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Scandinavian Indie Digest Vol 03 Issue 37
Scandinavian Indie Digest Fri Aug 23, 1996 Volume 3 : Issue 37
There are 30 messages totalling 1102 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Sin's Selected News [11-Aug-96]
2. Roober Oivik from Estonia?
3. Grass Show (2)
4. The Malmoe festival (2)
5. Sommarens sista suck!
6. The Swedish tape but mostly other things
7. Luger Tour List _Update_ [14-Aug-96]
8. The best autumn in years (no scan-indie content) (2)
9. Sin's Music on the TV [16-Aug-96]
10. Sin's Music on the Radio [26-Aug-96]
11. Short fast news bits
12. Swedish Indie
13. P3 on Monday (2)
14. Bob Hund on P3's 'Flipper' last week
15. Lollipop, Stereolab, etc
16. The best autumn in my life!
17. Ramones interview in Skelleftea
18. Mail deleted :-(
19. Hello everyone (3)
20. list
21. Motor Tour List _Update_ [20-Aug-96]
22. Short things...
23. Luger Tour List _Update_ [21-Aug-96]
24. Motor Tour List _Update_ [21-Aug-96]
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 03:06:58 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Sin's Selected News [11-Aug-96]
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Scandinavian Indie SELECTED NEWS Scandinavian Indie
August 11th, 1996
by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se)
"Remember where you heard it first"
Contents:
A West Side Fabrication, Chewinggum Weekend, Dorian Records, Dune, Fidget,
Fly, Harry Lime Records, Norwegian Indie, Rock Summer Riga, Surreal, Violett
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AWSF - A West Side Fabrication news: upcoming autumn releases (no dates
decided yet) - CD5: The Drowners, Waterbug. CD: Blissful, Mufflon 5
and Stickboy. Trastocksfestivalen will happen 1997 - though in a much
smaller scale. In 1998, the festival will be back in full force again.
The label is keeping a very tight lid on an upcoming Project with
our favourites Backfish! But, exclusive to Scandinavian Indie, the
plan can be revealed! Apparently the band met The Posies at a gig some
time ago, and gave them a tape. Since then, they have stayed in contact
with each other, and now Kenny from The Posies wants to and will
produce their upcoming debut album, if everything works as planned!
Note the "if" though. Regarding Trastocksfestivalen again: in the
latest edition of the swedish Trivial Pursuit, the festival has been
awarded with a question. The label still looks for new and promising
bands, so keep sending them your demos! (Source: Scandinavian Indie)
Chewinggum Weekend - (Bums) was finally signed to a label, though not
a swedish one! "Bums" is really a danish label.
Are we supposed to notice a trend here?
(Source: Scandinavian Indie)
Dorian Records - the label that released the neat compilation CD called
"A Chance To Shine" a while ago is already planning on
a second compilation CD, though the name and a couple
more bands has yet to be decided. Bands decided so far
are: The Wellmeant, Morning Penguin, Supernova, Stargazer,
Curseflower, Sandy Lyle, Lugi, Honeys, Popeye, Disko
and Dr. Saturn. There are 300 copies of the compilation
("A Chance To Shine") left (1000 copies were made) and
if you are interested in ordering one, contact Dorian
Records, Seminariegatan 3, 302 32 Halmstad, Sweden -
Phone: +46-35-133226. The price is set to 100 SEK (plus
postage and packaging). Foreign orders are also welcome.
If you live in Tokyo, Japan, you might want to know that
Tower Records there has 100 copies in store.
(Source: Scandinavian Indie)
Dune - (Harry Lime) was very recently signed to Harry Lime Records. One
of the band members is actually the owner of Dorian Records. More
news will be posted about this soon! (Source: Scandinavian Indie)
Fidget - (Mega) will be hiding in the studio in Varberg (south of Gothenburg)
after their Emmaboda Festival gig. There they will record their
forthcoming debut album throughout August and into September,
produced by Magnus (again). Those t-shirts Expressen Fredag wrote
about they would wear at the Lollipop festival turned out to be
the truth, though the band has not idea who "talked" - it was
supposed to be a secret... (Source: Scandinavian Indie)
Fly - have been rehearsing all summer, and as a result, have not played
anywhere but at the Emmaboda Festival this weekend. At the festival,
three interested record companies were there to watch & listen.
This will hopefully will result in a contract in the near future.
(Source: Scandinavian Indie)
Harry Lime Records - are working on a follow-up to their "In The Limelight"
compilation CD. The new compilation will have bands
like Rottingdean, Jumprope (from the US), Peat, Dune
and A Sense of Reason. More bands are to be announced.
The CD is planned to be released in October.
(Source: Scandinavian Indie)
Norwegian Indie - info and news. Thanks to Julie Forchhammer at Tilt Management
& Booking, here's a pretty good overview of groups they
handle, and of course, a good look at what Norway has got,
something that Scandinavian Indie has lacked information
about for a long time, sadly enough. But here it is! If
you want to know more - just ask on the mailing list!
Slut Machine: Hardcore band from Bergen. Sounds like Tad,
Sick Of It All, Pantera, Jesus Lizard etc. They are
releasing their debut album in september.
Cane: An indiepop band also from Bergen. Female vocal, they
have been described as a mixture between Bjork and Nina
Hagen! Cane are signed to Warner Records, and will release
their debut album in the beginning of 1997.
Gluecifer: A twisted hardcore band from Oslo. Some of the
members used to play in O'men. Played at this years Quart-
festival and got good reviews.
Red Harvest: A difficult band to describe. They play a kind
of goth/industrial hardcore, but you have to listen to them
to understand what I mean. They are signed to Voices Of
Wonder. Their third album is released September 9th.
Sloane: An indiepop band from Bergen. Unsigned, up and
coming, charming, melodic.
Sister Sonny: A Sonic Youth like band from Bergen. Unsigned,
promising, unpredictable (in a good way). Unfortunately they
are not sure if they want to put 100% in their music or not,
just wait and see...
Peachfuzz: Young, unsigned indiband from Bergen. Two girls
and two boys. (Female vocal). They started this spring, but
have already impressed a lot of people. Charming, Slowdivish,
popish, naivish.
Vampire State Building: From Oslo. Industrial techno rock.
Are laying low at the moment due to lack of time.
(Source: Julie Forchhammer)
Rock Summer Riga - '96 festival incurred a loss of 100,000 lats ($50.000) for
its organizing firm Rock Summer Baltica. The festival was
held on July 12-14 in Riga and brought together such
international acts as ZZ Top, Bjork, East 17, Midge Ure,
the Mike Flowers Pops and many other foreign and Latvian
bands. Organizers of the festival owe money to different
hotels, air companies and other services, and the concrete
losses will be calculated in two weeks, reports Dienas
bizness. The festival will be held again next year if
Rock Summer Baltica manages to pay off its debt.
(Source: The Baltic Times)
Surreal - from Varberg are finished with the recording and mixing of their
upcoming debut album "Friends of Soap & Water" on the Recordia
label, though they have not decided when to release it yet.
Taking care of booking the band is our friend Hansi Friberg
nowadays. (Source: Scandinavian Indie)
Violett - the band who opens the "A Chance To Shine" compilation CD
is actually the same band that sent a demo to ZTV program
"Knesset" (the one they made a video for), though back then
the band was called "Alexis". (Source: Scandinavian Indie)
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All news always at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/selnews.html
Quote the source, _and the link_, if Scandinavian Indie is the source!
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:24:58 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Sami Rouhento <trsaro@uta.fi>
Subject: Re: Roober Oivik from Estonia?
Erik wrote:
> Regarding music from them Baltic countries - we're having a disucssion
> on the Slowdive/Mojave 3 mailing list right now about a band from
> Estonia called "Roober Oivik" - apparently they have released an album
> on a _Swedish_ label in 1993 !?
Yeah, uh... actually that should be Roovel Oobik (well, actually that
should be R=F6=F6vel =D6=F6bik, you know, with dots over the o's everywhere)
and they did not release an album on a Swedish label, but a _Finnish_
label, called Stupido Twins, the label, that is, not the album. The
album is called "Popsubterranea" and it's quite alright.
I think the band started back in the late 80's (a wild guess) as a bit
of a punk rock band, really, and had a couple of songs on one of the
Eesti Pop comp. lp's can't remember which one though - maybe #10? Then
they released a 7" ep on Stupido Twins ("The History of The USSR", or
something) and then the above discussed album, cd only. I think by
this time they had started experimenting with drugs, judging be the
sound of the album at least - it's a cross between their earlier style
and (then) current indie rock with a psychedelic twist - plenty of
wah-wah guitars and nonsense lyrics here. The sleeve is horrific and
generally I think they would have done much better if they'd released
it on a label that actually had a clue.
Later they got pretty excited about dub and modern dance sounds and
slowly evolved into a full-blooded dance band, released a tape album
(called "Psychikosmos", or something) (on an Estonian label)
that sounds excitingly weird but I couldn't even try and categorize it
for you... and then split up, last year I think. Some of the band
continue under the title Hypnosaurus, or something; they also dj at
raves in Estonia regularly.
That's all I know. The Estonian Indie Tape has a couple of songs from
the band, so *ahem* when it reaches you you'll be able to sample their
sound around 1993-1994...
Sorry about the sketchy facts, I was working on memory alone....
sami
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:18:18 GMT
From: TOBIAS PEGGS <scetp@cardiff.ac.uk>
Subject: Grass Show
Hi there... I'm just about to write a feature on Grass Show who, in
my opinion, should become MASSIVE here in the UK.
I've just ploughed through some of your digests and found
very little about said band. I am interested in hearing some views
from the band's fellow country (wo)men rather than relying on my own
opinions.
Any views would be most welcome.
Thanks, Tobias.
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 96 22:59:00 -0100
From: johan.jeppsson@p255.lurivax.ct.se (Johan Jeppsson)
Subject: The Malmoe festival
The original Swedish festival, the Malmoe festival started Friday 9th and there
has at least been some interesting acts performing.
First thing I saw was the band Favorita on Saturday. A band with members from
Beagle and Lolita Pop. A rather boring band with the standard cheesy
radio-pop-songs in english. I think one could ask for a little more fantasy.
Some half-interesting songs but in the end a rather poor popband.
Next up was Mutts a three-piece that's been around for a while and who have
just released a single. I was happily surprised by their energetic powerpop.
Some really good songs and a good singer. There is a possibility that these
guys will become really good. A bit like a Swedish Ash. The bassplayer was a
bit of a stiffy though. Buy their single if your into this kind of stuff, I
think I will.
Last band of the night was one of Swedens finest, Bob Hund. As usual a really
good show with the quality punk/pop/synth/rock'n'roll that is their trademark.
I really hope that they will release "Kvicksilver", "Haer upphoer allmaen
vaeg", "Dusseldorf" and "Dagen daa kaenslan av att allting boerjar om aaterkom"
on their new album. They are just sooo good. Especially "HSAV" which is
incredibly beautiful. The ending of the concert was probably the longest
feedback-orgy I've ever heard. Guess they were tired and wanted the
audience to go home. :)
Tuesday when I arrived at the festival. It seemed quite empty in front of the
rockstage. Only a few Skate/Hardcore-fans and some others had come to watch
Dipper. A band that has received credit from members of Bob Hund and Eggstone.
I understand what has caught their eye but I'm not convinced of their
superiority. The singer has a powerful personality and their popsongs has a
dark punky edge to them and odd lyrics. But not all songs are good and they
tend to be a bit boring. The singer needs to improve his english a bit too.
Last Act of the evening was Olle Ljungstroem who did a great gig. A really like
his classic country rock/pop even though I think his two previous albums are
better than the last one. He also proved once more his ability of forgetting
lyrics and talking almost entirely crap during the show. :) Swedens best
soloartist in my opinion.
Other interesting acts on the festivals was Wilmer X (who played during the
same time as Dipper) and Kent which I've just seen _too_ many times lately.
(They dont change much between shows now do they?). Wonder how they manage to
keep the spirit up after touring the way they do.
~Johan Jeppsson~
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:01:01 +0200
From: totte.pop@mbox309.swipnet.se (Totte Pop)
Subject: Sommarens sista suck!
This is the last festival this summer if you believe the organizer for this
event, it's something like an 'tea in the park' kind of thing.
Admission is free and you will see some of the new fresh and promising
bands from Eskilstuna supporting Superswirls on friday and Yvonne on
Saturday.
Be there or be ....POP ON!
" SOMMARENS SISTA SUCK "
EN LITEN MEN GOD POPFESTIVAL SOM I ]R FIRAR SEX ]R
OCH KAN SE TILLBAKA P] ALLA GLADA ]R MED M]NGA BRA BAND
SOM SPELAT : BLAND DE MEST K[NDA KAN KENT, ABLE, YVONNE OCH
SUPERSWIRLS N[MNAS........VARAV DE SISTA TV] KOMMER ]TER
P] ]RETS FESTIVAL SOM GENOMF\RS :
FREDAG 23/8 & L\RDAG 24/8
KL: 18.00 - 24.00
I ESKILSTUNA STADSPARK
( FRI ENTRE )
FREDAG DEN 23 AUGUSTI
BLUSH
BACKYARD YAM
CARLSSON
HAMILTON
DIVIN
SUPERSWIRLS.
L\RDAG DEN 24 AUGUSTI
POLYTHENE
Erica Kane
S:T MOORES
PANIC
( FYRVERKERI/fireworks )
YVONNE
any questions/totte pop
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:30:00 -0500
From: elin <elin@algonet.se>
Subject: The Swedish tape but mostly other things
I said:
>> I've been listening to it almost constantly since, and I think that whenever
>> I hear one of these songs in the future I will think about this summer.
