From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V12 #153 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, October 5 2007 Volume 12 : Number 153 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Meet & Greet Manchester ? [] Alloy: Meet & Greet Manchester ? [] Alloy: Internet Evolution - new Web 2.0 site launched [Merujo ] Re: Alloy: Meet & Greet Manchester ? [Merujo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 9:24:47 +0100 From: Subject: Alloy: Meet & Greet Manchester ? > Ive heard over time that at various gigs Thomas has done meet & greets just wondered are these pre-arranged and does he always do them - just wondering if going to be one at Manchester on Sunday. Paul. > From: Merujo > Date: 2007/10/02 Tue PM 02:13:18 BST > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Alloy: "Born Under Sputnik" > > > Hello, folks! > > This just popped up in my Google alerts: on Thursday (the 50th > anniversary of the launch of Sputnik -- and the day after TMDR, Bruce > Woolley & Co. do the Sputnik and Beyond gig at ICA) Thomas will be a > participant on radio show called "Born Under Sputnik" on Resonance FM > (8pm UT on 104.4fm in London, or via the Resonance FM web site.) More > info here: http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=668 > > I think 8 p.m. UT is 4 in the afternoon in DC, so I can listen at work. :) > > - Melissa > > -- > "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder > - ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 9:24:36 +0100 From: Subject: Alloy: Meet & Greet Manchester ? > Ive heard over time that at various gigs Thomas has done meet & greets just wondered are these pre-arranged and does he always do them - just wondering if going to be one at Manchester on Sunday. Paul. > From: Merujo > Date: 2007/10/02 Tue PM 02:13:18 BST > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Alloy: "Born Under Sputnik" > > > Hello, folks! > > This just popped up in my Google alerts: on Thursday (the 50th > anniversary of the launch of Sputnik -- and the day after TMDR, Bruce > Woolley & Co. do the Sputnik and Beyond gig at ICA) Thomas will be a > participant on radio show called "Born Under Sputnik" on Resonance FM > (8pm UT on 104.4fm in London, or via the Resonance FM web site.) More > info here: http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=668 > > I think 8 p.m. UT is 4 in the afternoon in DC, so I can listen at work. :) > > - Melissa > > -- > "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder > - ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:54:28 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Alloy: Internet Evolution - new Web 2.0 site launched Caught this press release today. Thomas is one of the folks involved in this site's "thinkerNet" where "world-famous Internet experts blog and interact with the site's audience via message boards." http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/cmp/29931/ - -- "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:29:51 -0500 From: "J. Kara Laidlaw" Subject: Re: Alloy: Internet Evolution - new Web 2.0 site launched Whoa, mind-expanding stuff! Thanks for the heads up, Merujo! :^D Peace, Kara ````````````````````````````````````````````` > From: Merujo > Date: 2007/10/04 Thu PM 08:54:28 CDT > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Alloy: Internet Evolution - new Web 2.0 site launched > > > Caught this press release today. Thomas is one of the folks involved > in this site's "thinkerNet" where "world-famous Internet experts blog > and interact with the site's audience via message boards." > > http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/cmp/29931/ > > -- > "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:56:42 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Alloy: Well, I tried... ...to listen to the Sputnik conversation w/Thomas today via the Resonance FM website, but neither their Real connection nor their mp3 connection worked. C'est la vie! Getting cabin fever working from home without means of transportation, Melissa - -- "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:21:50 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Re: Alloy: Meet & Greet Manchester ? On 10/4/07, p1latham@ntlworld.com wrote: > > > Ive heard over time that at various gigs Thomas has done meet & greets just wondered are these pre-arranged and does he always do them - just wondering if going to be one at Manchester on Sunday. > Paul. Hi Paul, I'm not sure how meet & greets will work in the UK. Back in July, Thomas had this to say on his blog: "It's been asked if I am planning any meet'n'greets for this tour. Well yes in the UK and Canada at least that is the plan, as I haven't toured there since about 1783. In the US I'm not so sure I did them last time I toured in the NE USA but the schedule this time is pretty insane, basically 16 performances in 16 days, so I may have to skip it for the sake of my voice. Believe it or not, shouting for an hour over DJ music is actually more of a strain than singing. However, even when there's no official m'n'g I usually end up doing some spontaneous ones." Thomas was very gracious and did indeed do some meeting and greeting on this last US leg. It was kinda funky standing back and watching people in line - some of them just shaking like leaves, so nervous to meet him - and hearing them pour out their years of appreciation to him. :) From the forum I understand there was no meet & greet in London after the ICA gig last night. However, that was a one-off event with other folks involved, so it didn't have the same dynamic as the future UK shows. When/if something is posted in the forum, I'll repost it here for our UK folks! A nice guy on the forum who goes by "Heretic" posted about the ICA gig last night (lucky guy!) Sadly, the Jazz Mafia Horns have been replaced with new horns. From what Heretic posted, it sounds like Joe and Adam's work permits didn't come through in time, and they were turned away by UK Immigration. :( So, Thomas is working with new horn players - -- whom he just met about three hours before the gig! Talk about nerve-wracking!!! More news when I have it. Cheers, Melissa - -- "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V12 #153 ****************************