Re: Tour Line Up / Anti-Gravity

[Chris Sharp <chris.sharp4@vi...net>]

Hey Gordon

If the band ever got to the point of doing a European tour, Olso would be 
the very first place we'd consider so it's definitely not a no as far as 
the band are concerned, more of a "one day…"

On 12 Jun 2013, at 14:28, GORDON WILHELMI <gordon.wilhelmi192@bt...com> 
wrote:

> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> 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
> 
> 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
>  
> 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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