Scandinavian Indie Digest Mon Apr 15, 1996 Volume 3 : Issue 18 There are 25 messages totalling 1101 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Information... 2. Sin's Selected News [03-Apr-96] (2) 3. Studion Gig List 4. tape - Swedish Tape 5. tape - Swedish Tape (part 2) (5) 6. Sin's Music on the Radio [15-Apr-96] 7. Sin's Fesival Lists - Hultsfred [04-Apr-96] 8. Motor Tour List _Update_ [02-Apr-96] 9. FWD: Japanese label 10. Sin's Demo Review - Fidget (updated/corrected/changed) 11. Finnish Festival News 12. Sin's Non-Scan CD Reviews - Ice Jupiter Groove 13. Swedish Tape 14. Bandit RIP? (2) 15. Bandit RIP? (no scan-indie content) 16. Finnish Tape 17. Swindie in UK 18. Salt 19. Pineforest Crunch, Kent and The Creeps --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 03:02:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Information... I'll soon be going away a couple of days (easter holidays), which includes the Smashing Pumpkins/Filter concert in Stockholm and the Fidget/Ocean Colour Scene showcase in Stockholm, and will probably not be able to add/remove/update Scandinavian Indie things during that time - you know the drill by now. :-) But, I will be here (hope) some of the days (passing through) and will check my e-mail, so if it's important, I'll take care of it. ----------- Second - I know that some of you are wondering where the Fidget interview is? Well, the interview became an article _and_ and interview, and a couple of magazines have expressed interest in publishing it, so I'm laying low about sending it out on the list or putting it up on the WWW before a decision is made. I hope I'll be able to send it out pretty soon. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) --------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:56:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Selected News [03-Apr-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie SELECTED NEWS Scandinavian Indie April 3rd, 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) "Remember where you heard it first" Contents: aBLe, Anders N. Productions, Beat Butchers Contest, Busty, Fly, Lousy, Roskilde 96, Salt, Scandinavian Indie Contest, Shallow, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Surreal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- aBLe - (H.Lime) plans to call their forthcoming album "Prestigeless Love Sounds" or "...Lovesounds", just like their previous demo. "It fits so well together with what we like to do, and I sing those words in the song '& A Way To End This Life' as well", says Johan Gille. The band is the opening act for A Shrine at Herrgar'n in Linkoping on April 18th. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Anders N. Productions - is a new booking agency, that recently started in Uppsala. And as a private alternative to the arrogant giants, they are now busy contacting bands and venues. Behind the agency, we find Anders Nilsson (guitar in aBLe) and Magnus Skarbo (vocals/guitar in Blake Carringtons) with their wide net of contacts. At the moment, they handle Sonic Surf City, Honeymoons, aBLe, Blake Carringtons, Fanscene and King Here After, with more on the way. Interested bands/venues can contact Anders at +46-18-100506 or Magnus at +46-18-260132. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Beat Butchers - 1996 Promo WWW contest is over, and the winners are: Ludde Berntsson, Haninge Johan Helmstad, Gothenburg P{r H{ggblad, Uppsala J|rgen J|r{lv, Sundbyberg Mattias Kling, Norrk|ping Leif Lindgren, G{vle H}kan Lindstr|m, V{ster}s Malin Ljungqvist, Nyk|ping Tyrone Lundgren, Hofors Tor Luttropp, Bromma Jimmy Nilsson, Karlstad Magnus Nord, \rebro M}rten Sahlen, Stockholm Brad Samuelson, San Francisco, US If you're on the list above, there's a copy of the 1996 Promo in the mail for you. Expect it within a week. Congratulations! (Source: Beat Butchers, Scandinavian Indie) Busty - fronted by Ulf Lundell's son Kalle have released an EP, which, if I may say so, is brilliant! Full of guitar-walls, a bit of limping vocals, but not in the old Broder Daniel school, fortunately. They have also made a video to the song "Lovestreamed", that got a good review on Z-Tv's "Tryck Till" last week. (Source: Scandinavian Indie, Z-Tv) Lousy - will play together with Fly (the ex-members from Easy) at Chalmers in Gothenburg April 13th, 1996. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Roskilde - festival 96 adds yet another mind-boggling name to their list of artists: _Neil Young & Crazy Horse_. Also, swedish group _Kent_ has been added. Tickets are on sale now. (Source: Roskilde Information, Scandinavian Indie) Salt - (MVG/Island) will appear on the soundtrack to the movie "Mission: Impossible" starring Tom Cruise, with the song "So". "So" is also their forthcoming second US single, to be released on April 29th. A video to the song will be shot in New York City starting April 14th. From April 18th to May 5th, Salt is back on the road in the US again. This time they have the middle slot between Girls Against Boys and Edsel. The tour starts in Baltimore, goes down the east coast, crosses the country, and goes up the west coast to end in San Francisco (see tour date list below). Nine days later, Salt will start up again in New Orleans May 14 with Seven Mary Three and tour through June 20th. They will again be playing the middle slot - the opening act is Poe. This is going to be a bigger tour, playing in houses 1500 - 3000 capacity with a few big radio festivals (20,000 - 50,000 persons) along the way. It will cover the entire US except for the northeast. That tour date list will be posted here soon. Girls Against Boys & Salt ------------------------- April 18 - May 05, 1996 April Th 18 Baltimore, MD 8 X 10 F 19 Richmond, VA Shafer Court S 20 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle Su 21 Atlanta, GA Masquerade M 22 Birmingham, AL 5 Points South Music Hall T 23 off W 24 New Orleans, LA Tipitina's Th 25 Houston, TX Deep Phat F 26 Austin, TX Emo's S 27 Dallas, TX The Galaxy Club Su 28 off M 29 Albuquerque, NM The Golden West T 30 Tempe, AZ Gibson's May W 01 San Diego, CA World Beat Center Th 02 off F 03 Hollywood, CA The Roxy S 04 SF, CA Slim's Su 05 Sacramento, CA El Dorado Theatre (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Scandinavian Indie - secret Web-page contest is over, and the two winners are: Eric Ekwall, Stockholm Johan Helmstad, Gothenburg You will receive the special limited edition Scandinavian Indie t-shirt in the mail in about two weeks (the easter holidays messes up my schedule). Congratulations! Due to the fact that only 8 people found the hidden link to the page, this kind of contest will not be repeated. Stay tuned for a new contest in May! (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Shallow - have finally changed their name, due to the number of bands with the same name, which has been discussed a lot here earlier. Their new name is "Shallow Soundwave". Recently they received a "5++" review for their demo in Goteborgs Posten's friday edition "Aveny", where the highest score usually is "5". The reviewer, Magnus Johansson wrote that it was the best demo he had heard, ever. They also got a pretty good review in british Melody Maker, where they called them "fairly mesmeric" and compared them to Curve and Spiritualized. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Soundtrack of our Lives - (Telegram) former Union Carbide, have been signed to.. that's right, Telegram. The band will release an EP in May-June. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) Surreal - correction: the band will _not_ release a demo with the newly recorded songs, but a record with the title: "Friends of Soap and Water". Release date is set to: April 30th, 1996. (Source: Scandinavian Indie) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- All news always at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/selnews.html Quote the source, _and the link_, if Scandinavian Indie is the source! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:30:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Studion Gig List On Tue, 2 Apr 96, robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming) wrote: > The new (Stockholm) Studion gig list was hiding in my brevlaada yesterday, [snip] I have nothing against Bob Hund, trust me, but, Robert, could you post the Studion gig list to the mailing list? I'm spending a bunch of days in Stockholm next week, and wouldn't mind dropping by the nice venue..? Thanks! //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ( listening to finnish pop-flick Lemonator's EP "ep" ) --------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:30:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: tape - Swedish Tape Regarding them compilation tapes... way to go Kimmo! :-) And, just to show that I am a big a slacker as Kimmo, here are the results from the "send in your song votes for the Swedish Indie compilation tape" thing: Group/Artist Song (votes) (if there's no number, it got 1 vote) ----------------- -------------------------------------------------- Bear Quartet - Blizzard Carsick One Final Sandi anything but "Nowhere's Clearer" Bob Hund - 15 Ar Bakat Och 15 Ar Framat (3) Det Skulle Vara Latt... (2) Fotoalbumet (2) 5 Meter Allt Pa Ett Kort Edvind Medvind En Rikedom Av Sandkorn Ett Gipsat Lofte Goddag-Adjo Idioten Kompromissen Kvicksilver Lange Lange Rundgang Graslok Fagelsang Vem Vill Bliva Stor Cardigans - Black letter day Celia Inside Gordons Gardenparty Pooh Song anything but "Pooh Song" Cloudberry Jam - Elevator Eggstone - Have You Seen Mary My Trumpets Fireside - Al Tonno Q Hardy Nilsson - Det Blir Inte Battre Honey Is Cool - Georgia (2) My Daddy Zanzibar demos/old songs Kent - Kram Mazarine Street - Get It On Popsicle - A Song Called Liberty Blow Up Diving Bell Hey Princess Make Up Not Forever Power Ballad #1 Slow Soul Laquer Drug Sunkissed Puffin - While You're Gone anything but "King Biscuit" Salt - Honour Me (5) Beauty Bluster Good God So Smash Hit Wonders - Sell It To Spielberg This Perfect Day - Headache Wannadies - My Hometown Never Killed Anyone Yvonne - Drifter Frozen something from the first single, that isn't on the LP the demo songs from that fanzine No votes for the following: --------------------------- Aquadays Blissful Loosegoats Lousy Melony Mouth Red Sleeping Beauty I was thinking.. Cloudberry Jam, Fireside, Kent and Puffin (who have changed their style remarkably...) have all released new albums since we voted.. Then there are "new" bands like Shallow Soundwave and Fidget for example, that _I_ think no one should miss. Does anyone want to change their vote(s) now? Are we to do the whole thing from scratch again? //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) (continuing in the next message...) --------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:31:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: tape - Swedish Tape (part 2) If no one wants to change their vote(s), this is what the results would look like: No votes for the following (which means I have selected the songs myself): -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aquadays -> * Autumn Swirl (but I wanted to add the whole demo tape) Blissful -> * To Freshville Loosegoats -> * Small Planet Lousy -> * Bug (if they let me that is?) Melony -> * Mirror On The Freeway Mouth -> * Cracks And the following are definite: ------------------------------- Bob Hund -> - 15 Ar Bakat Och 15 Ar Framat Cloudberry Jam -> * Elevator Fireside -> * Al Tonno Q Hardy Nilsson -> - Det Blir Inte Battre Honey Is Cool -> * Georgia Kent -> * Kram Mazarine Street -> - Get It On Puffin -> * While You're Gone Salt -> * Honour Me Smash Hit Wonders -> - Sell It To Spielberg This Perfect Day -> - Headache And we have to decide on which of the following we are going to select: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bear Quartet -> - Blizzard * Carsick * One Final, Sandi Cardigans -> - Black letter day - Celia Inside * Gordons Gardenparty Eggstone -> - Have You Seen Mary - My Trumpets Red Sleeping Beauty -> - ? <------ I haven't even heard them! Popsicle -> * A Song Called Liberty - Blow Up * Diving Bell * Hey Princess * Make Up - Not Forever - Power Ballad #1 <---- (Kimmo got my CD5.. :-)) - Slow * Soul Laquer Drug * Sunkissed Wannadies -> - My Hometown * Never Killed Anyone Yvonne -> * Drifter - Frozen - the demo songs from that fanzine (a '*' marks a song that I have in my record/demo/tape collection, and a '-' marks a song that I don't have - ie. someone will have to send me a copy of the song selected in order to get it on the compilation tape - sorry about that, but who owns _everything_?) Now, lets just decide what to do! //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) --------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:31:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Music on the Radio [15-Apr-96] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE RADIO Scandinavian Indie April 15th -> April 21st Day Date Artist Recorded --- ----- ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Mon 15/4 Melissa Etheridge Stockholm, Cirkus, Feb-96 Tue 16/4 Black Rhino Sundsvall, 26-Jan-96 Wed 17/4 Stonefunkers Gothenburg, Underground, 21-Mar-96 Thu 18/4 Presidents of the USA Stockholm, Studion, 19-Mar-96 Sun 21/4 Zodiac, Puff Paste, Sall b dead V{ster}s, Live This list covers the Swedish National Channel P3's "Live" - always at 21.03 (R) = Rerun ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie WWW pages at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/uprad.html //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:31:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Fesival Lists - Hultsfred [04-Apr-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Festival Lists Scandinavian Indie Hultsfred Festival 1996 (June 13-15 1996) Updated 04-Apr-96 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artis The Spoonman (US) Bad Religion (US) Sony Barkmarket (US) American Recordings Bjork (Iceland) PolyGram Frank Black (US) Sony Bluetones (The) (UK) PolyGram Blur (UK) EMI Edwyn Collins (UK) Virgin Dog Eat Dog (US) MNW ILR Fear Factory (US) MNW ILR Gypsys From Rajastan (India) Emmylou Harris (US) MD Iggy Pop (US) Virgin Joykiller (US) Border Mike Flowers Pops (The) (UK) PolyGram Ministry (US) Wea Northen Uproar (UK) BMG Pennywise (US) Border Prodigy (The) (UK) XL/MNW ILR Pulp (UK) PolyGram Sick Of It All (UK) Wea Skunk Anansie (UK) Virgin NEW Southen Culture On The Skids (US) Geffen/MCA Walkabouts (US) Virgin 59 Times The Pain Burning Heart Olle Adolphson MNW Chester Copperpot Dolores/MD Cirkus Cirkor Drain MVG Fireside House of Kicks NEW Ali Hussein Kent BMG NEW Kumekameli Liberator Burning Heart NEW Lifvens Vannerr Olle Ljungstrom Wea Melony Soap Naked Stockholm Records No Fun At All Burning Heart Passage 4 Popsicle Telegram/Wea NEW Sanktum Cold meat Industry/HOK Teddybears Sthlm MVG Tongue Gongue Yvonne Energy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cancelled so far: At The Gates Afghan Whigs Lush ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Complete festival information can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW : http://www.lysator.liu.se/festival.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:32:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Motor Tour List _Update_ [02-Apr-96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Motor Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie 2nd April 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWEDISH: Bazooka *NEW* Roligan/Wea 6/8 Stockholm - Water Festival The Cardigans Stockholm Records 10/4 Leeds - T & C New Date 11/4 London - Astoria New Date Popsicle Telegram/Wea 7/6 S|derhamn Festival New Date 5/7 Sundsvall - Gatu Festival New Date 20/7 Pite} - Pite} Dansar & Ler New Date 27/7 Bergvik - Bergviks marknad New Date 6/8 Stockholm - Water Festival New Date Satanic Surfers Burning Heart 1/6 Toronto New Date 2/6 London New Date 3/6 Kitchener New Date 4/6 Ottawa New Date 5/6 Quebec New Date 6/6 Drumondville New Date 7/6 Montreal New Date 8/6 Montreal New Date Stonefunkers *NEW* 6/4 [ngelholm - Club Esther --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NON-SWEDISH: Jeff Dahl (US) *NEW* Border 3/5 Gothenburg - Underground 4/5 Stockholm - Studion Letters To Cleo (US) *NEW* PolyGram 11/5 Copenhagen - Loppen 12/5 Oslo - So What 13/5 Stockholm - Studion 14/5 Lund - Mejeriet Jackie Leven (UK) *NEW* Amigo 23/4 Malm| - KB 24/4 Stockholm - Studion Strung Out (US) *NEW* Border special guest ; Blunt (US) Border 4/5 Karlskrona - Oden 5/5 Norrk|ping - Kammaren ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete Motor Tour List can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW : http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/motor.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:32:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: FWD: Japanese label Here's something that might interest you all on the list. I got in the mailbox yesterday, and it seems like rare (for us over her at least) stuff for the serious collector. Interesting though. //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) -------------------------------forwarded mail------------------------------ Hi!! I'm keisuke froom japan, who runs the label called MOTORWAY.. So I'd like you to know motorway information.. MY label is very small and personal, but I'd like to grow it.. Of course, you're welcome to send me your demo.. I'm always looking for new great one..: discography...... motor-001 MAYLOVE: come into my cheeks motor-002 BUBBLE BUS / THE GOLDENRODS : motorway strip#1 (split) motor-003 RED SLEEPING BEAUTY : top of the pops motor-004 MAYLOVE : blue walking shore motor-005 BUBBLE BUS : my funny face motor-006 MOMOZUKA : droll motor-007 THE MAGNETIC FIELDS : the man amplifier motor-008 CANARY : name on navy blue motor-009 CHARLOTS : even if I like you motor-010 v.a. : carafte roads (compilation CD about 20 bands feat.) PAN AMERICAN HIGHWAY, TWO TRIBUTE ONE RISING, CANARY, NAMES FOR PEBBLES, TUGBOAT 3000, BOYRACER, ARIEL, WILD CARNATION, WOW & FLATTER, GRAVITY WAX, FUXA, WINDY & CARL, SPEED THE PLOUGH, BEANPOLE, ERIC WINNER, NERDY GIRL, MOONSOCKET, SUCKPATCH, SEASHELL SEA, SNOBOY.. etc.. (if bands are overflowed, I'll put additional 7"s) motor-011 v.a. : motorway strip #2 (french bands compi) motor-012 TWO TRIBUTE ONE RISING 001-004: deleted 007 & 009 will be out in feb 96 008 & 010-012 out soon all format 7", except 010 Well if you have any question about band, mail-order etc..... please contact : keisuke hatsuda e-mail: motorway@tky.threewebnet.or.jp add: 1-29-16-101 higahsi-sugano ichikawa-shi chiba 272 japan fax +81-473-33-4067 ------------------------------end of fwd mail------------------------------- --------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:33:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Demo Review - Fidget (updated/corrected/changed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie DEMO REVIEW Scandinavian Indie April 4th, 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) "Never paid, always honest." Contents: Fidget (re-posted and somewhat changed due to some very silly errors and an important word missing in the old version) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fidget - "Semi-Naked", March 1996, Time: 11.15 1. Semi-Naked 2. Stop Losing 3. Hoovering Away 4. Teddy Scandinavian Indie Review: It is really hard not to write a good review to this demo. It would be better to just surrender and say that it is utterly fantastic, and that it is no wonder that seven or eight record labels called them up the same day they received it in the mail. Nina Natri's voice is so appealing, special and beautiful. Sometimes in what could be described as a finnish accent. Climbing high mountains, just to fall down into a crack the next second. It sounds so honest, and it _is_ so honest. I can not think of anyone that would not fall in love with it. And the music. What can really be said about drifting, slow, effect-boxed electric guitars that just goes on forever and ever, and then they turn into alarming, screaming walls of sturdy concrete when you think you are safe? And what can you say about "Stop Losing" that starts like a "Svensktoppen" song, but evolves into a nasty guitar-filled monster, just like the one you always thought was hiding under your bed? It even ends with Nina purring like a cat! And when I hear a few lines to "Hoovering Away", everything is totally clear to me; "I am hoovering you away 'cos, I can't stand you around me no more. I am hoovering you away 'cos, frankly I don't know if I should give a damn anymore." Fidget will hoover away! Everything and everyone that stands in their way of conquering the world. On their way up in the sky of successful bands. And for me it is too soon! Though I hope they will stay in touch with us down here. (March 1996 Review by: Erik Soderstrom) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Demo / Tape reviews are available on the Scandinavian Indie WWW: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/reviews.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 14:31:08 +0300 (EET DST) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) Subject: Finnish Festival News hello there, Thought I'd drop in some news excerpts about Finnish summer festivals: Lush were supposed to play at Provinssirock (in Seinajoki) but they cancelled %( ...instead they are heading for a US tour. Blur and Pulp will appear on second day (if memory serves) of the Ruisrock festival (in Turku). Those are perhaps the most interesting bands that have been confirmed so far... you can get the latest info on WWW from the url: http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~latvis/festivals/index.html I've got a link to that place on my 'Finnish Indie' page at: http://www.uta.fi/~trkisa/findies.html and I think Erik has got a link to that page somewhere on the Scan-Indie pages... it's all interconnected, you know... Kimmo wishing he was home listening to "Roma EP" by Arabesque ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:40:42 +0900 From: siri@algonet.se (siri ahmed) Subject: Re: tape - Swedish Tape (part 2) > Then there are "new" bands like Shallow Soundwave and Fidget > for example, that _I_ think no one should miss. Does anyone want to > change their vote(s) now? couldn't we add fidget to the tape, pleeeeease. that would be just wonderful. besides aquadays, that's the demo-band that seems to be the best. (nina natri are also responsible for this very good fanzine 'razzmatazz', but i guess you already knew that. anyway, it really is a fine fanzine.) >Yvonne -> * Drifter > - Frozen > - the demo songs from that fanzine i don't know about drifter, but frozen is better than a big part of yvonne's cd. the whole ep (which contains "frozen", "...in grief" and "systematic") is in fact way better (imho). when will their new single be released? /siri -------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 14:55:04 +0300 (EET DST) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) Subject: Re: tape - Swedish Tape (part 2) According to siri ahmed: * couldn't we add fidget to the tape, pleeeeease. that would be just * wonderful. I agree completely. After all the talk about them it would be really great to actually hear what they sound like, especially because they decided to cancel their Tampere gig a couple of weeks ago... (they are going to hear about this until they come back :) * (nina natri are also responsible for this very good fanzine * 'razzmatazz', but i guess you already knew that. anyway, it really is a * fine fanzine.) Well, I for one didn't know that. How can I get a copy? Kimmo ------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:28:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: Per L}ngstr|m Subject: Re: Sin's Selected News [03-Apr-96] On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 chief@lysator.liu.se wrote: > Salt - (MVG/Island) will appear on the soundtrack to the movie "Mission: > Impossible" starring Tom Cruise, with the song "So". "So" is also > their forthcoming second US single, to be released on April 29th. > A video to the song will be shot in New York City starting April > 14th. From April 18th to May 5th, Salt is back on the road in the > US again. This time they have the middle slot between Girls Against > Boys and Edsel. The tour starts in Baltimore, goes down the east wow! gvsb and edsel! that's not bad, not bad at all. a band could find much worser bands to go on tour with..! too bad salt themselves stink. note: please. don't flame me because of my disliking of salt. i just don't like them, and there's no way in hell you are going to change my mind. so, don't waste your time by pressing "r" (as in reply). thank you. > Shallow - have finally changed their name, due to the number of bands with > the same name, which has been discussed a lot here earlier. Their > blah blah blah hmm, the canadian version was forced to changed their name too, due to this problem. they're called "north dakota" these days, but i doubt they have gotten any better. hmm, i wonder who the third band was who made these other two bands change their names? uh, i guess it doesn't matter.. the third band probably had a bunch of dick-sucking lawers on some major label to back them up.. .per bitter today? uh-huh, but still listening to jawbox's "for your own special sweetheart". one of the best albums of '94. ps. zest rocks! ;) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:48:10 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Forsberg Subject: Re: tape - Swedish Tape (part 2) On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, siri ahmed wrote: > > Then there are "new" bands like Shallow Soundwave and Fidget > > for example, that _I_ think no one should miss. Does anyone want to > > change their vote(s) now? > > couldn't we add fidget to the tape, pleeeeease. that would be just > wonderful. Me too!!!! ;-) ------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 21:06:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Sin's Non-Scan CD Reviews - Ice Jupiter Groove ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scandinavian Indie Non-Scandinavian CD REVIEW Scandinavian Indie April 5th, 1996 by Erik S|derstr|m (chief@lysator.liu.se) "Honest and unpaid..." Contents: Ice Jupiter Groove (AUS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Ice Jupiter Groove - "Ice Jupiter Groove" (CD, Nu-Town 1995, Time: 27.16) 1. Tapestry Of Love (3.38) 2. Foundation (4.29) 3. Watching The Rain (5.08) 4. Big Blue (4.43) 5. Healing (4.53) 6. Someone Else's Dream (4.03) Scandinavian Indie Review: Australian bands are pretty well-known in Sweden, ever since the glory days of, for example, Midnight Oil and INXS a few years ago. Though this new act, Ice Jupiter Groove, is probably not that known to the swedish audience. Described by Sean Lee (vocals & electric guitar) as "commercial synth/guitar/ rock feel, with good hooks and melodies", I can not but agree. It is exactly what it is. Somewhat following in the steps of INXS, but I feel the most accurate comparison would be Simple Minds. That is to say that this is a high class rock act with everything that makes it tick. A piano makes it all sound like a fresh clear and sunny day. Beautiful floating synthesizer sounds and electric guitar riffs backing up Sean's voice as he sings, and he sings really well. It made me wonder if he might have had a career in another band, previous to IJG? His voice is extremely confident, and I do not think it can sound more professional than this. To make it clear; In the school of Jim Kerr, Sean would be an A-grade student. And it is especially evident in "Big Blue" but even more so in "Healing", that is easily mistaken for a Simple Minds song. The music creating that atmosphere that was previously only regarded as theirs alone. That almost whispering voice, always advancing towards higher grounds, like it was made for arena concerts. And with his brother Brett Lee (keyboard, rhythm programs, vocals) backing him up, it can not fail. The music still has got that "australian" feeling over it, you know? But I thought about that for a while, and figured that if I did not know their origins, I might have placed them in the UK/Ireland area of the world as well. I am a Simple Minds buff, and have been ever since I first heard "Don't You (Forget About Me)" when I was fourteen years old, and in that sense this is right up my alley. Easy, clear and professionally arranged songs that I can bet all my money on that you will hear it on the swedish radio. Soon. They are getting airplay in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Brazil, Germany, Belgium and some other European countries, so I am pretty confident about that. (March 1996 Review by: Erik Soderstrom) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Reviews at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/reviews.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 00:33:59 +0900 From: siri@algonet.se (siri ahmed) Subject: Re: tape - Swedish Tape (part 2) >* (nina natri are also responsible for this very good fanzine >* 'razzmatazz', but i guess you already knew that. anyway, it really is a >* fine fanzine.) > >Well, I for one didn't know that. How can I get a copy? this should work (at least in sweden): put in 30 SEK + money for sending the fanzine to you at PG(PostGiro): RAZZMATAZZ c/o Lars Nordgren 4675952-8 i don't know if it works but that's the way they describe it in the fanzine. (i maybe forgot to say that razzmatazz is written in swedish...) /siri -------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 12:44:19 -0800 From: xander@sirius.com Subject: Re: Swedish Tape > I was thinking.. Cloudberry Jam, Fireside, Kent and Puffin (who have > changed their style remarkably...) have all released new albums since > we voted.. Then there are "new" bands like Shallow Soundwave and Fidget > for example, that _I_ think no one should miss. Does anyone want to > change their vote(s) now? Are we to do the whole thing from scratch > again? Although I hope to be on the tape pipeline, I never voted because I want to hear all things that I know nothing about. With that in mind, I think it would be great to put the emphasis on demos/new stuff etc. I will make this short suggestion though, regarding Red Sleeping Beauty about whom relatively few people on this list seem to be informed. I would recommend starting with the new 8 song CD, "Bedroom", on Marsh Marigold. "Pop Song" or "Selfish" would probably be good bets for the tape. (You can get the disc from Joerg Winzer's Mind the Gap Mailorder in Germany: <1winzer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>). Or my favorite: "Her Favourite Clich=E9" from the EuroPop 7" compilation on Siesta. Or maybe Erik should bug our friend Keisuke from Japan for a copy of his "top of the pops" ep, which also features some fine tunes. Alexander ------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:39:34 +0200 From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom) Subject: Re: Bandit RIP? >the station 'Bandit hundra fem punkt fem - Rock' instead of the usual >'Rock home of Stockholm' stuff. What happened? Yeah, i'm sad about this. Apparently, they didn't get enough commercials, so they changed their profile. Stupid move, i think. Now it sucks a lot. This used to be the only listenable radio channel in Sweden, and now it's "gone". How shall i wake up in the mornings, with no bandit on my clock-radio?! Jan Sundstrom ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 12:21:01 +0200 From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming) Subject: Re: Bandit RIP? > Yeah, i'm sad about this. Apparently, they didn't get enough > commercials, so they changed their profile. Stupid move, i think. > Now it sucks a lot. This used to be the only listenable radio > channel in Sweden, and now it's "gone". On Saturday I saw a sticker stuck to a Bankomat on Drottninggatan that said 'FUCK SWEDISH BANDIT' on it... > How shall i wake up in the mornings, with no bandit on my > clock-radio?! Hmm, it's not even as if you have Tomas Tengby as an alternative any more. Become a night owl, and wake up to Musikjournalen instead... Actually, I notice that Bandit 105punkt5 haven't bothered to change the station's home page (http://www.pi.se/bandit/) one little bit. So presumably you can write and complain still to bandit@pi.se. They could do with a new slogan, say 'Radio in Sweden sucks. Nu suger vi också'.... Robert, P3-kille anyway --------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 17:38:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Per L}ngstr|m Subject: Re: Bandit RIP? (no scan-indie content) Jan asked, Robert replied: > > How shall i wake up in the mornings, with no bandit on my > > clock-radio?! > > Hmm, it's not even as if you have Tomas Tengby as an alternative any > more. Become a night owl, and wake up to Musikjournalen instead... or. you could just walk into any old hardware store and pick up one of them "timers" that you just plug right in the friggin' wall along with the cord to you stereo and off to sleep you go and voila! with a big smile on your face you are waking up to unsane the next morning..!!! mmm.. yum. .per, listening to unsane. duh. ps. as i already mentioned unsane twice i might as well tell you all that they are playing in stockholm on the 29th (i think). that's the second time in less than six months and if you missed them in november you should definitely go see them this time. they made entombed look like a bunch of 14-year olds and they are the hardest rocking band you'll ever see live. promise. ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 00:01:47 -0700 From: xander@sirius.com Subject: Finnish Tape Surprise! I didn't know that the tape was finally on the move, but here it is in my mailbox this evening. Kimmo has outdone himself. How did I get to be the lucky first person on the list? Anyway, just so that everyone knows: there are 15 stops left on the chain. 4 more in the US (With your permission, I'm going to change the order of the stations in the US so that the tape only has to make the trip between the West and East coasts once); 1 stop in London, then on to everyone else in Sweden. Your guess is as good as mine as to how long the trip will take. I'll do right and send it along tomorrow. By the way, the tape is 100 minutes long, which in my case meant an unexpected trip to the store tonight (normally I only keep 90 minute tapes around). The title of Kimmo's song, "Cardamon Kiss", is beautiful... (reminds me of the name I used to do tapes under in the mid/late 80s). Bravo! Alexander ----------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:23:32 +0100 From: u9503665@bournemouth.ac.uk (Daniel Hansson) Subject: Swindie in UK Some info about swedish bands in UK: THE WANNADIES re-released "You And Me Song" on monday the 8th of April. The CD-single features three new recordings; "Everybody Loves Me", "I Like You A LaLaLaLa Lot" and a brilliant easy listening version of "You And Me Song". The other new songs are rather poor. As usual, a nice cover by LaLaLaLars Sundh and Irmelie Krekin. A lovely numbered version of dark purple vinyl is also available (4000) [Louise of Sleeper picked "You And Me Song" as single of the week in MM two weeks ago]. SALT's "Ausculate" has been picked by Our Price (a retail record chain) as "recommended" and is available at a low introduction price (£9.99). CARDIGANS + POPSICLE + ? are playing London Astoria the 11th of April. Must be a good one (10 quid). Daniel Hansson -------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 96 18:16:42 +0200 From: ludde@kore.lk.se (Ludvig Borgne) Subject: Salt > too bad salt themselves stink. Did anyone see the review of Auscultate in last week's Melody Maker...? Pretty fun reading... I have never seen, and probably never will see, a more negative record review in my life... /Ludde (who'd probably be listening to Tortoise if he owned a Tortoise record...) -------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:40:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Petter Tiilikainen Subject: Pineforest Crunch, Kent and The Creeps Pineforest Crunch, Kent and The Creeps play at Kåren, Luleå at the "rock festival" 9-11 May. Uhm not 100% sure about the dates, let me get back to you about that together with facts on which bands play which dates. /Petter Listening to the excellent post-rock album "Millions living now will never die" from the excellent post-rock band Tortoise. ------------------------------ End of SI Digest #3.18 ********************** * 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