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(Message started by: S J Birkill on Today at 20:50)

Title: The Pheasantry
Post by S J Birkill on Today at 20:50

Pete's latest e-mail newsletter went out this morning to all current subscribers. I'm mentioning it here, under "News", because there are significant changes in the offing at Pizza Express Live, changes we should all know about.

There have been personnel and policy shifts which will affect their various venues' booking policy. A couple of days ago Pete received an e-mail stating:

"The Pheasantry is going in a different direction artistically. Future
bookings in any of our venues are and should always be based on past sales
and to fit into the brands [sic] Live music scene. I think it might be best for
the Pheasantry at least to bill it as that. We will look at 2025 and where
you might fit."

The implications are obvious. Pete doesn't want us to treat his upcoming gig (November 12th) as some kind of Farewell Concert -- it won't be that -- but at the same time he stresses that the attendance figure this time might be crucial to the future of the 'Pete and Simon' London concerts. Think of it potentially as a 'last-chance-to-see' event. Presently, sales stand at 58 -- a good showing, but it would be great if the remaining 30-odd seats were filled.

To reserve your place, follow THIS LINK (https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/the-clive-james-pete-atkin-songbook-the-latest-instalment).

Pete puts all the above far more eloquently in his newsletter MV2404, which even non-subscribers can read, HERE (https://www.peteatkin.com/newsletter.htm#latest). Newsletter subscribers please keep your e-mail address up to date -- persistent bouncers are automatically unsubbed. To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your address, use the form at the foot of the page in the above link. The newsletter sending address is not monitored for replies.

Steve

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by Terry_Caster on 29.10.24 at 15:28

I wonder if this might be a decent alternative venue https://www.cabbagepatch.co.uk/ - where the https://www.eelpieclub.com/ do their stuff. (I know Pete isn't exactly what most people would call RnB - but they have an array of folk there!)

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by S J Birkill on 04.11.24 at 07:21

"Well I used to be a folk singer
Keeping managers alive
When you saw me on a corner
And told me I was jive"

-- Neil Young, Last Trip To Tulsa

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by S J Birkill on 04.11.24 at 07:23

I see the Pheas is now indicating Sold Out for the 12th.

Title: Get your Pheas on for a historic(al) performance
Post by S J Birkill on 08.11.24 at 06:48

Genres, eh? Jazz, funk, R&B, country rock, Broadway, Tin-Pan Alley, the Great American Songbook, that old folk blues, the King of Rock ’n’ Roll...

Any of our esteemed crowd going to The Fez on Tuesday, now that TFL's industrial action seems to be off? Tell us about it, your own honest opinion, and what did your Atkin-virgin friends think of it? If at least five of you post your reviews here I'll build a page for them on the website (incentive, what!)

Meanwhile, as a momentary relief from a week of rather bad news, and before the apocalypse drops: haven't we all wondered what Pete's musical, "A & R" would have been like if Julie Covington had played the role of Amy? No? Well, here's a taster anyway:

https://www.peteatkin.com/images/jctpmo-331h.jpg (https://www.peteatkin.com/j3tv.htm)

Julie sings Just In Passing on Programme 8 of London Weekend Television's show "The Party's Moving On", broadcast on 23rd August 1970 and introduced by Russell Davies as "a song from a musical yet to be written". Thanks to MV member Graham Stibbs for capturing this and sharing it with us. His recording (audio only) is quarter-track at 1-7/8 ips, hence the rather low-fi quality.

Oh yes, and this stream is in the 'members-only' section of the website, so you'll need to be logged in to MV in order to listen. After you've listened, try clicking on the right-hand chevron (effectively the 'Next' button) to hear Pete's duet with Julie on Sunrise, from a later TV show, this one on January 21st 1971.

Steve

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by Terry_Caster on 08.11.24 at 16:20

I'm looking forward to Pete's Death Metal and Rap albums...

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by S J Birkill on 08.11.24 at 17:47

I got my first PA albums from a shop in Sheffield where his records were displayed in the rack "progressive male vocal", along with singers including Elton John and David Bowie.

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by Keith Busby on 09.11.24 at 15:29

Logged in and still can't access. "Not available".

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by S J Birkill on 09.11.24 at 18:03

Hello Keith

Good to see you here. But curious -- the PHP 'cookie check' script seems to be working intermittently on some browsers.

I'll investigate here and report -- thanks for letting me know.

Steve

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by Keith Busby on 09.11.24 at 19:42

Works now.

Merci and best to you, Carole, and Alexis.

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by S J Birkill on 10.11.24 at 06:24

Pretty sure I've fixed it now. I found a couple of minor misconfigurations, but the real issue was with the (correct) operation of the browser cache.

I'll not go into much detail, but if the link (the image in this case) is followed before log-in, the browser detects absence of log-in and redirects to the pseudo-404 'Not Available' page. If the user then logs in (during the lifetime of the cache) and calls the target page again, the browser doesn't attempt to reload the page, but displays its cached version, with the same result as before.

I've now created a work-around to avoid this. Anyone still having issues with members-only streaming, please let me know.

Steve

Title: Re: The Pheasantry
Post by Chris H on 28.11.24 at 17:52

Thanks for the clip of Julie singing "Just in passing".
"The Party's Moving On", was a favourite of mine and the sort of quirky and interesting programme that I soubt would be given the chance today.
After hearing Pete on the radio, I spotted an entry for rhis progarmme in the LWT shedules purely by chance and was hooked.