SSML-27, 5 July 1996

Hi everyone,

 For those interested in Marcella Detroit, her e-mail address is now up and running: 
detroit@atlas.co.uk

 Also, her website: http://www.marcelladetroit.com/

has now been updated and includes some more information on the new single etc.
 Mike.
******************************************************************
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 21:31:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Janine E. Harris" 
Subject: Re: SSML-26, 2 July 1996.

Hi all!
 I just got Marcella Detroit's new single in the mail. It's terrific! The a-side is called I 
Hate You Now and is a bit of a dance track, while the b-side, Boy, is more guitar 
oriented. This single is on a new label for Marcella. I guess she was dropped by 
London. Anyway, these are both great tracks, more of an alternative sound. She could 
have gone so mainstream, this is such a relief! By the way, the lyrics don't seem to 
have anything to do with Siobhan...
 Marc 
We are the makers of music...   We are the dreamers of dreams.
****************************************************************
Date: Mon, 1 Ju1 1996 19:01:12 -0700
From: dgarbuio@direct.ca (denny garbuio)
Subject: Relax

There has not been a significant amount of Marcy bashing on here, so relax--I do like 
her, but Siobhan should not be expected to change her name.  The project was hers to 
begin with, and the new single is fab. SS is as much an image thing which the 2 of 
them built up a great reputation. Why should she give that up? It would be like saying 
that Sarah and Keren should not be called Bananarama anymore because one girl is 
gone. Silly.

I do think however that Bananarama work best as a trio!

Denny
****************************************************

The following is a press release from London Records. (Special thanks to Janine at the 
Fan Club):

Shakespears sister is Siobhan Fahey. Her band, her tunes, her words.

 When Siobhan was a little girl, moving around various parts of Britain with her 
family and eventually settling in sunny Suburbia, she felt strangely disconnected from 
her class mates and fearing the wrath of God as only Catholic girls can, pop music 
was her solace. The strange and glamorous world of Bolan, Bowie, Roxy and the like 
shone like a beacon in an otherwise lonely and isolated existence.

 Following her move to the metropolis at the tail end of the seventies -hair bleached, 
with a passion for fashion and a note pad full of lyrics -she hooked up with two 
similarly disenchanted young woman and Bananarama were bizarrely born.  The rest 
really is history -gimpy dancing, public displays of drunkenness, chain-smoking, bad 
language and a reputation which cast fear into record company reps Europe wide.  
These girls really were the original female Lads.

 By the time Siobhan quit the Banana's in 1985, she had co-written 12 top 30 singles 
and five hit albums in addition to tracks she had written with other artists, most 
notably The Bluebells hit Young At Heart (which made it to No. 1 when re-released 
in '93).

 Siobhan then moved to LA, wrote a whole bunch of songs, hooked up with producer 
Richard Feldman and session singer Marcy Levy, and with a moniker stolen from a 
favourite Smiths record, she invented Shakespears Sister.

 1988 saw the release of the debut album Sacred Heart, which spawned the first big 
UK hit, You're History.  Shakespears Sister were truly on their way to that elusive 
place known as the kingdom of pop.

 

 In 1992, Hormonally Yours was released to critical acclaim. The first single Goodbye 
Cruel World had fans and pundits licking their lips in anticipation, and together with 
its award-winning video, signalled the next phase of Shakespears Sister. When Stay 
was released at the start of '92, it took only two weeks to hit the British Number 1 
spot, where it remained for eight weeks.  The subsequent success of Hormonally 
Yours, both domestically and overseas, was a triumph for Siobhan, who was at last 
getting credit where it was due.

 By the end of the year, HY had sold nearly 2 million copies, Hello (Turn Your Radio 
On), became the fourth hit single from the album and the band had completed three 
triumphant UK tours, a series of club dates in the US and a European stint.
 All the hard work was rewarded when in early 1993, Siobhan won an Ivor Novello 
award for The Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection for HY.  That same year 
the video for Stay picked up Best Video at The Brits and at the Music Week Awards.  
It was an exceptional year for the duo but in the end they found their 'musical 
differences' impossible to rectify and went their separate ways.

 The new eponymously titled Shakespears Sister album will be released later this year.  
Recorded between March and October '95 in London, the South of France and 
Woodstock USA, many of the songs were born in Siobhan's tiny studio home in North 
London. Shakespears Sister unashamedly harks back to the music she has listened to 
all her life - T-Rex, Roxy Music, early Bowie, The Smiths, seminal British pop at its 
most persuasive.  Lyrically, Siobhan gives us an almost disconcertingly intimate and 
candid glimpse into her life and relationships.  From the trilogy of Come And Get Me, 
I Don't Envy You and I'll Take Anything where the curious inner world of the 
disaffected English schoolgirl is explored, to Oh Dear where Siobhan takes an 
amused, fatalistic look at the wreckage caused in life, both literally and emotionally, 
on to Opportunity Knockers, with its opening line "Here come those tired old tits 
again", Siobhan shows tendency towards irony and dark humour.

 "I've never been afraid to show my ugly side, to laugh at it" says Siobhan. "So many 
songwriters seem to write from a superior standpoint, about nobility and 
righteousness. I positively eschew that. I've always had a very uncomfortable 
relationship with fame".

 Produced by Siobhan, Dave Stewart and Alan Moulder and Flood, the album is 
steadfastly independent from any scene and as impossible to pigeon hole as one would 
now expect from Shakespears Sister.

 The release of SS is preceded in May by the single I Can Drive - a positive female 
anthem which declares I'm in control/I'm driving this car/I'm back in no uncertain 
terms.

 The uncrowned queen of British glam is back -and despite a growing musical 
maturity she (happily) shows no signs at all of growing up.

 April 1996. London Recordings.

    Source: geocities.com/sunsetstrip/pavilion/3545/ssml

               ( geocities.com/sunsetstrip/pavilion/3545)                   ( geocities.com/sunsetstrip/pavilion)                   ( geocities.com/sunsetstrip)