From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #52 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, February 28 2011 Volume 15 : Number 052 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Background information on change of venue for Australian RM show ["Gunther Wandtke" ] [AVALON] Roxy in top form in Sydney and Newcastle - Part 1 ["Gunther Wand] [AVALON] Another Roxy in Sydney review ["Gunther Wandtke" Subject: [AVALON] Background information on change of venue for Australian RM show http://tinyurl.com/499grdm A report on the phantastic Newcastle show of last night will follow. Gunter ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:07:49 +1100 From: "Gunther Wandtke" Subject: [AVALON] Roxy Oz support act free music download The Sydney band slotted in last moment as the support act for Roxy Music in Australia - CAMERAS - were an instant hit with me, they are a pretty new and very young band and - to my big surprise - really good (I'm not associated with these guys in any way). You can get your own impression by downloading a free track at their website: http://www.camerasmusic.com/ Gunter ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:05:55 +0100 From: "Dick Verseput" Subject: [AVALON] Roxy at Sidney A few very good clips form the Sidney gig on 25-02-2011. Made by a Australian friend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnUk-rV58MA &feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Petra&Dick ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:58:05 +1100 From: "Gunther Wandtke" Subject: [AVALON] Roxy in top form in Sydney and Newcastle - Part 1 After the mixed reviews and ruminations about the current Roxy tour I was curious to see what Roxy was going to be like in Australia in 2011. Well, to make this short, I found it simply brilliant, so brilliant indeed that a friend and I decided on the same night to take up the half price ticket offer for the Newcastle show on the next night. Here are some of things that impressed me: The first rock show in a long time with perfect volume and sound mix, everything could be heard clearly and I did not need the earplugs that I had brought in anticipation of another earsplitting rock show. I need to add we had great seats for Sydney, in the stalls front section middle. The projections on the screen behind the band were really clever, individually designed for each song with 2 TV cameras providing extreme close up footage of the musicians on stage and layered in with the artwork, this in no way looked cheap or superfluous to me. As can be seen from the set list, Roxy has rectified the problem of having all unknown songs in the first half and clustering the hits towards the end. The early played bJealous Guyb broke the ice and people started to walk to the front of the stage and filling the aisles, without security interfering in any way and the band obviously loved having the dancing crowd, it made it a fun night. Bryan Ferry indeed kept changing his position on the stage frequently, sometimes fronting the band, then occupying keyboards to the right and the left, melting in with the band as just another member, while Phil and Andy often got the limelight. I did not miss him trying to interact much with the other band members; to me he appeared totally professional, focused on his music and performance, as did everybody else in the band. All appeared to enjoy themselves playing and performing and that is good enough for me. More about Newcastle tomorrow, Gunter ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:18:59 +1100 From: "Gunther Wandtke" Subject: [AVALON] Another Roxy in Sydney review http://tinyurl.com/4oqe4jp with video and a link to pictures ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:10:21 +1100 From: "Gunther Wandtke" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Appalling Journalism - WTF http://www.flickr.com/photos/mystifyme07/sets/72157626015289913/ The lady reviewer was there as a photographer and is not normally a reviewer and obviously not somebody who cares a lot about the music of RM or BF, but we got to give her credit for giving us a few nice photos. - -----Original Message----- From: Victor Hastings Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 12:45 PM To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: Re: [AVALON] Appalling Journalism - WTF I am outraged that John O'Brien's setlists failed to reflect the "Olympia" tracks that Roxy Music performed. I demand a refund as well as an apology. Moreover, I can confirm authoritatively that Elle Macpherson was with ME last night, not Bryan. She has brown hair. I should know. - ----- Original Message ---- > From: Richard Evans > To: avalon avalon > Sent: Fri, February 25, 2011 10:34:37 AM > Subject: [AVALON] Appalling Journalism - WTF > > Well this lady obviously wasn't there, doesn't know here arse from her > elbow or >both > > http://www.streetcorner.com.au/news/showPost.cfm?bid=20725&mycomm=SC > > Cheers > > Richard > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:30:54 +1100 From: "Gunther Wandtke" Subject: [AVALON] downloadable 13 Min Aussie radio interview with BF http://tinyurl.com/63q7fo3 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #52 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest