From:idm-owner@techno.Stanford.EDU
From: MCEWENRK@vms1.academic-computing-service.birmingham.ac.uk
Subject: FSOL
This is a news report from todays NME (MAY 18) ;
FSOL introduced a revolutionary new performance medium on Saturday night, when
they played a set at their North London studio that was sent via modem (in
digital form along a phone line), to be broadcast on Pete Tong`s Essential Mix
show on Radio 1.
A telephone number was also given over the air, allowing people to watch video
graphics on their home computer system at the same time as the duo performed on
the show. Internet, the growing network of computer users linked through
telephone lines and modems, has over a million new users every month.
This week FSOL embark on ther first ever `virtual tour` when they
give similar performances on local radio stations around the country beginning
with Sunderlamd Wear FM (Thursday, May 19), Bristol Galaxy FM (21), Stoke on
Trent BBC Stoke (22), Radio Avalon (25), Manchester Piccadilly Radio (28) and
BBC Radio Wales (June 7), all from their studio base.
The band have withdrawn their single collaboration with Cocteau Twins singer
Liz Fraser, but their new album `Lifeforms` is released through Virgin on
May 23. The LP is accompanied by a film of the same name featuring stunning
computer visuals, which will be released on video on June 16.
Well, i wonder why they`ve withdrawn the single and was the nme tuned in on
saturday or what?
rob