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RADIO 1 SOUND CITY OXFORD '97
Date: 28 Oct 1997
Location: Helena Kennedy Student Centre, Brookes University Students' Union, Oxford
Retail Price: £8
Publisher: Radio 1 Sound City
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Setlist:
- Inbetweener
- Romeo Me
- Firecracker
- What Do I Do Now?
- Superclean
- Lie Detector
- She's a Good Girl
- Traffic Accident
- Nice Guy Eddie
- Please Please Please
- Sale of the Century
- Rollercoaster
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Setlist
Sleeper - Oxford (28 Oct 97)
- Inbetweener
- Romeo Me
- Firecracker
- What Do I Do Now?
- Superclean
- Lie Detector
- She's a Good Girl
- Traffic Accident
- Nice Guy Eddie
- Please Please Please
- Sale of the Century
- Rollercoaster
Zoe Ball on guitar for "Inbetweener"
Image scanned by Phillip Homer. From Q Magazine.
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Zoe Ball, from Radio 1, plays "Inbetweener" on this set. The picture
of Louise and Zoe appears later in Q Magazine.
Other things worth mentioning is that Louise regretted not
dedicating "Traffic Accident" to the late Princess Diane. The
whole Princess Di/"Traffic Accident" song went on in 1998 as
well.
Also, thanks to Tim Warner and Ois Scarlett
February 13, 2002 |
Review of Sleeper at Oxford
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From
Fillerbunny,
via Inbetweener
Melody Maker or NME. I'm going to say Melody Maker.
Sorry, don't know date again.
SLEEPER/THE SUPERNATURALS/RADISH
BROOKES UNIVERSITY, OXFORD
Written by Ben Myers
Pic credit: Steve Hall
Pic caption: "Havin' a ball"
Transcribed by Fillerbunny
THERE she is. Batting her eyelids, smiling coyly as she wiggles her hips and
attempts to strike another chord. To her right wiggles Louise Wener... hang
on a minute, just what exactly is Zoe Ball doing onstage playing Sleeper's
opening song, "Inbetweener"?
Lovely girl that she is, this whole thing reeks of desperation and latent
opportunism. Why would Sleeper get the ultimate It Girl to play with them not
on a wacky encore number, but the opening song? Quite simply, because
there are 10 tabloid photographers down the front and they've only got a
couple of songs during which to snap away. Desperate measures for
desperate times then, Louise?
First though, young Texans RADISH kick off tonight's Sound City shebang with
a handful of sugary songs which have the trio pogoing like they've got
anteaters in their windcheaters. Or something. Whatever, they're far too
good and make it look far too easy for us limey scum. Next, THE
SUPERNATURALS, sounding like Blur and Bowie, Dodgy and The Jam, Lightning
Seeds and Queen. They also sound like a friend's band - no specific friend,
just a friendly, matey-type band. They're rinky-dink pop at its simplest and
most tedious.
SLEEPER, though. Oh, dear. Sexless, vacuous, flat, watery relics of '95. Safe
as houses. Dull, dull, dull. Tonight Sleeper don't so much as hint at
progression or even a change of direction, in fact, songs like "Fire Cracker"
and "Traffic Accident" sound so sub-New Wave and so innocently lost that
you almost feel sorry for the little lambs. Almost.
There's nothing to look at, celebrate or even dance to unless, of course, you
count keeping your neck rigid, your back slightly stooped and your hands
tucked by your side as a celebration of the joys of pop. Sleeper seem to be
resigned to playing in the shadows and here there's not a hint of the sun
showing its face. Choppy, half-finished songs like "Nice Guy Eddie" (It may
sound funny/But it wasn't supposed to") and "Statuesque" merely confirm my
suspicions Sleeper have been existing far too long on corny interviews and
hiccuppy, breathless choruses. Their music is utterly ineffectual and
unaffecting, as highlighted on their lazy third album, "Pleased To Meet You";
it's neither pop nor rock, dance nor vaguely interesting.
It's time for an overhaul or the knacker's yard beckons Sleeper. And no
number of leggy, giggling blondes are going to save them.
BEN MYERS

From Soundcity Live
SLEEPER / SUPERNATURALS / RADISH (Nov 97)
Brookes University
Just how much ridicule is she prepared
to take? Sleeper’s Louise Wener
providing the comedy element of
Sound City week, prancing around the
stage apparently convinced within
herself that she can sing, leering into
an audience of about ten people who
actually appreciate it and 990 whose
appreciation extends as far as the
subsidised alcohol.
Admittedly, Sleeper would have had
to have been amazing to raise the
mood of dead slumber Brookes had
slipped into; a result of punk brat
‘talents’ Radish: annoying and boring
in equal amounts, let’s quickly pass
on...
In between there were the
Supernaturals. What? No flowery
shirts? Really, boys, you could have
made a bit more effort. Oh hang on,
white polo necks. Yeah, that’ll do.
They’re flush with cheery pop as ever,
typified by hits ‘Lazy Lover’, ‘Day
Before Yesterday’s Man’ and the
like, although their over-confident
chirpiness is too much to take at the
best of times, never mind when faced
with this dispirited throng.
So, back to Sleeper, now performing
hits from three albums (the latest
being ‘Pleased to Meet You').
Louise’s charm and knee-bend
grooves not smothering the pain, and
equally the sound system, were
suffering from her limited vocal array.
Still, at least she remains as tasteful in
her comments as ever dedicating the
line ‘Don’t write, don’t call me, unless
you’re dying in a traffic accident’ to
Princess Diana. Ah, bless. And just
when you think the evening can’t get
any, errr.... better, Zoe Ball appears
on stage to play guitar on the Sleeper
classic ‘Inbetweener’ and I realise
I’ve run out of money for any more
subsidised, pain-killing beverages....
Freiny Miles
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