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- From: a.norrish@trl.oz.au (Reg Trademark)
- Subject: Wild Summer, Wow!
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:54:22 GMT
-
- Well I trooped off to the Carousel Restaurant Bar to see Tommy
- Emmanuel on Saturday night. They wouldn't let me in though because they said
- I didn't have (a) a tie, (b) a ticket or (c) a clue. (It turns out Tommy was
- playing on Sunday night.) I couldn't go back on Sunday because I had band
- practice. (I'm a backup singer for a SAW tribute band. I used to be their
- roadie, but I was demoted for backing the transit van over the chipmunk used
- for the Kylie songs.)
-
- But - a quick check of the newspaper reveals a veritable invasion of talent
- during the coming months. For those of you who may not know as much about music
- as I do (and you never will if you don't read those chartifacts), I've prepared
- a guide to our overseas visitors. In chronological order:
-
- The Village People, Transformers, 18/11/92. A policeman, a construction worker,
- an Indian, a driving instructor, Jordan and Sneezy. These guys are probably
- best remembered for their image changes. From disco to new romantic to erm,
- disco.
-
- Joe Cocker, Palais, 19/11/92. Sorry, I don't know much about this guy. He must
- be a newcomer to the music 'biz'.
-
- The Beach Boys, Olympic Park 22/11/92. Best known for stripey shirts, one of
- them drowning and one of them going bonkers. Also famous for the legendary,
- unreleased 'Smile' LP, the tapes of which were burned by Brian Wilson after
- seeing 'The Towering Inferno' and believing he was responsible. (Clue: he
- wasn't the one who drowned.)
-
- Tori Amos, Athenaeum theatre, 22/11/92. Talented songstress who wrote 'Smells
- like Teen Spirit' whilst a member of top grunge combo Nirvana. She was sacked
- for not bathing as much as the other band members. (In fact, Kurt used to
- introduce the song as 'Smells like Tori Amos'. When she got wind of this
- (geddit?) she recorded her own version, but it was crap and only allowed to be
- a b-side.)
-
- The Shamen, Metro, 1/12/92. Unfortunately, there's a criminal element to this
- Summers' festivities. The Shamen are well known for their drug taking. They
- even write their songs about them. 'LSI' (correct scientific name
- Luvsexinteligentsia) is a powerful hallucinogenic, and the title of their hit
- single. In another song, we can clearly hear the phrase 'Ere, got any Veras?'
- which is cockney rhyming slang for Ecstasy. i.e. Veras = Vera Lynn = Biscuit
- tin = Disco biscuits = E. The only thing they ever did right was release an
- album with 43 songs on it. That's less than 70 cents a song! Except they were
- all remixes of the same song. Bastards.
-
- Nick Cave, Palace, 4/12/92. Actually a local boy, but divides his time between
- Berlin, Sao Paulo and Nome. All his songs are titled 'The (something) song',
- i.e. 'The ship song', 'The weeping song', 'The Altern-8 stole my idea song'. He
- was in the Birthday Party. TISM probably put it best when they said 'We all
- know how great the birthday party was. There was chips and streamers and freddo
- frogs and a nintendo video game and fizzy drinks and barbiturates and wizz fizz
- and pin the tail on the donkey and lots more.'
-
- Michelle Shocked, Concert hall, 5/12/92. A folky protest singer, she's had hits
- with 'Arkansas traveller' and 'Get your stinking hands off me you damn dirty
- copper'. I wouldn't be surprised if the police shut this one down. Good thing
- too. Bloomin' radical.
-
- Pop Will Eat Itself, Metro, 8/12/92. Seen by some as sonic sampling terrorists,
- and by others as complete twats. Personally, I think they're a load of
- illiterates. 'X Y and Zee'???!!! 'Can U dig it'???!!! 'B for Patrol'???!!!
- Don't they know nothing about spelling and grammer? Good name, but.
-
- Primal Scream, Metro, 10/12/92. Named after the reverberating guffaws the
- audience unleash after seeing Bobby Gillespie's haircut, his attempts to dance,
- and when he tries to leap into the air and clap his hands simultaneously. A
- laff riot.
-
- Lush, Metro, 11/12/92. Famous for 'dream-pop' and 'footwear contemplation'.
- They're on Raquel Welch's ultra cool and ethereal 1,000,000 years BC label.
- They've got a wind machine and they know how to use it. And they killed their
- pet rabbit once. Spooky.
-
- The Big Day Out, Showgrounds, 24/1/93. A huge 'gig' with a virtual galaxy of
- stars, including:
-
- Sonic Youth - Rip off merchants who stole all Nirvana's ideas. They also do
- Madonna and Robert Palmer songs. Not an original idea between the lot of them,
- except that they play their guitars with screwdrivers.
-
- Disposable heroes of Hiphoprisy - Rap outfit with a social conscience, they
- want to ban TV. Bloody do-gooders. Where do they think I saw their video??
-
- Iggy Pop - You should see this guy. He's a real cut-up.
-
- Carter the unmentionable sex machine - Two men, two guitars and a drum machine.
- They're famous for their puns. And cover versions. And bicycle apparell. And
- fringes.
-
- Also rumoured to play at the big day out:
-
- Morrissey - Always puts in a good show at festivals (cf. Glastonbury 1992,
- Finsbury park Madness gigs). Would have to put in a big one to top his last
- Melbourne performance.
-
- Madonna - Well known for her religious imagery. i.e. her new book 'Sects', and
- her hit single 'I like a prayer (almost as much as I like a Pepsi)'
-
- The Stone Roses - Finally gigging again, they'll be playing all their hits e.g.
- 'Elephant stone', 'Made of stone', 'Turns into stone', 'It's great to see you
- and Grandpa again, Granite really is', and 'Nick Cave got it wrong, we did it
- first'.
-
- The Family Cat - Hope they keep away from Lush!
-
- Undoubtedly, the climax of the 'Summer of stars' is Guns n Roses at Calder,
- 1/2/93. Axl, Slash, Izzy, Dizzy, Duff and Titch.
-
- Axl! - The man with the smallest shorts (and mind) in rawk!
- Slash! - Loads of hair, cigarette, bottle of JD, CBGBs shirt - too cool!
- Izzy! - Erm, not actually in the band anymore.
- Dizzy! - Too many drugs, obviously!
- Duff! - Duff name!!
- Titch! - Izzy's replacement.
-
- I've started a sweep. The goal is to guess (a) the exact time they walk off
- because someone took their photo, and (b) the damage bill from the resulting
- riot. The winner will receive a copy of the number one record in South Africa
- this week, 'Indigo' by Indecent Obsession. (From their blue period).
-
- Andrew Norrish.
-
- 'Help me, she said. I'm gonna wind up in bed. With a guy, who's not a patch
- on you.' - Fabulous.
-