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Web Digest week 41 (07.06.98, MV1118-1158) begins | index | prev | next | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 19:14:58 +0100 From: Gerald Smith <email address> Subject: MV1118 Re: MV1117; MV1116; MV1115; MV1114; MV1113; MV1110: The seventh album At 11:24 07/06/98 +0100, Leslie Moss wrote: > >The idea of Voices assisting with the creation of a seventh album is a >brilliant one. > Sax/Clarinet : Professional services, professionally rendered (FOC, naturally). (Of course, I imagine Pete knows an army of other session guys who would queue up for the chance to blow on the album!) Gerry Smith Gerald Smith's Homepage : http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gerald.smith/index.htm ============================================================================== From: IChippett<email address> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 15:22:59 EDT Subject: MV1119: A seventh album? Dear Steve, So the seventh album is just a matter of time? This must be the best news since "Smash Flops" got launched and you can put me down for an autographed copy straight away. I would point out that the hair is growing thinner on the scalp (if not thicker on the upper lip) while I examine my ankles daily for signs of folding so if you and Pete could get things going before I need to pay in Euros you'll make a middle-aged man very happy! ( 8-) ) Ian C ============================================================================== Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 20:09:04 +0100 From: S J Birkill <email address> Subject: MV1120: Buxton: The MV Reception <members-only context omitted from Web digest> The Opera House reports ticket sales at 130 (as of last Friday). As yet the event has not been announced to the general (non-MV, non-Internet) public. That happens with the issue of the summer brochure on June 22nd and a poster/flyer campaign beginning at about the same time. Book early for best seats! Steve ============================================================================== From: Dave Jones <email address> Subject: MV1121 RE: MV1120: Buxton: The MV Reception Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 16:06:59 -0400 Since I cannot, regrettably, attend this function, I will take inspiration from that ingenious musical "Sunday in the Park with George" and send along a full-size cutout picture to stand in my stead. Pay no attention to the fact that it is wearing a Star Trek uniform, has a more than usually wrinkled brow, and is brandishing a loaded phaser. Dave Jones Wishing he could warp over from Rochester NY. ============================================================================== Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 22:29:51 +0100 From: Graham Stibbs <email address> Subject: MV1122 Re: MV1120 The MV Reception I think the reception's a marvellous idea, many thanks to Steve and Carole for organizing it. Time now to start designing the mugs and T-shirts! By the way, sorry to mention the dreaded World Cup, but it seems to me that Pete and Clive are just about the only ones in the country who haven't written a World Cup song. Or was that Secret Drinker? Graham Stibbs ============================================================================== Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 07:40:24 +0100 From: Leslie Moss <email address> Subject: MV1123 Re: MV1120: Buxton: The MV Reception At 20:14 08/06/98 +0100, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 20:09:04 +0100 >From: S J Birkill <email address> >Subject: Buxton: The MV Reception Include me in times 2 please! Cheque in post as soon as I get back from sunny Brussels on Thursday. Leslie ============================================================================== From: cjb<email address> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 08:25:34 +0000 Subject: MV1124 Re: MV1123; MV1120: Buxton: The MV Reception Leslie wrote, > Include me in times 2 please! Cheque in post as soon as I > get back from sunny Brussels on Thursday. Which one of you is going? And if you've got a spare self why couldn't he stand in for Dave (Jones) - the Start Trek out fit sound a little dodgy for Buxton .... with respect Dave. See one of you there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROCK FOLLIES - The Classic 1970's TV Drama starring Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell and Rula Lenska. Online at:- http://members.xoom.com/Follies Pictures,sounds and much more (unofficial site) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Regards - Cary (like Mary with a 'C' for cat) ============================================================================== From: Rob King <email address> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 02:33:15 EDT Subject: MV1125 Re: MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception Why the dreaded World Cup? Here am I, basking in Bordeaux's heat, having just partaken of some sensational seafood and claret and eagerly anticipating watching Italy play Chile tomorrow and feeling like a pig in shit.........I defy anyone not to capture the World Cup spirit in the next seven days...... It probably won't ask but this is bonding on a universal, national scale and only the most pretentious pretend it doesn't happen in some form.... Rob ============================================================================== Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:22:20 +0100 From: Gerald Smith <email address> Subject: MV1126 Re: MV1125; MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception At 08:11 10/06/98 +0100, Elphinking wrote: >From: <email address> >Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 02:33:15 EDT >Subject: Re: MV1122 Re: MV1120 The MV Reception > >Why the dreaded World Cup? >> >It probably won't ask but this is bonding on a universal, national scale and >only the most pretentious pretend it doesn't happen in some form.... Quoi ?? (Pretentious ?? Moi?..) Gerry Gerald Smith's Homepage : http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gerald.smith/index.htm ============================================================================== Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:07:07 +0100 From: Alexis Birkill <email address> Subject: MV1127 Re: MV1125; MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception > I defy anyone not to capture the World Cup spirit in the next seven days...... > > Rob Ooo! Is that a challenge?? Not only do I not have time to watch the World Cup, because of my GCSEs (which fortunately are nearly over!), but even if I did I wouldn't! So there! ;o) Alexis Birkill. Visit the Hideout at http://www.dragonfire.net/~Alexis/ ============================================================================== From: Rob King <email address> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:38:34 EDT Subject: MV1128 Re: MV1127; MV1125; MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception I will not respond beyond to predict the temptation will simply be too strong...but I do think it is cruel to make you take GCSE's in the middle of the World Cup!! Trivia question: which football team is mentioned in CJ's lyrics? ============================================================================== Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:24:07 +0100 From: Graham Stibbs <email address> Subject: MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric Brighton & Hove Albion (Youth Team): "The trainee seagulls contour-flying..." Graham Stibbs ============================================================================== From: "lynn sheppard" <email address> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:41:31 +0000 Subject: MV1130 Re: MV1128; MV1127; MV1125; MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception Ooh! Ooh! I know! Everton and Chelsea. Carnations on the Roof. Do i get a prize? I dont even like football. Another for your club, Alexis! From Lynn ============================================================================== From: "andy & lynn" <email address> Subject: MV1131 Re: MV1128; MV1127; MV1125; MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:58:03 +0100 'Carnations on the roof' 'While he talked about Everton and Chelsea with his mates' That's two, there may be others Andy ============================================================================== From: IChippett<email address> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 01:26:00 EDT Subject: MV1132 Re : MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric Everton and Chelsea in "Carnations on the Roof". Do I get free ticket for the final? Our Junior Citizen is lucky he doesn't like football. My son who is a fanatic has exams too and so Madame has hidden the remote control zapper until July.So no World Cup for the only living Englishman who missed the 1966 Final (mumps). No football and no Buxton. What's the point in going on? Ian C Down and almost out in Paris. ============================================================================== From: "Murray Francis McGlew" <email address> Subject: MV1133: Covers - football. Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:50:55 +0800 The only cover version that really springs to mind is The Who to do "Driving Through Mythical America". I can really picture the Daltry vocals on that one. Any number of blues/rock artists could probably make some sort of job of "The Original Honky Tonk Night Train Blues." "Master Of The Revels" could almost blend in on the Beatles' Seargent Pepper album. Some real long shots - Tom Lehrer to do "Beware Of The Beautiful Stranger", The Kinks to do "Practical Man", and The Bushwackers to tackle "Sunlight Gate." On football, I remember seeing Clive on a chat show once (as a guest), and he was pointing out that in the US game there is sickening violence happening on the field while the audience sits around quietly eating hot dogs. At a soccer game, nothing happens on the field but the sickening violence is happening in the audience. I make no comment on this, apart from pointing out that with the great Australian game you get the best of both worlds. Murray McGlew. ============================================================================== Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 08:06:52 From: Richard M Corfield <email address> Subject: MV1134 Re: MV1128; MV1127; MV1125; MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception >Trivia question: which football team is mentioned in CJ's lyrics? Two: Everton and Chelsea (Carnations on the Roof) All the best, Richard C ============================================================================== From: Rob King <email address> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 04:07:46 EDT Subject: MV1135 Re: MV1130; MV1128; MV1127; MV1125; MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception Absolument! Your prize is frint seat in front of the TV when England play Tunisia ============================================================================== From: Rob King <email address> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 04:07:45 EDT Subject: MV1136 Re: MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric NO ============================================================================== Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:41:16 +0100 From: S J Birkill <email address> Subject: MV1137: Treats for lovers of Julie's voice New RA files: Tonight Your Love Is Over (from 1970 Columbia single): Play at http://www.rwt.co.uk/tonighty.ram Download ftp://www.rwt.co.uk/pub/rwt/ra/tonighty.ra With Me It Goes Deeper (from 1972 RCA single): Play at http://www.rwt.co.uk/withmeit.ram Download ftp://www.rwt.co.uk/pub/rwt/ra/withmeit.ra These will be linked from the Web site in due course. -- Steve ============================================================================== From: Rob King <email address> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:14:29 EDT Subject: MV1138 Re: MV1132; MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric Hi Ian, I arrive in Paris tomorrow (Friday), sating at thre Grande Inter-Continental if you fancy a drink in the evening? Rob ============================================================================== From: "lynn sheppard" <email address> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:48:13 +0000 Subject: MV1139 Re: MV1138; MV1132; MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyr Gosh, how cosmopolitan! have a Ricard for me! Lynn ============================================================================== From: cjb<email address> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:45:44 +0000 Subject: MV1140 Re: MV1137: Treats for lovers of Julie's voice >With Me It Goes Deeper (from 1972 RCA single): Containing one of my new 'well worn phrases' ..... "but I know exactly ......" hey, I think I understand this song - anyone got any interpretations to confuse me? Mel .... where are you? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROCK FOLLIES - The Classic 1970's TV Drama starring Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell and Rula Lenska. Online at:- http://members.xoom.com/Follies Pictures,sounds and much more (unofficial site) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Regards - Cary (like Mary with a 'C' for cat) ============================================================================== Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 21:26:14 +0100 From: Christine Guilfoyle <email address> Subject: MV1141: Cover versions On the subject of cover versions (as we have been, in between Buxton and France 98), if I remember rightly in the last sentence of the recentish reissue of Clive James's first book 'The Metropolitan Critic', he says that he'd have happily not written any of the preceding essays if he could have written one song for Dusty Springfield instead. Presumably Val Doonican wasn't cool enough. Any suggestions as to which song Dusty might cover? I can just about imagine her singing one of the slow ones from Road of Silk ('Care Charmer Sleep' or 'The Hollow and the Fluted Night', say), but beyond that I'm struggling. Any better ideas? -- Mike Walters ============================================================================== From: IChippett<email address> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:28:35 EDT Subject: MV1142 Re : MV1138; MV1132; MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric Hi Rob! Great news! I don't know where the Grande Intercontinental is (!) but I'll try to be there anyway between 8 and 8 30 tomorrow evening (Friday). I will be at my office (Pete Atkin Home | Discography | Julie Covington | Audio Clips | Visitors' Comments | Join Midnight Voices) between 15 30 and 19 15 so why not give me a call then ? . You might be able to get me at home between 8 and 14 30 with a bit of persistence, certainly between 13 30 and 14 30. The number is and I have an answering machine if there's a problem. In case any Voices are wondering what's happening, don't worry, you haven't stumbled on to an International Dating Agency, there IS Pete Atkin content since Rob and I will certainly be discussing Everton and Chelsea and any drinking will not be secret. This could well be the first international Midnight Voices get-together. Apologies to Steve and the others! Ian C ============================================================================== From: Rob King <email address> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:48:19 EDT Subject: MV1143 Re: MV1142; MV1138; MV1132; MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric Yes, carryong on the apologies ...but it's hit-and-run for me on the internet during the WC so bear with me... The Intercontinental is 2 Rue Scribe, tel: 331 40073232...I hope I make it because I have to pick up a car from orly and drive it into Paris!!! And weren't Italy lucky ce soir!! ============================================================================== Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:31:20 -0700 From: Mike Powell <email address> Subject: MV1144 Re: MV1136; MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric Midnight Voices wrote: > > From: <email address> > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 04:07:45 EDT > Subject: Re: MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric > > NO This is possibly the most enigmatic email submitted to the group to date. Can anybody explain it please? This is not relevant in any way but I detest the world cup and I hope the subject is dropped from this group asap. ============================================================================== Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 07:18:25 +0100 From: Leslie Moss <email address> Subject: MV1145 Re: MV1127; MV1125; MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception At 18:57 10/06/98 +0100, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:07:07 +0100 >From: Alexis Birkill < > >Subject: Re: MV1125 Re: MV1122; MV1120 The MV Reception > >> I defy anyone not to capture the World Cup spirit in the next seven >days..... >> >> Rob > >Ooo! Is that a challenge?? Not only do I not have time to watch the World >Cup, because of my GCSEs (which fortunately are nearly over!), but even if >I did I wouldn't! So there! ;o) > >Alexis Birkill. > Sad Alexis, sad! From one who has already thrilled to Brasil v Scotland and Italy v Chile. Leslie ============================================================================== From: IChippett<email address> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:26:11 EDT Subject: MV1146 Re: No, football, Steve Martland and Bootlegs I think Rob was trying to explain that the Seagulls were not one of the football teams he had in mind in his Trivia Quiz. The socio-economic profile of the typical Pete Atkin fan takes a further dimension. He's male, over 40, an academic or works in computers, divorced, likes Stackridge, has never heard "Secret Drinker" and, we now learn, hates football. I wonder if Pete is a football fan. Probably not, I'd guess. Looking back through some old Digests, I see that Pete has raved several times about the Steve Martland Band. Anybody know anything about them? Apart from the demo material for the seventh album, there seems to be lot of stuff which might make an interesting official bootleg. I mean songs like "Architect of the Towers", "I wouldn't hear a word against the spring" and suchlike. It would seem unlikely that Pete would want to incorporate any of this into an eighth album and it would be a pity to waste it. Just a thought. Ian C ============================================================================== Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:40:19 +0100 From: Gerald Smith <email address> Subject: MV1147: We DON'T have the technology!! Hello All Last night I downloaded and set up a plug-in for my Eudora e-mail program (sic) which purports to save me the trouble of actually reading my e-mails, by getting my computer to read them to me. I thought I'd test-drive this apparent icon of technology on a few MV posts. To my amusement, the oft used phrase 'PA and Clive James' was announced as 'Pennsylvania and Clive Jams', 'A King at Nightfall' became 'Aching at Nightfall' itterated in a voice reminiscent of an alien in a bad 60's sci-fi 'B' movie. The plethora of other cyber goofs kept me laughing late into the night!! Anyone else tried using one of these devices? All the best Gerry Smith Gerald Smith's Homepage : http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gerald.smith/index.htm ============================================================================== From: Rob King <email address> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:46:01 EDT Subject: MV1148 Re: MV1144; MV1136; MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team in CJ lyric Ok, I get the message...and so Steve, would you please remove me from the MV membership list, thanks. I'd hate to think I was offending those Voices who prefer their ivory towers. ============================================================================== Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:47:31 +0100 From: Roy Brown <email address> Subject: MV1149: football team in CJ lyric >Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:31:20 -0700 >From: Mike Powell <email address> >This is not relevant in any way but I detest the world cup and I hope >the subject is dropped from this group asap. > Aaah. As Maisie in the Perishers once memorably said, 'Kickball or hitball, I can never remember which is which'. And I tend to agree with her. The coming weeks will provide little to clash with my watching the Monyash video. But for the more dyed-in-the-wool pan-fan of *both* PA/CJ and the WC, how about remedying Clive's omission, with a parody lyric for, say, 'Little Freddie Football' ? -- Roy Brown ============================================================================== From: Dave Jones <email address> Subject: MV1150 RE: MV1141: Cover versions Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:38:30 -0400 >On the subject of cover versions (as we have been, in between Buxton and >France 98), if I remember rightly in the last sentence of the recentish >reissue of Clive James's first book 'The Metropolitan Critic', he says >that he'd have happily not written any of the preceding essays if he >could have written one song for Dusty Springfield instead. Presumably >Val Doonican wasn't cool enough. Nor, it would seem, was Julie Covington... >Any suggestions as to which song Dusty might cover? I can just about >imagine her singing one of the slow ones from Road of Silk ('Care >Charmer Sleep' or 'The Hollow and the Fluted Night', say), but beyond >that I'm struggling. Any better ideas? My aging brain remembers Dusty's meaty alto belting out upbeat numbers. "Driving Through Mythical America", perhaps? "Sunlight Gate" ? Then there's "Nothing Left to Say", in a slower vein. Of course, if Clive had known Dusty (maybe he did) and written a song just for her, he might have been inspired to inject some sexual ambiguity into the standard romantic popular song form. Could have been interesting. Dave Jones Always finding something there to remind him in Rochester NY. ============================================================================== From: "lynn sheppard" <email address> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:11:14 +0000 Subject: MV1151 Re: MV1148; MV1144; MV1136; MV1129 Re MV 1128 football team i I dont like football, but i will defend to the death anyone elses right to like it... or something like that anyway. You talk about football if you want to. I expect PA might watch some matches and if its good enough for him. I agree with you Ian. Ivory towers can get a bit cold you know! Lynn (University Librarian and Commoner!) ============================================================================== Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:26:06 +0100 From: Roy Brown <email address> Subject: MV1152 Re: MV1150; MV1141: Cover versions >From: Dave Jones <email address> >Subject: RE: MV1141: Cover versions >Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:38:30 -0400 > >>Any suggestions as to which song Dusty might cover? >Of course, if Clive had known Dusty (maybe he did) and written a song just >for her, he might have been inspired to inject some sexual ambiguity >into the standard romantic popular song form. Could have been interesting. > 'The Flowers and the Wine', without changing a word? Julie sang 'He just don't appeal to me', but of course it wasn't a PA/CJ song... Seriously, I think Dusty would have made a fine job of 'The Magic Wasn't There'. >Dave Jones >Always finding something there to remind him in Rochester NY. but of the barefooted one, not the singing panda...... :-( Roy Brown who just doesn't know what to do with himself in Tewkesbury GL... ============================================================================== From: Dave Jones <email address> Subject: MV1153 RE: MV1152; MV1150; MV1141: Cover versions Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:14:35 -0400 >>Dave Jones >>Always finding something there to remind him in Rochester NY. >but of the barefooted one, not the singing panda...... :-( Rats, I hoped nobody would catch me on that... Dave Jones Stranded on a sandy shore in Rochester NY. (sorry, couldn't do anything with "I always wanna be with you", the only song I know for sure was Dusty's) ============================================================================== Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 22:12:31 +0100 From: S J Birkill <email address> Subject: MV1154: Pete sings ......... In response to all the fascinating speculation on cover versions, Pete has just pumped down the pipe the following notes on Other People's Songs ..... <<<<< Oh, and I've come up with a list of (I think) all of the non-J/A songs which I have sung in public at one time or another - mostly as encores or on charity gigs or something. Not sure what they tell you about me, but there they are. They're not at all necessarily my favourite songs of all time, just songs I fancied singing - not the same thing at all. I'm flattered that people thought I could sing Rodgers and Hart or the like, but while I have always sung several of them to myself (It Never Entered My Mind, Glad To Be Unhappy, Spring Is Here, Bewitched, You Are Too Beautiful, etc), I'm not sure I could do it in public without the mental echoes of Fred Astaire or Ella Fitzgerald drowning me out. Anyway, here's the list (most of which I guess you already know) - (Hang up my) Rock and Roll Shoes (by Chuck Willis - learned first from Jerry Lee Lewis, then Amos Garrett, the Band, and CW himself) My Rockin' Days (by Kenny O'Dell - learned from a 70s album by the Crickets) Take Good Care Of My Baby (by Goffin and King - learned from Bobby Vee) Deacon Blues (Becker and Fagen - Aja) What Do You Want The Girl To Do (Allen Toussaint - learned first from Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees, then Lowell George and AT himself) Brickyard Blues (Allen Toussaint - learned from Maria Muldaur album) Milkshake Mademoiselle (by Jack Hammer - from Jerry Lee again) What'd I Say (Ray Charles but learned from the Jerry Lee version) Third Rate Romance (Russell Smith - from Jesse Winchester's Learn to Love It album, but then from the Amazing Rhythm Aces own first album (RS their lead singer and main writer, also later singer on the fantastic and truly hilarious Run C&W album - possibly the funniest rock/pop record ever)) My Old School (Becker & Fagen from Countdown To Ecstasy - I also sing Razor Boy a lot, but I don't think I've ever done it in public - likewise Fire In the Hole) You Remember Me (Jesse Winchester from Nothing Like A Breeze) [heard Pete play this last w/e - nice song -- S] The Real Thing (Chip Taylor from Chip Taylor's Last Chance) Maybe they're a clue to the kind of songs I wished I'd written/could write, I don't know. But then, I can't imagine tackling any of Randy Newman's myself. Certainly there are one or two Tom Waits songs I could fancy - Heart of Saturday Night, for instance, if Shawn Colvin hadn't already done it. Oh, and Ain't That Peculiar (forgot who wrote it - Norman Whitfield? - from Marvin Gaye). Oh, and while I'm here, I'm reminded of was it Ian Chippett's question about how we decided on the album titles in light of the fact that the album title songs on the whole did poorly in the poll. Fact is, we never chose decided the album title by what we thought was the best song, simply, and perhaps more mystically and unaccountably, by which of the song titles on the album seemed to make the best album title. Boring, huh? >>>>> Another gig: we can reveal that Pete has been asked to play Islington again this year. The pencilled-in date is December 3rd. And, while I'm here (as it's a long time since I've delivered a general message) I should formally welcome recent new Midnight Voices members Andy Birch, James Blackstock, Fiona Clarke, David King, Jan Lipsansky, David McLintock, Roy Smith and Diane Stephens. I think it's time to revise the Welcome message/FAQ too to include the latest developments. I'll try and organise that soon. I must thank all who've reserved tickets for the Buxton reception for their very kind words, which mean a lot to us. Best Steve ============================================================================== From: <email address> (Reid, PC) Subject: MV1155: Change of e-mail address Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 09:48:05 +0100 Please note that as from 13 June 1998 my e-mail address will change from <email address> to <email address> Thanks Paul C Reid ============================================================================== From: "andy & lynn" <email address> Subject: MV1156 Re: MV1146 Re: No, football, Steve Martland and Bootlegs Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 13:24:07 +0100 I'm proud to say I'm under forty, have never heard of Stackridge, have had Secret Drinker for twenty years, am neither an academic nor work in computers and love football. I'm still male but have now put my name down for the operation. Andy By the way, I don't think its a coincidence that Pete's music appeals to the stereotypre Ian describes (and, to be honest, I'm closer than I like to admit). I think that we largely use music (and football etc) as a kind of badge to define ourselves. Pete's albums are intelligent, tasteful, dry and a little remote. They deal with emotion but in a considered, ironic manner. Unfashionable to the point of extinction they render the issue of popularity irrelevant. Its a bit like the line in 'Frasier' where Frasier tells Niles that women like men who are intelligent and spohisticated rather than good looking and hunky. 'No' says Niles, 'that's just something we used to tell ourselves in chess club'. ============================================================================== From: "Ian Wright" <email address> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 14:21:24 +0000 Subject: MV1157: Football Have I signed on with the wrong lot or what? If I had wanted to know anything about the current world cup I'd have joined the lads down the pub'. As it is, I assumed that the thing we all had in common - and wanted to talk about - was the music of PA & CJ. It's not even as if you are all using the word FOOTBALL correctly! There are six kinds of football to my knowledge which have a codified set of rules. All of them have their origin in English public schools to some extent and soccer more than most. So much for the peoples' game! Any way, name a footballer (in the correct sense of the word) mentioned in any CJ book. I can name one! ============================================================================== From: Richard.Corfield<email address> Subject: MV1158: Eighth Album Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 16:07:26 +0100 (BST) And moving the subject off football... In the Steve Wright interview just before Christmas, Clive mentions a desire to write more songs with Pete. Does this mean there may be an eighth album (of new stuff) in the offing? If so: excellent! All the best, Richard C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Digest week 41 (07.06.98, MV1118-1158) ends | index | prev | next | The discussion forum for fans of Pete Atkin and Clive James, their works and collaborators on stage, TV, disc and in print.Midnight VoicesMidnight Voices, the Pete Atkin and Julie Covington Websites are operated and maintained by Steve Birkill
