From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #901 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, December 9 2014 Volume 15 : Number 901 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Golders Green... [Simon Galloway ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 09:54:48 +0000 From: Simon Galloway Subject: Re: [AVALON] Golders Green... My my, the time do fly... Sorry, that's a Bowie quote! ;) But... I'm reminded that I saw Bowie and Ferry within days of each other and both for free in December 1999, and both thanks to radio giveaways. I'll have to dig out the radio broadcast and relive the (highlights) of the evening. Ferry's best tour by far. Simon On 6 December 2014 at 14:16, Chris Turner wrote: > ...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 > - -- http://glossoprecordclub.wordpress.com/ http://albumzone.co.uk/Hello/Simon_G.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #901 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest