From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V12 #154 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 Saturday, October 6 2007 Volume 12 : Number 154 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Re: Alloy: Meet & Greet Manchester ? [] Alloy: Wow -- great post about Sputnik gig from photographer [Merujo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 8:50:06 +0100 From: Subject: Re: Re: Alloy: Meet & Greet Manchester ? Thanks v much Melissa, Just to see Thomas live will be good enough but will monitor the website as well. I actually thought he was in the UK without a Horn section so was suprise to me anyway .Im dying to hear some reviews of the London gig. Bad news my replacement alloy sweatshirt - my fault ordered wrong size not turned up yet and now poss. postal strike in UK - arggghhhhhhhhhh-oh well still got my A & H t-shirt. Paul.> > From: Merujo > Date: 2007/10/04 Thu PM 03:21:50 BST > To: alloy@smoe.org > 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 > - ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:30:47 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Alloy: Wow -- great post about Sputnik gig from photographer For your edification and enjoyment: http://elektrikgypsy.typepad.co.uk/photos_by_phoenix/2007/10/flat-earth-elli.html Great photos & insightful words. One of the cool pieces here is the news of a UK label for Thomas, Invisible Hands Music (http://www.invisiblehands.co.uk) which released a deluxe double digipack of the Sole Inhabitant CD and DVD (if I'm reading the website correctly) in the UK on October 1st. See the page for Thomas here: http://www.invisiblehands.co.uk/artists/thomasdolby.asp Pretty dang cool, eh? Melissa http://merujo.blogspot.com - -- "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Subject: Re: Alloy: "Born Under Sputnik" Hi, all! In a sly twist of fate and curiosity (that I've come to expect from Alloy and its participants. In a good way!), I just ran across this blurb, about the etymology of the word "beatnik." The term was coined in the Sputnik era, which makes sense, but I never thought about it before. It's from wiki. "The word "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958. Caen coined the term by adding the Russian suffix -nik after Sputnik I to the Beat Generation. Caen's column with the word came six months after the launch of Sputnik. It may have been Caen's intent to portray the members of the Beat Generation as un-American. Objecting to Caen's twist on the term, Allen Ginsberg wrote to the New York Times to deplore 'the foul word beatnik,' commenting, 'If beatniks and not illuminated Beat poets overrun this country, they will have been created not by Kerouac but by industries of mass communication which continue to brainwash man.'" As it turned out for most, 'Beatniks' and 'Beat poets' did end up being one and the same, in the end. But then Windpower begat Headspace begat Beatnik. This begat NEO, followed by the phoenix-like return of TMDR the performer, who performed Sputnik and Beyond in 2007. ~boing!~ ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V12 #154 ****************************