From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #578 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 578 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:00:49 +0100 From: "Shaz" Subject: Re: seven-seas portsmouth gigs OTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOT Saw I Am Kloot support Turin Brakes. They are really good but hard to get their cd....I got it from Amazon after a very long wait and then when it arrived it was faulty. I have now been waiting about six weeks and they still haven't sent me a new one - sigh..... Shaz - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: seven-seas portsmouth gigs OTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOT > just been checking out the listings for our local venue > > and this ine week in october is looking interesting ........... > > Mon 6 I AM KLOOT > Thu 9 ARAB STRAP > Sat 11 FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS > Mon 13 BRITISH SEA POWER > > this is all followed by ... > > The Proclaimers at the end of the month ( i kid you not!) > > looloo > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > Join Freeserve http://www.freeserve.com/time/ > > Winner of the 2003 Internet Service Providers' Association awards for Best Unmetered ISP and Best Consumer Application. > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:03:21 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stu=20Bird?= Subject: Re: seven-seas Robert Plant/Ashton Court Festival(my nightmare - long post) Hi Shaz... Just about recovered today... Christ do I feel awful about the whole event.. I was pleased as punch that I got to see The Blue Aeroplanes acoustic as it was a late programme change, and Plant was tremendous.. After our friend calling to say she wouldn't be able to make the Sunday due to chronic sickness, I wondered if it was worth while thinking about another day up there. In the end, I thought we would try and salvage something from the weeken so we got back up there at about 5.30pm. We saw comedy punk band Hacksaw, and then The Electric Soft Parade. They had a guest vocalist who sang 3 songs with them. Never heard of him before ( Stuart Flynn ), but talk about a row of tents..... straight as a corkscrew. he even did a costume ( yep.. dress ) change, but by christ he had a brilliant voice, and the cover of Candle In The Wind was excellent. So we thought that Sun made up a tiny bit for the Sat................... UNTIL....... ..... we got stopped by the police on the way home on the bike and I had to take a breath test. Obviously, it was clear, but I really had to bite my tongue... I fucking hate the police.. Sorry again Shaz ( and to BM ) for all the grief/cost/hassle etc.. Stu Shaz wrote: 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 - --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? 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