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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Aussie Mark on February 08, 2011, 07:51:02 PM
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We took our first wedding booking today. Nice venue, I'm guessing we'll be well fed ... http://simmeronthebay.com.au
But, in even more interesting news, we're heading to Singapore again, in June - this time we're playing two shows at http://www.beerfestasia.com/index.php
Looks like a good room to play ....
(http://www.beerfestasia.com/images/stories/gallery/2010/day3/MISSBEER/1/BEERFESTASIA2010_DAY3_286.jpg)
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Awesome Mark!
What a kick ;D
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Yow! An expected crowd of 25,000 is the big time!
Good things happen when you're a better Stones tribute band than today's real Stones.
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Good things happen when you're a better Stones tribute band than today's real Stones.
That's not difficult, Dave :-)
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Wow, will you be playing "You can't always get what you want" rather than "Every Breath you take" or "Wonderful Tonight" at the wedding? :mrgreen:
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Ah yes, weddings. The stories I could tell. Good Luck.
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Wow, will you be playing "You can't always get what you want" rather than "Every Breath you take" or "Wonderful Tonight" at the wedding? :mrgreen:
I take it doing a cover of the Black Eyed Peas "My Humps" would be "out"?
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Congrats! Looks like a great venue!
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Wow, will you be playing "You can't always get what you want" rather than "Every Breath you take" or "Wonderful Tonight" at the wedding? :mrgreen:
The wedding set has been pre-approved by the bride and groom. Included are - Under My Thumb, Lets Spend The Night Together, Beast Of Burden, Midnight Rambler, Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Women, and Start Me Up. All very appropriate songs for a wedding/honeymoon :-)
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At least they didn't choose She's So Cold.
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Sounds like a blast Mark. Enjoy. :)
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Looks great Mark! I remember back when the Stones played the Superbowl halftime show they even censored out the line "You make a dead man cum" (Just the "cum" part...... 8))
I'm always puzzled by some of the bride and groom dance songs. One wedding we did they danced to George Strait's "So Good In Love."
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Parachute Woman weds Monkey Man ... ???
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The wedding set has been pre-approved by the bride and groom. Included are - Under My Thumb, Lets Spend The Night Together, Beast Of Burden, Midnight Rambler, Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Women, and Start Me Up. All very appropriate songs for a wedding/honeymoon :-)
Honky Tonk Women with it's lyric "I laid a divorcee ..." at least indicates that the now happy couple envisages a healthy relationship even after their separation! Midnight Rambler points to a penchant for the more interesting aspects of adult entertainment. Under my thumb must be fed by the realisation that true democracy cannot work in a marriage. And as long as you still want to spend the night toghether you don't really need to be started up or worry about becoming a beast of burden.
But it's frankly too early to already not get any satisfaction. And not being able to get a girl in action should be worrisome to the bride ...
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Looks great Mark! I remember back when the Stones played the Superbowl halftime show they even censored out the line "You make a dead man cum" (Just the "cum" part...... 8))
Some dead men do cum. The hanging kind. That's how mandrake roots start, didn't you know?
The source of the plant has been described thus: "The human shape of the mandrake root has probably helped to foster, if it did not originate, the weird notion that the plant springs from the drippings of a man hanged on a gallows. Hence in Germany the plant bears the popular name of the Little Gallows Man. It is, or used to be, believed in that country that when a hereditary thief, born of a family of thieves, or one whose mother stole while he was in her womb, is hanged on a gallows, and his seed or urine falls on the ground, the mandrake or Little Gallows Man sprouts on the spot. Others, however, say that the human progenitor of the plant must be, not a thief, but an innocent and chaste youth who has been forced by torture falsely to declare himself a thief and has consequently ended his days on a gallows. Be that as it may, the one thing about which all are agreed is that the Little Gallows Man grows under the gallows tree from the bodily droppings of a hanged man.
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Ah yes, weddings. The stories I could tell. Good Luck.
+1
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Sounds like good things are happening for you guys. Congrats!
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Sounds like a gas Mark, enjoy!
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Sounds like a gas Mark, enjoy!
That should read, "Sounds like a gas, gas, gas Mark, enjoy!" ;)
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Bizarrely, I just got off the phone after being asked to quote on playing for the British Chamber of Commerce on the night of the upcoming Royal Wedding, with 250 corporate Brits in a swanky hotel ballroom watching the wedding live on TV. The wedding starts at 8pm local time, so they want us to play one set beforehand to "warm up the crowd" and another set after the wedding.
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Bizarrely, I just got off the phone after being asked to quote on playing for the British Chamber of Commerce on the night of the upcoming Royal Wedding, with 250 corporate Brits in a swanky hotel ballroom watching the wedding live on TV. The wedding starts at 8pm local time, so they want us to play one set beforehand to "warm up the crowd" and another set after the wedding.
Why is that bizarre? Royals may not listen to Stones music but surely some corporate types do.
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Why shouldn't the Royals listen to rock? Prince Charles is an avid fan of these guys and has seen dozens of their concerts
(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_02/StatusQuo99EPA_468x509.jpg)
(http://www.n-tv.de/img/14/1466986/O_1000_680_680_Francis-Rossi-Status-Quo-Prinz-Charles-1994.jpg)
He and Camilla even wrote Quo a personal letter thanking for this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObntvRcKMrE
The lead vocalist of the Stones is a "Sir", Her Majesty recognizes Brian May ("You were the one to play on the roof!") and even Robert Halford has been invited to the Buckingham Palace.
A conversation we wish we'd been privy to, featuring Rob Halford, banshee vocalist of heavy metal gods Judas Priest, and Elizabeth II:
"She asked, `Why is heavy metal so loud?'
"I said, `You have to have it loud to bang your head, Your Majesty.'
"She sniffed at that,'' Halford continues, though the queen is hardly the first to sniff at Priest or heavy metal.
All this took place on March 1 at Buckingham Palace at a royal reception recognizing British music and its contribution to the nation's culture and economy. Among the guests were Charlotte Church, Cilla Black, Shirley Bassey, Roger Daltrey, Phil Collins, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, and a murderers' row of ax men that included Brian May, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page (who the queen asked, "Are you a guitarist, too?'').
And Halford, reunited with Judas Priest after a 12-year break.
"That was surreal, going to Buckingham Palace,'' Halford said. "It was the first time the royal family wanted to give a nod to the music industry in general. My mother was more excited about it than anyone else, but it was magical for me, too, because I'm a royalist. I love the royal family, for all its imperfections, but to actually meet the queen! That was a thrill and a memory I'll always cherish.''
Ever since you were left to your own devices, you renegade yanks have lost any grasp of what Royalty means. :mrgreen:
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Ever since you were left to your own devices, you renegade yanks have lost any grasp of what Royalty means. :mrgreen:
HEY! We have Lindsey Lohan and Charlie Sheen. We know all about royalty. :sad:
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You're welcome to our lot...
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HEY! We have Lindsey Lohan and Charlie Sheen. We know all about royalty. :sad:
Um, you forgot Britney :P
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Um, you forgot Britney :P
And Snooki?
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You're welcome to our lot...
Your lot and our lot are about the same as far as what they contribute to society these days, so (unfortunately) we're about even. ;)
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Australians get lumped with both :sad: :bored:
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And Snooki?
Really when you think about it if Snooki and Brtiney weren't "famous" they would be jello wrestling each other in some 4th rate strip club club Peoria :P
My most sincere apologies to Peoria ;D
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Snooki is now a published author.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Y7C2Tr-qY
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Snooki is now a published author.
Is that "published" or "punished"?
No, wait, it's the readers who are punished. :-*