Digest

Vol.4 #32

August 17th, 1997

There are 30 messages totalling 1034 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Malmo Festival (2)
  2. Fuego?
  3. Lasse Girl (3)
  4. Emmaboda! HELP!! Report needed... (4)
  5. Enter-news - brief info about Lasna-rock
  6. vinyl pressing, part 2
  7. Honey Is Cool at the Water Festival
  8. Abnormalcy #7.5
  9. trastocksfestivalen..!? (2)
 10. New on this list !
 11. A Scan/Indie Column
 12. splash four in Sweden
 13. sommarens sista suck
 14. shameless promoting pt. 2
 15. Hellacopters!!!
 16. studios? (3)
 17. More water festival ramblings (D JR, SooL, Cardigans, Blur)
 18. More gigs (2)
 19. Brainpool without Kask
 20. Tour List (Luger BA) [17-Aug-97]

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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 12:23:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Starck Erik 
Subject: Re: Malmo Festival

> 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

The price of the conserts is as free as the air you breathe, but it's
usually quite crowded. This is a in-no-way-complete list of some more
or less interesting bands who'll be playing:

Friday 15/8
23.30 Infinite Mass - Rockscenen
23.30 Clas Yngstrom & his Orchestra of Experience (bigband version of Jimi
      Hendrix) - Gustavscenen

Saturday 16/8
16.00 Ronny Rooster (the "Kottbullesangen"-dude) - Stora Scenen
19.00 Dilba - Stora Scenen
19.30 The Mopeds (it says "music inspired by Frank Black and the Pixies"
      in the paper, but I don't know... (Btw, what a great description,
      almost like writing "music inspired by the Beatles and John
      Lennon".)) - Rockscenen
22.15 Fidget (guess you know them already) - Rockscenen
23.30 Brainpool (music inspired by John Lennon and the Beatles) -
      Rockscenen

Sunday 17/8
19.00 Jumper (pop) - Stora Scenen
19.30 Silverbullet - Rockscenen
20.45 Sideshow Bob - Rockscenen
22.00 Latin Kings - Stora Scenen
22.15 PLP (Thastrom rox) - Rockscenen

Monday 18/8
19.00 Sir Lord Erotic (with Peps Person!) - Stora Scenen
19.30 Loosegoats (trottoar-rock) - Rockscenen
21.00 Di Leva - Stora Scenen
21.45 Liberator - Rockscenen

Tuesday 19/8
19.00 Viktoria Tolstoy and Esbjorn Svensson Trio (jazz) - Stora Scenen
19.30 Serial Cynics (girlband playing it hard'n'heavy) - Rockscenen
20.30 Tenebre (some of the members from Flegmas new band, play heavy
      metal) - Rockscenen
21.45 Hellacopters (some of the members from a whole lot of bands play
      garage metal, as if you did not know :) - Rockscenen

Wednesday 20/8
19.00 Wille Crawford - Stora Scenen
19.00-22.45 Roastinghouse evening on Rockscenen with Apple Chapel,
            Dinah-Moe Humm, Crayfish, Subculture, Pain of Salvation,
            Captor, RAG and Latin Flavor.

Thursday 21/8
19.00 Avada Band (folkrock) - Hedmanska Garden Lilla Torg
19.00 Akaft (have no idea what this is) - Rockscenen
20.10 Aces High (dito) - Rockscenen
20.45 Original Sin - Rockscenen
21.30 Kiss of Thunder (Kiss-clones) - Rockscenen

Friday 22/8
20.00 Uno Svenningsson (used to be in Fredag, and no NOT Expressen :) -
      Stora Scenen
22.00 Ossler (used to be (is) in Wilmer X) - Rockscenen
23.30 Mutts (poprock) - Rockscenen


Erik Starck
Software Engineering
College of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden

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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:31:28 +0200
From: Micke Rehnstrom 
Subject: Fuego?

Has anyone heard a swedish band called Fuego? How do they sound? I have
just read some info about the band but nothing about their sound. I should
not, normally, be interested in a band that has Jonas Leksell (also in The
Standards) as a member but I am interested in the record company Dolores
Records and Dolores are interested in Fuego, so...

/Micke

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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:13:44 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Timo Riitamaa 
Subject: Lasse Girl

Hey, was somebody at Semifinal on friday? if somebody doesn't release a 7"
by Lasse Girl i'll have to start a record-label. they're sort of like
Sweetheart playing pop... in the finnish meaning of the word.

Enter-man! are you guys coming over to Helsinki anytime in the near future
to play some rock'n roll action?

Also, it would seem that the UFO's have abducted The Duplo's 7"s while they
were on their way to finland from somewhere in eastern europe. i think we
need the Men In Black! (not really, hollywood needs an atom bomb)

and one last thing. how much does it cost to make a 7", what's the smallest
amount a factory is willing to do, and how much more does coloured vinyl
cost? i'd really appreciate if anybody is in the know on this thing. 

n.p. a Drunken Fish Records comp. tape

-Timo

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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:37:56 +0200
From: Cilja Kwon 
Subject: Emmaboda! HELP!! Report needed...

Hey can anyone tell me something about Broder Daniels gig in Emmaboda.
Rumours says that Henrik the singer in Broder D. fell off the stage.
When he crawled back, he screamed: -hey! You don't know who we are!!
Can anyone tell me more about this?

Also heard that Henric in Yvonne laughed through the whole gig.
He could bearly sing bcuz of laughing ... Why did he laugh Totte? :)

Where Broder Daniel good? The new songs and so...

Peace
Daniel

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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:59:02 +0300
From: Pete Korhonen 
Subject: Enter-news - brief info about Lasna-rock

Hey there!

The E-day is coming! Yah-Hah! will be officially released in 18th of
August. Distribution by SMD. Get your copy a.s.a.p.

Timo Riitamaa wrote:
>Enter-man! are you guys coming over to Helsinki anytime in the near future
>to play some rock'n roll action?

That would be nice - working on that. ;) Actually it is kind of a
financial question also - 5 men in black from the Eastern-Border.... 
'ain't no cheap thing at all...' Next gig is in...yes - Pieksamaki -
of course....

...And then - the greatest Indie-festival in Finland - Lasna-Rock in
Pieksamaki 22.-24. of August. Featuring at least the following bands
(according to Rumba-magazine....):

Maritta Kuula & Karvanopat / Radiopuhelimet /
Sweetheart / Rastas/ Vacuum Cleaners / Aavikko /
Submerged / Annukka / Vox Flatus / Disgrace /
Enter / Lyijykomppania / Thee Ultra Bimboos /
Trouble Band Gospel / Luxury Spit / The
Nightingales / Paraati / J.A. Alamaki / Terveet Kadet
/ Russian Love / Atom Heart / Fridge / Moon Fog
Prophet / Unknown Patient / Valse Triste / Natisuta Hetekata 
/ The Idiots / Mothers Against Sex Assiciation / 
Dynamite Fishers / Bhang / Seppala /
The Prow / Lousy Lovers / Kalle Matka /
Paraoranssi / The Surftones / The Suctans / 
Acting Bliss (INFO: +358-(0)40-5128 888).

So here we go. Hot summerdays falling into thunderstorms around here. Kewl!

Yours,
Pete
/enter

URL:   http://www.media.jns.fi/enternet
email: enter_fin@hotmail.com
       pkorho@cs.joensuu.fi

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 02:17:10 +0100
From: totte.pop@swipnet.se (Totte Pop)
Subject: Re: Emmaboda! HELP!! Report needed...

Cilja Kwon wrote

> Hey can anyone tell me something about Broder Daniels gig in Emmaboda.
> Rumours says that Henrik the singer in Broder D. fell off the stage.
> When he crawled back, he screamed: -hey! You don't know who we are!!
> Can anyone tell me more about this?

Broder Daniel made their worst consert of all time, it was a sad thing to
see, they played bad, henric bergren sung very badly, and i cant imagine
anyone liked it at all! i feel for johan who made his last show with
BD....:-(

> Also heard that Henric in Yvonne laughed through the whole gig.
> He could bearly sing bcuz of laughing ... Why did he laugh Totte? :)

well, henric was very pleased with the gig and just happy to be in
emmaboda, no problem with the vocals at all, one more show in nyköping
29/8 dont miss it!

otherwise it was a great festival this year with lots of sunshine and
great music! see you next year.

totte.pop@swipnet.se (Totte Pop)

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:33:20
From: Kimmo Saaskilahti 
Subject: Lasse Girl

Timo Riitamaa  wrote:

> Hey, was somebody at Semifinal on friday? if somebody doesn't release a
> 7" by Lasse Girl i'll have to start a record-label. they're sort of like
> Sweetheart playing pop... in the finnish meaning of the word.

I think they are called Lasso Girl, actually. 

> and one last thing. how much does it cost to make a 7", what's the smallest
> amount a factory is willing to do, and how much more does coloured vinyl
> cost? i'd really appreciate if anybody is in the know on this thing. 

There is a pressing plant in Czech Republic which is said to be very
reliable and to produce high quality vinyl. I don't know their exact costs
but I was told it is around 6-7 FIM/copy. The smallest pressing you can do
is 225 copies. I think the price depends somewhat on the color of the vinyl
you want to use, black being the cheapest and white the most expensive.
They produce also picture discs and weirdly shaped discs if you like.

As far as I know this is the very same pressing plant that most of the
Finnish indie labels use for their vinyl (like Bad Vugum and Trash Can),
but don't quote me on that.

Hope this helps,
Kimmo

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:34:49 +0200
From: Mats L 
Subject: Re: Emmaboda! HELP!! Report needed...

Totte Pop wrote:

> Cilja Kwon wrote
> 
>> Hey can anyone tell me something about Broder Daniels gig in Emmaboda.
>> Rumours says that Henrik the singer in Broder D. fell off the stage.
>> When he crawled back, he screamed: -hey! You don't know who we are!!
>> Can anyone tell me more about this?
> 
> Broder Daniel made their worst consert of all time, it was a sad thing to
> see, they played bad, henric bergren sung very badly, and i cant imagine
> anyone liked it at all! i feel for johan who made his last show with
> BD....:-(

Hey! 
I think it it was one of the best gigs there. And the best BD concert
I've seen. They were completely wasted alright. But just seeing all
these people in front of the stage watching a band that couldn't play
and a singer that couldn't stand up really turned me on. I came to think
of a young Iggy with his Stooges. One other reson why I liked the gig
could be that I was completely out of my mind too.

The best gigs besides BD were in my opinion DIPPER and FIDGET.
Eggstone was fun too becuase they (Per) were quite drunk on stage and
rocked off well.

/Mats

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:14:04 +0300 (EET DST)
From: solaris@sci.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti)
Subject: vinyl pressing, part 2

Some time ago, I wrote:

* There is a pressing plant in Czech Republic which is said to be very
* reliable and to produce high quality vinyl. I don't know their exact costs

Looks like they have an e-mail address as well, so you can try mailing
and asking about their prices etc. It is:

gramofonove@pha.pvtnet.cz

Looking more closely at the brochure I got, it seems that they do
pressing even as small as 100 copies, the cost of which is 0,91
DM/copy + mastering (200 DM for a 7") & some other odd
costs. Pressing 500 copies costs 0,69 DM/copy and 5000 copies would be
0,66 DM/copy.

I haven't figured out all the aspects of record production (like
sleeves & labels) and to what extent they bring up the price, but as
far as I can see it isn't terribly expensive. So why don't we all just
start an indie label of our own :)

Bye,
Kimmo

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:38:55 +0200
From: j.sundstrom@ekuc.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Honey Is Cool at the Water Festival

Well, yesterday night I saw Honey Is Cool at the Water Festival here in
Stockholm, so I thought I'd post a small review.

During the first day the arrangers demanded Vattenpass (tickets) to get
in to the shows, but they loosened up, and prefered to fill up the area
rather than seeing the bands playing to an empty field, so there was no
control at all on this stage.

As the last band of the evening (on stage 00.05) everybody were
expecting this to be a big act  - "publikdragare" as we say in swedish,
and all the indiekids of stockholm were there. HiC played at a pretty
big stage, it almost gave a stadium feeling to the gig, but it was
obvious that they could not fill up the big space. 

Well, on to the show. I haven't seen HiC for two years (?) now, since
they did that Kittenish showcase at Gino. Karins voice got me hooked
back then, and I was soo emotional and really loved it. Due to
misfortune i've missed them everytime they played in town until now.

I must admit I haven't bought the new album, but apart from Nach Heart,
the new songs didn't get to me yesterday. They had problems with the
instruments, and had to change drums between two songs. The bass player
said something like "It's gonna be quiet for a while, but you could
talk to each other meanwhile", which sounded stupid and dull. A good
band should be able to entertain its audience, no matter what happens
on stage. Now they lost momentum, and my pal who joined me at the gig,
suggested that we'd leave (many in the audience did so!).

After 5-6 songs they played Georgia, and I felt at home again. Still,
there was hardly any contact with the audience, and due to the back
lighting you couldn't even see their faces. So when they went off stage
after 35 minutes I had no desire to see them coming back on, But they
came back and did a steaming version of Another Round, which saved
their reputation. I love that song, and Karin shouted and squealed even
better than on the CD.

BTW, she has blond hair now, as some have already seen in the papers.
On stage that gives a more feminine appearance - if you didn't listen
to the music it was more Cardigans than Souls.

In all, I felt sorry for HiC, and hope i will see them in a smaller
place next time. They were not comfortable with playing at the Water
Festival, cause it demands much more interaction with the audience.
Even if the audience were indiekids, I believe most of them just passed
by to check them out, since it was free anyway. And in that situation,
you can't tell people off to stand and chat for minutes.

I had been to the Yulduz Usmanova and Habib Koite gigs (world music -
yeah! ;-) earlier the same night , and I have to admit I enjoyed myself
much more, simply cause they knew how to get attention and how to be
_present_ at the stage, and not just strumming along.

Nuff said, sorry for the rambling.

Jan

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 16:04:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Ola Lundkvist 
Subject: Re: Emmaboda! HELP!! Report needed...

Totte Pop wrote:
> Cilja Kwon wrote
>
>> Hey can anyone tell me something about Broder Daniels gig in Emmaboda.
>> Rumours says that Henrik the singer in Broder D. fell off the stage.
>> When he crawled back, he screamed: -hey! You don't know who we are!!
>> Can anyone tell me more about this?

Well, I heard people that said that Henrik fell down the stairs when
walking up to the stage, so I guess that's true, though I didn't see
it myself. He did fall several times on stage as well (he's sort of
into falling one could say...)

> Broder Daniel made their worst consert of all time, it was a sad thing to
> see, they played bad, henric bergren sung very badly, and i cant imagine
> anyone liked it at all! i feel for johan who made his last show with
> BD....:-(

I thought it was a quite good one. I have seen two shows that were a lot
worse (like in Emmaboda two years ago). They have never been about
singing or playing good, so if that annoys you, you've missed the point.
I guess not everyone can appreciate a band that is 100% pathetic and
brilliant at the same time.

>> Also heard that Henric in Yvonne laughed through the whole gig.
>> He could bearly sing bcuz of laughing ... Why did he laugh Totte? :)
>
> well, henric was very pleased with the gig and just happy to be in
> emmaboda, no problem with the vocals at all, one more show in nykoping
> 29/8 dont miss it!

Yvonne did a good show - much better than when I saw them earlier this
summer (when I also was a bit disapointed with their new album).
It wasn't just Henric who was smiling, most of the audience seemed to
have a smile on their lips as well, at least that's my impression.
I still think Yvonne used to be better though - and they have never
been even close to as good as they were at their first appearance in
Emmaboda (94 I think it was) IMHO.

> otherwise it was a great festival this year with lots of sunshine and
> great music! see you next year.

I agree. Emmaboda is a myth - and you just have to experience it.

Myself I was very pleased to see Dim and Wellmeant (at last). Most shows
were very short, and I think that's good since good concerts are almost
always short. But Wellmeants appearance felt like it was over almost
instantly. I don't know if their music made me loose the concept of
time, or if I was abducted by aliens. Anyway, I long to see them again
soon.

Sobsister seemed to get good reviews, at least the few that I've read.
I was still so amazed by Dim, who played just before them, so I was
really not able to get into anything else for a while at that moment.
A bit sad that both Dim and Wellmeant played in the afternoon - if I had
made the timetable, they would have gotten better (later) times.
Neither Dim nor Wellmeant brought any demos - don't they want to market
their music or what?

/Ola

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 16:42:23 +0200
From: Mats L 
Subject: Re: Malmo Festival

Starck Erik wrote:

> 19.30 Serial Cynics (girlband playing it hard'n'heavy) - Rockscenen

Just wanted to tell you that you really should see this band. If you're
into bands like Rapeman and Jesus Lizard. A great band. Tuff girls.

Also. KB (1Rok) have (free) gigs all weekdays with local bands.

/M

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 17:58:02 +0200
From: Cilja Kwon 
Subject: Abnormalcy #7.5

Check out the Swedish magazine "Abnormalcy" on the net.
You'll find reviews, articles, interviews, songtalk and much much more ...
http://hem.passagen.se/abnmag/abnmag_inne.html

Peace
Daniel

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 18:27:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Per L}ngstr|m 
Subject: Re: trastocksfestivalen..!?

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Micke Rehnstrom wrote:

> 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

question: why label _any_ band "girl band"? 

women have been rocking it out for decades now, so the news factor should
have hit zero a long, long time ago. not to mention the fact that there is
really no difference between a band made up of four females instead of
four males (beside the vocals, obviously). every attempt to oppose that
is nothing else but male-chauvinistic bullshit.

.per

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:15:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: ravens@worldnet.fr
Subject: New on this list !

Hi,
I'm new on this list and I'm looking for informations about these two films
"Two Green Feathers" (by Hennig Carlsen, based on a novel by Knut Hamsun -
a norvegian film) and "Anton" by Aage Rais (a movie from Danmark) because
the music of these two films are by H.Ö.H., a composer that I really
enjoyed especially for the soundtracks of the icelandic films he did like
As In Heaven, Children of Nature and more recntly Devil's Island !

I hope that you can help me!

Amicalement.
J.P.

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:33:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Forsberg 
Subject: Re: A Scan/Indie Column

On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Dave Liljengren wrote:

> 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.                                                           

  Well, I for one thought it was great. Granted I haven't had
  much (read:  none!) exposure to e-zines before, but it was far more
  professional and polished looking than what I was expecting. Btw -- I
  didn't know Johanna Hillgren was a member of the list...I know Daniel
  from Fidget (who is also on the list) was posting from her account. So
  are they both using the same account, or what? Or maybe I have the wrong
  email address....he never did return my last email..  /Chris

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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:25:46 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Timo Riitamaa 
Subject: Re: Lasse Girl

>> Hey, was somebody at Semifinal on friday? if somebody doesn't release a
>> 7" by Lasse Girl i'll have to start a record-label. they're sort of like
>> Sweetheart playing pop... in the finnish meaning of the word.
>
> I think they are called Lasso Girl, actually. 

I KNEW THAT!! sorry... don't know what came to my head. we've been talkin
about the band for the whole day, and every time i've called them "Lasso
Girl", so i don't know what happened when i was writing this email...
ofcourse i suspect a bunch of republican extraterrestrials, but i can't
prove anything yet. 

thanks for the factories email. 

and then:

> I haven't figured out all the aspects of record production (like
> sleeves & labels) and to what extent they bring up the price, but as
> far as I can see it isn't terribly expensive. So why don't we all just
> start an indie label of our own :)

yeah! kill Bono by home-taping!

-Timo

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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:08:16 +0100
From: Micke Rehnstrom 
Subject: Re: trastocksfestivalen..?!

Per Langstrom wrote:

> question: why label _any_ band "girl band"?
>
> women have been rocking it out for decades now, so the news factor should
> have hit zero a long, long time ago. not to mention the fact that there is
> really no difference between a band made up of four females instead of
> four males (beside the vocals, obviously). every attempt to oppose that
> is nothing else but male-chauvinistic bullshit.

True. Of course it would always be stupid to call a band a "girl band" and
it becomes even more stupid when it is not true either. One other example
of this strange way of labelling bands: I have heard the story about The
Pusjkins being denied to play at the Hultsfred Festival several times now
but I still cannot believe my ears when I hear it again. The reason they
were denied: The quota of "girl bands" was filled!!

/Micke, in a war against _every_ kind of prejudice in society

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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:02:54 +0200
From: beluga@wineasy.se
Subject: splash four in Sweden

Hello folks!
A quick message to let you know the Splash Four are going on a mini
Euro-Tour from August 21st to Aug. 30th.

