From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V13 #80 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, May 31 2009 Volume 13 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary [Diane whateley Subject: Re: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary BBC 4 have a feature on Friday at 9pm on Island, followed at 10.30pm by archive performances by Island artists including Roxy .... - --- On Fri, 29/5/09, Colette Robertson wrote: > From: Colette Robertson > Subject: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary > To: "'Avalon group'" > Date: Friday, 29 May, 2009, 7:36 PM > "The website focuses on 50 classic > albums from the Island catalogue and > features an original press review from the time of release > for every album" > > > > Quite sad that Roxy Music were not included in this list of > 50 albums. > > > > Cheers, Colette > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org > with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 09:37:56 +0100 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary Is there a link to the 50 chosen classics? I find the Island site impossible to navigate . - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Diane whateley Sent: 30 May 2009 09:20 To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: Re: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary BBC 4 have a feature on Friday at 9pm on Island, followed at 10.30pm by archive performances by Island artists including Roxy .... - --- On Fri, 29/5/09, Colette Robertson wrote: > From: Colette Robertson > Subject: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary > To: "'Avalon group'" > Date: Friday, 29 May, 2009, 7:36 PM > "The website focuses on 50 classic > albums from the Island catalogue and > features an original press review from the time of release > for every album" > > > > Quite sad that Roxy Music were not included in this list of > 50 albums. > > > > Cheers, Colette > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org > with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 05:35:51 EDT From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] U2/Cat I too was at the Shepherds Bush Empire for the Yusuf show and was very pleased that U2 came on to perform One/One Love with Baaba Maal and then Vertigo/Peace Train, just the four of them, acoustically. My old school chum who has been telling me for 35 years that I really should give Cat a chance and so finally I accompanied him to the show on Thursday. Personally, I thought U2 stole the show, which was also the claim in yesterday's newspapers. My friend laughed and said "I hardly think they stole the show". But I think we know they did, even though Yusuf complete with Peace songs was entertaining enough and *very* mellow. Must say though that Bono was unusually humble, genuflecting literally to both Baaba Maal and Yusuf when he introduced him to the stage. These gestures though could have been to have been perceived more dramaticall while on stage for those few moments. More impressive (I thought) was that he stood in the wings for most of the Yusuf show, largely unobserved and unobservable and just watched someone else perform. Hope the above interests. I'd not written up before out of sensitivity towards Martin's monitoring of the gushometer that counts the number of times I mention musical activities by those who have crossed Brian Eno's palm with silver. Or had the same parents. Tee hee. Be Seein' You Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:21:08 +0100 From: "Colette Robertson" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary "The website focuses on 50 classic albums from the Island catalogue and features an original press review from the time of release for every album" Quite sad that Roxy Music were not included in this list of 50 albums. Cheers, Colette - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of mark_stephens Sent: 29 May 2009 09:51 To: Avalon group Subject: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary I went to see Yusuf / Cat Stevens at The Shepherds Bush Empire last night. A real intimate place. I am sure I have been in bigger Pub's. Stood next to Pete Waterman (pardon the name drop) when Baaba Maal came on for his encore and started singing U2's One Love. Then before anyone could blink U2 were on stage, sang the whole song and finished with Vertigo. Not bad for a warm up act! Yusuf was brilliant, the show will be on Channel 4 in June. Grabbed myself a programme and plenty of mentions about the early Roxy days, nothing you havent heard before, but nice to see a full page picture of the Country Life album and references to Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure. After Cat Stevens joined Island records 1970 selling millions of albums, Roxy must have been their most DominAnt Band until the arrival of Bob Marley? and later U2. Can't imagine why Roxy did not play a part in this celebration, maybe another time another place? A night to remember Regards, Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 08:47:26 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] U2/Cat (& Ferry - back on topic!) Hate to sound like Martin as he is more than capable of speaking for himself, but, er... anyone remember Bryan Ferry? ("No idea, unless Roger Eno is part of the line-up," some might say). It might seem a bit Shameless to talk about the main man (Ferry, not Brian, Roger or even Keith, the forgotten Eno brother ) for a change, but it looks like a new album is coming around the corner. That'll mean a tour and the chance of some more back catalogue gems getting an airing for us fans. What surprise classics will he revist this time around...? I'm hoping for an extended version of The Chosen One. Much underrated and ripe for a big band workout... Glad to hear U2 managed to steal a show rather than boring everybody to death with their samey, preachy 'dad-rock' though. Score one to Bonio... J In a message dated 30/05/2009 10:39:39 GMT Standard Time, Chandla911@aol.com writes: I too was at the Shepherds Bush Empire for the Yusuf show and was very pleased that U2 came on to perform One/One Love with Baaba Maal and then Vertigo/Peace Train, just the four of them, acoustically. My old school chum who has been telling me for 35 years that I really should give Cat a chance and so finally I accompanied him to the show on Thursday. Personally, I thought U2 stole the show, which was also the claim in yesterday's newspapers. My friend laughed and said "I hardly think they stole the show". But I think we know they did, even though Yusuf complete with Peace songs was entertaining enough and *very* mellow. Must say though that Bono was unusually humble, genuflecting literally to both Baaba Maal and Yusuf when he introduced him to the stage. These gestures though could have been to have been perceived more dramaticall while on stage for those few moments. More impressive (I thought) was that he stood in the wings for most of the Yusuf show, largely unobserved and unobservable and just watched someone else perform. Hope the above interests. I'd not written up before out of sensitivity towards Martin's monitoring of the gushometer that counts the number of times I mention musical activities by those who have crossed Brian Eno's palm with silver. Or had the same parents. Tee hee. Be Seein' You Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V13 #80 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest