From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1112 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, August 27 2016 Volume 15 : Number 1112 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Live video recordings [Mark Longhorn ] Re: [AVALON] Live video recordings [Mark Longhorn ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:25:07 +0100 From: Mark Longhorn Subject: Re: [AVALON] Live video recordings I think tv appearances are fine - especially if they're rare tracks! Sent from my iPhone On 26 Aug 2016, at 13:21, Evans Richard wrote: > Oh my - thats gonna need some thought although we certainly have the Manifesto, F&B, Avalon and 2001 Reunion tours readily available > > Probably best to start there and does that include TV live performances? > > > On 26 Aug 2016, at 13:07, Mark Longhorn wrote: > >> Ok, so we've sorted out audio (I think- apart from a technicality on Bitters >> End!). >> >> >> >> Here's the next one for you all to think on.... >> >> >> >> - What RM songs are available as a video recording- and more >> importantly, which ones are not? >> >> - Again, whether or not they are RM in concert or BF in concert (or >> indeed anyone else in concert) is important to the cognescenti. >> >> >> >> >> >> mactheaxe >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:17:18 +0100 From: Richard Evans Subject: Re: [AVALON] It's Good News Week... Enjoyed that post Cheers Richard Sent from my iPad > On 26 Aug 2016, at 00:42, Chris Turner wrote: > > Roxy Music had a Platinum album last year. > > OK, so it took almost 14 years for 'The Best of Roxy Music' to reach > Platinum status in May last year but selling 600,000 of anything is pretty > good in my book. > > Source: http://goo.gl/XXPykI > > Avonmore was more successful that Olympia. > > At least in chart performance anyway. Although both albums had a three week > initial run peaking at #19, Avonmore had a further four week chart run last > year, four months after release, this time getting to #28. On that > evidence, it would have sold better that its twin-brother.. > > Source: http://goo.gl/JPojv6 > > Ferry Inspires Award-Winning Film Title > > Hong Kong film 'In The Mood For Love', whose English title was inspired by > Bryan Ferry's 1999 version of 'I'm In The Mood For Love' (it appeared on > some international versions of the soundtrack) was this very week voted the > second best film of the 21st Century by BBC Culture. > > Source: http://goo.gl/zURbL2 > > The Jazz Age sold 100,000 copies. > > ...at least according to Alistair Norbury, BF's manager for the last 10 > years. Must be true; I'm sure a man who was in the past both a lawyer and a > marketing man wouldn't make something up just to impress a potential > employer, would he? Just kidding. Well done to BF if it's true. I wasn't > one of the 100K I can assure you. > > Source: http://goo.gl/Ui5r0n > > More Gems in the Archives > > Dave Stewart's recent lightweight but entertaining autobiography 'Sweet > Dreams Are Made Of This' is filled with nice anecdotes about his work with > The Commander. Clearly an admirer of BF both as an artist and a man > ('there's nobody like him really; they definitely broke the mold (sic)'), > Stewart revealed that he and BF sometimes listen to some of the unreleased > outtakes from their sessions together in the 1990s. There are 'loads of > unfinished sketches and songs that were either put to the side or just > didn't fit with the project'. > > There's also a nice anecdote about how DS met his partner when he and BF > were out on the lash. Well, strictly speaking they were invited to dinner > in St Tropez by the Duchess of Seville. Which of us hasn't had that eh? > > Source: http://goo.gl/mU9Hgj > > > There you go. Five pieces of good news. Are you happy now? > > Folks, Avalon isn't a hagiography. Sometimes people will have a different > opinion to you. More fool you if you take any notice of mine. > > Just for the record, although BF's post-Frantic output leaves me pretty > cold, I liked just about everything up until then (more than most can say, > I'll bet), I still think he's got a lot to offer live, he has a wonderful > back catalogue, and above all, I ALWAYS want him to succeed, because I'll > ALWAYS think he's great. > > Chris > > PS. Nice one, Simon. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:26:30 +0100 From: Mark Longhorn Subject: Re: [AVALON] Live video recordings I think there's also some reasonable coverage of the Siren tour . The challenge is the earlier ones- as expected. Sent from my iPhone On 26 Aug 2016, at 13:21, Evans Richard wrote: > Oh my - thats gonna need some thought although we certainly have the Manifesto, F&B, Avalon and 2001 Reunion tours readily available > > Probably best to start there and does that include TV live performances? > > > On 26 Aug 2016, at 13:07, Mark Longhorn wrote: > >> Ok, so we've sorted out audio (I think- apart from a technicality on Bitters >> End!). >> >> >> >> Here's the next one for you all to think on.... >> >> >> >> - What RM songs are available as a video recording- and more >> importantly, which ones are not? >> >> - Again, whether or not they are RM in concert or BF in concert (or >> indeed anyone else in concert) is important to the cognescenti. >> >> >> >> >> >> mactheaxe >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> 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: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:27:12 +0100 From: Mark Longhorn Subject: [AVALON] Pub rock Don't know if anyone else is watching this on sky arts, but I just saw Andy Mackay playing with Eddie & the hot rods in about 1977!! Amazing/ I never knew he played with them! Mactheaxe Sent from my iPhone ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1112 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest