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| 590.1 | p.s. to .0 | WELMTS::GREENB | They might be giants | Tue Jan 30 1990 15:53 | 3 |
| p.s. Does anyone know of any live dates coming up?
Bob
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| 590.2 | The civil service | SHAPES::FIDDLERM | | Tue Jan 30 1990 16:39 | 14 |
| Hi Bob!!
They are playing in London soon, but it is sold out. Watch out for
extra dates.
I like the lp, but I don't think it ranks as a great. The second song
on side 1 is my fave ( I got the picture disk, and its hard recalling
track titles). Well worth checking out tho'.
Mikef
PS Bruce says hi, and he has a demo of the James lp, out soon, which
he reckons will blow your socks off!!
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| 590.3 | Thumbs down. | POBBLE::COTTON | Lucifer the gluesniffer. | Tue Jan 30 1990 17:12 | 8 |
| I didn't like the album. It sounded extremely bland to me, no guts. I wasn't
really impressed with the singers' voice either. I saw this band about a year
ago supporting the Throwing Muses. It was a complete non-event as far as I
can remember (The Sundays, not the Muses).
This band has a severe case of popular press hype!
Lee (exits to the sound of boos and dodges the rotten fruit...)
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| 590.4 | Press hype* | HYEND::SCHILTON | When they said sit down,I stood up | Tue Jan 30 1990 19:17 | 12 |
| Bob, I came in here now with the intention of asking if anyone
knew anything about The Sundays!! A friend in London has been
raving about them for a few weeks now.
...says they'll be the band of the 90's...course he said that about
the Stone Roses too, so I know to take everything with a grain of
salt ;-)
I guess Harriet (Wheeler, is it?) is from Reading and went to school
in Caversham.
Sue
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| 590.5 | | ACESMK::KUHN | Jay Kuhn MKO2 | Tue Jan 30 1990 22:03 | 3 |
| Hi Bob,
Back from the dead?
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| 590.6 | Later? | SHAPES::FIDDLERM | | Wed Jan 31 1990 08:58 | 5 |
| re . 4 I didn't know Harriet was from Reading (I thought it was Bath).
If so, wish she'd play a gig in her home town. (Instead of Tanita
Tikaram every other week at the Hexagon!).
Mikef
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| 590.7 | Ayr Play | AYOV28::BROCK | | Wed Jan 31 1990 09:57 | 6 |
|
According to the group the "Reading" in the album title "Reading,
Writing And Arithmetic" is a play on words concerning their home
town. A private joke that obviously no one has understood.
Ian.
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| 590.8 | In the kitchen | SHAPES::FIDDLERM | | Wed Jan 31 1990 10:20 | 4 |
| Err...I think that was more a joke they were making in an NME
interview, not to be taken seriously.
Mikef
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| 590.9 | "It's that little souvenir of a terrible year" | AYOV27::DROBB | I'm not a prophet or a Stone Age man | Thu Aug 02 1990 11:16 | 10 |
| This band's debut album is another fairly recent purchase, and without
being earth-shatteringly different, I find it very pleasant listening.
Ms. Wheeler has an incredible, almost angel-like voice which reminds
me a little of Liz Fraser from the Cocteau Twins (although the Twins'
overall sound is a tad more dense).
It's a pity the record company haven't released "Here's Where The
Story Ends" as a single. Seems to me like a good idea for a
decent-sized hit, and surely their best bet after "Can't Be Sure",
and BTW, it's apparently doing very well in the U.S.
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| 590.10 | School mates | UPROAR::PLOWMAND | everything you know is wrong | Wed Feb 24 1993 11:49 | 13 |
| OK, claim to fame time. I was at school with Harriet and her sister
Charlotte and bumped into them over Christmas in an Oxfordshire pub.
We had a little reminiscence together and laughed over the fact that my
sister was mentioned in an interview with the Sundays in Melody Maker,
when asked "who did you want to be when you grew up?"!!
So there.
Brag over.
Debs.
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| 590.11 | You Know | AYOV16::SROBERTSON | | Thu Feb 25 1993 08:29 | 1 |
| So what was she like at school - and when you last met her?
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| 590.12 | | UPROAR::PLOWMAND | everything you know is wrong | Thu Feb 25 1993 16:45 | 12 |
| Her family had a sort of "bohemian" reputation, and I remember going to
her house for birthday parties etc when I was 7/8 etc. She was always
very musical, and we went to see her on stage in Gypsy Rose Lee when
she would have been about 15 I think. I was better friends with her
sister Charlotte, and my sister was best friends with Harriet. I've
got some great photos of them playing dressing up in our back garden!
She was just the same when we met them, they both were, just very
friendly, and not at all "pop starish". They've got an older sister
too, and a younger brother, Byron.
Debs.
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| 590.13 | blind | GRANMA::FDEADY | that's as green as it gets.. | Fri Mar 26 1993 00:41 | 22 |
|
Just bought the new The Sundays album "Blind". Very good CD, a
great cover of the Stones' "Wild Horses". Debs. tell Harriet when
you see her again "to keep the music coming". Very entrancing cuts.
fred deady
wbc::deady
Play list
I feel
goodbye
life & soul
more
on earth
god made me
love
what do you think?
24 hours
blood on my hands
medicine
wild horses
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| 590.14 | I'll do that. | UPROAR::PLOWMAND | "don't phone, it's just for fun" | Fri Mar 26 1993 11:04 | 5 |
| My sis is going to see them in Rouen soon, so I'll ask her to pass on
the message down the pub after!
Debs.
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| 590.15 | Happy Sunday | JURA::PELAZ::MACFADYEN | | Mon Apr 26 1993 09:34 | 38 |
| La Dolce Vitae, Lausanne, 25/4/93
Having not managed to persuade anyone to come with me I headed off
for Lausanne on my own, which at least had the advantage that I could
play the radio dead loud.
La Dolce Vitae is a small, intimate club, and the Sundays had managed
to pack it out. Grabbing a beer, I sat on the edge of the stage until
shooed off by a roadie who didn't want me to sit on the effects
pedals. When the music changed from an Indie groove to Barry White
singing "You're my first, my last, my everything", one instinctively
knew that something was to going to happen, and sure enough the band
came on stage a minute later,
Four of them, drummer, bassist, guitarist (who was standing close
enough to me to worry about thumping me on the head with the neck of
his guitar) and Harriet, red hair pinned up and showing a liking for
silver jewellery. Displaying a British band's usual pathetic command
of French while introducing themselves, she and they came across as
Very Nice, and launched into their set.
They played a mix of tunes off the first and second albums, with a
good sound mix. Pretty soon the 'intimate' atmosphere equated to 'hot
and sweaty'. Harriet has a terrific voice and, combined with the
Sundays sweet guitar sound, her ability to hit and hold the high notes
freed me to revel in the sound in the way that only live music allows
but so rarely does. Their sound has been compared to the Cocteau
Twins, but it struck me that a more accurate comparison is with The
Passions, whom a few of our thirty-something readers may remember.
After they had played two encore songs, they went off to the rock-pig
trick of leaving a guitar howling with feedback, but their reception
was so warm that they came back on for two more numbers, Harriet
seeming genuinely pleased. Their first gig in Switzerland, they said,
and I hope they'll be back.
Rod
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| 590.16 | | WRKSYS::ARTHUR | Why think? Try . | Wed Apr 28 1993 19:58 | 1 |
| Ha! I remember the Passions and I'm only 29!
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