From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #845 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, September 17 2014 Volume 15 : Number 845 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Re: BF announcement [Jocelyn Fiske ] [AVALON] Roxy On The Telly ["John O'Brien" ] Re: [AVALON] Re: BF announcement [Simon Galloway ] RE: [AVALON] BF Announcement [Tracy Connell ] Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories [Han Snijders ] [AVALON] Larg est [KWil632057@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] BF Announcement [Chris Turner ] Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories [DickenPetra Verseput ] RE: [AVALON] BF Announcement ["Thomas Wallace" ] Re: [AVALON] BF Announcement [Chris Turner ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:29:25 +0100 From: Jocelyn Fiske Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: BF announcement Sadly, I doubt that too. But I'd still be interested if it was Ferry new 'new' material. As opposed to new 'old' stuff. Or anything more by Dylan. Or Lennon. J Sent from my iPad On 16 Sep 2014, at 16:13, olivetreepl+mark wrote: > You can bet it's not an announcement about a) 5.1 releases of Roxy albums or b) Roxy reforming for a tour or in the studio! > > > > > Mactheaxe > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:40:36 -0400 From: "John O'Brien" Subject: [AVALON] Roxy On The Telly Roxy are featured on a TV show tomorrow evening; http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/news.php?n=484 O'B. (List member formerly known as J.O'B.) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:38:38 +0100 From: Simon Galloway Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: BF announcement Official release of the BBC sessions perhaps? It'd be great if they did it like the Siouxsie & The Banshees BBC box. Sessions, In Concert programmes and a DVD of various BBC TV appearances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_BBC_%28Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees_album%29 On 16 September 2014 16:13, olivetreepl+mark wrote: > You can bet it's not an announcement about a) 5.1 releases of Roxy albums or > b) Roxy reforming for a tour or in the studio! > > > > > Mactheaxe > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > - -- http://glossoprecordclub.wordpress.com/ http://albumzone.co.uk/Hello/Simon_G.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:19:19 +0000 From: Tracy Connell Subject: RE: [AVALON] BF Announcement Not sure if this announcement will be this, but I found out in Dublin that the new album would be due in October plus a UK tour in May 2015. > Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:00:13 +0100 > Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF Announcement > From: bahi.para@gmail.com > To: avalon@smoe.org > CC: JohnOBrien001@aol.com > > On 16 September 2014 14:29, John O'Brien wrote: > > > What's this?? > > > > http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2234 > > J.O'B. > > > > b You're asking us?b > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:41:38 +0200 From: Han Snijders Subject: Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories Indeed well said, those where the days! It was great fun to hear all those stories after years of enjoying Ferry and Roxy with only one or two people. I'm still wondering if KB already listend to Dylanesque Han 2014-09-16 19:23 GMT+02:00 Victor Hastings : > Well said, Chris. > On Sep 14, 2014 9:30 PM, "Chris Turner" wrote: > > > I think the appeal of a mailing list is still a seductive one but > > unfortunately the need for more secure forms of email is making this > > method of > > delivery more difficult. > > > > But this list has never been about the mechanics. > > Or even Roxy Music particularly. It's been about the people here. Our > > relative > > lack of numbers gave us some exclusivity. Or were we just shepherded here > > to > > keep our obsession away from decent society? Hmmm... > > > > How about the hours > > spent talking about Floris or Phytofix or white socks or cellists or > > b-sides > > or bassists or backing singers or bootlegs? The lyrical analysis? The > > trouser > > analysis? The conspiracy theories? The flame wars? Racing home from a gig > > to > > write your review? > > > > > > Who remembers Jason Greshes or Rhode Island Red or Webgal > > or Peanut or eman or Monquiboy or Betsy Fowler or Decophile or Will > > Frechette > > or Jim Spellman or Arnie or Grant Goggans or M or David Firmin or Han or > > Daniel Atterbom or a phalanx of other regular contributors (apologies for > > any > > omissions)? Even dear old Martineaux has lapsed lately. > > > > How about > > Flangebracket or Mr Avalon or Lawn-gate or Rhett Davies' niece? > DavdMock's > > ENORMOUS sig file? The wonderfully Machiavellian Jimmy Vapor (who > described > > Avalon as 'this glam-rock toilet bowl')? KBP vs Tom Wallace? Kwil loves > > Michiel? Roger Eno's PR Machine? The comedy stylings of JFRoxy? Reecey's > > microscopically-detailed European travelogues? Statto? (wait, that was > > me...) > > There are a few names there for the greybeards. > > > > Remember the twin wonders > > that were 'A Mad Affair' I and II? How about 'A Perfumed Sigh' or 'A > > Rhapsody > > Divine'? The palpable excitement of attending the BBC recordings? What > > about > > the CD Trees? Or Kicki's list website? > > > > > > How many people got the seats they > > wanted for the reunion or the inside griff on new material via this > place? > > Or > > got to meet like-minded strangers at gigs who became friends just because > > of > > this silly obsession? Or indeed people you will never meet who you know > > better > > than many friends? And then there was the drinking and the, um, > 'horizontal > > liaisons'. Don't think there wasn't... > > > > Anyhoo, we still have 154 members on > > the main list and 112 on the digest now. Allowing for dual registered > > members, > > ghost entries and lurkers, probably 100 odd members now, quite a way from > > its > > heyday around the turn of the century, but there is an astonishing > hardcore > > who have been here almost from the start. I know it's been 15 years of my > > life. And it's been bloody brilliant, > > > > Avalon has served us well, and I think > > it has a few years left in it yet. Let us hope BF has too... > > > > > > > > > > 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 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:09:46 +0100 From: Simon Galloway Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy On The Telly BBC Four are also showing the Frejus concert on Friday night - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00djn0v On 16 September 2014 12:40, John O'Brien wrote: > Roxy are featured on a TV show tomorrow evening; > http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/news.php?n=484 > > > O'B. > (List member formerly known > as J.O'B.) > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > - -- http://glossoprecordclub.wordpress.com/ http://albumzone.co.uk/Hello/Simon_G.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:24:33 From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Larg est

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READ YOUR NEW VOICE MESSAGES ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:23:40 +0100 From: Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF Announcement Let's just go through the checklist... New BF album announced in 2013 and mooted for September 2014 release...not yet available Autobiography announced August 2013 for Xmas 2014 release...not yet available BF Fragrance announced December 2010...not yet available 40th Anniversary 5.1 version of the debut album announced in 2012...not yet available 40th Anniversary Collectors' Edition of the debut album announced September 2011...not yet available New Roxy Music album (first of a 2 album deal) first announced in May 2002...not yet available Roxy Music remix album first announced in 2002...not yet available in that form Possible Release of BBC sessions discussed for circa 15 years...not yet available Possible release of audition tape discussed for circa 15 years...not yet available Bryan Ferry box set first mentioned in the Autumn 1998 Information Service newsletter...not yet available He's still great, and I would love this to be a new album, but it would be nice too if 'Team BF 'could occasionally deliver on its promises. Chris ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:40:46 +0200 From: DickenPetra Verseput Subject: Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories Well SaC/d!!! Didn't want to miss all these years Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad > Op 16 sep. 2014 om 19:41 heeft Han Snijders het volgende geschreven: > > Indeed well said, those where the days! It was great fun to hear all those > stories after years of enjoying Ferry and Roxy with only one or two people. > I'm still wondering if KB already listend to Dylanesque > > Han > > > > 2014-09-16 19:23 GMT+02:00 Victor Hastings : > >> Well said, Chris. >>> On Sep 14, 2014 9:30 PM, "Chris Turner" wrote: >>> >>> I think the appeal of a mailing list is still a seductive one but >>> unfortunately the need for more secure forms of email is making this >>> method of >>> delivery more difficult. >>> >>> But this list has never been about the mechanics. >>> Or even Roxy Music particularly. It's been about the people here. Our >>> relative >>> lack of numbers gave us some exclusivity. Or were we just shepherded here >>> to >>> keep our obsession away from decent society? Hmmm... >>> >>> How about the hours >>> spent talking about Floris or Phytofix or white socks or cellists or >>> b-sides >>> or bassists or backing singers or bootlegs? The lyrical analysis? The >>> trouser >>> analysis? The conspiracy theories? The flame wars? Racing home from a gig >>> to >>> write your review? >>> >>> >>> Who remembers Jason Greshes or Rhode Island Red or Webgal >>> or Peanut or eman or Monquiboy or Betsy Fowler or Decophile or Will >>> Frechette >>> or Jim Spellman or Arnie or Grant Goggans or M or David Firmin or Han or >>> Daniel Atterbom or a phalanx of other regular contributors (apologies for >>> any >>> omissions)? Even dear old Martineaux has lapsed lately. >>> >>> How about >>> Flangebracket or Mr Avalon or Lawn-gate or Rhett Davies' niece? >> DavdMock's >>> ENORMOUS sig file? The wonderfully Machiavellian Jimmy Vapor (who >> described >>> Avalon as 'this glam-rock toilet bowl')? KBP vs Tom Wallace? Kwil loves >>> Michiel? Roger Eno's PR Machine? The comedy stylings of JFRoxy? Reecey's >>> microscopically-detailed European travelogues? Statto? (wait, that was >>> me...) >>> There are a few names there for the greybeards. >>> >>> Remember the twin wonders >>> that were 'A Mad Affair' I and II? How about 'A Perfumed Sigh' or 'A >>> Rhapsody >>> Divine'? The palpable excitement of attending the BBC recordings? What >>> about >>> the CD Trees? Or Kicki's list website? >>> >>> >>> How many people got the seats they >>> wanted for the reunion or the inside griff on new material via this >> place? >>> Or >>> got to meet like-minded strangers at gigs who became friends just because >>> of >>> this silly obsession? Or indeed people you will never meet who you know >>> better >>> than many friends? And then there was the drinking and the, um, >> 'horizontal >>> liaisons'. Don't think there wasn't... >>> >>> Anyhoo, we still have 154 members on >>> the main list and 112 on the digest now. Allowing for dual registered >>> members, >>> ghost entries and lurkers, probably 100 odd members now, quite a way from >>> its >>> heyday around the turn of the century, but there is an astonishing >> hardcore >>> who have been here almost from the start. I know it's been 15 years of my >>> life. And it's been bloody brilliant, >>> >>> Avalon has served us well, and I think >>> it has a few years left in it yet. Let us hope BF has too... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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, 16 Sep 2014 18:12:19 +0100 From: Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF Announcement On a positive note, I have heard on the QT that Johnny Marr is all over the new album, which pleases this boy no end. Chris ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:29:37 +0100 From: "Thomas Wallace" Subject: RE: [AVALON] BF Announcement Probably the new album. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bahi Para Sent: 16 September 2014 15:00 To: avalon@smoe.org Cc: JohnOBrien001@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF Announcement On 16 September 2014 14:29, John O'Brien wrote: > What's this?? > > http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2234 > J.O'B. > b You're asking us?b ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon - --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:29:03 -0400 From: "John O'Brien" Subject: [AVALON] BF Announcement What's this?? http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2234 J.O'B. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 01:27:45 +0100 From: Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF Announcement Hi Lee, Unfortunately AOL introduced the same policy as Yahoo a few months back: http://blog.aol.com/2014/04/22/aol-mail-takes-action-against-email-spoofing/ Consequently while direct (reply to) messages should arrive as expected, anything relayed via the list will not be seen by most recipients, but will appear on the digest. AOL still have 2.3 million users...but they had 26 million a decade ago (including me!) Chris ________________________________ From: "leesullivanart@aol.com" Message from an AOL dinosaur here. So you may not get this :) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #845 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest