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Monday, September 13, 2004 |
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| Topics for Monday, September 13, 2004 1. Hells Bells: Radio 1 - SharminHall @ aol.com 2. Re: L42 on Radio 1 - J & L 3. Helen Chamberlain - Daniel James 4. Guaranteed's good tracks - DonZipf @ aol.com 5. Burning Down the Yard! - Tom Foolery 6. A Sorta Fairytale - jt 7. The Fan - =?iso-8859-1?q?Andrew=20Goodwin?= |
| 1. Hells Bells: Radio 1 |
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| From: | SharminHall @ aol.com <SharminHall @ aol.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:32:56 EDT |
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>>>In the afternoon yesterday (Friday), on Radio 1, Colin Murray
had a guest
co-presenter of Helen Chamberlain for Sport AM, during the last hour of the show. Personally I'd never heard of her but it turns out she's a big Level 42 fan and so we heard Something about you, Lessons in Love and Hot Water (parts of) during the show. Fantastic advertising for L42! You could hear the show again on the Radio 1 site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 and remember it was the last hour of the show. Craig Craig,
Hope your well, longtime no speak...since Sherwood I beleive.
Helen is engaged to Nathan King hense why she was advertising L42 so
much!
They got engaged last year just after the tour.
Oh and her show on Sky is called Soccer AM :o) on air on Sunday mornings I
beleive.
Shars
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| 2. Re: L42 on Radio 1 |
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| From: | J & L <thefamily @ imaxx.net> |
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| Date: | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 08:51:38 -0500 |
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Yes, I suppose that you
could say she's a big fan. I take it that you missed hearing about
her engagement to Nathan last Christmas & of her gratuitous references
to the band on Soccer AM??? | ||||||||||||||
| 3. Helen Chamberlain |
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| From: | Daniel James <djames @ speakeasy.net> |
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| Date: | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:42:15 -0700 |
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> In the afternoon yesterday (Friday), on Radio 1, Colin Murray had
a guest > co-presenter of Helen Chamberlain for Sport AM, during the last hour of the > show. Personally I'd never heard of her but it turns out she's a big Level > 42 fan and so we heard Something about you, Lessons in Love and Hot Water > (parts of) during the show. This was announced back in February, but she's engaged to Nathan. This might just have something to do with her affection towards Level 42! | ||
| 4. Guaranteed's good tracks |
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| From: | DonZipf @ aol.com <DonZipf @ aol.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:48:10 EDT |
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| > Agreed, but I would have kept the Guaranteed album just for Gary Husband's > wonderful song ' If You Were Mine ' And "A Kinder Eye" and "Lasso the Moon" and "With A Little Love".... These may not be traditional L42 tunes, but they're all good songs. I think people often judge GUARANTEED by "Set Me Up" and "The Ape", etc, forgetting that these gems also are on there. Don Z | ||
| 5. Burning Down the Yard! |
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| From: | Tom Foolery <grooveyardtom @ yahoo.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:09:51 -0700 (PDT) |
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| Can I relate an interesting Mark King listening experience? Yesterday I was doing some yardwork - our backyard dreams involve waging a constant yet ultimately futile battle with Mother Nature. It's all blackberry bramble and dune grass in a tangle. Plus, the previous owners had for some reason adorned the place with rows of humongous telephone poles, perhaps 300 ft. of them dispersed horizontally, here and there, as a property border of sorts. After 12 years of rotting in the rain, it turns out that telephone poles are excellent food for destructive termites, earwigs, carpenter ants, sowbugs - and so the bonfire of these profanities began. The fire grew quite large over six hours' time, and the manhandling of dissected telephone poles was strenuous for the aged man I have become. I had the boombox out there, thankfully. My listening selection? Mark King's "One Man." I listened to it three times straight through. I saw it mentioned here recently, and I can only say that I am very, very impressed with this album. The songwriting is mature, as are the lyrics (mostly) - but what leaps out is the arrangements, the choices of instrumentation. Many elements weaving in and out - from a production standpoint, I'd stack that album up against any of the L42 albums. I hadn't listened to it for a while, so coming back to it was a treat. It's the work of an artist who has seen a lot and is reporting back from his journey to wisdom. A pleasure to spend time with. AG, and for the others interested, I apologize for the Green Mountain Waste of Your Time! The page is now up, double-checked, and ready for prime time. Selling my used CD's, I am, at a pretty good price, too. Here's the list and the new link: "http://www.emeraldsoul.com/241.html" wishing you all a prosperous and happy life - and Loz, don't give up the ship. Re-listening to your once beloved band will be a treat - someday! -Tom <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> god bless the amateurs: "http://www.emeraldsoul.com" _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool | ||
| 6. A Sorta Fairytale |
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| From: | jt <jtraci @ yahoo.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:45:48 -0700 (PDT) |
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| -AG > 2) Where the hell is Stevie Wonder's new album? We > all know it's going to be a disappointment anyway From the sound of his ‘jam’ with, apparently the 'female Marivn Gaye', Alicia Keys and the finally-lost-the-straightened-hair-look-but-still-ever-boring Lenny Kravitz on some Mtv thing (they merged into “Higher Ground”, which I’m sure most being familiar with the song were questioning, “Why are they covering a Red Hot Chili Peppers tune?”), “disappointing” doesn’t quite describe it. > 3) What the hell happened to Tom Waits after One > From The Heart? I haven't heard the last couple of albums, > are they even vaguely listenable? Vaguely. > 4) Is Rufus Wainwright any good? Or if you prefer, > how the hell good is Rufus Wainwright? What little I’ve heard...I’d rather I didn’t. Or if you prefer, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Not quite hell, but not far from it. -Loz >I have sold my entire Level 42 collection. I >am now in a state of liberation and feel more able to speak openly about >Level 42. So having a collection of some things admittedly warped your ability to be honest or share your opinions/thoughts? I’m confused... -Craig Hughes >had a guestco-presenter of Helen Chamberlain for Sport AM, during the last hour of the >show. Personally I'd never heard of her but it turns out she's a big Level >42 fan So big that she’s topping off, well, at least one of the fugly King brothers. Or at least was last year. Something better may have limped along...(single-celled life form?) Loz, did you also retain the issue of Penthouse that the aforementioned bint poses with His Majesty’s bass? Whatta collector’s item! >Fantastic advertising for L42! Somebody’s got to do it... -List Guru >Loz, with this gaping vacancy in your music/CD collection, I have to ask, >what are you listening to these days? I’m sensing a scarrrrrrrrry answer... Ho hum. So. Shall we (nearly) all just fully admit that this thing called "Level 42" is pretty much awash, if not dead in the water? Maybe we just open up the forum for all things music/some things sex? Geographical discourse? Political Debate (ha)? I have a question: I’m not (in the least) a follower of Lenny Kravitz, but his (former?) drummer, Miss Cindy Blackmon, is a damn fine “jazz” drummer. I don’t know if she’d worked on LK’s last album, and I was cursed with seeing some of a new video and she’s not in it. Sadly her website hasn’t been updated in some time and I was curious is she is now pursuing some of her solo projects (one of which was a free-form “funk”/improv kind of thing, which I saw live and she told me she planned on taking it in the studio with Matt (recently worked with Mr Gary Husband) Garrison (who choked at soooo many good opportunities in a pretty much solely improv situation (far too interested in dicking with his laptop and looking/acting cool, sadly)) and David Gilmour (not _that_ DG)...anyway...anyone have some info? Also, what’s Manu Katche (Peter Gabriel, Sting, Mike Lindup) up to? j(ay) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail | ||
| 7. The Fan |
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| From: | =?iso-8859-1?q?Andrew=20Goodwin?= <thenightfly83 @ yahoo.co.uk> |
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| Date: | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:43:29 +0100 (BST) |
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| > 1. Off Topic - Re: about:blank Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me about this. Most of the free fixes seemed to come back to a program called StartDreck which refuses to run on my machine, so I’ve dumped it on the techies here to see what they can do. If they can’t fix it, I think it will probably be sledgehammer time. But again, thanks to all who assisted. > 2. London and Level 42 > From: Green, Laurence > > As many of you will know, I have sold my entire Level 42 collection. There’s a wonderful moment in The Simpsons when Comic Book Guy is idly walking along the street when he suddenly sees a nuclear weapon heading straight for him. In a moment of blinding pre-death clarity he surmises “Oh, I’ve wasted my life”. Is that how it was for you? Seriously though, what was it, kid on the way/arrived? Nothing assists the process of prioritisation quite so readily. Or maybe you finally got round to listening to Steely Dan and the awful truth dawned. > I kept back copies of most of the albums, but not Guaranteed, because it's awful. Yes, well spotted. Now doesn’t that feel better? > It is very unlikely that I will be tempted to buy a new album by MK'sL42. But surely no less likely than there ever actually being one? > 4. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner > From: Marc Daniels < > > besides, most of them moved down from Cowley, as the odour was too overbearing. There are many, many faults with my city – sitting as I am not two minutes from Cowley Centre I can testify to that – but for a resident of our fine polluted capital to impugn another place’s environmental quality is a bit rich. > 6. Haircut 10 squared > From: EMIKATIE @ aol.com < > > Mr. Goodwin and others: be sure to watch "Bands Reunited" on VH-1 to see Nick and the boys. Yes, they all make it and the show was a blast to watch. In the UK, I believe it may air September 21st or so. (it's already aired in the US) Much though I would love to see this, and proud as I am to still be able to name all six members, VH-1 is unfortunately one of those channels which occasionally appears in pubs but is never anywhere near my TV. Did they play Calling Captain Autumn? > 7. maybe of interest to a few with superb taste in > music/art > From: Matt Rice As many of you will know I recently sold my entire Steely Dan collection. I needed the money to spend on acquiring a massive new Level 42 collection which unexpectedly became available. > 2. L42 on Radio 1 > From: Craig Hughes > > In the afternoon yesterday (Friday), on Radio 1, Colin Murray had a guest co-presenter of Helen Chamberlain for Sport AM, during the last hour of the show. Personally I'd never heard of her but it turns out she's a big Level 42 fan Isn’t she that foul new lad woman who never shuts up about Torquay? Like being a fan of Level 42 wasn’t already embarrassing enough, now we also have guilt by association. AG ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com |
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