From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #137 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, July 12 2011 Volume 15 : Number 137 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] South Downs [Simon Galloway ] Re: [AVALON] South Downs [taxi2hb ] [AVALON] Kew and a fine time [Terence OConnor ] RE: [AVALON] Kew and a fine time [Andrew Shearer Subject: Re: [AVALON] South Downs Here's the correct link. Still sounds like Gary Numan to me! http://soundcloud.com/bryanferry/south-downs-johnson-somerset On 10 July 2011 19:20, taxi2hb wrote: > South Downs (Johnson Somerset Mix) > > http://soundcloud.com/bryanferb ry/south-downs-johnson-somerseb t ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:30:34 -0700 (PDT) From: taxi2hb Subject: Re: [AVALON] South Downs Sorry for the broken link! Indeed sounds Numanesque Frank - --- On Mon, 7/11/11, Simon Galloway wrote: From: Simon Galloway Subject: Re: [AVALON] South Downs To: avalon@smoe.org Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 12:07 PM Here's the correct link. Still sounds like Gary Numan to me! http://soundcloud.com/bryanferry/south-downs-johnson-somerset On 10 July 2011 19:20, taxi2hb wrote: > South Downs (Johnson Somerset Mix) > > http://soundcloud.com/bryanferb ry/south-downs-johnson-somerseb t ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:18:00 +0100 (BST) From: Terence OConnor Subject: [AVALON] Kew and a fine time Well there have been some great reviews of the Kew show, so you all know that Ferry and his band of players were on fine form, a static but good set list in an outdoor setting and a fine english summer evening. Perhaps I should have done the lottery as the chances of these things seem unlikely at best!! I arrived with my small gang of supporters (3 of us!!) around 6.30 only to walk the 15 minutes of queueing picknickers to find the end of the queue!! This wasn't boding well. But I'd checked out the website and notice something called the dance area directly in front of the stage. Now only had cheap tickets so I was worried that I wouldn't be able to access this essentail position. I knew there was Roxy royalty with tickets to the toffs area with their champagne glasses and tables etc: So with a little detection I found myself stage left at the front. Perfect!! Also great was a stand selling very fine South African Sauvignon Blanc with fancy glasses at a very reasonable price!! It get's better. So Ferry arrives on stage in great voice and a fine version of Spell On You, this crashes into Slave To Love, a fine version of If There Is Something comes along with the glamour girl doing a fine Andy impression, this is the 3rd time I've seen this played on 3 different tours within a year!! Who'd have thought it? Make You Feel My Love goes by beautifully, You Can Dance and Alphaville sound great and the audience are with Ferry all the way. Reason Or Rhyme, not a favourite of mine from the album loses it's way somewhere, people around me are starting to chatter. I think he should have tried Tender Is The Night which would have been lovely on this balmy evening as the light was fading. Sign Of The Times was great, but over in a flash. Like a Hurricane was better than earlier in the year with Roxy, but seems pointless really with so many other of Ferry's own songs waiting an outing. Tara seemed rushed somehow, but Spedding played some nice acoustic guitar. Bitter Sweet really failed for me, it felt rushed and out of sinc with the rest of the set. If he really wanted to something from Country Life, Out Of The Blue seems a better bet, but personally and in the context of this out door show perhaps Tokyo Joe might have been a better choice. Avalon sounded the best I've ever heard live, My Only Love ( my heart sank at the opening bars ), but I looked round to see couples happily swaying and having a romantic moment, so that proves me wrong. Great to hear What Goes On and now we are on the canter home with LITD, EOY, LST & JG. I'm left happy that I've seen one of the best Ferry shows ever, and I've seen every tour of his. It's interesting to see Ollie moved stage front into Phils position and now doing BV's too. I was so thankful that it wasn't Jeff Thall in Speddings place. His playing was so overpowering on the Bete Noir tour. It has been said that Ollie and Neil didn't interact, I can confirm this, Ollie checked out Neil a few times, but he wasn't paying any attention to the young virtuoso. So what the end result. A much happier Ferry than with his Roxy cohorts, sounding much stronger than I've heard him in years. This year is going to be a long slog for a man of his age and I hope he's as good for our US friends as he was for us. The bonus of the night is always meeting fellow fans, so it was good to meet Andrew, Johnathon and the Divine Miss F!! Also to the lady I'd met before who abandoned her husband and joined our little band! even bought her own whiskey with her!! Sorry, forgot your name. All the best Terry 'O' ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:23:43 +0000 From: Andrew Shearer Subject: RE: [AVALON] Kew and a fine time Actually Terry, you raise two interesting points which I'd forgotten: 1. I didn't think Bitter Sweet was very good either - not a patch on the ATGB tour. It was also the only time of the night that I thought BF was struggling vocally, which seemed strange since I would've thought it was well within his register. 2. I too thought Avalon was good. It's something that I usually can't wait to finish (I like the song but I've just heard it too many times) but it seemed to be less ephemeral and more rockier and danceable on Saturday night. Also, the backing singer I thought did a remarkable job on the Etienne vocals; it could've been been Yanick herself but actually she may have surpassed her too. Whilst writing this, a couple of more points have occurred to me: A couple of fans bought some of the t-shirts but subsequently didn't think they were the best of quality. It was the first tour that I've been to that I didn't feel inclined to buy a programme. I was quite disappointed by the Roxy 2011 programme and this seems to be a similar format. I think what I don't like are whole pages taken up with single photographs. Perhaps we've been spoilt by previous tours which have had rare out-takes and photos drawings and designs etc. I've lost count of the number hours spent poring over those books and nearly always finding something that I hadn't noticed before. Of course, it's just personal preference and others might prefer the current format. Andrew www.andrewshearer.com Twitter & Facebook: @shearermusic > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:18:00 +0100 > From: stranded22@btinternet.com > Subject: [AVALON] Kew and a fine time > To: avalon@smoe.org > > Well there have been some great reviews of the Kew show, so you all know that > Ferry and his band of players were on fine form, a static but good set list in > an outdoor setting and a fine english summer evening. Perhaps I should have > done the lottery as the chances of these things seem unlikely at best!! > > I > arrived with my small gang of supporters (3 of us!!) around 6.30 only to walk > the 15 minutes of queueing picknickers to find the end of the queue!! This > wasn't boding well. But I'd checked out the website and notice something > called the dance area directly in front of the stage. Now only had cheap > tickets so I was worried that I wouldn't be able to access this essentail > position. I knew there was Roxy royalty with tickets to the toffs area with > their champagne glasses and tables etc: So with a little detection I found > myself stage left at the front. Perfect!! > Also great was a stand selling very > fine South African Sauvignon Blanc with fancy glasses at a very reasonable > price!! It get's better. > > So Ferry arrives on stage in great voice and a fine > version of Spell On You, this crashes into Slave To Love, a fine version of If > There Is Something comes along with the glamour girl doing a fine Andy > impression, this is the 3rd time I've seen this played on 3 different tours > within a year!! Who'd have thought it? > Make You Feel My Love goes by > beautifully, You Can Dance and Alphaville sound great and the audience are > with Ferry all the way. Reason Or Rhyme, not a favourite of mine from the > album loses it's way somewhere, people around me are starting to chatter. I > think he should have tried Tender Is The Night which would have been lovely on > this balmy evening as the light was fading. Sign Of The Times was great, but > over in a flash. Like a Hurricane was better than earlier in the year with > Roxy, but seems pointless really with so many other of Ferry's own songs > waiting an outing. Tara seemed rushed somehow, but Spedding played some nice > acoustic guitar. Bitter Sweet really failed for me, it felt rushed and out of > sinc with the rest of the set. If he really wanted to something from Country > Life, Out Of The Blue seems a better bet, but personally and in the context of > this out door show perhaps Tokyo Joe might have been a better choice. Avalon > sounded the best > I've ever heard live, My Only Love ( my heart sank at the opening bars ), but > I looked round to see couples happily swaying and having a romantic moment, so > that proves me wrong. Great to hear What Goes On and now we are on the canter > home with LITD, EOY, LST & JG. > > I'm left happy that I've seen one of the best > Ferry shows ever, and I've seen every tour of his. > > It's interesting to see > Ollie moved stage front into Phils position and now doing BV's too. I was so > thankful that it wasn't Jeff Thall in Speddings place. His playing was so > overpowering on the Bete Noir tour. It has been said that Ollie and Neil > didn't interact, I can confirm this, Ollie checked out Neil a few times, but > he wasn't paying any attention to the young virtuoso. > > So what the end > result. A much happier Ferry than with his Roxy cohorts, sounding much > stronger than I've heard him in years. This year is going to be a long slog > for a man of his age and I hope he's as good for our US friends as he was for > us. > > The bonus of the night is always meeting fellow fans, so it was good to > meet Andrew, Johnathon and the Divine Miss F!! Also to the lady I'd met before > who abandoned her husband and joined our little band! even bought her own > whiskey with her!! Sorry, forgot your name. > > All the best > > Terry 'O' > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:10:24 -0400 From: chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Kew I was very lucky. A friend won tickets to see BF and ALSO a hamper. Armed with both, I asked the guy on the gate if he would let us in the reserved picnic area, even though we had no reservation, and he said yeah why not. He issued us with wristbands and we sat down randomly near the front, onlt to be joined by Javier Noyes (guitar technician to Phil Manzanera) and Isaac Ferry among others. I did enjoy the concert immensely but would not say it was the best I have seen him do. Loved the set list in its own right, but I side with those who think that touring with Roxy when Olympia came out and now doing an Olympia tour but performing more group material than solo compositions is frankly barmy. I love the visuals. The video graphics are great. But just as they did with the Roxy dates, Ferry is only merged with the graphics rather than seen on screen in focus (except the rather embarrassing interview screened before the concert). So if you did not mosh down the front or blag a space in the reserved area, youl would not have seen Bryan Ferry clearly. The stage was often too dark to pick people out and with 4 guitarists, 2 drummers, 3 keyboard players, etc, Ferry was doing that hiding thing at the back of the stage while others got with it in spotlight. Much has been said about Jorja and yes, she filled the centre stage with grace, attractivness, playing wonderfully, but why is BF so loathe to stand there. I like Sophie Ellis Bextor. She and her husband are friends with a mutual friend (Ed Harcourt). But I thought she looked a fright as support. The bright yellow, unfeasibly short AND floaty number was completely wrong. She spent most of the set with her fist in her crotch to stop the dress flicking up, either in the wind or as a result of her moving. When she did move, she moved like a startled horse training for the Ministry ofr Silly Walks. And THEN she tells the audience that they need not worry about the dress as she is weraing a pair of shorts underneath as insurance. She was so unrelaxed, compared to other times I have seen her (this was the 3rd in the past two weeks), I just felt sorry for her. And the sound did not help some decent material. I was worried after Bryan Ferry having heart surgery earlier this year and a 66th birthday looming, he might be bemufflered and coated up. But he was dapper as anything, sometimes looking like an accountant dancing his way round piles of tax returns. But he was in fine fettle, enjoyed it himself (which is half the battle) and good humoured when his appeal to support Kew Gardens over the next few years fell on deaf ears, even having a quick snigger. My only real complaint about the show (apart from timing, material choices, visuals, and frankly a lacklustre singing voice) was it was over way too quickly! Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:21:49 -0400 From: chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Post Q On Sunday morning, I drove from Blighty sur le continent through France, Belgium, Germany and now Austria. Oliver (my son, who also enjoyed Kew) packed the Thrill Of It All box set for the journey and it has been on non stop for most of the driving. And I conclude that, despite playing music very loud and repeat playing Roxy from Day 1, there is an awful lot I have not properly heard or so it seems, leading to a rather embarrassing red faced confession. Until yesterday, I have always though the first line of A Song For Europe was "Here, as I sit in this SHANTY cafe...". Oh well, 38 years later... There seems to be whistling low in the mix during Sultanesque - Bryan Ferry? Has anyone isolated the words spoken during The Pride And The Pain & The Numberer? They are not actually instrumental, are they? Were some of the 1974 and 1975 Roxy tracks also arranged as for In Your Mind (by Ann ODell). Some sound remarkably similar (to me). Just asking Richard ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #137 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest