Barbara Manning - In New Zealand

Released the Week of October 5th, 1998
BARBARA MANNING	In New Zealand LP/CD
For several weeks in early 1997, The Fierce Blonde and Her Plucked String Instrument toured a small, obscure island nation in the South Pacific, mesmerizing the locals with her rapturous musical numbers. Little of the modern world penetrates the vast solitude in which the small, obscure island nation dwells; the stir created by Girly-Girl's performances were, as one can imagine, formidable. Many were the acolytes who crawled from hither and yon just for the opportunity to listen to and accompany her cherubic voice singing her sometimes dark tunes. Along with Joey Burns and John Convertino, known on the mainland as Calexico, Auntie Babs collaborated with some of the small, obscure island nation's most promising protсэ, among them David Kilgour of The Clean, Robert Scott of the Bats, David Mitchell of the 3Ds, Denise Roughan of the 3Ds and Siltbreeze recording artists the Renderers, Communion licensing artist Chris Knox of Tall Dwarfs, and Graeme Downes of the Verlaines. The fruits of this labor are unlike anything with which	Hello-Berbra has yet been involved-- torchy and brooding, gentle and involving, intimate and distant. Tales of fatalistic love, macabre artifacts, noisome baked goods, and loss of virtue. Dig her mood. As a solo artist and as a member of SF Seals, World of Pooh, and 28th Day, Auntie Babs has toured this great land of ours many times and will do so again with the Renderers in October. She has beat the savage Europeans into submission repeatedly and yet their cravings for more do not subside. She has adorned the cap of NYC corporation Matador Records with a string of full length albums with the SF Seals. Feared, respected and beloved by as many as she has influenced, The Fierce Blonde has appeared on albums released by countless labels, from the cream of indie imprimaturs to various carpetbagging dregs. It would indeed be a sad and embarrassing day for you were this new recording to be excluded from the august modules of your home entertainment system.
DISCOGRAPHY Solo Lately I Keep Scissors LP (Heyday) 1988 "Don't Let It Bring You Down"/"Haze Is Free" 7" (Forced Exposure) 1990 One Perfect Green Blanket LP (Normal) 1992 One Perfect Green Blanket CD (incl. all Scisssors tracks) (Heyday) 1992 "B4 We Go Under"/"Love You 1000 Ways" 7" (Teenbeat) 1993 "Hummingbird"/"Slip Into the Ocean" 7" (Ball Peen) 1993 Sings With The Original Artists CD (w/ Stuart Moxham) (Feel Good All Over) 1995 1212 2xLP/CD (Matador) 1997 In New Zealand LP/CD (the Communion label) 1999 with the Go-Luckys Homeless Is Where The Heart Is LP/CD (Naive) 1999 SF Seals "Nowherica"/"Being Cheated" 7" (Sub Pop) 1993 Baseball Trilogy 7"/CD (Matador) 1993 Now Here LP/CD (Matador) 1994 "Still?"/"Don't Underestimate Me" 7" (Matador) 1994 Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows LP/CD (Matador) 1995 "Ipecac"/"How Did You Know?" 7" (Matador) 1995 World of Pooh Land of Thirst LP (Nuf Sed) 1989 "GHM"/"Someone Wants You Dead" 7" (K) 1990 A Trip to Your Tonsils 7" (Nufsed) 1993 28th Day s/t LP (Bring Out Your Dead/Enigma) 1985 Glands of External Secretion Demonstrate Congo Bob's Epic Saliva Torture 7" (Starlight FC) 1992 February 2, 1992 7" (Majora) 1992 Northern Exposure Will Be Right Back LP/CD (Starlight FC) 1995 Who's Who in Hospitalization CD (w/ Prick Decay) (Starlight FC) 1997 s/t 2xCD (w/ The Double U) (VHF) 1997 Miscellaneous Appearances "I Can Hear Music," "I Want to Be With You," "Acupuncture," and "Slow Down" on I Can Hear Music ltd. ed. bonus CD (w/ Dump) (Brinkman) 1994 "San Diego Zoo" on Wasp's Nest CD (w/ the 6ths) (London) 1995 Athens by Night CD (w/ JC Hopkins) (Shell) 1997 "Locked in Blue" on David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights CD (Flying Nun) 1998 Compilation Appearances "Dead Sinner" on Restless Variations LP (w/ 28th Day) (Restless) 1985 "On The Wrong Side" and"Mr. Coffee-Nerves" on Insight 2xLP (w/ World of Pooh) (Wiring Dept.) 1987 "Someone Wants You Dead" on Bob #37 flexi (Bob Magazine) 1988 "Druscilla Penny" on Timeless Positive Infinity 7" (w/ World of Pooh) (Bananafish) 1989 "Don't Rewind" on The Acoustic Music Project CD (solo) (Alias) 1989 "Dominance and Submission" on Not All That Terrifies Harms 7" (w/ World of Pooh) (Nuf Sed/Ajax) 1992 "Joed Out" on No Alternative CD (w/ SF Seals) (Arista) 1993 "Strip Club" on Step, Step, Steppin' on Satan's Foot CD (w/ World of Pooh) (Bananafish) 1994 "Anniversary Song" on A Far Cry CD (w/ Behr, Fox & Manning) (C/Z) 1994 "Back Again" on Inside Dave's Garage Volume 5 7" (w/ SF Seals) (Radiopaque) 1994 "First Line (Seven the Row)" on Hausmusik Festplatte LP/CD (solo) (Hausmusik) 1996 "A Total Plate. . ." on Breaking the Plastic Hymen 4x7" (w/ Glands) (Fisheye) 1996 "George's Theme (quite chipper)" and "Isn't Lonely Lovely" on Fame Whore Soundtrack CD (solo) (New York City Records) 1996 "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio" on The Diamond Cuts, Volume 1 CD (w/ SF Seals) (Hungry for Music) 1997 "Dock Ellis" on The Diamond Cuts, Volume 2 CD (w/ SF Seals) (Hungry for Music) 1998 "Tunas Vs. Ponies" on Harmony of the Sponges CD (w/ Glands) (Gym Teacher) 1998 "Whatever I Do Is Right/Wrong" on God Save The Clean CD (w/ Calexico) (Flying Nun) 1998 "How Did You Know?" on A Day at the Beach CD (w/ SF Seals) (Koch) 1998 "H-A-T-R-E-D" on Kenui Myhouse CD (w/ Glands) (Hell's Half Halo) 1998 "Foghat" on 100 Locked Grooves LP (w/Glands) (RRRecords) 1998 "Supper's on the Phone" on MxVxSxEx 7" (w/ Glands) (Cock Displacement) tba

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