From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V99 #160 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 99 : Issue 160 1083 subscribers Today's topics: Unreached Levels Track Listing Mark Walsham M. Hayes, Ken [qual] IE Lyrics to One Man Fiona Klimczak Mike Lindup Mike Payne Northern California Levelfest Nathania Apple ilf '99 pictures! bill wilson Paging... Mike Payne Alien Resurrection Nightfly83 Brass boys Birdnig Unreached Levels Hunting Winman42 plane willem van der veen Bass-player.. willem van der veen Level Roundup -- Let's get a list of people... Sean D. Green ------------------------------ Subject: Unreached Levels Track Listing From: Mark Walsham Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:28:56 GMT >Subject: Tracklisting and more info >From: "Arjen Ligt" >Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:56:05 +0200 The full track listing for 'Unreached Levels' have been posted previously, go to the digest home page and use the excellent search facility to find it. Rgds, Mark. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Subject: M. From: "Hayes, Ken [qual] IE" Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:50:00 +0100 I read somewhere that Mark played on the M album 'Secret messages' I think it's called which is supposedly a lost gem. Anyone have a copy and is it any good? Mark also plays on a Nick Kershaw album 'The Riddle' on a track called 'The Whale' for those of you who don't know.I read an interview with Nick K. a few years back in a guitarist mag. and he mentioned that Mark had rung him when L42 had split up to talk about forming a band and Nick snottily (In my opinion) said "I don't know why he decided to contact me". Nick is a bit of a git I reckon though because I can remember seeing footage of him live in the 80's where he introdced his band quite seriously as ".... these are some people who like to think they're my friends" what a LOSER !!!! Where are you now Nick?.From 'live Aid' to the local pub. P.S. thanks Stuart Ellershaw for your comments last week.The beautiful south song goes 'Don't marry her F*** me'.(that bands music annoys me). ------------------------------ Subject: Lyrics to One Man From: Fiona Klimczak Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:34:45 +0100 Just catching up with all my messages after a weeks holiday - excellent way to spend a lunch break, anyway, I came across a message from Tianna re the lyrics for One Man. If you check out the fanzine WORD MACHINE, which Loz Green produces, all the lyrics are in there. It's very strange seeing the lyrics & comparing to what I've been singing for months......! For anyone who hasn't yet ordered their copy - may I sugest you get in contact with Loz - this latest issue is a real treat. And if you want a bigger treat (or should that be laugh?!), you can also read an article by yours truly (!). To my friends who have e-mailed me during last week - I'll be responding to you shortly - watch out in your e-mail box. Fiona `K' ------------------------------ Subject: Mike Lindup From: Mike Payne Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 07:56:04 CDT Hello FRIENDS: I am still asking to see if anybody has a copy (audio and/or video) of Mike Lindup's gigs a few weeks ago. I am willing to trade some hidden goodies (i.e. CD Singles and some rare video) for these tapes! Can you help? Mikey _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Subject: Northern California Levelfest From: Nathania Apple Date: Wed, 9 Jun 99 09:13:21 -0700 Hey, fellow NorCal Levelheads, A couple of us have been talking recently about getting together for our own little Levelfest. Seeing as how we haven't sufficient means to get our butts to Texas in September, we came up with the idea of holding a simultaneous Fest a little closer to home. We are therefore putting out a call to any and all Levelheads in need of something to do on September 18, 1999. Whaddayathink? Nathania "Across the page (Across the ages) The moving hand of history bleeds For a kinder eye to see us Not as we are, but as we dream" -Level 42 ------------------------------ Subject: ilf '99 pictures! From: bill wilson Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 10:02:47 -0700 hello all! had a hell of a time there in new york city (in spite of winston)... here are the pics that i took! go and have a look... :) http://www.speakeasy.org/~bill/nyc/ lemme know if you have any trouble with em! tcoy! bill -- bill wilson bill @ speakeasy.org http://www.thewilsonfamily.net/ "daddy, i am glued to myself" - ben wilson, age 3 "dad, i wonder if you eat these fruit candies, if you will get strong" - sam wilson, age 4 ------------------------------ Subject: Paging... From: Mike Payne Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:03:05 CDT Lisa Harding (MRS PINK) & Chris Dickman please contact me ASAP! Mikey _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Subject: Alien Resurrection From: Nightfly83 @ aol.com Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:45:31 EDT > Subject: Another Voiceprint story > From: Christopher Lawless > > I noticed that some of the Digests have been a little short lately Mr Redrag? Meet Mr Bull. OK, let's get this straight from the start. Some of you aren't going to like this. And, in the words of the great modern philosopher Bobby Brown, that's your prerogative. But that's where your prerogative ends. You don't like it, scroll down. That way we'll all be happy. I've done my bit. I've stepped aside for a couple of months to let things calm down. But frankly, a quick scan of the archives over the last couple of months makes for distressing reading. Most of my reliable sparring partners seem to have gone terribly quiet, and in one particularly tragic incident Alex Friesen has 'fessed up to being a trainspotter. ERICWHE01, still clearly reeling from Wolves 23rd consecutive failure to achieve promotion by one place, has come out firing in all directions (numbers 3 "I don't have the entire world library of 'Level 42 the Definitive Biography' holding my bed up, forcing me to house my used tissue collection elsewhere" and 15 "My life's work isn't that of listing people who attend L42 and MK gigs" being particularly callous and uncalled for.) Steve Robson has taken to roaming the streets, asking passers by if they can name the only team ever to win promotion from Division 3 then Division 2 as champions in consecutive years. The presidentially named Gaetan Duperron seems to have shrunken violetly away after a provocative sideswipe at Robbie Williams was greeted with the Digest's characteristic "where's the Level 42 link?" silence. EMIKATIE was so distraught by my passing that he fabricated some implausible computer virus tale to explain away his doleful silence. At least Cliff Barua is still claiming he's Canadian. For those of you unfamiliar with the impending fracas, I tend the following disclaimer: If you find yourself upset by a message from Nightfly83, this could be due to one of several reasons: 1) You think the Level 42 Digest should be just for discussing Level 42. This is an old chestnut which crops up with monotonous regularity. "The Level 42 Digest - a place for dissecting and disseminating Level 42, or a gathering place for fans of Level 42 to be whatever they may be?" Of course, I and the above named usual suspects (I trust) fall into the latter category. If you don't, then to paraphrase the funktastic cast of Grange Hill - Just Scroll Down. 2) You think I'm a vindictive pedagogue with a well-thumbed thesaurus. Chances are that at this early stage, you don't get it. Just to help any newcomers along, here's the brief. In reality, I'm nice. I'm humble. I'm meek. I'm so diffident I didn't even introduce myself to all the transatlantic visitors to the Mark King shows, even though they were all desperate to meet me and relish a long night of ribald revelry. I hold doors open for old ladies. I cry when I watch my children sleeping. I'm an all-round, sweet natured little cherub. On the Level 42 Digest, I'm a grotesque, raging barbarian. I'm sarcastic. I'm cruel. I pick up on every little foible and parade it before a baying cybercrowd. I rant, I rave, I stomp and I shout. And I do it all in the name of humour. If you don't find it funny, that's fine. If you're upset by it, don't be, it's just a joke. 3) You are Kurtis Kegley. In which case, I don't care. Now then, to business. In Digest 130, Monsieur Duperron offered this morsel: > Question to our English subscribers: I was dragged to the Robbie Williams > show on Saturday evening. It was a fairly small club, but he managed to fill > it (< 1000 people, I think), and everyone seemed to really be into it, > except for me and the rest of us industry people (i.e. all the free > tickets). This guy's popular, right? My question is, why? He acted like the > perfect shit, had no voice, seemed uncommonly obsessed with his penis... The > best part's of the evening were the covers of Hey Jude and Song 2. The rest > was bollocks. Am I missing something? Maybe. And if you are, what you're missing is probably Williams' remarkable resurrection after he seemed destined to oblivion. When he got booted out of Take That, you'd have got very long odds on his career surviving another year. He quickly released an embarrassing cover of George Michael's Freedom, appeared everywhere making an imbecile of himself and promptly vanished to record his first album. Personally I didn't think we'd ever see it. But he came back and, surprisingly, brought some half decent songs with him. And that's what's won people over. You might think Robbie Williams as a person is a complete moron (he's admitted it himself enough times), but Angels is a hell of a song. He can't really sing, so he mugs his way through. He's surviving. He's the postmodern new lad icon, a George Best for the 1990s. Can't say I'm a fan, but you've got to admire his resilience. Then in Digest 155, we had this: >Subject: Could I be the Anti-Digester? >From: Brian Flint You wait your turn laddie. I'll be off now, I don't want to upset the "I print out the Digest and yesterday it was 24 pages, can't you all write less?" brigade at this early stage. If anyone has anything from the last couple of months' Digests they feel needs my personal attention, please let me know. AG ------------------------------ Subject: Brass boys From: Birdnig @ aol.com Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:36:14 EDT Hi Microkiddies! Apologies to anyone who tried to make some sense of yesterday's posting, some small bugs in the PC, so here goes for a second time. When I attended one of the gigs at the 10th anniversary event at the Hammersmith Odeon (as it was then known) I was pleasantly surprised by the addition of John Thirkell and Gary Barnacle to make up the Henpecked Horns and then to become an integral part of the band. Pleased because I had played, in particular, the trumpet since the age of four and went onto attain nationally recognised awards. Enough of that as this is not a stage to 'blow my own trumpet' (excuse the pun). With Mark's european tour well behind us with memories and a few bootlegs to listen to did anyone else feel like me that a brass section was missing? Yes there was clearly a tight financial budget to run the tour coupled with a poor promotion and yes the arenas were small and maybe a brass section would have been a bit too full a sound. And also taking into account that the selection of songs from the One Man album were of the ballad type. I, again, just felt that the brass was missing particularly on the more heavier songs, Mr. Pink springs to mind. What were other fans feelings? Did the older live L42 fit in better with your tastes? I have a handful of albums with John Thirkell performing with, in particular, Swing Out Sister on a limited edition live CD recorded at the Jazz Cafe, the brass sounds very good on this for a small venue. John's other appearances also include Living In A Box 'Gatecrashing'. So does anybody know what projects John and Gary are involved in at the moment? < Don't you think it takes it a bit far with all of these 42 references? I < understand the majority of you are just pointing out quirky coincidences for < comedic value. Well it's my turn for a '42' reference - could not resist it. The dimension between outlet and inlet ports on a half-inch pneumatic isolating valve is, you've guessed it, 42mm. TCOY Nigel "...He is real, he is here, he is fashionable". ------------------------------ Subject: Unreached Levels Hunting From: Winman42 @ aol.com Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:35:55 EDT Ok, for anyone looking for a list of the tracks on this 4 cd set, go to the digest search engine, and look up VOLUME 99/DIGEST 78 My post, included in that digest contains the full track listing. www.worldmachine.com/level42 or do a search for " KOMOS" , and it will pull up that digest edition. Happy hunting! Win ------------------------------ Subject: plane From: "willem van der veen" Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:02:27 +0200 Has Saarbrucken an airport? Six hours drive !!? "There's no big suprise when we're down on our knees"! ------------------------------ Subject: Bass-player.. From: "willem van der veen" Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 22:09:33 +0200 Just picked up a copy of june's bassplayer....on page 24 our man Mark !! Thanx DON !! Why isn't Mark on the "advisory board"? "There's no big suprise when we're down on our knees"! ------------------------------ Subject: Level Roundup -- Let's get a list of people... From: "Sean D. Green" Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:12:35 -0500 Friends, Okay, by now most of you are aware of the upcoming LevelRoundup III in Fort Worth, Texas. It will be held from September 17th - 19th. If you are planning on attending, please let me know so that I can get started on compiling a list of those making the meet. Thanks! Here's an idea of what to expect: Sept. 17th: Most people from out of town will be getting in this day, so we should expect to have pre dinner social, dinner, drinks, music, etc. Meet at my house to crash or whatever. The accommodations are ready, so don't worry if you need a place to stay, we'll be prepared. Sept. 18th: This is the BIG day!! Early start by 11:00am, or sooner. Bring your bathing suits folks 'cause there's a BIG swimming pool at my house!! There will also be a cook-out of whatever ya' want to eat. Plenty of food for our vegan friends as well!! That means you Zaphod!! Lots of rare Level music playing throughout the house, and plenty of videos to keep you enthralled. I also have a lot of movies, so if you're wanting a change of pace, no problem! That night, there will be a jam session with Sean, Mikey, Charl, and whoever else wants to. Bring your voices, guitars, basses or whatever. It'll be cool, and it'll be taped!! We'll end the night with some lounging around kind of stuff. Sept. 19th: Departure. For those leaving the area, and for those who manage to be able to leave. '''...leaving me now..''' ;) We'll have a send-off breakfast of sorts for anyone who want to attend, or we can meet somewhere. Free rides to the airport for our out of town guests. See, it's going to be a great one!! PLEASE come, really! It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, this one is for everyone!! I would be happy to host anyone at my house for sleeping over. I have the room, and floor space to do so. Mikey will help as well, and he is fairly close by. If you need to reach me for any reason, please don't hesitate!! e-mail: mailto:sdgreen @ flash.net ICQ: 390351 I am looking forward to meeting you all, and please do try to make it. It will be much more fun with a ton of people!! Best regards!! ~Sean -- *********** "The MIDI Extreme" *********** * http://www.flash.net/~questps/midi.htm * *** For the best MIDI files on the net!*** ******************************************