Chalkhills Digest Volume 10, Issue 25
Date: Friday, 18 June 2004
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 10, Number 25
Friday, 18 June 2004
Topics:
Swindon story
New town Chomsky
XTC on WFMU
Close Encounters of the CD kind
X-sTatiC? I thought they were dead...
The Rhino Bowls 'em All Over?
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:02:35 -0400 From: "Corin Ashley" <cashley@willowentertainment.com> Subject: Swindon story Message-ID: <184701c44d7a$66ca7670$1602a8c0@corin9> here's a little story that I thought you might enjoy ... My band, the Pills, did our first UK tour last week and took a gig in Swindon solely out of our devotion to XTC. Besides, you gotta be somewhere on a Sunday night, right? We did an interview with the local Swindon paper wherein I gushed quite enthusiastically about our love of XTC and mentioned that the first song we ever played together was "Vanishing Girl". When we got to Swindon to play at a pub called the Broadwalk, the barman said "there's a letter for you" and handed us an envelope. Imagine our excitement when we opened it to find a letter from Colin thanking us for the kind words, wishing us well with our tour and asking us to send him music. I was virtually light headed and a mighty battle ensued over who gets to keep the letter ( I won, bass player's prerogative). Then, this little blonde angel, absolutely gorgeous, walks up to me and says "Are you the Pills? You're my favorite band, I play your CD all the time and I cannot believe you've come to Swindon. I never thought I'd get to see you live." I was thinking how lucky we were to have at least one fan for the show when she continued: "And you like XTC? That's my dad's band." Holly Partridge, for it was she. Turns out she stole our CD that I gave to Andy at a record singing in Boston a few years ago. I was stunned, I told her it was like meeting Alice In Wonderland or something. She wasn't jiving us, either, as she stood right up front and sang along to all our songs. We had a great time hanging out with her after the show, she's super duper nice, and she went out to the payphone to phone her Dad so we could say hello. I'm afraid we got him out of bed, so i was expecting a quick hello but he had us on the phone for almost 40 minutes. We talked about the Dukes, recording, songwriting, etc. He offered us some encouragement for our show in Liverpool the following week, talked about when XTC used to play at Eric's in Liverpool. Finally, he asked me to do him two favors: a) send him some music since Holly keeps raving about us b) stay off his daughter. The latter being a bit more difficult than the former, it was a thrill nonetheless. We'll be posting Swindon photos (taken by Holly) on our website soon. Rave on, Corin Ashley www.pillsrock.com
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:25:17 -0500
From: William Loring <bloring@tirerack.com>
Subject: New town Chomsky
Message-ID: <BCECA41D.14F09%bloring@tirerack.com>
Richard promoted the new Chomsky album "Let's Get To Second" in the last
digest, and I must concur. I have all three of Chomsky's releases, and
they're all fab. Drums and Wires era XTC, and lots of other '80's influences
abound in this catchy music.
I also see a pretty overt homage to XTC in the new album in track number 2
"Animal". A sample of the lyrics below:
Building rage in a furnished cage
In jungles of concrete...
Then the chorus:
You're an animal a new town animal
don't believe you can sit alone
and wonder
you're an animal a new town animal
don't believe you can sit alone
and wonder
Anyway, this is great stuff. Intricate guitars, pleasing harmonies, it's
good. Buy some. I got mine at Amazon.
...bill loring
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:43:12 -0400 From: "Krys Olsiewicz" <kolsiewicz@hotmail.com> Subject: XTC on WFMU Message-ID: <BAY1-F47IGZ4Q24QJIw0002ecc6@hotmail.com> Just wanted to let you know that our boys were part of the playlist on a special Reagan-focused radio show by the illustrious Station Manager Ken Freedman on WFMU 91.1 FM. Check out the playlist below and you can even listen to an archive of the show at the following link: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/11533 -Krys Olsiewicz Playlist for 09 June 2004 | Today's Reagan Programme An American Who Loves His Country Dear Mr. President Unknown Artist The Right Man In The White House Firesign Theater Hey Reagan Negativland The Answer Is Music behind DJ: Minutemen The Minutemen This Aint No Picnic Robyn Hitchcock The President Element of Light Mission of Burma That's When I Reach for My Revolver James Kochalka Superstar Hey, Ronald Reagan Camper Van Beethoven Cowboys From Hollywood Heaven 17 We Dont Need This Fascist Groove Thing Ron and the DC Crew Ronnie's Rap Shawn Brown Rappin' Duke Gil Scott Heron B Movie The Best Of Bonzo Goes to Washington We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes Mayfield & Nissen The Moral Majority Mr. G Reaganomics, Part 1 Demo Disc Tax Facts, 1980 Ed Special Lack of Spare Parts Edit Was Not Was Tell Me That I'm Dreaming Unknown Reagan Drug Speech Bongwater Reaganation Neil Young Campaigner Spiro Agnew Effete Corps of Impudent Snobs Doug Khan Reagan Speaks For Himself Happy Fingers Institute (I Lived Through) Ronald Reagan Ramones Bonzo Goes to Bitburg Jazz Butcher President Reagan's Birthday Present Monochrome Set Apocalypso Frankie Goes to Hollywood Two Tribes Victor Lundberg An Open Letter to My Teenage Son Robert Tamkin A Teenage Son's Open Letter to His Father Fugazi In Defense of Humans Prince Ronnie Talk to Russia Spencer & Spencer Russian Bandstand Floyd Tillman This Cold War With Youi Jim Backus Delicious Bedful of Metaphysicians For Cash Max D Barnes Dear Mr. President Sam and Joe Save The Children Johnny Sea Day For Decision Gang of Four I Love a Man In A Uniform Psychedelic Furs President Gas XTC Here Comes President Kill Again
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:13:01 -0500 From: "James Lowe" <jamielowe@msn.com> Subject: Close Encounters of the CD kind Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV93FOzgXaDWa000104cc@hotmail.com> Chalkholders: I was driving to an appointment early this past Saturday morning on Chicago's north side and along the way I see a garage sale sign hawking CDs. So I decide to check it out on the way home in an hour or so. I figured that I might find one or two gems or a classic to fill in my collection. But if I came up empty handed I would not be surprised. When I got there I was confronted with a two car garage filled with boxes loaded with CDs! Some Posters, LPs, box sets and books. Nothing was marked with a price so I asked one fetching woman who seemed to be quite at home what the deal was and she said I am just a neighbor that's the guy over there who's in charge. I recognize him and immediately I know I have found the mother lode! As it turned out I had stumbled quite by accident onto the esteemed Greg Kot's (the Chicago Tribune rock critic) annual garage sale. Everything was just a buck or $2 and needless to say after about an hour of picking I was $67 poorer but infinitely richer in CDs. Greg was definitely very cool and we discussed a number of the titles I purchased and music in general (what else) until the next happy shopper came to check out. I then called everyone I know that lived near by to get their fanny's over there and check it out. I scored a bunch of great power pop bands CDs like the Lackloves, the Kicks did you know that Jason Falkner's Brother is in that band? Greg pointed that out to me....Cheaptrick, Wondermints, The Wonderstuff, Squeeze and titles I would not have bought if the price wasn't was what it was. Like the Harold Budd "La Bella Vista." A couple of singles from the new Chomsky. Lot's of Compilations and pre-releases. The fact is I probably left a lot behind. The good news is that GK took my email address and will inform me of the next purge of his collection. He is surely someone who practices what he preaches, his parting words to me were that he pays for most of the music he wants and everything he made from the sale this weekend would be re-invested in music! He's just making room for deluge to come. It seems as if the first Saturday in June will not be the same ever again. It's been a very good week! XTC Content... I am sending him a XTC Bumper Sticker ( guess I should keep some in my car) Jamie (XTC bumper Stickers) Lowe www.xtc.billsherlock.org<about:blank> "If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give it up."
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:22:55 +0100 From: "Edward Percival" <e.percival@virgin.net> Subject: X-sTatiC? I thought they were dead... Message-ID: <LPBBJPOPBKIHDGICJPLEGELMCKAA.e.percival@virgin.net> Dear all It's been a while, but we're back! In the first of what we hope will be a series of gigs covering the latter half of 2004 we're pleased to finally announce the "next gig", which will be back in London at the Dublin Castle, Camden on Friday 9 July. It's a great venue, and we had a great time there last summer. Get more details here... In other news... We promised a while back to occasionally update the video clips on the site so we just posted up a couple of new ones, one from our last visit to the Dublin Castle and an acoustic version of Senses from last September in Swindon. As ever, any last minute requests for songs to be included in the set for the next gig can be made on the site so feel free to make suggestions. Our usual friendly and diplomatic discussions (ha!) regarding what songs are in and what songs are out may well be swayed by your opinions. We hope you can make it to Camden and look forward to seeing some of our old friends from previous gigs again. Adrian, Dan, Ed, Mick. www.x-static.org PS- You might be interested in this link.... myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thesundogs
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:18:26 -0400 From: KEVIN.WOLLENWEBER@jpmorgan.com Subject: The Rhino Bowls 'em All Over? Message-ID: <OF391D3CDF.8BEC5A97-ON85256EB5.00482B72@chase.com> One last note: I just learned, thanks to the new issue of ICE Magazine, that Rhino, of all companies, is upgrading the entire Paul Simon solo catalogue. I don't expect this to be earth-shaking news to anyone, especially with the discontent some of you have voiced on this list regarding rampant repackaging and reissuing; but I find it interesting that just about all back catalogues are showing up on Rhino or one of the other scaley arms of Warner Brothers, from all other labels. Okay, I know that Simon's last studio album, YOU'RE THE ONE, was released on Warner Brothers, but it doesn't always mean that the back catalogue of that particular artist ends up in the same place. While those thieves at WB cannot be trusted, it might be a good idea if XTC decides to sign with the label or at least work at getting their entire library of albums bought up by the thug Rhino. Oooh, just imagine what *THEY* could do with each album, not only with original album design being fully replicated in fancy digipacks and all that, but with full lyrics and absolute original master tapes and all the bonus tracks we had hoped for on the Virgin reissues. Oh, I groan at the prospect of having to sell off the old editions again, were this to happen, but all the additions that I just spoke of would be the only way the corporate label-makers could get me to go through all that trouble!! Kevin
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