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Pete Atkin / Words / Clive James recalls.. |
07.05.19 at 21:18 |
| Started by Kevin Cryan | Newest post by Kevin Cryan |
..... Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra
It's more fun than worrying about Brexit
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Caesar’s dead, Cleopatra’s dead, Joan of Arc is dead, and I’m not feeling too well myself. So, or a bit like that, goes Mark Twain’s most famous joke, and I’m bound to say it’s looking slightly less funny now that I have to dictate this article through a straw. My recent operation was successful in the sense that my head is still on my shoulders, but the way my head and shoulders join up is subject to review. Should there be nuts and bolts à la Frankenstein’s monster, or would it be easier to just reshuffle the pieces at random each morning, like one of those multi-unit Henry Moore statues where the head lies around looking at the body from a distance?
I wish I could say that I cared a lot either way about Brexit, but the truth is that by this stage the things I care about seem mostly to be in the past.....
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read on
Kevin Cryan
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Pete Atkin / News / Re: Eyemouth gig resumed |
03.05.19 at 13:46 |
| Started by Phil Smith | Newest post by Phil Smith |
| Just to keep people informed, the Hippodrome proprietors have told me a few advance tickets have already been sold for the 29th June gig. In their experience, this is quite unusual for an event still two months away.... |
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Pete Atkin / Gigs / Re: Alstonefield 23 March |
26.04.19 at 13:11 |
| Started by Rob Spence | Newest post by Chris H |
Thanks for all involved for organising this - it was an exceptionally good evening and Pete played a few real rarities - I don't remember hearing the song about the Traveling Salesman before.
Good weather had also been organised for the weekend, which was a bonus as the scenery was at its best.
Many thanks to Pete and also to Anna Ryder for an excellent opening set.
Best regards, ChrisH
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Pete Atkin / Members / Re: Richard Moxham |
21.04.19 at 21:51 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by S J Birkill |
I'm reminded of Richard's post to the newly-minted "MV-as-Web-Forum" in 2005, during the UK tour with Clive. In reply to a comment (re Girl On The Train) in the "2005 tour set lists" thread:
Quote:| On the other hand, "mouth" and "Earth" slipped through the net... |
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Richard wrote:
Quote:| Way back there in my Clivolatrous period, I used to assume that the bathetic rhyme was an ironic device for puncturing the pretension in the very act of publishing it. In vaguely similar vein, it occurred to me to wonder whether "to even..." might not be a stitch deliberately dropped for finer eyes to fault. I still think both are possibilities, though the first perhaps rather more likely than the second. |
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Now there's a couple of acute observations of (possibly) Clive's mischievous skill that I rather suspect no-one else had spotted -- I certainly hadn't. I don't recall whether Clive ever denied either.
Steve
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but also have my ticket and am looking forward to it. Always a good atmosphere there and the sound is good too.