[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
Total number of notes:39269

101.0. "David Sylvian tour problems" by COMICS::HUDSON (that's what I think) Wed Jun 08 1988 09:00

    If anyone has tickets to see David Sylvian on his current tour,
    it looks like being a good idea to check with the venue before
    you turn up.  We went to see him last night in Portsmouth, and
    the show was cancelled because the drummer has had an accident.
    They said there that they thought the rest of the tour was cancelled
    as well.
    
    nick
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name		DateLines
101.1SUBURB::DALLISONDoes Pooky need you?Wed Jun 08 1988 10:468
    
    Thats a name I've not heard in a long time - David Sylvian.
    
    I like some of his Japan stuff and my fav. album was "Gentlemen
    take Polaroids".
    
    KR
    -T
101.245384::IBLwhile you still can!Wed Jun 08 1988 11:0227
    
    Tony, where *have* you been, mate?  Mr. Sylvian has been solo for
    quite a while, and has even had a modicum of success in the much
    maligned UK Charts (you *are* a teenybopper, right? 8^)).  I haven't
    heard any of Sylvian's latest material, though I understand that
    he's working with Holger Czuckay (sp?), so whatever it is, it won't
    be mainstream!  
    
    As for the rest of Japan, Mick Karn was solo for a short while,
    but I believe he's given up music to concentrate on a career as
    a sculptor now.  Steve Janssen and Richard Barbieri are still making
    music though, as "The Dolphin Brothers" (they've just released an
    album, I forget the title.....!)
                                    
    Japan split up just as they achieved public recognition, I'm not
    sure whether it was a gallant "quit while we're ahead" statement
    to leave the people hungry for more, or purely because the group
    members hated each other.  Their best posthumous compilation album
    is "Exorcising Ghosts", which contains most of their swansong stuff.
    For the earlier, less commercial output, "Assemblage" is very good.
                                                                      
    Apparently there will be an announcement in the music press soon
    as to whether the Sylvian tour will be rescheduled or scrapped
    completely.
               
    						Ian!
101.3DITHER::COTTONWed Jun 08 1988 11:316
    
    The Sylvian/Czuckay colaboration is called `Plight & Premonition'
    and is a rather dull piece piece of ambient new age music.
    
    	Lee.
101.4EARLEY::DALLISONDoes Pooky need you?Wed Jun 08 1988 13:488
         
    
    .2�  Tony, where *have* you been, mate?  Mr. Sylvian has been solo for
    .2�  quite a while, and has even had a modicum of success in the much
    .2�  maligned UK Charts (you *are* a teenybopper, right? 8^)).  
                    			 ^^^^^^^^^^^
    I'm offended :-(
    'sides, I can't remember the last time I listened to the charts.