From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V8 #315 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, November 15 2003 Volume 08 : Number 315 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] More High Street than High Road... [=?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Turne] [AVALON] Middlesbrough ["Carien Overdijk" ] [AVALON] Bryan's Lighting [AMeyersLD@aol.com] [AVALON] More High Street than High Road... [KWil632057@aol.com] [AVALON] Vogue Stories.htm ["anotherphotographer" Subject: [AVALON] More High Street than High Road... It seems BF performed a short set in Selfridges yesterday... http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/showbiz/articles/7684423?source=Evening%20Standard 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: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:37:04 +0100 From: "Carien Overdijk" Subject: [AVALON] Middlesbrough Hi folks, Made it safely back to Holland, though the waves were rough enough. But then we'd done a rough bit of waving, singing and shouting already at the Middlesbrough concert. It was a great event, the first time that I was really close to the stage and could gauge the celtic size of the Great Bry's eyebrows. I'd only been to Dutch Roxy/Ferry-concerts so far, and it seemed to me that Bryan, up in his familiar North country, was very much at ease, more so than in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. He was really enjoying himself, with much broader and more frequent grins than I'd ever seen on him. But it may have been the crowd, too. We were surely cheering our heads off and he obviously built on that as well. At one point he lost his text and skipped two lines. Does anyone remember which song it was? (I may if I get a good night's sleep.) But he picked it up smoothly several beats later. (This has happened to him before as you must know. E.g. in Dream Home in a far past - as you can see on the Musikladen Video, and later, in Rotterdam, again, him asking Colin Good to give him a clue then - so he is used to it). Also, in a wild gesture, he knocked the mic off its standard, but nimbly caught it lower down and paraded the stage with it, broadly smiling again. In the first part of the show, he was noticeably guarding his voice, getting the backers to fill in a lot and choosing lower registers where possible. But in the last few numbers he really let go, with a grand finale in Woolly Bully (which I too had never heard live yet!). Mandy - nice to have met you btw! - sneaked the set list off the stage. Can you copy it for us? (Hardly any surprises there though, but I did not mind, with great and sparky renderings of Tokyo Joe, Street Life, Virginia Plain and Love is the Drug. No Song for Europe this time. Strictly continental, that one, I suppose?). I did not join the meet-up afterwards at the stage door - I saw people waiting, but I decided not to stretch my friend Ruth's companionship any longer. She'd been having a good time allright, singing and dancing along, but the long wait in advance had been enough of a sacrifice on her part. She hasn't yet got to the real fan-status. One cannot win them all... So next time is still the best time.. but if there is no next time, where to go-o-o-o-o-o??? Carien ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:03:03 EST From: AMeyersLD@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Bryan's Lighting In regards to the Middleborough show, Tracy wrote: > < trying to say something, and there was a light at the back of the stage > shining into the audence ->> > This was a big problem during the summer Roxy tour, too. But its not the hall, it's the lighting director. Being a professional lighting designer myself, I chatted with him at the Chicago show and found him to be lazy and arrogant. And incapable of calling followspots. And not a Roxy Fan. (It seems to me that there is no clearer point for a big light cue than "But you blew my mind!" in "Dreamhome Heartache." But, no....) Okay, I will complain at great and tedious length to anyone who is interested, but I will do it offline. - --Andrew in Chicago ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:29:00 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] More High Street than High Road... Thanks to a friend in the buying department I saw this mini gig. Very good although the set was really just the last 15 mins of his current setlist: ie: the hits. He played them super fast though, which is more than he does live. J It seems BF performed a short set in Selfridges yesterday... http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/showbiz/articles/7684423?source=Evening%20S tandard Regards Chris ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:59:27 -0000 From: "anotherphotographer" Subject: [AVALON] Vogue Stories.htm Vogue Storiesa little more on the Bry bash!!!! =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Selfridges=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 SELFRIDGES' SUPER PARTY=20 =20 SELFRIDGES played host to a stunning = fashion bash last night, calling in the capital's most stylish to = celebrate the launch of its new Superbrands department. A surprise live = performance by Bryan Ferry and plenty of Champagne set the mood for the = impeccably dressed crowd, including Bay Garnet, Bella Freud, Dan = Macmillan, Alice Temperley, Tracey Emin, Tara Fitzgerald, Martha Lane = Fox, Rose Marie Bravo, Marni designer Consuela Castligione and her = daughter Carolina, and Daisy and Poppy de Villeneuve, to let their hair = down. The glamorous new second floor section features mini stores hosted = by Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Chloe, Balenciaga, Gucci, Dolce = & Gabbana, Burberry and Marni all nestled around a new Momo's = restaurant, complete with a Bedouin smoking tent for shoppers to put = their feet up and partake of a little hookah pipe. "Selfridges and = Momo's is the perfect combination," said Tracey Emin, who was draped = around the restaurant's founder, Mourad Mazouz. "It's my idea of = heaven." (November 14 2003, AM) =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 KIDD'S IN LOVE =20 =20 Jodie Kidd is "still completely in love" = according to her agent =20 DAISY PULLS IT OFF =20 =20 Daisy de Villeneuve has captured = everybody's worst best friend in her new book =20 THE PERFECT SHOPPING TRIP=20 =20 Take a turn in the countryside this = weekend to find amazing designer shopping offers =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of spacer.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of Vogue_com.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of daily_title.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of daily_subscribe.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of archive_btn.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of selfridgesB.jpg] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of next.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of more_news.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of left_link.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of right_link.gif] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:23:45 EST From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] More High Street than High Road... In a message dated 14/11/2003 16:29:55 GMT Standard Time, KWil632057@aol.com writes: > Thanks to a friend in the buying department I saw this mini gig. > Very good although the set was really just the last 15 mins of his current > setlist: ie: the hits. > He played them super fast though, which is more than he does live. > > J > And they just whipped a curtain away and there was Ferry and band. Most people drinking, looked up, thought it was a case of Stars in Their Eyes and carried on drinking! Knowing full well that a number of senior managers at Selfridges (particularly in the lingerie department) are big Roxy fans, it just goes to prove that if you can get the readies together you too could have Bryan playing YOUR Xmas party. Jocelyn ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:40:09 -0600 (CST) From: MarlanaK@webtv.net (M.M.K.) Subject: [AVALON] Re: Ferry surprise While watching "Joan of Arcacia" tonight on TV low & behold at the end of show they announce---- the music you heard tonight was by Bryan Ferry & show his album. Always, Marlana ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V8 #315 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest