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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 13:35:44 GMT
May I go off on a tandem here and ask board members whether they recognise the building now appearing as my avatar? I love a challenge, but I think you're going to have to give us a clue Michael Tony. It's difficult to tell from a small black and white photograph, but it looks like a mostly blue sky, with just one fluffy white cloud, so was this mystery building back in the 'old country'? Looks like a prison.
Is it where you were first detained after that long ship ride, tony?
Or it could be tony's house in Wembley...
Yes, we like a challenge but we'll need a few more clues...
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 26, 2018 13:38:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 13:43:48 GMT
Spelling, TallPaul, what have I told you?!
Aged, pure and simple.
I knew you were old. I knew you were pure. I wasn't sure about the last one. (Although I've had my doubts...)
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 26, 2018 14:17:50 GMT
Bit rich to criticize my spelling, @caiaphas. People who live in glasshouses, and all that.
Everyone, even the small minority who don't follow soccer, knows that Engerland play at Wemberley!!!
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Post by tonyloco on Jun 26, 2018 15:51:27 GMT
OK. My current avatar is the Fort Macquarie Tram Depot on Bennelong Point in Sydney which was built in 1902 and demolished in 1958 to make way for the construction of the Sydney Opera House.
The original Fort Macquarie was a defensive fort started in 1798 and completed in 1821 on the same site. Note that this is very early by Australian standards because Sydney was founded as a penal colony only in 1788 by the arrival of some British settlers and a load of convicts in what is called the First Fleet under Admiral Arthur Phillip who became the first Governor of New South Wales.
No, the building was not the prison where I was first held after the long sea voyage because I am proud to say that I am a dinkie di Aussie, born in Sydney, as were both my parents and also my mother's parents. That's why I still spit chips when I recall that when I took UK citizenship in the 1960s (for practical reasons regarding travel in Europe for my job at EMI), the Australian Government did not allow dual nationality and I had to give up my Australian passport. So now I have to get a visa to visit the land of my birth and when I arrive at Sydney Airport, a foreign person with a South East Asian accent asks me how long I intend to stay on my visit! Apparently Joan Sutherland also used to get pissed off about this!
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Post by Tibidabo on Jun 26, 2018 16:51:19 GMT
TallPaul @caiaphas You are actually Jedward and I claim my £5.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 18:01:10 GMT
TallPaul @caiaphas You are actually Jedward and I claim my £5. So near... and yet so far. We used to be Jedward.
But there's something we haven't told you:
We're now Jenwina.
(Hoping to represent Ireland once again in Israel next year...)
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Post by tonyloco on Jun 27, 2018 11:38:51 GMT
But come on... you are not going to rattle off all the ‘artists’ who were on those other albums and NOT tell me who was on this Superstar one, surely...?!?!  Hello Caiaphas, Coming back to the MfP recording of highlights from Jesus Christ, Superstar, in addition to Mike Redway (Jesus and Judas) and Danny Street, my pals at Abbey Road tell me that Laura Lee sang "I don't know how to love him" and the orchestra was that of Brian Fahey. It was recorded in Studio No.2 at Abbey Road (No.2 was the Beatles Studio) between 12 and 16 February 1972. There is no actual Job File at Abbey Road and the foregoing information comes from the tape boxes. This may well be as far as I am able to go with my EMI sources. On reflection, I suspect that the files in the EMI Archives at Hayes are not the actual internal files of Music for Pleasure, but those from EMI Records Ltd, which was the main company of EMI's record business in the UK, of which Music for Pleasure was an operating division. The documents that have survived at Hayes are therefore probably the accounting and business reports and correspondence submitted by MfP to its owning company. |
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 27, 2018 12:23:53 GMT
Didn't I tell you, @caiaphas , that with knees like ours, the hem on those yellow frocks should have been a couple of inches longer. That's me on the left, isn't it, or I am on the right? Thai surgeons really know their stuff, and what a holiday it was too! And Tony 'living legend' Loco casually mentions that he has pals at Abbey Road, the most famous recording studio in the entire world.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 12:49:33 GMT
Didn't I tell you, @caiaphas , that with knees like ours, the hem on those yellow frocks should have been a couple of inches longer. That's me on the left, isn't it, or I am on the right? Thai surgeons really know their stuff, and what a holiday it was too! And Tony 'living legend' Loco casually mentions that he has pals at Abbey Road, the most famous recording studio in the entire world. They certainly do... and I've had a call from one of them this morning to say that we should be safe to do the ping-pong ball launch in Israel next May. That should get us through the semis at least. (You're whichever one you want to be, by the way.)
Yes, tony continues to better himself with each new post. Of course I have Googled all the names he mentions and some very interesting stuff it throws up too... My favourite nugget is that Brian Fahey's claim to fame was that he composed At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal, Alan Freeman's signature tune to his BBC Radio 1 programme Pick of the Pops.
The names associated the MfP Superstar recording are all very impressive in their own right; it's just a pity that overall it didn't swing my cymbal.
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 27, 2018 13:03:55 GMT
Alan Freeman's signature tune to his BBC Radio 1 programme Pick of the Pops. ALL my life it's been a Saturday afternoon feature on Radio 2, but then I'm NOT an older theatregoer. Tony's next revelation will be that it's HIM on the cymbals! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 13:07:06 GMT
^ As long as he doesn't reveal he plays the bloody piano on it... |
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Post by tonyloco on Jun 27, 2018 13:37:10 GMT
^ As long as he doesn't reveal he plays the bloody piano on it... Sorry, but some secrets must remain hidden! |
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 27, 2018 20:48:38 GMT
Another sign you are getting old is that if you remember the good old days you couldn't see the stage clearly, as someone's cigarette smoke was obstructing your view from your pew
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Post by showgirl on Jun 28, 2018 3:55:35 GMT
As my argumentative OH would say, "Define older". But going to the theatre is enough to show that it depends on the venue and production. We older patrons all know that there are places where the typical audience (thinking matinees at Chichester, Guildford, Richmond, etc) makes us feel almost adolescent, yet others where we more mature theatregoers are clearly in the minority.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jun 29, 2018 8:22:06 GMT
At the Thursday matinee of The Moderate Soprano yesterday and the audience were geriatric - I include myself in this, although unlike some patrons I could manage the stairs!
I turned to my elderly companion (not carer) and said how civilised a mid-week matinee was and why hadn't we done it a lot sooner. He said "well we were working!"
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 29, 2018 12:36:24 GMT
You know you're becoming an older theatregoer when you plonk yourself down in any unoccupied seat.
At York Theatre Royal yesterday, two young woman arrived, fortunately with plenty of time to spare, only to find their seats already occupied by an 'older' couple. Off they went to fetch the usher, who after first asking politely, then again slightly louder, finally had to shout at the couple to check their tickets.
Credit were it's due; they were at the right performance and on the right level, but were sitting in low teens when they should have been high 20s.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 1, 2018 18:52:00 GMT
At the Thursday matinee of The Moderate Soprano yesterday and the audience were geriatric - I include myself in this, although unlike some patrons I could manage the stairs! I turned to my elderly companion (not carer) and said how civilised a mid-week matinee was and why hadn't we done it a lot sooner. He said "well we were working!" Oh like Chichester Matinee, you never get a standing ovation, there maybe another good reason for this. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 19:03:41 GMT
^ I’ve stood for loads of stuff at Chichester. And I’ve never been alone. Far from it. The musicals are always fabulous. There are plenty of young ushers to help you out of your seat...  . |
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Post by grannyjx6 on Jul 1, 2018 20:37:42 GMT
I went to see Jersey Boys at the matinee, sitting in the Balcony. Not a bad view but the arthritic knees start to ache a bit towards the interval and squeezing past all the mainly older audience who found it difficult to stand and let you through so I could straighten out the kinks was a bit of an ordeal. Then at the end, it took twice as long to get out of the endless stairs because of the same problems. Of course, I'm much younger and fitter than the rest of them (I like to think), so it does get slightly frustrating.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jul 1, 2018 20:52:42 GMT
There are plenty of young ushers to help you out of your seat... You cant beat a young usher to help you out! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 20:57:40 GMT
I’m off to Me And My Girl in a couple of weeks so I’ll be on the lookout for a nice young* man to lend a hand... (And these days ‘young’ could be anything under 45!!) |
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Post by wickedgrin on Jul 1, 2018 21:22:55 GMT
I’m off to Me And My Girl in a couple of weeks so I’ll be on the lookout for a nice young* man to lend a hand... (And these days ‘young’ could be anything under 45!!) Well "You would if could", but you may have to "Take it on the Chin", "Once You Lose Your Heart" as "Love Makes the World Go Round". Meanwhile I'll be "Leaning on a Lamp Post" at the corner of the street - no change there then! |
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Post by showgirl on Jul 2, 2018 3:49:57 GMT
There are plenty of young ushers to help you out of your seat... You cant beat a young usher to help you out! I think you've stolen that line from another of our playful posters, wickedgrin - naming no names. Let's hope there are enough sprightly young ushers to help you both out. |
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Post by tonyloco on Jul 2, 2018 11:17:29 GMT
Meanwhile I'll be "Leaning on a Lamp Post" at the corner of the street - no change there then! Presumably getting your breath back after "Doin' the Lambeth Walk!" |
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