Conference marvin::uk_music

    The current single is called Sweetness and Light, the album is pretty
    good as well, I think the stuff on the other singles is on the album,
    well somes of it is at least.
    
    Tim
    ---

    I would well recommend the single they had out last year "Mad Love"
    which is slightly reminiscent of the Cocteaus mingled with the brutal
    harmony of the Pixies in "Monkey Gone to Heaven".
     (havent heard anything else by them though so the rest of the stuff
    might be utter kak!)
    

The 'album' is called 'Sear' it's more of an EP - about 15 minutes long. There
are two tracks on it which I think are really excellent: Thoughtforms and
Etheriel (room to squeeze them on a tape at the end of Heaven Or Las Vegas..).
It's available on vinyl and CD (Though I only found out about the CD after
buying the vinyl..) I read somewhere that it was produced by Robin Guthrie
(another good sign) but there's no indication of this on the album. IMHO, the
remaining tracks are 'so-so'.

I bought the 'album' as the result of seeing Lush when they were supporting
The Cure at the Crystal Palace Bowl in the summer. I haven't heard the
single.

Neal.

    
    	I think the 4AD complilation contains 5 new songs and the Mad Love
    	EP and another EP/LP.  
    
    	Not surprising they sold out at Nighstage in Cambridge/Boston and
    	the those in attendence appeared to enjoy last nights show.
    
    	- Jim

Jim, the  album  has  the Mad Love EP, Scar EP, the latest 3 song EP (forget
the  names  of  the songs on it) and an extra version of Scarlet and an ABBA
cover  version (forget which one). And guess what else I forget, the name of
the album!

Ed

    
    	Nice review, Ed!  The name is "Gala".  Any idear why there was no
    	opening act at Nightstage?  I hear that some people didn't realize
    	Lush would be on and gone before 11:30 the time when most
    	headliners generally come on.
    
    	- Jim

Didn't bother  me,  I got to sleep early!!!!!! I don't know why there was no
opening act. I did forget one word from the review: RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ed

    i don`t know whether they had a support in Sheffield at the Leadmill
    when I waited for 1 hour in the pouring rain,only to be turned away
    because I would not agree to have carnal knowledge of the fat,sweaty
    pig of a bouncer. Needless to say this has tarnished my view
    of this band, if you want class you should have seen the Pixies-
    in -Brixton.
     

	Did Lush complete their full length release?  I'm quite sure I 
	heard a new song the other day and if so it sounded like their
	tour along side Ride rubbed off on them a bit.

	- Jim

    
    	It looks like another EP, "Black Spring".  At first listen they
    	sounded quite different and I thought Miki was replaced by a gent
    	but that was only because of an operator error on my part failing
    	to set the speed right!
    
    	- Jim

Re .9: I bought the 12" of Black Spring on Saturday. I haven't really listened
to it yet, so can't comment musically, but I did notice a reference to Ride
scratched between the runout grooves of the record! By the way, it's a Porky
Prime Cut.


Rod

Rod, what's the RIDE reference?

Ed (who'll be buying the CD)

I'm afraid I left the record in Reading and I'm now in Ferney-Voltaire with
only a t*pe to listen to... so I can't check for you until I'm back in 
Reading.


Rod

    
    	Lush and Ride at the enormodrome
    
    	- J*m

    RE.11
    you said it's a porky prime cut,is that what is scratched in the centre
    of the record next to the label? If it is what's it mean - I've
    wondered about this for years.
    
    
    					stuart
    

                    <<< Note 767.15 by SCOAYR::SROBERTSON >>>

>    RE.11
>    you said it's a porky prime cut,is that what is scratched in the centre
>    of the record next to the label? If it is what's it mean - I've
>    wondered about this for years.
    
    
>    					stuart
 

Porky is a disc cutter, that is one who transfers audio tape to disc. He
has done loadsofalbums.

stuart   

    Re .15:  See note 407 in this conference, in particular 407.5.
    
    
    Rod

	All ye bass players, Lush is in need of one of you ever since Steve 
	Rippon defuncted himself.

	- Jim

	

    
    	It was announced suddenly during their current tour.  He will remain 
    	on until Christmas.  According to NME, Oct 19th, their 1992 schedule 
    	will take them to the states, Japan, and Australia and this contibuted 
     	to his decision.
    
    	- Jim
    	

I bought the new Lush album the other week, `Lovelife', although I haven't 
really formed an opinion as yet.  It marks a noticable departure from the 
overall sound that they've built on for their previous efforts, and the swirly 
guitars and harmony vocals are noticable by their absence.  At present, I 
don't think I'm that taken by their new direction, the songs certainly 
haven't grabbed me in the way that I'd have expected, and I think that they're 
in danger of sounding like just any other guitar band.

I'll give this one a 5, for the time being (against Gala's 8, Spooky's 10 and 
Split's 9 - all out of 10 on `Chris's totally arbitrary and inaccurate scoring 
system')

Chris.

    Chris,
     
    Are the singles a good indication of the album?
    
                    Stretch.

>    Are the singles a good indication of the album?
    
yes, I think that they probably are.  Actually, I think I was a bit harsh on 
the album for daring to be different to the others; although it's still not as 
good, it's better than I might have alluded to (I'm listening to it at the 
moment - ain't CD/ROM's grate?)

Chris.

Oh, nearly forgot, that renowned loon Jarvis lends his vocals to one of the 
songs, too.

Chris.

    Cheers, Chris,
     I heard the Jarvis collaboration a few weeks ago. Quite
    interesting.
    
    
    			Stretch.