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Making
The Old New Again
Released
onto the European market was a new Icehouse single. "Hey Little Girl
’97" has done very well throughout Europe, with reports of it being
played in the dance clubs and selling very well in the shops. It was
featured as "single of the week" in a Melbourne music mag. The single
was even heard within the vicinity of the United States (gasp!) and
found in local record stores. Released by Edel/Control Company (Edel
0042405CON), it features five different versions of "Hey Little Girl."
The versions are titled as follows:
Radio Edit
Future House Single
X/tended Edit
DJ Darling vs. DJ Sören
Original Version
The
picture sleeve of this single
is from a photo session held back in 1994. Those with sharp eyes will
note that the lovely model on the right of the photo is none other than
Tonia Davies! The picture below is also from that same photo shoot.
Another release for Icehouse fans to get their hands on is a new compilation
from Massive Records. Dubbed No Promises, this new collection
was created for the European market as well. The success of its predecessor,
Love In Motion, had the executives in Europe clamoring for another
batch of songs from Icehouse’s stellar past! The tracks featured are:
Taking The Town
No Promises
This Time
Dusty Pages
On My Mind
The Mountain
Paradise
Angel Street
Spanish Gold
Lucky Me
Fatman
Nothing To Do
Avid
dissectors of Icehouse will notice subtle differences in most of the
tracks in this collection - we’ll let you find them for yourselves.
Great
Southern Land is a re-release that Massive has just made available.
Surprisingly, many fans out there wanted this to be made available again
despite the various other compilations. Massive does not have any plans
at this moment to re-release the Great Southern Land video compilation.
The CD has been released for a limited time and most likely will be
made unavailable again in June 1998.
We are keeping a phone line open to Massive concerning any further details
pertaining to a Best Of... video compilation. We have also learned
that there is an idea floating around to create an Icehouse boxed set.
We will post that news here as more details come to light.
Another Icehouse related project that finally found its way into Iva’s
hands was the Real Wild Child CD-ROM. It was officially released
before Christmas in a limited quantity.
There
Is Love Inside The Icehouse
Icehouse
memorabilia was recently featured at a charity auction, with the proceeds
from the bids going to the Pathfinder Organization. Iva was pleased
to help out and to hear that his contributions raised a nice piece of
change for the event! Contributed to the auction were a poster from
Berlin, coupled with the hat worn in the picture! The lucky person
taking this haberdashing prize home bid almost AUS$1,000 for the pair!
Another lucky bidder forked over pretty close to AUS$500 and took home
the entire Icehouse CD catalogue! Congratulations to all who were involved
with this worthy cause!
From
The Offices Of...
The Icehouse
has a new inmate... er... guest! Big Bite Management is pleased to announce
a new member of the team! Veronica Ozolins will be the person in charge
of promotion and marketing for Iva Davies. Veronica’s past experience
includes working for two Australian record companies, The Massive Recording
Company and Shock Records. Welcome inside, Veronica! Oh, and bring a
heater...
EMI are no longer the distributors for Massive Records. The new company
chosen for the task of flinging Massive CDs to the world is Warner Bros.
Just
For Fun
Iva attended the
Radiohead concert in Sydney. He enjoyed the show and was impressed that
they didn’t "do the full Bon Jovi." The staging and lighting were minimal
and Iva felt that made the concert-goer focus on listening to the music.
Iva was one of the persons attending the recent Turramurra anniversary
ball! He was there with Tonia, Paul Wheeler, David Chapman, and Glenn
Krawczyk! Tim Farris of INXS was also there and gave Iva a big hug as
they passed by each other! Looking back on how all of these fellows
met at this music shop led Iva to reminisce about his early days in
rock. He mentioned being in a band called Tamasha for a short time.
He said the guitarist of the band, Damien, was brilliant. Michael Hoste
was also part of this band and went with Iva when he departed the band.
The band was a "prog-rock" band filled with skillful musicians. Iva
said Damien was then and still is a guitar teacher. There were no official
releases for this band.
Iva has lent his oboe playing talents to David Chapman and Steve Bull
(occasional bass player for Icehouse). Steve might be gearing up to
put out his own solo album.
Through The Walls
Many of us still have Big Wheel and The Berlin Tapes echoing
in our ears. The question arises, what will Iva take from these previous
works to use as components for the next? He says, "It’s all there. It’s
not The Berlin Tapes. It won’t be a coffee table album. So far,
it’s pretty meaty. They are fairly confronting songs." He has several
in the works, which have been heard by some of the people in the inner
circle of Iva’s realm. The reports are that the songs are good... very
good. Iva describes the songs as "rock songs with a hint of modern programming
in them."
Iva isn’t quite sure who will be producing the new album at this point
in time. As for who will be in the "band" he says he doesn’t really know.
It all depends on what the music demands and he stated that it had always
been like that.
When asked about the songs he had written so far, he said he’s "happy
with some of it. I would just like four times the amount and twice as
good." He has also caused a few groans (including some from us with this
next statement... we can hear you all doing the same thing as you read
this...) while working on the new songs. He said, "Problem is I’ve thrown
out about 30 things. Everybody keeps going, ‘Oh, bring the 30 things over.’
I’m going, ‘Nope. They’re thrown out. I don’t like them. We won’t be listening
to those.’"
We also asked if he would be seeking a record deal or would be content
with exporting under the DIVA name. He explained that they could do this
in many different ways, from getting a record deal in the traditional
sense to shipping Icehouse CDs out to warehouses where they wait for orders
to come in. The pros and cons of these various formulas will have to be
weighed by Iva and his management team to come up with the best one that
will bring them into a "new chapter" in the band’s history.
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