My Dear Fellow Human Beans I would like to inform you of my impending travel on aeroplanes, buses, shuttles, cars, etc to a venue near you. My new album, Koala Motel, is finished and being shipped as we speak. Release date in the UK and Australia is September 4th on the Cooking Vinyl/Shock label. Special guests include Lucinda Williams, Nancy Wilson, Jim Lauderdale and John Doe. You can hear a new song off the album at http://www.myspace.com/annemccue Please tell your mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, aunties, uncles, grandparents, cousins, distant relatives,etc. I will be playing shows in the U.S.A., U.K., Germany and Australia in the next few months.

Here are (some of) the dates we have so far:

Sept. 6  The Borderline, Soho, London,

Sept. 7    St. Bonaventure, Bristol,

Sept.8   Glee Club , Birmingham,

Sept. 9  The Granary , Buckingham,

Sept.10   The Maze , Nottingham,

Sept.11 King Tuts, Glasgow

Sept.13 Gruner Jager, Hamburg

Sept.14 Mudd Club, Berlin

Hope you like the new album and hope to see you at one of the shows! Cheers Anne McCue Of The McCue Clan

http://www.annemccue.com http://www.myspace.com/annemccue

New album ‘Koala Motel’ comes out in UK/Australia (Cooking Vinyl) on Sept. 4th and on Messenger Records in U.S.A. on September 19th.

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Janet Robin

Greetin’s… Well ’tis that time again. I am on a pretty fab bill with singer/songwriter Alice Peacock at the lovely Galaxy Theater (in Santa Ana). I’ll be playing a set with my guitar player Rick, so I hope you can make it out before the summer ends! The Galaxy is a GREAT theater with GREAT sound and they serve dinner there, so make reservations. Tickets are $10 and available directly through me. It’s best to buy from me because you get one FREE ticket for each one you buy. So, mail-order through me and we’ll leave the tickets for you at the door.

Janet Robin(in duo form) The Galaxy Theater Thursday, September 7, 8pm

3503 S Harbor Blvd in Santa Ana, CA Telephone: (714) 957-0600 http://www.galaxytheatre.com/

Ticket info: Mail order your tickets. $10 per ticket. One free ticket per each ticket bought. Send your cash or checks to: Janet Robin PO Box 351715 Los Angeles, CA. 90035

Get ‘em in quick! This will be a fun night, (and only two days before my birthday!)

cheers, janet

http://www.janetrobin.com also at http://www.myspace.com/janetrobinmusic

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City Fritter  SEPTEMBER 9

11AM - that’s AM at The Community House - 1440 Topanga Canyon Blvd. 90290 for The Topanga Community Club Picnic FREE! Lots of great music, food, and games! Fun for the whole family, Come enjoy our very own beautiful, local park and gathering place- WE OPEN THE SHOW, so get up early, come on up, and hang out all day! Later there’s Old Bull and 29 Mules… Square dancing too! You KNOW we’ll be square dancin’… www.topangacommunityclub.org

Really hope to see all of you very soon, We’ll have a few more CD release parties in the coming weeks, and a brand new website is in the works, So stay tuned and stay beautiful! Peace! Jewels and Johnny http://www.cityfritter.com

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Michael Soli – Lost Wages’ Music’s prez

WE’LL SEE YOU AT “UNPLUGGED” THIS THURSDAY!! Michael Soli

http://www.michaelsoli.com SUPPORT ORIGINAL MUSIC, http://www.michaelsoli.com

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Sept 8th Spindrift perform some oldies and some soundtrack tunes with  the original members at MOJO 13, a mammoth gig w/ the like of the Asteroid #4  and The Situation as well. Wilmington, DE

Sept. 9th 7:30pm Test Screening “The Legend of God’s Gun” at Newark  Cinema Center DE, a Q&A acoustic performance and poster signing will precede this  event

Sept 9th Homecoming gig at The East End Cafe Newark, DE in conjunction with the Newark Film & Music Festival performing with THE ELK-TONES

Sun Sept 10th PIANO’s in NYC featuring original members w/ The Vandelles

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Marsh Mellow Stone Band will be at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano at 8PM this Saturday September 9th and then at DiPiazza’s in Long Beach on Friday September 22nd from 7-9 PM.

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Judy’s jam-SECOND SATURDAY in the month.  Still going on.  Wasn’t just a summer thing.  heard people want to jam; why not at my place?  Too far out?  Probably!  Hey, I’d come in to anybody’s place if I got invited to jam.  IF I had transportation….which I don’t right now.  Can’t get anywhere….Oh well.

Email JudyVanRuggles@aol.com JudyVanRuggles@aol.com for info/times

Thanks, Judy

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A DIFFERENT KIND OF MUSIC - EXTREMELY WORTHWHILE EVENTS

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Art Show: Children’s book author/illustrator and professional musician, Mark Griffin will present  eleven highly colorful paintings, copies of his children’s books, and 3 CDs to the public on Thursday, September 7, 2006 between the hours of 4:00 PM and 5:30 at the Hi-Desert Water District Building 55439 29 Palms Hwy Yucca Valley, CA 92284 Tel 760.365.8333

Everyone is invited. No charge. The paintings will be on display until the end of September. Please check out his website at: www.kidsbooksfree.com.

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HOTEL VIRGINIA TO BE PRESENTED AT GROVES CABIN THEATRE

Written by Jack Fitzgerald, a Desert Theatre League 2005-2006 award nominee for BEST PRODUCTION of his play Tijuana Lady. Extremely Timely Play Tells the Dramatic Story of Six American Tourists Taken Hostage by Terrorists

Hotel Virginia Website: http://tinyurl.com/nlksf

Groves Cabin Theatre Website: http://www.grovescabintheatre.org/index.htm

(details in ‘announcements’)

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JAMS Announcements-

NOW POSTED AS AN ATTACHMENT FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE

(And mine)

*note, since our attachments editor, Al, doesn’t stay up as late as I do, we will have to cut off announcements for the week at noon on Tuesday.

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Orwell quotes seem particularly appropriate in these times—from Sam

“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” — George Orwell

“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell

“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.” — George Orwell

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” — George Orwell

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell; English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950

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more quotes:

“Half a truth is often a great lie.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly…it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” — Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary.” — George Orwell in the book 1984

“Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.” — Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and social philosopher, 1900-1980

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“It’s no disgrace not to be able to run a country nowadays, but it is a
disgrace to keep on trying when you know you can’t.”
– Will Rogers