Level 42 Digest for Friday, July 14, 2006

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Philip Gould has officially retired"

No, I don't really think that's true. I, too, have been frequently checking Phil's website and have come across this same thing. I really believe that Phil would be gentlemen enough to at least let us all know, in his own way, that he will no longer maintain a website, similar to how his brother, Boon, signed off. So I'm remaining optimistic. Let's all hope that, perhaps in the near future, he will surprise us and bring back his site with all the great music and info that has been promised from so long ago.

I also think if he knew how many of us are REALLY WAITING to hear anything from him, he would do what he could to get back in touch. Many on the digest have shared their experiences meeting with him, and their reports have been how very willing Phil is to speak with them. In fact, wasn't it posted on the other digest how, when Phil was recently in Milan with Mike Lindup, it was stated on "how glad he was that someone wanted to talk to him"? I know how my experience meeting him was like he was my old friend, because he made the first move to come over to me and speak with me and the company I was with.

So no, I don't think that he would just up and leave just like that. I,m going to keep my fingers crossed.

p.s. Hey Phil, if you read this, I would love to talk with you...and I'm sure there are so many others who would love to do the same.

Deedee

1. Isn't it ironic...
From:	mikethepom <mikethepom @ yahoo.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:23:56 -0700 (PDT)	[top]
AG wrote: "It's been five years so I can probably cope with a bit of nostalgia again." Mate, last time I saw them was in Brighton on the RITF tour, right before I migrated to Australia. Not much chance of me seeing them now. Go see 'em, AG! AG also wrote: "On the con side...Mike Lindup's dancing." I had nightmares for weeks after witnessing that. At one gig, may have been Worthing, he jumped on my hand as he did that bloody monkey dabce thing of his. When I was in the UK a few weeks ago I heard a new track from a girl called Adelle (sp?), a beautiful acoustic song that stopped me in my tracks. The Radio One DJ kept saying it was a first play and remember where you heard it first, all that sort of cobblers. Ring any bells with anyone? What were the most recent CDs I bought? (he asked himself): A Treasury by Nick Drake - nice, songs from his 3 albums; Jagged Little Pill Acoustic by Alanis - I like it, even though I can't believe she re-recorded a song called Ironic that contains absolutely no irony whatsoever. Maybe that's the irony. Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed. And Musicology by Prince - man that is one funky shortarse. And I've rediscovered The Very Best Of Crowded House. Mmmm... Love ~ Mike (Sydney City Milkman) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

2. The Digests...
From:	Daniel James <djames @ speakeasy.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:47:51 -0700	[top]
> almost as annoyed as i was when i took a break from the digest > several years ago, only to find that the day before i began reading > again, you'd all been through portsmouth to the isle of wight to see > mark at joe daflo's. i was living in portsmouth at the time!!! that > really made me mad for several months afterwards...in fact, now that i > start to think about it again...!!! Ah yes, I remember you now, welcome back to the fold! I was fortunate enough to be one of those partying at Joe DaFlo’s and in Portsmouth at the Raytheon. Hell of an amazing trip; oh don’t we all miss those days! Keep an eye out though, with the new album out soon, a lot of people are planning trips over for the gigs in October. Sadly I won’t likely be one of them as I’m meant to be in Shanghai right around the end of the tour, and I’m gutted. I’ve seen Mark and I’ve seen Mike, but I’ve not seen them together. Not that I didn’t think Lyndon was great, just that this is a huge step closer to the original band :) Anyway, I’m sure there will be mention here closer to the day. There have also been some musings on the Web Digest about gatherings under the Levelfests section. ...And I can make a shameless plug of my own, the Web Digest is indeed alive and well and is about to go through a major upgrade. We went through a major speed improvement last year after moving the server from my home to a proper hosting company (netted about a 1000% improvement between clicks), and we’ve just purchased new forum software that will provide some great new features (not the least of which being RSS feeds) and will absolutely give us another huge boost in speed as well. </shamelessplug>

3. Re: What happened to www.philgould.com
From:	Nick Lauro <thedrumdoctor @ nlauro.f9.co.uk>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:30:12 +0100	[top]
>Not true! Lisa Harding did those sites, www.seanfreeman.com, >www.lyndonjconnah.com and www.nathan-king.com as well. But she let it >just lapse... >So Phil didn't retire at all, else Nathan, Sean and Lyndon did as well. I beg to differ. Lyndon, Sean and Nathan all still play gigs. Phil Gould doesn't, or else this digest would be flooded with drummers shouting about it. Phil Gould's website has never been updated from the general content that went on it at its inception. I kept checking back periodically and nothing changed - except for my recent check. It's gone.......... Before a Domain name expires, the registrant gets lots of emails warning about its expiry at least 90 days before expiry. Now it's parked selling advertising space until the highest bidder wants to buy philgould.com. But what's the point in Lisa Harding buying it back when there hasn't been any activity from the sites subject matter for...................how long? As far as I'm concerned, Philip Gould has retired and it's a shocking waste. Even if he never played with L42 again, it's a criminal, shocking waste not to have him out there doing something.

4. Philgould.com
From:	fan562 @ comcast.net (Deedee Young) <fan562 @ comcast.net (Deedee Young)>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:06:09 +0000	[top]
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Philip Gould has officially retired" No, I don't really think that's true. I, too, have been frequently checking Phil's website and have come across this same thing. I really believe that Phil would be gentlemen enough to at least let us all know, in his own way, that he will no longer maintain a website, similar to how his brother, Boon, signed off. So I'm remaining optimistic. Let's all hope that, perhaps in the near future, he will surprise us and bring back his site with all the great music and info that has been promised from so long ago. I also think if he knew how many of us are REALLY WAITING to hear anything from him, he would do what he could to get back in touch. Many on the digest have shared their experiences meeting with him, and their reports have been how very willing Phil is to speak with them. In fact, wasn't it posted on the other digest how, when Phil was recently in Milan with Mike Lindup, it was stated on "how glad he was that someone wanted to talk to him"? I know how my experience meeting him was like he was my old friend, because he made the first move to come over to me and speak with me and the company I was with. So no, I don't think that he would just up and leave just like that. I,m going to keep my fingers crossed. p.s. Hey Phil, if you read this, I would love to talk with you...and I'm sure there are so many others who would love to do the same. Deedee

5. KOH??
From:	Chris Lawless <chrisjlawless @ yahoo.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:23:02 -0700 (PDT)	[top]
alex.friesen @ sickkids.ca <alex.friesen @ sickkids.ca> wrote: >>As far as playing the medley of KOH, it would be foolish of them not to. << King of Hearts? The Juice Newton song? Chris L. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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