*For those interested*
Dates should be as such:

21/8 : SOLINGEN (Ger) - Kotten Club w/ hopefully those rulers the JET BUMPERS
22/8 : AALBORG (Den) - 1000 Fryd w/ Shake Appeal?
23/8 : OSLO (Nor) - TBConfirmed
24/8 : ???? we're trying Gothenburg???? anybody can help us??????
25/8 : DAY-OFF IN BEAUTIFUL STOCKHOLM.
26/8 : STOCKHOLM (Swe) - Tonto garden w/ the GONERS & the DEE-RANGERS
27/8 : COPENHAGEN (Den) : TBConfirmed
28/8 : BREMEN (Ger) - Tower Bar w/ DIE LOWLANDER
29/8 : ???? we've  tried  Groningen but Vera can't do it on friday????
       anybody can help us?????? I thinkThomas tried Münster (Gleis 4).
30/8 : UTRECHT (Nl) - TBConfirmed Kikker Klub w/??? supposed to be a big party

...yes you're damn right! to make this tourplan look a little bit less than
swiss cheese we need two more dates :

-1- 24/8 : ???? Gothenburg???? or wherever on the way to Stockholm, anybody
           can help us??????

If you (our friends in Scandinavia) got any idea please let us know OK  get
in touch directly with our suave bookers Thomas and Martin  Hildebrand who
are working on the tour

Thomas "T-Bone" and Martin "Pornwolf" Hildebrand
SAVAGE Magazine and Booking Agency
FAX + 46/(0) 8 510 112 67
TEL : +46/(0) 8 510 110 74

-2- 29/8 :???? It's a  friday! anybody can help us?????? The next show is
          Utrecht in Holland so the show should be at a reasonable distance
          from Bremen and Utrecht. No Madrid show please!

If you  (our friends in the Netherlands and Germany) got any idea please let
us know or inform Thomas and Martin directly as soon as possible.

Cheers.
See ya all!
Jack / the Splash Four

for splash four records:
BELUGA MUSIC

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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:12:52 +0100
From: totte.pop@swipnet.se (Totte Pop)
Subject: sommarens sista suck

hi,
the last festival of the summer 'Sommarens Sista Suck' in Eskilstuna !!!!,
admission free, welcome....

                                Friday 22/8

                                18.00 Ruthlezz D
                                18.30 Gentle Tuesday
                                19.15 St Moores
                                20.00 Panic
                                21.00 Peat
                                22.00 Wellmeant
                                23.00 Robot

                                Saturday 23/8

                                18.00 The Snails
                                19.00 Coaster
                                20.00 Divin
                                21.00 Polythene
                                fireworks........
                            c:a 22.15 Blush
                                23.00 Fidget


more info at:
http://www.sfr.se/avd/0405/sommarens.sista.html

Thank you very much
totte.pop@swipnet.se (Totte Pop)

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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:22:29 -0700
From: Jonas 
Subject: shameless promoting pt. 2

Heyhello,

Jonas from Slowball recordings here. just wanted to give those who are
interested the latest label news.

Slowball 03 is finally released after months of delays. It is a
PHLEGM/6CENTS & NATALIE split 7". Two songs by each band. Get it
directly from slowball or form FREAK SCENE if you live in stockholm.
Maybe some other swedish stores will have ot too. Distributors abroad are
darla, road cone, carrot top, blackbean, rough trade, RW, toothpick &
vinyl japan.

Slowball 02 was an amazing PUSH KINGS 7". It has been sold out since a
few months but a 2nd pressing is on its way. As soon as i have recieved
all pre-orders form my distributors I'll get the pressing procedure
going.

Slowball 04 is a PLUXUS tape which has been out for quite a while but im
so fucking excited about this band so I wanted to mention it again.
Weird beats and wonderfull analogue and digital keyboards. loops and
sometimes a guitarr. Slowball will soon release new PLUXUS music on
vinyl.

As for the planned KRAUTSTOCK festival things are progressing very
slowly. 

Some slowball people tried to get some airtime on the student radio at
the stockholm university. We hoped to get a weekly 1.5 hour and we had
the most ambitious plans but they were not interested. They did not seem
to be interested in music at all. Well try to convince them again
though.

Tonight I'll see Dinosaur Jr in Stockholm which may or may not be good. I
also recomend FUCK at Studion september 1st. There are some good bands
on their way for later this year too. tacka luger for det.

take care,
jonas & slowball

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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:21:20 +0200
From: beluga@wineasy.se
Subject: Hellacopters!!!

Hi
Just thought I would let you know that a new 7" single with Hellacopters /
Electric Frankenstien split is out today wednesday, the tracks are:
E.F. Learn To Burn & Born Wild
Hell: Oh Yeah Allright & I Want A Lip

Trevor
Beluga Music
more info:     beluga@wineasy.se

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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 14:52:43 +0200
From: robert 
Subject: studios?

Hi,
I'm quite new to this list, so this is my first posting.

I play in a band called Girliegerm, and we're about to record our first
single. We've never recorded in a proper studio before and the ones I
know of in the area of Vasteras are pretty shitty.

I would like to know if there are any good affordable studios around.
Mostly in the Svealand region.

thanx
robert GIRLIEGERM
http://www.inhit.se/girlie/

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Date: 15 Aug 97 16:33:28 +0000
From: "toby" 
Subject: Re: studios?

I can truly recommend Jorgen Warnstrom's (Cloudberry Jam) Toodle
Recordings in Linkoping.

The guy is a total doll, he works til his eye's bleed, he realy care's
about POP music (no matter what style) and he's worked marvels for
acts like Chickenpox, Flakes, stevepops, aBLe, Sonic Surf City et al.
And he's a very reasonable guy so the prices are realy low.

If you're after a some what harder edged sound maybe Thomas Skogsbergs
metal-haven Sunlight is the right place (it's in Stockholm), and at
the moment Pelle Gunnerfeldt (of Fireside) is building his own studio
in Stockholm. It should be ready to go in a few weeks so if you're
daring you might want to give him a try.

The old location for Sunlight in Stockholm now houses a smaller studio
with a softer approach where red Sleeping Beauty, Riviera and Happy
Dead Men recorded most of their latest stuff.

Hope it helps----------------> Toby

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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:46:14 +0200
From: j.sundstrom@ekuc.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: studios?

robert.p@inhit.se,Internet writes:
> I would like to know if there are any good affordable studios around.

I've been to the Atlantis studio on Karlbergsvagen, Stockholm, just to
look. It was a famous place for swedish artists in the 70's, and recent
users are old progg guys like Stefan Sundstrom, Anders F Ronnblom and
Kjell Hoglund.

Check it out, the guys who run it are nice people, and the sound is
very pure on the recordings at least.

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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:55:15 +0200
From: j.sundstrom@ekuc.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: More water festival ramblings (D JR, SooL, Cardigans, Blur)

Hey, what's up with you people? Did nobody go to the shows the last
days? It's been completely quiet here...

Anyway, I went to see Dinosaur JR at the Water Festival here in
Stockholm, and also the ill-fated Blur/Cardigans/Soundtrack of our
lives gig yesterday.

The Dinos were great, much more alive than usually, they even talked to
the audience. ;-)

J Mascis freaked out with his guitar a few times, sort of shaked it
madly while playing it, and a lot of headbanging going on. Boy, he's
got a lot of hair to shake. Nice, long guitar solos, went on forever. I
don't have much of their stuff, but i liked what i heard: Repulsion
(yeah!), Feel the pain, Out There, Freak Scene, Wagon, What else is
cool (looong solo), and some emotional sad ballad (sort of) that was
great.

Can't recall if they played Take a run at the sun, maybe they didn't? I
miss it, but maybe i didn't pay attention.

Murph was funny, when they came back for encores he went "Ya just can't
get enuff of tha ruck, can ya!" with a cool southern accent.

Yesterdays show:
So, those of you who were there know that Riddarholmen turned into
chaos as thousand of kids with vattenpass tickets (150 SEK) couldn't
get in cause the place was already full. 14 000 was the limit, after
that not even journalists or festival workers were allowed to enter. So
apparently 500-2000 people actually never saw the show. 19.00 the place
was already crammed, and Blur wasn't on until 22.15! Some weird scenes
took place as hoursemounted police tried to force back the crowd.
Nevermind, i was in there and had a good time ;-D

Soundtrack were rocking fine, as usual, but due to the strong wind down
by the seaside, much of the sound blew away. I think one or two new
songs were played, both pretty good. Ebbot was wearing a black dress,
(langkjol) and with his long unkept beard he's looking more and more
like a tramp/drunkard/hobo...

I was backstage, taking pictures at the front. But when I wanted to
leave for the audience section, the guards told me off "If you're
leaving, you're not coming back in, cause we've blocked all the
entrances!" Shit, so i couldn't go anywhere, my mates were waiting
by the subway, the organisation of the whole event sucked.

So i had to spend the whole night backstage, pestering the stars for
autographs :-P OK, a lot of "stars" were there, so I was kept busy.
Fredrik and Arvid from Popsicle, Stakka Bo, an old fart from Stars
on Mars, all the Soundtrack-guys, Marcus manager from Bob Hund,
journos all over, even Owe Tornquist showed up in a smoking! And
Nina from Cardigans came out after the gig, boy has she got star
quality. Gee, she's the kind of girl that makes you mumble and say
incomprehensible things, somehow you get your record signed, and
then you stumble away all red in the face. Wow!

Still, I'm not a big fan of Cardigans music, not enough power and
stamina, too much elevator... OK, i know you will protest, but I'm just
not into it. I guess they played all their hits: Lovefool, Ironman,
Rise and Shine, umm, that's the ones i know the titles of.

Over to Blur. I have been really disappointed with Blur the last few
years, ever since that gig at Hultsfred 94 (?). I didn't go to
Palladium 95, and the one at Solnahallen this spring was mediocre. Once
upon a time their madness was genuine (saw gigs in 92-93; Glastonbury,
Lidingo, Gino) but they fell into the gap of the big bad music
industry, they haven't delivered.

So the first appearance of Damon last night, he looked like that
bored/stoned zombie/worn-out popstar that I've learned to know, not
giving a shit for the audience. Cause he knows: thousands of teenage
girls will still die to f**k him and buy every record they release, no
matter what.

OK, after a while the show improved, and I must confess i enjoyed some
of the new stuff: Death of a Party, stark moody song, Beetlebum, a few
more. Though a lot was shit as well: Chinese Bombs, noisy crap - NOT
grunge, just stupid popstar attitude, too bored to make proper songs.
And all of the Great Escape was forgettable as well: irritating tunes
like Country House, Stereotypes, songs that you only can enjoy if your
drunk.

Towards the end, they digged up some old gold: Coping, Advert, For
Tomorrow. You can't take away that those are good songs, but I've heard
them in far better versions when they were fresh. Final encore was Song
2, which was performed with a total lack of rhythm and enthusiasm.
Too bad, I used to love this band.

Jan

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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:27:11 +0200
From: j.sundstrom@ekuc.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: More gigs

Hey, it's like everybody fell off the face of the earth!
Spooky, aint it???

Nevertheless, I went to see Stefan Sundstrom yesterday at Tanto. I'm
not writing a review unless anyone asks for it.

I'm wasting bandwidth here...
Jan

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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 19:58:53 +0100
From: Micke Rehnstrom 
Subject: Re: More gigs

Jan Sundstrom wrote:
> Nevertheless, I went to see Stefan Sundstrom yesterday at Tanto. I'm
> not writing a review unless anyone asks for it.

Well, I ask for it then. I was not able to see him when he played in
Vastervik earlier this summer. I remember he did a good gig at the
Hultsfred Festival a couple of years ago. He told everyone to sit down on
the ground during the concert. Of course everyone was standing up again
just a few minutes later. Except for me, then, my feet ached pretty badly
(for some strange reason they always do after a festival).

/Micke

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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:09:04 +0100
From: Micke Rehnstrom 
Subject: Brainpool without Kask

I guess all swedes already know about this, so this is for Brainpool-fans
outside Sweden (are there any or am I wasting time?).

Janne Kask has left Brainpool. He confirmed this in the TV-program "Z-TV pa
vag" a couple of days ago. The others, in the band, have discussed
continuing without him but the future, both for them and for him, is
uncertain at the moment. According to Kask it was a mutual agreement, no
internal wars in the band. He just didn't think it was fun any longer.

/Micke

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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 01:53:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Tour List (Luger BA) [17-Aug-97]

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 Scandinavian Indie       Motor Tour List UPDATE           Scandinavian Indie
                            August 17th, 1997
                  by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se)
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SCANDINAVIAN:

Fidget                                           Mega
24/8 Stockholm - Bottleneck                      New Date
20/9 Ludvika - Ungdomens Hus                     New Date

Fivel                                            NONS                     *NEW*
22/8 Stockholm - Bottleneck

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 NON-SCANDINAVIAN:

Atari Teenage Riot (D)                           vow                      *NEW*
8/10 Copenhagen - Vega, Lille Sal (DK)
9/10 Arhus - Huset (DK)

Supergrass (UK)
+ support Geneva (UK)                            EMI  - New Support
3/10 Malmo - KB
4/10 Stockholm - Klubben
5/10 Oslo - Rockefeller (N)
7/10 Copenhagen - Pumpehuset (DK)

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
      The complete Motor Tour List is posted once / month to the list.
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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