Re: Band News!!

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

Gordon:

  Excellent news. Not sure whether I'll make 30th or not, but would kind of
like to. I remember the Lloyds TSB Piazza striking me as quite Orwellian
/Victory Squarish when I wandered the Docks on Good Friday, but also that 
it
woud make a great music amphitheatre.

Me:

They've held quite a few concerts there in the past, some free, some where 
they've fenced the whole area off and charged to get in.  Not exactly sure 
how this one is going to work.  It'll most likely either be completely free 
or you'll have to pay to get into the wider Harbourside Festival area of 
which the gig will be a small part.  I can remember seeing Misty In Roots 
play a great set in the pouring rain some years ago!
Gordon:

  Roy Wood brought a Big Band to Cropredy some years back, and rocked.
  On the merry way back to the tents, some wag started on ' Good-bye
Black-berry Waayyyy....' and all of a sudden 10,000 people were on it, in
the pissing rain (think Richard Thompson must have been on site ).Priceless 
!
Me:

I was there too!  IIRC, Thompson got up and played with Wood's band, or more 
likely that Wood's band joined Fairport for a section of their main set, and 
they played an amazing version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine with 
Thompson on lead vocals and guitar.
Gordon:

  Incidentally, John Martyn plays that Festival this year, so if any of you
friendloverplanes get to that one, you'll find me somewhere down the front
at that point, wearing a smile !

Me:

I went last year, and have been many times in the past, but I don't think I 
can afford it this year.  Am going to the Wickham Festival for the first 
time the weekend before instead - Thompson is playing there, which is the 
main reason!
PV1






                                    ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Paul Vallis" <paulvallis@ho...com>
  To: <blueplanes@st...net>
  Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 2:16 PM
  Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Band News!!


  > Whether you look at them as producers or singers they are chalk and
cheese
  > aren't they!  I can see a bit more common ground with Roy Wood, but I
still
  > can't imagine Gerard with a multicoloured beard (although I'm sure
Gerard's
  > hair isn't its current colour by accident!).
  >
  > I saw the Roy Wood Army at a festival a few years ago.  He had a huge -
6 or
  > 8 piece, can't remember - all female brass section as part of his band.
  > They certainly rocked!
  >
  > PV1
  >
  >
  >
  > From: "Nick White" <magichats@ya...co.uk>
  > Reply-To: The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List <blueplanes@st...net>
  > To: "The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List" <blueplanes@st...net>
  > Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Band News!!
  > Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:03:46 +0100
  >
  > Cheers Paul.  I actually like ELO, but I'm finding it hard to imagine
Gerard
  > as Jeff Lynne.  Or as Roy Wood, come to think of it.  But then I
couldn't
  > have imagined Gerard as Status Quo until I heard Paper Plane.
  >
  > NW1or2
  >
  > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Vallis"
<paulvallis@ho...com>
  > To: <blueplanes@st...net>
  > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 12:00 PM
  > Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Band News!!
  >
  >
  > >Nick:
  > >
  > >Not so sure about Blue Aeroplanes v ELO though.....
  > >
  > >Me:
  > >
  > >As far as I can tell it was only their debut album that was on
Harvest -
  > >they moved to Jet after that (wasn't Jet Don Arden's - Sharon 
Osborne's
  > >dad's - label?). Roy Wood was still in the band on that first lp - its
a
  > >mixture of Wood songs and Jeff Lynne songs according to Wikipedia, so
there
  > >is likely to be some interesting stuff on it.  I've got a couple of
later
  > >ELO lps and they're actually not too bad - a bit overblown in
arrangements
  > >and production admittedly (the opposite of Altitude!) but listenable
  > >nonetheless.  Prog rock for people who don't really like prog rock.
  > >
  > >PV1
  > >
  > >
  > >
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