OFF: DarXtar, Bedouin and record labels; + PT news

[Nick Lee]

>Have the Ozrics split from Snapper? Somebody told me that, but
>I'm not sure that's true.  The Waterfall Cities was issued here in the US
on
>some obscure NY label, but I figured that was some licencing deal with
>Snapper back in the UK.  Floating Seeds was on Snapper at least.
>

Yes, they have.  They're on a label of their own again "Stretchy" (over
here, at least).   I believe that Dovetail fell apart because a so-called
friend was mishandling it (creaming their money?).  The band said in a
recent press release that things hadn't gone well with Snapper (either on
their web-site, one of the e-mail newsletters or both) and that they were
looking to re-acquire their back catalogue and re-release it,  'properly' as
they'd always intended.  I thought the Snapper reissues were rather good
myself, cheap and with extra tracks, but there you go.

Nick