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| 2006 | ||
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| December 5, 2006 |
| Corrections and additions to the 2007 Cry Wolf gig list, thanks to Pars! |
| November 7, 2006 |
| The latest Cry Wolf gig list has been uploaded. Please note that the November 8 gig at The Vault has been cancelled. I received this message from phil@livebandphotos - "Just heard from the locals that The Vault Waltham Cross has closed down. I haven't managed to confirm yet so suggest you check your gigs are still on before travelling." Sounds like it's pretty definite now... |
| October 30, 2006 |
| Some advance dates of 2007 Cry Wolf gigs. Thanks to Pars! |
| October 14, 2006 |
| Announcing the GALA OPENING NIGHT of THE WAGGON & HORSES, 26 Kew Bridge Road, Brentford, Middlesex, featuring Cry Wolf, 9.30pm start, bar till 1am. |
| October 11, 2006 |
| The Cry Wolf gig list has been updated for October / November. |
| October 4, 2006 |
| Happy Birthday, Eddie Golga! |
| September 28, 2006 |
| Cry Wolf would like to sincerely apologise for not being able to play at The Marne Inn as scheduled last Friday night. Pars said, "There was chaos on the M25 during rush hour that Friday and it was going to take 3 hours to get to the gig. I spoke with the pub and told them we could not start until after 10:00. We all thought it was best that we cancel. I regret the short notice." |
| September 15, 2006 |
| The Cry Wolf gig list has been updated for September / October. |
| September 5, 2006 |
| Here's another lovely blast from the past - the filmclip from Blackfoot Sue's second single, and my personal favourite, Sing Don't Speak. Enjoy! |
| August 3, 2006 |
| The Cry Wolf gig list has been updated. |
| July 19, 2006 |
| The Cry Wolf giglist has now been extended out to the end of December. Many thanks to Pars for supplying the info! I've added some advertisements from International Musician magazine to the Blackfoot Sue equipment page. |
| July 13, 2006 |
| The latest Cry Wolf giglist is in. |
| July 11, 2006 |
| I've reworked the Blackfoot Sue gig review from September 16, 1972, from Dreamland Cinema, Margate. |
| July 10, 2006 |
| Here is a fantastic contribution from 1974. Many, many thanks to Tom Ross for sharing this recollection of a memorable Blackfoot Sue gig and the accompanying poster, and apologies that it took me a while to get to it - there's been a lot going on! |
| July 9, 2006 |
| Here's my latest project: a photo montage page of Outside Edge. |
| June 30, 2006 |
| NEWSFLASH: The Cry Wolf gig tonight has been switched from The Goldsworth Arms in Woking to The Red Lion in Twickenham. Enjoy! |
| June 21, 2006 |
| Gig photos from my last trip have been added: The Goldsworth Arms, Woking |
 | June 17, 2006 |
| BASS PLAYERS RULE! Tonight I saw, at long last, Glenn Hughes, at The Basement in the city. I only found out about the gig at lunchtime yesterday, but I was on the phone organising a ticket the instant I had run back to my office. Also upholding the side was Aussie bass player Bob Daisley, sitting in the audience! It was fantastic. The Voice is perfectly intact - what range and power! For the first half it was acoustic guitars all round, and a string quartet, but for the second half - Glenn picked up the white Jazz Bass which had been waiting at the back of the stage (back in Purple days, it was a Precision!) and then it was into the power with a sterling version of Mistreated! The one track I REALLY wanted to hear was Burn - but it may not have worked without drums or electric guitar. However, it was GREAT having the bass turned right up!!! | |
| JJ Marsh, Jimmy Barnes and Glenn Hughes onstage at The Basement. |
| June 16, 2006 |
| LATE BREAKING GIG NEWS: The Castle in Isleworth has been cancelled for tonight; on Saturday night, the boys are now playing at The Goldsworth Arms in Woking, not in Twickenham as originally scheduled.
The latest Cry Wolf gig list is in. |
| June 11, 2006 |
| I've finally put together the first of the photo pages from my trip, The York Club, Great Windsor Park. I fronted up with a camera around my neck and got told to put it away, as one is not allowed to film on Crown Land. After a bit of negotiation I got an okay to go ahead... In fact, the staff were really nice about it. It's taken a while to get started on my own photos, as there was the cache of older Cry Wolf photos I needed to get scanned in, the excitement of finding the Standing In The Road filmclip, and some other great submissions as well... it's been awfully busy! Apologies to everyone, every single thing you add to the story and history is appreciated, even if it takes a little while for me to add them in. Thanks everyone, and keep rocking! |
| June 10, 2006 |
| Here are two historical Cry Wolf photo pages to feast your eyes on: here and here, the first of which features the original line-up with Alan Johnson on lead guitar. |
| June 7, 2006 |
| Another new photo page - The Red Lion in Twickenham, from 1999. |
| June 2, 2006 |
| On Friday, June 2, 1972, Standing In The Road was first released. 34 years on, here is a most amazing find - thanks to Gary Jordan, here are stills from Blackfoot Sue's performance of Standing In The Road on German TV show Disco 72. How fantastic is this? A huge thank you to Gary, who is keenly campaigning for more 60s and 70s pop footage like this to be released from the vaults so that fans can once again relive these precious moments! Check out his blog for more details. To view the clip in its entirety, click here. |
| May 21, 2006 |
| I'm working on updating the web site, with the Eurovision Song Contest on in the background. What fantastic fun - with commentator Terry Wogan absolutely dripping sarcasm! I've never seen it before... What a great way to spend a Sunday evening - if I can't spend it at a Cry Wolf gig, that is! |
| May 18, 2006 |
| Change that to NO progress with the hosting company. Now I'm starting to get mad. So are a lot of other people. Apologies again. Grrrr! |
| May 17, 2006 |
| Progress with the hosting company. The Cry Wolf subdomain will be reinstated very soon, they tell me. I can also now get through to my "lost" email. In the meantime I've updated the Blackfoot Sue album track listings page - the releases are now in chronological order, and I've added details on the recently discovered bootleg that is labelled Call Me. The irony is is that this CD is named after a track with the wrong title - Call Me is in fact Angel. Not forgetting that it's also not Outside Edge... Thanks to those eagle-eyed people who spotted it, and let me know, especially Manfred who sent scans and the correct track listing! |
| May 16, 2006 |
| Seriously now - I'm really not happy with what the hosting company have done to the website. If you've found your way here but haven't been able to get through to the Cry Wolf web site, that's because the Cry Wolf subdomain got deleted when they shifted all the files to a different system/host. MUCH angst. I've reinstated it, but I don't know how long it will take to propagate across the Internet. |
| May 12, 2006 |
| HUGE APOLOGIES! The company hosting the website made an unannounced "upgrade" to its systems, resulting in massive disruptions to every website it hosts. In my case, they restored files with a date of April 27, therefore losing all the updates I'd done since then, including the giglist! Hopefully I've caught up now, but their customers, including me, are hugely unhappy, and I'm seriously considering whether I'll stay with them when things come up for renewal. Bear with me! |
| May 11, 2006 |
| Well, there's one way to get over the post-trip let down: don't even try. Luckily for me, I got to indulge my passion for music last night by seeing the legendary Deep Purple. Hmmm, didn't I see two of these guys on stage at the Royal Albert Hall a little while back? It was fantastic, probably the best gig of theirs that I've ever seen - well, apart from having seen Ritchie play with them. And in a nice little twist, they played 2 Cry Wolf tracks as their encore - Hush and Black Night. |
| May 6, 2006 |
| I'm back home, the Cry Wolf gig list has been updated for May / June, and I've added a bit more to the trip diary - it has the potential to be the longest ever, there's so much more to add yet!. |
| April 16, 2006 |  |
| In the last few days a bootleg CD has appeared on the internet, purporting to be Outside Edge, called Call Me, with a line-up of Tom Farmer, David Farmer, Eddie Golga and Pete Giles, supposedly dating from 1988, and with cover art (probably lifted from this website!) of both that line-up and the latter one including vocalist Colin Peel. What it actually is is a demo recorded in David's basement by the line-up who went on to record Talk Radio / Red On Blue, that is, Tom, David, Gary Farmer and Steve Turner, the nineties incarnation of Blackfoot Sue. No, the band had no idea it had seen the light of day. The songs titles aren't strictly accurate either... Scan thanks to Manfred! |
| April 15, 2006 |
| The April 22 gig at The Red Lion in Feltham has been cancelled. |
| April 6, 2006 |
| The Cry Wolf gig list has been updated for April / May. |
| March 27, 2006 |
| There's an update to the gig list - unfortunately the gig at The Castle on April 7 has been cancelled. There may be a few more changes yet - stay tuned. There's a new trip diary begun... yes, it's all on again! Photos to follow as soon as I have a spare 5 minutes... |
| March 21, 2006 |
| I drafted in Alan Jones' help in figuring out the missing bits of the lyrics of Celestial Plain and (at last!) Bye Bye Birmingham. Thanks! |
| March 9, 2006 |
| The Cry Wolf gig list has been updated for March / April. |
| March 2, 2006 |
| A new gig has been added to the Cry Wolf gig list, The Waterman's Arms in Hersham, Surrey. |
| February 12, 2006 |
| The website updates are just about finished off now. I'm polishing off the last few while I also rework a vest I bought, adding padded quilting - it seems crazy on a hot summer February afternoon, but I'll need it next trip! I'm also watching the Metallica movie, Some Kind Of Monster, for the first time - I knew Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) had been in it (and I really felt for the guy - all of the hurt came out), but I had had no idea Pep (that's Pepper Keenan, from Corrosion Of Conformity, to you!) had tried out for the bass job! His special brand of crazy would have fitted in real well...! (I should add that Pep is not actually bass player in COC, he's lead singer and rhythm guitarist.) COC were Metallica's protégés for a while back in the 90s. Pep and his family were also residents of New Orleans and forced to relocate during Hurricane Katrina. |
| February 8, 2006 |
| The Cry Wolf gig list has been updated for February / March. |
| January 29, 2006 |
| Design revisions occurring… in particular, I'm working on the gig photo pages, as they were often created in a hurry on the morning after the gig! Most changes are slight, but there are a few new pictures on photo pages from last year. |
| January 12, 2006 |  | |
| Here's my latest project, the interactive Cry Wolf venue map. See what you think! | ||
| January 7, 2006 | ||
| My stealthy visitor has finally been evicted from the house - it didn't want to leave! | ||
| January 6, 2006 | ||
| The Cry Wolf gig list has been updated for January / February. | ||
| January 5, 2006 | ||
| Happy birthday Alan Jones! | ||
| Here's my stealthy visitor, on its reluctant way out of my garden. This photo was taken at night, giving you some idea of the power of my flash! |
| January 3, 2006 |  | |
| I've redone the Blackfoot Sue intro page, and I'm also doing general edits and updates to all pages. | ||
| January 1, 2006 | ||
| Happy New Year, everyone! It's been a bit of a tough year for some of us, so let us aim for a safe, prosperous and healthy 2006, and I wish the very best of everything for all my wonderful friends. Take care - and see you very soon. It is absolutely stifling outside - it is the hottest January 1 on record, well over 40°C (currently 113°F for those of you still on the old system!), my cats have retreated indoors, and even a large blue-tongue lizard has crept in to shelter from the heat beneath my lounge-room shelving! | ||
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