I just bought Herb Alpert's "Going Places" album in a thrift store (one
dollar!) and listening to the song "More and More Amor," there's a trumpet
solo that sounds suspiciously like the trumpet solo in "beautiful".
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Just thought I'd clear a few thing up as it was me who first planted the
seeds of thought about a gig at the Albert Hall.
It holds about 3000 on an Ordinary Let. It's actual capacity is 3771 but
you can't sell all the seats because the hall sold 999 year leases on some
of them to raise money when it was built. These seats tend to get used
because the owners sell their tickets on if they don't fancy seeing the
show themselves.
There are also choir seats and some really bad sightline seats which you
can't really sell.
As it's in London and (some would argue) fairly prestigious, you can
guarantee that Belle and Sebastian would sell more tickets there than they
did for Manchester. If you allow for people going to more than one show,
there must've been just under 2000 people at the Manchester gigs.
Add to that the inevitable guest list that you get with London shows and
you've got a sell-out on your hands.
With regard to the floor, it would need to be seated as this helps the
sound (oh no - not this again!). If you do standing on the floor, the 'top
end' is soaked up by the first few rows leaving a muddy mess for everyone
else to listen to. Spiritualized were gutted when they found out that the
floor was standing at their show, because they're all really into the sound
and didn't want to have to compromise.
You can't do unreserved seating. If you sell every single seat and it's
unreserved with no standing, you'd end up with pockets of empty seats that
no-one really wants to sit in but are forced to because there's nowhere
else.
And it's not poncey, it's just like any other hall except is called the
'ROYAL' Albert Hall. And the person who said backstage was grotty was
absolutely right.
But it IS architecturally interesting so maybe they should try it.
Mark
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northy wrote:
oh and if Belle and Sebastian are reading this - I was Radiohead
obsessed after OKC - saw them twice, bought most of their old singles
and they were decidly my fave band. Already possessing the two
singles, I put "La Pastie de la...." on and I was converted.
You bastard, I saw Radiohead years ago when they were called 'On A Friday'
and they used to play the Arse & Ferret in Oxford on the last Friday on the
month. I've bought all their records on the day they came out and I hate it
when 'new' fans like you try to steal my glory. Radiohead belong to me -
not you!
Ironic Mark
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Hello,
I'm on the digest now so I get to reply all in one go.
>>The question about the only duo with two mid-priced LPs in 97
Ant and Dec? Peters and Lee. Cannon and Ball. No, I've got it - it
was Baccara. They were great.
>If I was in anyone's way, may i also apologise. I was only there on the
>saturday night but both me and my twin brother (we have a combined height of
>13ft 6ins) may have got in some poor folks way. I'm sorry.
Personally, I wasn't in *anyone's* way. I am a midget. Moreover, I
have very small feet.
> Have you seen 'Kissed'? It reminds you of heavenly creatures at the start,
>a bit, beautiful only slightly mental.
Kelly, how come you get to see all the great films? 'Heavenly
Creatures' ruled like a badass though. Better than poxy 'Small Faces'
any day.
>OK - very hastily - photos of Isobel, sorry, B&S
Perve. Bet she's wearing school uniform. You people make me sick.
>Hopefully Jeepster will release a Baywatch style
>semi-nude calendar of the band soon.
Double perve.
Now this one is my favourite...
>Having heard what bands listees "get off on" I'd be interested to hear
>what bands listees had "got of WITH"
You little voyeur. Nice boys never kiss and tell.
>or "got off TO".
I find Einsturzende Neubauten always goes down well with the Laydeez.
>Or when going on long train journeys is there one band that always coincides
>with your destination, i.e. music you can get off AT...
Getting a little bit contrived now...
