AMERICAN MUSIC: THE VIOLENT FEMMES MAILING LIST
currently run by Pat. Wary

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TOUR DATES: (NEW DATES MARKED WITH A **)

**March 27- Fordham University, Bronx, NY (O) TENTATIVE**

Apr. 1- Salem State College, Salem, MA (O)
Apr. 2- 9 p.m. Brandeis Universtiy, Waltham, MA, $15/20 (O)
Apr. 4- 8:30 p.m. Timkin Gymnasium, Mt. Union College, Alliance, OH
$10 (P,O)
Apr. 5- 7.30 p.m. Elco Theatre, Elkhart, IN (T,O,P)
Apr. 6- 9 p.m. World Mardi Gras, Indianapolis, IN (T,O,P) 21+ SHOW
Apr. 7- Knight’s Hall, Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY, ~$17.50
(P,O)
Apr. 16- 7:30 p.m. Quandt Fieldhouse, University of Wisconsin,
Stevens Point, WI $19.50/21.50 (O)
Apr. 17- North Michigan University, Marquette, MI (O,P)
Apr. 18- 7:30 p.m. McGown Gym, Winona State University, Winona, MN
(P,O)
Apr. 19- Fargo Civic Auditorium, Fargo, ND (O,T,P)
Apr. 21- 7:30 p.m. Madison Theatre, Peoria, IL (O.T,P)
Apr. 24- Center CityFest ’98, Charlotte, NC (O,P)
Apr. 26- La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA (O) STUDENT ONLY SHOW
May 2- Salisbury State College, Salisbury, MD (O)
May 3- 99X Stage@Music Midtown, Atlanta, GA (O,P)
May 15- Chocolate Fest, Burlington, WI (O,P)

NOTA BENE: ‘O’ stands for the Official homepage
‘P’ stands for Pollstar
‘T’ stands for Ticketmaster
‘I’ stands for Insider Info
All other references are subscribers

To book a show, contact Monterey Peninsula Artists.
Serious inquiries only.

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Peoria, IL
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Atlanta, GA
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In Today’s Issue:

RE: Classified Troubles
La Salle Ticket Wanted
RE: I Want More DC/Baltimore Reviews
RE: I Want More DC/Baltimore Reviews
RE: Amber’s Cat
RE: Sex and Candy
New Album Bullshit
Singles?

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RE: Classified Troubles
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How did that person react to this recent post? Did he promise to send
Wes the tapes he’s owed for about a year? MAIS NON. He sent Wes a nasty
bullshit letter about being too busy (every day for the past year???)
and said people who collect boots have no life. Then he unsubbed from
this list. Good riddance, I say, but poor Wes has been shafted. Gee,
last time I heard, it was supposed to be boot TRADE, not boot GIVEAWAY.

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La Salle Ticket Wanted
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If anyone knows a student at La Salle who would be willing to buy me a
ticket, please have them contact me,

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RE: I Want More DC/Baltimore Reviews
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in responding to Joanna,
there were a couple posts about the dc and baltimore show’s. Amber and
Pat had great stories. as far as for me. i went to the baltimore show
and had a blast. it wasn’t too packed and they seemed really into it.
a mosh pit broke out for the last 10 minutes or so, but basically the
crowd was decent. a lot of them didn’t know too many songs, but they
were enjoying the show nonetheless and that is what matters. hopefully,
they’ll be back soon

bobby

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RE: I Want More DC/Baltimore Reviews
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well, to those of you who unfortunatley could not make the DC show, not
to rub it in or anything…it was awesome! well, obviously it was
awesome, when couldn’t a femmes show be awesome. anyway, the set they
played was great. i don’t have the list, but i’m sure pat did. that
was one of the coolest things of the night actually. i got to meet pat.
( you’re awesome!) i was all the way up front, it was impossible to get
any closer to the band unless i could get on stage. the crowd was
pretty nice, too. there was the occasional moshing and surfing, but
nothing way too bad at all. each guy took his turn playing kiss ass
solos on their respective instruments. and they played for a while too.
they didn’t even go on until 1130 or so, and the opening chick was
alright. all her songs were basically the same. feminist, young adult
angst. but it was cute. after the third song it got kinda old though.
but when the femmes came on, it was all good. i was a great show for
dancing. i danced the whole entire time. and they played good feelings,
one of their best songs, in my opinion. it was wonderful. ok, so i
didn’t really dance to that song. but i swayed. anyway, after the
show, my friends and i started talking to one of the crew people who
also played bass for brian while he was kicking some ass on the
xylophone. we metioned that we had met the guys before and he said he
would go get us some backstage passes. awesome. oh yeah, and the
tickets were free for us, too. one of my friend’s boyfriend knows
people in high places and got us tickets. that was cool too. anyway,
we got the talk to the guys again, and meet some people from the mailing
list. (hi travis!) brian remembered my friend danica’s name and guy
remembered my name. (his daughter’s name is whitney too!) the guy who
got us the passes let us in on the hotel info, room number and
everything. we wanted to go chill with the guys, but they weren’t even
going to be there, they had to leave for ny. anyway, the show was
absolutely wonderful, i had a great time, and if you who could not make
it want anymore of my rambling, let me know. i’d be glad to write more.
i hope i helped some, and remember…keep smilin.

“nothing left to do, but smile, smile, smile”
whitney

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RE: Amber’s Cat
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In Amberlace’s story about Good Gordon Hunting, she made what I think
was a reference to Wally Pleasant. “But the cat came back, the very
next day . . .” Of course I was thrilled to see that possibly someone
likes Wally besides me. Actually, I was thrilled to see that someone
has HEARD of Wally besides me. SOOOOO, I was wondering if that was
indeed a reference to him, and if so, does anyone else like his stuff?

Valerie

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RE: Sex and Candy
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I don’t think that “Sex and Candy” sounds like the Femmes. When I first
heard it I thought of The Presidents.. It reminded me of their (The
Presidents) first album.

Jamigrl
*Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something
else.*
*The surest sign that intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe
is that it has never tried to contact us.*

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New Album Bullshit
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from what i hear the only reason that there hasn’t been a new album
released in years is because they’re having problems with their label. i
got three words for that “problem”: get off a major label and put it on
an indie, or even yourself. they’re definitely big enough to do it.
bands who play in bars put out their own stuff and these guys can sell
out auditoriums. its a bunch of bullshit that they have had material for
an album for a long time but have kept the fans waiting for so long.

love and malt liquer,
one pissed off muda fucka (SEBASTIAN)

o.y. if any can tell me more about the charlotte show (if its a
festival, who’s playing, where to get tix) i’d appreciate it.

-Pat. Says:Well, they DID put out ROCK, and we all know how much
attention THAT got over here in the US. What a waste. Such
a nice little album yet so little exposure. How many people
on this list didn’t even HEAR about ROCK until they heard
about it here?
As to Charlotte, this was in the Mar. 13 issue, thanks to
ddearry

Concerning the Center City Fest date in Charlotte NC, Friday, April 24..
It’s a street festival in downtown Charlotte -just like the Carolina
Music Festival last September for those of you who went! For those of
you who didn’t – they close off about 5 city blocks and set up temporary
stages (at this point 4) at the corners of the area. There are food
and drink vendors, artists, street performers etc. and there is NO way
this can sell out! It’s a 3 day festival but none of the headlining
acts have been confirmed yet. They were surprised to learn VF had a
firm date on their page. Dunno! Anyway tickets are $10 bucks and are
*scheduled* to go on sale this Friday. You can charge through ticket
monster by phone or just wait and pay $15 at the gate that day! (I
would suggest this!) Or you can buy a three day pass for $25. Linda at
Ark Mgmt. said NOTHING is definite yet but she will let me know as soon
as she gets the official line-up and ticket info!

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Singles?
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Has anybody heard anything about what singles are expected to be
released off of Freak Magnet?

-patwary
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