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« Reply #15 on: 18:17:37, 10-03-2008 » |
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Ok, so who's going?
And where / when do we meet up?
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Now I'm in London on Friday, but am just down the road at the ROH for Eugene Onegin instead!  I could well be heading up early for a bite to eat at Spaghetti House or Pizza Express beforehand... |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #16 on: 19:32:53, 10-03-2008 » |
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5.15 Spaghetti House, next to ENO.
Look for a man with a little green book.....
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« Reply #17 on: 22:30:00, 10-03-2008 » |
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Ian - and anyone else who's in the area on Friday (Ruth?) - of course it's not rude to come only for the drinks afterwards! Usually that's the best part of the gig. Maybe see you there?
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« Reply #18 on: 22:45:56, 10-03-2008 » |
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Friday will be the last day before my normal working week starts up again. Four Seasons seems a excellent way to celebrate getting back to sensible earnings. Very much hope to get along.
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« Reply #19 on: 23:01:10, 10-03-2008 » |
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Gosh! Be good to see you there. Bryn! Hope you can make it.
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« Reply #20 on: 23:08:19, 10-03-2008 » |
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5.15 Spaghetti House, next to ENO.
Look for a man with a little green book.....
Tommo
And a sinister looking chap wearing inquisitorial robes... |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #21 on: 23:46:42, 10-03-2008 » |
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Morty, I will aim to get a Greenline Coach up to Hyde Park Corner, then stroll over to Oxford Street, and HMV, before heading on to SMitF for the concert. I won't be able to hang around much after though. I have to be at Victoria Coach station by 22:30. I hope at least a few have got Tuesday 18th down in their diaries, too.
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« Reply #22 on: 00:12:26, 11-03-2008 » |
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Ian - and anyone else who's in the area on Friday (Ruth?) - of course it's not rude to come only for the drinks afterwards! Usually that's the best part of the gig. Maybe see you there?
Hmmm... I suspect my wherabouts on Friday are a little bit too far from Trafalgar Square. I have a date - with the Hackney Empire, English Touring Opera and the UK professional premiere of Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah"... ...oh, and Don Basilio  As for "Flavio", the cast looks really excellent, and I would probably have ended up going if it weren't for the fact that it'll be the second session of the beginners' ballet course in which I have enrolled. |
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« Reply #23 on: 10:44:53, 11-03-2008 » |
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I also, for reasons hinted at by Ruth will by unable to be there. I'm really sorry. I was at St Martin's yesterday - it looks like a building site outside with twee pictures on the hoardings of vicars and choristers in hard hats, but apart from a large white room divider behind the altar the interior is all its usual Georgian splendour.
All the best, strina.
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« Reply #24 on: 10:56:57, 11-03-2008 » |
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I've never been inside SMiF and, looking at the booking page, I see that many of the seating areas have "restricted view". How restricted is that, actually? My young companion will have a restricted view anyway, being of small size, and I'm beginning to wonder whether it's going to be very interesting for her if she can't see anything except the people sitting in front. Any views on this matter gratefully received...
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« Reply #25 on: 11:10:50, 11-03-2008 » |
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I note that there is the helpful advice for those wishing to sit in the Gallery that 'customers are required to lean forward'. For some reason this made me titter. I'm probably just easily amused  Anyway, back to the Barrett query .... |
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« Reply #26 on: 11:13:56, 11-03-2008 » |
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For some reason this made me titter. If I didn't know better I would be suspecting you of lowering the tone.  |
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« Reply #27 on: 11:28:47, 11-03-2008 » |
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Unfortunately Ive band practice that night and the final one before this Brazilian guitarist chap comes to rehearse with us. I be there in spirit though. Hope everything goes well.
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« Reply #28 on: 11:29:07, 11-03-2008 » |
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For some reason this made me titter. If I didn't know better I would be suspecting you of lowering the tone. I am cut to the quick! Wounded, I tell you, wounded! Oh woe woe and thrice woe! Would it help if I said that I merely sniggered? Or smirked? No, didn't think so  Now, on with the show ... |
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« Reply #29 on: 11:52:46, 11-03-2008 » |
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I've never been inside SMiF and, looking at the booking page, I see that many of the seating areas have "restricted view". How restricted is that, actually? My young companion will have a restricted view anyway, being of small size, and I'm beginning to wonder whether it's going to be very interesting for her if she can't see anything except the people sitting in front. Any views on this matter gratefully received...
You sit in the pews, so there is no raked seating. As a baroque church the aisles are narrow and most of the pews are in the central space, but the view will be seriously restricted in the aisles. I don't know if it is one of their candlelit specials. The only one I have been to, I sat near the front, so the electric light on the performers dominated my illuminative experience, but further back there are only candles on the window cills, IIRC. Hope Small Barrett enjoys whatever her first concert experience may be, whenever it happens. Just noticed strina's first name from the web site. Gosh. |
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