What was new at 'Beyond the Pale'

August 2000

August 31: Seventeen days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added Part I of Sam Cameron's ingenious 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

Added a final useful page, the complete 1977 Procol tour schedule (thanks, Barry)

August 30: Eighteen days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added Part H of Sam Cameron's hilarious 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

OK then … who recorded the obscure Brooker / Reid song, Harlequin? The answer you're not expecting is here, all sorts of speculations about 'Harlequin' Guy Stevens are here, and you can re-read Indiscreet Harlequin here (thanks, Jonny)

August 29: Nineteen days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added Part G of Sam Cameron's glorious 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

'Whether we like it or not, Matthew is a part of our DNA as well as some other singers not given the proper publicity or hype by their record companies.'

Added an astonishing page about the airplay charts for no fewer than five Matthew Fisher singles … plus some contacts for Fisherphiles to pursue further research (thanks, Terry)

August 28: A paltry twenty days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added Part F of Sam Cameron's far-sighted 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

By way of a foretaste of the music we'll be hearing very soon at Guildford, added some rare pictures of Procol Harum in action with symphony orchestra in Switzerland, 1972 (thanks, Andreas)

August 27: Twenty-one days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added Part E of Sam Cameron's excellent 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

Added a further crucial page, the 1975 Procol tour schedule (thanks, Barry)

Added some more Finnish Procol / Brooker cover versions including the first Old Manhattan Melodies we've heard of (thanks, Asko)

August 26: Twenty-two days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added Part D of Sam Cameron's definitive 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

Added some illustrations and a youthful reminiscence about some 1975 Danish concerts (thanks, Bøje)

August 25: Twenty-three days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added Part C of Sam Cameron's charming 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

Added another page of Keith Reid song-words … showing the extent to which they overlap with another, differently-named, song by same author!

August 24: Twenty-four days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added Part B of Sam Cameron's brilliant 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

Added another key page, featuring much of the 1974 Procol tour schedule (thanks, Barry)

Added an illustration to this review (thanks, Bert)

Added a link to Funky Paul's new website. See his Robin Trower album designs, and read his entertaining "bio" with snippets from his socialising with Gary Brooker and Keith Reid.

Important, about Guildford bookings: we now only have about twenty tickets available for the Palers' Convention, so if you plan to come you should book now. The remaining tickets (if there are any) will be released to "the open market" in the first few days of September.

If you need a room at "Base Camp" Hotel Jarvis, we currently have 3 twin bed rooms and 4 single rooms available. More than 50 Palers have now booked for Jarvis, so this will be a great weekend! Please book now if you need a room.

Both webmasters are away, so you can not expect confirmation of your bookings until we come back. Be assured that rooms at Jarvis and tickets for the Palers' Convention will be allotted in the order in which they are submitted to BtP.

August 23: Twenty-five days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a page of Keith Reid song-words … showing the extent to which they overlap with another, differently-named song by same author!

Added a neat little note containing a neat little fact about the choice of AWSoP for The Tenth Kingdom (thanks, Cathy)

Added Part A of Sam Cameron's admirable 'Procolpaedia' ... more to follow tomorrow (thanks, Sam)

August 22: Twenty-six days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Finally added the words of Fat Cats (thanks, Phil)

Added some more putative band-names for the Procol Convention in Guildford on Saturday 16 September (thanks, Dave and Michael and Hurt)

If you are joining us at the Palers' Convention and Live Music (full details are here) please send us a quick e-mail now reserving your place. Please also telephone your offline fellow-fans about this. Places are limited and we want to ensure that all hardcore Palers have their places booked before the Convention is thrown open to the public.

August 21: Twenty-seven days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added the set-list for a good, long Nordic concert in 1974 (thanks, Sam)

A note to visitors to Guildford: on Sunday we mailed out confirmations to all who have booked rooms at Hotel Jarvis through BtP. Please read the confirmation carefully and make sure we've got it right. If not, let us know. Also please confirm that the reservation is according to your wishes. We need to make sure everything is right, as the hotel will soon be completely filled up, leaving little room for adjustment of errors. If you did not get a Jarvis Hotel confirmation from BtP today, and think you should have done: let us know at once, as there might be something wrong.

August 20: Twenty-eight days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a picture advert promoting Procol Harum's first New York City gig (thanks, Beverly)

Added just the thing you need when you can't decide what Procol music to listen to (thanks, Dilys)

August 19: Twenty-nine days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a diverting list of proposed names for the Palers' Band that will gather to while away the night before the real Millennium Concert

Added details of the new Gary Brooker / Procol Harum 'Whaling Stories' sew-on patch … which will be available at a discount price at the Palers' Convention and Live Music (full details are here) in Guildford on Saturday 16 September. Please send us a very quick e-mail now to help us with forward planning. We need to be able to judge numbers of Palers attending and to make sure everyone here gets a place before it's open to the public.

If you aren't able to come to the Palers' Convention, why not send a message to those who do gather, and Sam Cameron will read it out! (thanks, Sam)

August 18: A mere thirty days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a vital page, the complete 1973 Procol tour schedule (thanks, Barry)

A little update on Jarvis bookings: We now have 2 twin rooms and 7 single rooms available (thanks to all those of you that have volunteered to move around within the hotel to make more twin rooms available). So if you plan to be there, you should not hesitate to make your bookings here.

And to all those that have already booked your rooms: we hope we have everything sorted out right. But to make sure, we will send out a confirmation within the next few days. Please look carefully at it, and confirm that we got it right. We will also post on this page when the confirmations are sent. If you haven't got it by then you need to contact us, as something may be wrong. We feel confident that Jarvis Hotel will be occupied by Procol Harum fans only during the weekend. You can't beat that for company …

Coming soon … a new feature from Sam Cameron in 26 instalments …

August 17: Thirty-one days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert : Harumka came through the operation … now eating fish.

Added an illustrated account of Procol Harum at Atlantic City (thanks, HC)

Added some pictures of 'a Procoholic Orgy' a while back (thanks, Bøje) … these are not to be confused with the coming Palers' Convention and Live Music (full details are here) in Guildford on Saturday 16 September. Please send us a very quick e-mail now to help us with forward planning. We need to be able to judge numbers of Palers attending.

August 16: Thirty-two days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert. Best wishes to Harumka in Poland, for today's operation.

Added the Procol Harum entry from the 'NME' Book of Rock (thanks, Sam)

The list of Palers coming to Procol Harum's Millennium Concert is now 96 persons long. with people from 13 countries and 12 states in USA. If you plan to go to Guildford you could be no 100: add yourself to the list here.

If you are joining us at the Palers' Convention and Live Music (full details are here) in Guildford on Saturday 16 September, please send us a very quick e-mail now reserving your place (and saving two pounds a head) so we know how much food to supply.

You may also still be able to book your accommodation at Hotel Jarvis, our base camp hotel for the weekend: it's conveniently situated just 30 yards from the Civic Hall, where the Palers' Convention and Live Music will be held.

August 15: Thirty-three days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a fragment of a report, with some pictures of Gary and Matthew ('he does look awfully young … next to Grandpa Gary') about PH playing Pennsylvania 950724 … the whole story is here (thanks Mike, thanks Beverly)

August 14: Thirty-four days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a setlist from 1971, Missouri (thanks, Tom)

August 13: Thirty-five days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a piece in which AWSoP enigmatically fails to helps Europe celebrate Bach (thanks, Wilfried)

Added an illustration to the Matthew Fisher 'other-works' page (thanks, Beverly)

Revised our account of The Tenth Kingdom (thanks, Joan)

Added another item to our AWSoP covers page (search for 'Grateful Dead') (thanks, Snake)

August 12: Thirty-six days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert … (Congratulations, C + J!)

If you were at Shepherds Bush in 1995, exactly five years ago today, you will already know the voice of genius behind tonight's BtP addition, a vivid chronicle of hysteria before, during and after a Procol Harum concert, that can only lead us to wonder what similar episodes await us all in the build-up to Guildford 2000 … and there's still an instalment of this article to come in as well … (thanks, George)

August 11: Thirty-seven days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert (Wedding congrats to Kellogs and Anne!)

Added a setlist from Town Hall, NYC in 1991 (thanks, Michael)

If you aren't able to come to the Palers' Convention, why not send a message to those who do gather, and Sam Cameron will read it out! (thanks, Sam)

August 10: Thirty-eight days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a page that catalogues the enviable numbers of Procol shows experienced in Denmark over the years (thanks, Niels-Erik)

Welcomed two Palers from Thailand on to our Online Fans' List … and added a link to a Thai music trading website

August 9: Thirty-nine days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

You are invited … 'Beyond the Pale' is happy to invite you, your friends and Procol Harum fans from all over the world to the Palers' Convention and Live Music 2000

Sign up quick … full details are here!

August 8: Only forty days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

' ... a welcome whiff of eccentric show business ...'

Added a sympathetic review of Procol's 1995 London concert (thanks, Mirek)

August 7: Forty-one days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

We now have a confirmed booking of an additional 15 rooms at Hotel Jarvis in Guildford for the weekend of Procol Harum's Millennium Concert. Another major group booking (not Procol Harum-related) was cancelled. If these additional rooms get sold (and they probably will - the first 25 rooms were booked within two weeks), Hotel Jarvis will be filled from wall-to-roof with joyful Procol Harum fans …book yourself a room by mailing us.

Further details about the Palers' Convention (Saturday 16 September) will probably be published here at BtP within a few days.

Added a setlist from the Electric Ladyland Radio Concert in 1991 (thanks, Michael)

Added a note from Charlie Rich Jr (thanks!)

August 6: A mere six weeks until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert and forty-one days until The Palers' Convention

Added a brief memo about a reassuring encounter with AWSoP in Java, and about the extent of Procol fame in the Netherlands at present (thanks, Wilfried)

Added a changed Be Sharp link to our page about Prodigal Jerry Stevenson (thanks, Jan)

Sorted out a geographical blunder in our page introducing the recent offical bootleg featuring GB (thanks, Per)

Would you like a Personalised Procol e-mail account, such as your-name@procolharum.com? Get further information and indicate your interest by clicking here

August 5: Forty-three days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a setlist from NY, 1971 (thanks, Karl)

Added a graphic to our page about Gary Brooker's World Wildlife record (thanks, Beverly)

Will you be at the Millennium Concert? The list of Palers coming is still growing. Who will be # 100?

August 4: Forty-four days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a mysteriously-compiled compilation … (thanks, Beverly)

And wonderful news for all wishing to go to Guildford. While it seemed that all rooms has already been booked at Jarvis, it now looks as though we can have even more rooms owing to cancellations from another party (not Procol Harum fans). We hope to have more on this soon. 25 rooms at Jarvis already booked by Palers. Will it be 40?

August 3: Forty-five days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added a brief obituary for Procol's one-time bass-player, Dee Murray (thanks, Beverly)

Added three more great shots to our page of pictures of PH at Hofstra, 1977 (thanks, Carol)

Also, we would like to remind you of the little link always placed over the title of this page: This Day in Rock
Make it a habit to have a look for some minutes of great enlightment and entertainment. Turning Back The Pages will tell you what happened in earlier years of rock, courtesy of Arrow 93 FM. Also check out This Day in Rock as provided by Rolling Stone. You may even follow the links provided to more contemporary music news provided by Rolling Stone Magazine and CD-Now. Enjoy!

August 2: Forty-six days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

Added two pages that were accidentally left out from last night's Shine Online update … 'Beyond my Pale' and some wedding news

Added a birthdate here (thanks, Dave P)

Millennium Concert : Palers' Convention … if you are corresponding with Roland about this please note that he will be back in Bristol on Saturday night. If you are corresponding with Jens, normal service continues …

August 1: Forty-seven days until Procol Harum's Millennium Concert

'I was asked to play on Procol Harum's record before they re-formed to make The Worm In the Oak …I was supposed to be the worm.'

Please re-read this enigmatic page, now enriched with an illustration (thanks, Beverly)

Added praise for BJ Wilson from another fine drummer (thanks, Joan)

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