Etienne Dumont/Champagne

Advantages: WOW So drinkable
Disadvantages: Cheap

...Etienne Dumont/Champagne Yes shocked and most pleased champagne from France that can be rated! Some say lack luster with no body but shock and horrors drinkable affordable and complexly blows away the much loved over rated Moet Chardon in the similar price range. French corporations sell by name, this sparkling delivers by enjoyment. It can actually be compared to a South African Brut, not in the Graeme Beck league but equally splendant amongst its fellow budget wines. Super fizzy and what you would expect when poring the fabled Champagne region whistle wetter. A bottle to admire NO! But good looking enough for those discernable guests. Would they know the difference on taste only anyway! Definitely recommended and enjoyed to its full limited extent of 750cl...

CGirdlestone 25.12.2008 · Read review
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SAINT ETIENNE - NOT JUST A CITY IN FRANCE

Advantages: Gorgeous songs, perfect sheen, good production
Disadvantages: Not to everybody's tastes, probably

...If ever the whole of the music industry got together in one big, giant room and were to have an awards ceremony giving out awards to artists throughout the ages, one can imagine such luminaries as Placebo winning awards for 'Most Time Spent Ripping Off David Bowie & Marc Bolan', Maroon 5 winning the 'How On Earth Are This Lot In the Charts Award' and Shed Seven winning the 'Crikey, They're Not Very Good, Are They? Award'. But aside from that, I would wager that it is a safe bet to say that Saint Etienne would walk away with 'Most Under-rated Band Of The 1990's'. Saint Etienne were formed in the early 90's by music engineers Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs and became an underground sensation with their uncanny mix of classic 60's pop, northern soul and alternative dance. Their first album 'Foxbase Alpha', contained a brilliant cover of Neil...

Ryan74 27.04.2005 · Read review
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Review of Sound Of Water - Saint Etienne

Top-up champagne?

Advantages: Nice, inoffensive taste, price.
Disadvantages: None

.... What is Magnum then? For those of you who don't know Magnum is a size of champagne bottles which contains two normal bottles of 750ml meaning Magnum is a bottle of 1.5 litres. There are other sizes as well and the biggest of them contains 30 litres of champagne (enough for a big party) and is called Melchizedek, other sizes and they names: • Magnum 1.5l; • Jeroboam 3 l; • Rehoboam 4.5 l; • Methuselah 6 l; • Salmanazar 9 l; • Balthazar 12 l; • Nebuchadnezzar 15 l; • Solomon 18 l; • Primat 27 l; • Melchizedek 30 l. It didn't take long before I put my hands on the champagne. My two bottles of Etienne Dumont champagne arrived in French, original version as they were bought in France. Bottle The bottle looks great! Top shelf champagne I would say. It reminds me...

malekowie 25.04.2006 · Read review
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WHAT'S A 'FINISTERRE'?

Advantages: Some good songs, good vocals throughout
Disadvantages: Poor quality control, disjointed, no cohesion

...After a career of perennial underachievement and mainstream neglect, Saint Etienne (Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs & Sarah Cracknell) returned to the shadowy corners of the limelight with 'Finisterre'. Apparently, 'Finisterre' means the end of the world. Or so I am told. 'Action', which opens the album, wastes no time in sucking you in with a fun, catchy and quirky electro-pop groove. Sarah Cracknell's vocals are truly gorgeous on this number, while the plinky-plunky electronica through which Saint Etienne have made their name is of the highest standard. The song is evocative of classic Saint Etienne, masters of dreamy, fuzzy pop. 'Amateur' has a more rocky influence, about as rocky as a band like Saint Etienne can get, perhaps. It evokes an era when Britpop was still the 'in' thing, when Pulp, Blur and their chums troubled the top...

Ryan74 16.05.2005 (17.05.2005) · Read review
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The Long Silence of Mario Salviati

Advantages: A far reaching work of magical reality
Disadvantages: Doesn't quite reach it's ambitions

...The Long Silence of Mario Salviati by Etienne Van Heerden tells the story of Ingi Friedlander, a curator at the National Gallery at Cape Town, and her journey to the impossibly remote village of Yearsonend. She is under orders to purchase the magnificent sculpture of the Staggering Merman which has magically appeared in the studio of local artist, Jonty Jack. After initially being rejected by the sculptor Ingi takes lodging in the village and settles down for a long drawn out courtship with Jack in the hope that by getting to know him and the town better, he will in turn be more receptive to her and allow her to return to Cape Town with the sculpture. As Ingi settles into life in the small town she gradually works her way into various people's confidences and in turn learns more about the characters and history of the town. Ingi...

brereton66 26.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Long Silence of Mario Salviati - Etienne Van Heerden

Hug Their Soul

Advantages: fantastic 'perfect pop', timeless
Disadvantages: none

...Whether you describe them as crafting 'perfect pop', or say they make 'indie-dance' music, Saint Etienne have proved to be one of the more versatile British acts of the 1990's and early 00's. The trio have made some of the finest pop records produced over the last ten years or so, and although they have struggled to truly break the mainstream, they have a solid international fan-base and continue to make superb music even now. Perhaps the best introduction into Sarah Cracknall, Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley would be their 1995 compilation 'Too Young To Die' which showcases 14 of the bands songs from the early 1990's. The opening track is a cover version of Neil Young's 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart'. I must confess that I heard Saint Etienne's version first, and think it's superior to the original. A song that's both sad...

stoffy 29.07.2002 · Read review
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Review of Too Young To Die (The Singles Collection 1991-1995) - Saint Etienne

Holy Brilliant

Advantages: Electric Light Orchestrations.
Disadvantages: Soul Hugging Is So Tough.

...Blessed with a singer who possesses a faintly Motown edge and a backing duo who can't help but layer on sweet electronic pulses St. Etienne are quite unlike anything that has hovered around the British music scene over the last decade. Their music drifts elegantly from conscientious (and by this I mean it has soul) lounge music to frothy euro disco while still retaining a killer melody and the odd wry lyric. The band first started playing together back in 1990. Their debut 'Foxbase Alpha' arrived in 1991 and highlighted a new band with the imagination and courage to take pointers from disparate sources and uncover something bright and endearing. The follow up 'So Tough' in 1993 spliced so many sound bytes it was incredible that the whole thing worked so well ('Conchita Martinez' sampled Rush's 'Spirit Of The Radio' in a mix that was...

indiecater 25.09.2002 · Read review
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Review of Too Young To Die (The Singles Collection 1991-1995) - Saint Etienne

Scent of Summer

Advantages: great scent, attractive bottle, versatile
Disadvantages: quite pricey

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Two very brave men

Advantages: An unpresidented and interesting account of the operations by Scotland Yards most secret unit
Disadvantages: Written in narrative so can get tedious

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Briz_Hatchings 17.04.2001 (10.04.2001) · Read review
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Review of The Infiltrators (Etienne, Philip and Maynard, Martin) - Tony Thompson

INFILTRATERS

Advantages: LOOK THROUGH THE EYES OF POLICE AND CRIMINALS
Disadvantages: CANT PUT IT DOWN

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kato111 29.05.2007 · Read review
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