The REFUND for my Hanging Rock tickets has hit my credit card account overnight. (Slightly strangely, it's dated 14th November and today's the 18th (where I am anyway. I know it wasn't there before this morning because - for cashflow reasons - I'm checking my Credit Card balance pretty carefully on at least a twice daily basis). Anyway... money has been refunded.
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QuoteIrix I hope they haven't read my Post - we should buy the Lithos, not download. I completely agree. The resolution of the images we're seeing on the web, although lovely, are simply useless if printed out on any scale up. And... point me to where I can buy a Hanging Rock poster (or two) and my money is all theirs!!
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QuoteOneHit No song vote yet?? Paperwork probably got mixed up with Obama's luggage when the president flew out and The Rolling Stones flew in at about the same time!
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Quotestonesrule I only use a cell when I travel...Is this a bad thing? It's important that we remember that this is the Charlie Watts' option! I too do not use a mobile phone, other than as a very basic contact/emergency thing when I'm out of the house. My desktop computer still provides as much functionality and connectivity as I need (and far more processing power and
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QuoteNaturalust Got it! Much thanks Cap't. Not sure what was more amusing the Ellen spoof or Bill's music video. But, I DO know why I missed it the first time around- I ran the other way when music like this hit my ears. Strangely it's easier to listen to these days, entertaining in a Spinal Tap sort of way. Surprisingly often humour is not international (nor does it always
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QuoteNaturalust wtf? I don't get it and I want to, especially seeing how it amused and delighted some of the folks I respect here on IORR. Was that one of Bill's solo tunes? peace That's the main video. There's also quite a nice video (sorry, couldn't find a link) of him doing it on TOTP. "(Si, Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star" was a single Bill released in
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QuoteDoc QuoteCaptainCorella By chance, Google's satellite image captures an earlier stage set up But what a dull background compared to Hanging Rock! Sorry but this does not seem to be the Stones' stage, and the view was available a long time ago GOOD GRIEF! If you hadn't pointed that out I would never, ever, have guessed. (Perhaps the word 'earlier' didn�
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By chance, Google's satellite image captures an earlier stage set up But what a dull background compared to Hanging Rock!
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QuoteRockman Nice, but the grapes look a bit 2 dimensional though. ....the grapes look like red Smarties I edited that very comparison out of my original posting in the (mistaken?) belief that few would know what Smarties are! And as The Rolling Stones are a UK band (see their Facebook page), I refused to use the M&M analogy.
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Quoteflairville Poster's up on FB! Nice, but the grapes look a bit 2 dimensional though.
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Song vote now up. No poster though.
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Quotejammingedward This is not a good sign. The Stones organisation is a well oiled machine and to see the pattern of poster/votes get broken is indeed both odd and concerning. Did I spot an unintended typo there? "The Stones organisation is a well oiled Machine" You omitted the upper case!
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No poster and no song vote (yet) is decidedly odd. Maybe it's too complicated to devise a setlist that treats Mick's throat with respect if songs from a song vote are included. Perhaps NONE of the pre-rehearsed songs for the vote are OK on the throat? But this change in the song vote call for votes is a bit odd. I hope it does not foreshadow another problem?
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Quotemighty stork Today marks the 40th anniversary of Bill Wyman's solo release. Did you buy it right away and when was the last time you played it? According to 'Rolling With The Stones' it was released on 13th May 1974. So what's the source of the November date?
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I really think that some of the postings here in this thread are close to delusional. For whatever reason (and I have more reasons than most to be seriously pissed off about it) they CANCELLED the Hanging Rock show. Very shortly thereafter Ticketek sent out emails about how the money we all paid (almost a year ago now!) was going to be refunded. How on earth can the concert be "unca
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QuoteDoxa A funny little curiosity: the newest song in the set is 33 years old newbie called "Start Me Up". Is this a kind of record since 1981/82 tour? - Doxa That's sad.
