Scandinavian Indie Digest Sun Apr 03, 1994 Volume 1 : Issue 07 There are 11 messages totalling 658 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. WeCD #60 2. A new Popsicle album?! (2) 3. bob hund -- p} engelska! 4. Fireside 5. holland 7"es 6. Whipped Cream 7. Forthcoming Swedish concerts (April) 8. Festival Info (2) 9. Souls Interview --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 09:59:07 +0100 (MET) From: Petter Tiilikainen Subject: WeCD #60 Fireside's 4-track cd-single is WeCD 60 ! However, there is really only one good song on this cds, drop my shoulder, the rest (Downer, Valid Set and the fourth escapes my mind for the moment) are not very well worked thru. The vocals is acceptable on Drop My Shoulder, but sounds embarrasing on the rest. BUT there are many good songs not yet released, and therefore I can recommend ya'll to check out the forthcoming cd-single 'Jupiter' and the full-length album 'Fantastic Four'. One song that I've only heard live, 'Monstersong' is one of the best songs I've heard in this genre, where the skills of Fireside comes to its rights. (This song could be heard on a live show that was broadcasted on swedish radio not long ago.....) best regards, Petter. ----------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 14:31:43 +0300 (EET DST) From: Kimmo S{{skilahti Subject: A new Popsicle album?! Hello! I've heard a rumour that Popsicle will release a new album one of these weeks. Could it be true?! Kimmo --------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 13:52:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Henrik Sjodin Subject: Re: A new Popsicle album?! On Mon, 28 Mar 1994, Kimmo S{{skilahti wrote: > Hello! > > I've heard a rumour that Popsicle will release > a new album one of these weeks. Could it be true?! > > Kimmo Yes it certainly is true! It's called Abstinence, and it got pretty a pretty good review in POP (7/10). It's supposed to be released on the 7th of April here in Sweden. Henrik -------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 19:39:13 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Cumming Subject: bob hund -- p} engelska! Hej mina v{nner, Here it is! Having finished my other major project of the last 4.5 years (my thesis that is, phew!), I've finally got round to finishing my attempt at translating the lyrics from Bob Hund's debut CD. I would *really* appreciate any comments on the translation -- I am no expert at Swedish, at least not yet anyway. Then maybe if there's space at Wisconsin we can add it to the lyrics ftp server there! I bet there's not much other Swedish indie music there yet... Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOB HUND ALLT P] ETT KORT Jag har gl|mt min f|rsta sommar och jag har gl|mt min f|rsta vinter med sn| men jag har kvar en kort av min far Jag har gl|mt min f|rsta fotboll men det {r svart att s{ger om det spelar n}n roll men jag har kvar en kort av min far Jag har gl|mt min f|rsta cykel men jag har kvar en minnesnyckel av guld jag har kvar en kort av min far jag minns v}r fyrsta flygtur och jag minns en g}ng en regnsskur jag har kvar en kort av min far ALL ON ONE PHOTO I've forgotten my first summer and I've forgotten my first winter with snow but I still have a photo of my father I've forgotten my first football but it's hard to say if it matters at all but I still have a photo of my father I've forgotten my first bicycle but I still have a gold key I still have a photo of my father I remember our first plane trip and I remember a rainshower once I still have a photo of my father RUNDG]NG, GR[SL\K, F]GELS]NG [r det skam att sl}ss en sommardag? Jag tar ett andetag Vi har v{l mer {n s} gemensamt annars vore hela livet ensamt rundg}ng, gr{sl|k, f}gels}ng Jag tror du leker med min t}lamod skall jag st{ kvar och sm}le' du har f|r{ndrat mina |ron jag l{ngtar efter oljud! rundg}ng, gr{sl|k, f}gels}ng WALKING ROUND, CHIVES, BIRDSONG Is it a disgrace to fight on a summer's day? I take a breath Surely we have more than that in common or else all of life would be lonely walking round, chives, birdsong I believe you're playing with my patience shall I stay anyway and smile? you have changed my ears I long for noise! walking round, chives, birdsong KOMPROMISSEN Visst kan jag l}ta l|jlig men vad spelar nu det f|r roll |nskan {r m|jligt om viljan {r b|jlig l}t oss }ter s} enas alla det gamla f}r vara gl|mt om vi f|rgrenas mitt hj{rta f|rstenas COMPROMISE Certainly I can sound ridiculous but what does that matter now the wish is possible if the will is flexible so let us be united again forget all that old stuff if we divide my heart will turn to stone 5 METER UPP I LUFTEN Tvekar att s{ger n}nting alls men noterar att det finns ord {nd} jag beh|ver inte sp{nna armen alls s{ du beh|over inte vrida den ur led mig h{rifran Doktorn sa att jag var sjuk och jag tvekade en minut jag sl}r mig sj{lv om jag nu vill det v{rker mer att t{nka till 5 meter upp i luften Jag beh|ver inte visa var jag st}r inf|r m{nniskor som aldri kan ha fel h|r du jag v{grar att sv{lja det du sa gratulera du har ju jobbet kvar Jag sl}r mig sj{lv om jag nu vill det v{rker mer att t{nka till doktorn sa att jag var sjuk fast{n benen bar nig Doktorn sa att jag var sjuk och jag tvekade en minut doktorn sa att jag var sjuk fast{n benen bar nig 5 meter upp i luften 5 METRES UP IN THE AIR I hesitate to say anything at all but notice that there's a word anyway I don't need to stretch my arm (at all) so you don't need to turn the clock lead me from here The doctor said I was ill and I hesitated for a minute I (hurt) myself if I want to now it hurts more to think (about it) 5 metres up in the air I don't need to show where I stand among people who can never be wrong do you hear that I refuse to swallow what you say congratulate () you still have a job I (hurt) myself if I want to now it hurts more to think (about it) the doctor said I was ill though my legs carried me The doctor said I was ill and I hesitated for a minute the doctor said I was ill though my legs carried me 5 metres up in the air FOTOALBUMET En bro en sko en sten en gren en bild p} far uti arme'n min farmor min mormor min mor och hennes bror min f|delsedag mina v{nner och jag en glad an dum mitt lag mitt rum min class en glass Jonas och Niklas Julafton i Klippan en sommar i Skotland min kusin och jag igen Amerika och Spanien P} tefat och skridsko LA och San Francisco v}rt bil v}rt hus en h|g med grus en flicka fr}n Stockholm en pilsner fr}n Lyckholms en ny}rssalut en b|rjan med inget slut mitt fotoalbum PHOTO-ALBUM A bridge a shoe a stone a branch a picture of father (out of) the army my grandmothers my mother and her brother my birthday my friends and me a cheerful one a silly one my team my room my class an ice-cream Jonas and Niklas Christmas Eve on Klippan a summer in Scotland my cousin and me again America and Spain On saucer and skate LA and San Francisco our car our house a pile of gravel a girl from Stockholm a pilsner from Lyckholm's a New Year's greeting a beginning with no end my photo album DEN ENSAMME SJ\MANNENS F\DELSEDAG THE LONELY SAILOR'S BIRTHDAY ------------------------------- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 20:35:28 +0200 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Fireside Petter Tiilikainen wrote: > Fireside's 4-track cd-single is WeCD 60 ! Do you have the complete information on that one. (what I need is really the title of the single :)). /Erik ---------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 04:53:52 -0800 (PDT) From: Kevin Carhart Subject: holland 7"es Hey all, I actually have something superrelevant!! I wrote about the MERMAID records compilation CD, "He Didn't Even Draw a Fish on My Shower Curtain" in my newspaper column, and sent a copy to all the contributors. This week, letters arrived from some of them, containing music! Some of them sent me 7"es from Noet Lachten Records in Holland!! This is wonderful, it's a wonderful pop label, does anyone know of it? They sent me: Crockett and Jones "Peter Ustinov" de Ja-Knikkers "Cactus inne Potje!" , it shows a cactus in a toilet bowl on the front Four One and Onlys: the clouds smell like sauerkraut Double Hit Euh...Euh... BEUH!! (said by a cartoon cow) I Ludicrous Eiswurfel Tontrager (is this right?) the Merricks Jowe Head (of TV Personalities) Kitchen Cynics (from Alan) Some of that is in German, and Alan is in Scotland, but hey! How's that for Scandinavian Indie? Not bad for a kid in California? in de zomer van 1986 werd voor het eerst het idee geopperd om eens een echte carnavalsingle uit te brengen German labels I know of: Roman Cabbage Vinyl, Blam a Bit, Little Teddy is anyone into this stuff? Kevin ukevc@mcl.ucsb.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 16:36:32 +0200 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Whipped Cream Another review of Whipped Cream's latest - "HorseMountain" from the evening paper "Expressen" 25/3 1994 - "In a shoe store in Boden last week, the middle aged guy behind the counter suddenly put a tape in the tape deck and played Whipped Creams brilliant cover of 'Observatory Crest' in high volume. The Gothenburgers' psychedelic claws cuts deeper into the swedish soul that one would suspect. The new 'HorseMountain' on the other hand, pulls in another direction. Away from psychedelic mist and vague hints, towards the hard chords and the early 70's hard-rock. And of course, there's even a drum solo. You can almost hear Mountin, Cream and sometimes even Black Sabbath in the background. The style feeling is impressive and several of the songs, amongst other the dark 'Spare Me', the rolling 'Fresh' and acoustic 'You Know The Time Is Right', would have had given places on their albums. The question is, where would Whipped Cream be if they used their talent and imagination to look forward instead of back." (3 out of 5 points) And another one from the local paper "Ostgota Correspondenten" 31/3 1994 - "I Never ever thought that I would write something positive about a record that contains something of the most meaningless I know in music - a drum solo. But when Whipped Creams third album is here, it is time. To do the unexpected and create music straight from your head isn't very usual these days in the music world. Too much is formatted after special designs and often unbeleivably predictable. Fortunately, there are exceptions and Whipped Cream is one of those - because of that, I can stand a drum solo in one of their songs. After two strong albums filled with floating new-psychedelia they take a new step, partly. Many songs and arrangements have a lot more distinct structures, and the sound is more hard-hitting. There are loads of parallells to groups like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Though streamlined hard-rock isn't what this is. On the contrary. There are mountains of crazy ideas, unexpected turns and the psychedelic vein still exists at the bottom. The rougher tracks are mixed with pop-songs and the title track even breaths somewhat of country. Sometimes, I think of what the "spacerockers" Hawkwind have made in their best moments. Everything is preformed in an excellent way, with an extra 'plus' to the guitar-phantom Jorgen Cremonese. He's not only this country's most cocky guitarrist, he's a brilliant producer as well (here together with Nille Perned). There aren't many people that could find the same brilliant combination of weight, atmosphere and force." (4 out of 5 points) Sorry for the bad translations and probably english as well. I really need to get myself a swedish-english dictionary one of these days. --------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 16:36:11 +0200 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Forthcoming Swedish concerts (April) Just a small notice about forthcoming good concerts in Sweden you all should check out if you have the time. Bob Hund (& Eggstone) - 7 April - (Barowiak?), Uppsala 8 April - Karlskrona 9 April - Skylten, Linkoping Brainpool - 7 April - Park Lane, Gothenburg 8 April - Gino, Stockholm 9 April - KB, Malmoe 13 April - Chalmers, Gothenburg Easy (& Whipped Cream) - 3 April - Gino, Stockholm - (Price: 100 SEK) *** Eggstone - 15 April - Umea 16 April - Sundsvall 22 April - Varberg Eggstone (& Bob Hund) - 7 April - (Barowiak?), Uppsala 8 April - Karlskrona 9 April - Skylten, Linkoping Happydeadmen - 6 April - KB, Malmoe 7 April - Lund Mufflon 5 - 8 April - Herrgar'n, Linkoping Popsicle - 15 April - Umea 27 April - Orebro Sonic Surf City - 29 April - Umea Wagon - 9 April - Vaxjo 29 April - Visby 30 April - Visby Whipped Cream - 4 April - (Barowiak?), Uppsala 22 April - Magasinet, Gothenburg 28 April - Lund Whipped Cream (& Easy) - 3 April - Gino, Stockholm - (Price: 100 SEK) *** *** = TONIGHT! ----------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 16:36:54 +0200 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Festival Info Some dates for festivals in Scandinavia (and Holland): 23 April - Folkrocksfestivalen, Horns Hotell, Sweden Confirmed (31/3): Jukka Tolonen, Matte Lignell. 22 - 23 May - PinkPop, Holland Confirmed (31/3): Rage Against The Machine, Bjork, The Charlatans, Smashing Pumpkins. 10 - 11 June - Sommarfestivalen, Karlshamn, Sweden Confirmed (31/3): Sweet, Deep Purple, Mountain, KSMB, Lisa Ekdahl, Bob Hund. 30 June - 3 July - Roskildefestivalen, Roskilde, Denmark 14 - 16 July - Dala-Rock, Hedemora, Sweden ---------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 94 16:41:54 +0200 From: bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TK) Subject: Re: Festival Info Does anyone know how much it costs to get into this one: 22 - 23 May - PinkPop, Holland Confirmed (31/3): Rage Against The Machine, Bjork, The Charlatans, Smashing Pumpkins. And who to contact? Gruss, Dr Bruce Scott The deadliest bullshit is Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik odorless and transparent bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de -- W Gibson ------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 18:26:35 +0200 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Souls Interview Interview with "Souls" 4 February 1994 - by Erik Soderstrom & Erica Lofstrom after a gig at "Herrgar'n", Linkoping, Sweden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Souls are: Johan Karlsson (bass) Andreas Danielsson (guitar) Cecilia Nordlund (vocals & guitar) Tony Karlsson (drums) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE GIG TONIGHT? A. Stage-diving is always fun. That people dare to stagedive when we're wearing suits. Maybe we're looking like a 'dansband' (folk music band) No, but it was a good audience. Students. They're fun. Q. ARE YOU STUDENTS? A. [Cecilia: I've been one.] [Andreas: Me to.] [Johan: Yeah but not a university student.] [Tony: Ah, then I've also been a student!] [Cecilia: I'm the only one who has been a university student.] [Tony: The rest of us is so low-educated...] [Johan: (in a southern old man's swedish accent) We think it's a lot more fun to drink alcohol and look at the girls, than to play music] Q. PRETTY MUCH PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT, IS IT ALWAYS LIKE THIS? A. There has always been more people than we or those who have arranged the gigs have expected. More and more for every gig actually, and that makes you feel really good. We don't know why. [Andreas Danielsson: We know why.. it's because we're the best.] Q. NO EXTRA NUMBERS, HOWCOME? A. I think we gave them what they could handle. I don't think the audience could take any more now. I think it was too much at once. We don't play any extra numbers normally because we play a shorter set than most, but we play as much as possible during that time. Then we finish, because what the audience really want is to buy beer. When they have watched the gig I mean. Q. HOW DID YOU GET THIS GIG HERE AT HERRGAR'N? A. Bob Hund was scheduled for this night, but apparently, their bass-player broke his hand, arm, or whatever it was, his brain. So we got to play instead. And I think we're a lot better than them, so I don't think the audience was sorry about that. No, but we were scheduled to play here in any case, but we didn't know that it would be so soon. Q. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE NAME 'SOULS'? A. Actually, it's funny you should ask that. You know there are loads of bands with 'Soul' in their names, like Soul Asylum, De La Soul etc. We were surprised that no-one had selected just 'Souls', so we grabbed it. Q. WHERE ARE YOU FROM? HELSINGBORG OR GOTHENBURG? A. We're from the universe, but now we live in Gothenburg. Q. HAVE YOU RELEASED SOMETHING? ALBUMS OR SINGLES? A. No, nothing like that. Yet. We have had two songs on two compilation CDs. "It's Absence" on Snapology and "Boring In A Proper Way" on Life Is A Joke. There's a funny story behind the LIAJ compilation by the way. You might have heard that the track really is a cover of New Order's "5-8-6". That was not the track we wanted on the compilation. The guys who compiled the compilation selected the wrong track from our tape but put the right title on the CD. We've only made two covers ever, and it's typical that they had to make a mistake and select one of those! Q. WILL YOU RELEASE SOMETHING IN THE NEAR FUTURE? A. Yes. A single, hopefully in April. We haven't decided what to put on it yet though, but it feels right. It feels right to release something now. Wait and see. [Andreas: It will probably be in May.] Q. YOU HAVEN'T BEEN SIGNED TO A LABEL YET.. A. I'm not so sure about that... but I won't say more. We're saved, but we don't know when there will be a release. Q. WHEN DID SOULS START? A. Souls was formed in 1991, about two and a half, three years ago. Q. CECILIA, YOU USED TO SING JAZZ-IMPROVISED POP BEFORE.. A. Where have you heard that? What sources? No, but that's true. But I don't sing that nowadays. Sometimes I do, but what I sing comes from my heart, and I don't think about what type of music I'm singing to. I just sing. But I like jazz, that is true. I don't know if it shows when I'm singing, but it isn't something I'm ashamed about. Q. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF IDOLS? A. I hope we will be one day. That's what we're after. To be an idol, to be in Okej [Swedish popular music magazine for teens], the middle pages. [Cecilia: And at the same time we fart like everyone else, you know? It's good to know about that yourself.] [Andreas: I don't fart anymore.] [Cecilia: But of course!] Q. DO YOU GET ANY FAN MAIL? A. We've actually received two from lonely young pimple-faced men with glasses in Kalix [northern town in Sweden] No, but we have only two songs out on CD, on compilations, that aren't very representative any more, but those who have heard them writes us. So I guess there are two who have heard them now. Q. BEFORE THE GIG, YOU COULD NOTICE A SCENT OF KAOS.. [they had misplaced an amplifier and had to borrow one from a local band (Cloudberry Jam)] A. That is probably what people remember about Souls, Kaos. We can't change that. We have tried, really. Talked to each other. But nothing happens. We say 'well, we got to do something about this' but no-one has the energy to start. Q. ANY SPECIAL THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED WHEN YOU HAVE PLAYED LIVE? A. Yeah. Once, in Simrishamn [Sweden] something really funny happened. Or rather, didn't happen. We came in on the scene, looked at all the people in the audience sitting down, and started to play. After a couple of songs, we started to wonder if they would ever move, you know? But they didn't! Through the whole gig, no-one moved! They just sat there. We didn't know what to think! Pretty interesting experience I think. Q. WHY DO YOU PLAY? A. It's because we want Lind Norrman [has a column in the evening paper 'Expressen' about indie music] to write about us. Yes, and Eva Kvanta, in that magazine, what was it called now, 'Snopp'? [roughly translated: 'Dick'] [they're making fun of a magazine called 'Pop'] [all of this said very very late in the evening] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- After a while (and a couple of beers more) they said that the label they have been signed to was 'Telegram Records', which later was announced on the 31:st of March. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of SI Digest #1.07 **********************