Thanks guys, for a great gig. I enjoyed it immensely.

Harking back to the concerts we played with the band; in terms of tightness and vibe (that mysterious quality) you were, all, right up there. There were only two things missing as far as I'm concerned, and I don't mean us (Messengers), Tommy covered that area nicely; 1- a whiteout floodlight on the end of Vienna(which was superb!) and, 2- the drum extravaganza to round things off. Sucker punches I know, but they work a treat with us punters.

Ultravox's cannon is not the easiest of material to attempt, but you did it justice in all departments.

Thanks again, and looking forward to the next one(after Greenock, that is).

P.S. It was very nice to see, Martin,Carol,E.G.Ekin,Pip and Sonja, sorry I had to bail out and catch the train.

Well I did my best to convince Sleepy to beatbox the drum extravaganza but not enough it seems...

Wow, can't wait to see the photos!! Did anyone record the gig (or does anyone record today's gig) on MD or HD?

Nils, as far as I know Ari recorded onto MD!

Glad it all went so well (knew it would!)

Ari, Paul.... great meeting you both! Let me know you got home ok!?

Don, Mike.... always a pleasure!

Hx

Hi folks

I can only concur with all that Danny has said above.

It was a great gig, a huge improvement over the 1st (Gourock) outing in all departments - and I was pretty impressed with that one! Thanks, guys.

As I write, the Greenock gig is due to kick off in just under 2 hours and I can't wait to do it all over again.

E.G. and Pip - it was nice to meet and talk with you.

Danny - a pleasure as always. Hope to see Colin next time.

Cheers
Martin

Congratulations, guys! Sounds like it's going brilliantly!!

Send any photos, recordings etc on over when you get back - we'll get it up in the Media Archive for everyone to see and hear (Sleepy, please tell me you looked up for the camera now and again this time! ).

We're all bloody knackered!!!

We all really loved it, one of the best weekends of me life that's for sure!

I for one was really very nervous, not having played in front of any kind of crowd for nearly fifteen years! You would think i had some sort of nervous disorder!

The Citrus gig was a total blast, couldnt hear me kybds half the time along with ML's vox, but i started to get into it a wee bit better after 4 or 5 numbers.

We'd like to thank the following peeps for making an extra special effort in coming to see us.

Ari Leppa...what a man he is, an absolute gem & such a talented photographer, cant wait to see the pictures matey

Roy Gwinn & Co...As usual great stuff, cheers pal

Paul Chaplow...Your a star pal & thanks for the Jack

Paul & Pip...Great meeting you's guys at long last! Cambridge is a goer as far as we're concerned, keep in touch, cheers guys

Daniel Mitchell...Thanks for your encouragement & inspiration & we're dead chuffed ye enjoyed yersel pal & NO we're supportin' you ok

The Monucrew fae sunny Glezga / Greenock...Martin, Stevie, Ade & Co...as always thanks for your support

Global Citizen...Richey & Co absolutley cracking stuff enjoyed the sets, my kinda stuff, your turn to put up with us now on your home patch dan in lundun mate...ow-rite!

Chris! You cannae half drink son!

All at Cult promotions Brian, Alan, Emma...thanks for making us welcome & looking after us on friday.

White 52...Here Tom...Calm doooon eh!!

All our families, mates etc cheers

Pics & some tracks that were recorded will be up here shortly...(Hopefully!)

A top gig for sure - I couldn't believe it was only the second official outing! Mike, Davy, Tom and especially Don - Thanks for a great weekend the hospitality was outstanding and it was great to meet you all. Sorry I missed the gig Saturday but had already made other plans. Until next time for sure.

Great to meet (or almost meet) Ari, Helen & Sam. Hope to see you all again soon.

Don - you're more than welcome to the Jack - try and sip it slowly eh?

Now I'm really looking forward to you crossing the wall and giving us Sassenachs a gig! Near here the Robin 2 in Bilston is well-known as a popular tribute-band venue.

Congratulations and all the best,
Adrian

What a great night!!!...

I won't even try to thank you all (and there really were quite a lot of you) for looking after us, but we thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The music, the interpretation, the vibe of the night and everything for the rest of the weekend in Edinburgh was just very special.

Look forward to seeing you all (perhaps even down south [but Oxford rather than Cambridge though Sleepy ]) very soon.

All the best,

EG
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Bloody fantastic!! What more can you say! They don't get any better than that! have left another posting elsewhere about the Citrus gig. Great to meet Ari,Mike,Don and Davie! Shall definitely let you know when I'll be through to the cathouse in Glasgow Davie! Don,hope you caught my reply in the other posting! But you're on for a few beers mate!

Just got home (in one piece)! Very tired, but have to say my trip to Edinburgh was absolutely treasure.
Never saw ultravox live but now I saw two cracking gigs and what I got - it was worth of every penny!! Thanks, guys! It was very nice to meet you all.

It was nice to drive with you Don through scottish landscape listening Ultravox and Blue Nile. As I said Blue Nile fitted perfectly for the moment we were driving to Greenock at sunset. I will remember the moment...

I have some cracking photos (350!!!), and yes even Don is looking camera this time. And I taped both gigs. Most of it In Citrus, soundengineer told me that he´ll turn the recording on. He didn´t. So I lost few tracks. Citrus (most of it ) I taped from the mixing desk, in Greenock I used microphone and got everything.
Even though it is recorded with microphone it is also very enjoyable to listen. Just listened it all through while flying back to Finland and I loved it - again

Global Citizen was very interesting too. Very. I liked them as well.

Give me few days, and you´ll get SOUND AND VISION!!! Okey?

ari

Ari, glad you made it home OK and hope all is well. Looking forward to the pictures and music, hopefully you can get Cerise to put it on the forum so I can download it from Jordan! Great to have met you, keep in touch. Paul.

Great stuff! I'll look forward to the pics and audio. Congrats guys - glad it sounds like you're coming darn sarf a bit in the future...

Excellent, thanks Ari - you're a star! We'll get 'em up in the archive as soon as you send 'em over.

Don, Mike, Davy - presumably you'd like to vet pics before they go up..?

Hi Everyone, Thanks to everyone who has posted their kind comments and good wishes. I can assure you all we has as good a time as you did (even though we had to play catch up in the beer department after we finished). The effort made by everyone who attended was appreciated greatly and i hope that your effort was rewarded with what you expected from us.

Cerise I can't comment for the rest of the guys (especially Sleepy) but i am happy for you to post any pictures of me here.

Ari/Paul It was a pleasure guys, lets hope we can hook up again sometime.

Well, back to work for now, see you soon,

Davy

Folks,
thanks to all who turned up, it was a blast...especially Ari and Paul for making the international effort. A pleasure to meet you both and, indeed everyone else...
Hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did and I for one look forward to getting out and doing it again.

Danny, thanks for your kind words and encouragement both here and on the night...

Cerise, post whatever you wish m'dear...I'm desperate to see what Ari's pictures look like. My wife took some pictures, but Don was looking down, Davy was looking (Chris) cross and I looked like Albert Steptoe (when I wasn't sucking my bottom lip)...AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRROLD!!!!

Oh, and we also recorded Friday night's sound in total...I have a recording which mixes the desk sound with two condenser mikes picking up the ambient sound (ie Front Of House sound)...The quality is good (in fact so good I didn't realise I'd made so many mistakes... ). I'm fairly busy this week, but I'll try to break it down into manageable chunks and maybe post some stuff on the site...

...and for those who missed my sideways dancing - here's a taster ->

Aye...We'll need ye tae calm dooon, ma wee nord nearly landed in oor Danny's lap wi the way ye were swinging that guitar o yers!!!

a quick note to add my thanks for a fantastic gig and it was great to meet everyone :-) but sorry there were still loads of people we didn't get to meet - well not while I was still able to focus, anyway... Don: I will be in touch about the Oxford prospect asap!
pip
xxx

Excellent gig, lots of improvement on the already very impressive first gig!

Really came togather very nicely, thoroughly enjoyable!
Lots of lovely phat burbley analogue synths, as good as it gets!

No way You just have to trust me...

Mike L , yaeh I heard you taped Citrus gig too. Good, then I´ll consentrate only Greenock one.

But when I send Cerise some photos (propably tomorrow, oops today, it´s already 3 am ), I´ll include few tracks from citrus as well. To make complete "attact". I mean you can watch images with autentic sound then. Is that ok?

Cheers, ari

Yup....

I'll send a couple from the Citrus as well...

Ach!...What the hell matey's, just about everyone on here has seen my ugly mug anyhow!

Ari...remember to send those pics tp you know who ok , or your life will not be worth living!

Looking forward to hearing the live recordings

Look in your inbox then....erm, with your ears....

Hurrah, 200 posts!

You guys sounded great...davy just sent me the mp3's...well done guys

Mike, are you going to be putting these Mp3's in the media archive? If not, any chance of mailing some to me?? Cheers Paul.

I've sent the three songs i've converted to MP3 to Cerise...
I can send them directly to you if you'd prefer..I dunno when Cerise will get the chance to upload them...

Mike, If you could send then to me please.

That would be great, thanks a lot. Paul

sent...

Mike L.....please sent those songs for me too, Please!

I am still at work. Just finished 38 cracking, exellent, beautiful, so ultravox -like photos. I made them enough small and will sent them to Cerise later today. I wish you all like them. I do.

And PLEASE folks - don´t ask me to sent these images separately to everyone , ´cause of huge work and cause you´ll end up choosing them/some (this means you "ultravox" - messengers), and it´ll continue forever and no-one will ever sees them Trust me.

When ever I have proper time, I´ll sent you, Monument, the same images as a very good laser copies A4 ( X 4). Plus CD which contains them in high-resolution. Patient.

Don....you can´t believe what waited me home....refills for Reason inc. Nord Lead & Jp6000? (the one Global C. used) Amazing, we were just talking about them. Okey, they are just ones and zeros, but better than nothing....Can´t beat the real HardWare thou

I already separated Greenock tracks. Gonna eq them a bit and clean some straches... (my MD wasn´t woking properly or some noises came from somewhere - I can fortunately clean most of them!!!)
Have to say, you were more relaxed in Greenock and played even better than in Citrus - methinks, after I have listened my recordings few time. You´ll hear the evidence....

Have to move on..... THE SONG WE GO!

Cheers, ari

P.S. Don, life is still going.... (you know what I mean) but fortunately boy is feeling much better...

Ari did you get my email hun...I think you know what I want

The three Citrus Club tracks from Mike are now up in the Media Archive:

http://www.ultravox.org.uk/cgi-bin/Image...Live_recordings

All photos from Ari (or anyone else, for that matter!) will be posted in the Archive too, as soon as we receive them.

Sounds GREAT, guys!!!

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Ari's FANTASTIC photos are up! Need to add captions (in progress, bear with me) but they're all there. Enjoy!

http://www.ultravox.org.uk/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Monument_-_t he_Tribute

Captions all done.

Only had a chance for a quick look this morning and a quick listen to Mine For Life.

Big thumbs up to both - look forward to a proper shufty tonight. Ari, Monument - well done.

Thanks Flip!

Sleepy - check out Citrus 5 - you even look like you're enjoying youself

Really, really good work, Ari!

Nice to meet you at the Greenock gig.

Cheers
Martin

As a modem user I have only listened to "Slow Motion" yet and looked at the smaller pics, but...

WOW!!! I can't wait to see and hear all the stuff. Will the other mp3s be online tomorrow evening? Because then I think I'll be able to download the files at a friend who has a fast connection.

The Slow Motion intro is absolutely superb. Don, You have created Your own "Billy"-sound on the Nordlead. I have never heard it sounding that way before (before I heard some of Your tracks), it's great!!!

Ari, Your pics really have something very special! I like the way You are working with shadows and lighting!

I saw the sheet with the playlist. First I wondered what "West and Alone" could be .

Ari - I'm not sure, that's all Mike has sent me so far. But if someone wants to wing some more over, I'll put 'em up!

I should get some time to transfer some more tonight....I'll send them tomorrow.
Ari, if you have any of the Greenock gig please don't hesitate to send them to Cerise or myself...
Oh, and your pictures are incredible...thanks, mate...

Davy, on Citrus 7...are you looking at my backside ?
On Citrus 14, there's a hint of Shrek there Davy boy....
On Greenock 21, what a reflection off the baldy spot Ari, must have taken ages to catch the right second. Cheers, mate...
On Greenock 7, my best Rigsby impersonation, ever..with apologies to our overseas friends who probably won't get the reference...

I look forward to all the tracks becoming available - be ideal listening for me mp3 player on the way to work...

Sleepy, why the - - icon dude?! I've only ever said nice things about Monument...

Greenock 7 - you missed a golden opportunity there...get a white cat in for "Vienna"....

(Rigsby? Vienna? The cat? No?...damn, where's the coat rack...)

I love Citrus 1 - the synchronised face pulling and hand movements...classic.

Ok Greenock 16... who wrote John Fox with 1 X? Come on, own up...

And finally (Esther)...can anyone confirm whether Don actually EVER looks up while he's playing?

Hi, it's me again... .

Mike, do You have a new Strat or is that Your red one, maybe sprayed grey to fit into a certain stagedesign/lighting? I've heard that some guitarists do this .

I really hope to get the chance to meet You one day!

Greetings
Nils

Yip, I can see Shrek in 14 mate, unfortunately!

on Citrus 1 it looks as if we are calling each other w*nk*rs and saying 'no, you are a winker......no, you are......"

Davy.

Couple o'Fannies mare like!

Couple o'Fannies, is that an Irish bar in Sauce land?

Davy.

Nils, its a gold coloured 50th anniversary Strat which my wife very kindly bought me for Christmas...

...and before anybody chips in - the Fender Stratocaster's 50th anniversary, not mine....