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Post by blamerobots on Jun 7, 2024 16:02:53 GMT
The zoetrope vinyl is sadly something of a disappointment. Side A (the show logo) looks better when NOT moving and is just a blur when playing. Side B (coloured tracks) look OK I suppose but it's all unremarkable. Whole thing came in a see through flimsy very cheap looking plastic sheath and not even a proper card vinyl cover. With a sticker and tiny bit of blurb. Coupled with the fact someone has thought producing OLC highlights without Queen Lawrence's Only He was a good idea and the ludicrous price..... #DisappointedOfBrighton (And I say this as a die hard Starlight fan who would usually like any old Starlight tat!) Definitely glad I skipped out. Usually ALW is so good with all his associated vinyl releases but it being an OLC highlights wouldn't make it anything more than a collector's piece for me. Now, where's the Joseph and Evita box sets? |
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Post by BVM on Jun 7, 2024 16:05:34 GMT
The zoetrope vinyl is sadly something of a disappointment. Side A (the show logo) looks better when NOT moving and is just a blur when playing. Side B (coloured tracks) look OK I suppose but it's all unremarkable. Whole thing came in a see through flimsy very cheap looking plastic sheath and not even a proper card vinyl cover. With a sticker and tiny bit of blurb. Coupled with the fact someone has thought producing OLC highlights without Queen Lawrence's Only He was a good idea and the ludicrous price..... #DisappointedOfBrighton (And I say this as a die hard Starlight fan who would usually like any old Starlight tat!) Definitely glad I skipped out. Usually ALW is so good with all his associated vinyl releases but it being an OLC highlights wouldn't make it anything more than a collector's piece for me. Now, where's the Joseph and Evita box sets? Box sets with previously unreleased tracks and some extra info and pics I’d be all over! |
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 7, 2024 16:11:54 GMT
With the highlights vinyl rerelease, I wonder if there's gonna be a proper OLC remaster planned or something. But perhaps there'll be a new London 2024 cast recording, if those instrumentals that keep showing up in social media posts are anything to go by. Didn't the videos of band rehearsals also have proper mics set up?
ALW is really funny with rereleases, he randomly had a full 96khz/24bit remaster of the Evita London highlights made a year or two ago, as well as high quality remasters of many of Phantom's multi-language albums, but much of his catalogue is still weirdly missing a modern treatment, and he misses such great anniversary opportunities. The JCS Super Deluxe was definitely the last great release he's put out.
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Post by BVM on Jun 7, 2024 16:32:56 GMT
With the highlights vinyl rerelease, I wonder if there's gonna be a proper OLC remaster planned or something. But perhaps there'll be a new London 2024 cast recording, if those instrumentals that keep showing up in social media posts are anything to go by. Didn't the videos of band rehearsals also have proper mics set up? ALW is really funny with rereleases, he randomly had a full 96khz/24bit remaster of the Evita London highlights made a year or two ago, as well as high quality remasters of many of Phantom's multi-language albums, but much of his catalogue is still weirdly missing a modern treatment, and he misses such great anniversary opportunities. The JCS Super Deluxe was definitely the last great release he's put out. I really really hope there will be a new 2024 (complete) cast recording though London seems to make such a meal of these things I won't expect it any time soon! An OLC (and indeed a 1993 London) re-release would be nice too - though again I won't hold my breath. Yeah huge bugbear of mine that once RUG have recorded a UK production ALW show once, it's very unusual for them to do so again with so many revivals coming and going unrecorded. Ditto re-releases of the older stuff. That Evita totally passed me by! The EP version? Was it re-released!? Have the original CD of that version lol. |
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Post by danb on Jun 7, 2024 16:38:52 GMT
The silver covered album (easily found in any charity shop across the land) is the Elaine Paige recording.
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Post by ceebee on Jun 7, 2024 16:46:26 GMT
The zoetrope vinyl is sadly something of a disappointment. Side A (the show logo) looks better when NOT moving and is just a blur when playing. Side B (coloured tracks) look OK I suppose but it's all unremarkable. Whole thing came in a see through flimsy very cheap looking plastic sheath and not even a proper card vinyl cover. With a sticker and tiny bit of blurb. Coupled with the fact someone has thought producing OLC highlights without Queen Lawrence's Only He was a good idea and the ludicrous price..... #DisappointedOfBrighton (And I say this as a die hard Starlight fan who would usually like any old Starlight tat!) I nearly bought this old Starlight tat so thanks for putting me off! Let's hope it's not a portent of what is to come this weekend... |
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 7, 2024 16:47:53 GMT
That Evita totally passed me by! The EP version? Was it re-released!? Have the original CD of that version lol. The silver cover with Elaine Paige. I don't think it was reissued but was a digital release.
ALW reserves vinyl rereleases for the bigger releases seemingly.
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Post by chernjam on Jun 7, 2024 16:48:47 GMT
Don't even get me started on ALW and his recording cast albums!
I can't imagine Starlight Express with all this hype not having a new recording - but I don't work for ALW
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Post by BVM on Jun 7, 2024 16:53:32 GMT
Don't even get me started on ALW and his recording cast albums! I can't imagine Starlight Express with all this hype not having a new recording - but I don't work for ALW Haha. We have shared this complaint many times….. |
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Post by blobble84 on Jun 7, 2024 17:08:08 GMT
Just booked tomorrow’s first preview on a whim. Very excited having seen it as a kid at Apollo Victoria many moons ago.
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Post by ceebee on Jun 7, 2024 17:20:01 GMT
Don't even get me started on ALW and his recording cast albums! I can't imagine Starlight Express with all this hype not having a new recording - but I don't work for ALW He's just the strangest thing you'll ever see. The cast recording got canned by Andy. Don't spend now, we gotta keep our budget quite tight. None in stock! None in stock! You got no vinyl you know how it feels. None in stock! None in stock! Not one attempt at a recording deal. Don't try complaining you know better than he. He'll only scowl and grumble, cursing at thee. Don't start now, he'll only go and cancel the show. None in stock! None in stock! We've got more chance of moving colour TV's. None in stock! None in stock! Installing ovens, kitchen deliveries. You know it's bad when quoting to Andy. Money for nothing and the chicks are free. Don't stop now, this mash-ups gonna steal the show. None in stock! None in stock! These lyrics aren't as good as Richard Stilgoe's. None in stock! None in stock! It ain't working - that's the way, you see? You play the geetar on the MTV... No new recording leaves us all in dire straits. |
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Post by interval99 on Jun 7, 2024 18:20:47 GMT
Good luck to any of you seeing this show the same night as a match or concert at the stadium.
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Post by danb on Jun 7, 2024 18:30:04 GMT
I’m hoping that us Starlight audiences will be gone by 9.45pm.
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Post by benj on Jun 7, 2024 18:30:10 GMT
Good luck to any of you seeing this show the same night as a match or concert at the stadium. Oh, god. I’m going the night Taylor Swift is performing. Dreading it. |
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 7, 2024 18:32:17 GMT
Good luck to any of you seeing this show the same night as a match or concert at the stadium. Oh, god. I’m going the night Taylor Swift is performing. Dreading it. God bless. I hope you're fine with a lot of singing teenagers on trains swinging about and yelling and filming. |
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Post by benj on Jun 7, 2024 18:38:18 GMT
Oh, god. I’m going the night Taylor Swift is performing. Dreading it. God bless. I hope you're fine with a lot of singing teenagers on trains swinging about and yelling and filming. No, I’m not fine with any of that! I’m also not a fan of Taylor Swift. I think she’s incredibly overrated and her music is just… bland |
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Post by danb on Jun 7, 2024 18:57:56 GMT
Hopefully ceebee can report back with timings tomorrow. |
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Post by ceebee on Jun 7, 2024 19:06:27 GMT
Hopefully ceebee can report back with timings tomorrow. I will report back but I'm going on Sunday so it'll be a day late! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 7, 2024 19:13:28 GMT
If you’re our early adopter there’s a lot riding on you ceebee , this country community is depending on you! Are you up to the challenge? |
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Post by danb on Jun 7, 2024 19:13:40 GMT
S’ok. She’s not at Wembley for a fortnight.
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Post by ceebee on Jun 7, 2024 19:32:27 GMT
If you’re our early adopter there’s a lot riding on you ceebee , this country community is depending on you! Are you up to the challenge? I bear the burden with the same sincerity of a politician in an election campaign. |
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Post by danb on Jun 7, 2024 19:43:01 GMT
If you’re our early adopter there’s a lot riding on you ceebee , this country community is depending on you! Are you up to the challenge? I bear the burden with the same sincerity of a politician in an election campaign. You’ll be leaving halfway through then? 🫣 |
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 7, 2024 19:52:59 GMT
S’ok. She’s not at Wembley for a fortnight. She's only performing for a few days anyways. We can watch our show with pretend trains, and she can pretend that she wrote all those songs. |
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Post by jacobjb25 on Jun 7, 2024 19:56:44 GMT
Has anyone got a sense of what the view will be like from the back of the main big seating block?
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Post by danb on Jun 7, 2024 20:04:34 GMT
S’ok. She’s not at Wembley for a fortnight. She's only performing for a few days anyways. We can watch our show with pretend trains, and she can pretend that she wrote all those songs. Yes, but on MY day! How very dare she. |
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