From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V3 #121 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, May 21 1998 Volume 03 : Number 121 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] More hob nobbing ... ["Garratt, Chris" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:09:57 +0100 From: "Garratt, Chris" Subject: [AVALON] More hob nobbing ... 19 May 98 Smith to party with pop culture's best: The Times (Q1:23) By ANDREW PIERCE, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT CHRIS SMITH, one of the sharpest critics of the Government's 'Cool Britannia' campaign, will be feted tomorrow by the biggest gathering of celebrities from the arts world since Labour came to power. David Bowie and Bryan Ferry, the fiftysomethings who have replaced Oasis on the Government's approved list of pop stars, will be at the champagne party at the Tate Gallery for the launch of the Culture Secretary's book, Creative Britain . It is the first to be written by a serving Cabinet minister about his policy area for more than 30 years. The Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the sculptor Anthony Gormley and the film-maker Alan Parker are all invited. Damien Hirst produced a cover for the book. The party is being thrown by Faber and Faber in lieu of royalties. :In his book, Mr Smith says: 'We should reject the flawed phrase Cool Britannia, but recognise and assist the modern world of music, not because it might win votes or make a Government look good, but because it is vitally important for our economy and for the achievement of musical excellence.' The Times ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V3 #121 **************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to avalon-digest-owner@smoe.org