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For continuity, I thought I'd mention how the weather turned out in Woodend (very close to Hanging Rock) yesterday. At about 4:20pm in Woodend it was about 33C (and it was nice there, we sat in the shade and had a refreshing ice cream). But by 6:00pm it was about 22C, and by Stones Time (8:30pm) it was about 13C. ANd by 10:30 (end time) it was about 11C. Nothing wrong with those tem
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QuoteIrix QuoteCaptainCorella Eh? WWW was not invented until 1991/2. The Internet was around, and had been around for some time, but mainly based in Universities (& military). The first proposal of the Hypertext based WWW has been made in March 1989: . The origins of the Internet date back in the 1960s. That's right - I have Sir Tim's book, which I prefer to refer to o
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Quotegrzegorz67 Long before the internet became widespread.The World Wide Web, a great BRITISH Invention by Sir Tim Berners Lee, arrived in 1989. I found out the postponement when I arrived in London and parked my car. I had a proper hissy fit, swearing my head off. I'd been a fan since I was 9 or 10 (was 23 at the time) and had waited a long time for it. Still, the show was exce
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Probably worth adding that Hanging Rock isn't just a standard arena/stadium where you check if a date is booked, and book it with all of the infrastructure. It's not normally a concert venue, so masses of stuff has to be trucked in just to make it work - ie before any stage/music stuff appears. Toilets, chairs, barricades, generators by the dozen. Assembling that lot, and getting
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QuoteEleanor Rigby Cant believe they dont reschedule this gig. What are the reasons? Get out an atlas. Look at the distances between Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and then take into account the distance to New Zealand. Do you think that they didn't bother seeing if it could be done?
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Quotelapaz62 Midnight Rambler from Rod Laver, sorry about the bad camera work, it got a bit rough up there on the roof but the audio is pretty good. Can someone tell me why I don't get a nice little picture like other youtube links, did I forget to do something. Very nice. Thanks for the memories!
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Quotebv Guitar players may change guitar if they have problems, but a singer rely 100% on the voice... Unless of course they have an infected cut on their finger as in 1990 UK postponements.
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QuoteBeforeTheyMakeMeRun Man, hope it's rescheduled for those who were to attend! NO. It's CANCELLED and money is being refunded. It is not being postponed. Gone beyond any hope of reschedule. Ever.
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Quotewinos Stones have disappeared from the rock before they even got there,that tops the school girls in the book Picnic at Hanging Rock! Nice comment. I was rather hoping that Mick would stop the show at one point, and read out a message asking if anyone had seen Miranda, and if they had could they get in touch with the school in Woodend. More seriously... they really would soften the b
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QuoteNiek It's a rough life, there in Australia. Not at all. I'm not worried about Australians - we understand the climate here. But I am very worried about our welcome guests who have come to see The Rolling Stones. I'm worried that someone will hear the headline temperature (30-something) and think that will be set for the day, and will result in a glorious balmy war
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QuoteMarshallG The lads were clearly enjoying themselves up there and for me that means everything for the performance. I very much agree with that!
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Hanging Rock weather The actual weather forecast for Saturday, put out by the Govt's Bureau of Meterology (the one that the media presenters interpret) says... Partly cloudy. Winds northeasterly 25 to 40 km/h tending north to northeasterly 35 to 50 km/h before dawn then shifting south to southwesterly 25 to 40 km/h in the afternoon. Overnight temperatures falling to between 13 and 17 w
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Phew! What a night. Highlights: - Seeing the band after a geography driven gap of 15 years. - Spotting Bernard outside the venue chatting to people casually. - Seeing, and recognising, FOXY at the very front of the Pit Queue - Officially their No1 Fan now - Corny, but I loved the Warhorses. - Understanding the band interactions and realising that they were having a good time. - Re
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Quoteozziestone Yes older than Mick and easily the most appalling man in Australia Wrong. That's a dead heat between Tony Abbott & Clive Palmer.
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