From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V3 #289 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, November 30 1998 Volume 03 : Number 289 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] ["Mary Hunwicks" ] [AVALON] Sunday Times Magazine (29.11.98) [Bahi Para ] Re: [AVALON] Sunday Times Magazine (29.11.98) ["Martin Stockman" Subject: Re: [AVALON] - -----Original Message----- From: Martin Stockman To: avalon@smoe.org Date: 28 November 1998 18:43 Subject: Re: [AVALON] > >---------- >With regards to the reunion I have some curious news from an impeccable >source : Plans are well underway for Roxy to play (and headline) one of the >nights at Glastonbury next Summer (Still Falls THe Rain anyone !? ; >thankfully the Royal Albert Hall would also be a UK tour venue. Watch this >space Thanks for that Martin - we shall all hold our breath watching this space :-)) Thank goodness there's a chance of inside venues - I'm getting much too old to sit in muddy fields!! Although on a beautiful day Glastonbury can be a really magical place. BTW with regards to the Paul Stump book 'Unknown Pleasures if anyone in the London area is having trouble finding it I got my copy yesterday in Helter Skelter in Denmark Street. Tel 0171 836 1151; e-mail helter@skelter.demon.co.uk I noticed there were several more copies left. If you don't know this shop I recommend a visit as it specialises in music literature of all sorts and is a fascinating place. Mary - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 23:51:46 +0100 From: Bahi Para Subject: [AVALON] Sunday Times Magazine (29.11.98) This week's Sunday Times magazine included an article by one Phil Shabano called "A Class Act", asking why so many people 'want to be posh'. It mentioned Hugh Grant, Peter York, Liz Hurley and others. It's accompanied with 6 pictures, one of which (probably 17 or 18 years old) features Ferry in a bow tie. Here's how it starts: - -- During the early 1980s, when Bryan Ferry was enjoying the fruits of his revived career with Roxy Music, it seems he became so enamoured with Britain's aristocrats, he decided to become one himself. The son of a Geordie pit pony keeper, Ferry was so fascinated with the posh that he spent weekends in the country attending society balls and softened his northeast brogue in favour of a Prince Charlesish lilt. From glam-rock to green wellies in one easy move. His change of lifestyle eventually led to a marriage to a thoroughbred called Lucy Helmore. Ferry is not alone. Today's society is full of nouveau posh and knock-off toffs. [...] Peter York, 52, [is] the man who invented the term Sloane Ranger and was once the style editor of Harpers & Queen. Born plain old Peter Wallis, his father was a civil engineer who sent young Pete to the progressive King Alfred's school in Hampstead. A mate of Peter Mandelson, York now dresses in bespoke finery and at times his voice is so grand that it borders on the unintelligble. - --- (Peter York: the guy who, in his series "The Eighties" (from around 1995/96) sang lines from Dreamhome Heartache a capella. He wrote a very amusing book called "Style Wars" - essential reading.) - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:38:42 +0000 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Sunday Times Magazine (29.11.98) - ---------- > > >Bahi Para wrote about Peter York and his ongoing revererence for Bryan... I >recall York saying on an Arts show that "Bryan Ferry is an exquisite, he >should be hung in the Tate." York is truly one of us ! > >Martin S - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V3 #289 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest