From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V99 #164 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 99 : Issue 164 1083 subscribers Today's topics: Re: What does this sign stand for?? Norman vd Wildenberg Nov 26th Jazz Cafe date MARK BEARDSLEY Nightfly friend me good! Bill Burnett LaLaLaLive Bruce Harfield Seething Gaetan Apology JohnRGab tickets, tennis and tips Clare Reeves Apocalypse Now Nightfly83 One Man- I GOT IT!!!! PFCPaull re: What does this sign stand for FortunatoX random comments Pashman, Rob ------------------------------ Subject: Re: What does this sign stand for?? From: "Norman vd Wildenberg" Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:23:34 +0200 >Subject: What does this sign stand for ?? >From: "Brian Fogsgaard" >Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 11:32:06 +0200 > >On the Forever now album and the All over you single, I have notiched >this sign: oooo > oo What does it stand for ???? Eeehhh, just count the dots...... 1st row...........4......... 2nd row...........2...........wow, you did great till now....... 4.........2..........hey....42!!!! Norman van den Wildenberg (Laughing very hard, at least one laughs about me) express @ wish.net http://come.to/level42 ------------------------------ Subject: Nov 26th Jazz Cafe date From: "MARK BEARDSLEY" Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 13:10:26 +0100 >According to the Jazz Cafe's web site, Mark doesn't seem to play on November >26th!!! I've spend over 250 pounds to buy tickets and make travel >arrangements... Anyone else feeling very, very bad about this? >I asked Jazz cafe staff to contact me about this issue. If something comes >up which might be of interest for you, I'll post it. Hi Huge, I have just been in contact with the ticket agents and the jazz cafe direct and they assure me that the nov 26th date is a confirmed date. I brought it to there attention that the web site dose'nt list that date and he said he would inform the press officer to correct the matter on monday. Phew you had me worried there as I have tickets for that night also hope this puts you at ease now. Mark beardsley.TCOY ------------------------------ Subject: Nightfly friend me good! From: Bill Burnett Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 03:11:56 +0100 Hello All. I've been mentioned by Jenny & Nightfly83 in one digest, surely the Chief rabbit will listen to me now. >From: Cliff.Barua @ ec.gc.ca >Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:14:14 -0400 >a hearty >congratulations to Lisa "Mrs Pink". I did think that you would be marrying >Loz though (based on your immense Level 42 collections). I performed some research in that area, and it seems that the bringing together of two such masses of slick 80's pop/funk would result in the breaching of the critical mass of a rare element known as diceidium42. Resulting in a vast explosion that always wipes out the whole of Essex, the Isle Of White, and selected retail establishments in Denmark Street & Wapping. >Andrew's Line Of The Day goes to BB. I'll be keeping score, so far it's >Burnett 1, Everybody 0. In America that would make him a World Champion. In Europe however, everyone just stands back and hopes I'm toppled by a coup. Lots of love - Bill. P.S. The digest has been so much fun lately that I joined another one. The Roland JV-1080 users digest however has been a bit of a disappointment. Three days in and no mention of thermometers I decided to unsubscribe and read the manual instead. ======================================================================== Bill Burnett http://www.sphere3.demon.co.uk/ ======================================================================== ------------------------------ Subject: LaLaLaLive From: Bruce Harfield Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:00:38 +0200 I'm pretty certain that this is going to reach the digest too late, but.... Sunday 13.06.99 LaLaLaLive with Mark King is being repeated on Dutch TV (NED1) at 17:52 Bruce Harfield. ------------------------------ Subject: Seething Gaetan Apology From: JohnRGab @ aol.com Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:15:14 EDT Thanks for not being against us ef fing Yanks. I thought maybe God was giving you other inside information along with who is damned and who is not. I really feel for fireflybynite. It's not many people who get the inside side scoop from such as yourself in time to mend their evil ways. "Here HorseFly, let me take that sliver out of your eye." Pleaded Gaetan. "Don't pay any attention to the log in my own, it won't interfere with my vision of you!" As Doug Adams stood by and wondered how improbable it was that there might be a spandex covered planet somewhere called Yur'Aynis. ------------------------------ Subject: tickets, tennis and tips From: Clare Reeves Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:05:34 +0100 Hello! Yes.. I'm still around. What was it with digest #162.. I deleted it by mistake without reading it??? So, as I haven't got anything interesting to contribute I'll say that I'm happy to have tickets to 22nd and 26th Nov. for Mark's gigs. So Lisa and I will be there.. and my Mum is very keen to attend, although she has a couple of hundred miles to travel! Also.. just been watching the tennis on telly. Doesn't Pete Sampras remind you of a certain great keyboard player? Has anyone got any tips on how to sing and play bass at the same time? Any advice would be appreciated.. currently I can't even speak and play at the same time! Love from Clare xx Clare Reeves Studio Manager, Africa and Middle East Region BBC World Service ------------------------------ Subject: Apocalypse Now From: Nightfly83 @ aol.com Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:12:05 EDT > Subject: You make me laugh! > From: LavaD @ aol.com > > I just had to write in and say that yesterday's digest was so funny that > I had tears rolling down my face! I wish I had something funny to contribute! Don't feel bad. We let Alex Friesen join in the fun and he never has anything funny to say. > Subject: Music live event > From: "MARK BEARDSLEY" > > Question time, does Mark like many other performers and sports > stars have any good luck charms or anything he does ritually I believe he likes to sacrifice a local virgin before each performance, although that's probably just a rumour (for any lawyers reading). > Subject: disaster... > From: h.rademaker @ excite.com A perfectly pleasant self-introduction from > Huge Rademaker Now is that a name or a boast :-) Not for nothing is his e-mail "@.excite.com"... > Subject: apologies - I must have sun-stroke > From: Gaetan Duperron Like the smell of napalm in the morning, there's nothing like the sight of a man chastened by 17 irate private e-mails in response to a throwaway line. Wherefore thick skin now, eh? > I read today's digest and was aghast at the tone of what I wrote. GaDu (pet name, it's too long to write out in full), if you will juggle milk bottles the way you did then you can't cry over it once it's spilt. Although I should say that wholesale abuse of an entire nationality is a fairly unsophisticated way of upsetting people (although typical of you dumb Canadians). When you can provoke an e-mail merely by the use of the term "eskimo" then you can join the Elite Offenders Club. > I'm just back from a thoroughly debilitating day. First, damage to my skin > and ears from a blisteringly sunny day down at Le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Ah, motor racing. An interesting alternative when watching the second hand go round gets simply too exhilarating. > Subject: What does this sign stand for ?? > From: "Brian Fogsgaard" > > On the Forever now album and the All over you single, I have notiched > this sign: oooo > oo What does it stand for ???? I believe it is a graphical representation of Phil Gould's hairstyle from the True Colours period. AG ------------------------------ Subject: One Man- I GOT IT!!!! From: PFCPaull @ aol.com Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:41:23 EDT I found "One Man" and finally got to listen to it ... well worth the wait. A few obviously weaker tracks (Swimming With Sky, Pamela) but enough quality tracks to make it with the purchase. For anyone in the Seattle-Tacoma area, I got my copy at Wherehouse Music (formerly known as Blockbuster Music) for $16.99. The best tracks? I particularly like Bitter Moon and Changing The Guard. It was kinda interesting to hear the a capella opening of Half Written Songs. I have never heard any a capella work from the band or its artists. But then again, I have not heard a great deal of tracks I never knew existed before I subscribed to this digest. Is there any prior a capella songs or portions of songs that I am not aware of? One more note about my opinion of the album. When I bought "Forever Now" and first listened to it, my first reaction over all was "Ugh!". Like everyone, though, it has sorta grown on me. I had a similar reaction to "Guaranteed." The fact that "One Man" did not elicit the same response from me just confirms what I have always believed. That Mark was always the heart and soul of the group. Mike, although talented in his own way always seemed to not quite "fit" to me. And the tracks that he greatly influenced (which I think I can accurately identify without reading a sleeve) are the ones that always seemed to be the least appealing. I am sure that I am going to be lambasted by the majority of you for my comments, but such is the price of being opinionated. Now to plot my campaign to get the new album some airplay in the US...... "Drums stop ... very bad!!!!!" ------------------------------ Subject: re: What does this sign stand for From: FortunatoX @ aol.com Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 21:10:14 EDT .... .. that would be 42, I think. -Jonathon "the truth stands by itself" ------------------------------ Subject: random comments From: "Pashman, Rob" Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 03:04:15 -0400 Q: Is The Nightfly any good? A: The Nightfly by Donald Fagen is an incredible album that is not at all unlike a great Steely Dan album. Had to wait a decade for its follow-up and it wasn't half as good! Q: Should I see the new Austin Powers movie? A: If you thought the first movie was akin to the second coming of our lord Jesus Christ then you will be unhappy with the recycled gags and shoddy storyline of the new movie-nevertheless, it's a fun night out at the theater. Much like The Phantom Menace and the One Man album-do not expect the world. Q: Who have got to be the biggest closet L42 fans? A: JK and crew. Get the new Jamiroquai album Synkronized. On their web page-can you believe in the list of influences on the band-out of roughly 25-Level 42 is not listed! Is it too obvious? Q: I hear Robbie Williams is an idiot and can't sing. Is this true? A: As an American, I have just recently been exposed to Robbie and I can say that his The Ego Has Landed (the best songs off his 1st 2 UK albums) album is very solid. One song should be of interest to those Level 42/Nik Kershaw/Pet Shop Boys/80's music fans. It's called "No Regrets" and has that really slick production that we all love. And how about that "Millennium" taking Shirley Bassey's "You Only Live Twice" to a level that only Sean "Puffy" Combs would envy. TCOY, rOb.