SSML-60, 21 April 1997

Hello again,

 Thank you to all the people (Max, Grant etc) who forwarded this item on from the most recent Bananarama Mailing List, which I reproduce here:

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Subj:	No Subject
Date:	97-04-10 13:15:48 EDT
From:	JMacKay@cmrra.ca (Jason MacKay)

Thought you might find this interesting...

SHAKESPEAR'S SISTER star SIOBHAN FAHEY is head over heels in  love with a little-known Irish actor. MARTIN DUNNE, who has a small part in the new HARRISON FORD/BRAD PITT thriller THE DEVIL'S OWN, met Fahey on the set of a low-
budget film called PINNED. Both starred in the movie about Dublin drug addicts, which was shot on location in the Irish capital last year. And Dunne reveals, "We were just friends at first, but love blossomed as I showed her around the locations for  the film. We were both very vulnerable at the time, having recently split with our partners. But gradually we fell in love." 
Dunne, back in Dublin after a week in London with Fahey, has just landed a part in JIM SHERIDAN's new movie THE BOXER. And Fahey -  who split from former EURYTHMICS star DAVE STEWART last year -
has a new album set for release shortly and says she also wants to  pursue an acting career.

ENJOY!

JASON!
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   Presumably this must be the film previously referred to as "Clean Break" which had apparently been purchased by Channel Four in the  UK.  Channel 4 has a web site where you can search their database,
http://www.channel4.com/
and a search of this does not reveal any mention of Clean Break or Pinned, so it doesn't seem to have been shown yet.   There is one mention of a Siobhan, but it's not _our_ Siobhan :-)
  The email address for Channel 4 seems to be: right2reply@channel4.com

 Perhaps if we write to them they may be able to confirm that they own the film and have some idea when it may be shown...

Meanwhile, I found this item from a few months ago at: http://alterworld.com/asleaze.1.15.97.html

"Millionaire music maestro DAVE STEWART has been stringing on fans that he was suffering from Paradise Syndrome. The former-EURYTHMICS star claimed last year that all his wealth and success had caused a range of imaginary illnesses. The 'admission' prompted a barrage of newspaper articles.
But 44-year-old Stewart, who once had his appendix removed when he was  only suffering from a vicious bout of wind, came clean at a London film  premiere last week. He admitted, "Oh I made all that up. I wasn't even saying that I had it, only that I thought it was possible. I picked the phrase up from a STAR TREK movie about 20 years ago because I thought it sounded really good and now it's going into medical dictionaries. Amazing." But there is no magical  cure for Stewart's ailing marriage to estranged wife, former  BANANARAMA singer SIOBHAN FAHEY. Despite spending Christmas together with their children in Jamaica, Stewart stresses, "If you decide to split, you don't usually get back together again." 
 Mike.

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Date:          Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:27:03 +0000 (GMT)
From:          Grant_Mitchell@ssco.se (Grant Mitchell)
Subject:       SS-Sweden

Polygram Sweden has said that the Shakespears Sister album has been put back to an Autumn release, which would probably mean a Christmas release.  Which would most likely have a 2nd single release in September. But knowing our luck this could all be changed again.

Grant
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Date:          Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:51:28 +0200
From:          Massimiliano Gini 
Subject:       FEELER

I have some news, which you may find interesting.

I received the Japanese "Feeler" CD, and it's faaaar better than the German issue.
The sleeve is completely different: it features the photo of Marcy that is on the first page of her Web Site (the page with the admission ticket). Also it features a proper booklet with many photos and the fully lyrics. Finally there is a sheet with biography+lyrics in Japanese.

A great item indeed!!!!!!!

> And for that matter, does anyone know of any other Shakespears Sister cover versions?

YES!!!
"Hello" was covered by a German hard rock group called "The Bates". The video was also VERY similar to the original SS video!!! Unfortunately I have never been able to find a copy of the CD single anywhere. I'm not sure, but I think it was released in 1994/1995.

MAX
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  And finally, for those people who aren't on the B'rama mailing list, a bit of a "history" lesson that will appear there soon:

Subject: Re: Siobhan the True Sex Pistol
 [Background: Mark Burke (MBurke@esd.ihs.dhhs.gov) on the B. mailing list has discovered a new CD titled "The Lydon's and O'Donnell's Family Album"  which is some kind of Sex Pistols compilation which has a photo of Keren & Sarah, taken in about 1981 (they contribute backing vocals I think...).     I wondered why Siobhan did not appear in the photo]

>>     [Mark]: I saw your question on the Bananarama Mailing List - good  question!   Siobhan does not appear in any of the photos, and as far as I can tell  was not cropped out of any of the photos.  It's my guess that this was recorded in 1981, possibly before Siobhan  moved in with Keren and Sarah, who were living upstairs from the Sex  Pistols rehearsal studio, or something like that.

> [Mike]: is this correct? Did K*S live together before Siobhan  forced her way onto the scene?
     [Sarah Mager]: Yes - K&S were living int he squat with 5 other girls and Siobhan was  living on wardour street with the redneck 20st flatmate  who, jim reilly (shuvs bonk..) stole her licquor, so they locked themselves in a room and  she went nuts attacking the door and then called the police .. etc  etc.... in the end she was kicked out and ended up walking the streets for a week with all her stuff in a carrier bag - not long after that she  moved in with K&S - where Keren gave her bed to shuv, and bunked with  sara...
     standard 1st grade banana history here....
     >But weren't S&S at college together?      yes thats in 1979. K&S would've finished upper sixth in 1978 and moved to  london then....
     >Or is that how it happened: K&S living together, then Siobh. met S through  college.
     well thats part of the story.... S also met s & K at several niteries  through common friends, as well as college
     >      [Mark]: It's my guess that this was recorded in 1981, possibly before Siobhan   moved in with Keren and Sarah, who were living upstairs from the Sex  Pistols rehearsal studio, or something like that.
     Well the recording is from 1980 (thats what it said in the bit on the  BML..) so they definitely knew Siobhan by that stage, maybe Siobhan wasn't  a fully fledged member at that stage?
            Sarah

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