From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V99 #151 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 99 : Issue 151 1092 subscribers Today's topics: My 15 minutes of fame!! =) OFF TOPIC? LINDSKOG JENNY NYC Fest EMIKATIE Even Aliens like L42 & MK too! Richard Gascoine New website! Richard Gascoine mike lindup Christoph Rempe The Sun Goes Down '98 J Shuford NYC ILF '99 report BHConrad Level 42 by Q Magazine Juanjo Piffaretti tix for MK's Nov gigs available online Eric J. Hansen The Very Best of Level 42 J Shuford ------------------------------ Subject: My 15 minutes of fame!! =) OFF TOPIC? From: "LINDSKOG JENNY" Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:09:40 +0200 >P.S Thank you Jenny, your postings hath provided me the two greatest >pleasures I have gleaned from this digest of recent times. Why, thank you!! This is exactly what I need to hear after a weekend together with my family. Glad SOMEONE appreciates me... >1) My recent purchase of 15 Minutes: Yes!! Nik Kershaw - 15 minutes is the best record I've bought this decade!! >2) your invention of the word "Norweges" yesterday: Well, my English izzz nutt so gudd, alwayzz!! Jenny ------------------------------ Subject: NYC Fest From: EMIKATIE @ aol.com Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:39:15 EDT To all to whom I said I was going...... Sorry I pooped out on the festers this year. My "lodging" fell through with 3 days to go. Anyway, in retrospect, it worked out for the better as I opened the pool for the family. With a long weekend and temperatures in the mid-upper 80's, had I not been home to open it, I would have been strung up upon my return. Maybe next time....... The machine stops John ------------------------------ Subject: Even Aliens like L42 & MK too! From: Richard Gascoine Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Subject: New website! From: Richard Gascoine Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Hi there! Just a note to say that I have discovered a web-site that has Mark King on it. It is on Zarg the aliens' site. http//www.angelfire.com/yt/rickie66 I hope that this address can be clicked on as otherwise you'd have to key the address in. Sorry if this is so as I'm not sure how to do that! On this site "Zarg" landed on the Isle of Wight and met Mark!! Can you believe it! Zarg plays bass too! I gather that there are more pic's from the gig to follow so check this site out! As for the Question raised in a previous digest about famous L42 fans, well I gather that Zarg is well known from his planet and may be famous there... so there you have it...Level 42 & Mark King have alien fans! Thanks for reading this "not so interesting" letter! Rich. PS...Starchild is at No1 in the charts there!!!its been there for 18 years now! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Subject: mike lindup From: Christoph Rempe Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:55:24 +0200 hello everybody ! has anyone been to the Mike Lindup concert last month ? if so, please tell me about it ( the performed songs, band, future) ! i´m interested in any kind of information. level on, dude...! ------------------------------ Subject: The Sun Goes Down '98 From: J Shuford Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:31:21 -0700 (PDT) I just came into a copy of "The Very Best of Level 42." I am curious to know what others who have heard The Sun Goes Down '98 think about this track. I still haven't decided what I think. There are some things about it I like very much and others about it I don't care for. What do others think about this track? Specific things you like or dislike? Shuf ------------------------------ Subject: NYC ILF '99 report From: BHConrad @ aol.com Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:55:50 EDT G'day fellow digesters and levelfesters... I just got back (to Boston) from the NYC Int'l Levelfest '99, and I had a great time! Many thanks to Greg Jamate, my most excellent host for the weekend, and a darn good bass player to boot. (und, for 'fraulein', Greg sprecken Deutsch :)) Many thanks to Kristen L, Bill W., and Don Z for helping me load my equipment. Winston, Lolita, and Shannon (the female one) of course, for organizing the event. And thanks to all the (other) musicians, especially Adz, who gave my drums a good workout. I'm disappointed I couldn't stay longer, or spend more time in the city, but that just means I'll have to return soon. Adz - hope you're feeling better! Simon, Cathy Jones, Tony B - I hope you enjoyed your stay. Special thanks to all my fans (heheh) et le belle femme de France (L.G.) Hope you all enjoyed my drum playing. We'll have to host a Levelfest in Boston sometime. (Newark isn't exactly know for it's scenery :)) - Bruce Conrad. p.s. I made an offer on that bridge to Brooklyn... ------------------------------ Subject: Level 42 by Q Magazine From: Juanjo Piffaretti Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:45:49 -0300 Level 42 continued to sell records in respectable amounts until their split in 1994, shortly after a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, but Level 42's spiritual home was the 1980s. Mark King's thumb was not always craggily aloft but it was insured by his record company as the Britfunkers' most valuable asset while the foursome's determined professionalism and upwardly mobile status culturally interwined them with the Conservative heartlands of Essex. Their slapped funk-basslines immediately conjured up images of white towelling socks, furry dice in an XR3i and the new-born CD culture. Level 42 made quick progress from an Isle Of Wight holiday camp group to frontrunners alongside Freeez, Beggar & Co and Funkapolitan in the early-'80s Britfunk movement, which had strong soul and disco roots. Such influences were underlined when the band attracted the attention of Earth, Wind & Fire's Larry Dunn and Verdine White, who produced their 1983 album, Standing In The Light. The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) and Micro Kids from the album have weathered the years with their warm funkiness, crisp harmonies and arrangements which rival those of the more celebrated Nile Rodgers for compact power. Even Wham!, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet's better works all now sound foppishly loose compared to Level 42's run of taut, cunningly attractive pop songs: Something About You (Number 6 in 1985), Leaving Me Now, Lessons In Love (their biggest hit at Number 3 and apparently the biggest-selling single in Europe in 1986) and the bizarre Running In The Family. They tasted success in America, where they supported Madonna, they worked constantly and their tireless attempts to expand reached overload. The original line-up was all over by 1987 when the songwriting Gould brothers fled and after a brief rocky phase, tragedy struck two years later when new guitarist Alan Murphy died from AIDS. Their label, Polydor dropped the band and cancelled King's thumb insurance at the turn of the new decade, after Tracie, 1989's fittingly unironic kiss-off to Essex girl from the county's adopted sons. Review of the Very best of Level 42 by Steve Malins - Q Magazine- ------------------------------ Subject: tix for MK's Nov gigs available online From: "Eric J. Hansen" Organization: Worldmachine Technologies Corporation Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:11:30 -0400 (EDT) Hi, I don't know if this was already posted, but you can order tickets for Mark's Jazz Cafe gigs in November through TicketMaster's online site: http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/cgi/events/venue.idc?venuenum=261&vaxname=uk2 And for general info about the venue, the Jazz Cafe's website is at: http://www.jazzcafe.co.uk/ -- Eric J. Hansen Worldmachine Technologies Corporation Internet, Intranet and Extranet Development http://www.worldmachine.com tel: (617) 357-4040, fax: (617) 357-4949 ------------------------------ Subject: The Very Best of Level 42 From: J Shuford Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:37:43 -0700 (PDT) I've had a chance to listen a little more closely to the "Very Best of Level 42" disc. I have to say that on some songs the difference from remastering is incredible. I really noticed it on Forever Now & Heaven in My Hands. As for TSGD '98, I just can't warm up to it. I like some of the traffic noise and I like Omar's voice well enough, but I feel that they took everything that was cool about that song out of it. Oh well. I certainly hope that the rest of the L42 catalogue will get remastered! Shuf