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Environment-Brazil: Greenpeace Lends Its Name to 500 Products
Inter Press Service
28-SEP-98
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Sep. 27) IPS - Greenpeace has begun lending its name to
more
than 500 products in Brazil, providing them with a green-friendly stamp
of
approval as part of a new front in environmental activism and
fund-raising.
Food produced without toxic agro-chemicals, biodegradable credit cards,
shoes
and other goods manufactured with "vegetable leather" and chlorine-free
paper
are just some of the products promoted by the international
environmental
watchdog in Brazil.
Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, Todaba identifies, develops,
licenses and deals with the marketing aspect of products that meet the
requirements for carrying the Greenpeace label.
Also expected to appear soon on the market is a Greenpeace album of
songs
performed by famous singers known for their environmental activism, such
as
Brazil's Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento and the Irish band U2.
Greenpeace Space, a store that opened last month in Sao Paulo with more
than
500 green-friendly products, has also emerged from the environmental
organization's association with Todaba. The store sells products ranging
from
food to clothing, crafts and other "100 percent ecological" goods. Next
year,
after the experience has been fully assessed, more stores will start
opening
through a franchising agreement, according to Menasce.
Thanks to growing demand, especially in markets already saturated with
goods,
the business of green-friendly products is booming, he remarked.
Menasche explained that Todaba, which has been working with ecological
products for 10 years, also promotes the development of new products
through
its "participatory consultancy" which orients all aspects of
green-friendly
production and marketing "from A to Z."
Todaba's experience with Greenpeace Brazil has caught the attention of
other
countries, and discussion are already in progress with Argentina, Chile,
Germany and the Netherlands, he commented.
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>From Katrina Daniels:
A friend of mine, who's a big Sunny Day Real Estate fan sent me
this link. It's the band singing "Running to Stand Still."
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/buckwildrecordings/sdre.html
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>From another reader:
This morning, KROQ's morning show of Kevin&Bean had a
special live performance with Garbage. KROQ does this sort
of thing every once in a while, and the tickets to attend are
always free, but sometimes hard to win. Today I was one
of only 30 people to attend Garbage's performance at a tiny
bar in Santa Monica. (enough background info??)
After Garbage finished performing and taking questions
from the fans, they were kind enough to sign anything and
everything we put in front of them. As I had a couple items
signed, I asked Butch about his experience with U2,
specifically about his Staring At The Sun remixes. He said
that since he was "only the remixer", he didn't get to spend
much time actually with the band, but he did have extensive
phone conversations with "everyone" involved with U2 and
described them as "all invovled were high class -everyone."
I also asked about possibilities of future U2 invovlement,
to which he replied, "I'd hope so, but we'll see. We [Garbage]
have been very busy, and we'll be touring for a while. I'd like
to work with them again though."
A note from a reader:
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Jeremy, the singer of Sunny Day, often states that U2 is one
of his favorite bands. "Pillars" from their new is
reminiscent "Twilight" from the Boy album.
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~bpmccal/epic.html
Oh yeah - Jeremy prefers CD to vinyl but he likes vinyl for
their collectible value. He was demonstrating spatially the
size of his U2 collection (pretty damn big, I might add)...
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Dutch Television's Top 10 U2 Songs(as voted by viewers):
10. I still haven't found what I'm looking for
9. Please
8. Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me
7. Where the streets have no name
6. The unforgettable fire
5. New Year's Day
4. Pride (In the name of love)
3. With or without you
2. One
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
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Condensed from The Washington Post:
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE "How It
Feels To Be Something On" Sub Pop
GLORITONE "Cup Runneth Over" Kneeling Elephant;
MK ULTRA "MK Ultra" MK Ultra
By Mark Jenkins
In 1994, on the verge of its second album, Sunny Day Real
Estate split up. The reported difficulty was the other band
members' discomfort with the born-again sentiments of
singer-songwriter Jeremy Enigk, then a recent convert to
evangelical Christianity. Enigk proceeded to make a solo
album that was not noticeably Christian, while drummer
William Goldsmith and bassist Nate Mendel joined Foo
Fighters. Now most of the old lineup (not including Mendel)
has regrouped to make "How It Feels to Be Something On,"
an album of typically cryptic art-rockers.
Thanks to Enigk's epic melodies and yearning falsetto, the
Seattle quartet can sound like a post-grunge marriage of U2
and Bon Jovi. Despite his soaring notes and dramatically
repeated phrases, however, Sunny Day Real Estate seldom
approaches the bombast of such predecessors. It does
feature surging passages, but such tracks as "Roses in
Water" and "Guitar and Video Games" are more stately than
theatrical. Even when the sound is swelled by a string
section, the songs have a concision and shapeliness that
makes them as much punk as pomp.
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More RV interviews on the Dublin video shoot of "The Sweetest
Thing" can be found at,
http://indigo.ie/~azaidan/video2.html
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Condensed from The Irish Times:
We continue the time travel game, and find
ourselves in Berlin during the early 1970s, then
back in New York during the late 1970s, "because
that's when it was really cool". Strangely, Rory
would give London during the punk exposion a wide
berth. "I'd wait and catch The Sex Pistols in Texas
and watch them getting battered by cowboys. I love
the Pistols, but back then I'd have thought, they're
just the f***ing New York Dolls with a different
haircut."
Our last stop is Tangiers in the 1980s, where,
bloated and blotto on prescription drugs, we'd hang
out with William Burroughs. Then it's back to the
real world, the south Dublin suburb of Shankill to be
precise, where O'Keefe formed his first band at the
tender age of 16. Middle-class suburbs, reckons
O'Keefe, are where all the great rock 'n' roll bands
are spawned, and no-one, not even U2, can hide
their middle-class origins behind the nearest handy
tower block.
(Prarit's note: The entire article on the Ultra Montanes
can be found at,
http://www.irish-times.com/irish%2Dtimes/paper/1998/0926/fea12.html )
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(Prarit's note: The article, IMHO, deals with piracy and NOT
bootlegging of concerts...)
>From The Irish Times:
Pirates 'threatening' record industry
By Michael Foley, Media Correspondent
There will be no Irish record industry in seven years if producers of
pirate tapes and CDs have their way, the chairman of the Irish
Recorded Music Association, Mr Paul Keogh, says.
Mr Keogh, who is managing director of Polygram Ireland, was
speaking at the launch of a video aimed at young garda trainees in the
hope of raising awareness of a problem Mr Keogh says costs the
Irish economy at least �3 million a year.
The video includes messages of support from Ronan Keating,
Kerri-Ann and Mary Black and provides details of new legislation
implemented in July which includes fines of up to �100,000 and
imprisonment of up to five years. It takes garda� through the law
and explains how to spot a pirate CD or cassette.
Because Ireland had not implemented a number of Europe-wide
copyright provisions, Mr Keogh said, the State would increasingly
be seen as a back door into Europe. It was not Madonna or U2 who
suffered, but smaller Irish artists, with Dustin the Turkey the
most pirated product in the State.
Mr Keogh said major plants in Bulgaria and China could flood the
small Irish market, undermining the earnings and careers of Irish
artists. Bulgaria is the No 1 offender in Europe, where piracy is
linked to organised crime, but counterfeit material is also
produced in Ireland.
In the past eight months, more than 52,000 pirate tapes and 3,000
CDs have been recovered with a retail value of about �500,000.
"It is up to ourselves and everybody associated with the Irish
music industry to ensure that the legal authorities are given all
the assistance they require to stifle this forgotten crime," Mr
Keogh said.
The Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and
Employment, Mr Tom Kitt, said the war against copyright piracy
depended largely on the self-help measures of rights owners. ail
summer recess increased the fines and penalties for piracy.
A substantial Copyright Bill, possibly the largest and most
complex piece of legislation in the history of the State, was now
in draft form. Mr Kitt said he would welcome ideas from interested
parties.
The Bill, which deals with all aspects of intellectual property and
rights ownership, seeks to protect rights owners from all forms of
piracy, encompassing the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Mr Kitt said Ireland was proud of its software industry and the
achievements of Irish artists, and piracy was to be taken seriously.
Det Supt Patrick Brehony, head of the Garda counterfeiting
section, said people must get away from the perception that
counterfeiting was a harmless crime.
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Fallen From The Tree
Got a copy of U2's 1987 classic The Joshua Tree? It turns out you still
haven't found what you're looking for, if what you're looking for is the
complete album. Believe it or not, your copy is actually one song short:
Would-be Tree track "Sweetest Thing" was ditched at the last minute
because
the band just could'nt finish it in time. But more than 10 years later,
Bono
and the boys have rescued "Thing" from obscurity (a rough, unfinished
version
did appear briefly as a B side), revamping it for a greatest-hits
collection
due out Nov. 3. "They were really excited," says longtime U2 producer
Steve
Lillywhite, who spent five days in the studio with the band rerecording
vocal
and guitar parts. "Me and them getting together brought everyone back to
the
early days." The resulting return to their roots is a sweet thing,
indeed: a
sunny, familiar-sounding pop song. "It's U2 how we all love them," says
Lillywhite. "It has that sort of 80's charm to it, and we didn't want to
take
too much away from what it was."
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Scans for the promo single are available at:
http://www.mindspring.com/~crank/cd.jpg
http://www.mindspring.com/~crank/sweet.jpg
The credits in the Sweetest Thing 1-track promo CD are:
Sweetest Thing 3:00
Produced by: Steve Lillywhite with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno
Recorded by: Joe O'Herlihy and Pat McCarthy
Additional recording and mixing by: Steve Harris
String Arranger: Daragh O'Toole
Strings: Una O'Kane, Nicola Cleary, Angus O'Connor, Nicholas Milne
Special thanks to Ali Baba
Written by U2 and published by PolyGram International Music B.V.
except Blue Mountain Music (UK), Mother Music (IRL), Taiyo Music
Inc. (Japan)
Photography by: Ian Finlay
Design by: ABA (Dublin)
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