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HOORAY, ANDREW!! :w00t

 

if only my passport were current!

will you get to see any of these shows?

holy cow, jojo in france would be swingin'! :dancing bien sur!

 

now, those dates in san francisco are a bit more in my range...

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THAT is some serious incentive. there is a chance that i could come for the sunday show (must channel some uyen mastery of southwest air travel!). wotta kick!

 

btw, maudie, this smilie reminds me of you: :huh

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HOORAY, ANDREW!! :w00t

will you get to see any of these shows?

:yes I have seen him once before many many moons ago.

 

If either or both of you make it to SF, I will be there!

You did come remarkably close to an unannounced knock on the door and having to make space for someone on the couch (feet overhanging no doubt) for 4 nights.

 

Whew, I was afraid that Andrew was exercising his dry wit once again and was posting about this JoJo:

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I'm sure she's a very nice lady, but I only have eyes for Mr Richman. Now I have to go and practise my hip swiveling and manic grinning.

 

If you get a chance to have a word - (1) Put in a request for 'Vincent Van Gogh' (2) There's a spare room here if he's travelling in typical JoJo light and low-key mode. He would have to sing for his supper of course. I can do the backing for 'The Baltimores'.

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Ms Y, I think you missed this during your enforced sabbatical:-

http://archive.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=22803

 

There are a few YouTube goodies posted half way through the thread, but some seem to have been removed. Thank goodness this survives:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEe40SJtQns...athan%20richman

We kept you a piece of cake from the party for a while, but the birds had it in the end.

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hooray! i did miss that thread. thanks andrew!

 

and maudie...i just bought a ticket from Oakland to LAX for monday morning. :dancing :ninja

 

now, to get a ticket for the show :lol

 

looks like i'll be making the trip to SF in a car with a friend. WOOT!

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:dancing :dancing :dancing :dancing

Now we just need to work on getting Andrew out here...

If that were to happen, I would have to stay the week. Have you seen this yet:-

 

http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/200...gi?show=artists

 

It's free you jammy buggers!

Elvis C, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Billy Bragg, not to mention the reason I heard about it/mentioned it to you in the first place: EMMYLOU.

 

That would be some week. Rocket fuel for the soul.

I have been swooning over some of the hard copy photos from Cambridge that arrived today.

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andrew, we went to night one at the make-out room last night.

 

jojo played an abbreviated set, but explained that he's suffering from a callous of sorts on his vocal chords.

 

among the songs we were treated to:

-when harpo plays his harp

-les etoiles

-men and women fight b/c sometimes they must

-vincent van gogh

-the lovely salvador dali song

-let her go into the darkness (laundromat! laundromat! laundromat!)

 

after the show (hey, that's the name of another forum...) we asked mr. r. to sign our super-cool posters. we told him that our friend andrew would be seeing him during the england tour, and asked that he keep vincent v. in the set list. he nodded vigourously, as he couldn't speak per his doctor (really.) however, we all told him that you would be at the london show. there is no london show. so. we botched that a little, but perhaps things will work out.

 

as an added bonus: i met up with an old friend who had been at my first ever jojo show. he and his fiancee were in town for a wedding, and decided to see the show, too!

 

lovely night, just much too short. considering the amount of anchor steam i imbibed, anyway. :cheers

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forgot to mention:

 

bought a poster at the show last night. in the bar it looked silver and black. i liked the design, but would have liked a different color combo.

 

this morning, after i'd returned to l.a., as i was putting the sleeved poster into the trunk of my car, i decided to get a good look at it. turns out, it was green and black! who knew?!

 

so, neat!

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-when harpo plays his harp

Good one! Shame about the abbreviated set :ermm

Thanks for the report!

 

after the show we asked mr. r. to sign our super-cool posters. we told him that our friend andrew would be seeing him during the england tour, and asked that he keep vincent v. in the set list. he nodded vigourously, as he couldn't speak per his doctor (really.)

I'll try and see if he remembers you, though what with needing to beat the public transport curfews, I've never actually hung around to meet anyone after a show. Must brush up on my charades * if talking is a no-no. Maybe if I bring two pairs of flags we can do semaphore.

 

* I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is a long-time favourite of mine. I think any JoJo fan would would be on the same wavelength.

Who can forget Lionel Blair looking on in awe as Una Stubbs pulled off '12 Angry Men' in under a minute.

The master of the genre was undoubtedly Lionel Blair, and who will ever forget him, exhausted and on his knees, finishing off An Officer and a Gentleman in under two minutes?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I_Haven%27t_A_Clue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I...#Sound_Charades

 

there is no london show. so. we botched that a little, but perhaps things will work out.

:omg :o :ohwell Well someone's got my money, though I haven't got a ticket yet. Union Chapel - it's still listed here http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/whatson/inde...p/20061001.html Maybe he's confused as it's north London and he may have been told 'Islington'. I hope so ....

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Jojo%20-%20Flyer%20-%20Makeout%20Room,%20SFCA,%20Monday%202nd%20October%202006.jpg

 

This sort of poster? That is smart (and I say that as someone who really doesn't generally get worked up about concert posters).

 

Some more evidence for the optimistic:-

tourpostcard06.jpg

 

I have seem one web site listing it as 'Islington' now, so just maybe I was right. You geographically challenged Americans!

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whew! ok, so he's playing london. i just looked at the above list, didn't see it there, thought we'd dropped the ball.

 

maudie, is your poster green as well?

 

i must say i had the BEST time last weekend. soup to nuts. i am still pooped, but having no regrets!

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This puts me in good mood for tonight:-

 

from http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/

 

Jojo in Newcastle

Jonathan Richman Concert Review

Friday 13th October 2006,

All Saints Church, Newcastle

 

When I first heard that Jonathan was going to be playing in an old church in Newcastle, I did wonder how that would be. I had visions of him being at the front of the aisle with us in the audience all lined up watching him in narrow pews: of course with no room to dance. Or maybe it would be in a dusty old church hall, straight after the boy scouts or yoga group had finished? Thankfully it turned out to be neither, and in fact was rather lovely.

 

All Saints Church is an 1796

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