'Beyond the Pale' have many people to thank for the great success of our Croydon celebrations.
Paramount among them are Procol Harum themselves for a musically tremendous evening (with some classic hilarious patter from the Commander!)
Not to be forgotten are the Palers, Whalers, e-mailers and fellow-sailors who convened from nineteen different lands [Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA] to socialise and celebrate.
Particular thanks must go to:
Dave Ball for supplying a CD raffle-prize of his brand-new front-room song demos
Gary Barnes and all his staff at the Fairfield Halls for making us very welcome and running things so smoothly
Hermann Braunschmidt for supplying a feast of video materials (thanks, Michel, also), and the Barbican performance photographs, and contributing the largest raffle-prize!
Gary Brooker, Matt Pegg, Matthew Fisher, Geoff Whitehorn and Mark Brzezicki for their gracious and amusing responses to the vote of thanks … and for the catalogue of Mark's innumerable automobiles
Peter Christian for manning the door, driving, and helping out in general
Chris Cooke, from Strongman, for creative solutions
Lou Fowkes, Procol's publicist, for liaison and crowd control!
John Grayson and Christine Ayre, and Emily, for supplying the Shine On merchandise at such nice prices
Chris Groom and Julia for the 'Local Procol' exhibition of Croydon Harum links (and for donating a raffle-prize)
Andy Keith-Smith from BEAST tee-shirts in Bristol for the 'One More Toast' fan-ware
Malène Lemoine, for manning (person-ing ?) the stall and helping out in general … ooh-la-la!
Thomas Raa Olsen, for all the space in his car
John Pearce, of Ken Pearce badges in Bristol, for the loan of the Universal Bodging Machine
Keith Reid, for permission to quote his Procol words on the raffle-badges
Diane Rolph and Mark Lundquist for making the gig happen
Greg Smith, from Australia on his maiden Procol gig, for a stirring vote of thanks to Procol Harum (Greg is pictured right, by Peter Christian)
Daniel and Henrik Söderström for their great help with the Keith Reid lyric-badge raffle
Jonas Söderström for the Copenhagen 2001 photo-exhibition
Frans Steensma for introducing the 1967 Bilzen footage, and for simultaneous translation
Pam and Richard, Barrie Wilson's sister and brother, for selecting raffle prizes