From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1060 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, May 25 2016 Volume 15 : Number 1060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Fifteen Years Ago Today... [Richard Evans ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 09:44:05 +0100 From: Richard Evans Subject: Re: [AVALON] Fifteen Years Ago Today... It was a beautiful night to see Roxy Music in all their glory once again. I remember the sheer power of the band that night and the addition of the extra players worked so week without getting in the way of the band. That was the first of a few nights on that glorious tour that culminated in Hammersmith. It was fab fab fab R Sent from my iPad > On 23 May 2016, at 18:43, Heather Propes wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > Thank you for that nice tribute. It seems like a surreal world when a > reconstruction of an original is the historical event we look back on, but > that's the world we live in! > > I remember that year, when everyone was talking about Lucy Wilkins, and > Sarah Brown, and Roxy Music indeed rebanded for that incredible tour with > all the glamour of their glory days. I was lucky enough to see it in > Boston, and that was a spectacular night. London must have been all the > more so. What was the story of the yellow t-shirt? > > So now we have mostly our memories, but thanks to fans like you, they are > vivid ones. > > Heather > > > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Andy Mol wrote: > >>> Hahahaha. LOL >>> Very understandable. >>> And imaginableb& >>> >>> Great memories. >>> Although I wasnb t there. >>> >>> Cheers, AndyOp 23 mei 2016, om 17:17 heeft Chris Turner < >> cbturner@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: >>> >>> ...23rd May 2001, some of us found ourselves standing in the warm Spring >>> sunshine outside The Riverside Studios in Hammersmith for the recording >> of >>> the Roxy Music TOTP2 Special. It was real. Roxy Music were back! >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3RqGvR0x9Y >>> >>> That was some night. >>> >>> Some random memories: >>> >>> Traipsing around London half the day with Reecey looking for a yellow >>> shirt. A very specific yellow shirt. >>> >>> Seeing Rhett Davies' car (Reg. No R11ETT) parked outside. >>> >>> The Avalonians in all their fancy plumage. A tour de force. >>> >>> An incredibly long wait getting into the building and later the furnace >>> that was the studio, >>> >>> Shakily approaching TGPT in the Green Room for what turned into quite a >>> long and amiable chat. Nice man. >>> >>> Sarah Brown walking right past me with her amazing skyscraper hair. >>> >>> Repeatedly getting the stink eye from the delectable Claire Grogan. >>> >>> Standing 10 feet from my favourite band having not seen most of them for >> 19 >>> years; an amazing atmosphere of bonhomie, excitement and respect towards >>> our returning heroes. >>> >>> The Commander looking and sounding sublime. >>> >>> Manzo noodling the intro to 'If There Is Something'...the little tease! >>> >>> Andy's marvellous maroon suit. >>> >>> Spedding doing some practice riffage to which the crowd spontaneously >>> responded 'Motorbikin'. >>> >>> Lucy Wilkins nailing the 'Out Of The Blue' solo as we, and the rest of >> the >>> band, stood lost in admiration. >>> >>> The extraordinary 'Do The Strand' denouement as the eight red >> be-feathered >>> dancers whirled in front of me. I felt totally lost in reverie. Surreal. >>> >>> The abduction of the Turin Towel >>> >>> Someone thanking me for the ticket by pressing the actual BBC running >> order >>> into my hand. I still have that. >>> >>> Decamping to a local hostelry for the post-match analysis, where I got >> into >>> a deep philosophical discussion with Mme. Trez' brother Raymond about >>> Willie Ormond's 1974 Scotland World Cup campaign, Funny what you >> remember. >>> >>> Above all, being amongst people who understood what I was feeling, >> because >>> they were feeling the same way. >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>> 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 17:47:43 +0000 From: Cruck Cottage Subject: Re: [AVALON] Fifteen Years Ago Today... Sadly missed the cut as it were and headed back to Milton Keynes rather dejected. I remember writing to the BBC and the producer (Mark Hagen??) sent us some CD's by way of consolation. Steve Sent from my iPhone > On 23 May 2016, at 16:19, "Chris Turner" wrote: > > ...23rd May 2001, some of us found ourselves standing in the warm Spring > sunshine outside The Riverside Studios in Hammersmith for the recording of > the Roxy Music TOTP2 Special. It was real. Roxy Music were back! > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3RqGvR0x9Y > > That was some night. > > Some random memories: > > Traipsing around London half the day with Reecey looking for a yellow > shirt. A very specific yellow shirt. > > Seeing Rhett Davies' car (Reg. No R11ETT) parked outside. > > The Avalonians in all their fancy plumage. A tour de force. > > An incredibly long wait getting into the building and later the furnace > that was the studio, > > Shakily approaching TGPT in the Green Room for what turned into quite a > long and amiable chat. Nice man. > > Sarah Brown walking right past me with her amazing skyscraper hair. > > Repeatedly getting the stink eye from the delectable Claire Grogan. > > Standing 10 feet from my favourite band having not seen most of them for 19 > years; an amazing atmosphere of bonhomie, excitement and respect towards > our returning heroes. > > The Commander looking and sounding sublime. > > Manzo noodling the intro to 'If There Is Something'...the little tease! > > Andy's marvellous maroon suit. > > Spedding doing some practice riffage to which the crowd spontaneously > responded 'Motorbikin'. > > Lucy Wilkins nailing the 'Out Of The Blue' solo as we, and the rest of the > band, stood lost in admiration. > > The extraordinary 'Do The Strand' denouement as the eight red be-feathered > dancers whirled in front of me. I felt totally lost in reverie. Surreal. > > The abduction of the Turin Towel > > Someone thanking me for the ticket by pressing the actual BBC running order > into my hand. I still have that. > > Decamping to a local hostelry for the post-match analysis, where I got into > a deep philosophical discussion with Mme. Trez' brother Raymond about > Willie Ormond's 1974 Scotland World Cup campaign, Funny what you remember. > > Above all, being amongst people who understood what I was feeling, because > they were feeling the same way. > > Chris > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 05:56:54 +0300 From: Subject: [AVALON] Give it a try Hello, I think you have to try this thing, it's so hilarious, take a look at See you around, paul@tru-ifa.co.uk ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1060 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest