From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #900 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, December 7 2014 Volume 15 : Number 900 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Golders Green... [Chris Turner ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 14:16:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Chris Turner Subject: [AVALON] Golders Green... ...was fifteen years ago today. The Commander was playing his first British gig for four and a half years following the US leg of his ATGB tour. Radio 2 had given away free tickets for the gig and UK Avalonians gathered en masse for the first time that Monday night, with the concert recorded for broadcast the following week.B I remember arriving about two hours early and wandering around the kosher delis and bakeries of the area before joining the excited chatter in the queue outside the venue. We gathered in the faded grandeur of the Hippodrome to hear Ferry produce his gentle interpretations of the 30s classics - wide-eyed in seeing the maestro after all those years. I remember being particularly moved to hear Smoke Gets In Your Eyes after so long and BF's wonderful interpretation of Sunset.B Afterwards we decamped to the pub to deconstruct the gig. I can remember meeting Johnny Reece, Peter Dewey, Richard Swift, Andy Cooper, Martin Stockman, Andy Langley, Simon Galloway and a host of others for the first timeB Fifteen years. Hard to believe it's been that long. Good days. All the memories are here:B http://www.smoe.org/lists/avalon/v04.n399 ChrisB ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #900 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest