From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V10 #276 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, November 11 2005 Volume 10 : Number 276 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Sarah Brown ["Mark Stephens" ] RE: [AVALON] Sarah Brown ["Martin Stockman" ] [AVALON] Heineken 2005 tree ["seely31" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:19:17 -0000 From: "Mark Stephens" Subject: [AVALON] Sarah Brown I went to see Sarah Brown in Nottingham last night. She looked stunning, with a black dress cut far too high above the knee, for a man of my age. She had a great backing band called Simply Red, and the ugly bloke with the red hair could sing pretty good as well. The Set format looked pretty familiar, crooning through the first half a dozen songs, a game of two half's before belting out the oldies. Half way through I was expecting The Thrill of it All to kick off the second half. Rod Stewart had a similar set piece, but did his Songbook crooning half way through, with mini orchestra, before the hits at the end. It took me back to the As Time Goes By Tour, which must have been a really successful formula, again, Ferry being imaginative and adventurous, ahead of the time again, but never really capitalizing on this success. To think Rod Stewart is on his Fourth Songbook album, and like Simply Red, still packing Arenas. Simply Red had no less than 10 violin players, all ladies last night, not one could hold a flame to Lucy playing solo, So yes I did get into the Red, But much prefer to be Out of the Blue! Kind Regards, Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:44:15 -0000 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Sarah Brown Thanks for that witty review Mark. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Mark Stephens Sent: 10 November 2005 10:19 To: Avalon group Subject: [AVALON] Sarah Brown I went to see Sarah Brown in Nottingham last night. She looked stunning, with a black dress cut far too high above the knee, for a man of my age. She had a great backing band called Simply Red, and the ugly bloke with the red hair could sing pretty good as well. The Set format looked pretty familiar, crooning through the first half a dozen songs, a game of two half's before belting out the oldies. Half way through I was expecting The Thrill of it All to kick off the second half. Rod Stewart had a similar set piece, but did his Songbook crooning half way through, with mini orchestra, before the hits at the end. It took me back to the As Time Goes By Tour, which must have been a really successful formula, again, Ferry being imaginative and adventurous, ahead of the time again, but never really capitalizing on this success. To think Rod Stewart is on his Fourth Songbook album, and like Simply Red, still packing Arenas. Simply Red had no less than 10 violin players, all ladies last night, not one could hold a flame to Lucy playing solo, So yes I did get into the Red, But much prefer to be Out of the Blue! Kind Regards, Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:48:17 -0000 From: "Rob Whiteford" Subject: RE: [AVALON] King of the Mountain Pity Uncle Bryan can't get a single into the top 5 again - it would help sell a lot of his rather under rated later work. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:29:05 -0800 (PST) From: Joel Hurd Subject: RE: [AVALON] King of the Mountain The market for singles has changed _very_ drastically since the 70s/80s. One thing that hasn't changed is that popularity is not the same thing as quality (though it's good when those things coincide [like KOTM]). - ---joel - --- Rob Whiteford wrote: > Pity Uncle Bryan can't get a single into the top 5 again - it would > help > sell a lot of his rather under rated later work. > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:17:35 -0500 From: "seely31" Subject: [AVALON] Heineken 2005 tree Thanks to the kindness of Richard, I am now able to offer the Roxy 2005 Roxy Music Heineken show to the first 5 people in the U.S. who are interested. I will reserve two of those copies exclusively for people willing to burn. Please contact me offlist for details. Pete S. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V10 #276 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest