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News: PJ Harvey Tour 2004 on DVD
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DVD Chronicles 2004 PJ Harvey Tour
April 03, 2006, 4:30 PM ET
Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.(excerpt)
Directed by longtime collaborator Maria Mochnacz, the DVD a 28-minute interview with Harvey about writing, recording and performing. Among the featured songs are "Down by the Water," "It's You" and "Meet Ze Monsta" captured at stops in the United States and across Europe while the band was out behind that year's "Uh Huh Her."
Mochnacz and Harvey have a lengthy relationship that covers every PJ Harvey music video, some of which remain unreleased. She has also directed clips for Robert Miles, M People, Echobelly, Sleeper and Sven Vath, among others.
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News: Mighty Six Ninety - Believable (Kids)
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Mighty Six Ninety - Believable (Kids)
UK release date: 13 March 2006
written by Tony HeywoodIt came as a shock to find that Mighty Six Ninety are from LA and not some down trodden English new town. The sound the band create is a hybrid of the mid-'90s northern indie: the vocals are a dead ringer for Martin Rossiter of Gene; the guitars could be those of Kingmaker or Echobelly.
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News: Supergrass Grows Up
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Supergrass grows up
By Shilpa Ganatra/ Across the Pond
Friday, February 10, 2006Few British bands in their right mind would choose to tour the States so soon after the pause of the holiday season.
But Oxford’s Supergrass is an exception to every rule. Itkicks off a short U.S. tour at the Paradise tonight.
The most surprising fact of the tour, though, is that the band is still going strong after 12 years.
When Supergrass formed in 1994, the British resistance to grunge was already in full force. Blur had cemented its place in everyone’s affections with ‘‘Parklife.” Oasis merited its rock ’n’ roll swagger by releasing‘‘Definitely Maybe.” And the London Suede had effectively invented metrosexuality with its eponymous debut.
By that time, too, bandwagon followers had sprung up. You’d be forgiven for not remembering Echobelly, Menswear, Shed Seven and Sleeper. Supergrass - singer-guitarist Gaz Coombes, bassist Mick Quinn, drummer Danny Goffey and Gaz’ brother Rob Coombes on keyboards - emerged as yet another B-list band.
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News: Music Review of Electric Soft Parade
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Music review: ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE
Last updated: 09-Dec-05 01:35 GMT
by PAUL WHITELAW(excerpt)
They pick listlessly at the cadavers of so many other better bands, like bored cannibals at the end of a day-long picnic, a leg of Coldplay here, a tuft of Blur there, with a foul odour of eau de Libertines permeating the whole sorry mess. Some songs sound like Echobelly without Sonya Aurora Madan, which I wish was a joke, but I assure you it isn't. Others sound like Dodgy without the trailblazing spirit. Hang on, who's that on drums? It actually is the drummer from Dodgy. Is it really time to start feeling nostalgic for this stuff? What with Chris Evans back on TV, it's like the last ten years never happened.
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News: Going Live 2006
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Soundcraft Going Live dates
2 December 2005
written by Lee BaldockUK - Soundcraft has announced the dates for its next highly popular GOING LIVE training course, which is held in conjunction with Adlib Audio of Liverpool and some of the UK's top tour-sound engineers.
GOING LIVE 06 takes place from February 20th-22nd at the Liverpool Community College. Monday 20th is an optional 'Intro' day, essentially a pre-cursor for the main event held over the 21st and 22nd, and acts as a basics of live sound refresher, ideal for people relatively new to live sound engineering as a career or interest.
The main course covers all the main subjects of live sound, from microphone and loudspeaker placement to front-of-house and monitor mixing. This next course includes a new topic, 'Managing Wireless Microphone Systems'. As well as providing course tutoring, the engineers on the course are on hand to answer questions and provide tips on how they mix live sound in the real world.
The engineers expected to be tutoring include 'Big Mick' Hughes, perhaps most famous for his work with Metallica, Jon Burton (who has toured with Radiohead, Echobelly, Stereo MC's and Brian Ferry), and Adlib's own Andy Dockerty (Texas) and Dave Kay (Scissor Sisters, David Bowie).
