SSML-7, 17 April 1996

Hi everyone,

 Many of you will already have heard about the (new?) 
Shakespear's Sister Fan Club mentioned in the Bananarama 
newsletter WOW! Thanks to Rich and Sarah for passing on the 
information.
 Sarah has kindly typed out the relevant details:
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 It was in the wow fanzine.  Here we go:

Dear SS fan
	Thanks for your interest in SS. You can be the first to 
receive all the Latest news on ss through the fan club. Members 
will receive six Newsletters which include up-to-date information 
release dates tour dates Interviews photos and competitions.  We 
also have merchandise available.

	The cost of membership for the fan club is $9 in the us and 
5-50 pound in The uk and europe.  To join Harmonally Yours please 
write to: 5 Freda Corbett Close, London SE15 6UN England.  If you 
do not wish to join the fan, Club but have questions regarding SS 
please send a sase or an IRC and we will gladly reply to all your 
questions.

	Please make cheques or money orders payable to Janine 
Ladouceur.
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	 I have sent off to get subscription details for Australia.  
If anyone is already a member, please let us know!

 Also, some nagging questions have come up while I've been 
compiling the discography.  It seems the US catalog number for 
the Sacred Heart album was 422-828168-1/2/4 (compared to the 
UK/AA 828131-
1/2/4). Can anyone confirm this? And were there any differences 
between the UK and US pressings?

 The US pressing of the Hormonally Yours album seems to have some 
different mixes as well. "Let Me Entertain You" is longer and 
quite different to the UK version (5.13 versus 4.43).  Also, 
Voyager's SS website lists track times for all the HY tracks, and 
there seems to be differences in "Black Sky" and "The Trouble 
With Andre".

 UK BS: 4.03 ; Andre 4.42
 US BS: 4.18 ; Andre 4.03

 Some difference could arise from a different cutoff point 
between each track (i.e. going from track 7 to track 8); but 
Andre does seem a lot shorter on the US pressing. Can anyone 
confirm these US times, and point out any other differences?

 I am also curious about the original single release of "Goodbye 
Cruel World".  The original album version runs for about 4.06 ; 
whereas most versions on the 1991 release of the singles seem to 
run for 3.56. (This is of course, all completely separate from 
the 1992 re-release and remix). Can anyone confirm this, or are 
my timings off?!

 Finally: this darned "radio mix" for "Stay". The version of it 
on the re-released HY album (828375-1/2/4) runs a few seconds 
shorter than the original album mix (828266-1/2/4/5), but that's 
the only difference I can pick up.  Any ideas as to how to tell 
apart the album mixes from the "radio mix"?

 I haven't heard back from Paul Oakenfold yet....but I guess we 
don't need him anymore, now we've got the Fan Club! Anyone care 
to guess what the new single could be called??!! How about "Out 
Of My Life", referring to the absence of Marcy??!! ;-)

 Please send any guesses or discog. info to me.

 Mike.

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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 22:54:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: binkyq@interport.net (Peter Eatroff/Jeff Bankoff)
Subject: Re: SSML-6, the Stay Video!

Hi All!
 It seems that in everyone's analysis of the "Stay" video, the 
fact that the boy is dying seem irrelevant. He's hooked up to a 
respirator and a little heart bleep machine.  Siobhan is "Death" 
or (Hecate from mythology) coming out of that famous bright white 
light (the one from all temporary death experiences) to take him, 
and Marcy is his lover trying to nurse him through his illness. 
Love fights death (tug tug tug); love triumphs over death(hug hug 
hug). Death smiles because she is the inevitable winner anyway.
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:58:34 -0700
From: arizona@arizona.seanet.com (dominic arizona bonuccelli)
Subject: ....SSML....

 My first experience with Shakespear's Sister was one summer I 
was staying in Washington. Siobhan's sardonic face had been 
taunting me from the Sacred Heart CD cover for eons as I passed 
her in the record store aisle. I knew nothing about Shakespear's 
Sister or Siobhan Fahey and scant info about Bananarama. But I 
made an impulse buy and was floored how good it was.

 Then, in a Psychic Friends Network twist of fate, Hormonally 
Yours came out the next month. And the Stay video began playing 
neverendingly on MTV and VH1. I was suddenly inundated in a sea 
of Siobhan Fahey, and I wasn't complaining. She is a spicy 
temptress.

 I saw SS play on their Hormonally Yours tour at the Roxy in LA. 
It was outstanding. I was about 3 feet from the stage, standing 
room only. Siobhan was magical. Oh yeah, Marcella was good too.

 And I have to agree with Sarah's "Stay" interpretation. Marcella 
is definitely mortal and earthbound, while Siobhan bides her time 
as a female Death Incarnate. And a sassy one at that.

<<< a r i z o n a >>>
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:54:11 -0500 (EST)
From: catwoman from the moon 
Subject: Re: BML 13/4/96

 did someone before mention that siobhan on "top of the pops" was 
merely holding a guitar and not playing in an attempt to lend 
authenticity to her act? i watched it last night and she does 
play at the end for a minute (after her "you'd better hope and 
pray..." part) and i honestly enjoy her performance whether or 
not she is instrumentally inclined.
 -jennifer
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:58:54 -0500 (EST)
From: catwoman from the moon 
Subject: Re: shakespear's sister

i noticed a song by dave stewart, "chelsea lovers," in which he 
writes: "she felt like a loser on top of the pops..." it made me 
think of bananarama doing "i heard a rumour."

and in an interview marcella said it was _her_ husband (not dave 
stewart) who had the idea for stay based on "catwomen from the 
moon."

--jennifer
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:24:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Janine E. Harris" 
Subject: Re: not THAT siobhan!

 Ooops! Somebody wrote that Siobhan is mentioned on Boy George's 
book "Take It Like a Man".  I just finished reading it for a 
second time and the only Siobhan he writes about is his younger 
sister. He does mention having dinner with George Michael and 
Keren and Sarah from Bananarama, though. other popstars mentioned 
in the book include Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Pete Burns and 
of course, Marilyn.
 Marc We shine for liberty, life, and the pursuit of pleasure...
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:37:55 -0500 (EST)
From: catwoman from the moon 
Subject: Re: not THAT siobhan!

i think she's included when he mentions bananarama as a group.  
and boy george used to live with siobhan's younger sister, niahm 
(sp?).  i'll send page numbers later...
--jennifer

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Quote of the issue:

Arizona: "...SIOBHAN...IS A SPICY TEMPTRESS..."

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