Can't believe there isn't a thread going on as this is only a couple of weeks away, or, as usual, am I missing something.
I'm planning to go on Sat but have not yet decided on transport. So, options...
1: Train it, which means I will probably miss the end of Threshold - but not worry about having a small tincture or two, or
2: Drive, which obviously means I can leave when I like, and have a wait free direct route back to Middle England-ish without having to cope with late night transport in the Capital.
I'm guessing the ale in the Hippy place will be of the fizzy variety - which makes 2 the most likely option.
I guess I'll need a ticket as well....... :-[ EDIT - Now have a ticket!! :D ;D
Who else is going?
I'll be there for the weekend arriving Saturday morning returning home on Monday morning
Not coming, because I have a gig myself. >:(
not coming because I'm going to watch Wigan win ( ;D) the cup final with my 13 yr old (who hates my taste in music). That'll probably get me banned from this forum!
Do you remember owen, he used to be alright... ;)
Only kidding. Spending quality time with family is nice too.
Enjoy it, hope they win. I had no idea Wigan even had a tiddlywinks team.
I shall be there, especially for Arena and Mystery, plus someone else.
Damn this forgetfulness :'(
Is there anyone else?
Nah... never heard anything about that.
I'll be there for the Saturday. 8)
Not going.....very skint.
That's a real shame...but there's a lot of it about. :(
I also shall probably not be there as I'm not sure I'll have the spare cash at the right time. The ticket price, lets be honest, is very reasonable (that is to say that it is an absolute bargain, particularly if you're a big fan of more than one band) but once you factor in getting there from the west midlands, plus accommodation etc it starts to get expensive.
having said that I'm still a little bit undecided
No currently going, but I am working on a plan.
It may involve smoke & mirrors.........as the cloaking device is on the blink
What we need is a montage!
not to make your decision harder Brom - but they did have brown beer. It sold out quick but they got more in, this year they will know better.
but if it helps with your decision, it was club prices - not at The Peel with their nice prices anymore
Sadly i shall also be missing this one, already seeing spocks and steve hackett the same week with fish coming up just a week or two after, this will be the first frost show i will miss since before the peel 2008 gig and i am well and truly gutted. >:( :'(
Sounds similar to me - May is due to be a mad prog month with the Beard, Celebr8.2, Hackett and finally Rush! 8) Not that I'm complaining but after May, I've nothing in the diary till Peter Gabriel at the end of October so it's a bit 'feast or famine'.
Was in 2 minds whether or not to go to Celebr8.2 but as I missed Frost*bites (making 2012 my first Frost-free year since 2008 :-[), I wanted to make the effort.
I'm still undecided whether to go or not. Time not being on my side I start uni next week so I'm buggered if I know how much work I'll have during 11th and 12th... HOWVEVER I'm still very tempted!!
I'm happy to drive down from the good ol' North West to watch the only Frost* gig this year and drive back after they finish! I know I'd miss Threshold but sadly time is not on my side.... hmmm decisions decisions... :/
I shall be there, along with Liz and Mouse. Down Friday daytime. Home Monday. Beers and Prog and no expense spared.
8)
Will there be Merch? ;)
I shall be there for both days :)
(and might be up for a curry on the Saturday as it's an early end :) )
Here you go people. ;D
Please support this Fest as much as possible. Tickets available via www.themerchdesk.com We'll have tickets on the door as well.
CELEBR8.2 STAGE TIMES.
SAT 11th MAY
IO Earth 2.00 - 3.15 Main Stage
Mark Spencer 3.15 - 3.45 Acoustic Stage
District 97 3.45 - 5.15 Main Stage
Galahad 5.15 - 5.45 Acoustic Stage
Frost* 5.45 - 7.15 Main Stage
Knifeworld 7.15 - 7.45 Acoustic Stage
Threshold 7.50 - 9.30 Main Stage
SUN 12th MAY
Matt Stevens 1.30 - 2.00 Acoustic Stage
Alan Reed and The Daughters of Expediency 2.00 - 3.15 Main stage
Andy Tillison 3.15 - 3.45 Acoustic Stage
Harvest 3.45 - 5.00 Main Stage
Matt Stevens and Andy Tillison 5.00 - 5.30 Acoustic Stage
Haken 5.30 - 7.00 Main Stage
Simon Godfrey 7.00 - 7.30 Acoustic Stage
Mystery 7.30 - 9.00 Main Stage
Arena 9.30 - 11.00 Main Stage
The Hippodrome Kingston, full wheelchair access. 100% of Artists Mech goes to the Artists!! Full details on www.celebr8prog.com
ohhh 9.30 finish on Sat! this changes the perspective on the journey home. Now swaying towards the public transport option. I'm guessing the early finish is to allow the venue to morph into a disco.
I guess so. I remember people queueing to get in for the nightclub after IQ last year but I don't remember a 9:30pm finish - thought it was later.
Public transport vs staying on for a curry with Frost*ies. No brainer I'd have thought! ;)
The early finish is because, as all veterans of Kingston gigs know, you can't get a decent curry in Kingston after 11pm (unless you book it in advance and get duly fleeced).
Are we going for a curry then, decent or indecent?
Given the early finish time, yes, I'm up for a curry (preferably a decent one 8)).
I'd be up for one, but I have to be elsewhere later that night (one has SUCH a busy social life now that one has partially-moved to The City, don'tchaknow).
So whether I can go currying depends on whether it's straight after Frost* or after all the other buggers have played...
HERE IS THE NEWS...
Frost*'s ONLY GIG in 2013 will be at Celebr8.2.
Weekend and Day Tickets (£70/£45 + £2.50 booking fee) from The Merch Desk http://tiny.cc/celebr8tix
Here's a short promo vid to share share around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd4qsAn_nxA
I can't blimmin' well go, but I have put the video on social media to try and do my bit to promote what looks to be a great gig!
In the mean time, here is how I feel about, well, everything.
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Albert Dock Cow (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesdavies/8678485715/) by Jim Davies (http://www.flickr.com/people/jamesdavies/), on Flickr
I will be very excited about saturday frostieness just as soon as I can unwind myself from all the other stuff and people that I am already responsible for on the same day...
Quote from: RacingHippo on April 28, 2013, 11:53:09 AM
So whether I can go currying depends on whether it's straight after Frost* or after all the other buggers have played...
I'd be up for a post-Frost* curry too.
My cunning plan faltered when my chief baby sitter had a stroke.
We are in the process of sorting some fine decent ales for the event
Blessed are the beer quaffers...
...any news on the food front?
Quote from: lyn on April 28, 2013, 11:09:39 PM
I will be very excited about saturday frostieness just as soon as I can unwind myself from all the other stuff and people that I am already responsible for on the same day...
All sorted. Have ordered tickets and an extra large cd! Leaving in ten minutes...whoops, ten days! Officially excited now ;D
Just seen this on the It Bites twitter feed:
QuoteLast chance for @PlanetFrost tix at @celebr8prog, now with added Andy Tillison goodness thanks to Jem having a bizarre gardening accident...
Anybody know any more about this?
Follow up from that:
QuoteHe's ok but has broken his finger. He'll still appear but with Andy taking the keyboard parts.
From Twang on Facebook:
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I must say a massive "Bravo!" is in order to Mr. Tillison! Bravo, sir!
What the...???!! :(
The musician's nightmare. Been there, my thoughts are with you, boss. (in the unlikely event that he visits the forum ;) )
Also, my hat is off to Andy. I knew he was awesome, but this? Simply wow!
Gardening accident... only in prog.
Zowie!
Is this a wind up? ;)
Thoughts with Jem, take care of that hand!
As a fellow keyboard player I really sympathize. Nightmare situation.
It turned out Andy was staying in the Kingston travellodge for last year's Celebr8 and Mrs One and I bumped into him at breakfast and later in the lift. Thoroughly nice bloke, we talked about his software based keyboard rig, and the merits of various Hammond VSTis (He sold me on the idea of the VB3 after I heard the Tangent set!)
So good luck to Andy taking on the Frost* canon and of course to Jem a huge get well soon group hug!
I'm guessing that Jem will provide some one-handed wizardry!
Ouch! Sorry to hear that...A new sling-along audience participation segment, maybe? frost* monkey trumpet CAST???
Oh dear! ??? Musicians should know to leave gardening to gardeners and keep their precious hands safe! (Didn't Jem damage his hands with a blade previously?)
Really glad Andy is up for standing in and the show will go on but what a challenge learning all those expensive chords in a week...
It will make for a unique Frost* gig for sure! 8)
Jem will be singing and doing things one handed. Oooer ;)
He's going full lefty this time then. :o
Not quite as hands on as usual.
At least having Andy is handy.
Quote from: D S on May 02, 2013, 05:46:37 PM
Really glad Andy is up for standing in and the show will go on but what a challenge learning all those expensive chords in a week...
Have you
heard The Tangent before? They had to build in a sunroof for their quota of expensive chords to shoot through. ;D
And I believe Jem has also suffered at the mercy of cheese graters and cricket balls before. Not that I'm keeping count, or anything...
We've all done silly things with Cheese Graters. :)
Fun fact - a cheese grater on a string being swung round and around is how they created the sound of the movements of those dragon things the Ring Wraiths rode in Lord Of The Rings. I think.
Quote from: Andy T on FBWell - so far 2 solid days of FROST* rehearsals. My mind is a blur of 7/8 and modal chords. Jem Godfrey is an alarming keyboards player, and we met up via a video link yesterday. He's playing left hand, and I'm playing the right hand parts and I need both hands to do it. I don't usually like to have notes or even set lists onstage (something to do with Roine's Lyrics at Chippenham) but I may have to relax the rule next weekend. I have a list of sections for various songs. These are just words and phrases that alert me to which bit's coming next. Using words like "Chorus" and "Verse" in a Frost piece are rather like using pedestrians as landmarks while giving directions. "Turn left by the old lady in the red coat and make a right after the 15 year old kid on a BMX". My list for one of the songs goes thus
Binky Binky
Binky Bonky
Guitar solo 1
Solar Ice Cream
Howard Jones
Contrivance
Randy Crawford
Bish BISH Bash BASH
Ridge Racer
Science Friction
Wishbone Thrash
Organ solo even if they don't want it
And that's how to play Frost songs. This coming weekend was supposed to be me relaxing and playing a few acoustic songs to pay my keep at the festival and I was just going to chill out and hang around with Matt Stevens. Matt - I will ring you tomorrow!! Owing to all this sudden workload I even had to miss Beardfish last night which was very sad. Even more sad, I have recently discovered that Godfrey is the OLDEST member of Frost and he's only 41 or something. Which makes me the OLDEST a-f***ing-gain. I am sick of being the oldest. Anyway. BE AT CELEBR8.2. This is only going to happen once. Ever. There will be no DVD.
heh
Quote from: Pedro on May 05, 2013, 02:55:58 AM
Quote from: Andy T on FBI have recently discovered that Godfrey is the OLDEST member of Frost and he's only 41 or something.
I thought Nathan was older than Jem?
Quote from: DueyC on May 05, 2013, 08:44:57 AM
Quote from: Pedro on May 05, 2013, 02:55:58 AM
Quote from: Andy T on FBI have recently discovered that Godfrey is the OLDEST member of Frost and he's only 41 or something.
I thought Nathan was older than Jem?
Your left-hand signed cheque is surely now in the mail ... ;-)
It would be left-hand signed...Jem is left-handed. :)
(remember the stylophone)
That letter is brilliant. Can't wait till next weekend. Luckily only three days of work for me till then. :)
QuoteUsing words like "Chorus" and "Verse" in a Frost piece are rather like using pedestrians as landmarks while giving directions.
Brilliant.
Quote from: Pedro on May 05, 2013, 11:27:58 AM
It would be left-hand signed...Jem is left-handed. :)
(remember the stylophone)
Yes, I knew that, of course (cough). And your point is, exactly? :-*
Quote from: DueyC on May 05, 2013, 08:44:57 AM
Quote from: Pedro on May 05, 2013, 02:55:58 AM
Quote from: Andy T on FBI have recently discovered that Godfrey is the OLDEST member of Frost and he's only 41 or something.
I thought Nathan was older than Jem?
Nathan is 42 according to his wikipedia page, born August 29 1970
Quote from: MikeEvs on May 07, 2013, 09:14:54 AM
Nathan is 42 according to his wikipedia page, born August 29 1970
How apt! ;)
Quote from: D S on May 07, 2013, 01:38:02 PM
Quote from: MikeEvs on May 07, 2013, 09:14:54 AM
Nathan is 42 according to his wikipedia page, born August 29 1970
How apt! ;)
And in less than four months, he'll be taking it up to the next level.
Well.... I was on my way to Celebr8.2... all the way from the North West and 10 miles away from Hippodrome... my car's clutch collapses! Ending up with me being taken all the way back home missing all of Saturdays shenanigans... :( bitterly disappointed...
Hope someone can bring some footage back from tonight :)
oh, Dave, that sucks. sorry mate!
Quote from: rogerg on May 11, 2013, 09:40:34 PM
oh, Dave, that sucks. sorry mate!
Yeeeah these things sadly happen... at completely the wrong time! How was it? What was the set?
I think it was this :-
Heartstrings
Forget You Song
Snowman
Fathers
Hyperventilate
Saline
Lantern
Dear Dead Days
Falling Down
Band Intros
Black Light Machine
The Other Me
Not quite sure which thread we're going to use to discuss last night, but I'll post something brief here, as I'm at Heathrow on my way home. A fine gig it was and I can report that I am no longer deaf in my left ear (silly location for taking pictures; right in the front row, but equally in front of the left-hand stack).
Just one picture for now, albeit one that says an awful lot about last night and Frost* in general ;D; many more to come when I 've had a chance to go through them and develop them ...
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Awesome shot, TA!!!
I think, yes, that combined with this one from Neil Palfreyman...
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..of Jem showing John his new Gardening book, and one of The Eating Of The Tunnocks would sum up the whole gig rather well.
Drink in keyboard: Check.
;D
Quote from: Trapezium Artist on May 12, 2013, 12:49:04 PM
Not quite sure which thread we're going to use to discuss last night, but I'll post something brief here, as I'm at Heathrow on my way home. A fine gig it was and I can report that I am no longer deaf in my left ear (silly location for taking pictures; right in the front row, but equally in front of the left-hand stack).
Just one picture for now, albeit one that says an awful lot about last night and Frost* in general ;D; many more to come when I 've had a chance to go through them and develop them ...
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44255509/DSC_0656.jpg)
That is an almighty photo, sir! Hats off...
Might I have permission to use a few for my write-up? (with credits of course.)
Quote from: LivingForever on May 12, 2013, 07:11:43 PM
That is an almighty photo, sir! Hats off...
Might I have permission to use a few for my write-up? (with credits of course.)
You certainly might. Or you might certainly. Or certainly you might. Or might you certainly.
I have to fiddle around in Lightroom and get some nice ones posted to flickr, but since I have a busy work week ahead, it won't be immediate, I suspect.
Then again, it'll take you a while to craft your opus too, I presume ... 8)
Quote from: Trapezium Artist on May 12, 2013, 10:01:24 PM
Quote from: LivingForever on May 12, 2013, 07:11:43 PM
That is an almighty photo, sir! Hats off...
Might I have permission to use a few for my write-up? (with credits of course.)
You certainly might. Or you might certainly. Or certainly you might. Or might you certainly.
I have to fiddle around in Lightroom and get some nice ones posted to flickr, but since I have a busy work week ahead, it won't be immediate, I suspect.
Then again, it'll take you a while to craft your opus too, I presume ... 8)
But of course! I'd not want to rush perfection, naturally.
Hope you got some food in the end, I felt awful about running away but I was fast losing my companions and didn't have a clue where they were off to!
great pic TA - my left ear has recovered now too ;D
Crikey, what a shot, TA! Excellent!
I was sat up in the heavens with t'other Godfrey for Frost*. It would be nice to say it was because I am worthy of special VIP treatment, but actually I was exhausted and it was a good chance to have a sit down and recover. :P It was a bloody good set, though, and I got to see exactly what Jem was doing with his 'board from my bird's eye perspective. My, he is a clever fellow indeed. I thought Falling Down was strong in particular and it was great to see the Gabrielised Snowman again.
Quote from: LivingForever on May 12, 2013, 11:03:28 PM
Hope you got some food in the end, I felt awful about running away but I was fast losing my companions and didn't have a clue where they were off to!
No problem; Catherine and I had a curry later on, and the bill worked out just marvelously (thank you, Catherine), so you weren't missed ;)
But I hope you managed to work out where Wilf and the others (did I see some miniature ichthyologists in your group?) had whizzed off to and that you too enjoyed a jolly repast.