From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #329 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Tuesday, January 1 2002 Volume 03 : Number 329 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Virgin Top 500/Don't forget to listen to Justin live on-line tonight! ["Jane Armstrong" Subject: OV: Virgin Top 500/Don't forget to listen to Justin live on-line tonight! Well done to all of us who voted for Nothing Ever Happens in the Virgin Radio All Time Top 500 Singles. It came in at No 252. Always The Last To Know was 382 and Roll To Me was 403. This is more or less the same order they were in last year. Hopefully, there'll be another NEW single up there when we come to vote for the 2002 All Time Top 500!!! Hope you all have a Happy New Year - and don't forget that you can hear Justin's live performance on-line at http://www.clyde1.com/ or I gather that coverage will be broadcast all evening - and that the All Stars will be seeing in the New Year. There's a time-table at http://www.glasgows-hogmanay.co.uk/ - The All Stars are on the Main Stage. They start at 11.40 GMT and the Cosmic Rough Riders are on at 12.50. I believe that Midnight in the UK is 7pm Eastern Time and 4pm on the West Coast. And if you tune in at 10.55 you get to hear the Supernaturals - another underrated great Scottish band. If anyone goes to see it we look forward to a full report tomorrow!! I won't be able to listen, alas - as I shall be jollying it up at an alcoholics anonymous party with Eric Clapton. It was a hard decision to make - spend several hours travelling not to mention trying to find a hotel on New Years Eve, to stand in the snow for hours to hear Justin sing three or four songs - or drive 10 miles down the road to a warm sports centre to watch EC and then home to my own bed. I'm afraid comfort won the toss. Anyway, however you'll be celebrating - I hope you have a great time and that 2002 turns out to be a good year for us all - and especially for Del Amitri!!! Jane xxx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:06:57 EST From: Nancieh@aol.com Subject: Re: OV: Virgin Top 500/Don't forget to listen to Justin live on-line tonight! Hey, thanks for the link Jane! I tuned right in to see what was going on now, and the first thing I heard was the Hogmanay celebration was hours away, and bundle up because it will be below freezing there... followed by a short clip from Justin about the weather! He said he wasn't worried about the cold and thought the warmest place to be would be under the lights, and that he was looking forward to it. Then he followed by saying it was going to be a great party and something to the effect of "It's free, so there's sure to be lots of reprobates there!". Looking forward to hearing how many reprobates from the list are able to go! Happy Hogmanay/New Year all! Nancy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:18:19 EST From: Moer4472@aol.com Subject: OV: got a question I will now be a "Work at Home" mother, so I figure I will be on the computer a lot .... when is the chat for the list again? US/Eastern time? I would like to show up some time, between cleaning the house and doing laundry. maureen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:12:35 EST From: Nancieh@aol.com Subject: Re: OV: Virgin Top 500/Don't forget to listen to Justin live on-line tonight! Delurking for the last time this year... Does anyone know of a way to record from the live stream? For those who are going to be listening to Justin live, you can also see the Square live with two webcams: http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/webcam2/webcam1.htm (from City Chambers, you can see 3 stages from here, not close up though) http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/webcam2/webcam2.htm (a side view across from the Millennium Hotel, more close up but unfortunately just to the right of a stage) Not much going on yet, but at least you can get a feel of it. Happy 2002, Nancy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 23:55:44 +0100 (MET) From: bwurm@clickfish.com Subject: OV: music event 2001 A bit over half an hour and 2001 will be over here. No new record but definitely some moments to remember: my top 3 music events 2001! N0 1 End of May my sister visited me while I was working in Oxford. That time of the year the weather was rather un-English: hot and sunny. As evening entertainment we went to see "Romeo and Juliet" at the Old Firestation Theatre. There is only one word to describe this production: sparse! We entered and found a small bare stage with rather steep rows of seats on two sides. Inside it was still hot and sticky despite it already being round 8:00 p.m. and the seats were definitely not built for comfort. The production was very low-budget (you could see the black sticky tape holding together the soldiers' "boots" and the only stage decoration was Juliet's bed - carried on and off), but also rather long. So it was already close to 10:00 p.m. when we had to go back in after the much needed break. That was about the time they started on the final and most dramatic scene where first Romeo finds his beloved Juliet apparently dead in her grave and then later there is all the talk about love and so on... Unfortunately, it was also the time they started the disco next door and through the rather thin walls you could easily follow the music: Wheatus "I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby" followed by Anastacia "I'm out of love". I guess that play for me now'll forever be a comedy! N02 When I'm a bit down the one thing that helps is listening to Leonard Cohen with the lights turned off and the music turned very loud. I hadn't done that for a while when I'd just returned from the UK (last September week) and