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oppositeview-digest     Friday, November 22 2002     Volume 04 : Number 286



                               Today's Subjects:
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  OV: radio free del amitri           [Alison Bellach <alibee@delamitri.com>]
  OV: (no subject)                                        [PPeterowe@aol.com]
  OV: Greatest Group You Missed                          [NIGELBLUES@aol.com]
  re: OV: Re: No Dels Content                            [NIGELBLUES@aol.com]
  OV: re:No Dels Content     ["Barbara Houldey" <bearfirestrong@hotmail.com>]

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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:32:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Alison Bellach <alibee@delamitri.com>
Subject: OV: radio free del amitri

there's a new show up... :)

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Alison Bellach:				       alibee@delamitri.com
http://alibee.linex.com			   http://www.delamitri.com
              "If you want peace, work for justice."

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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:23:03 EST
From: PPeterowe@aol.com
Subject: OV: (no subject)

<PRE>PLEASE REMOVE

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:50:37 EST
From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com
Subject: OV: Greatest Group You Missed

Jen Woyan writes:
<<Leah, NO ONE can dispute the prowress of the Police - even if they
absolutely want to see Sting deep in a tar-filled hole in the middle of the
desert.

I've just been digging the breadth of musical taste & knowledge this group
possesses & as always it made rememebr badns I had forgotten I loved...

Cheers & all have a great weekend!
Jen>>

Just reading this (I know, I'm nearly on month behind on my O.V. mails)
reminded me about the first time I should have seen the Police.

Late '70's, went to see a Manchester punk group called Albertos Y Lost Trios
Paranoias in Cardiff (they had 2 chart hits, both banned from airplay - the
biggest hit was the venomous and imaginatively entitled "Fuck You").  The gig
cost a mighty #1 (70 cents or so).

Missed the support act in favour of staying longer in the pre-gig pub so
asked my mate about them.  "Absolutely crap, got booed and bottled off, had
to finish their set early.  Three ar**holes in jumped suits with bleached
hair dojng reggae".  Yup, 'twas The Police.  Not too long later, they broke
in UK and the rest is history.

So ... who was the greatest group you could have saw but didn't?

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 03:31:18 EST
From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com
Subject: re: OV: Re: No Dels Content 

<<I'm an avid reader but rare contributor.  Feel the need to share that I 
just 
saw Elvis Costello at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, he was brilliant, he 

must be one of the finest songwriters of his generation.   

Note to Nigel - belated congratulations on the tremendous win for Wales over 
Italy a couple of weeks ago (despite my name I'm not Welsh, I'm a displaced 
scouser living in NJ).

Cheers,

Paul.>>


Hi Paul

Just read this and thanks.  I think I've died and gone to heaven with Welsh 
football.

We are the only country in the world not to lose any match in 2002 (it helped 
that we didn't get to the World Cup Finals though).  

Argentina scraped a late draw against us in April, then we deservedly beat 
Germany at home only 5 weeks before they eventually got to the final versus 
Brazil.  Ten players missing and Wales next drew in Croatia who only 
equalised in the closing minutes due to a goalkeeping error.  They were 
friendlies though but the signs weere already there.

The European matches start and we win in Helsinki (I was there and it was one 
of the great weekends of my life) but to follow it up by not just beating 
Italy but outplaying them in just about every area of the pitch - their own 
manager, Trap - admitting it too was enough to make a grown man cry and I may 
well have done. 

The warm up was pretty good too, Manic Street Preachers playing a couple of 
songs on the pitch!  It's a sign of how fortunes have turned around that most 
people in Wales actually expected us to beat Italy. 

And we followed it up this week with yet another win in Azerbaijan (with 7 
regulars missing - very hard for a small country with few options to cope 
with but we've been able to deal with it).  Suddenly, we look favourites to 
be the the finals in 2004 and could quite possibly be the only British side 
there.  

It could all go wrong of course but we're enjoying it while it lasts.  
Cardiff was an outstanding sight on Wednesday afternoon, half the city seemed 
to close down so everyone could watch the game in pubs and clubs.  The Foo 
Fighters played here on Wednesday night and they all encored wearing Welsh 
shirts.

As for Elvis Costello, I've long sung his praises on this list.  It's hard 
for me to think of any better singer songwriters, I'm biased of course.  And 
there is no singer songwriter who puts on better live shows.  His average set 
these days is 2 and a half hours and it changes every gig, he's been doing 
that around the world almost the entire year and deserves all the success and 
plaudits he gets.  And it's brilliant to see Steve Nieve (a keyboard wizard) 
and Pete Thomas (fantastic drummer) still doing it with him after more than 
25 years.

Puts the Dels, get on/get off stage in the routine 90 minutes, to shame 
really.  They have so many fantastic songs that they could have given us long 
sets, they choose not to.  Lazy gits.

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:26:15 +0000
From: "Barbara Houldey" <bearfirestrong@hotmail.com>
Subject: OV: re:No Dels Content

Hi Nigel

Glad to see another Welshie here :)  It is sooo good to see our teams
play so well lately.  Fingers crossed for the Rugby tomorrow :)

 

Barbara :)

 

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