Fw: Tour Line Up / Anti-Gravity

[GORDON WILHELMI <gordon.wilhelmi192@bt...com>]

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From: GORDON WILHELMI <gordon.wilhelmi192@bt...com>
To: Neville Street <nevstreet@ho...com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 14:23
Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] Tour Line Up / Anti-Gravity
 


Nev, bear with me,

Yep, it seems that he/they know what they want to do and also what they 
don't, and will, or not, do it. Can't find my way to questioning it ; they 
disappeared off my radar somewhere in the late nineties, the occasional 
London gigs dried up and there was no news of them. Then one day, my ex 
was doodling on the internet and found this List, and a certain Mr Neville 
Street inviting all and sundry to his fortieth Birthday Party in 
Shrewsbury, where somehow he had cajoled the Band into playing a set. A 
tank full of petrol and a pack of cigarettes later I was there. Took some 
photos, and a bit of bad quality silent footage of said Mr Street filling 
in for Wojtek during 'Breaking...'.
A guy approached me and asked if I would email him some of my shots, and I 
got talking to him and his two buddies. They had travelled from Oslo, 
mainly for the Party/gig, but also because one of them was writing a 
Biography of Charles Darwin, and he was a son of that Burg. Anyway, in a 
gradual manner, we have become firm regular friends, me with them and 
their circle of friends and families and they with mine. I was in Sweden 
with some of them just a couple of weekends ago, and a party of us will 
take a jolly boat up the Llangollen in another couple of weeks. You get 
the picture. For all this we heartily thank you. And also, by association 
the Band, this List, my ex, and of course, the internet.
Finally, apropos, my good friend Eyvind who was at that Party, was perhaps 
inspired by your good fortune, and has spent a sizeable part of the 
intervening years trying to cajole Gerard into playing a gig in Oslo, laid 
it all on that end, secured the finance. Alas, it is never going to 
happen, only the most frustrating part of it being that a simple 'No' 
would have put us out of our misery long ago. But they don't have to do 
even that.

Sorry for the ramble, but thought it might amuse you.

G


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 From: Neville Street <nevstreet@ho...com>
To: GORDON WILHELMI <gordon.wilhelmi192@bt...com>; A Discussion list for 
The Blue Aeroplanes <blueplanes@bl...org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 9:24
Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] Tour Line Up / Anti-Gravity
 


Gordon
 
I’ll be frank. I used to work with a Glasgow based band called The Hardy 
Boys. Their second single was produced by Angelo. As huge fans they 
would’ve 
relished a support slot with the Aeroplanes at the annual Xmas bash in 
Bristol. 
The requests were simply ignored. Shame really because they have contacts 
with 
promoters all over Scotland and it could’ve been mutually beneficial.
 
Neville 
From: GORDON WILHELMI 
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:16 AM
To: A Discussion list for The Blue 
Aeroplanes 
Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] Tour Line Up / 
Anti-Gravity
  I kind of sympathise. Someone from the Caledonian Branch mentioned a 
gig they played at a place called 'King Tuts', in Glasgow, some time 
ago.

Met 
a rather striking lady from that Burg at a Hitchcock gig at Cecil Sharp 
House 
last winter : she confirmed that 'King Tut's' was still one of THE sweaty 
rock 
venues there, so would move heaven and earth to get to a gig there, should 
they 
ever demure to it.

G
 

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 From: phil 
mason <phil@ph...net>
To: A Discussion list for The Blue 
Aeroplanes <blueplanes@bl...org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 
0:01
Subject: [BluePlanes] Tour 
Line Up / Anti-Gravity


A brutal shame that no gig could be organised for 
Scotland. The pros and cons of Scottish independence may be debatable, but 
the 
independence of Scottish music promoters from fine music is indisputably 
cretinous. 

And, whilst I'm tapping away here, I'd like to say that 
despite my despairing and infuriated views about the LP-first release 
strategy 
for Anti-Gravity, the double deluxe CD amounts to the equivalent of 1.5 
CDs of 
(China Automotive) Brilliance. The rest of it is merely pretty good. 

Phil
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