Re: @ Shriekback, Frankie Goes to Hollywood?

["D.M.Emigh" <coyote_laz at hotmail_com>]

>
>DM, who influenced Shriekback's "Everything that Rises Must Converge"?

Apparently Flannery O'Connor- check the goodreads/modesty thread. I'm 
totally just randomizing- but I tend to think that intelligent rock stars 
read books and dig ideas (and vice versa with authors)


  I just checked on some of the OtR mail right now, and
>it's AMAZING, 'cos the last song I played on my drive in was "Fish Below 
>the Ice" from the Oil & Gold CD!!  I just bought Shriekback's Care LP 
>(leaving only Tench for me to get).

Waitwait waitwait wait..
Do you have the single with Cayanne cinnamon?- the "acoustic" version of 
Nemisis. I could kill for a dub of that. (congrats- your are the only other 
person aside myself who owns care. Mine's on tape. Good luck finding tench- 
I'd love a copy of that myself)

Used to be a big fan,
>but the late 80s, early 90s were creatively terrible for them.  "Go Bang" 
>was rotten.

Pity me. I didn't discover them till 94.

>
>I saw them "Sacred City" era at Bogart's in Cincinnati and it was horribly 
>attended (200 people maybe) and Barry (the singer) went out with us to Club 
>Vertigo, a horrible cheesy dance bar.  Some of the Shriek fans weren't 21 
>but Barry wanted to dance.  I bought him a mixed drink of some sort.  Kinda 
>odd to buy a hero a drink.  Dave and Martyn went to a proper bar to see a 
>band.

I heard the whole american tour was like that- and they were rather 
personable hanging out with fans

Thing is- I really liked Go Bang. I thought it was good clean fun.
Big Night Music is probably my favorite. Either sticky jazz or Cradle song.

Ta
D.M.


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