The Mellotron Group

Anyone heard of this?
 
Anyone here going?
 
Martin, John. What's your  take?
 
Andy K
 
 
The First International MelloFest 2008 -  celebrating music inspired by the
Mellotron DATE: Sunday November 16th 2008,  18.00 till late. Free
admission.VENUE: The Fiddler's Elbow, 1 Malden Road,  Kentish Town, London,
NW5 3HS, Tel: 020 7485 3269 Junction of Prince of Wales  Road: 24 & 46
buses, Chalk Farm Tube, Kentish Town West BR.MelloFest  features discussions
and live Mellotron-inspired music from very special  guests plus the
official launch of Nick Awde's new book: "Mellotron: The  Machine and the
Musicians that Revolutionised Rock" Talking about their music  and in most
cases also playing it (!) will be: Dave Cousins (Strawbs), David  Cross
(King Crimson), Jakko Jakszyk (21st Century Schizoid Band/Tangent),  Robert 
Kirby (Strawbs), Nick Magnus (Steve Hackett Band), Martin Orford  (IQ),
Robert Webb (England). For more on the line-up, go to _www.mellofest.com_ 
(http://www.mellofest.com) 
For further details, email:  mellotron@deserthearts.com or call 07961 154590. 
To
buy the book go to:  www.deserthearts.com/mellotron.html or from  Amazon.co.uk

In a message dated 10/11/2008 12:43:07 GMT Standard Time,  kinchmusic@aol.com 
writes:

Anyone heard of this?
 
Anyone here going?
 
Martin, John. What's your  take?
 
Andy  K



We know about it but circumstances mean that neither JB or myself  will be 
there.  Should be a good do though.
 
Best,
 
Martin
 
Streetly Electronics - All Things Mellotronic
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One bloke that is going is Andy Thompson, (curator of 
www,planetmellotron.com), which is fair enough, as he's in the book! He 
says he's going there with 2 Mellotrons. One of them is his own M400, 
but I dunno what the other one is - he's being rather coy about that.

Nick Hewitt (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellofest 2008


> One bloke that is going is Andy Thompson, (curator of
> www,planetmellotron.com), which is fair enough, as he's in the book! He
> says he's going there with 2 Mellotrons. One of them is his own M400,
> but I dunno what the other one is - he's being rather coy about that.
>
> Nick Hewitt (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Not being coy at all - Nick didn't ask.  :-)   My mate Gary and I will be 
there with my M400 and one of his. If we're really lucky, several musicians 
will play one who haven't done so in a very long time. Or not. Since both 
machines are in good mechanical order, we hope to prove that they aren't all 
badly-maintained pieces of crap.  :-)

Andy T.

p.s. All welcome.

In a message dated 11/10/2008 7:38:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
andy.thompson@virgin.net writes:

we  hope to prove that they aren't all 
badly-maintained pieces of crap.  :-)




So, failing that, what's Plan B? 
 
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In a message dated 11/10/2008 7:38:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, andy.thompson@virgin.net writes:

we hope to prove that they aren't all
badly-maintained pieces of crap. :-)

So, failing that, what's Plan B?

Frank

Jot down the resulting anecdotes from disgruntled ex-users and add them to my site. :-)

Andy T.

Any reports on this ? Pictures maybe ?

Especially would like to hear about Martin Orford's contribution.


Arthur

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Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:46 PM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellofest 2008


Arthur

Sorry to take so long to reply to this...

> Any reports on this ? Pictures maybe ?
>
> Especially would like to hear about Martin Orford's contribution.

It went well, although it would've been nice if a few more people had 
actually played something! We took two 'Trons (mine and my mate Gary's) and 
my MiniMoog and Rhodes. Plenty of interviewees, most with something 
interesting to say, the evening's big surprise being an unexpected 
appearance by Tony Clarke, who made an amusing interviewee. Those who 
played:

Dave Cousins/Robert Kirby played New World ('Tron brass and mixed strings) 
and Grace Darling (choir), with Kirby only getting used to the keyboard 
action by the second song - he freely admitted he hasn't played one in over 
30 years...
Martin Orford played the intro to The Last Human Gateway on 'Tron flutes, 
then the closing section on Rhodes. He said both the 'Trons knocked spots 
off his old one!
Robert Webb (England) played a bit of Poisoned Youth on brass and MiniMoog 
bass.

Other interviewees:

Tony Clarke, David Cross, Nick Magnus, Jakko Jakszyk. Mel Collins attended 
but refused to be interviewed, and Woolly was nowhere to be seen, even 
though it's a short bus-ride from his gaff. Keep an eye on Nick Awde's 
website - report apparently forthcoming.

Andy T.

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Andy Thompson" 
<andy.thompson@...> wrote:
>
>
> Martin Orford played the intro to The Last Human Gateway on
> 'Tron flutes, then the closing section on Rhodes. He said both
> the 'Trons knocked spots off his old one!
>

Thanks for the update, Andy !

Maybe the experience will change his rather negative attitude towards 
trons positively. I was surprised to see him announced on the bill.

Arthur