This course is expected to sell out fast (places are extremely well priced at £180 for the two days, plus £30 for the Intro day), so early booking is highly recommended. All participants will receive a free copy of the Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcement book, written by John Eargle and Chris Foreman for JBL ($50 value) and a copy of Soundcraft's popular 'Guide to Mixing' DVD at the end of the course.
Further information is available from Sam Cordell, on 01707 665000.
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News: Guardian: Over-by-Over: Morning Session (14 Aug 2005)
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Over-by-over: morning session
England 444 & 26-0; Australia 302
written by Rob Smyth
Sunday August 14, 2005(excerpt)
1st over: England 2-0 (lead by 142 on first innings; Trescothick 1, Strauss 1) These sub-standard Aussies are even copying our field placing now: McGrath has an absurd mid-off for Trescothick, just as Hoggard has had for Hayden (and Graeme Smith had so effectively against Trescothick in the winter). "Here's one for the Britpop debate," says Joe Stead. "What was Echobelly's famous song? After having found the album gathering dust last week we listened to it and couldn't recognise any the songs. Was there an at least slightly attractive singer that might explain this, can't remember that either." Blimey, anything else Joe? Want me to wash your swingers while I'm here? Echobelly: yes, and yes. Famous song was the impossibly chipper Great Things. (King of the Kerb did well too.) Singer was Sonia Aurora-Madan, or some such.
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News: Chromewaves: Britpop is Dead
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Live Forever
Wednesday July 13, 2005
written by Okkervil RiverThis Village Voice article about the demise of BritPop ten years ago did two things for me: One, made me feel really old. Two, made me realize that while I've mentioned my falling out with BritPop before in passing, I've never really gotten into specifics. I guess now's as good a time as any.
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The thing is, after a while I realized I wasn't really enjoying it all that much. More and more of the acts the British press was trying to convince me would be the next saviours of music turned out to be, well, more than a little bit crap - you can only recycle the same influences so many times before it all gets excessively generic and creatively stagnant. Which isn't so much a problem if you just want something that sounds like the last thing you liked, but if you wanted something more, it was sadly deficient. By this point, my CD collection was overflowing with the latest "next big things" as decreed by Select, NME, Q, etc - Shed Seven, Sleeper, Echobelly, Kenickie, Embrace, Ocean Colour Scene, The Bluetones... Not inherently bad, some of it quite passable, but not really stuff that stood up especially well outside the Britpop bubble. Instead of renewing my passion for the genre, it only reinforced how disillusioned I was with it all. Combine this epiphany with my discovery of far more interesting and adventurous music from what would soon be known as indie rock originating from this side of the Atlantic and you were looking at a complete sea change in my musical tastes. And it turns out those cute girls were only interested in tall skinny dudes with lame-o Anglo affectations. Bitter? Me? Nah.
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News: Grrls - Viva Rock Divas
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Review: Grrls - Viva Rock Divas
Posted by Jones Violet on July 13, 2005 09:30 AMFiled under: Books, Books: Women - Scroll down to read comments on this story and/or add one of your own.
Grrrls : Viva Rock Divas
written by Amy Raphael
Book from St. Martin's Griffin
Release date: 15 January, 1996I have to say that I was a lot more impressed with this book than I thought I would be. I was kind of skeptical of the cover with Courtney Love baring a sexy leg, but now, I take back any thought I had about it initially.
To begin, this book by Amy Raphael is a good book. Interesting, powerful, informative and, in many ways, inspiring for women. Especially young women. It's a book about what it's like to be a woman in the music industry making real music. It's all about girl rock and grrl power, which is what originally made me skeptical about it. In my mind I always seemed to associate "grrl power" with fourteen year old girls and the Spice Girls. I take it back. Grrls is a great book if you've been a fan of women in rock for years or if you're new and interested in learning more about it.
The women featured in the book are Courtney Love (Hole), Sonya Aurora Madan and Debbie Smith (Echobelly), Bjork, Nina Gordon and Louie Post (Veruca Salt), Gina Birch (Raincoats), Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Ellyott Dragon (Sister George), Huggy Bear, Tanya Donelly (Belly), Pam Hogg (Doll), Kristin Hersh, and Liz Phair.
While this is a great list of great talent, I was surprised to see some faces missing from the line up, such as Patti Smith and PJ Harvey, to name a few, though they both get some honorable mentions from the women interviewed, which is nice to see.
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