everything back home seemd new and just too much sometimes. So I went to bed with my walkman and tuned into the first song on "I'm your man": "They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom for trying to change the system from within. I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin." This time the song definitely did not have calming effect on me. N0 3 Last week when I went to pick up my sister for Christmas and had just entered a kind of stop and go situation on the motorway I had also just picked - out of three outwardly identical tapes - the one containing U2 "Stuck in a moment ...." and The Beautiful South "Look what I found in my beer" (a couple of dancing ladies and a ticket out of here...). Sorry for the rather long mail, but looking forward to a new year and a new chance for the new record! Birgit www.clickfish.com - der menschliche Internet-Guide. Ein Portal f|r alle, die kompetente Hilfe und Beratung im Internet suchen. Mehr als 300 qualifizierte und hilfsbereite Fachleute filtern weltweit als Clickfish-Guides relevante Links, bieten News, Informationen, Foren, Chats und sind als persvnliche Ansprechpartner der schnellste und einfachste Weg, sich im Internet rund um ein Thema zu informieren. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:45:15 -0500 From: "Reid and Susan Gardner" Subject: OV: how do YOU say happy new year? How do YOU say 'happy new year' I'm going to say it like this, then quit posting so much here because I'm not sure I should any more. I forget that Opposite View is composed of many more souls than those I met in England or those I met in Chicago a couple of years ago. All ya'll are the ones I intend my ramblings to, you know that don't you, and I always see your faces as I write something. But for the sake of those who also subscribe to OV maybe its time to indeed keep the talk just about the band.... So here's one more post to squeeze in before 2002 arrives. This has been a year no one will forget, and none of us will be quite the same either. We've all been touched by incredible cruelty and heartlessness back in September, and some have suffered other personal setbacks and losses that seem to be simply too much to overcome. Despair is a dark place I was bogged down in once and I'll never forget it - perhaps therein is the source for my desire to say to each of you, chin up. I feel compelled to tell you that even with the heartwrenching sorrow of September 11, this has been a year of fulfilled dreams and unexpected wonders for me, things I hadn't even imagined have happened in ways I could not have conceived of on my own. Simple joys they were, but they came to pass because there is more to be hopeful about than any of us know. How such opposites can exist is nearly beyond my comprehension, so much devastation but also so much joy... Believe in yourself because you are immeasurably valuable. Believe in God because He has invested everything in you. Do not ever forget the other thing that happened on September 11 on the other side of the pond - a baby was born as a distinct sign to every single person here that there is hope. Ta Ta For Now, Susan "And there are moments when the heavens open wide, When you can hold your dreams and see your future bright..." ~'Life By Mistake' * del Amitri Saunter on in to the newest incarnation of Southern Images Studio: WWW.SGGARDNER.COM ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:49:13 -0800 (PST) From: Debbie Cushing Subject: Re: OV: Virgin Top 500/Don't forget to listen to Justin live on-line tonight! Anyone else having a hard time getting the station to come in clear online? What I'm getting (when I get anything at all) is all choppy and bouncy and sounds like some sort of futuristic special effects house music...in other words, like pure crap. Very frustrating. If anyone gets a clear line and records it, let me know. I'd love to hear it. Happy New Year! debbie - --- Jane Armstrong wrote: > Well done to all of us who voted for Nothing Ever > Happens in the Virgin > Radio All Time Top 500 Singles. It came in at No > 252. Always The Last To > Know was 382 and Roll To Me was 403. This is more > or less the same order > they were in last year. Hopefully, there'll be > another NEW single up there > when we come to vote for the 2002 All Time Top > 500!!! > > Hope you all have a Happy New Year - and don't > forget that you can hear > Justin's live performance on-line at > http://www.clyde1.com/ or I gather that coverage > will be broadcast all > evening - and that the All Stars will be seeing in > the New Year. There's a > time-table at http://www.glasgows-hogmanay.co.uk/ - > The All Stars are on the > Main Stage. They start at 11.40 GMT and the Cosmic > Rough Riders are on at > 12.50. > > I believe that Midnight in the UK is 7pm Eastern > Time and 4pm on the West > Coast. > > And if you tune in at 10.55 you get to hear the > Supernaturals - another > underrated great Scottish band. If anyone goes to > see it we look forward to > a full report tomorrow!! > > I won't be able to listen, alas - as I shall be > jollying it up at an > alcoholics anonymous party with Eric Clapton. It > was a hard decision to > make - spend several hours travelling not to mention > trying to find a hotel > on New Years Eve, to stand in the snow for hours to > hear Justin sing three > or four songs - or drive 10 miles down the road to a > warm sports centre to > watch EC and then home to my own bed. I'm afraid > comfort won the toss. > > Anyway, however you'll be celebrating - I hope you > have a great time and > that 2002 turns out to be a good year for us all - > and especially for Del > Amitri!!! > > Jane > xxx Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #329 **********************************