Andy
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« Reply #40 on: April 26, 2013, 10:47:54 AM » |
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What a shame I don't live within 150 miles of you, nor do I have lots of money. But I will kick in some dosh. Good luck.
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« Reply #41 on: April 26, 2013, 01:00:53 PM » |
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What a shame I don't live within 150 miles of you, nor do I have lots of money. But I will kick in some dosh. Good luck.
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« Reply #42 on: April 26, 2013, 01:04:09 PM » |
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did he have any gold teeth, then ? good luck with it you should have got young Olly involved, it would be paid for and out by now  |
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« Reply #43 on: April 26, 2013, 01:16:59 PM » |
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did he have any gold teeth, then ? good luck with it you should have got young Olly involved, it would be paid for and out by now Nah, just some mercury and whatever that new stuff is... |
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« Reply #44 on: April 26, 2013, 01:50:47 PM » |
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mercury's worth a bob or two
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« Reply #45 on: April 27, 2013, 09:12:52 AM » |
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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
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Shane (Skirky)
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« Reply #46 on: April 27, 2013, 08:30:02 PM » |
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you should have got young Olly involved, it would be paid for and out by now Well, y'know, if he's got any left over and that... |
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Shane (Skirky)
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« Reply #47 on: June 19, 2013, 01:05:18 PM » |
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Tension mounts ahead of next month's Maverick Festival (where, incidentally, Tim Dowling of The Guardian will be taking time off from performing with Police Dog Hogan to interview Ian Dunlop out of Gram Parsons' International Submarine Band)... http://skirky.blogspot.com/2013/06/blimey-at-glastonbury-we-just-get.html |
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« Reply #48 on: June 27, 2013, 09:31:45 PM » |
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Shane (Skirky)
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« Reply #49 on: March 03, 2014, 03:46:57 PM » |
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Long-standing mystery solved at last. Obviously we could have Googled it, but where would be the fun in that?  http://skirky.blogspot.nl/2014/03/moby-dave.htmlBlimey, has it really been eight years since we did The Cornbury Festival? Whatever happened to the wRants? And those Spiers & Boden chaps who played on the Sunday? |
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« Reply #50 on: March 03, 2014, 03:53:20 PM » |
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8 years? no way!!!
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« Reply #51 on: March 04, 2014, 05:03:07 AM » |
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8 years? no way!!!
My, how time flies! |
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-- Adrian
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« Reply #52 on: June 02, 2014, 09:31:23 AM » |
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« Reply #54 on: July 07, 2014, 10:24:49 PM » |
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I think it was when Philip Henry and Hannah Martin kicked into a ten minute version of 'The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn' that I relaxed and threw myself into the spirit of the weekend... http://skirky.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-boy-in-bubble.html |
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« Reply #55 on: July 08, 2014, 08:15:17 AM » |
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Shane as I get older I am getting more and more frustrated at gigs, mainly festivals that can't run to time. We played Cinderford festival a few weeks ago . Fest started at 1.30. We were on at 3.30 by which time they were running 50 mins behind. They'd had 2 acts on !! This meant 'orrible sound bleed with the other stage!!! At the fests I have stage managed I am vaguely fascist about sticking to time. At Cropredy etc I hate it when there isn't time for a band encore but when running a fest I've done it, Particularly if I know we have an 11.o clock 'curfew'. Notably I was apologising for a band not been able to play an encore cos we'd got to get the headliners,' Something Nasty in the Woodshed ' on and I'd promised the village that we would be quiet by 11! A group of young gentlemen at the front of the stage, who had probably had a whole bag of winegums and had enjoyed the previous act, intimated that they would like a little more and suggested that my parents had not conceived me at a time of marital bliss. My wife tells me, in fact berated me at length, that I replied from the stage over our very efficient and loud p.a ,'sorry lads I don't speak pissed up pillock!' This is not like me at all but we were running 3 mins over!!!!!  Loving the blogs. |
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« Reply #56 on: July 08, 2014, 09:07:20 AM » |
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Festivals which don't run to time annoy some punters too. I am one. Especially multi-stage ones where running late can mean you miss bands you wanted to see.
For those which do, I believe that bands have to allow for an encore, if there is sufficient demand, in their allocated time. True of Cropredy I believe.
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Andy
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« Reply #57 on: July 08, 2014, 09:16:27 AM » |
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Just a POI: it's called Under The Dome, based on a rather poor Stephen King short story.
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« Reply #58 on: July 08, 2014, 09:29:37 AM » |
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Just a POI: it's called Under The Dome, based on a rather poor Stephen King short story.
Never read the short story, but I abandoned Under The Dome half way through the second episode. |
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-- Adrian
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Shane (Skirky)
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« Reply #59 on: July 08, 2014, 10:21:22 AM » |
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Festivals which don't run to time annoy some punters too. I am one. Especially multi-stage ones where running late can mean you miss bands you wanted to see.
For those which do, I believe that bands have to allow for an encore, if there is sufficient demand, in their allocated time. True of Cropredy I believe.
I was fortunate to have a great stage crew and some marvellous artists to work with. The sublime Mary Gauthier was a case in point - she went for the "Give me a 'ten minutes' gesture" option and whenever she tuned, changed a capo or took on water she was also surreptitiously checking the time. Sure enough, with five minutes to go she announced that she was about to play her last song and so managed everyone's expectations accordingly (including Larkin Poe, who were getting a bit twitchy backstage). She was a dream to deal with and a great example of the exponential talent-to-graciousness ratio I was lucky enough to enjoy many times over the course of the weekend. Thanks Andy, btw, noted and amended. |
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