From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V8 #304 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, November 3 2003 Volume 08 : Number 304 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] My Greatest Hits? ["SIMON GALLOWAY" ] Re: [AVALON] My Greatest Hits? ["Andy Cooper" ] [AVALON] Radio City Music Hall artwork available [Duarte Mendonca Subject: [AVALON] My Greatest Hits? So, did anyone see this 10 minute show on BBC 2 yesterday (Saturday) with Bryan talking about his greatest hits? Me neither!!! SimonG ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:52:25 +0000 From: "Andy Cooper" Subject: Re: [AVALON] My Greatest Hits? I did - it was just the TOTP2 archive stuff of Virginia Plain and Jealous Guy recorded at Hammersmith Riverside Studios in front of our usual Avalonian crowd inter cut with some interview footage from the same show/recording with BF, AM and PM doing a little reminiscing about both numbers. A >From: "SIMON GALLOWAY" >To: "avalon@smoe.org" >Subject: [AVALON] My Greatest Hits? >Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:22:17 +0000 > >So, did anyone see this 10 minute show on BBC 2 yesterday (Saturday) with >Bryan talking about his greatest hits? > >Me neither!!! > >SimonG > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:27:04 -0500 From: Duarte Mendonca Subject: [AVALON] Radio City Music Hall artwork available Thanks to Ned Kelly from Australia, who taped Memento Sydney 2001, and to various people on list who offered scans of the ticket, the artwork for Radio City Music Hall is now complete. If you are interested please contact me off-list. If you have any photos of the Jones Beach show and or a ticket for the same please contact me off list. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 17:33:46 EST From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] New Roxy visits Spearmint Rhino Thank you Jonathan, for waking up a dozing list - even if it was just to hear the wonderful drone of puerile/shite//fook from Father Jack F Roxy in the cheap seats. (I'll be asking Santa to send you an extended vocabulary for Christmas Mr Potty Mouth) November is my swearing Ramadan - so let's see if I can set you a shining example. Anyway, I was at Goldfrapp (no surprise there) and just about scrape in at a little over 12 years old, so I feel I am better placed than most to comment on this saga. I think what Jonathan is getting at, isn't that Goldfrapp are better than Roxy, but that they elicit the feeling that we had when we first discovered Roxy, all over again. A feeling that seems to have deserted a whole bunch of people, and is now only dredged up purely for nostalgic reasons by others. It's a kind of Holy Grail you never thought you'd find again, and I have to say I'm with Jonathan on this one. When I first discovered Goldfrapp's music, it made my stomach flip in the same way as hearing Roxy Music (the album) for the first time. There is something unworldly, eerie, mysterious and dangerous about Goldfrapp. the comparisons with Roxy are inevitable. Goldfrapp mess around with sound like Eno period Roxy did, not hearing Goldfrapp's lyrics has never bothered me, I hear them in a soundscape way (probably why Ferry was drawn to using Alison G - although I'm sure there may be ulterior motives) The visual element is there. And considering Goldfrapp don't have the trump card of a lead singer I would be particularly interested in carnally, I still find them as hypnotic - appearing as a mini toga-ed Siren with erect plaited horse's tail was pure genius. They make bizarre videos (which, were he not dead, I'm sure Stanley Kubrick would have made), they wonder around in deer heads and make love to wolves, they made alpine cabins and ledderhosen fashionable again.They are dangerously sexy in a Dreamhome way. Alison has the makings of a perfect Dominatrix. She rarely jiggles about on stage (unlike their backing dancer - but more of her later), she shoots a turn to stone glance at the sound desk and lighting people if she's unhappy about anything, and god help anyone if they play a bum note. She scares me half way back the hall, and we all know I'm not easily phased. So I'm surprised Andy that you thought the sound and lighting was sh... (oops nearly broke my swearing fast there) shambolic, it was fine from where we were. They even do the odd cover version live - but much more in the Hard-Rain-can- hardly recognise -the -original way. Yes Sir (salute goes here) I can Boogie was a triumph. And then there's the befeathered backing dancer. Not Vegas. More Spearmint Rhino. But what a fine figure of a prop forward she was (Come on Andy, you must have been playing the is she/isn't he game before she got her assets out?) And black feathers are so much more Roxy than puce, don't you think? Well. this lass could swing a tassel or two, and it's a bit harder than simultaneously patting your head and stomach to get one going clockwise and the other anticlockwise. I've spent the entire weekend trying and just ended up with jogger's nipple. It's also a bit of a give-away to the Roxy parallels when you bump into more Avalonians at a Goldfrapp gig than a Ferry one these days. Oh and of course, Goldfrapp have a brilliant official website full of wit and imagination - so no parallels with Roxy/Ferry there! If you haven't seen them, listen or go and see for yourself. And if you base your blind prejudice on a documentary - bollocks to you. Damn, and I was doing so well! Jocelyn ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 18:01:21 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] New Roxy visits Spearmint Rhino Many thanks as always for converting my meandering into Avalonese, Jocelyn. Just as a brief addition to your post, the other Goldfrapp asset which has been sorely missing from the Roxy/Ferry mix for all too long is humour. Not seen anything approaching humour in anything Ferry's done for a very long time (which is a shame because he always did it very well). Goldfrapp on the other hand convey a dark wit similar to that found in the first two Roxy lps. Always preferable reading about tits, than reading messages from right ones. J n/p Fonzi Thornton feat Father Jack 'Just The Two Of Us (Parental Advisory Version)' ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 18:10:10 EST From: JFROXY@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] New Roxy (snigger) visits Spearmint Rhino In a message dated 02/11/03 22:35:05 GMT Standard Time, Jocelynfiske@aol.com writes: > (I'll be asking Santa to send you an extended vocabulary for > Christmas Mr Potty Mouth) Why thank you Ms. Campari, you don't have a spare fag on you do you? JF ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:16:02 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Turner?= Subject: [AVALON] With an open book beside... The first in a veritable landslide of books on BF and RM (and I'm not kidding there...)is to be released in the UK soon. 'The Thrill of It All: The Story of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music' by author David Buckley will appear in March 2004. Details here: http://www.roxyrama.com/interactive/interactive_news-frameset.html Buckley wrote a very well regarded book on David Bowie, (Bowie of course subsequently claimed to have invented books, and and all other popular culture) as well as compiling a useful doorstop dedicated to REM. Regards Chris ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 03:51:50 EST From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] New Roxy (snigger) visits Spearmint Rhino In a message dated 02/11/2003 23:11:12 GMT Standard Time, JFROXY@aol.com writes: > >Why thank you Ms. Campari, you don't have a spare fag on you do you? God, you're common, referred to only as tab in the higher echelons what I mix in - unless of course you are at last showing your brighter feminine side, in which I case I would be delighted to have one washed and scrubbed and sent to your tent > > JF ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V8 #304 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest