From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #424 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, September 21 2012 Volume 15 : Number 424 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Cocktails with Bryan Ferry [Lee Sullivan Art Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cocktails with Bryan Ferry Indeed it was Andrew. Nice to put some names to sort-of familiar faces. 'Fraid my M&S suit didn't make it into the photos, for some peculiar reason :) Lee S Sent from my iPad On 20 Sep 2012, at 14:14, Andrew Shearer wrote: > Lee, I think this is from the same event? > > http://www.therakeonline.com/read.php?id=137&d=2012-09-19&t=Champagne-Supern > ova:-Anderson-&-Sheppard-and-The-Rake-for-Bryan-Ferry > > > > > > Andrew > > > > www.andrewshearer.com > Twitter & Facebook: @shearermusic > > >> To: avalon@smoe.org >> Subject: [AVALON] Cocktails with Bryan Ferry >> From: leesullivanart@aol.com >> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:02:28 -0400 >> >> Dear All >> >> I've been asked to post this account - originally on my Facebook page - > here >> for the 'wider audience'. I am steadily growing wider myself, so here it > is. >> >> Apologies to those who've already read it; move along, move along, nothing > new >> here (except a correction to the spelling of La Price's name). Those who > want >> to see the accompanying pic, please see my FB page. >> >> >> >> >> >> 11th Sept 2012. >> >> Anderson & Sheppard, Savile Row tailors to Prince Charles and Bryan Ferry >> among many other luminaries were launch a second outlet around the corner >> from their main premises; The Rake magazine, a very high class Gentleman's >> fashion publication - 'the modern voice of classic elegance' - features > Bryan >> Ferry as cover star and interviewee of the current issue: number 23 vol 5. > A >> joint launch cocktail party was held in the A&S new premises with the Rake >> magazine as co-host; Bryan Ferry was guest of honour. I was invited, as I > have >> been supplying cartoons semi-regularly for The Rake and my cousin-in-law is >> the Art Director of the Singapore-based publication, who has also seen me > play >> sax in tribute band Roxy Magic. A perfect circle, or rampant nepotism at > work, >> however you wish to think of it :) >> >> My wife Jo and I spent an hour or so playing wall-flowers, sticking to the >> sides of the very tastefully restrained new decor, whilst gawping at all > the >> lovely suits on show, as modelled - I suppose - by regular clients and the >> glitterati of the tailoring industry, plus a couple of thesps (faces > familiar, >> names unknown). >> >> Then Mr Ferry breezed in and was introduced to a few people. I thought, > well, >> it's now or never, so, having already caught BF's eye as he walked in (in a >> 'do I know you?' kind of way) I sidled over to Marc, my Rake contact, to > try >> and wheedle an introduction, but before I could even begin the process > Ferry >> came over to me for a chat. So of course I fixed him with my most steely > look >> (yeah, right) and told him why I was there and also that I was in tribute > band >> Roxy Magic (irresistible). A great moment of the night was when Jo joined > me >> after a few seconds, thinking that I was talking to Marc (which had been my >> stated intention) only to find herself being introduced to Ferry by me. >> Marvellous. >> >> Ferry was his usual Prince Charles-like gracious self and seemed > reasonably >> interested by the conversation; he broke off to say hi to a couple of >> glamorous well-wishers, only to return to the important subject of which > song >> was most popular with our audiences. I replied that one of them was 'If > There >> Is Something' - incidentally nominated by the magazine as number one of > their >> 'Songs of Elegance and Experience' and currently playing (the original > version >> - not ours!) on their website. He replied, 'of course, that's a good one > for >> you with the long sax solo' - gesturing to my gold sax pin on (on the lapel > of >> my B#50 M&S linen suit - I know how to cut a dash). >> >> He wished the band well, then was whisked away to other liggers and we > were >> left to recover with some more champagne, peach Bellinis, Tequila Sunrises > and >> exotic canapC)s (smoked eel, quails egg, potted shrimp etc.). I briefly > spoke >> with Michael Bracewell - Roxy biographer; then more champagne, darlings, > and >> we chatted to a lovely lady seamstress from Sicily who had been working at > A&S >> for 40 years. Ferry was off at around 8:30 and, as he was going, we managed > to >> get a snap taken with him (see my Facebook page) and then I persuaded Jo > (who >> is so shy at these kind of 'dos' that it spurs me on to be bold - well, > that >> and the cocktails do) that we should chat to Antony Price - Roxy's > long-time >> costumier and dresser to the stars and 'women with rich husbands'. He was a >> scream, as I knew he would be, and we had the amusement of Jo pointing out > to >> him that he had a sewing-pin sticking - point end out - at right angles > from >> his breast pocket. We left before we were thrown out and took our goodie > bags >> with the excellent magazine (really nice photos & layout of course) and >> hankie(!) and were home before 11pm. >> >> And there, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case. >> >> Lee S >> >> >> >> Displacement activity a problem? This won't help: www.leesullivan.co.uk >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> 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 ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #424 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest