Scandinavian Indie Digest Sat Jan 13, 1996 Volume 3 : Issue 03 There are 39 messages totalling 1263 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Selected News [06-Jan-96] 2. Corrections/Updates 3. HELP! Helikopter Label? 4. List Statistics [06-Jan-96] 5. Tape Chain (again...) (5) 6. the Vaseline Top 13 7. tape chain 8. Tambourine Studios Review (2) 9. Selcted News: Cue Club 10. selected news 11. Pinko Pinko (2) 12. Motor Tour List [02-Jan-96] (non-scan content) 13. Melony (3) 14. Tambourine Compilation (2) 15. Tape Chain (4) 16. Selected News [09-Jan-96] (2) 17. Bored fun 18. WWW News 19. Tambourine Studios - Bob Hund (3) 20. Upcoming Gigs at Herrg}r'n [09-Jan-96] 21. Expressen, Den finaste tidningen i v{rlden. :) (2) 22. WWW pages, a final time 23. Pinko Pinko (Forwarded message w/reminder) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 04:02:23 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Selected News [06-Jan-96] HappyDeadMen - 's latest release consists of track(s) on a Japan-only compilation under the name "Winter Gift". Other bands on the compilation includes Confusions and Leslies. Hultsfred 96 - is on the planning stage. The date is June 13th - 15th, and that's the only thing that is sure right now, says Patrik Axelsson, one of the arrangers. Then he continues to say that "we have never had so many headliners, big artists, that we're talking to, this early." which isn't very strange, as the festival is two months earlier than all 10 previous years. Lollipop 96 - is also on the planning stage. The Stockholm date is July 26th - 27th. H}kan Waxeg}rd, the man behind the event, doesn't know if the festival will tour this year. Maybe. His dream-team for this year could be "Stakka Bo, Olle Ljungstr|m and The Cardigans" or "Yvonne, Eggstone and The Wannadies". He's not afraid of getting Robyn either. "Popsicle are too obvious to get", he says. Sonic Surf City - fronted by Ola Hermansson, who recently appeared in this column (?) (:-)), are planning to release a new album on the Trampolene label later this spring. ** Thanks to John Boqvist for reporting the news about HappyDeadMen and ** ** Sonic Surf City! ** //Erik --------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 04:01:47 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Corrections/Updates Corrections/Updates 1) I made a mistake writing the Selected News yesterday. I accidentally wrote that Ola Hermansson is a member of Happy Dead Men, but the band should be _Sonic Surf City_ instead. (I always seem to mix those two somehow). Sorry for any trouble this might have caused, and thanks to John for spotting the error. 2. Added Popsicle live appearence on TV (today!) and Leslies & Riff Raff live on the Radio (tonight!) to the Radio & TV list. //Erik -------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 04:02:51 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: HELP! Helikopter Label? ** HELP ** Does anyone have the address or phone number, or fax number or maybe all of it to the swedish record label: Helikopter ---------- ? If you do, please send the info to me (chief@lysator.liu.se), and I'll be eternally grateful for your help! Thanks! //Erik --------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 06:26:16 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: List Statistics [06-Jan-96] Here are some up-to-date list statistics I thought might be insteresting. (change since last time, 11-Sep-95, in parenthesis): Mailing list started : February 10, 1994 (active 23 months today) Number of countries : 12 (-3) Number of subscribers : 88 (-2) Live list subscribers : 75 (-4) Digest subscribers : 13 (+2) Number of digests so-far : 39 (+9) Total number of bytes posted : 1 439 082 (w/out headers) (+408 418) Subscribers/country: Sweden : 47 (+3) US : 15 (-1) Finland : 9 (-3) Denmark : 4 (+1) Norway : 3 (-1) UK : 3 (+1) Holland : 2 (+1) Belgium : 1 (-) Greece : 1 (-) Hungary : 1 (-) Iceland : 1 (-) Italy : 1 (+1) Australia: 0 (-1) France : 0 (-1) Germany : 0 (-1) Latvia : 0 (-1) //Erik ------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 06:39:08 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Tape Chain (again...) Suggested groups for the Swedish Indie Tape: A Shrine Salt Cardigans Cloudberry Jam Wannadies Bear Quartet Kent Bob Hund Loosegoats Blithe Honey Is Cool Puffin Mouth Backfisch Aquadays Lousy If we count about 4 minutes / track, the 16 groups above would make 64 minutes at 1 track each. Anyone like to add/delete bands to the list? The list above is only _my own_ suggestions, but I thought we'd finally get this project on the way! ---------------------------- And, on a side-note. The list is awfully quiet! Aren't you all back from the christmas/new year festivities yet? Huh? :) //erik --------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 96 12:16:27 +0100 From: robert@astro.su.se (Robert Cumming) Subject: the Vaseline Top 13 Doing a bit of netsurfing I came upon the current list from Vaseline, one of the two gay/lesbian indie/britpop clubs in London (http://www.compulink.co.uk/~rancid/vaseline.html)... 1 Garbage -- Queer 2 Smashing Pumpkins -- Bullet with butterfly wings 3 The Amps -- Tipp City 4 Oasis -- Wonderwall 5 Pulp -- Disco 2000 6 Whale -- Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe 7 Ash -- Get Ready 8 Minty -- Plastic bag 9 Menswear -- Sleeping in 10 Echobelly -- King Of The Kerb 11 Mike Flowers Pops -- Wonderwall 12 Salt -- Bluster 13 Collapsed Lung -- Connection Impressively swindie, I think! These people clearly have taste. Robert, wishing there was a similar place in Stockholm ------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 18:01:31 +0200 (EET) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) Subject: re: tape chain Hello! Talking about the tape chains, I have *almost* finished the Finnish Pop Tape! You never believed you'd live long enough to see this, right? :) I'll post the details later this week and we'll get the ball rolling then. According to chief@lysator.liu.se: * Suggested groups for the Swedish Indie Tape: * Anyone like to add/delete bands to the list? The list above * is only _my own_ suggestions, but I thought we'd finally * get this project on the way! Yeah, I've got a couple of additions/suggestions. Anyone who thinks Cardigans or Cloudberry Jam are cool should really hear Blissful!! I am listening to their album "Blissful Orchestra" and it's incredible! Also I think you shouldn't leave out Red Sleeping Beauty, as they are one of the better known Swedish indie bands worldwide! Finally, Popundret were simply stunning on last year's Trastockfestivalen. I think they (or is it just he? :) released something new at the end of last year? Well..that's my 0.02 markka worth. Kimmo ------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 16:21:07 -0800 (PST) From: D Alexander Bailey Subject: Tambourine Studios Review Hi all. This is my first post to the list and I hope it will prompt at least a few comments from everybody else. I'd especially love feedback about Trio Lligo (releases, recommendations?) and Cloudberry Jam. As a little how-do and all that sort of rot, I'm Alexander, I live on the border zone of the People's Republic of Berkeley (Kalifornia) and my scandinavian connection has been formed mostly on the basis of the Grimsey Fishmarket fanzine and the "2nd Half" tape. (Chocolate Barry, where art thou?). My meager collection includes a good deal of Eggstone, an ep by Seashells (anxiously awaiting receipt of some new goodies by them) and quite a few ep's by Red Sleeping Beauty, who I think have been getting quite good recently. I got the Tambourine Studios compilation in a package from a friend in the South of Sweden. The sleeve is a pretty nice gatefold all paper package with a booklet thrown in. Each band submitted their own artwork for one page each in the booklet. Styling varies quite a bit from page to page, from somebody's truly frightful looking mug from Bob Hund, to the slick studio concept photo from Cardigans. It's on "Vibraphone" and has the catalogue number 5, so I' also really curious as to what else this label might have released. Also in my package I got Cloudberry Jam's "Blank Paycheck" which is also pretty tip-top, but I shan't review it today, and Divine Dennis' "Six Songs of the Summer," which while it starts off strong isn't nearly up to the standard set by the track on the Tambourine comp. And now to the blow by blow track commentary: *Bob Hund "Du daer! Kom hit! Sounds pretty rockin (punkish) but when the keyboards kick in I can't help but think of Eggstone. Something triumphant/joyful there. Lots of changes in a scant1:57. *Lady Lynette & the Spokesmen "Firefly Very acid soul-ly. Sounds pretty straight in a jazz disco way. I like it but it was too straight for Rebecca. When I listened to it on headphones for the first time I got pretty into the extra beats the drummer tosses in here and there. *Get Happy "Everything is Alright Sometimes" So this is the closest thing to grunge on this cd. But it's pretty damn poppy. Or maybe so was grunge? I can take this much. *The Cardigans "Happy Meal" Catchy as all get out. When she sings "No one can be as HAPPY as me," I can't help but think of Altered Images. The mix of instruments and arrangements are pretty heterogenous. This tune sent me out looking for their records (Life is pretty easy to find but only at a price well above the local average for imports, and besides, Henrik tells me their first album was much better). *Trio Lligo. "Flykten Fran Elfenbenstornet" My favorite track (at the moment). It's the only track in Swedish and it sounds excellent. Of course I can only make out about every fifteenth word, but it sounds delightfully twisted and I love to sing along. It's based on a punchy accoustic guitar banging along accompanied by a lot of snare drum and, wait, is it a stand up bass or is it a cello. Bowed strings really puts this hybrid of pop in it's own category. OK, it's vaguely reminiscent in of early Violent Femmes in it's aggressive use of accoustic instruments, but the mood is pure joy. *Cloudberry Jam "Waiting For Another Day" Cloudberry Jam are a different breed of cat. They've got some roughness and "alternative" edges to their sound, but they've managed to incorpoate jazz in a way that no one else has. The overall sound is rough pop, but plickety-plink guitars and little jazzy drum bits come in at the ends of the lines. There's lots of scat singing in the backing vocals but they come out like rhythm guitars in the general musical assault. Another winner. My package also included a copy of their album "Blank Paycheck" which I'm enjoying, but it hasn't gotten nearly as much play as this compilation so far. This version is different from the one on the album. *Three Blind Mice "That's What She Said" This could be Eggstone from "Somersault" with a different singer. I like that Eggstone too, but not as much as the older, more exotic, less rock (or stone) Eggstone of "Shooting Time" and the subburbs of San Diego. *Agurk Brothers "Fool" OK, it couldn't all be good. This track sounded interesting for the first few seconds with some funk sax panned all the way over to one side in the background, but quickly enough it got on my nerves, reminding me too much of a certain Red Hot Chili Peppers Song. *Eggstone "Still All Stands Still" What to say. I love Eggstone, even when they aren't nearly as kinky jazzy as they used to be. Sounding more like a rock and roll band, although, I must admit, their lyrics have improved a bit. *The Excuse "Long Gone" Another band that sounds a lot like they've been growing in Eggstone's shadow. Nice, not very interesting, and not so loaded with hooks as Eggstone's material, but the very A&M sounding horn section towards the end is very infectious. *Devine Dennis "Killing Kind" Divine Dennis does full-on disco. And yet it starts of with almost jangly guitar which is a bit weird for the genre. Dennis really carries the tune with his diva antics, pacing in the vocals that seems to shape the song, stepping in and out of the rhythm. Plus there's this wonderful buzzing noise (almost sounds like a guitar, could it be a keyboard going through some distortion and a wah wah pedal?) and "star trek" style vocals in the background. A great mix that plays 70's disco against other genres and periods. This one scored points from my pal Rebecca for camp presentation that the Lady Lynette track missed. A great finish to a very nice disc. that's all, xander ----------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 04:25:29 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Selcted News: Cue Club Cue Club - the club in Gothenburg burned down to the ground during the night between saturday and sunday. A lot of bands have played at the club, and a lot of bands are booked to play there. What will happen with the bands booked and will the club be re-built again? //Erik ------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:30:07 +0100 From: Marten.Sahlen@eua.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen) Subject: Re: Tape Chain (again...) chief@lysator.liu.se wrote: > Suggested groups for the Swedish Indie Tape: Seems like a good sample to me, though I don't know anything about the three last bands (Backfisch/Aquadays/Lousy). Maybe Yvonne ought to be in there, and Souls...? If you use a C90 tape there's room for plenty more. *** Now a reminder *** If anyone more wants to join in on the chain for the explosive Scandinavian industrial/darkwave tape sampler that I've prepared, now it's the last chance. The tape is going away later this week, with nifty index cards especially designed by myself. Of course, those of you who already replied to me needn't do it again. *** End of reminder *** > And, on a side-note. The list is awfully quiet! Aren't you > all back from the christmas/new year festivities yet? Huh? :) Don't you dare pointing fingers at me, I'm not to blame for the tranquillity :) ---------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 11:10:28 +0100 From: ludde@kore.lk.se (Ludvig Borgne) Subject: Tape Chain (again...) > Anyone like to add/delete bands to the list? Sure... How about Yvonne? Mazarine Street? To avoid starting a flame-war I think I'll skip teling you which ones to delete, though... :) /Ludde -------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:15:03 +0200 (EET) From: trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) Subject: Re: selected news According to Erik S|derstr|m: * Pizzicato Five I can recommend them to anyone who like the 'easy listening pop' thingy (which seems to be catching on even here in Tampere). Try the "Made in USA" compilation, for example. Good fun! * Popsicle - received a good review in the morning paper Dagens Nyheter on * wednesday December 27th by reviewer Nils Hansson. He says that * "...they have let classic american rock music influence their * songs in a way that would have been unthinkable a few years ago..." * and "...is a logical step forward". The headline says "Popsicle * walk their own way". I listened to the album one more time trying to spot the "classic American rock" influence, but I don't really know... maybe he's referring to the slower songs on the album? Surely, the piano ballad "A Song Ago" could be Neil Young '73-ish (you'll have to trust me on this one :). But otherwise I wouldn't really say that the album is more or less 'American' than their previous ones. What sounds like a new approach (to my ears anyway) are the two really long tracks - maybe they have spent some time listening to Stereolab lately? Although, somehow they sound a bit like The Wedding Present too...except for the vocals of course. Also I was quite amazed by the completely different kind of CD booklet with all the lyrics, photos of the band, even musicians' names and 'regular' stuff like that. Are they trying to be more commercial or what? Finally, I think the album is very good, it's even better than I dared to expect. I was afraid that they wouldn't be able to produce a third pop masterpiece, but they have! Especially the two opening tracks "When It Was Good With Us" and "Not Forever" are instant classics, and there are others too. Overall, it's more varied than before, which adds to the listening pleasure. I also think that the band sounds better on this album than ever before. Well, I'd like to hear other listmembers give their opinion - I can't surely be the only one who has heard the album so far?! :) Kimmo trkisa@uta.fi ------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 14:45:04 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Eksten Subject: Re: Tape Chain (again...) On Sun, 7 Jan 1996 chief@lysator.liu.se wrote: > Suggested groups for the Swedish Indie Tape: > > A Shrine > Backfisch > Aquadays > Lousy I must say I've never heard of any of these. I guess that's a pretty good reason to include them! :) > Anyone like to add/delete bands to the list? The list above Add: Green, This Perfect Day and Popsicle. Martin. --------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 16:05:45 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Eksten Subject: Pinko Pinko Hi! Anybody here who has heard of the Swedish band Pinko Pinko? I have heard that they are quite known in Japan; apparently they are called "the Blur of Sweden" over there. What do they sound like? Are they any good? Martin. ----------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 18:13:52 +0100 (MET) From: Per L}ngstr|m Subject: Re: Motor Tour List [02-Jan-96] (non-scan content) On Wed, 3 Jan 1996 chief@lysator.liu.se wrote: > Motor tour list > January 2, 1996 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the first tour list for 1996, which will be the only full list to > be posted to the Scandinavian Indie mailing list. The rest of the year, > only updates and changes to this list will be posted. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Superchunk (US) Border > special guest : Seam Border > 14/2 Stockholm - Studion New > 15/2 Gothenburg - Underground New > 16/2 Copenhagen - Loppen New oh boy! are we ever in for a treat next month! not only do we get see the wonderful, wonderful superchunk but seam too!!! finally, bands that i have been waiting to see is comming here! for a change i am all smiles..! :) .per -------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 19:01:29 -0800 (PST) From: D Alexander Bailey Subject: Re: Tape Chain (again...) I don't remember when the tape chain topic made it's first appearance. How does it work? Thanks, xander --------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:47:38 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Melony Noticed the other day that the latest addition to the SOAP label, Melony, released an EP on November 13th 1995 called "Skycracker EP" (snapc 24). Anyone heard it who can tell me what they sound like? Thanks! //Erik --------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:48:34 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Tambourine Compilation On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, D Alexander Bailey wrote: > I'd especially love feedback about Trio Lligo (releases, recommendations?) > and Cloudberry Jam. If you have access to the WWW, check out Cloudberry Jam's own homepage (made by Jennie Medin's dad actually) at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jennie/html/cbjhem.htm If not, there are three (or four?) demo tapes, one CD EP called "La La La", (1992) one Mini-CD called "The Art of Being Cool" (1994) and one full- length CD called "Blank Paycheck" (1995), all on North Of No South. They have released a Japan-only CD as well called "Cloudberry Jam", which is the Blank Paycheck CD plus four (or five) extra tracks on it, from The Art of Being Cool. And then they appear on this compilation CD from Tambourine Studios that you mentioned. They're in the studio right now recording their new album which will be out in February. You can email the band at jennie@lysator.liu.se. > Seashells (anxiously awaiting receipt of some new goodies by them) I know Ludde talked about a mini-CD they released way back in 1994, but that is really the last time I heard anything about them! > Red Sleeping Beauty, who I think have been getting quite good recently. Now I'm sure I have to get something with them. They're known in Europe and the US, and I still haven't heard them. > I got the Tambourine Studios compilation in a package from a friend in the I don't have the compilation myself, so It's pretty hard for me to comment on your comments, but I'll probably order it one day. :) By the way, does anyone have Vibraphone's address, phone number and so on? Maybe it's printed on the CD? I'd appreciate if you'd post it (or email it directly to me) thanks! I'd also like to know about their other releases. >The Cardigans "Happy Meal" > > Life is pretty easy to find but only at a price well above the local > average for imports You mean it's an import, right? I just wonder when their albums and singles will be domestically released over there. It shouldn't be too long now really. > and besides, Henrik tells me their first album was much better. That I agree with, somewhat. The "Emmerdale" album had a lot more "hits" on it than "Life", which probably has something to do with the whole "I like their first one better" movement. :) > Cloudberry Jam "Waiting For Another Day" > > They've got some roughness and "alternative" edges to their sound, A few years ago, when they had an additional member, their live performance was full of guitar-walls and "alternative" edges as you call it, as well as a huge bit of humour. Once at a place called Platens here in Link|ping, the guy (who played guitar) jumped around on the stage, and finally went into the bathroom next to the stage, still playing, and finished the song from in there. :) When he was kicked from the band, they sort of reformed into this softer/jazzy thing, losing the humour completely, which I find a bit sad. They still kick live musically though. Thanks for the review by the way! //Erik ---------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:48:01 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Tape Chain On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, trkisa@uta.fi (Kimmo Saaskilahti) wrote: > Talking about the tape chains, I have *almost* finished the Finnish > Pop Tape! You never believed you'd live long enough to see this, > right? :) I'll post the details later this week and we'll get the ball > rolling then. That sounds indeed pretty amazing :). But are we going to have a cover that's similar on all the compilation tapes, like a series sort of. We discussed it before, but I don't think we decided anything? >> Suggested groups for the Swedish Indie Tape: > [snip] > Blissful, Red Sleeping Beauty, Popundret. I don't have anything with RSB unfortunately (yes, I'm ashamed..), but if we listers go together when making the tape, someone could send me (or whoever's going to make the Swedish tape) some songs with them, or maybe I can order something from their label / them. Popundret - I only have a really really old song with them on a compilation. :-/ //Erik ------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:48:55 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Selected News [09-Jan-96] Cardigans - who are signed to the Trampolene label (Stockholm Label Group) was signed to a label in the US in December 1995. Release dates / etc. will follow soon. Emmaboda Festival 96 - has taken the old Hultsfred Festival date, which means that the Emmaboda Festival will take place between August 9-10, 1996, in Emmaboda. Arranged as usual by Vinterbadarna. Loosegoats - will release a CD single in February and their debut album will be released in March, on the Bad Taste label. Titles are yet to be announced. Naked - has been signed to the Trampolene label (Stockholm Label Group), and will release their debut album sometime this spring. P3 Live - the best place to hear live concerts on the swedish national radio have cut down their broadcasting hours from 6 hours to 4,5 hours a week, due to reductions in funds from the owners. Pineforest Crunch - will release a single called "Cup Noodle Song" on January 15th 1996, and an album will follow in February 1996, on the Polar label (Stockholm Label Group). Roskilde Festival 96 - over 10.000 tickets to the Roskilde Festival 96 were sold during the "special release" month of December 1995. And this without mentioning one band that will play there. The rest of the tickets (about 80.000) will be released starting April 1st, 1996. Salt - 's label in the US, Island, planned to release a first single, "Bluster" in January 1996, but since Bluster made it to one of LA's most important radio stations', KROQ, play list sooner than expected, the plan has changed. The story goes somewhat like this: Jason Bentley at San Fransisco radio station KCRW started to play Bluster from a Compilation CD, "CMG", released by Island in the autumn of 1995 and then made a guest appearence on KROQ, where he played Bluster on the air and for the program manager, who loved the song. The same week, Bluster made it to KROQ's play list. MVG's Nina Beckman says that the chance of a compilation CD song making it to the KROQ play list is almost nil, which makes this whole story pretty remarkable. The plans changed quickly after that, and the single "Bluster" was released on December 15th 1995, and the album "Auscultate" will be released in the beginning of March 1996. A large-scale tour of Europe and the US will follow later this spring. Sophie Zelmani - 's album "Sophie Zelmani" was released in Japan the first week of December 1995. It will also be released in the rest of Europe in March/April 1996 and in the US in April/ May 1996. [Thanks to Billy Lundgren for the Pineforest Crunch news!] //Erik --------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:49:11 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Bored fun When I get bored I come up with stuff like this - Q. What do Swervedriver, Ride and The Wannadies have in common? A. All of them have songs that have "How Does It Feel" in them, not only in the lyrics, but the titles as well. Fun huh? :) //Erik ---------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:09:47 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: WWW News I've once again changed the graphics on the Scandinavian Indie WWW pages, hopefully it looks a bit better now. :) I've also added some new pages. 1) Record Labels, and 2) Upcoming Record Releases (09-Jan-96). The Record Labels page contains a list of Swedish Record Labels (with information) that I've been collecting here and there at the moment, but I'd like it to contain lists for the other Scandinavian and Baltic countries as well, so if you'd like to help me collect such info for those lists, please let me know. Also if you have corrections/additions to the Swedish list of course. :) //Erik ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:39:54 +0100 From: pong@algonet.se (Magnus Astrom) Subject: Re: Tambourine Studios Review Alexander Bailey wrote: >This is my first post to the list and I hope it will prompt at least a few >comments from everybody else. I'd especially love feedback about Trio >Lligo (releases, recommendations?) and Cloudberry Jam. You can learn more about Trio Lligo (and Cloudberry Jam, actually) at: http://benno.mc.hik.se/benno They have meda four releases since they started in '88: one 7" EP, 2 LP's, and a CD album (from which "Flykten..." is taken). You should be able to get these from the record company, North Of No South Records. All info can be found at the above location. >My meager collection includes a good deal of Eggstone, an ep by >Seashells (anxiously awaiting receipt of some new goodies by them) [...] As to Seashells, they have a new (and good!) album out on North Of No South, "We Rob Banks". You'll find them too in the Bands section of the above location. Best regards, Magnus Astrom, pong@algonet.se --------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 19:05:05 +0100 From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom) Subject: Re: Tambourine Studios - Bob Hund >*Bob Hund "Du daer! Kom hit! > > Sounds pretty rockin (punkish) but when the keyboards kick in I >can't help but think of Eggstone. Something triumphant/joyful there. >Lots of changes in a scant1:57. Well, not the best BH track, i must admit. They played it live for two or three months, but is now forgotten. Anyway, check out their two CDs or see them live if they ever come to your town. They rock a million times more on stage!!! Jan Sundstrom ------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:42:29 -0800 (PST) From: D Alexander Bailey Subject: Re: Tambourine Studios - Bob Hund On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Jan Sundstrom wrote: > >*Bob Hund "Du daer! Kom hit! > > Well, not the best BH track, i must admit. They played it live for two or > three months, but is now forgotten. Anyway, check out their two CDs or see > them live if they ever come to your town. They rock a million times more on > stage!!! Now I'm curious. I definitely do like this tune (and sorry about my messed up Germanized spelling - no umlauts make it through my server). Do Bob Hund just do instrumentals or if they do sing too, what's it like? By the way, is Bob Hund someone's name or is this a name for a band? If someone can supply me with the album titles (and recommedations and catalogue numbers will also help) I could start bugging my friend at Tower Records to try to get something for me. Thanks, xander ------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:42:31 +0100 From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom) Subject: Re: Tambourine Studios - Bob Hund >> >*Bob Hund "Du daer! Kom hit! >Do Bob Hund just do instrumentals or if they do sing too, what's it >like? Well, they mostly sing, but their concerts are sometimes broken up with these small intersections, where the singer Thomas Oeberg floats over the audience or does wild pogo in front of the stage, or stands on a chair among all the people, or freaks out with a large orange traffic cone! >By the way, is Bob Hund someone's name or is this a name for a >band? Just the band. It's the "dog smoking pipe" logo. (dog=hund). >If someone can supply me with the album titles (and recommedations >and catalogue numbers will also help) The two albums are both just called "Bob Hund", the first one is a 6-track mini album, the second a full length. I don't have the numbers, but Robert C will certainly fill you up on this. He also runs some excellent pages. There are also another URL, although not very informative: http://www.nada.kth.se/~d94-hhe/Bobben/ >I could start bugging my friend at >Tower Records to try to get something for me. It would impress me if you could get any. I've never heard of anyone buying a BH record outside scandinavia. Jan Sundstrom ------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:41:04 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Pinko Pinko On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Martin Eksten wrote: > Anybody here who has heard of the Swedish band Pinko Pinko? You bet. :) They're signed to North Of No South, have released a full- length CD and a CD single (and four demo tapes), they played at Blur's afterparty in Stockholm (1994?)... There's an interview with them on the SI WWW pages (and in ASCII format from the FTP site). > I have heard that they are quite known in Japan; apparently they > are called "the Blur of Sweden" over there. They've been called that for ages over here as well. Even when they were called Beetroots. I have a gig-poster on my wall from when they played in Link|ping the first time saying "Beetroots - Eggstone meets Blur". > What do they sound like? Are they any good? Last time they played here was over a year ago, and I haven't heard them since, so I'm going to skip that question. Maybe someone who has heard them more recently can answer it? //Erik -------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:41:23 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Tape Chain Okay, I've collected the additions to the Swedish Indie tape posted to the list (see below): Blissful, Red Sleeping Beauty, Popundret. <-- trkisa@uta.fi Yvonne, Souls <-- Marten.Sahlen@eua.ericsson.se Yvonne, Mazarine Street <-- ludde@kore.lk.se Green, This Perfect Day, Popsicle <-- eksten@oberon.df.lth.se It's a bit of a hassle this way, so I was thinking, maybe we should go about this in a different way.. I was thinking of a "vote" thing sort of. Like this: 1) Those interested in the Swedish Indie tape chain could e-mail me (chief@lysator.liu.se) with a list of bands (say 10 bands or something like that). Maybe a last date to send lists should be decided as well? Suggested last date: __February 1st, 1996__. 2) I'll collect the lists and sort them into a "top" list, which will be posted to the mailing list. If we haven't decided on songs, we'll do that then, from the "top" list, in the same way as with the band lists. Suggested last date: __February 15th, 1996__. 3) Bands and songs "top" list will be posted to the list, and then the work with compiling the tape and designing the "cover" will start. I can do the tape and the "cover" etc if you want me to, though I wouldn't say no to some help. :) 4) The tape is sent to the first (closest) person on the "interested in the Swedish Indie tape chain" list with as many "covers" as interested persons. Each person takes one "cover" and copies the tape and sends the original tape with the rest of the "covers", striking out his/her name on the included list, to the next person on it. 5) The last person on the list sends back the tape to me (or whoever manages the chain). How does that sound? Maybe we can make all the tapes this way? //Erik ---------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:40:45 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Tape Chain On Mon, 8 Jan 96, ludde@kore.lk.se (Ludvig Borgne) wrote: > To avoid starting a flame-war I think I'll skip teling you which ones > to delete, though... :) _No_, don't avoid that! Please post _your_ opinion, even if it is bands you _don't_ want to see on the compilation tape. That's the whole point! And that way, we'll get a damn good tape too. :) //Erik ---------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:41:44 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Tape Chain On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, D Alexander Bailey wrote: > I don't remember when the tape chain topic made it's first appearance. > How does it work? I was thinking that maybe it's time to post the whole idea again anyway :), but the sheer size (23k) of the collected messages about the tape chain during 1995 (even edited) makes me not want to post it to the entire list, so if anyone's interested in reading the whole thing from the start, let me know and I'll email you the file. In short though, these people have taken it upon themselves to compile tapes: Baltic Indie - Sami (trsaro@uta.fi), Albert has a bunch of stuff too. Finnish Indie - Kimmo (trkisa@uta.fi) Icelandic Indie - Albert (sigurdss@cc.helsinki.fi) Swedish Indie - Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) Swedish Industrial - Marten (Marten.Sahlen@eua.ericsson.se) which means that we have no-one compiling Norwegian or Danish Indie tapes. Anyone up for it? //Erik ---------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:42:11 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Upcoming Gigs at Herrg}r'n [09-Jan-96] The latest list of Upcoming gigs at Herrg}r'n, Link|ping [09-Jan-96]: Jan 11 - Blake Carrington, Slush Puppies Jan 25 - Melony Feb 1 - tba Feb 8 - Sludge Nation Feb 15 - Popsicle (!) Feb 22 - tba Feb 29 - Ludo X (Denmark) Due to the massive amount of people that will come to see Popsicle, there will be tickets, for the first time in the history of Herrg}r'n. Tickets will be sold at the University (house C and D) probably starting February 12th. See you there! //Erik ------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:42:23 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Melony Melony - Soap changed the release date on Melony's "Skycracker EP" from November 13th 1995 to January 8th 1996 (yesterday that is). Why? I don't know. //Erik ---------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:00:34 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Expressen, Den finaste tidningen i v{rlden. :) We'd better look out now, before uttering something about the fine and nice journalists working at Expressen, beacuse they're now reading this list. :) (Hi Mr. Nunstedt) And no, there's no archiving of old messages. ;-) //Erik ---------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:07:26 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: WWW pages, a final time I won't post (unless you want me to that is) news about what's happened on the Scandinavian Indie WWW pages to the list from now on, as I'm not sure anyone's interested. I mean, if you check the pages, you check the pages and will see what's new/added etc. Anyway, I've added a small Swedish Festivals 1996 page, with the info I've managed to find so far (ie. not much). The Swedish Record Labels page has now got an index, which is clickable, and the Helikopter label has been added to it. Some Selected News were added as well as the latest couple of digests (with a layout change of the SID page), and a new "Quick Bar" has been added for those who want to zoom through the pages at light speed :). I think that's about it. Oh and remember, the Selected News bits and pieces posted to the list does not include (most of the time) the Source (which is required when publishing it, though not through a "private" mailing list like this one), but _is_ listed on the Selected News WWW pages, in case someone thought of distributing them somehow. Just trying to please those who started the alarm. Sort of. //Erik ---------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:11:59 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Pinko Pinko (Forwarded message w/reminder) Got some mail in my own mailbox, and I guess it was time for a small reminder anyway. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Please remember to post messages/articles to the: * * scan-indie@lysator.liu.se * * address. * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forwarded message follows: * Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 18:54:09 +0100 * From: perhin95@student.umu.se (Susanne Johansson) * Subject: Re: Pinko Pinko Martin Eksten wrote: >Hi! > >Anybody here who has heard of the Swedish band Pinko Pinko? > >I have heard that they are quite known in Japan; apparently they >are called "the Blur of Sweden" over there. What do they sound like? >Are they any good? > >Martin. > > >Martin Eksten (eksten@df.lth.se) > >"Smell the flowers while you can" (David Wojnarowicz) You can find out more about Pinko Pinko on:http://benno.mc.hik.se/benno What you can't find out is that they start to record a new album in April. Per --------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 22:46:23 -0800 From: Christer Nilsson Subject: Re: Selected News [09-Jan-96] About Salt's success on US radio, KROQ is indeed a very important radio station. In their regular music schedule they play a handful of bands over and over again all the time. So if you tune in to the station for about 15 minutes you go "wow" and you get the impression that they are this very daring alternative radio station. The thing is, after listening to the station for an hour you will have heard Nirvana four times, Bush (yuch!) four times, Red Hot Chili Peppers four times and so on. Since early December Salt is one of those bands that has been played all the time. For the average Californian this is great since they never listen to a single radio station for more than 15 minutes in a row (while siting in their cars on the way to Taco Bell). The KROQ playlists are very much controlled and calculated by their producers and the individual dj's have almost no influence at all on their own shows. But, KROQ is very successful and has a huge impact on record sales. The most important thing is though the way that MTV producers look at KROQ`s playlists when they add songs to their Buzz-clips. So Salt could't be in a better position right now. If Island really promote the album a lot and if the band get over here to tour I bet that they will be big. ----------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:37:18 +0100 From: Marten.Sahlen@eua.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen) Subject: Re: Melony > Noticed the other day that the latest addition to the SOAP label, Melony, > released an EP on November 13th 1995 called "Skycracker EP" (snapc 24). > Anyone heard it who can tell me what they sound like? Funny that you should ask... I'm going to see Melony live tonight. Stockholmers can check them out 21:00 at Hanna's Deli. See you there. Their singer/guitarist Peter Kvint used to be the frontman in radio darlings Farbror Bl} some years back. He and I were classmates back in the gymnasium (booohh, namedropping!! :) so I know him very well. Last time I met him he told me his new "indie pop" band was called Honey, but I guess they changed the name to avoid confusion with all the other honey bands: Honey Is Cool, Honeypie, Honeycave. More useless trivia (from an interview in Noejesguiden): The title "Skycracker" was inspired by H&M's advertising campaign featuring a very young angel-like girl in underwear... ett himmels-kex = a skycracker. He he. ---------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:45:22 +0100 (MET) From: Per L}ngstr|m Subject: Re: Tambourine Compilation On Tue, 9 Jan 1996 chief@lysator.liu.se wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, D Alexander Bailey wrote: > > > Red Sleeping Beauty, who I think have been getting quite good recently. > > Now I'm sure I have to get something with them. They're known in > Europe and the US, and I still haven't heard them. um, you should be able to get hold of their 7-inchers through freak scene records in stockholm, i believe. the last time a was there (which is a few weeks back), they had like three or four different ones. most of them were released on some spanish label. weird. and, yeah, i was told they were pretty "wimpy" sounding.. .per ------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:12:27 +0100 (MET) From: Per L}ngstr|m Subject: Re: Expressen, Den finaste tidningen i v{rlden. ;) On Wed, 10 Jan 1996 chief@lysator.liu.se broke the news: > We'd better look out now, before uttering something about the > fine and nice journalists working at Expressen, beacuse they're > now reading this list. :) oh man, does this mean that we/i should get back in line and praise swedish rock journalism like never before..? hmm, thinking of it, erik what do you say about a big repost on our previous ramblings?? it should be fun, as we actually would have someone to address them all to..! ;) oh well, i guess i'll just keep my mouth shut to from now on. .per ------------------------ End of SI Digest #3.03 **********************