And then Erik said:
>I have changed someone's life! I have changed someone's life! Er.. well
>I mean "WE" there actually - as all of us voted on what should be on
>the tape.
I guess you have, the sad thing is I can't listen to it anymore, my tapedeck
went nuts and the tape is now "unlistenable". Maybe I wouldn't anyway, school
started today and I think Nine Inch Nails will spend a lot time in the tape
deck from now on.
Hope this "Sommarens sista suck" in Eskilstuna which Totte told us about will
be fun, and Erik, there's your chance to see/listen to St. Moores, if you
haven't yet.
>Did anyone see their 18 minute performance?! I missed it by about 3 hours!
Yes, I did. It was, well, I haven't seen that much livemusic in my days so I
can't compare it to something else, but it was fun, and I enjoyed it, but I
liked their gig in Emmaboda more. If I rate the ones I've seen the list would
be like this:
1. Emmaboda
2. Lollipop & Stockholm water festival
When Sindy Kills Me played at the Emmaboda festival Tobias from Yvonne joined
for the last song. And afterwards I've read that someone from Honey is Cool
also would play with them, but as I don't know how the HIC-members look like
I can't tell if this is true or not. I guess someone might know that better
than me.
And BTW, if you're intrested I've made an Yvonne web-page, (Sorry, only in
Swedish). If you look at it please let me know what you think and what I
should do to make it better, but remember, it's only 2 weeks old and I've
just got started, so some pages aren't what I want them to be yet. That goes
for the newspages in particular.
Elin
elin@algonet.se
www.algonet.se/~elin/yvonne
(I'm the same Elin as elin_olson@skola.agora.se)
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 01:06:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Luger Tour List _Update_ [14-Aug-96]
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Scandinavian Indie Luger Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie
August 14th 1996
by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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NON-SCANDINAVIAN:
BLACK UHURU (JAM) - *NEW*
30/8 Malmo (S) KB
MOUNTAIN GOATS (USA) - Naptime / Amigo *NEW*
31/10 Stockholm (S) Studion
1/11 Vaxjo (S) TBA
2/11 Goteborg (S) Underground
SUPERMODEL (UK) - Fire Records/Border *NEW*
4/9 Vaxjo (S) Cafe Stina
5/9 Linkoping (S) Herrgar'n
6/9 Ludvika (S) Torget
7/9 Bergen (N) Det Akademiske kvarter
8/9 Oslo (N) So What
10/9 Stockholm (S) Studion
11/9 Uppsala (S) Kalmar Nation
12/9 Goteborg (S) Underground
13/9 Lund (S) Blekinska Nationen
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The complete Luger Tour List can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW :
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/luger.html
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 00:11:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: The best autumn in years (no scan-indie content)
I just have to express my joy here - this autumn will be the *best* damn
autumn in years! _Curve_ back together again with a single and an album and
a tour! _The Charlatans_ release a single in about a week and an album later
this year, _Mojave 3_ comes to Sweden and will release a couple of singles
this year with an album to be released in March next year, _Catherine Wheel_
release a b-side compilation album...
Now lets just hope that we'll see Verve (Superstar or whatever they call
themselves these days) coming out with some new stuff, Adorable get back
together again, Ride realise their mistake and do the same, My Bloody
Valentine release that album, and Slowdive release their played, but never
released songs. Then I would seriously believe I had died and gone to heaven!
Can you say "Yaaaay!"?
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 00:12:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Sin's Music on the TV [16-Aug-96]
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Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE TV Scandinavian Indie
August 16th -> August 22nd
Day Date Artist/What TV Program Channel Time
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Fri 16/8 Popkorn Final Popkorn TV 4 22.40
Sat 17/8 Lollipop Report Reportage ZTV 21.00
Merrymakers, Broder D. Festivalsommar 1 SVT 2 21.30
Rage Against The Mac.. Live 'N' Direct MTV Europe 22.30
Popsicle Festivalsommar 2 SVT 2 23.05
Sun 18/8 Naked, Skunk Anansie Festivalsommar 1 SVT 2 21.30
Robyn Festivalsommar 2 SVT 2 23.05
Oasis Knebworth Story MTV Europe 23.30 R
Mon 19/8 R.E.M. Documentary ZTV 21.45 R
Tue 20/8 Blues Brothers Documentary TV 6 19.00
Alternative Nation Alternative Nation MTV Europe 00.00
Wed 21/8 -
Thu 22/8 -
R = Rerun
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This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie WWW pages
at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/uptv.html
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//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 00:10:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Sin's Music on the Radio [26-Aug-96]
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Scandinavian Indie MUSIC ON THE RADIO Scandinavian Indie
August 26th -> September 1st
Day Date Artist Recorded
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Mon 26/8 Mark Knopfler Stockholm, Globen 12-Jun-96
Tue 27/8 Baaba Maal Roskilde, Denmark 28-Jun-96
Wed 28/8 Larry Heard Hultsfred, Festival 14-Jun-96
Thu 29/8 TBA
Sun 1/9 Fl{skkvartetten (R) Lund, Mejeriet 20-Feb-96
This list covers the Swedish National Channel P3's "Live" - always at 21.03
(R) = Rerun
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This list is also available on the Scandinavian Indie WWW pages
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//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 00:12:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Short fast news bits
Short news bits:
* Cloudberry Jam - if you're tuning in swedish radio channel P3 tomorrow
(friday) between 12.00 and 16.00 you will be able to hear Cloudberry
Jam perform live on the program "Under Solen" which is broadcasting
from Linkoping this week.
* Linkoping local news - The music arrangers at Herrgar'n are starting
to broadcast their twice a week show on Tuesday 20/8 at 20:30. The
radio station is the Student run Radio Ryd. They will have a half-
hour show each tuesday and thursday, where they will play music, do
interviews and so on, with the bands that are performing at Herrgar'n
each week.
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:46:48 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Roberts Galvans <se51097@lanet.lv>
Subject: Swedish Indie
Hi there!
I'm back from `Liepajas Dzintars`... and I want to say what I feel abt
Scandinavian Indie Tape #3... blahhh!
This is an excelent tape... now I've got to know few new good Swedish
bands...
The best F*** in _the tape_ is SINDY KILLS ME 'Still'... kinda Alanis M. or
smth... pretty cool... I love this song
Also FIDGET `Semi-naked' and YVONNE 'Drifter' were pretty cool...
SHALLOW SOUNDWAVE `Hyper', SALT'Honour Me`, PUFFIN 'While You're Gone`
were cool...
That's the first impression of Latvian dewd about _Sweish Indie_
Regards
RoberC
se51097@lanet.lv
"...modern life is CRAP!!!"
P.S. more and review of 'Liepajas Dzintars' 'll follow in next week
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:52:46 +0200 (CED)
From: Martin Eksten <eksten@df.lth.se>
Subject: Re: The best autumn in years (no scan-indie content)
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 chief@lysator.liu.se wrote:
> I just have to express my joy here - this autumn will be the *best* damn
> autumn in years!
I have to agree! Though most of you probably won't agree _why_ I think
it will be great. New albums and singles by U2, R.E.M. and Suede - my
three favourite bands!
To add a bit of Scandinavia to this post: I just got back from my
"summer-absence" and I was very surprised to not find any reports
and/or discussings about the Roskilde festival. Surely I wasn't the
only one who was there!
Martin
Martin Eksten (eksten@df.lth.se)
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:19:31 +0200
From: Nicolas Moch <moch@mech.kth.se>
Subject: P3 on Monday
Hi !
There will be a program on P3 on Monday about pop and internet. I have
been interviewed, and I know that the guy was also looking for Erik...
Else, a new date: the Cardigans in Boston on 6th of September.
Regards,
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:18:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Forsberg <forsberg@charm.net>
Subject: Re: P3 on Monday
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Nicolas Moch wrote:
> There will be a program on P3 on Monday about pop and internet. I have
> been interviewed, and I know that the guy was also looking for Erik...
> Else, a new date: the Cardigans in Boston on 6th of September.
Thanks for the Cardigans info, Nicholas. Please let me know any other US
dates, especially if they ever make it further down the coast.......like
say, Baltimore or DC!! I'm actually surprised they haven't played DC yet.
They'd be a natural at the 9:30 Club....
Yearningly,
Chris
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Date: 16 Aug 1996 16:00:41 +0200
From: Robert Cumming <robert@astro.su.se>
Subject: Bob Hund on P3's 'Flipper' last week
Bob Hund were the last of P3's Arts programme Flipper's summer
guests. They did an hour's worth of their favourite music (Sparks,
OMD, Joy Division, and some much less obvious stuff) interspersed with
recordings made on their tour bus and at a party. I had the flu at
the time, so I was able to make a tape. If anyone's interested in a
copy, send me a blank cassette. Email for snailmail address...
Robert, l'alegria Macarena de scan-indie
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 96 18:14:58 +0200
From: etxsahm@cyber.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen)
Subject: Re: Lollipop, Stereolab, etc
Hi people, just got back from a months well-deserved vacation.
First of all, the original Swedish indie tape (the one that circulates
within Sweden) has been in my mailbox for 3 weeks, sorry about that.
I will send it to Johan Jeppson tomorrow.
Jan Sundstrom, coming out as the trans-sexual Viveka, wrote:
> OK, funbase supplies this place with e-mail, so here's a summary.
> Yesterday: Stereolab did a massive show, although i must say that the
> one last year at Studion was even better.
The week after Lollipop I met Stereolab chanteuse Mary Hansen at the
Wag Club in London, where Quickspace Supersport played. She told me
that although the groop has played several festivals, Lollipop was by far
the best and most fun they had performed at. Great weather, great crowd,
and lots of other good bands to look at. I agree that their gig at Studion
last year was extraordinary.
As for Quickspace Supersport, they were OK but a little boring. Sort of
noisy droning guitar rock, like Stereolab meets Sonic Youth meets Amon Duul.
They supported Prolapse, which is a great great band in the vein of old
experimental punk bands like Swell Maps, Mekons, and the Fall.
Other new acts I caught live were Pram (cosmic weird dub-music, on the
excellent Too Pure label) and Snow Pony. The latter band features My Bloody
Valentine members and were really exciting, sort of Curve meets Happy Mondays.
I also saw Damned (boring) and Throwing Muses, who are well worth checking
out when they come to Sweden soon, even though their recent material is a tad
too poppy for me.
Hmmm, not much scan-content in here, but oh well...
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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 12:13:31 +0200
From: totte.pop@mbox309.swipnet.se (Totte Pop)
Subject: The best autumn in my life!
I say 'Yaaaay'
> I just have to express my joy here - this autumn will be the *best* damn
> autumn in years!
New heavy releases from Cardigans, Superswirls, Pinko Pinko, Happy dead
men, Eggstone and aBLe will make time stand still for a while.
Also Brainpools new cd sounds great, watch out!
Totte Pop
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 10:49:12 +0200
From: etxsahm@cyber.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen)
Subject: Re: Ramones interview in Skelleftea
eilert.bergdahl@trygghetsradet.se wrote:
> Help me find a interview with Ramones and Kenneth Bergdahl in Skelleftea
> se. 1995. Ramones gave the interview to Kenneth because he has a very
> large record samples of Ramones.
Did someone reply to this already? In any case, the interview was
published in issue #3 of the fanzine Popup Mag. It has a picture
of Joey Ramone on the cover. However, I have to say that the
interview is really poor, I feel kind of sorry for what the guys in
the band have to put up with. I.e. "Are you a rock star, Johnny?",
"What do you think of Sweden?". My gawd...
But it did seem like Johnny Ramone was impressed by Kenneth's collection,
consisting of something like 400 Ramones records. I mean, I have about
30 Ramones items, and I think *that* is much.
Here's how to reach them: Popup, Buskv{gen 28, 611 45 Nyk|ping.
Phone/fax: 0155 - 98363
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:48:21 +0200
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Mail deleted :-(
Sorry to litter you with this, but all of my mail between 5-17 august
accidently got lost and deleted. So if you know you sent anything to me, or
that something on the list was said that i could have interest in, please
send me a copy.
Thanks, and sorry again,
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:13:14 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Pete Korhonen <pkorho@cs.joensuu.fi>
Subject: Hello everyone
Hello
I am a newbie on this list.
My name is Pete Korhonen and I am from Finland.
I have played drums is various local Punk/indie/rock-bands for 10
years now or something. I like music with ideas and guitars in general.
My latest favourite is a finnish band called XYSMA and their new cd
called LOTTO.
I play currently drums in a Finnish band called The Enter - the other
musicians are Otra (former Psychoplasma singer/songwriter/guitarist), Osku
(also plays bass in Brats) and Kimmo Riite (has played in Jeremias with me
and in various other local bands here in Joensuu).
Enter'f first single (True Angels/It's Not Fair!) is out now (Metamorphos
singles Meta-005) and the first CD (Yah-ha!) should be out in September or
October on same label).
(to purchase a sigle write to Metamorphos:
Metamorphos
Rantamaki 2 B 6
FIN-02230 Espoo
Finland)
Website for Enter is under consideration and probably will be available
soon. I will notify you about that asap.
So long
Yours, Pete
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:36:33 +0200
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: Hello everyone
>My name is Pete Korhonen and I am from Finland.
>
>I have palyed drums is various local Punk/indie/rock-bands for 10
>years now or something.
Ho, ho, ho!
Just like drummer Korhonen of legendary swedish Reeperbahn!
Are we talking doppelgangers here!? ;-)
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 14:56:37 +0200
From: etxsahm@cyber.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen)
Subject: Re: Hello everyone
Pete Korhonen <pkorho@cs.joensuu.fi> wrote:
> My name is Pete Korhonen and I am from Finland.
>
> I play currently drums in a Finnish band called The Enter - the other
> musicians are Otra (former Psychoplasma singer/songwriter/guitarist), Osku
> (also plays bass in Brats) and Kimmo Riite (has played in Jeremias with me
> and in various other local bands here in Joensuu).
Welcome to the list. Say hello to Otra, Psychoplasma used to be one of
my favourite Finnish bands alongside Mana Mana, AD, and Sielun Veljet.
I loved their gig at the Hultsfred Festival back in 89 or so.
As Jan already pointed out, the drummer of seminal Swedish band
Reeperbahn was/is called Peter Korhonen. That's some coincidence, huh?
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:31:04 +0200
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: The Malmoe festival
>Last band of the night was one of Swedens finest, Bob Hund.
>As usual a really good show with the quality punk/pop/synth/rock'n'roll that is
>their trademark. I really hope that they will release "Kvicksilver", "Haer
>upphoer allmaen vaeg", "Dusseldorf" and "Dagen daa kaenslan av att allting
>boerjar om aaterkom" on their new album.
Que? I haven't heard those songs???? anyone taped them, by chance? Didn't
they play "Papperspase pa mitt huvud", which they performed for the first
time at Lollipop?
>Last Act of the evening was Olle Ljungstroem who did a great gig. A really like
>his classic country rock/pop even though I think his two previous albums are
>better than the last one. He also proved once more his ability of forgetting
>lyrics and talking almost entirely crap during the show. :)
Good to see Olle getting credits here. So i'm not the only fan on scan-indie
;-) But i agree he's not as good as he used to be.
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:31:18 +0200
From: d-sunjan@jmk.su.se (Jan Sundstrom)
Subject: Re: Grass Show
>Hi there... I'm just about to write a feature on Grass Show who, in
>my opinion, should become MASSIVE here in the UK.
>I've just ploughed through some of your digests and found
>very little about said band. I am interested in hearing some views
>from the band's fellow country (wo)men rather than relying on my own
>opinions.
Umm, haven't heard them myself, but the great Arvid Tuba (from Falun, like
grass show too) says they're bland. Their sleeve look like Blur counterfeit,
and so does the music, according to Tuban. I trust him...
Jan Sundstrom
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:35:00 +0200
From: stefan stahl <stalin@wineasy.se>
Subject: list
I have a homepage about the festival "MERA HITLATAR" on
http://www.users.wineasy.se/stalin
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:35:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Motor Tour List _Update_ [20-Aug-96]
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Scandinavian Indie Motor Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie
August 20th, 1996
by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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SCANDINAVIAN:
The Cardigans Stockholm Records
6/9 Boston (US) - Open Air Festival New
Gordon Roligan
30/10 Hamburg (D) - Markthalle New
31/10 Bochum (D) - Zeche New
1/11 Berlin (D) - Trash New
2/11 Leipzig (D) - Conne Island New
3/11 Munchen (D) - Ballroom New
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NON-SCANDINAVIAN:
Galliano (UK) *NEW* Talking Load/PolyGram
15/11 Copenhagen (DK) - Pumpehuset
Mike Flowers Pops (UK) Polygram
13/9 Copenhagen (DK) - Vega, Musikkens Hus Venue Decided
Nefilim (UK) *NEW* MNW
6/10 Copenhagen (DK) - Pumpehuset
Rockers HiFi (UK) *NEW* Wea
17/9 Lund - Mejeriet
18/9 Oslo (N) - So What
19/9 Stockholm - Gino
20/9 Gothenburg - Underground
21/9 Copenhagen (DK) - Loppen
Super Furry Animals (UK) *NEW* PolyGram
2/10 Arhus (DK) - Huset
3/10 Gothenburg - Underground
4/10 Oslo (N) - So What
5/10 Malmo - KB
7/10 Stockholm - Studion
8/10 Copenhagen (DK) - Stengade 30
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The complete Motor Tour List can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW :
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/motor.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:36:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Short things...
Short news:
* Hultsfred Festival 1996 - both SVT (Swedish national television) and
ZTV have upcoming programs about the festival. According to evening
newspaper Aftonbladet, SVT's first (out of three) program will be
shown on thursday (tomorrow) August 22nd (but the TV magazine doesn't
say anything about that!). The second program will be shown on
September 1st and the third on September 2nd. ZTV's program is on
the way as well (I think it's on friday, though I'm not sure).
//Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:00:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Luger Tour List _Update_ [21-Aug-96]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Scandinavian Indie Luger Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie
August 21st 1996
by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se)
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SCANDINAVIAN:
CLOUDBERRY JAM (S) - Nons / Border *NEW*
5/11 Copenhagen (DK) Cafe Rust
DISMEMBER (S) - Nuclear Blast Records/House of Kicks *NEW*
5/9 Stockholm (S) Kafe 44
FIRESIDE (S) - Startrec/American Recordings - House of Kicks/BMG
31/8 London (UK) Underworld New (w/Melvins)
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NON-SCANDINAVIAN:
NEFILIM (UK) - Beggars Banquet/MNW ILR-MD
1/10 Stockholm (S) Studion Date Changed
3/10 Bergen (N) Kvarteret New
5/10 Gothenburg (S) Underground Date Changed
SUPERMODEL (UK) - Fire Records/Border
4/9 Vaxjo (S) Elvagarden New Venue
6/9 Ludvika (S) Sankan New Venue
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The complete Luger Tour List can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW :
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/luger.html
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:00:52 +0200 (MET DST)
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Motor Tour List _Update_ [21-Aug-96]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Scandinavian Indie Motor Tour List UPDATE Scandinavian Indie
August 21st, 1996
by Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SCANDINAVIAN:
Bazooka! Wea/Roligan
23/8 Goteborg - Underground New
Bob Hund Silence *NEW*
11/9 Stockholm - Gino
12/9 Falun - Ungdomens Hus
13/9 Sundsvall - Pipeline
20/9 Hultsfred - Metropol
27/9 Malmo - KB
28/9 Jonkoping - Eldslandet
12/10 Klippan
The Cardigans Stockholm Records
5/10 Helsinki - Vanha New
7/10 Stockholm - Gino New
8/10 Stockholm - Gino New
10/10 Oslo - Rockefeller New
11/10 Goteborg - Rondo New
12/10 Lund - Mejeriet New
15/10 Berlin - Huxley's New
16/10 Hamburg - Docks New
17/10 Bremen - Modernes New
19/10 Hannover - Capitol New
20/10 Bielefeld - PC69 New
21/10 Koln - E-Werk New
23/10 Nurnberg - Forum New
25/10 Neu Isenburg - Hugenottenhalle New
26/10 Munchen - Nachtwerk New
27/10 Stuttgart - Longhorn New
7/11 Dublin - Olympia New
9/11 Bristol - Ansom Rooms New
10/11 Nottinghamn - Rock City New
11/11 Cambridge - Junction New
13/11 Wolverhampton - Wulfrun New
14/11 Leeds - Metropolitan University New
16/11 Glasgow - Arches New
17/11 Manchester - University New
19/11 Portsmouth - Pyramid New
20/11 London - Shepherd's Bush Empire New
21/11 London - Shepherd's Bush Empire New
8/1 Osaka - Kousei Nenkin Hall New
9/1 Osaka - Kousei Nenkin Hall New
10/1 Fukuoka - Sun Palace Hall New
11/1 Nagoya - Shimin Kaikan New
13/1 Omiya - Sonic City New
14/1 Tokyo - Blitz New
15/1 Tokyo - Blitz New
16/1 Tokyo - Budokan New
18/1 Sendai - Kenmin Kaikan New
19/1 Tokyo - Blitz New
Liberator Burning Heart
31/8 Ornskoldsvik - Oviks roran New
5/9 Oslo - Rockefeller New
6/9 Boras - IT massa New
20/9 Malmo - KB New
26/9 Linkoping - Herrgar'n New
8/11 Helsingborg - Angfarjan New
Roffe Wikstrom MNW *NEW*
31/8 Jonkoping - Radhusparken
31/8 Hultsfred - Folkets Park
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NON-SCANDINAVIAN:
The Compulsion (UK) Virgin *NEW*
9/10 Copenhagen - Stengade 30
10/10 Oslo - So What
11/10 Goteborg - Underground
12/10 Stockholm - Studion
Dog Eat Dog (US) MNW ILR *NEW*
9/10 Helsinki - Tavastia
11/10 Lund - Mejeriet
12/10 Oslo - Sentrum
13/10 Stockholm - Gino
14/10 Copenhagen - Pumpehuset
15/10 Arhus - Kongreshuset
Marianne Faithful (UK) PolyGram *NEW*
16/9 Copenhagen - Pumpehuset
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The complete Motor Tour List can be found on the Scandinavian Indie WWW :
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/motor.html
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