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| 2003-2 | ||
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| December 29, 2003 |
| Fanfare: the new Cry Wolf T-shirts!! |
| Coming soon, to a pub near you, somewhere in Greater London... perhaps The Six Bells, on New Year's Eve? Wish I could be there... |
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| Detail of the embroidery: 10,000 stitches in the wolf head alone... | ||
 | December 21, 2003 | |
| A few additions to the discography - Liner and Outside Edge. | ||
| December 3, 2003 | ||
| The latest Cry Wolf gig dates (December/January) have been updated. | ||
| November 21, 2003 | ||
| More new pages have been added: Blackfoot Sue gig review(s), Cry Wolf gig reviews, Outside Edge album review. Also more Java scripting, and some additional graphics. | ||
| Raigar demonstrates the use of a "flat bed" scanner |
| November 16, 2003 |
| A new page added: Outside Edge gig reviews. |
| November 9, 2003 |
| A week in Adelaide on training = a week with little or no Internet access = plenty of time to add material, get my headers and footers consistant and generally tidy up my code... sigh. I feel like I'm going slightly balmy due to lack of exposure to good music - no, I didn't think to bring any with me. The weather is nice and warm but the UV levels are "extreme" according to the weather reports, not good to be out and about in. At least Adelaide has recently discovered Sunday trading, though the shops don't open until 11am. Seeing a travelogue on London on the TV only serves to make me feel very, very homesick. The latest Cry Wolf gig dates (November/December) have been updated. |
| November 2, 2003 |  |  | ||
| A great deal of editing and revamping is going on, including revisions to the site graphics, and Java scripting to automate dates and animate roll-overs. I'm really quite delighted with how it's all turning out. I've also started to slice up the Blackfoot Sue biography, not before time, as it's already huge and I still have a lot of material to fold into it! | ||||
| My first attempt at a T-shirt... | ...and a new patch for the jacket! |
| October 20, 2003 |  | |
| The Cry Wolf site was officially launched today! | ||
| October 15, 2003 | ||
| A new Cry Wolf page has been created - Meet the Band, the generic footer has been modified, and a footer bar for Cry Wolf developed. | ||
| October 13, 2003 | ||
| I've added photos to the BFS biography page, as well as detail on Gun Running and The Seasons Suite - yes, at last! | ||
| October 9, 2003 | ||
| I've redone the Blackfoot Sue title page - with the same elements, but far nicer :-) | ||
| One of my trip souvenirs... | ||
| October 6, 2003 |
| Many additions and revisions to the band biography: Gift, Blackfoot, Liner... and Cry Wolf, of course! I still haven't quite adjusted to the time difference yet... or else I've adapted to my holiday habit of about three hours' sleep a night. |
| October 2, 2003 |
| The October Cry Wolf gig dates have been amended and the November dates added. |
| August 30 - September 30, 2003 | ||
 | Now I've gone and done it - booked my flights to the UK, my first holiday for 6 years. Please click here to read my trip diary. I managed to catch 7 Cry Wolf gigs while I was there, and it was just great. This picture is from my final gig at The Six Bells in Brentford, on September 28th. | |
| August 12, 2003 | ||
| The September Cry Wolf gig dates have been added. | ||
| August 1, 2003 | ||
| The August Cry Wolf gig dates have been added. | ||
| July 20, 2003 | ||
| I've finally added an intro/title page, and resurrected the Guestbook, by popular request! | ||
| David, Gary, me, Tom, Pars | ||
| July 19, 2003 | |
| I received this email today: | |
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| July, 2002 - the genesis of this website... | |
| It started more by happenstance than design. I had just completed work on the web interface of our new Library Catalogue, a task I had unexpectedly ended up with after displaying my prowess with HTML during a training session... (that'll teach me to show off by turning the background bright lime green!). As part of my next project, I was investigating free email providers, the kind that our students use, and when I signed up for one of them, I discovered that it also came with 15Mb of free webspace. I decided it was time to expand my newly acquired web skills, and it was easy, too, to select a topic - the then-mysterious band Blackfoot Sue, whose two UK hit singles I had fallen in love with a few years before. I had not been able to locate an official site for them, so I thought it would be a neat way of pulling together my meagre collection of information and seeing if I could "read between the lines" and fathom the full story of the band. I did a bit of work on it, and then stopped, when I got busy with other things. It wasn't until I checked back a few months later that I discovered that people, some way or another, were actually finding their way to the site, even though I hadn't finished any of the pages nor even submitted it to any search engines. Time to pull my finger out and get working! I steadily pieced together the story of the band. There were a few clues here and there, in the liner notes of the CD reissues, and in magazine articles, but the trail grew cold around 1998, despite the wonderful album Red On Blue being released that year. So where did they go? And then, after some deep trawling on the Internet, I found them... or Tom and David Farmer at least. To my delight, I discovered that they were still gigging - in a band called Cry Wolf, along with their younger brother Gary, who had also been a member of the Blackfoot Sue line-up which had recorded Red On Blue. Then they found me... Alan Jones, holidaying with cousins in Spain, was told they had been reading about him on the Blackfoot Sue website, to which the response was, "What Blackfoot Sue website?" Alan told Eddie Golga, Eddie contacted the twins, and then I was contacted by them — and the rest, as they say, is history! | |
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