From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #162 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, June 26 2004 Volume 09 : Number 162 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Spitting Image ["Colette Robertson" ] [AVALON] offtopic - Morrissey [Helene Kremer ] Re: [AVALON] jane birkin [Bahi ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:20:08 +0100 From: "Colette Robertson" Subject: [AVALON] Spitting Image I saw some of the old Spitting Image puppets on TV this week and it made me wonder what might have happened to the Bryan Ferry puppet. Does anyone on the list know, John O'B perhaps? Curoius Colette ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:30:01 EDT From: JohnOBrien001@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Spitting Image In a message dated 25/06/04 12:23:03 GMT Daylight Time, cr011a2978@blueyonder.co.uk writes: saw some of the old Spitting Image puppets on TV this week and it made me wonder what might have happened to the Bryan Ferry puppet. Does anyone on the list know, John O'B perhaps? Curoius Colette My cousin worked at spitting image for a while and did a drawing of BF. He told me that they would draw a caracature of the person from a photo then model the doll on the caracature. I would presume that BF's dummy is stuffed in a box with Maggie Thatcher and Prince Phillip in the Spitting Images vaults somewhere. The picture from the Spitting Image Archives can be found here: _http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/gallery_Artistic+Pictures_flat.shtml_ (http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/gallery_Artistic+Pictures_flat.shtml) J.O'B. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:57:43 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] London Region viewers Alert!!!!! Ferry is interviewed on London Tonight ITV at 6pm tonight. j ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:58:38 +0200 (CEST) From: robert@rwhiteford.freeserve.co.uk Subject: Re: [AVALON] Shutting the stable door Chris, As one who did make a wasted trip to Bedgebury you won't be surprised to hear that I agree. You would have thought that some lessons would have been learned after what happened with Jim Lawn running the "Information Service". Anyway it can't have escaped Ferrys notice that the two main fans websites are miles better than the official (lack of) effort. Cheers Rob PS I;ve got tickets for Petworth - is he back in action? > Message date : Jun 24 2004, 11:38 PM > From : "Chris Turner" > To : avalon@smoe.org > Copy to : > Subject : [AVALON] Shutting the stable door > www.bryanferry.com has leapt into action tonight to advise us all of Bryan's laryngitis. Those > people who travelled to Kent for the Bedgebury gig or indeed the three subsequent cancelled > concerts might have appreciated a more timely intervention than eleven days after the event. > > Chris > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > - -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:12:39 +0100 From: "Colette Robertson" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Spitting Image Thanks John. I think quite a kind likeness compared to some of the other grotesque puppets they had. I just wondered as I seem to recall some of them being sold/auctioned off at one point. Maybe it was only a selected few. Chers, Colette - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Spitting Image > In a message dated 25/06/04 12:23:03 GMT Daylight Time, > cr011a2978@blueyonder.co.uk writes: > > saw some of the old Spitting Image puppets on TV this week and it made me > wonder what might have happened to the Bryan Ferry puppet. Does anyone on > the > list know, John O'B perhaps? > > Curoius Colette > > > > My cousin worked at spitting image for a while and did a drawing of BF. He > told me that they would draw a caracature of the person from a photo then > model the doll on the caracature. I would presume that BF's dummy is stuffed in a > box with Maggie Thatcher and Prince Phillip in the Spitting Images vaults > somewhere. > > The picture from the Spitting Image Archives can be found here: > > _http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/gallery_Artistic+Pictures_flat.shtml_ > (http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/gallery_Artistic+Pictures_flat.shtml) > > J.O'B. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:41:17 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Ferry interview details Two key points in the Ferry interview on itv this lunchtime (repeated 6pm tonight), one of hope, one of mirth: 1) Ferry is asked what its like listening to all the old hits on The Platinum Collection.. 'I heard lots of songs we haven't done live for a while and will have to rehearse.' 2) After being asked what he thinks of modern music he says he really likes.......Dr Dre. J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:54:32 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] BryanFerry.com updates To be honest if you are looking for updates on anything Ferry related the offiicial site should be nobodies first port of call. I expect them to tentatively announce Graham Simpson's departure from Roxy Music within the next three years. To my mind vivaroxymusic.com (I don't have shares in the site honest!) has done such a great job of keeping the exclusives going (who can forget the Frantic cover art appearing there about a decade before anybody else had it?) that it really is the definative site and should be recognised as such by Ferry's management asap. At least the fans might be better armed with the news that the on/off concerts are taking place before they leave their homes.... J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:18:30 +0200 From: f2hb@wanadoo.nl (2HB) Subject: Re: [AVALON] London Region viewers Alert!!!!! At 07:57 25-06-2004 -0400, KWil632057@aol.com wrote: >Ferry is interviewed on London Tonight ITV at 6pm tonight. > >j Anyone planning to have this video taped? 2HB ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:01:25 +0200 (METDST) From: Heather Marie Buch Subject: [AVALON] jane birkin I'm sure this has been discussed but... Is the Jane Birkin/Bryan Ferry duet good? I haven't really heard anything by her other than what she did with Serge Gainsbourg...is her recent stuff recommendable? Heather ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:22:22 -0700 From: Helene Kremer Subject: [AVALON] offtopic - Morrissey Sadly, Lollapalooza's been cancelled in the States. I say sadly because the only reason I would have gone would have been to see Morrissey. Hopefully his manager will find some other shows for him to do in the States this summer because his album is reportedly doing well....... Helene ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:40:55 +0200 From: Bahi Subject: Re: [AVALON] jane birkin >Is the Jane Birkin/Bryan Ferry duet good? It is, yes. It's a duet of Dream Home that cunningly disguises itself as pure throwaway pop but when the beeping electronica come to a quick close, you're left not just wanting more but also pondering the *sadness* of what was sung rather than its madness. Whether that was an intentional and skillful twist or not is hard to say but it certainly works. Where Ferry once sounded wired and wanton, he's now weary and helpless - and it's just beautifully done, Ferry these days doing weary the way Picasso did blue. I've heard Jane Birkin's voice struggle on some things in the past but she's outstanding here, her style made for the song. You'd never think that someone could sing Dream Home quite so *tenderly* and get away with it but she carries it off. And La Birkin's pronunciation of 'de luxe' is as defiantly English ('dee lucks') as Mr Ferry's was French - something funny going there, for sure. :) Before hearing it, I hadn't been able to imagine the song working as a duet proper and wasn't planning on buying but happened to be in Paris (not a regular haunt, in case you're wondering) on the week-end of its launch and FNAC was loyally piling 'em high and emphatically refusing to sell 'em cheap, relying instead on a valiant promo effort: posters, cutouts, prominent placement and allegedly limited edition packaging (for a small fee, sir). It did the trick. I'll admit that I've been listening a lot to the Dream Home duet and not much to the rest (the perils of digital jukebox software) but I began to put that right a couple of days ago. B ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #162 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest