Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 12:30:38 -0800 
            From: Brant Dewdrops
            (nelson@EGGNEB.ASTRO.UCLA.EDU) 
            Subject: Re: Shelleyan Orphan


      Helleborine WAS released on CD in both the UK
      (rough trade) and the US (Columbia) with
      different track orders between them, and a different
      version of "Anatomy Of Love" on each. There are other
      very subtle differences which I haven't fully documented yet.

      As I seem to end up reporting every 6 months or so,
      the US/UK versions of Century Flower were similarly
      different with two different versions of
      "Between Two Waves", but the same track order. Also
      the UK vinyl plays at 45 rpm, but I seem to remember
      the speed being ever so slightly off.

      As for EPs, I know of the following:
      Cavalry Of Cloud 12"
      Anatomy of Love 12" (I need this one. Anyone, anyone?)
      Shatter 12"

      All of these have non-album tracks. I don't know about
      any 7" or CD-EP releases. "Dead Cat" was supposedly the
      single from Humroot, but I don't know if it was ever
      released as such. There is a pre-release tape of Humroot
      with a very subtly different version of "Dead Cat" which
      was remixed for the album.

      Shatter
      Dead Cat
      maybe some others? (anyone? feel free to chime in at any time)

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            Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 18:07:06 -0800 
            From: Brant Dewdrops
            (nelson@EGGNEB.ASTRO.UCLA.EDU) 
            Subject: a Shelleyan error


      I my post, everywhere I mentioned the song "Dead Cat"
      I meant to say "Burst". That was the single/video/
      remixed song on Humroot.

      That's what I get for doing this all from memory...

      The video for Shatter is the "Ophilia" one. It's a truly wonderful
      video! From our interview:

      submerged in a very, very cold lake, and you have a wet suit on underneath your
      dress which is really uncomfortable anyway,
      and you have to put your head out of
      the water, supporting it with your neck muscles so that you can
      hear the backing
      track to sing to- I mean I was in a terrible state at the end of that; they had
      to get me whiskey and everything 'cause my teeth were chattering! It was good
      fun, I mean it's like being tortured for a few hours, but it was good fun as
      well.
      they've got lots of
      lakes and everything. I think the director just had a very...
       he was obsessed with Ophilia, that painting... do you know the painting?
      That's really what he wanted to conjure up. I was a bit frustrated because
      we'd been typed "pre-Raphaelite" blah, blah, blah., ever since we began, and at
      the end of the day we ended up doing a Pre-Raphaelite video! [laughs] It was
      really funny, they gave me this sort of antique dress, and I really didn't like
      it, 'cause it came right up to the top of my neck and it was really
      uncomfortable to wear, but as soon as I went into this lake, I was covered in
      sludge and slime. I mean you probably can't see it in the video, but when I got
      out of that lake, it looked like I had been collecting rubbish for a couple of
      weeks. It was really funny! [laughs] ...not quite what they wanted, you know.

      Some other tracks to look for:

      "Ice" on the Columbia promo-only comp New Edge Music
      "Suffer Dog" on The Liberator - Artists For Animals
      some cover song on a tribute album, Lloyd Cole or Lou Reed,
         or someone (anyone?)
      Caroline's on the Spiritualized song "The Slide Song"
         on Pure Phase

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    Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 03:20:23 -0500 
    From: "J. Orr" (TheJorr@AOL.COM) 
    Subject: Re: Shelleyan Orphan


---from Brant Nelson:

> Ah, the late Shelleyan Orphan...with three albums, three
> EPs, and a few scattered songs all told. I don't know what
> either of them is up to now.

Three EPs?  Wow, I'd never heard of these...could someone provide titles and
tracklistings for them?  And approximate times of release would be nice to
know, as well.  The only output of theirs I was aware of were the three
albums, and a song called "Ice" that they recorded for a Columbia Xmas
compilation a few years ago.

I don't know anything about Jemaur Tayle's current whereabouts or activities,
but I read in some 'zine a while back that Caroline Crawley plus the Cure's
old rhythm section (including the drummer - Boris Williams? - who was her
boyfriend at the time) played 13YI as Ether.  There was talk of a 4AD release
from the band, but I've not heard a thing since then.  I believe she last
appeared singing backup on Spiritualized's "The Slide Song" (from
_Pure_Phase_).

---Jeremy  Here in the flesh,
                            piggy smack.