Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:19:10 +0000
Subject: Welcome to Shakespears Sister mailing list!

Greetings one and all!

	This e-mail is intended to be an introduction to the 
Shakespears Sister mailing list.  For the moment, the exact 
format is still undecided, and it will all be manually operated.  
I have not undertaken such a venture before, so there are 
inevitably going to be stuff-ups and delays.  Please bear with 
me! I welcome any criticisms or suggestions; this is not "my" 
list... I'm just filling a gap "in the marketplace" so to speak.  
After this e-mail, each message forwarded out to everyone will be 
numbered and dated.  This should allow us to keep track of stray 
messages.
	The main aim is to provide a mechanism to pass on 
information, as quickly as possible, to those interested. 
However, anything that you may wish to discuss or report is 
welcome.  At this stage (March 1996), new material is anticipated 
at any stage, but until it actually does surface, we'll just have 
to reflect on past glories!
	Please send anything of interest to me at: 
devery@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au

BUT PLEASE include Shakespears Sister, SS, Shak.Sis. or similar 
in the subject heading to allow me to quickly identify the e-mail 
as relevant.

The following are some excellent Shakespears Sister web sites:
Andy Gordon's Unofficial SS Homepage:
 http://whirligig.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajg94/sha/smain.html

Voyager's basic discography:
 http://w3.one.net/~voyager/ssal.html

 For Bananarama fans, your best starting point would be: 
http://www.eel.ufl.edu/~rda/brama/

A complete Shakespear's Sister discography is under construction.

 Thank you for your interest.
	Mike Devery
	Melbourne, Australia.


SSML-1, 25 March 1996


Hi everyone,
	Welcome to the first real Shakespear's Sister mailout!
	First of all, Jennifer reports that Boy George makes 
several references to Siobhan in his autobiography "Take It Like 
A Man":
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:29:03 -0500 (EST)
From: jennifer christine galey 

	i'm just full of useless information.  i'd love to tell 
more about boy george--i remember several bananarama references.  
i'll look through it again.  in one part he is on a plane with 
dave stewart (siobhan's husband) and they are discussing 
mushrooms and acid trips.  	who has heard marcella's album, 
jewel? i was more than a little disappointed.  it's as if she 
suddenly turned boring and is aiming for an older audience or 
something...  but i do like a few songs--i'm no angel, cool 
people, etc.  and she has such a lovely voice on prima donna--but 
did anyone think maybe this song was in reference to siobhan?

	my sister and i dressed up as shakespear's sister for a 
halloween party.  i made her be marcy because she's taller and i 
wanted to wear a garland crown.  that white make-up is really 
difficult to wear.  and i lost my crown somewhere that night...
		--jennifer
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	The following information came from an Australian interview 
of Pete Tong (UK BBC-radio dance DJ), during his DJ tour in 
January 1996. It was published in "Beat" magazine.

 "Interviewer (Andrew Mast): ...You also do A&R work.
 Pete Tong: That's my proper job.
 AM: What artists have been most successful for you, and are 
there any that you have overlooked when looking for new 
talent?
 PT: 	Goldie was my big success story for last year. I also look 
after Shakespear's Sister and Orbital -who are 2/3 of the 
way to completing their next album. I don't look after that 
many acts anymore, purposefully so; a real artist should take 
up a lot of time."

	Later in the article, mention is made of Paul Oakenfold 
(DJ, remixer of U2 etc etc; head of Perfecto Records): "...he has 
cut down his remixing schedule though, remixing only once a month 
and only for his own roster of artists (though he has just done 
mate Pete Tong a favour by remixing Shakespear's Sister new 
single)."
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 Finally for now, the following is an extract from an extensive, 
and very interesting, Siobhan interview published in a book of 
interviews of female rock musicians in 1994.  You may find this 
in your local academic library.

Women, Sex and Rock'n'Roll: In Their Own Words
Interviews conducted by Liz Evans, June 1993-March 1994.
Published 1994, by Pandora, London.

	Siobhan Fahey: "They don't expect boys to pretend to be 
nice, but they do with girls, and I'm not a nice person!"

	Introduction (by Liz Evans): Having trashed the grinning 
blonde of Bananarama dance routines and synchronised singing 
several years ago, SF has re-emerged as a witty, subversive pop 
star with her own project, SS. With dramatic effect she questions 
the role of traditional beauty. Twisting the trappings of glamour 
into something dangerous, she mocks the perfection for cosmetic 
masks by smearing black eyes onto a faultless foundation, drawing 
scarlet dots on her cheeks and wearing deathly pale or deeply 
dark lips. Her carefully-
crafted songs contain tales of badness, shattering the innocence 
and false nicety of the female pop persona, and her performances 
are deranged and out of control......
	By inscribing her negative feelings into the current pop 
charts, Fahey is confronting her pain, while opening up a 
Pandora's Box of suppressed female emotion for all the world to 
see. Glamour is often disturbed and Fahey is not only 
acknowledging that, she is celebrating it.

	Siobhan Fahey: "I don't have a hometown, I don't come from 
anywhere, I don't belong anywhere and that's always really 
freaked me out, to the point where my husband Dave's going, 'Why 
the fuck are we living in London?' and I just go, 'It's my home, 
I don't like it here but I live here!' I've been on this sort of 
neurotic search for a community to belong to for some time now. 
It's horrible, and it's probably the root cause of my alienation. 
I do feel very alienated from the rest of society and I have done 
forever really, so I don't know what I would have done if I 
hadn't become a pop star really. It's the perfect job for people 
who don't fit anywhere else.
	When I was a child, my home life was pretty unstable. My 
dad just went where the work was basically. He was in the army 
for the first nine years of my life so I spent five years in 
Germany and then he was a contracting engineer so he'd just go 
wherever the money was. We lived all over Britain, in Scotland 
and all over England. It was horrible because I went to eight 
different schools, and you know what a nightmare it is starting a 
school. So by the time I went to my eighth one I was 14 and it 
was so traumatic I never really got over it. And I became 
completely -you know the girl in the class that everyone laughs 
at and no one sits next to? That was me. And I had to cope with 
that from 14.
	I used to find solace in food during my adolescence as 
well, so my weight shot up. I was heavier at the age of 12 and 13 
than I'd ever been. I hated it so I started starving myself. I 
did it for a year and it was annoying because I didn't really get 
very thin. I only lost half a stone, and because I was so 
depressed as well, my system ground to a halt. When I moved to 
London it was fantastic. I was out every night all night and I 
lived off beer and 
coffee and cigarettes because I couldn't afford to eat, and that 
sorted my body shape out immediately."


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Quote of the issue:
Siobhan Fahey: "...I'M NOT A NICE PERSON..."

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