From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #577 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, July 23 2003 Volume 02 : Number 577 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:24:14 -0500 From: "Amy Rupp" Subject: RE: seven-seas re:- fall set list > Your state must be weird if scapling is NOT illegal... > coz i thought it was illegal EVERYWHERE. You *know* my state is weird and prides itself on it! I actually lobbied to make it illegal when I was in college, and was told not to bother. Reason? Because UT football has such a mob following that many times the only way to get a ticket is from a scalper, and there's no way the State Legislature will outlaw that. Sad but true -- yet one more instance of sports ruling the world. And it ain't even the good kind of football! > If you're seeing a band in a stadium....why bother > paying scalpers for good seats...coz all you really need > to do in a stadium is hear coz ya can't see anywhere, > even on the floors....and the sound sucks in a stadium > anyway...that's why I won't go. Saw the Cure once... > in a stadium, and walked out before they were over, > and vowed never again. The ampitheatre sound is actually quite good, because it's open. There's a section close to the stage with reserved seats, under a sort of awning or tent which is waaaay up, and then there's a huge area of grass that's first-come, first-served and people bring blankets and loll on the grass festival-style. Luckily it rarely rains here. Nah, if I am going to go, I want to be close enough to see the sweat :-) Guess I'd better start budgeting for it now.... ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:26:35 -0700 From: "MCH" Subject: seven-seas Re: OT: Monster . > I stopped buying their cds after Monster... > no reason...just did...and haven't really kept up. > That is the only REM album I have... cause I saw them once only live and they played Star 69. Much better live. It's awesome to see a band you haven't followed, and then hear certain great songs for the very first time ever, songs you have never heard before, performed for you live. (Songs to learn and sing!) That happened to me with the B52s, too, in 1990 when Cosmic Thing was on the radio, but at their concert they did all their mighty classics from the 80s too, like Strobe Light, none of which I'd *ever heard* (yes I lived in a cave...) At that time I first began to have the creeping suspicion that... I might have missed something. Like the entire 1980s... ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:36:54 +0100 From: "Shaz" Subject: seven-seas Robert Plant/Ashton Court Festival(my nightmare - long post) well, I had a bit of a nightmare at the week-end and have been exhausted since trying to get over it!! That's why I haven't posted for a while.... We went to the Bristol Ashton Court Festival with Stu and Trina Bird. It's mainly a local bands type community event but the head-lining act was Robert Plant. I have to say that he was absolutely brilliant, amazing voice, great atmosphere on stage with incense burning and the smoke drifting across the stage and the lighting and everything. He did a few Led Zep numbers which were really good versions too. The sound quality was awesome. Drums and bass really powerful but not distorted and the subtle gentler noises could be heard perfectly too. It was really very good indeed. He had a few musicians from Bristol with him including a guitarist who sometimes plays with Lupine Howl and some of the musicians who play with the Bristol band Portsihead. Anyway, it was a fantastic day/evening and really good to meet up with Stu and Trina again (not seen them for well over a year now).... Anyway, we left the festival site at 12.30pm to find that our car had gone!!! We had parked it in a lay-by on a road that ran around the festival. Stu and Trina have been going to the festival for twenty years and always park in that lay-by. There were no signs to say No Parking and no cones either so we were worried that it had been stolen. Then we met up with another couple whose car had gone too and then another couple. So we decided to go and see the police on site to find out what was going on or to report the theft. We spoke to the first policemen we came to and they said "oh, it's nothing to do with us" we have just been drafted in from another area but we'll find out if your car has been towed away. It had. We were so annoyed that we decided to find the local police on site and report the fact that the car had been towed away and that the company in charge of towing had not put up signs to say No Parking and what the fuck was going on. Their answer to us was "we don't want to hear it" they said that there was one sign (we never saw it) which covered the whole of that road (a very long road) and that was enough. Even if there had been one sign to cover the whole road that doesn't cover the lay-by surely!! Anyway, we rang the car pound and they said that they were TEN MILES away and that they would only be there for an hour!!!! So we walked off of the site (about 3 miles) to the road to try and get a taxi. As you can imagine there were thousands of people leaving the festival site trying to get a taxi - so no luck. We then walked to the nearest part of the city ) (another mile) to find a taxi rank - no luck and no taxi going past would stop for us. So we walked into the city centre (another two miles) and found a taxi rank and a queue of about twenty people so that would obviously be a long wait (probably about two hours). We then walked from the city centre to Stu and Trina's house (another four miles). By this time it was 3.30am and we had been walking fairly fast for 3 hours solid. We then rang the car pound who had obviously closed by then, so we had to stop at Stu and Trina's house until the morning. We were due back in the early hours of Sunday morning and would have collected the kids from the babysitters first thing in the morning. Anyhow the pound people said that they were not officially open on the Sunday so we thought we may be without our car until Monday so we drove down to the pound in Stu's car at 11.30am Sunday morning to find a tow truck driver at the gate. He said oh I can't get in mate, nothing to do with me. So we tried to explain very calmly (not easy as you can imagine) that we had two kids in Southampton (that's a two hour drive from Bristol) that we had to get home for so he said oh ok and phoned his boss. The boss said oh I will be there at 2pm so he explained about the children and the boss said ok I'll be there in about an hour. Eventually we got our car back - it cost us #105 (shared with Stu) and the reason on the ticket was 'obstruction'. We are fuming, how can parking in a lay-by be obstruction, why were there no signs up. What they had obviously done was tow cars away and then just waited for other cars to fall into the trap and then towed them away too. Just to make money from the innocent public. And then to add insult to injury they take the car TEN MILES away!! It stinks. Also, the company doing the towing were commisioned by the police so we have no where to turn. I have written a letter of complaint to the Chief Constable and to our local MP. Not that we'll get the money back or anything but at least we've voiced our feelings. No wonder people have no time for the police if they treat innocent people like this..... The word entrapment springs to mind... btw.....BM had been working all night Friday night (standing up), stayed up with no sleep all day Saturday (walking up and down the length of the festival site which covered about three large fields) and then had to walk for 3 hours through Saturday night - poor thing......he still hasn't recovered.. Recovered yet Stu?? Mrs Angry ----- Original Message ----- From: looloo To: villiers-terrace@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: RE: [villiers-terrace] This list.... i think nanos on holidays now with some of his student friends -- he may of gone t greece.. -----Original Message----- From: Red [mailto:redhead@sunlink.net] Sent: 26 May 2003 18:49 To: villiers-terrace@yahoogroups.com Subject: [villiers-terrace] This list.... Needs an enima! :-D hahahhaaa (That sounds like something Scott would say!) ;-) To flush everyone out of hiding........or wherever the hell you are!!!!!!!! Where is everybunny lately???????????? Scott? Stevie V.? Eddy? EDDY??????????????? E D D Y ????????????????? Loo's gone out......Nano's hitting the books....(probably)... Shaz? Sooz? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor *********************************** (HAPPY?) What are you gonna do with your life? Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 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