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'American Beauty' wins Brit award 27-2-2001
The 'American Beauty' soundtrack' won a Brit award yesterday for 'Best Soundtrack'. The eels featured on this soundtrack with the Electro-Shock Blues song 'Cancer for the Cure'. Thanks to Spyder for reporting this.

Poll results & new question 27-2-2001
The poll results are in, the question was:
What is the best eels video?

Novocaine for the Soul (13)	19%
Susan's House (3)	4%
Rags to Rags (2)	3%
Your Lucky Day in Hell (2)	3%
Last Stop : This Town (35)	51%
Cancer for the Cure (6)	9%
Mr. E's Beautiful Blues (3)	4%
Flyswatter (3)	4%
None, i hate eels videos (1)	1%

It seems we have a clear winner here :-)

Some comments about this poll:

• Last Stop: This Town, great video for a great song!
• Cancer for the Cure was the most visually interesting and artistic. Sawing the volkswagen in half was very cool.
• I just like how Everyone is dressed up in Flyswatter!!

The new poll question is:
Did you ever use Napster to download eels songs?

'Dark end of the Street' tab 27-2-2001
There is a new tab in the 'Misc tab' section, for 'Dark end of the Street'. A cover the eels played a lot during their last tour. Check it out here. Thanks go to Micheal Baer for pointing this out.

3speed moves to a new domain 26-2-2001
As you may have noticed, the logo is changed a bit to include our new URL: 3speed.beautifulfreak.org. Re from beautifulfreak.org has provided us with this service: thanks a lot! The old URL (3speed.f2s.com) is still working, and will be updated for the rest of this month and march, after then the old URL will redirect to the new domain.

'Medication is Wearing Off' tabs 18-2-2001
After the request from Marcus Wagenaar a few days ago about the MIWO tab, two people mailed me with the tab. I put these two both online at the ESB tab page. Thank you bf5man and Sean Sullivan!

FAQ updated 17-2-2001
I updated the FAQ with a few questions. Nothing spectacular though, just a little update..

Poll results and a new question 11-2-2001
The poll results are here!. To the question With who should E. collaborate?, you answered:

Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) (4)	6%
Elliot Smith (12)	19%
Thom Yorke (Radiohead) (19)	30%
Beck (13)	21%
Tori Amos (4)	6%
Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) (6)	10%
Ray Charles (5)	8%

And some comments about the poll:
" double depressive whammie with Thom and E, go for it! "
" with how well e and ray's voices would work together, i can't believe you people are voting for friggin tori. wail on, red. "
" actually my answer would be none of the above, i'd like to see him collaborate with Marilyn Manson. I reckon that they know each other, they have alot in common anyway.....Manson dated Fiona Apple, E supported her...."

The new question is:
What is your favourite eels video?

Eelstheband.com E. interview posted! 11-2-2001
Finally, eelstheband.com has posted the 'You interview E.' article on the website. Over the past few weeks all visitors could ask a question. The best ones were selected, and E. answered them. Click here for the article, a true must-read for any eels fan. A few of the most interesting questions:

Q: When can we expect the next album, and will it be from Eworks or Dreamworks?
A: It will be from Dreamworks. Eworks is just our little label to put out limited edition stuff. (We had to come up with a name quickly). There are several records in the making. One of them will be the next one, hopefully later this year, depending on Dreamworks' whims.

Q: Why was "Fucker" a B-side? Did you think it didn't fit well with the rest of "Beautiful Freak" or was it pressure from the label telling you that they didn't want a song titled that on your debut?
A: It wasn't the label. I never had it on the album. I don't remember why. I think I thought it was too personal. It was a letter I wrote to someone and later set to music and I didn't think anyone would enjoy hearing it.

Q: Why don't you make more records like Oh What a Beautiful Morning with unreleased tracks?
A: Why don't you? Oh, sorry. Well, actually, since you asked, we are putting together another live album, this time from the Electro-shock Blues Show tour. Maybe we will put it out like the Oh What A Beautiful Morning CD on EELStheband.com.

The return of the quotes 11-2-2001
The quotes have returned. Sorry for the delay, i have been a bit busy the last few days.

Wanted: The Medication is Wearing off tab 5-2-2001
Marcus Wagenaar is searching for a tab for the Electro-Shock Blues song 'The Medication is Wearing Off', if anyone has anything please mail me and i will pass it trough. (and of course put it online here at 3speed)

Butch's beard in the polls 2-2-2001
There was a poll at eelstheband.com where people could vote for the new look that Butch should have. They could chose between six different configurations of beard/moustache,etc. After a week, number 4 was chosen, and Butch is now currently growing his new hair. Check the official site for the article and a picture of Butch after shaving off his beard.

New eels song rumour 2-2-2001
There is a rumour that the eels may have recorded a new song called 'The Object' which was broadcasted on radio. Apparently, it featured only E. Nothing officially confirmed about this yet.

Eels songs on tv 2-2-2001
Music by the eels has been featured on quite some tv shows for the last few days. Charlotte from spunky2 reports that she watching 'Trigger Happy Tv' (sort of candid camera) when they played 'Novocaine for the Soul' and 'It's a Motherfucker' during the show. She also mentions that Flyswatter was used on Top Gear (a BBC show about cars).