Re: Art Rock Lives!.....

["Paul Vallis" <paulvallis@ho...com>]

Really sorry we didn't get to meet you, Lisa.  Hope you're feeling better 
now anyway.  Of course there'll be a next year.  There always is.....
I thought the sound in Fiddlers was ok, though not as good as last year.  
Whether it was due to the personnel on stage or the guy behind the desk I 
have no idea.  Sound at Fiddlers used to be uniformly poor until they hung 
the speakers from the ceiling a couple of years back, which made a huge 
positive difference.  Still, it does make a difference where you stand.  As 
someone said, you've got to be in the main room, and even in there it can 
vary.  Very near the front you get quite a lot of on-stage sound too - 
backline and monitors - as the stage is quite low and there is no barrier.  
Still, if you're that close you're probably too busy trying to avoid a very 
large, unsteady, ginger haired bloke than worry about whether there's a bit 
too much bass in the foldback.
"Gerard is waiting for the right deal" - hasn't he been waiting for years 
for the right deal?  I don't know what his idea of the right deal is, but 
they don't have the kudos that they used to have.  I hope I'll be surprised 
and it will eventually get out, but I'm not holding my breath.  Obviously 
the web isn't anyone's strong point (the main website wasn't even updated to 
advertise the gig!) so he'd need to get someone in to self-release.
PV1


From: Lisa Ash <chipaway@th...freeserve.co.uk>
Reply-To: blueplanes@st...net
To: blueplanes@st...net
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Art Rock Lives!.....
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:54:17 +0000

No, I think you'll find I'M Lisa... and I... ummm... didn't go!!!  Got told 
off by text from some bespectacled Bristolian bloke who said he played 
Cardboard Box for me and it was 'lovely' ...AND even got chastised in a 
mobile to mobile call from Switzerland from my friend who got me into them 
in the first place (fair cop!), but I had a great many reasons, the main one 
being I was stuck in Patchway (practically not even in bloody Bristol by all 
accounts!) and got my lift cancelled at the last minute - too late for a bus 
and too skint for a cab.  Then I put me neck out on Friday afternoon... not 
like, stuck it out/on the line - but actually did it IN! Total agony! I HATE 
me!!
So, all these accounts are fabulous and I can visualise it totally so thanks 
everyone. :o)
This time next year I'll be living there... if any of the band are still 
actually living and able to do 2005 Fiddlers.  Can't miss it three years in 
a row can I?!
Going to bed now.  Cross and pissed off that I didn't have a plan B for 
getting to the gig!
Arse!
Lis
x


On 5 Dec 2004, at 19:12, Paul Vearncombe wrote:

I'm Lisa and so's my wife.
----- Original Message -----
 From: Neville Street
To: blueplanes@st...net
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Art Rock Lives!.....

Fabulous night. Many more people than last year. Even my mate enjoyed it and 
he's not a BAs fan. Ruth C still got the magic. John L as rightly pointed 
out the driving force and the best drummer ever. Max looked slightly bemused 
by it all. Joff L relaxed. Wojtek hasn't aged in 20 years and Gerard he's 
good...
 
Ditto great to see everyone. Phil H suggested that next year we meet under 
the Budweiser sign opposite the bar so we all know who we are
 
Paul - I got in first with that 'Lisa'. She said she wasn't Lisa but her 
boyfriend said he was. I walked off confused and little tipsy and spent the 
rest of the evening asking every girl who was shortish with blond hair their 
name!
 
Set list then (as I nicked one):
action painting - bloody great to hear this after such a long time.
lover & confidant
warhol's 15
up in a down world
razor walk
what it is
world view blue
cardboard box
streamers
jacket hangs
treeful of starlings
Broken
yr own world
*****
and stones
fun
breaking in my heart
 
Low points for me - Rodney's dire singing on his numbers - flat a flat thing 
can be. Spoke to Gerard at length after the show (shamelessly plugging to do 
the PR for the BAs tour next year) although I can only think of a few 
sentences here.  He is just waiting for the right deal to come along for the 
new LP. Told him that we're all chomping at the bit.
  
Disappeared off into the night a happy bunny with a lot of pissed off 
boyfriends of girls with blond hair hot on my heals. Hey ho and a ho ha ho 
ho - Merry Christmas everyone.
  
 
Nev
----- Original Message -----
 From: Paul Vallis
To: blueplanes@st...net
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Art Rock Lives!.....

Great night.

Nick W attended 2 gigs on the same night and also seemed to have imbibed at
least 2 gigs worth of pop judging by the number of times he ended up
polishing Fiddlers' floor with various bits of his outfit.

Spent 5 minutes in the hallowed area backstage well after everything had
calmed down, drinking JD out of a plastic cup, chatting mainly with Ruth
(and Tim from Forest Giants, Ruth's current band), who seemed to enjoy her
first outing with the Aeroplanes in what must be over 15 years?  I don't
 think she was looking forward to it, as the rehearsal evidently hadn't 
gone
 too well, but she did enjoy it (apart from the aborted Weightless, as she
was on stage when they decided to start it and she didn't know it at all). 
Woytek mentioned something about having played football earlier.  Next time
 I looked at him he was asleep.

I think having John Langley there makes all the difference - he really
 drives them and with that kind of backbone in the band it gives everyone a
bit of confidence and that extra lift.  Both Ruth and, er, the other bass
player are very "musical" players, adding melody as well as laying down the
 rhythm.  It was the first time Hazel had seen the band since she left in
1992, and she had forgotten the energy and the buzz that they create.  
Maybe
 she'll do it next year?  Assuming there will be a next year?  Who 
knows.....
I remember the first time I saw Joff do that banjo intro to And Stones at a
gig at the Folk House a few years ago, and thought it was brilliant.  Nice
to see it back, after missing it last year.

Tree Full of Starlings worked much better last year with the Larder sisters
 on backing vocals.  Low point of the set for me this year.  Where was 
Raise
 The Roof High?

Note to anyone thinking of going to the bookies this afternoon: The
favourite doesn't always win.  Indeed sometimes its a 100-1 outsider. 
 They've opened up with Broken & Mended virtually every time I've seen them
 in the past 10 years or so (exception being a Glastonbury show on the 2nd
stage early afternoon a few years back).  Action Painting?  I'm not sure
I've EVER seen them play it, let alone open with it!

The first band weren't Fuzz Against Junk, they were just backing the 
singer,
 whose name escapes me, which is a shame as I thought that, although a 
couple
 of songs didn't work for me, when they were good they were really good.

I got the last copy of Lit (number 13, bizarrely enough), and might have
missed out completely if it hadn't been Billy (bass player from first band
 and a friend of mine) selling them.  However I don't think they had them 
all
at the gig - some were held back, so others may yet get the chance to buy
 it.

Good to meet everyone again.  Did anyone meet Lisa in the end?  I 
approached
 one young lady who fitted the description right down to being with a big
 bloke with not much hair.  She said no, but it was the 2nd time someone 
had
asked her!  Who got in first?

PV1

From: "Paul Vearncombe" <vearn@wo...co.uk>
Reply-To: blueplanes@st...net
To: <blueplanes@st...net>
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Art Rock Lives!.....
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:43:30 -0000

Another apocalyptic Aeroplanes gig!  Good attendance from us lot - a brace
 of Pauls, a couple of Phils and a pair of Nicks.  Neville pinched the set
list and even Nick Walters managed to get across town after seeing the Fall
in time to enter the death zone.  Good showing from the band too - Gerard,
 Wojtek, Rodney, Jof, Max Noble, John Langley, Ruth Cochrane and...that 
other
 bassist...  Nice to see Hazel Winter in the audience as well.  They gave 
us
a strange mixture of old favourites - ...And Stones, Yr Own World - and
 unusual choices - Lover and Confidante, Up in a Down World, Arriving.  
They
 made a right hash of Treefull of Starlings, but it turned out well in the
end.  All rounded off with Breaking in my Heart, which gave that bastard
 Hendry an excuse to kick the bejasus out of me in the mosh pit.

Now it's time I played Gerard's new album LIT2, which I bought at the gig. 
Blimey.  Must be Christmas.

PV2
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Drdaeve@ao...com
   To: blueplanes@st...net
   Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 11:47 AM
   Subject: [Blueplanes] Art Rock Lives!.....


   Hey Friendsloversplanes!

   Great version of Weightless!

   Firstly, it is always awesome to be in the presence of genius.

   Was the crowd maybe a little larger than last year? No apparent 'Fall
effect'...did NW do the right thing I wonder? He'll let us know, for
sure....

   missed all the supporting artists - would have been interested to hear
Rage against Fuzz again, they were very interesting at the Cube, no...?

   Just saw jet-powered Blue Aeroplanes breaking the sound barrier over and
over and over and again and again and again. I'm no good with titles and
order but they started with Action Painting and (Cowardice &
Caprice?)....'those were our first two singles, and they were both NME
single of the week'...Right On Gerard! And hey, who would do a better job 
of
sorting out the Third World d'you reckon - Bono or Gerard?

   2 from Rodney - Streamers and Fun. Merry Xmas! Fantastic natch.

   Jof on guitar & electric banjo - the banjo intro and all to 'And
Stones....', just fabulous.

   John Langley is a wonderful drummer.

   Nothing from Rough Music, & only 'Broken and Mended' from Life Model

   Unplugged World View Blue

   We were making crow noises at the end of Cardboard Box, trying to make 
it
turn into 'My Hurrivcane' - got to be worth a try

   Was that 'Gunning the Works' - 'Wojtek's favourite song' in the encore?

   Is that Ruth Cochrane cool or what....?

   Thunder. Thunder & Lightning!

   peace & love sisters and brothers!

   DrDx


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