Firstly, very well done to (Stella and Jasmine) the ‘Happy Days’ Team, with their charitable efforts (link below):
www.steveharley.com/forum/6-general-disc...-cancer-charity.html
Secondly, thanks to Jeff68 for an excellent review of Steve & The Acoustic Band’s 26th instant gig (link below):
www.steveharley.com/forum/6-general-disc...za-express-live.html
Thirdly, kind of linked to Michael’s thread (link below):
www.steveharley.com/forum/6-general-disc...ve-harley-pages.html
[I’ve now finished my current health sciences module commitment (and my ‘other matter’ is comfortably progressing)]
On 23rd May 2023, we saw and heard Spark’s opening gig of their current World Tour. Sasha booked it for us quite some time ago, and it was fantastic – Oxford’s New Theatre was packed. The music was great, the delivery sensational and the Mael brothers, both in their seventies, like Steve, Stuart, Bryan (Ferry), Andy (Mackay), Paul (Thompson), Phil (Manzanera), Tim (Finn), Noel (Crombie), Eddie (Rayner), Malcolm (Green) and Nigel (Griggs), were powerful!
We saw/heard Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel at the same venue in 1997 (Sash was with me then though I have a feeling I may have seen/heard Steve et al twice that year, that second time, alone…).
ANYWAY, may I make a suggestion to Steve & Cockney Rebel, to keep this (New Theatre, Oxford) venue in mind for a return, sometime in the next couple of years? The FULL band. It has to include Stuart Elliott (I feel), co-founder of COCKNEY REBEL. I can’t see it being any less triumphant than Cheltenham, 19/12/22 (link below), if it happened:
www.steveharley.com/forum/6-general-disc...t-at-cheltenham.html
THE TIME, feels right. The review of Liverpool’s recent gig (local press) for Steve & The Acoustic Band covered this point – the fans that grew up in the 60’s and 70’s want to see and hear more. Google it. That reviewer was right, I think. Either way (Steve), I know you’ll go your own way. (As your friend, Marc, might have said, had he still been here), Right on man!
