From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #66 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, March 13 2007 Volume 12 : Number 066 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] Dylanesque enters UK Album Chart at No 5 [] [AVALON] The Quarterly [Go2Sweeney@aol.com] [AVALON] The seven ages of rock [Mark ] [AVALON] Adrian has Tagged you! :) [Adrian Jackson ] [AVALON] The Journal's Culture Mag [Jocelynfiske@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Adrian has Tagged you! :) ["A. van Lammeren" ] RE: [AVALON] Afters ["Martin Stockman" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:48:07 -0000 From: Subject: RE: [AVALON] Dylanesque enters UK Album Chart at No 5 - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Guy Lawley Sent: 11 March 2007 21:12 To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: RE: [AVALON] Dylanesque enters UK Album Chart at No 5 Superb news and thoroughly deserved. I like this album and it's a brave tour with proper promotion. Well done Bryan ! :) !!!!!! :O) :O) :O) Thanks for the good news, Chris! Guy ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:49:32 EDT From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Afters It is nearly Spring, moonless night in the small town of Gateshead, starless and bible-black (you can't beat a Dylan lyric), as we cross the still calm of the blinking eye bridge ignoring the massive sign hoist high over the Baltic Centre saying "You can't not look at this". Damn, just did. Safely back on true Newcastle shores (south of the river doesn't count, but hardly makes you a Makem -take note cub reporter from the Edinburgh Evening News) we settle in for a night-cap. Before long there's a trickle of musicians filling up the bar including a couple of Sons of Durham and a Son of Druridge. That's an awful lot of sods in one room. It was just a night of idle banter and Geordie reminiscence (do you remember the Galleries?, etc. etc) but a couple of interesting points to note were that the imagery for the back stage drop, the programme and the Dylanesque cover are all of that hallowed ground The Spanish City. Once Paul had said "do you not recognise it like?" the penny dropped and I could see nothing but that unmistakable dome in the background. Also heavy hints that the tour will run at least until August. I see new dates have just been added, but I suspect (and hope for you guys across the pond) that should also mean some US dates. Also that The Times They Are a Changin' is the band's favourite live Dylan number. Colin seems very pleased by how much Ollie is learning from Spedding (I know Simon won't be!) and I remarked that the duel lead in Just Like You that night worked really well (the first time they'd done it that way). They were trying to replicate the double tracked Manzo feel, but then it gets dropped the next night - so go figure. Also momentarily dawns on me how much Ollie looks like a young (much shorter) Vanessa Redgrave. Ummm, what else, oh, Ferry had been shopping for jazz records that day at Windows (I'm a bit worried I'm beginning to make Newcastle sound like it's in some kind of time warp!). Mr Dillon (not Bob) had found himself sitting next to the grateful glamorous recipient of a couple of comps doled out on that spree, earlier at the concert. Rhett, Bryan and Paul had all been to see the Eno exhibition at the Baltic and highly recommended it. As do I. I watched mesmerised for an hour until I finally nodded off! The funniest thing was a school group of noisy 7 year olds talking through what they were seeing. All lying splayed out on the floor like little beached turtles they kept shouting it's going lighter Miss! lighter Miss! lighter Miss! darker Miss! darker Miss! darker Miss! Eno would have been made up. Picked up a copy of the Journal's Culture Mag with another Ferry article and quite possibly the first one this year that doesn't use The Life of Bryan as its lazy headline. A couple of bits relate directly to a recent topic posted here. I'll cut and paste later. But I guess the most important thing to report is that TGPT (SOD was never going to catch on was it?) is looking very fit, slimmed down, eating healthily and exercising. When I ordered a coke and he asked me "diet?" you know he's in a different mind set. That, or he was trying to tell me something. Fatline Fiske ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:30:55 -0000 From: Subject: RE: [AVALON] SETLIST I see Love is the Drug has replaced Jealous Guy. Roll on Wednesday! It will be fascinating to see if Dylanesque can get a chart "run" now, number 5 is far better than could have hoped for. Certainly not bad for a 61 year old making another covers LP Cheers Rob ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:37:40 EDT From: Go2Sweeney@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] The Quarterly BF is on the cover of "The Quarterly" Spring 2007 edition, with and article and pics inside. I don't think The Quarterly is available in the shops, as I get it free with one of my subscriptions, and there is never a price on the cover. Anyway, if anybody is interested in a scan, email me offlist. G. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:26:16 +0000 From: Mark Subject: [AVALON] The seven ages of rock This upcoming BBC documentary apparently includes previously unshown footage of Roxy Music live. I'm hoping it could be from 1972! Has anyone got any further information!! Mactheaxe ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:03:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Jackson Subject: [AVALON] Adrian has Tagged you! :) [IMAGE][TABLE NOT SHOWN] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:48:17 EDT From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] The Journal's Culture Mag >Picked up a copy of the Journal's Culture Mag with another Ferry article and quite possibly the first one this year that doesn't use The Life of Bryan as its lazy headline. A couple of bits relate directly to a recent topic posted here. Well, I lied. the front cover had the headline: Bryan Ferry does Dylan (hopefully not in the same way Debbie does Dallas). But, nooooooo, inside was The Life of Bryan. God, is everyone working for The Sun?!! Anyway, as promised: Has he had any feedback from Dylan himself? "I shouldn't think he's heard them, but I imagine he might at some point." He says. I express my surprise that Mr Dylan has not made a point of getting in touch...but apparently it would be much more of a surprise to Bryan if he'd had a call. "I never really get feedback from songwriters...although I did once from my first solo album in 1973," he quickly corrects himself. "I got a really nice letter from this couple who'd written a country music song I did which nobody had ever heard of before", he recalls with a laugh. "It was a song I'd found somewhere and it was called River of Salt, written by this couple in Nashville and they sent a lovely letter saying they'd loved my rendition of their song. That was nice." After saying in the article that he'd like to go to the Baltic for the Eno Exhibition and perhaps to Penshaw Hill (around which according to legend, the Lampton Worm wrapped it's tail), when he was up in Newcastle he went on: He may have a moment for a nostalgic trip to Windows of the Arcade though, a place he spent many hours during his formative years as a fine art student under the wing of top pop artist Richard Hamilton, no less. "That place was a big inspiration to me. I used to go in there and play the records in the booths. I bought all my records there. It's fantastic that it's still there. I love those old shops with guitars and saxophones in the window so you can stand and just look at them all night long." ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:42:00 +0100 From: "A. van Lammeren" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Adrian has Tagged you! :) So Adrian, what did you tag? [This mailing list is text only] Tara, Anton. Adrian Jackson wrote: > > [IMAGE][TABLE NOT SHOWN] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:38:57 -0000 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Afters Jocelyn wrote: "a couple of interesting points to note were that the imagery for the back stage drop, the programme and the Dylanesque cover are all of that hallowed ground The Spanish City. Once Paul had said "do you not recognise it like?" the penny dropped and I could see nothing but that unmistakable dome in the background." Could Geordies elaborate upon this? I think you are saying that the curious cover art, much maligned in these pages, references a place held dear in Ferry's youth. Mx - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.8/718 - Release Date: 3/11/2007 09:27 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #66 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest