From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1009 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, December 10 2015 Volume 15 : Number 1009 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: [AVALON] Radcliffe and Maconie [Mark Longhorn Subject: Fwd: [AVALON] Radcliffe and Maconie Chris- that must mean you're a Goons fan! (Just showing my age!) Mark Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Chris Turner > Date: 9 December 2015 20:21:11 GMT > To: Avalon Avalon > Subject: [AVALON] Radcliffe and Maconie > Reply-To: Chris Turner > > The Commander was briefly on BBC Radio 6 this afternoon heroically trying to > plug the deluxe version of Avonmare with crumbling hipsters Stuart Maconie and > Mark Radcliffe. Naturally much toadying took place. No real substance to it > (the interview or the album) but BF was in good form and did whip out a couple > of nice anecdotes from the good old days.B > Apparently when they were recording 'All I Want Is You' at Air Studios off > Oxford Circus, the two tape operators were larking around, trying to put the > band off, perhaps understandable given that they were Michael Sellers and Sean > Milligan, the sons of Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan respectively. > Apparently one of them had fallen in the water...(you have to be old to get > that one). > Later he said that he was in a lift in New York once, when the doors opened > and in walked Chuck Berry, carrying a takeaway. It goes to show you never can > tell... > Like a good pro he plugged the tour, even mentioned the trip to Iceland, which > is of course well-known for liking old geezers.., um, sorry, B 'geysers, but > he did spoil it a bit by mentioning that he listened to a lot of jazz when he > was younger (who knew?) but he did also let slip that he sometimes purchased > his own records from eBay. Bryan was too kind to say a flunky did it for him; > the word he used was 'aide'. > > Anyway, hearing those tales makes me wish that he would announce his > autobiography...*rolls eyes*. > The interview is on the BBC website > here:B http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qnl6lB > Given that it's R&M there's about 90 minutes of Morrissey b-sides, > fuzzbox-wielding new wave bands and pithy Northern banter before you get to > The Commander's contribution. > Chris > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1009 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest