h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Anyone else going to see them on Thursday?
Getting quite excited now!

Gee but it's great to be back home...

wow, theyre still about? i wasn't around when they were big, my friend lent me a tape a while ago, thought they were ace but i kind of expected them to be dead by now like most famous people from way back then seem to be now. so as you may have guessed, im not going to see them, but have fun when you go (unless you already have gone, for got to loook when you posetd, anyway if you already went im sure you had fun) hey, i'm good at talking rubbish...

Oh, this is spooky! I was just sitting here humming "America" to myself and suddenly I see a thread about the performers of that song.

My Mum was a fan and she used to play their greatest hits to us as kids and I have a copy of one of their greatest hits compilations at home somewhere. So, whereabouts are they playing? Is it a full tour?

They are only playing 2 dates in the UK - Hyde Park on Thursday and don't know when in Manchester!

...thought they were dead! I feel well old now!

>> them to be dead by now like most famous people from way back then seem to be now <<

Way back then! Its only thirty years ago for crying out loud!

Doanld

oh well i'm sorry only a young 'un you know...

"Cathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."
Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike,
They've all come to look for America...

Eee, they don't write them like that anymore.

Noggin

No they don't
Kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then turned around and headed home again.
Slip sliding away

But all my words come back to me
In shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness and harmony
I need someone to comfort me

Homeward bound...


Will someone please tell the weather god to switch off the rain for tomorrow. Thanks

i am the weather god unfortunately I am not the god of knowing where people live.Speak thy servant heareth

The exact location I would like to remain dry tomorrow (from about lunch time) is Hyde Park in London, England.

Thanks you *leaves offering of and *

Luckily i'm mostly based in somerset so that should be fine!!!

I got the impression that they really really hated each other and had for years. I know they've tried to reform before and always had another huge argument and acrimonious split. Oh well, they're a great act, just hope they avoid killing each other until the gigs are finished...

Musical_Moose

No, they are not going to kill each other. Last year they played all over Europe. In Italy in the Colloseum, can you imagine that? That must have been really magic.
From next week on they are playing on the continent, Amsterdam, Munich, I do not know all the places they are visiting. From september until next year they tour the USA. Probably they do not need the money and just are having a great time.
I was a young pubescent girl in the seventies when I listened to their musi, up in my bedroom in my parents house. I rediscoverd them last year, watching the movie The Graduate, directed by Mike Nicols, for which they composed the music "Mrs. Robinson". There is a scene in the movie, Anne Bancroft as Mrs.Robinson lying in bed in a hotelroom. Dustin Hoffmann is harrassing her. As a young, naive man he thinks there is more to life then just f*****g and he is rather aggressively trying to start a conversation with her.
Her reaction is rather taciturn and then she sardonically asks him: "What do you want to talk about? Art?"
I love it. For yes, I really would like to know more about Art.
Art Garfunkel was and still is a most beautiful man. He became also an actor in Mike Nicols movie "Catch 22". I believe he played Garf (?), the tent-mate of Yossarian, who finaly learns to crash his plane so succesfully that he escapes the madhouse of the second world war and peacefully retires to Sweden. Great book, and a good role for Art Garfunkel.
Yes, I do like them a lot, both of them. Paul Simon really is a poet, and a hell of a musician.

Just to let you know - they were great! The crowd was made up of a huge cross section of ages and nationalities. Everyone was in high spirits even though it rained heavily before the gates opened...but then the weather god (thanks - here have more and ) looked favourably on us and it was a beautiful evening.

There was no pre-amble to the show - just a slide show with them straight on stage. The first track was, of course, Old Friends. Then they played a whole load of others including America - everyone sang along to that one!

They introduced the Everley Brothers who sang 4 tracks - ending with Simon & Garfunkel joining them for Bye Bye Love.

Then they played loads more - all hits - until wrapping up the evening with Bridge Over Troubled Water. Oh my - you could have heard a pin drop the crowd was so hushed! I sobbed nearly all the way through that! Daft moo! But sometimes truly excellent music does that to you. After that nobody wanted to leave. They encored twice - one of the tracks in the 1st encore was my favourite - The Boxer.

I never thought I'd ever get to see them perform live on stage - and now I can't believe that I have!

Brilliant.

>> But sometimes truly excellent music does that to you. <<

It sure does - nothing daft about about it at all. You would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by Bridge over Troubled Water's. Either that or you are not paying attention.

Stuart

Sounds like a fantastic night out.

Yes, Yes. Truly splendid. I envy you. I do not have tickets for their show in Amsterdam next week. I will have to do with your enthousiasm and
newspaper reports.