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Post by philip on Apr 3, 2011 18:47:42 GMT
enjoyed reading that,not sure about the character you met in southampton though!
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Post by littlemissmosher on Apr 3, 2011 19:15:31 GMT
ha!
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Post by jombennett on Apr 3, 2011 19:51:47 GMT
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Post by boringwhore on Apr 3, 2011 20:40:27 GMT
As one of the older fans (some may say the oldest) my music roots are the 60s and for a couple of decades I never listened to current music, then I heard a certain Canadian band and thought hang on there still is decent music about, I made friends on line with other fans and one told me they had heard some good music in a shop and it was The Bluetones and that she thought I would like them. She was right. I bought a couple of albums the first was Science and Nature which hadnt been out long, it is still my favourite tones album. I decided I needed to see them but I was married and the time (and male) and my ex would not have been impressed with my need to go to a gig, so I had to sneak out on the pretext of working late and went to the Sugarmill in Lancaster, it was the tour with the interval in the middle of the set. I was knocked out seeing them live but it wasnt any easy thing to do in my position. I also found the really old forum and posted a little but found my posts mostly ignored. The next gig was at Manchester and I went to the venue in the afternoon to get tickets and wandering round the back and found an open door stickin my head inside I saw the band doing the sound check so I just hung around and watched, I noticed Mark playin a bit of a Love song, my al time fav band so when he left the stage I went up and spent a few minutes chatting to him. Soon I was single and became Louise, also found and joined the old forum, and fessed up about being trans, happily most recactions were positive. I then started going to gigs whenever I could and even met a few forumites, I particularly remember meeting CR at Sheffield, I started travelling further afield and even ended up in the Shetland Islands, where I met Bushes we went back to the pub with the band after the gig, and all the next day I kept bumping into them around the town. I took a more active part in the forum and got to know the members better, it was always a riot with an amazing number of posts everyday, rarely to do with the band but a great laugh, I even met a wonderful woman called Sunny and went to my first meet up before a shepherds bush gig, the first of many. Over the years the band and the forumites have been a big part of my life, when i went into hospital in London several of the forum came to visit and I still have a wonderful homemade card with messages from lots of forumites as well as the members of the band,. I have got drunk with you all shared beds with several, have memories of non musical stuff, Pos's 40th and Edinburgh Zoo being a great one, the hotel after the Bingley festival being another. Its going to be odd without a Tones tour to look forward too but I really feel I have made some great friends through the tones and I am sure I will continue to see them now and again. and as for Sunny, well she is sitting next to me while I type this.
Thank you Bluetones
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Post by philip on Apr 3, 2011 20:42:33 GMT
excellent stuff lou,love to you and sunny! see you on the tour x
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Post by Blitz on Apr 3, 2011 21:12:29 GMT
I also found the really old forum and posted a little but found my posts mostly ignored. Aww, I remembered you!
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Post by boringwhore on Apr 3, 2011 21:20:30 GMT
you did Blitz, but on that strange tree style forum my branches usually didnt grow
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Post by purplebeana on Apr 3, 2011 23:58:34 GMT
Well, it's late and I'm pissed and jet lagged so as good as time as ever to get maudlin and sentimental about the tones.
I remember slight return and marblehead johnson coming out and really loving both of them..but for some reason not following it up because I had just started my new job, and moved, and the friends I was making weren't into going to gigs...my mistake.
Fast forward to the Singles collection coming out and I spotted in a shop and thought, I'm sure I really liked some of their songs and I bought it on a whim. I loved it, and it became my most listened to album for the next few years. Unfortunatley I wasn't really internet savvy and no record shops seemed to stock them - even though I kept looking. All I could ever find was singles collections which made me think that they had split up....until the end of 2006 when I stumbled across "The Bluetones" and obviously bought it immediately. I loved it and found out that they were touring. I managed to persuade my mate to come and visit me so that we could go and see them in Burnley and then persuaded someone else to come and see them in St Helens.
In between the gigs I pretty much laid my hands on all the back catalogue I could, got broadband and found the forum. I had fallen in love with music again.
Unbeknownst to me, a certain Vostokgirl was also at the St Helen's gig and we got into a conversation about it on the forum, then on myspace and over the last few years she has become one of my closest friends. We formed a duo egging each other going on to do lots of gigs together, and soon met the infamous Johnkneem in Leeds who surprisingly turned out to be the love of my life....
We have been to many gigs together, . I love the Bluetones music, but going to gigs has become more than that - it has become a chance to meet up with friends, travel the country on silly trips, I've had some amazing adventures and had more fun than I've ever had before. It has been great to meet them from time to time - they are all lovely guy sand it is sad to think that after Septemebr we may not meet again. It also kick started me into going to gigs again, and discovering a part of me that I had lost. It is disaapointing that they won't be able to play at the joint 40th birthday that Jo and I were planning.
I can genuinely say that the Bluetones have changed my life. They made my favourite albums of all time, I met one of my best friends and the love of my life through going to gigs. What can I say.
Thanks Bluetones, it's been a blast, and life will never be the same again. But hopefully the music that they made and the friendships that have been formed will last for ever. xx
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Post by johnkneem on Apr 4, 2011 0:05:08 GMT
Awww!
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Post by johnkneem on Apr 4, 2011 0:20:09 GMT
Subsequent to the previous post I have been informed that the love of purplebeana's life is in fact The Bluetones, and I am just out of the top 10, behind various keyboard players, road crew and hanger-on drug dealers.
Meh.
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Post by Blitz on Apr 4, 2011 0:32:32 GMT
Oh yeah, the Bluetones brought Johnkneem into all our lives... you boys have a lot to answer for!
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Post by Blitz on Apr 4, 2011 0:33:28 GMT
(...Nina's post made me smile a lot really, so sweet)
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Post by littlemissmosher on Apr 4, 2011 8:03:09 GMT
Subsequent to the previous post I have been informed that the love of purplebeana's life is in fact The Bluetones, and I am just out of the top 10, behind various keyboard players, road crew and hanger-on drug dealers. Meh. that just made me choke on my morning tea, good work Kneem ;D
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Post by philip on Apr 4, 2011 12:28:08 GMT
glad i'm in the top ten then!
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Post by purplebeana on Apr 4, 2011 16:43:20 GMT
Subsequent to the previous post I have been informed that the love of purplebeana's life is in fact The Bluetones, and I am just out of the top 10, behind various keyboard players, road crew and hanger-on drug dealers. Meh. Harsh but fair.
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