From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1061 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, May 26 2016 Volume 15 : Number 1061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Fifteen Years Ago Today... [Jane Collard Subject: Re: [AVALON] Fifteen Years Ago Today... Thanks for this, Chris! Was it really 15 years ago?!!! The start of a great summer (and autumn) of gigs - great fun, great company, and many very happy memories. Jane From: Chris Turner To: Avalon Sent: Monday, 23 May 2016, 16:17 Subject: [AVALON] Fifteen Years Ago Today... ...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:B unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1061 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest