Roxy Music
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Roxy Music
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Roxy Music, my favourite band.I must have been 14 years old when 'Love is the Drug' was a hit record, and from then on I was hooked. With my old school pal Andy Mol we saw the Manifesto tour on march 6th '79 in The Hague. Later we were in Forêst Nationale in Brussels on the Flesh & Blood tour ('80), and the Avalon tour ('82). Bryan Ferry continued solo. Saw him in Ahoy during the Limbo tour ('87?). (I must have some dates wrong...) And I forgot why I wasn't in Vredenburg around '95 with his Mamouna tour. Now, almost 21 years after my first concert I saw him again! First in Antwerp, then in Amsterdam. And actually really met him in person! In exciting expectation of the second concert my lunacy increased to a
level where I conceived a letter to The Maestro . . . The lunacy is still increasing: May 16th, I drove all the way to Oud-Beijerland to watch Remake/Remodel perform. A wonderful tribute band to Roxy Music. There met some people with whom I went to Petworth, Sussex. June 23rd. To finish of: I'll be at the opening of the North Sea Jazz Festival where Bryan Ferry, with a
delay of one year will perform.
Further you could find some biographies of Roxy members as described by Johannes Delmere in his 'Discography of Roxy Music', which used to be on the Net around 1997, but isn't anymore... He called it a "Webbook" and a small fragment of it, I have here.
What's this with Thomas Dolby ? ? ? Somehow my serious choice of music started of with Roxy Music, and I think it was the name Brian Eno as producer that influenced things. I remember 'discovering' Talkings Heads Psychokiller and album '77 myself, but later Eno produces their 'Remain in Light' and other albums. Of course there was David Bowie. But somehow their music hasn't come back to me these last few years a Bryans As Time Goes By and now Frantic. Certainly also aided by this e-mail-thing and the Avalon-mailing list. Enabling me to get somehow in contact with dozens of Roxy fans around the world... And then there was Thomas Dolby . . . This artist has come back to me. Like a boomerang. Wonderful stuff!!! On his site Thomas mentions Brian Eno as one of his inspirers. "Around 1973 I saw a late night TV show called The Old Grey Whistle Test. The band was Roxy Music. They had a pretty cool singer, but what really got to me was the keyboard player. He wore very high stacked heels, tight trousers and elbow-length leopard-skin gloves, and stood in front of the control panel of a Moog (no keyboard) with his arms crossed and a very aloof look on his face. Occasionally he would deign to reach forward and adjust a knob slightly." See more about him here. |
