From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V11 #141 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, June 19 2006 Volume 11 : Number 141 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] Roxy Music 22 July ["Tracy Connell" ] [AVALON] Jonathan Ross playlist on Radio 2 Saturday 17th June [KWil632057] RE: [AVALON]- Weeekend double whammy! [Diane whateley ] Re: [AVALON]- Weeekend triple whammy! [KWil632057@aol.com] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:06:37 +0000 From: "Tracy Connell" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Roxy Music 22 July Where is everyone????? I see tumble weeds again!! Oh, and just to clarify, as someone recently got me mixed up.... I'm Tracy Connell, not Tracy Elliott. I'm the Elvis fan - oh and now a mad G4 fan too!!! Just so you know! lol! Maybe I should change my display name? -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Tracy Connell" To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Roxy Music 22 July Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:15:28 +0000 >Hi folks! > >I was just wondering if anyone from 'up north' is going to the Roxy gig >on 22 July in London. > >Tracy :) > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:49:45 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Jonathan Ross playlist on Radio 2 Saturday 17th June Title: 'HONKY TONK WOMAN' Artist: IKE TURNER & TINA Album: PAINT IT BLACK Label: EMI Title: 'I CAN'T LOOK AT YOUR SKIN' Artist: GRAHAM COXON Album: LOVE TRAVELS AT ILLEGAL SPEEDS Label: PARLOPHONE Title: 'JACKIE' Artist: SCOTT WALKER Album: BEST OF SCOTT WALKER & THE WALKER BROS. Label: FONTANA Title: 'YOUNG AMERICANS' Artist: DAVID BOWIE Album: DAVID BOWIE - BEST OF BOWIE Label: EMI Title: 'START WEARING PURPLE' Artist: GOGOL BORDELLO Album: GYPSY PUNKS Label: SIDE ONE DUMMY RECORDS Title: 'UP THE JUNCTION' Artist: SQUEEZE Album: BIG SQUEEZE: THE VERY BEST OF SQUEEZE Label: UNIVERSAL/A&M Title: 'OCEANS (RADIO EDIT)' Artist: MORNING RUNNER Single: CD SINGLE Label: PARLOPHONE Title: 'SEE EMILY PLAY' Artist: PINK FLOYD Album: ECHOES - THE BEST OF PINK FLOYD Label: EMI Title: 'I AM THE RESURRECTION' Artist: THE STONE ROSES Album: CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL Label: COLUMBIA Title: 'GOT NONE' Artist: ROBERT POST Album: (CD SINGLE) Label: MERCURY Title: 'TELL MAMA' Artist: ETTA JAMES Album: ETTA JAMES- THE GENUINE ARTICLE Label: MCA/CHESS Title: 'W.A.N.D. (RADIO EDIT)' Artist: THE FLAMING LIPS Single: CD SINGLE Label: WARNER BROTHERS Title: 'JUST LIKE YOU' Artist: ROXY MUSIC Album: STRANDED Label: EG Title: 'HENRIETTA' Artist: THE FRATELLIS Single: CD SINGLE Label: FALLOUT Title: 'I FEEL LOVE' Artist: DONNA SUMMER Album: DONNA SUMMER - ON THE RADIO Label: CASABLANCA Title: 'JET' Artist: PAUL MCCARTNEY Album: PAUL MCCARTNEY - ALL THE BEST! Label: PARLOPHONE Title: 'CRYSTAL BALL' Artist: KEANE Album: UNDER THE IRON SEA Label: ISLAND Title: 'IS IT ANY WONDER?' Artist: KEANE Title: 'BORN TO RUN' Artist: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Album: BORN TO RUN Label: CBS Title: 'SMILE' Artist: LILY ALLEN Album: (CD SINGLE) Label: REGAL Title: 'WESTERN SKIES' Artist: RODDY FRAME Album: WESTERN SKIES Label: REDEMPTION RECORDS Title: 'PERFECT' Artist: JOHN CALE Album: (CD SINGLE) Label: EMI Title: 'NEVER BE LONELY' Artist: THE FEELING Album: TWELVE STOPS AND HOME Label: UNIVERSAL/ISLAND Listen here: _http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio2/aod.shtml?radio2/ross_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio2/aod.shtml?radio2/ross) J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:18:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Diane whateley Subject: RE: [AVALON]- Weeekend double whammy! Our Bry was in the Guide section of the Guardian this Saturday in an article about fashion dandies over the ages! Today's Sunday Times had him talking about his cars over the years in the My Motors section- nice recent photo' BTW. Cheers- maybe see some of you in July? Diane Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:17:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Diane whateley Subject: RE: [AVALON]- Weeekend duoble whammy! Our Bry was in the Guide section of the Guardian this Saturday in an article about fashion dandies over the ages! Today's Sunday Times had him talking about his cars over the years in the My Motors section- nice recent photo' BTW. Cheers- maybe see some of you in July? Diane Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:18:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Diane whateley Subject: RE: [AVALON]- Weeekend double whammy! Our Bry was in the Guide section of the Guardian this Saturday in an article about fashion dandies over the ages! Today's Sunday Times had him talking about his cars over the years in the My Motors section- nice recent photo' BTW. Cheers- maybe see some of you in July? Diane Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:39:49 -0400 From: "krnchse" Subject: Re: [AVALON]- Weeekend double whammy! Me and My Motors: Bryan Ferry Jasper Gerard Bryan Ferry, 60, who once described himself as an "orchid born on a coal tip", grew up on a council estate in Washington, Tyne and Wear. He worked as a pottery teacher in London before forming Roxy Music, one of the most influential bands of the 1970s. In 1975 he began an affair with Jerry Hall who left him for Mick Jagger two years later. He has four sons - including the hunting activist Otis - from his 20-year marriage to Lucy Helmore with whom he broke up in 2003. He lives in Sussex It is 34 years since Roxy Music swaggered and swooned to stardom with Virginia Plain. "Where my Studebaker takes me," declared the quavering voice of Bryan Ferry. "That's where I'll make my stand . . ." And Ferry, who has reformed the great Roxy Music for an album and a concert at next month's British International Motor Show, is very much still standing. Which is probably more than can be said for the Studebaker that inspired the hit: "It cost #65, my entire student grant. I spent more time pushing than driving it." For Ferry even then style was more important than engines - who needs horsepower if you have pulling power? "The girls were very impressed," he laughs. "It was no looking back." But musically Ferry has been looking back. The big news is that Brian Eno has been tempted back into the band, providing two songs and keyboard playing for their forthcoming album, their first since 1982. Even by the history of rock with its notorious "musical differences", Ferry and Eno long made Cain and Abel look like bosom buddies. In 1973 Ferry stormed off stage vowing never to appear with Eno again after the virtuoso drowned Ferry's vocals in an electronic sea of sound. Now Ferry puts the dispute down to "youthful egos". "He contributed to a couple of my solo projects recently and we got on really well. It felt right to ask him, though he will not tour with us as he does not enjoy playing live." So now Roxy have re-formed, will it be a case of Let's Stick Together? "Oh, I doubt it," Ferry laughs. "I expect we will fall out again and not speak for another 20 years. No," he corrects himself, " we got on fine." It is fitting Roxy should play at the motor show: the car, taking Ferry to impossibly glamorous parties or on lovelorn drives, has long been a Roxy theme. But in real life this most languid of rock gods turns out to be a bit of a boy racer. "The reason I got to London in double quick time (from his house in Sussex) is I drove far too fast for the speed to appear in a newspaper," he smiles. Still, he is more careful than in his youth. "I remember coming out of the Speakeasy in Mayfair, a club for rock'n'roll sorts, late one morning. Hendrix used to go there and it was pretty wild. I climbed into a borrowed Triumph Spitfire and immediately had an accident. I spun round so many times I remember thinking 'I'm dead', but to my surprise I found myself still alive and pointing the right way, so I thought I may as well carry on." Ferry collects everything from Bloomsbury art to international musicians, so it is no surprise he has plenty of motors. Today he is in an Audi A8 W12, provided courtesy of the manufacturer. "The best car I have ever driven. I also have a Bentley Continental GT but I prefer the Audi for its performance, while it also shares a similar look to the Bentley. I'm far more interested in aesthetics than engines. In London I drive one of the new Minis: it has become impossible driving a big car in town. But probably my favourite, which I love driving in the country at weekends, is an old Land Rover." One can imagine him re-creating the Country Life look in tweeds. "Oh no, not at all," he says, "jeans and rolled-up sleeves." And to prove that he can't be pigeonholed, he says he also has a Corvette: "I like to go against expectations." Indeed. Apart from a Bentley in velvet green, he suggests the car of which he was most fond was a Morris Traveller. "I had several Morrises, including a convertible. The wooden Traveller was beautiful. I loved just pottering around the country in it." While many bands in the early 1970s toured in Bedford vans, the art school boys of Roxy insisted on Daimler limousines. "Sadly you never see them now, but they were great," he says. "We used to get up to all sorts of pranks in them." A few years back Ferry, 60, was written off as a performer, but after two acclaimed solo albums and his decision to revive Roxy Music, he is back with a bang. "I just love working. Now I do gigs even if I don't have an album to sell." Will the new album be a throwback to the avant-garde heyday beloved of the cognoscenti, or to their later molto-mellow Avalon period? "Roxy has always been so varied it doesn't really have a style," says Ferry. "There will be a bit of everything. Some songs will hark back to the early stuff. It's a celebration of everything myself, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson have done. Even Eno!" So how long will he continue to Do the Strand? He laughs: "Hopefully, like Duke Ellington, for ever." But for a showman Ferry has always been diffident. Only lately, he says, has he felt relaxed on stage. "I'm much more comfortable now. I was never a natural." As he signs off, he says: "Hope to see you at the motor show." When I explain my wife has organised a ghastly social event that evening and my absence could result in divorce, he laughs. "Oh well," says the man who made a career singing about love and leaving, and who had to pay #10m in a divorce settlement, "I could give you all sorts of advice on that, too." No longer a Slave to Love. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane whateley" To: Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 12:18 PM Subject: RE: [AVALON]- Weeekend double whammy! > Our Bry was in the Guide section of the Guardian this > Saturday in an article about fashion dandies over the > ages! > Today's Sunday Times had him talking about his cars > over the years in the My Motors section- nice recent > photo' BTW. > Cheers- maybe see some of you in July? > Diane > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of trans.gif] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:20:23 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON]- Weeekend triple whammy! and....the Daily Mail reports that Lucy Ferry is to marry Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence version) lookalike Robin Birley. J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V11 #141 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest