BIG announcement tomorrow

costafonix · 2011-12-12T21:21:14+00:00

Apparantly two BIG British classic rock bands are heading our way and the announcement will be made tomorrow... Can anyone guess who they'll be or have any inside information? Queen (with Paul Rogers) maybe?

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote 10CC would be great if it was the original bunch of Gouldman, Stewart, Godley and Creme.

Seems to be Gouldman plus Rick Fenn and Paul Burgess who were basically hired hands for a while in the 70s, plus a couple of session players with no connection to the band.

They did some good albums is the 70's , "How Dare You' which had one of my favourite songs of all time "I'm Mandy Fly me"

Chris, you might have heard "Dreadlock Holiday" - "I dont like Cricket, I love it..."

They were a very clever band. "How Dare You" was a great album, but I liked "Sheet Music" more. What was the album before that one?

I'd accept a "10cc" without Gouldman and Creme, but Eric Stewart not being there is a bridge too far for me, despite Gouldman's pedigree as a writer of great pop songs. Stewart wrote and sang some of their best songs, notably "I'm Not In Love".

Squonk

Alan Ratcliffe wrote Yeah I mentioned Slade merely to be facetious. They don't belong grouped with BCR - In my mind they are rather grouped with Nazareth - good, solid, no nonsense rock.

The hugely embarrassing moment in my life was seeing the Bay City Rollers when they toured with Duncan Faure in the late 70's, they called themselves the 'Rollers". I was there to see Duncan :-[ Imagine this huge Prog Rock fan in disguise on his way to the Colosseum in amongst lots of teenage girls(I didn't mind though because I was a teenage boy ?

Squonk

X-rated Bob wrote They were a very clever band. "How Dare You" was a great album, but I liked "Sheet Music" more. What was the album before that one?

I'd accept a "10cc" without Gouldman and Creme, but Eric Stewart not being there is a bridge too far for me, despite Gouldman's pedigree as a writer of great pop songs. Stewart wrote and sang some of their best songs, notably "I'm Not In Love".

+1 Bob. not worth seeing without Eric.

I had the first album "10cc" but never heard "Sheet Music"

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote
Alan Ratcliffe wrote Yeah I mentioned Slade merely to be facetious. They don't belong grouped with BCR - In my mind they are rather grouped with Nazareth - good, solid, no nonsense rock.

The hugely embarrassing moment in my life was seeing the Bay City Rollers when they toured with Duncan Faure in the late 70's, they called themselves the 'Rollers". I was there to see Duncan :-[ Imagine this huge Prog Rock fan in disguise on his way to the Colosseum in amongst lots of teenage girls(I didn't mind though because I was a teenage boy ?

Haha! I did worse! I was part of the official welcoming party at the airport. I was working for Music Maker magazine at the time, and we all got passes to go into the private lounge where the reception was held. They were mostly polite but tired from the trip.

This was when they were trying to shake off their reputation as shallow teen idols.

There were some good players in that band actually. A couple of years later I saw two of them playing with Neil Solomon in a bar in Durban.

AlanRatcliffe

Squonk wrote The hugely embarrassing moment in my life was seeing the Bay City Rollers when they toured with Duncan Faure in the late 70's, they called themselves the 'Rollers". I was there to see Duncan :-[ Imagine this huge Prog Rock fan in disguise on his way to the Colosseum in amongst lots of teenage girls(I didn't mind though because I was a teenage boy ?

As long as you weren't wearing tartan bell-bottoms and scarf, you can be forgiven. ?

singemonkey

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Squonk wrote The hugely embarrassing moment in my life was seeing the Bay City Rollers when they toured with Duncan Faure in the late 70's, they called themselves the 'Rollers". I was there to see Duncan :-[ Imagine this huge Prog Rock fan in disguise on his way to the Colosseum in amongst lots of teenage girls(I didn't mind though because I was a teenage boy ?
As long as you weren't wearing tartan bell-bottoms and scarf, you can be forgiven. ?

*Squonk looks down at pants and blushes.

costafonix

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Slade would be ok to go see, but not the spandex,,,,,,,
10cc :-\ not really sure,,,, although I liked their music,,,
and Moody Blues :-\ dunno,,,, ditto,,,
I was hoping for Bad Company or something,,,
as for BCR,,,,,or Westlife er,,, I'll pass

Sebastian

Well its official that Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) is coming to record and tour in SA in early 2012 with Toni Rowland. I don't know if this counts however, because its not exactly a "secret until tomorrow" or anything.

Reason is know is because I play in Toni's band, so I'll be involved with the tour and recording :dance: (provided the dates don't overlap with Varsity. Can't afford to drop out of my music degree....)

For those who haven't heard of Toni, here's her website. I still find it quite odd that this hasn't been made a fuss of, even on her own website...

http://www.tonirowland.com/

guidothepimmp

Don't know if anyone else heard, the Eagles are playing the suncity superbowl in april next year. Tickets on sale at computicket. And nooo, I'm not kidding, heard it on the radio this morning

IceCreamMan

guidothepimmp wrote Don't know if anyone else heard, the Eagles are playing the suncity superbowl in april next year. Tickets on sale at computicket. And nooo, I'm not kidding, heard it on the radio this morning

yep , heard this rumour yesterday

deefstes

Flip, can Big Concerts just stop doing this please? Not long ago they also had everyone on tenter hooks because they were going to make a "big anouncement". People were speculating that it might be Bon Jovi or such but the "big anouncement" came and it was "The Script".

Now again, if Big Concerts anounce that they're going to bring over two BIG British classic rock bands and it turns out to be 10cc and Moody Blues then maybe they should change their name to Big Anticlimaxes. 10cc!?!?! Moody Blues?!?!?! When a band has more former members than members, they're not a BIG British classic rock band any more.

singemonkey

deefstes wrote When a band has more former members than members, they're not a BIG British classic rock band any more.

Haha. +1

costafonix

deefstes wrote Flip, can Big Concerts just stop doing this please? Not long ago they also had everyone on tenter hooks because they were going to make a "big anouncement". People were speculating that it might be Bon Jovi or such but the "big anouncement" came and it was "The Script".

Now again, if Big Concerts anounce that they're going to bring over two BIG British classic rock bands and it turns out to be 10cc and Moody Blues then maybe they should change their name to Big Anticlimaxes. 10cc!?!?! Moody Blues?!?!?! When a band has more former members than members, they're not a BIG British classic rock band any more.

+1 could not have said it better myself,,,,, :yup: ?

Bob-Dubery

It's ironic all this.

10cc in '74

Joe Walsh in '78

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