A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: superval99 on November 27, 2012, 10:51:17 AM
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I have just booked to see Guy, Danny and Vicente Amigo at Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow in January. They will be playing music from the new album. 8) Noticed it mentioned on Guy's forum this morning!
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Hey Superval, that is great news! I am sure you will have a great time listening to their music! :clap
Ooooohhh and when you meet the Guy and Danny, please give them a BIG HUG on behalf of me and of course one of yourself as well! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Fieneke2/Emoticons/3511504d6836511af49a93488fbc3c4a1c3.gif)
Fieneke
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Would be interested in a recording... ;)
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Would be interested in a recording... ;)
What a suprising request ;)
Have fun Val. ;D
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Have a great time in Glasgow Val. Looking for somewhere to eat before the show, then go here:
http://www.roganoglasgow.com
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Thanks everyone! We will also be at the Celtic Connections 20th Anniversary Concert the night before, so I'm looking forward to both shows. I don't know Glasgow at all, so it will also be a chance to do some sightseeing at the same time. :)
dmg - Thanks for the link - I'll keep it in mind! :)
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Thanks everyone! We will also be at the Celtic Connections 20th Anniversary Concert the night before, so I'm looking forward to both shows. I don't know Glasgow at all, so it will also be a chance to do some sightseeing at the same time. :)
dmg - Thanks for the link - I'll keep it in mind! :)
It's only a 5 min walk from the Royal Concert Hall. You won't want to be doing much walking in Glasgow in January! ;D
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Is that show broadcasted in any UK television?
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I received a mail today of Youtube that Guy had upload this video, which is great! :clap
Enjoy watching and...........Val, I am sure you will have a wonderful time watching and listening to all these great musicians playing wonderful music! :P
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Text with the video:
A short snippet of Vicente Amigo and the band running through one of the tunes in Studio One at British Grove, before 'the take'. Danny Cummings, Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker, Ewan Vernal, Donald Shaw and Guy Fletcher.
Fieneke
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Thank you Fieneke! I have just noticed that the video is on Guy's site now. I'm sure I'll have a great time listening to such lovely music! :)
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Its says that the user has deleted the video
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Its says that the user has deleted the video
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It's still on Guy's Vicente Amigo page! ;)
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Jbaent, perhaps Guy changed something and took it off. Today I got a new mail and I saw that the video is back again! :clap
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Fieneke
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Hi Val,
I envy you, I would love to be at the concert, but it is So Far Away.... and @dmg january or not, I bet Glasgow is worth seeing it !
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Hi Val,
I envy you, I would love to be at the concert, but it is So Far Away.... and @dmg january or not, I bet Glasgow is worth seeing it !
Well it's only about 35 miles from where I live. In fact I was in Glasgow today and only a stonesthrow from the Royal Concert Hall.
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Snow is forecast for much of the UK tomorrow (18th), but unusually Glasgow is to be precipitation free (sunny, but only 1 degree celcius)! Take care on your travels Val and enjoy the show.
P.S. Phil Cunningham was on the local news tonight promoting the event, standing shivering outside The Royal Concert Hall!
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Hi there!
Show was yesterday. Any mini-review? ;D
Would have LOVED to be there
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Hi all! What can I say - except amazing, breathtaking, fabulous!
Just arrived home after seven hours on various trains and faults on the signals!! Worn out, very cold but very happy after a wonderful couple of days of beautiful music!
The first concert, which was to celebrate 20 years of Celtic Connections was great fun with lots of people on stage together, eg Phil Cunningham, John McC and Mike McG, Julie Fowlis, Karen Mathieson and Capercaillie, etc! Oh, and about twenty or so members of Scottish Power Pipe Band playing their hearts out! ;D We had a gentleman from Miami sitting next to us, who had just flown in on business an hour before the concert and was lucky enough to find someone with a spare ticket. He loved the show!
I could hardly wait for the second concert, yesterday and it was everything I expected it to be.
It began with a very beautiful and elegant Portuguese fado singer called Carminho and accompanying her were three really wonderful guitarists. They gave a truly mesmerising performance and the audience loved it - we did too!
Then Vicente came on to the stage, alone and played some really beautiful guitar. Eventually the rest of his band arrived on stage and after they had played for a while, Guy, John, Mike, Danny and Donald Shaw joined them for the performance of "Tierra".
It was absolutely amazing and I can't believe how fortunate I was to be there and to hear this beautiful album played live before me in it's entirety! It was just as beautiful as Guy has said and much more! Vicente's guitar playing was breathtaking and everyone, including Vicente's band and the celtic musicians, played so well together - it was wonderful! There were some very Spanish vocals (flamenco) from one member of Vicente's band, who did a lot of hand-wringing and I found him extremely fascinating! Vicente also did some vocals.
At one point in the proceedings, an interpreter came on to the stage and Vicente spoke to him. The interpreter then said that Vicente had loved collaborating with the Scottish musicians so much that he hoped it would continue.
One quite funny thing happened in the middle of the concert. Vincente had obviously broken a fingernail and one of his band went off stage and came back with a nail file! It reminded me of MK in Sydney when he broke a nail and Jack Sonni went off and brought some nail clippers!
The concert ended to huge applause and standing ovation and there was much hugging onstage!
@dmg - The weather was, indeed, snowfree, but extremely cold and very sunny. We did as much sightseeing as we could in only one day. We walked to St Mungo's Cathedral and went to the necropylis. I found it very Gothic and spooky! We went into the crypt and it was really interesting. Then we walked down to the River Clyde and eventually back to Argylle Street and Buchanan Street, where we spent the afternoon in The Lighthouse. There is a Mackintosh exhibition there and I really love his style very much!
Since the concert, I can't get that beautiful music out of my head and I am looking forward to hearing it again on the album, in February! :)
PS I think it's possible something from the concert might be on BBC Scotland, because their van was outside the venue!
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So glad you had a great time in "sunny" Glasgow! Someone from my class at school was one of the pipers playing this year - not sure if he played the night you went or not. He's one of the famous Red Hot Chilli Pipers!
The Royal Concert Hall is a venue in a very convenient location, much easier to get to than the SECC for train links etc. Of course, the Edinburgh Playhouse is best of all! ;D
Thanks for the review.
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Love Glasgow as a city. And Charles Rennie Mackintosh is very well regarded in this house and, over the years, we have been to many of his buildings in and around Glasgow. I have lost count of the books and the like on CRM that we have around the place. Remember, though, that CRM once wrote: THERE IS HOPE IN HONEST ERROR - NONE IN THE ICY PERFECTIONS OF THE MERE STYLIST.
I really glad you enjoyed the concert. I think I said that John McCusker and Mike McGoldrick are involved in other concerts at Celtic Connections.
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Glasgow is a cool city, very vibrant and friendly.
It obviously has it's areas that are er ...not so cool, as other cities do.
Val, you could have taken a taxi to Wheatfield Rd(no 35 I think) where MK stayed for the first 8 years of his life. It is around 4 miles or so from the city centre in the posh area of Glasgow called Bearsden.
Celtic connections is always broadcast by BBC Scotland, if you have SKY you will be able to view BBC Scotland on that.
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superval, thank you so much for your interesting and detailed post ! I can`t wait to listen to the whole album !
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so is anyone able to record in case bbc scotts decide to air?
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so is anyone able to record in case bbc scotts decide to air?
http://www.celticconnections.com/Events/Pages/Event.aspx?ev=593&ty=Americana
If it's on "normal" telly i.e. BBC and not Sky, then I'll be able to record it onto DVD.
I've checked this weeks Radio Times and I don't see anything on TV this week.
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When I got Sky, I could make DVDs of programmes but you would need a DVD recorder with a hard drive.
Record the programme to the Sky+ box. Then,later, play the programme on the TV and, at the same time time, record it on to the DVD recorder. Then edit the recording on the DVD recorder, cutting out any adverts and/or beginning/endings not wanted (the machine was accurate to a fraction of asecond). Then record the edited programme directly on to a DVD-R. I still have a lot of those programmes on DVD, even though I haven't been a Sky customer for quite a long time.
Somewher, I have noted the instructions in more explicit detail, if anyone wishes to know.
PS: you can get BBC1 Scotand on Virgin Media but not BBC2 Scotland. You can also get BBC Radio Scotland on Virgin Media if they ever broadcast the concert. The Virgin Media box allows you to save both radio and TV programmes. How you can then get them on to a CD or DVD, I don't know. If anyone has experience of this, please get in touch.
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When I got Sky, I could make DVDs of programmes but you would need a DVD recorder with a hard drive.
Record the programme to the Sky+ box. Then,later, play the programme on the TV and, at the same time time, record it on to the DVD recorder. Then edit the recording on the DVD recorder, cutting out any adverts and/or beginning/endings not wanted (the machine was accurate to a fraction of asecond). Then record the edited programme directly on to a DVD-R. I still have a lot of those programmes on DVD, even though I haven't been a Sky customer for quite a long time.
Somewher, I have noted the instructions in more explicit detail, if anyone wishes to know.
PS: you can get BBC1 Scotand on Virgin Media but not BBC2 Scotland. You can also get BBC Radio Scotland on Virgin Media if they ever broadcast the concert. The Virgin Media box allows you to save both radio and TV programmes. How you can then get them on to a CD or DVD, I don't know. If anyone has experience of this, please get in touch.
I have my DVD recorder set up upstairs, where I don't have Sky but do have Freeview. Due to me having Sky Digital I can record onto the Sky box which explains why I don't need the DVD downstairs.
To be honest, the notorious Sky box is more than temperamental enough for me to start fiddling and connecting DVD recorders to it anyway!
If its on BBC I won't need the Sky box anyway!
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Thanks amigos for reviewing. ;D
ANd thanks in advance for those who will record the show if it's ever broadcasted. Was it taped btw ??
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http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/going-out/music-articles/210120-flamenco-guitarist-vicente-amigo-gives-new-album-tierra-a-celtic-twist/
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http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/going-out/music-articles/210120-flamenco-guitarist-vicente-amigo-gives-new-album-tierra-a-celtic-twist/
Thats from days before the show :(
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http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/going-out/music-articles/210120-flamenco-guitarist-vicente-amigo-gives-new-album-tierra-a-celtic-twist/
Thats from days before the show :(
I know it is, but I thought it may be of interest! ;)
I have posted my review and that was from the actual concert!! ::)
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http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/going-out/music-articles/210120-flamenco-guitarist-vicente-amigo-gives-new-album-tierra-a-celtic-twist/
Thats from days before the show :(
I know it is, but I thought it may be of interest! ;)
I have posted my review and that was from the actual concert!! ::)
Read it!
I meant that I thought it was a press review of the concert, luckily with videos ;D
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Good news! I have been listening to the audio recording we made of the concert and I am pleasantly surprised! It is not as bad as I thought it would be, considering it was recorded on a camera.
As I have never uploaded anything before, I would be pleased to post it on a CD to someone who would be willing to do that for me - or at least tell me what to do with it?
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enough candidates on this forum i think.
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enough candidates on this forum i think.
Obviously not! Seems no-one was really that interested in a recording afterall! ::)
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Another article:
http://cordoba.abc.es/20121013/cordoba/sevp-vicente-amigo-prepara-tierra-20121013.html#.UIH30f2KJ3V.facebook
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enough candidates on this forum i think.
Obviously not! Seems no-one was really that interested in a recording afterall! ::)
I didnt read your message until now, I will send you a pm asap.
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enough candidates on this forum i think.
Obviously not! Seems no-one was really that interested in a recording afterall! ::)
Hi,
I am, as others here I think :)
Sending a PM right after this message!
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Previews here
http://www.amazon.es/Tierra/dp/B00B4E3N1O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1358951050&sr=8-2 (http://www.amazon.es/Tierra/dp/B00B4E3N1O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1358951050&sr=8-2)