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The Heckler
Philosophical discussions about your band s career
^ by JOHN BRUT
HECKLER MAKES CORRECTIONS: Last week, we reported that for
mer 5-8 manager Jimmy McLean had left the music business
entirely and was, according to Mike Mantione, installing the
ater seats in schools. Nelson Wells, of promotional guerrillas
Team Clermont, phoned to let us know that Jimmy is alive and
well in the music biz as equal partner in that venture. "Jimmy
owns three companies," Wells explained. "He owns 50 percent of
Team Clermont and two other companies, one of which does all
sorts of installation work." While rock promoters are probably
doomed to the same dark circle of hell as rock journalists, we
wish Nelson and Jimmy the best of luck anyway.
AS PART OF OUR OMINOUS, CABALISTIC UNION WITH THE 40 WATT:
Let us mention some of the upcoming Watt shows that may inter
est you. Of course, there's Watt at the Watt on Oct. 6, when Mike
Watt comes back through town with Geraldine Fibbers' guitarist
Neis Cline in tow. Other highlights of the next month or so
include Built to Spill with 746 Hero on Oct. 24 and Modest
Mouse with Atlanta's Seely on Nov. 11. The real thrill is gonna
be the Oct. 28 arrival of Belle and Sebastian in support of their
new album. The Boy With the Arab Strap. But, wait, you say. How
can you like the fey, British sentimentality of songs such as "Get
Me Away From Here, I'm Dying," from their previous effort, If
You’re Feeling Sinister? Combing the best moments of Donovan,
the Smiths, and the Housemartins with tender vocal inflections
reminiscent of troubadour godhead Nick Drake, Belle and
Sebastian craft some of the most engaging new music I've heard
in a while. This will be one of only eight shows the band plays in
America, so expect sensitive boys from around the Southeast to
descend upon Athens. Not only that, but somehow local Kinder-
popsters Masters of the Hemisphere conned their way into the
opening slot. Get tix at Wuxtry and Big Shot.
SURE, YEAH, FIRST YOU DIS MY COLUMN AND NOW YOU COME
CRAWLING BACK FOR HELP: Veah, David Fairbaim, you and me,
out by the bike racks. Right now! And bring a beer or two, so we
can discuss Five Star Day Cafe's upcoming Thursday night
shows. Fairbaim is hoping to accommodate two or three bands
each Thursday night, with a $2 cover and SI PBR tall boys.
Interested bands should bring demos down to Five Star Day,
attention David Fairbaim.
Thanks for the love. And remember: WWJD? E-mail icecoldpbr@
hotmail.com or call 549-9523 with the scoop.
Bri?»n Causey Photo by Ballard Lesemann
OH! I THOUGHT HE MEANT THAT HE FINALLY SUBSCRIBED TO
AMERICA ONLINE: Brian Causey may finally make it big. After
toiling away in obscurity for years in some sci-fi band (whose
name rhymes with Dan? or Astro-Dan), Causey has been given
the opportunity to play with one of the hottest up and coming
young bands in America. Starting Nov. 2 in Seattle, our fair Brian
will hit the road with indie makeshifts Archers of Loaf, who will
be touring behind their nev' album. White Trash Heroes (Alias).
Causey will be filling in for guitarist Eric Johnson, who will leave
the tour early for the comfort of reliable full-time work. "I get to
pull the old Moog out, too," remarked the P'-vboard neophyte.
Supposedly, this is the Archers' last album and tour, so when the
band hits the 40 Watt on Nov. 25, you might not want to miss it.
Unless you don't really give a shit.
Excited by the chance to actually be
involved first-hand in the death of indie
rock's gentle giants, Causey claims the
highlight of this tour, which concludes
• on Nov. ?7 in Atlanta, will be the oppor
tunity to ride in a tour bus. "I'm sure IT!
get the worst spot on the bus.
bemoaned the guitarist. "Right next to
the bathroom."
THE CAUSEY WAY, PART 2: In other, ncn-
scatological news about Brian Causey,
the guitarist recently finished recording
the theme song for the pilot episode of
"Jimmy Neutron," a computer animated
program to be aired by basic-cable
champs Nickelodeon. Causey recorded
at Andy Baker's Chase Park studio with
big, bad behemoth Ballard Lesemann.
No word on when the show will air.
Causey also has plans for a "killer
combo" with Andy Baker ("on maracas,"
according to Brian) and other musical
luminaries, although he would not name their names, nor the
band's name. Sometimes I think Brian's messing with me.
"THE NEW ALBUM EATS ITSELF": While not the best image one
wants to communicate about their new project, that is how Will
Hart of the Olivia Tremor Control described the band's forth
coming CD, Black Foliage. Subtitled Animation Music, the album
is apparently a flowing collection of pop songs and cartoony-
ambient interludes, similar, in theory if not execution, to *he
continuous motion of My Bloody Valentine's 1991 album
Loveless. The album "eats itself' in the sense that the interludes
mix musical elements from other songs
on the album and reconfigure them into
new excursions. "We're sampling from
ourselves," Hart told Flagpole. "We'd
take the strings out of one song, speed
them up, add the horns from another
song and mess with them" to create new
songs. The ritle piece is a recurring
motif drawing upon the work of lounge
mastermind Martin Denny and the tribal
percussion he used in works such as
Exotica. "The theme will be played dif
ferently each time, though:" explained
Hart, "played on accordion one time,
plucked guitar the next." According to
Hart, Black Foliage, which will contain
two albums worth of material, should be
out Feb. 3 on Flydaddy. The Olivias just
headed out to England for a two-and-a-
half week tour, after which they will
return to play a special Halloween show
at the 40 Watt.
KUDOS TO KITTY: Oct. 8 finds former
Loveapple singer Kitty Snyder opening up for David Lowery's
post-collegiate, post-3ltemative, post-mortem collective Cracker
at the Roxy in Atlanta. This is not just a chance to play to a larg-
ei audience, but also a chance to impress Lowery, who runs Pitch-
a-Tent Records. If things go well, Lowery will hand Snyder mil
lions in cash and a sweet record contract and will burn all exist
ing tapes of the Dayroom interview.
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