HW: Litmus Gig

Colin J Allen colin at CALLEN18.FREESERVE.CO.UK
Sat Dec 11 16:20:12 EST 2004


Ah yes, a type there; Evil was in the setlist.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Litmus Gig


> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Colin J Allen wrote:
>
> > LOL; the full setlist was:
> >
> > Intro
> > Twinstar
> > Destroy the Mothership
> > The Tempest
>
>         Yeah, I'm clearer about this now, I thought that was going to be
> `Invader' and then it wasn't so I scribbled it out on my setlist, hence
> confusion.
>
> > Dreams of Space
> > (Theta Wave) Inductor
>
>         Excuse my brain failure there, got it mixed up with `Stone
> Oscillator' but that was what I meant.
>
> > Sonic Light
> > Under the Sign
>
>         Hang on, hang on, I may be prematurely demented but no way did I
> imagine `Evil' there. Is it now being used as a coda to the coda of `Under
> the Sign'? Not that I mind as long as it turns up somewhere...
>
> > Twiddly Synthy Bit (while band recover and Huw is prepared for action!)
> > Infinity Drive
> > Waiting for Tomorrow
> > Motorway City
> > Moonglum
> > Magnu
>
>         Not sure how I forgot that, but it isn't really reconstructible
> from my scrawl :-)
>
> > Needle Gun
> > Right Stuff (Encore)
> >
> > T-shirts? Ah, yes...T-shirts!  We are working on designs and hope (plan)
to
> > have them ready very early in the new year.
>
>         Hurrah!
>
> > On another track, the wonderful Julian Cope has selected "You Are Here"
as
> > his "Album of the Month" for December; a review will be appearing on his
> > site http://www.headheritage.co.uk.  There is also a review in the
latest
> > edition of Terrorizer.
>
>         That Julian Cope review is a piece of work, isn't it... He says
> several things I more or less agree with and then rants for a paragraph in
> such a way that I wonder if he's listening to the same album. And then the
> cycle goes round again... He definitely hears things in his own
> framework. Like many things in the music world, it's close enough to what
> I'd like to see done that it annoys me for not being that, but at least in
> the case of reviewing I could do my own version. I think he and I are in
> broad agreement on the basics of the matter, however, viz that the album
> kicks arse and that it's full of indications that even better may yet
> follow. Yours,
>                Jon
>
> ObCD: Litmus - _You Are Here_ (as luck would have it)
> --
>                 Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
>     jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk/ejarr01 at students.bbk.ac.uk
>   "As much as the vision of the blind man improves with the rising sun,
>        So too does the intelligence of the fool after good advice."
>        (Bishop Theodulf of Orleans, late-eight/early-ninth century)



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