From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V7 #186 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, June 2 2002 Volume 07 : Number 186 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Scotland October Tickets On Sale [OBrienFerry@AOL.COM] Re: [AVALON] Scotland October Tickets On Sale ["Graham Fairlie" ] [AVALON] bf on the tv show ["karin d verboom" ] [AVALON] One mighty fine day. ["thom.wallace" ] [AVALON] Edinburgh October Tickets Needed. ["thom.wallace" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Scotland October Tickets On Sale Yep they sure are John. Glasgow at 9.00 - got through at 9.08 Row M !!!! who got the good ones? At least its a centre aisle seat ;-) What's that word again? Charge? Edinburgh at 11.00 got through at 11.04 Row B centre aisle (this is actually the fifth row) Ticketweb were offering allocated seats (row F) for Glasgow last night and to think I hung off to get a better one! If you folks on the other side of the pond think I'm damn lucky to have such "crap" seats - the weekend of the gigs coincides with the school half-term and there's a better than even chance that I'll have to be in the States on holiday. Note this holiday will impact on availability of flights into Glasgow/Edinburgh if you are thinking of coming then. Anyway hope to see the usual suspects and maybe a few more tonight ( Block C Row C) Best regards. Graham Fairlie - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: [AVALON] Scotland October Tickets On Sale > The tickets for the Bryan Ferry shows in Glasgow Clyde Auditorium 19th October and Edinburgh Festival Theatre 20th October re on sale now. > > J.O'B. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > The subliminable footer says: > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 15:52:10 +0200 From: "Han Snijders" Subject: [AVALON] BF in dutch paper AD For Dutch subscribers: there's a one page interview with Bryan in 'Het Algemeen Dagblad'. nice picture, no news. He said there will be an Live Roxy Album this year in which they use some of the recordings they've made in rotterdam last year. Han ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 20:18:35 +0200 From: "karin d verboom" Subject: [AVALON] bf on the tv show Is there anybody in holland who can make a copie of the tv show with bryan ferry, fridaynight??? I mist it so please help a big fan!!!!!! bye bye karin from moordrecht ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 01:45:16 +0100 From: "thom.wallace" Subject: [AVALON] One mighty fine day. It's not long gone 1.30am and I'm just back from Edinburgh, I'm tired, my feet hurt, but I'm very happy. The set list was similar to the Danish shows, the highlight for me was Sign of the Times and Cant let go. Well the Bride is my favourite Ferry album and I have had to wait 24 years to hear Sign live. When I say these tracks were the highlight I mean from the show itself, the big highlight of the day was hearing Crazy Love live for the first time during the sound check, and it was excellent. I hadn't really been looking forward to this show, in fact I didn't have a ticket until Thursday as I've been up to my eyes in work for college, however my appetite has been well and truly wetted for the rest of the tour. Hope to see some of you in the coming weeks. Tom. You can also contact me at: TomWallace@vivaroxymusic.com ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 01:47:44 +0100 From: "thom.wallace" Subject: [AVALON] Edinburgh October Tickets Needed. If anybody has two front row tickets to spare for Ferry's Edinburgh show in October PLEASE mail me off list. Tom. You can also contact me at: TomWallace@vivaroxymusic.com ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 22:36:56 -0400 From: "M" Subject: [AVALON] The cocktail hour Bogart is a slave to music http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=42&si=766440&issue_id =7523 The cocktail hour Bogart is a slave to music Sonic Boom. Barry Egan AS SOON as the media became aware that he had a house in the country, sometime around 1976, the image of Bryan Ferry as a Daily Telegraph-taking country squire in a Land Rover was inaugurated. Bryan understands full well that the media only needs one picture of you in a tweed jacket and you're a country squire for good. Unfortunately, such misconceptions belie the depth of the man: he is not some preposterously superficial Fulham Road bedwetter. Born on September 26 1945, Ferry is a Northerner through and through his dad was a coal miner from Durham and he is proud of his working-class past. "My background is very important to me," he says with an accent as thick as brown ale. "I'm delighted that Newcastle United have got into the European Champions League next season." The Newcastle football team manager, Bobby Robson, has, he says, "done an incredible job". As a kid, Ferry taught himself to play piano and write songs. He listened and absorbed what he heard on the radio in his bedroom. When he was 11, in 1956, young Bryan named after his uncle won two front-row seats for a Bill Haley and The Comets concert, courtesy of a Radio Luxembourg competition. Many listened in their bedclothes to the station's nocturnal broadcasts. And when the winner was announced, everyone on the street came banging on the Ferry's front door "because everyone listened to this station". The question was to name Haley's two favourite tracks of his own. Ferry guessed right with See Ya' Later Alligator and Rock Around The Clock. Forty-five years later, Ferry faces something of a problem. No matter what he does, he will always be remembered most fondly for Roxy Music: not surprisingly in the timeless company of Love Is the Drug and Virginia Plain. Naturally enough, this has had no small detrimental effect on Ferry's solo career. People have wanted him to make the first Roxy Music album again and again for 20 years, which obviously he can't. "As a creative artist, I've got to move on to somewhere else", but that's just not good enough for the media who refuse to take off their rose-tinted Raybans. Indeed, I too keep returning to Roxy Music despite Ferry having a new solo LP to promote, the thoroughly intriguing Frantic intriguing because there are two Dylan covers, It's All Over Now Baby Blue and Don't Think Twice as well as an unforgettable cajun-reworking of Leadbelly's homicide opus, Goodnight Irene. "I've always loved Leadbelly," he says, "and Dylan is such an incredible writer." There is a good reason for this: in the Seventies, Roxy Music with the seductive crooner Bryan as its leader and someone called Brian Eno on keyboards were instrumental in bringing cool and glamour to the world of unrefined rock music. Without Ferry the fringe-haired New Romantic movement of the early Eighties Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, ABC would never have happened. In 1975 Siren in particular, was a work of godlike beauty: Jerry Hall, who was once engaged to Ferry, is on the cover of this album and was also in Ferry's video for Let's Stick Together. Post-Roxy, Ferry has remained throughout his long career an artist of integrity: he is the unmistakable voice of Slave to Love, Avalon and, most memorably, Lennon's Jealous Guy. He is a swell guy, a thinker, a worrier and a real character. As English as treason, Bryan Ferry may look like so God-damn chic all the time that nothing on this earth could possibly ruffle his Armani cool. But, there you'd be wrong. A born worrier, he finds it hard to relax at all. He said he had "gone through these great troughs of despair like a lot of people". The medium in which he operates in often giving him carte blanche "be introspective" seemed sometimes to feed that side of his nature. At his most philosophical, Ferry is "always looking for some sort of pattern to his life." He never really likes to plan that far ahead, "only to see where the headlights are pointing to . . . beyond that there's a great blackness". To sum up: there is so much more to Bryan Ferry than the cocktail hour Bogart the Durham devil of cool. His voice that has a captivating lived-in quality. You can hear it throughout Frantic, the new LP his first release in three years with the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, Dave Stewart, and longtime sidekick Brian Eno. But it is live where the true splendour of Ferry's voice is realised. You can decide for yourself at the Heineken Green Energy Festival. Something else not to be missed: BP Fallon's much-awaited DeathDiscoDublin2 tonight at Eamon Doran's from 8pm until 3am. The evening features live bands Blood Or Whiskey and The Rats Of The Shining Path until 10.30pm, followed by a live screening of The Osbournes and the world premier of the new Primal Scream album. As if that and Bernard Patrick Fallon wasn't pleasure enough for one night, there's also the incomparable Gavin Friday . . . "Once upon a time Mr Friday walked around town in a dress and full make-up," BP Fallon says fondly. "I'm sure he'll play some amazing records." ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 22:37:20 -0400 From: "M" Subject: Re: [AVALON] any volunteers for list meet-up webpage? > temporary group with small membership and a one-time use, Yahoogroups is a > pain to use for users and it's a waste of resources. My experience with I've had good experiences with it. Actually, despite the drawbacks, there are some features I like with Yahoogroups, like the no mail option. Besides, it's not like wasting precious water resources..... At any rate, Cecilia has volunteered to work on a webpage. Thanks Cecilia! M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A young New Yorker called M Was frequently seen with old men Described as fantastic She preferred lots of plastic Especially Barbie and Ken. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 22:46:06 -0500 From: "Judy Kaufman" Subject: [AVALON] Another Norfolk 88 B&P offer I know I'm a straggler, but all the same, if anyone is interested in this, please contact me offlist. The Goggans Rules apply: If you would like a copy of this boot, you must: 1. Be willing to send two good-quality blanks and a SASE for your copy. 2. Be one of the first four people to reply to this offer. 3. Tell me whether you will be continuing this offer to Avalon. 4. Reply by Tuesday, June 4.. 5. Understand that if you don't hear back from me, you must take my silence as a polite apology, that you were not one of the first four. (But you have nothing to lose in trying!) 6. Reply to me, and not the list. That would be especially silly considering the reply-to. Judy ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V7 #186 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest