RE: Borderline gig / Harvest ramblings

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

Thanks again Lisa!

A couple of questions about the Borderline gig:

Is it a late night venue?  Or are the band likely to be finished to be able 
to get the last train back to Bristol?
Where is the Borderline? (nearest tube will do!)
Anyone else going up from Bristol?
Anywhere close and cheap to crash for the night?

As for Harvest, that was the label that was set up by EMI for all their 
"wierder" acts (Vertigo was a similar offshoot label dedicated to the more 
esoteric).  Barclay James Harvest were indeed on the Harvest label for a 
time, so the spectre of the Planes covering Mocking Bird may still haunt us 
for a while.  Personally, if there are going to trawl the Harvest vaults I'd 
love to hear them cover Kevin Ayers' Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes, Out 
Demons Out by the Edgar Broughton Band or Lucifer Sam by Pink Floyd.
They could cover East of Eden, as they (or at least some of them) were from 
Bristol too.  My mate Al was in that band.  Its one of his many claims to 
fame - he was the lead singer in a band whose only hit was an instrumental.
As I've mentioned before, the Harvest label was recently re-launched by EMI, 
its debut release being a solo lp by Bristolian and former Strangelove 
frontman Patrick Duff, which features former plane Alex Lee.
Small world.

PV1

From: Lisa Ash <chipaway@th...freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: [Blueplanes] Borderline, BBC6, Happy New Year, Most Haunted is 
on... etc...
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:56:17 +0000

Evening all.

Firstly, may I take this opportunity to wish each and every single one of 
you pretty pixies a very happy, fun-packed and rockin' New Year.  
(Personally, I plan to spend mine locked in my room listening to The Smiths 
and eating beans from the tin... but you lot go ahead and have fun without 
me...)
Hope you all had as a top a Christmas as Gordon's young friend with his 
'older woman' - at 33??!!  Older??!  She's a chillllld!  Christ, it comes to 
sommin when you're even too old to be an older woman!  I used to be 33 you 
know...  Happy days...
Right then - Gerard just phoned, yes, yes he did, honest guv, sure as I'm 
standin' here...  Some news (nothing as exciting, by the way, as me getting 
the Lord Of The Rings trilogy on DVD for Christmas!  12, count 'em, TWELVE 
DVD's!!  That's me sorted for a skint January stayin in!)
First then, Rodney IS playing THE Borderline gig on January 31st.  There was 
doubt.  It's sorted out. :o)  Oh, and I'll be there this time.  Borderline's 
only up the road for me.  Wey heeeey!
Second, The Blue Aeroplanes (or at least some of them) are doing a live 
session on Monday 16th January on Gideon Coe's show on BBC6 (Sorry, but the 
name Gideon is just gay!).  Neither Gerard nor myself are sure what time the 
show is on, afternoon sometime but not sure of specific hour, but they will 
be playing a few live tunes from Swagger and generally rabbiting on about 
themselves till the DJ falls asleep...  BBC6 is a UK digital channel so I 
dont know if you can get it outside of here...?  I'm sure someone somewhere 
could tell ya!
Lastly, there's a promo that they've also been working on/asked to 
do/recording for the future that's The BA's covering 'classic' songs from 
the Harvest label.  Now then, I'd never heard of Harvest so obviously I 
thought he meant Barclay James Harvest and pi$$ed myself laughing at the 
mere thought!  I stood rapidly corrected (no sense of humour some people!) 
however and have been told that tracks will include stuff originally 
recorded by Pink Floyd, Sid Barrett (separately!), Wire, Deep Purple and 
some other bods I've never heard of.  So, don't go in search of it hoping 
for Gerard's version of... umm... that ONE Barclay James Harvest song that's 
famous, coz you'll be looking forever.
Oh - and there's a couple of reviews in Q and Uncut magazines from last week 
for Swagger.  Q gave it 4 out of 5, which apparently is one more than they 
gave it the first time round!
And that's it.  Must leave you for the scary delights of Derek Ackhora and 
Evette Fielding now.  I love Most Haunted, me!
Lis
XXX



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