MQB/Xmas combo?

[Jill Strobridge]

tell me about it.   For the last week or so I've been muttering
imprecations against not only the Greater but any or all of the Lesser
gods who might happen to be in charge of general gig-booking and
life-timetabling arrangements (there has to be a
god-in-charge-of-timetables doesn't there(?) or perhaps I just have to
settle for the influence-in-charge-of-coincidences both benign and
malign).     It would have been theoretically possible to do MQB in
Sunderland on Saturday and Hawkwind on Sunday but by the time the MQB
gig was announced I'd already booked accommodation in London for
Saturday night and wasn't planning to come back up north again.   So -
much as I would love to catch MQB again I regret that this isn't going
to happen.  Nor will I be travelling by car - putting my faith and trust
in the fact that all the leaves will have long fallen and that with
global warming there will be no snow - so I shall be buying a train
ticket!

I shall come and shall choose to do what I came to do - but it will be
in London I'm afraid and not Sunderland.

Hope to see you somewhere around!

cheers
jill
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Jill Strobridge <jill at theta-orionis.freeserve.co.uk>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Henderson Keith" <keith.henderson at PSI.CH>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: HW: MQB/Xmas combo?


> Hey Folks...
>
> Was just curious as to whether there were any Geordies and/or
Scots(wo)men
> looking to do a double Xmas concert experience with MQB in Sunderland
on
> Sat. 20.12 and HW at Astoria 21.12.  Particularly somebody with their
own
> vehicle who had extra space.  I guess I won't be leaving Europe quite
yet
> (at least one more year in der Schweiz!) and won't go home for the
holidaze
> either, so I'm thinking of trying to make both shows to make another
> SleasyJet flight to my favorite town, aka Luton, again worthwhile.
But I
> haven't made up my mind quite yet.
>
> New out in the local CD shop is a DVD of the Pretty Things doing the
SF
> Sorrow rock opera in 1998 (presumably a 30-year anniversary of same),
along
> with guest appearances by Dave Gilmour & Arthur Brown, if Dick Taylor
> himself weren't enough of a Hawkwind connection to begin with.
Anyway, I
> was hoping when I picked it up off the shelf that it was some amazing
> uncovered old document from the original time of recording, but
instead it's
> this recent gig.  I haven't decided whether it's worth risking 39
Swiss
> Francs on anyway.  Well, if anyone has seen it, maybe they'd like to
> comment.  I was listening to the album the other day, and was thinking
that
> perhaps "Old Man Going" would be an interesting song for Hawkwind to
try.
> And perhaps AB has some recent experience with it?
>
> Grakkl (FAA)
>
> P.S.  I got the Amon Duul II video DVD from 1968...hmmm...interesting
bit of
> psychedelic madness, but it's only 25 minutes, and not shot so well
(and for
> a spell it's out of sync with the music, which is maddening).  The
packaging
> is confusing...it looks like a digipack CD, with the identical artwork
as
> Phallus Dei, the only difference being that it is B&W (and grey) as
opposed
> to dark blues and such.  And it says 'Play' Phallus Dei.
>