Level 42 Digest for Friday, December 15, 2006

"I received a "Swing out Sister" DVD the other day and it had some footage of the Princes Trust concert in the UK. I think it was either 1981 or 1989. It was at Wembley stadium.

Anyway, Level 42 were playing the music to "Breakout", a Swing Out Sister song. Both bands happen to be two of my favourites. It was strange hearing Mark King and Co playing someone else's music, but they sounded great."

Swing Out Sister didn't hit it big until the mid-late 80's, so it couldn't have been 1981. I believe that the boys did Prince's Trust in 1987 and 1989, is that right folks? Or was it 1985 and 1987? I have copies of both buried somewhere. I still get goose bumps when I hear Mark playing bass with Will Downing singing the R&B classic Free - if only he were to guest and play on more soul and R&B, black folks would totally fall in love with him. To top it off, he looked like he was having a ball playing it...

Swing Out Sister is indeed one of my other favorites as well. I have a live CD recorded in Japan that has the ultimate version of Surrender - very jazzy and lushly orchestrated - and I actually performed versions of Breakout and Surrender from that CD with my jazzfunk band a few years back. If you don't have that CD, definitely pick it up.

Lolita

1. Covers
From:	steve whyte <sjwhyte @ hotmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:23:47 +0000	[top]
I recently heard that cover of SAY too and i thought it was truly awful. Soulless and shallow. But that's just my opinion of course. It's not strictly a cover, but DJ Yoda recently sampled TSGD on his track Wheels. I really like it - it samples Mike's vocals and keyboards from the original and gives it a bit of hip-hop flava. Yes, i said flava! It's available on itunes and you can listen to it on his web site too i think. steve _________________________________________________________________ Get free, personalized commercial-free online radio with MSN Radio powered by Pandora http://radio.msn.com/?icid=T002MSN03A07001

2. Re: Something about you / retroglide
From:	Huge Rademaker <hugerademaker @ gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:37:07 +0100	[top]
Hi Collin, On the Dutch radio, this cover has been played several times lately (Radio 1). I think it sucks, as a song (the cover, not the original), although it gives me "goose-flesh" hearing someone playing a L42-song! The way this Anthony sings makes me kind of aggressive actually... And where has the bass gone?? Retroglide. Are there any songs off the latest album getting any airplay? all the best, Huge

3. Prince's Trust 1981 or 1989
From:	Julie Willis <juliewillis @ btinternet.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:35:18 -0000	[top]
In response to Gary's email, I went to the Prince's Trust concert in 1989 which was at Birmingham NEC so the footage you have seen must have been a year or two earlier, as 1981 would be too early for Swing Out Sister?

4. Princes Trust 81 or 89
From:	Mike Brooks <mikebrooksemail @ btinternet.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:18:18 -0000	[top]
It was 1989 and it wasn't Wembley Stadium, it was Birmingham NEC. There is a DVD of this but it comes from Hong Kong/Japan I think, occasionally appears on Ebay, some members on here managed to get a copy years ago, not sure if it's still being produced or not though. Mike

5. Prince's Trust
From:	Lolitaj @ aol.com <Lolitaj @ aol.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:42:27 EST	[top]
"I received a "Swing out Sister" DVD the other day and it had some footage of the Princes Trust concert in the UK. I think it was either 1981 or 1989. It was at Wembley stadium. Anyway, Level 42 were playing the music to "Breakout", a Swing Out Sister song. Both bands happen to be two of my favourites. It was strange hearing Mark King and Co playing someone else's music, but they sounded great." Swing Out Sister didn't hit it big until the mid-late 80's, so it couldn't have been 1981. I believe that the boys did Prince's Trust in 1987 and 1989, is that right folks? Or was it 1985 and 1987? I have copies of both buried somewhere. I still get goose bumps when I hear Mark playing bass with Will Downing singing the R&B classic Free - if only he were to guest and play on more soul and R&B, black folks would totally fall in love with him. To top it off, he looked like he was having a ball playing it... Swing Out Sister is indeed one of my other favorites as well. I have a live CD recorded in Japan that has the ultimate version of Surrender - very jazzy and lushly orchestrated - and I actually performed versions of Breakout and Surrender from that CD with my jazzfunk band a few years back. If you don't have that CD, definitely pick it up. Lolita

6. Re: Princes Trust 1981 or 1989?
From:	David A. Ratcliffe <d.a.ratcliffe @ ntlworld.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:41:59 -0000	[top]
Hi Gary The concert you are talking about is the Prince's Trust Concert 1989. It is only available as a two CD VCD set. The only source I know of is an eBay seller in Hong Kong called 'luckycat688'. I purchased a copy earlier this year (Ł6.50GBP) and was quite impressed. I had a look on eBay but there isn't one on sale at the moment. You could contact him or wait for one to come up. Bye David __________________________________________________________________________ David A. Ratcliffe Gorton, Manchester, England

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