep an eye on them from now on!
By the way, do you know who are members of HK now? In october, they
were in "a changing state", and the setting looked like below:
Nils ? - Guitar
Niklas Quintana - Guitar, Vocals
Patrik Jader - Bass
Pelle ? - Drums
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
---------------------
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 05:58:39 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: Fireside / Teddybears Videos
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Petter Tiilikainen wrote:
> Did anyone catch "tryck till" on Z-tv, they played "left rustle"
> by Fireside, the video was pretty funny, altough Jean-Pierre Barda
> didn't get their wit.
I totally hated that video myself.. I mean, Fireside, a "white video"
or what? That's not Fireside to me at least. A Fireside video (to me)
should include at least the band playing some instruments, a couple of
stagedives, and thunderous guitars. But I guess I'm stuck in my old
views on hardcore.
And Per L}ngstr|m wrote:
> anyhow.. the fireside video was alright, but much better was the new
> teddybears which "tryck till" run a few weeks back. it was very
> "sabotage"ish along with a somewhat murky jesus lizard soundtrack.
> hilarious slow-motion fighting poses along with some great faces and
> furniture trashing.
>
> very cool if you ask me. overly-excessive violence rules. :)
This I agree with! I actually thought that because it was (umm,
whatshisname from Teddybears) who made the Fireside video, maybe
they just didn't want them (Fireside) to top theirs (Teddybears)
and made it the way it is? :-) No no, I don't really think that. :-)
But I love the Teddybears video - it's really worth watching.
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
----------------------
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 05:59:21 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Motor Tour List _Update_ [12-Feb-96]
Motor Tour List _Update_
February 12th, 1996
Gordon Roligan
14/3 Lund - Elverket New Date
LPC *NEW* Beverage
1/3 Amsterdam - Melkweg
2/3 Rotterdam - Nighttown
Popsicle Telegram/Wea
Support - Pineforest Crunch
2/3 Kinna New Date
Stakka Bo Stockholm Rec.
14/3 S{len - HC New Date
15/3 Hedemora - Stadt New Date
16/3 S|dert{lje - Metz New Date
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Afghan Whigs (US) *NEW* MNW ILR
25/3 Copenhagen - Pumpehuset
26/3 Stockholm - Gino
Bad Religion (US) Sony
12/3 Copenhagen - Gr} Hall New Support ; Satanic Surfers
14/3 Stockholm - Gino New Support ; Randy
Goldie (UK) Polygram
29/3 Stockholm - Gino Cancelled
30/3 Oslo - Rockefeller Cancelled
31/3 Copenhagen - Pumpehuset Cancelled
Marion (UK) Polygram
New special guest; Syndicate
Napalm Death (UK) Earache/ House of Kicks
New special guest; Crowbar of Face Down
Tripping Daisy (US) Polygram
New special guests; Evil Superstars Polygram
** The _full_ Motor tour list is always available from Scandinavian Indie **
** at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/motor.html **
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
------------------------
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 05:58:59 +0100 (MET)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: List Statistics [14-Feb-96]
Here are some up-to-date list statistics I thought might be interesting.
(change since last time, 06-Jan-96, in parenthesis):
Mailing list started : February 10, 1994 (active over 2 years now)
Number of countries : 13 (+1)
Number of subscribers : 96 (+8)
Live list subscribers : 79 (+4)
Digest subscribers : 17 (+4)
Number of digests so-far : 47 (+8)
Total number of bytes posted : 1 810 762 (w/out headers) (+371 680)
Subscribers/country:
Sweden : 52 (+5)
US : 15 (-)
Finland : 11 (+2)
Denmark : 4 (-)
Norway : 3 (-)
UK : 3 (-)
Canada : 2 (+2)
Holland : 1 (-1)
Belgium : 1 (-)
Greece : 1 (-)
Hungary : 1 (-)
Iceland : 1 (-)
Italy : 1 (-)
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 11:59:07 +0100
From: Marten.Sahlen@uab.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen)
Subject: Fireside / Teddybears
Per L}ngstr|m wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Petter Tiilikainen wrote:
>
> > Did anyone catch "tryck till" on Z-tv, they played "left rustle"
> > by Fireside, the video was pretty funny, altough Jean-Pierre Barda
> > didn't get their wit.
>
> ..which wasn't all too surprising. i wouldn't imagine that fireside and
> aol share any views and approaches whatsoever when it comes to music.
> fireside likes superchunk. jean-pierre likes vaseline.
>
> anyhow.. the fireside video was alright, but much better was the new
> teddybears which "tryck till" run a few weeks back. it was very
> "sabotage"ish along with a somewhat murky jesus lizard soundtrack.
> hilarious slow-motion fighting poses along with some great faces and
> furniture trashing.
Incidentally, it is Pat Scab of Teddybears (in)fame that directed
Fireside's new video. All of them 'bears are into making videos now,
Jocko made the last one for Salt.
-------------------------
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 12:01:20 +0100 (MET)
From: Petter Tiilikainen
Subject: Re: Him (?) Kerosene
According to chief@lysator.liu.se:
> Right! The Bear Quartet had only nice things to say about Him Kerosene
> (is it "Him" and not "Hin"?). They had Nils from that band with them
I honestly have no idea!
> on guitar when they played here last time (and David from Popundret/
> The Spacious Mind on drums, and Kristian from Breach on bass) (I STILL
> HAVE TO TYPE IN THAT INTERVIEW I KNOW!), which filled the interview
> pretty much with info on HK instead of TBQ.. According to TBQ though,
> HK is labeled as playing hardcore/ska, but is really playing rock/pop.
I'm eagerly waiting. However, Johan Forsling said that they play
punk (*grin*). Yeah, Johan's given up a number of different majors
here on the university (maskin,matematik.. (sorry no english)).
Apparently he's going for the "systemvetare" major now... :-)
I love the hrnn hrrn video, but unfortunately I've only seen it twice.
Petter
----------------------
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 14:06:44 -0800
From: Daniel Hansson
Subject: Votes for the swedish indie tape
Popsicle - A Song Called Liberty
Salt - Honour Me
Bob Hund - 15 ar bakat och 15 ar framat
Honey Is Cool - Georgia
Bear Quartet - Carsick
Cardigans - Celia Inside
Cloudberry Jam - Elevator
Yvonne - Drifter
Wannadies - My Hometown
Eggstone - My Trumpets
Fireside - Al Tonno Q
Hardy Nilsson - Det Blir Inte Battre
Kent - Kram
Puffin - While You're Gone
Smash Hit Wonders - Sell It To Spielberg
This Perfect Day - Headache
Daniel H
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