Re: Tour Line Up / Anti-Gravity

["Eyvind Dahl" <ey-da@on...no>]

Thanks, Chris !

 

I`ve never given up the idea of an Oslo gig.

 

Eyvind

 

The Oslo Branch of the BAs supporter club

 

Fra: blueplanes-bounces@bl...org
[mailto:blueplanes-bounces@bl...org] På vegne av Chris Sharp
Sendt: 12. juni 2013 16:36
Til: GORDON WILHELMI; A Discussion list for The Blue Aeroplanes
Emne: Re: [BluePlanes] Tour Line Up / Anti-Gravity

 

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

 

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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 <mailto:gordon.wilhelmi192@bt...com>  

Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:16 AM

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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
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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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