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Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Spoon to Dish It Out at the Cat's Cradle
By Michael Abernethy
Senior Writer
It’s unusual that you hear a rock band
crediting sleep for its success.
But Spoon, which hits the Cat’s
Cradle tonight, isn’t the usual rock band.
Sleep, says frontman Britt Daniel, fuels
Spoon’s most adventurous endeavors.
“Sometimes it seems like I get my
best ideas right when I’m about to fall
asleep," Daniel said. “I guess you sort of
let go of your conscious mind but you’re
still hearing that sort of creativity going."
But don’t let the off-kilter origins of
Spoon’s songs get you down. Concert
goers can look forward to rocked-up,
reworked versions of favorites like “Lines
In The Suit” and the sparse “Paper Tiger.”
“The idea is that we are a rock band,
and we just do our hits that are rock
band versions,” Daniel said. “We just try
to look at it like a rock band - we can’t
recreate everything. We just go in there
and play different versions of the songs.”
Daniel’s live aesthetic that “less is
more" contrasts with his approach to
recording albums. Given the detailed
production of Spoon’s last two albums,
2001’s Girls Can Tell and this year’s Kill
The Moonlight, it’s logical to conclude
that the band enters the studio with con
crete direction for its albums.
“We definitely go into the studio with
a game plan,” Daniel said. “We spend a
lot of time in there. But we also make an
effort to do it live and make it still sound
like it’s a band playing rather than a stu
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Much of the live feel Spoon lends its
albums comes from Daniel’s edgy vocal
performances.
Peppered with seemingly impromptu
shouts of “all right” and “c’mon,”
Daniel’s carefully crafted lyrics belie the
fact that these outbursts are also planned.
“I just think ‘c’mon’ is one of die great
est lyrics in rock,” he said. “It’s a lyric. It
just feels good. John Lennon used it a lot”
Asa songwriter, Daniel is accus
tomed to culling ideas from strange, dis
parate moments. “I’ll hear something in
a conversation or see a sign and jot it
down and work on it later,” Daniel said.
“Occasionally you get the chance to
work on it right then, and that’s cool.”
Once Daniel has a set of completed
songs he’s happy with, he, drummer Jim
Eno and producer Mike McCarthy
painstakingly arrange the songs into their
final forms. The process is long but worth
it if the product is a great rock album.
“We just have to make sure that we
think that (each album) is as good as the
last one,” Daniel said. “I can imagine few
things (more) distasteful than putting out
a record that I didn’t feel good about
because then all the stuff like touring and
talking to people would be a real chore.”
With Spoon’s evident quality control,
it’s difficult to imagine that record compa
nies wouldn’t be supportive of the band.
But a few years ago, Spoon’s future
was bleak after it was dropped from
Elektra following just one album, 1998’s
A Series of Sneaks. Eventually, it found a
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PHOTO COURTESY OF MERGE RECORDS
The rock band Spoon, fronted by guitarist/singer/songwriter Britt Daniel
(front), will perform tonight at the Cat's Cradle. Spoon is from Austin.
home with Chapel Hill’s Merge Records,
where the band is happy, Daniel said.
“I love Merge. They’re great people,”
Daniel said. “There’s not as many nice
dinners -but not as many conversations
where you want to throw the phone
through the fucking window.”
The support from Merge and the pos
itive response of fans to Kill The Moonlight
and its tour has Spoon ready to meet the
challenge of making its next album.
But even with high expectations of
supporters, Daniel doesn’t feel pressure
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from anyone but himself. He says he’s
just concerned with making records he
thinks are worth listening to.
“The only kind of pressure that we
feel is just to make sure we think (the
album) is good,” Daniel said. “All the
other stuff you do ... all that stuff is fun.
“But the most important thing is mak
ing great records. Everything else is just
in support of that.”
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can
be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu.
Neighbors Question Location
Of Planned UNC Facilities
By Sim Kim
Staff Writer
Town residents expressed concern
Tuesday afternoon over the planned
development of a 23-acre University site
south of Estes Drive.
Residents met at 218 Barclay Road, a
private residence, to discuss the propos
al, which neighbors say poses several
problems to quality of life.
The construction area proposed by
the University includes a 24-hour fuel
ing station, a print shop and grounds
maintenance facilities.
Residents near the development site
first noticed the University’s plans at the
Community Design Commission’s
Concept Plan Review in May and
immediately voiced strong reservations
about the impact of these facilities.
When residents expressed their con
cern once again at a Chapel Hill Town
Council meeting in June, the council
contacted the University, which in turn
moved the locations of the buildings
within its site plans.
However, UNC’s revisions included
the increase of the planned size of the
buildings from 61,000 to 74,000 square
feet and the increase of the number of
planned parking spaces from 160 to 200.
“It seems that local citizens’ wishes
are being ignored,” said Kathleen
Kearns of 223 Barclay Road. “The mea
sures that the University took did not
represent serious efforts to compromise.”
Residents aired worries over pro
posed employee parking spaces, which
they said could increase traffic and wors
en the present traffic congestion on fetes
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Should the Q
United States £
Attack Iraq §/
From the Legal Perspective
A Mark Weisburd, Professor of Law
Would a preemptive attack be legal under international law?
Under what circumstances? Does it make a difference?
From the Perspective of American National Security
Mark Crescenzi, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Richard H. Kohn, Professor of History; Chair, Curriculum in
Peace, War, and Defense
Does the US need to do this for its national security? Is military
force appropriate?
From the Perspective of American Public Opinion
James A. Stimson, Raymond Dawson Professor of Political Science i
Is the American public likely to support a war? Under what
circumstances? For how long?
Implications for Iraq
Sarah D. Shields, Associate Professor of History
What will be the effect on Iraq of a war, and the overthrow of
Saddam Hussein?
Implications in the Muslim World
Carl Ernst, Professor of Religious Studies
How would an American-initiated war affect the Muslin world?
From the Moral and Ethical Perspective
Douglas Mac Lean, Professor of Philosophy
Would an attack be justified from a moral and ethical perspective?
Implications for American Foreign Relations
Michael H. Hunt, Everett H. Emerson Professor of History
How will an attack, particularly a preemptive one, affect the US
role/position in the world?
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Drive Extension and Airport Road.
Kearns said potential leaks or spills
are another possible danger to the
neighborhood.
“The site is part of a major watershed,”
Kearns said. “We live downhill from the
construction area, and to store toxic
materials on a site with such potential
runoff problems is a recipe for disaster.”
Although there are 100-foot buffers
between the facilities and the neighbor
hoods, residents say they worry the
parameters will expand in the future.
Residents said other University sites
also pose general threats in the town.
“There is already a hazardous materi
als facility near this neighborhood, and
we believe that the construction of
another similar site will be unbearable,”
said Mike Collins of 723 Williams Circle.
Alternatives for the construction site
were mentioned, including building the
facilities on another area of the Horace
Williams tract or sharing the fuel facili
ties of the town.
But residents said University officials
said the other areas of Horace Williams
are unsuitable and the town’s own facili
ties do not have the space to make colo
cation feasible. “The University refuses to
consider their options, even though there
seems to be more efficient solutions,” said
Mark Simonsen of 216 Barclay Road.
The UNC Department of Facilities
Planning intends to present its plans for
the Elkin Hills site to the Buildings and
Grounds Committee of the UNC Board
of Trustees at today’s committee meeting.
The City Editor can be reached
atcitydesk@unc.edu.
session with pre-law adviser Tom Horan
in the Union Auditorium. Information
sessions will be held in 105 Berryhill
Hall for nursing at 4 p.m., pharmacy at
4:30 p.m., allied health at 5 p.m., pre
med/pre-dental/pre-veterinary at 6
p.m.
For the Record
The Sept 24 Police Roundup incorrect
ly stated that the time of the larceny in
Granville Tower East on Thursday, Sept
19. The larceny occurred between 6:30
p.m. and 6:45 p.m.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.