>Hmmm... I'm afraid this point doesn't seem to make much sense. If a CD
>player reads a single circuit on a CD and the sum of all the bits on that
>circuit doesn't match the checksum stored at the end of that circuit then it
>will skip. All oversampling CD players do is attempt to read the circuit x
>number of times in an attempt to get it correct before actually playing it,
>they will also skip if unable to match the checksum. Either a CD will skip,
>or it'll sound exactly the same as it did when initially recorded, in the
>same way that if you take a binary computer program and splat a few zeroes
>into the middle of the file, it's not likely to make the program just
>slightly worse, just completely and untterly shaft it. I don't know where
>this sort of stuff comes from, but there was an article a few years ago that
>stated that should you keep your CD's in a fridge, they'd sound better!
Is Keith on crack or something? This isn't even in English.
They smeared jam on them on 'Tomorrow's World'.
>Just a little note to say that some of us are meeting at 8 o'clock
>(p.m.) on Thursday at the Good Mixer, so anyone who fancies meeting up
>for a drink and/or going to see Libido afterwards (Norwegian group -
>I've never heard them, but Elisabeth Z speaks highly) should be there
>then.
This Tag guy is a prick, I hate him.
>what has everyone got against me???
Poor Northy. All together now.....aaah.
>Who is Bert Jansch?
Thank you Peter. I didn't like show my ignornace by asking. I think
he's made up.
>Pressed CD: Total Harmonic Distortion 65db, S/N ratio 82 dB
>
>Recordable CD: THD 55dB, S/N 80dB
>
>Recordable CDs follow a different recording algorithm called Absolute Time
>in Pre-groove (ATIP)
>which uses a lower quality recording known as 1 time over sampling, normal
>audio
> CDs use 4 time oversampling. (note it is the RECORDING that is noisier!).
>
>And this would be from a perfect digital information source, add onto the
>above, the sampling noise
>(I have a AWE64 for instance, not nearly professional level) and you have
>something that it pretty
> much matching an average tape dub.
Oh God, Keith, what have you started - now, they're all at it.
>Oh and I only have one Bert Janch CD (the compilation on Demon) which I
>will not copy on CD or tape as I just wouldn't sleep an nights if I did so
He doesn't exist, I tell you. It's all make believe. You've all gone
quite mad.
Incidentally Lynn from Vinyl Exchange was very disappointed that she
didn't see enough of Stuart's nice trousers. Curvaceous brunette Lynn
(20-something) also confessed said she'd rather see them on her
bedroom floor. Her boyfriend (who cannot be named in case JOHN
McCREADY loses his house credentials) was unavailable for comment.
The band read this? Oi Murdoch - my mate fancies you.
Woooohoooo....'Fargo's on Sky!
Love you each and every one especially Northy
Tag xxxx
Miss Hoover, my face is on fire
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many thanks to all who offered advice on where to find the cd singles in
the US.
roberta (who goes to the university of South Florida and does not live in
San Francisco)
**oh you look so tired
mouth slack and wide
ill-housed and ill-advised
your face is as mean as
your life has been
crash into my arms
i want you******
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Boys and girls I've solved our name-changing problem!!
(Are you sitting comfortably..? Well then I'll begin.)
(Listen very carefully, it's a good one...)
Following Tag's repeated request for us all to make love in London, I think
it would be quite fun if we all name the kids "Isobelle or, alternatively,
if they're a boy, Sebastian) This way we could cunningly infiltrate the
world's population with a new generation of Belle & Sebastians - a truly
disturbing and freaky phenomenon in history which scientists would then
spend years puzzling over......
Clever huh?
PS Genevieve - what's all this about a secret Longpigs track - where,
how and why did no-one tell me? And more importantly, what's all this
about Stuart evans getting married without me? (Sound of sobbing in
background) Can this heart-stopping news really be true? Are they all
married ?
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Someone in the UK who's done it
tell us how much and how.:
I can answer this one.
Last year my sister in England changed her name. The changing of her
name was as simple as signing her name. All she had to do was go to our
local family solisiters and ask them. they produced a form and she
signed it. the difficult thing was having all her mail, banks, clubs,
friends knowing she'd done it - easyier than getting a name change
through marriage. And it cost around £10 pounds.
> Why don't all the girls change their middle name to Belle and all
the boys to Sebastian. They'll be this sudden rush at the
solicitor's offices around the world, and eventually this massive
phemomenon will reach headline news. There'll be loads of questions:
How was it organised? Why? And then when our epitaphs are written,
people will say "Ah, the famous 98 B&S Sinister-listee outbreak. I
took a degree in it. Interesting stuff." and it'll be like plague
victims but much nicer.
Bethey I think this is a truly brilliant idea. I have been wanting
to ditch my middle name for ages. Someone in the UK who's done it
tell us how much and how.
The Guidian newspaper posts a thing called Notes and Queries. Within it,
some one asked:
Are there any names that I am not allowed to use if I want to
change my name by deed poll? Could I, for instance, call myself
Coca Cola? Would anyone object to me being called Her Majesty
The Queen Elizabeth the Second?
I AM REMINDED of a man who changed his name by deed poll to
"Yorkshire
Bank plc Are Fascist Bastards" - and insisted on having it printed
on his
cheques.
Darren Maughan, University of Warwick, Coventry
(pousq(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk)
YOU can't change your name by deed poll (or by statutory
declaration, which
is cheaper), whatever your solicitor and others may lead you to
believe. In law
your name is what you are known by (legitimately including aliases
- for
example, pen names, stage names, women using both married and
maiden
names). A deed poll is only a formal declaration of intent, but it
has no
relevance if you use a different name in practice. Say your name
is John Smith.
You go into a solicitor's office and execute a deed poll
"changing" your name to
Elvis Presley (it's happened). If, on coming out of the office,
you continue to
sign your cheques "John Smith", your name is still "John Smith";
if you start
signing them "Cliff Richard" then your name is Cliff Richard. Of
course, you
need to be consistent, and the bank and the Inland Revenue will
require
evidence that you really are the person known as what you say you
are (which
is why deeds poll are taken, for practical purposes, as
"evidence"). There is no
legal restriction on the name you are known by, but the use of
that name is
subject to all the obvious restrictions on the use of language
generally: obscenity,
fraudulent impersonation, electoral malpractice, racism,
blasphemy, libel and
slander. So you can call yourself "Her Majesty the Queen" as long
as you don't
pretend to be the Queen. You could probably get away with calling
yourself
Coca-Cola (after all, you can't really be prevented from calling
yourself W H
Smith or F W Woolworth or Ronald McDonald) provided that you
didn't do it
by way of trade or affecting anyone else's, although I wouldn't
vouch for the
behaviour of courts in the United States.
Dr J B Post, Axbridge, Somerset.
THE TITLES of the ancient bishoprics and deaneries of the Church
of England
are protected by the criminal law. Under the Ecclesiastical Titles
Act - mainly
directed at preventing a rival establishment of the English
hierarchy by the
Catholic church - misappropriating one of these titles would be an
offence.
Tom Hennell, Withington, Manchester.
A FEW years ago I read of a man who wanted to change his name to
his
favourite chatline number. However, his bank refused to accept it
as a signature
for his cheque book on the basis that it was too easily forged.
Mark Wilkinson , Uxbridge, Middx.
A FEW years ago I read of a man who wanted to change his name to F
731
HDB, claiming that it was cheaper than buying a personalised
number plate for
his car.
Bob Morton, Hale, Cheshire.
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>Are there any names that I am not allowed to use if I want to
> change my name by deed poll? Could I, for instance, call myself
> Coca Cola? Would anyone object to me being called Her Majesty
> The Queen Elizabeth the Second?
I read in an old Seventeen magazine about some guy in the USA who changed
his name to Trout Fishing In America, because he loved Richard Brautigan's
stuff. And he changed it just in time for it to appear on his highschool
diploma. His friends call him Trout.
truly,
jessica
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The online magazine allstar (http://www.allstarmag.com) named IYFS
as it's #3 album of the year behind Radiohead and Spiritualized, which
is pretty good company. The review follows, it's very flattering, almost
rapturous.
This band is so splendid, their mixture of erudite string/
horn arrangements, sensitively sung vocals, rolling grooves,
rockist rhythm guitars, and carousel organs is delicious.
These Scottish folks' cross- pollinated, lush sound savvily
recalls the creme de la creme of erudite pop history -- so
many things at once you don't know where to begin.
  It's hard to resist playing the back of the bus fanboy
game of What if: What if in the '60s the Kinks had
collaborated with Lou Reed, produced by Burt Bacharach? Or
in the '70s, if Nick Drake had cut a few sides with Roxy
Music, with Jack Nitzsche producing? Or in the '80s, if Felt
had recorded with the June Brides and Feelies, John Cale in
the control booth? Belle and Sebastian sound like all of
these things, sort of. Do people really think they sound
like the Smiths? That group is so histrionic and self-
important. B&S (not the names of anyone in the band) are too
smart to care whether meat is murder or not. They want to
know how it's cooked.
  There's lots of bands that sound good, especially in
1997. You've got Movietone, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Richard
Davies, Home, Mogwai, the High Llamas, Fuck, Smog,
Broadcast, the Elephant 6 collective, the Lilys -- everyone
sounds good, the pop life is a party where everyhting goes
right... except maybe in the words department. The
conversation, the lyrics are a bit lacking in general.
  But Belle and Sebastian's words are the tops, the
dandy-ish extreme. They're like Oscar Wilde showing up for
supper. There's not only a bite to their humor that recalls
Mark E. Smith, a pathos that reminds one of Eitzel, and a
dainty way with words that hints at Nick Drake, but an
ironic edge that's as sharp as the Monochrome Set, and as
full of life as the Kinks: "Could I write a requiem for you
when you're dead?/ 'She had the moves, she had the speed, it
went to her head'/ She never needed anything to get her
round the track/ But when she's on her back/ She had the
knowledge/ To get her into college" -- from "The Stars of
Track and Field." Bravo, bravo. I'm holding my breath until
the Matador record is released.
-Mike McGonigal
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The online magazine allstar (http://www.allstarmag.com) named IYFS
as it's #3 album of the year behind Radiohead and Spiritualized, which
is pretty good company. The review follows, it's very flattering, almost
rapturous.
This band is so splendid, their mixture of erudite string/
horn arrangements, sensitively sung vocals, rolling grooves,
rockist rhythm guitars, and carousel organs is delicious.
These Scottish folks' cross- pollinated, lush sound savvily
recalls the creme de la creme of erudite pop history -- so
many things at once you don't know where to begin.
  It's hard to resist playing the back of the bus fanboy
game of What if: What if in the '60s the Kinks had
collaborated with Lou Reed, produced by Burt Bacharach? Or
in the '70s, if Nick Drake had cut a few sides with Roxy
Music, with Jack Nitzsche producing? Or in the '80s, if Felt
had recorded with the June Brides and Feelies, John Cale in
the control booth? Belle and Sebastian sound like all of
these things, sort of. Do people really think they sound
like the Smiths? That group is so histrionic and self-
important. B&S (not the names of anyone in the band) are too
smart to care whether meat is murder or not. They want to
know how it's cooked.
  There's lots of bands that sound good, especially in
1997. You've got Movietone, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Richard
Davies, Home, Mogwai, the High Llamas, Fuck, Smog,
Broadcast, the Elephant 6 collective, the Lilys -- everyone
sounds good, the pop life is a party where everyhting goes
right... except maybe in the words department. The
conversation, the lyrics are a bit lacking in general.
  But Belle and Sebastian's words are the tops, the
dandy-ish extreme. They're like Oscar Wilde showing up for
supper. There's not only a bite to their humor that recalls
Mark E. Smith, a pathos that reminds one of Eitzel, and a
dainty way with words that hints at Nick Drake, but an
ironic edge that's as sharp as the Monochrome Set, and as
full of life as the Kinks: "Could I write a requiem for you
when you're dead?/ 'She had the moves, she had the speed, it
went to her head'/ She never needed anything to get her
round the track/ But when she's on her back/ She had the
knowledge/ To get her into college" -- from "The Stars of
Track and Field." Bravo, bravo. I'm holding my breath until
the Matador record is released.
-Mike McGonigal
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