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February 28: Eighty-seven days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Added a setlist from a tasty gig in 1995 (thanks, D)
Added another item, with associated graphic, to our early tour dates page (thanks, Dave)
More dates for this feature would be welcome please mail us
To avoid future bandwidth problems and without a glitch (to our knowledge), BtP has now moved to a new server. Over the last few days all traffic has gradually been moved to the new server. But our address is still the same: www.procolharum.com
February 27: One hundred and ten days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
'A lovely summer's afternoon at Crystal Palace Garden Party'
Added a nice illustrated article about Procol Harum heard across a lake in 1974 (thanks, Richard)
This piece is the first of a series on Procol Harum's mid-70s London concerts
February 26: Eighty-nine days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Added a setlist from 1973, containing at least one highly interesting item (thanks, Phil)
Added an adventurous advertisement, originally from Rolling Stone, for the 1973 A&M reissue of PH1967 (thanks, all)
Over six hundred persons world-wide have now signed up for 'Fresh Fruit', our occasional newsletter ... if you would like to do the same, please visit this page. You won't get a torrent of mail, just brief and useful updates when there is Procol news of interest, or when there are significant changes at 'Beyond the Pale'.
February 25: One hundred and twelve days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
' somebody was getting ready for clean up '
Added to our page of fans' opinions about the possible interpretations of the words of A Whiter Shade of Pale (thanks, Ben)
Thanks to Peter C in London for running the website over the weekend!
February 24: Ninety-one days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Added a compilation of contemporary not to say contradictory album reviews from Billboard down the years.
February 23: One hundred and fourteen days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
For a long time BtP has been looking for an ear-witness account of the very first Procol Harum orchestral concert. At last, here it is! (thanks, Gerry)
And you can also read more about this ground-breaking concert, and follow other links from our index to all Procol's orchestral outings
February 22: Ninety-three days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Added some good pictures of No Stiletto Shoes in action featuring no fewer than four Procolers and a songwriting-collaborator of Brooker's and Reid's have you read about Keith's other # 1 hit? (thanks, Diane, Michael)
February 21: One hundred and sixteen days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
'I burst into tears the first time I heard AWSoP '
Added a page about a Danish musician's esteem for A Whiter Shade of Pale from a programme which our Danish friends will be able to watch again on 21 February (thanks, Niels-Erik)
February 20: Ninety-five days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
'I would apportion the blame for this situation as follows '
Added another statement sent to BtP by Matthew Fisher regarding his first two solo albums as they were recently presented on the BGO CD (thanks, Matthew)
So do you like the Dickinson artwork for Procol Harum's Whoosh album, or do you prefer the one-foot-in-the-grave illustration that we have just added?
Incidentally there are exactly three (3) copies of the 'Not for Sale' Broken Barricades promo singles left now at the BtP shop (thanks, Gary)
February 19: One hundred and eighteen days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
Added another setlist, with a variant handwritten schedule retrieved from the stage (thanks, George)
We learn that tickets for Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK are selling very well the next person to tell us their ticket number will be the hundredth on our list at this page !
Many thanks to the BtP visitors who are still continuing to fund our work by ordering copies of the Official Double CD of the Palers' Band: click here for online orders for the 20-dollar album: listen before you buy to CD1 clips and CD2 clips. There's also Larry's excellent BtP benefit CD (thanks, all)
February 18: Ninety-seven days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Added a memoir of a Procol Harum Mayday concert in the presence of Abbie Hoffman inter alia sent in by one of the pioneers of Procol Harum websiting (thanks, John)
If you can add to the memoir above, or if you have concert memories of your own, please send them to us.
Added another, unexpectedly oriental, Homburg cover to our page of cover-versions (thanks, AS)
Added two illustrations to one of our intriguing Obie Clayton pages click the links at the foot of the page to read the whole sequence, if you haven't passed this way before (thanks, all)
Added two illustrations to our Matthew Fisher 'otherworks' page (thanks, all)
Please click on the banner above to vote for Gary in the 'Voices of the Century' poll.
February 17: One hundred and twenty days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
Added text and a little musical taster of the Portuguese Homburg (thanks, Nelson) do you prefer this re-wording, or the Portuguese Whiter Shade of Pale ?
February 16: Ninety-nine days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Have you booked your accommodation and tickets for the Palers' Party in Kristiansand ? We have good news for you: Procol Harum have promised us a signed t-shirt, to be won in a raffle between everybody present at the Palers' Party.
Added illustrations to our Isle-of-Wight pages here, here and here
Added some more names to the list of online fans have a look add yourself, if you like!
February 15: One hundred and twenty-two days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
Added the setlist for a famous New Testament gig in Paris, and a mysterious document in cod-German that will offer some tangential entertainment (thanks, Malène)
Added some nice praise to our page about the BtP benefit CD, which people who want to support the work of BtP are kindly buying online (thanks, all)
February 14: One hundred and one days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Do you play an instrument, and would you like to play with the Palers Band Kristiansand Edition? See here
"On the acoustic side there were Vernon Haddock's Jubilee Lovelies some pianist who played trumpet with his left hand, piano with his right "
Added an interesting contemporary reflection on the Southend scene that spawned The Paramounts (thanks, Charles)
February 13: One hundred and twenty four days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
'I thought it was about time I made a few things clear '
Added a statement sent to BtP by Matthew Fisher regarding his first two solo albums as they were recently presented on the BGO CD, which 'appears to be a sub-standard product' (thanks, Matthew)
Coming soon, an answer to this riddle
Can you think of a Gary Brooker
solo track that has the same name as a Procol Harum keyboardist? Clue:
not The Angler (thanks,
Sam)
February 12: One hundred and three days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Have you made your bookings for accommodation and Palers' Party in Kristiansand?
Added a very appreciative review of Matthew Fisher's first two solo albums as they recently appeared on the BGO CD (thanks, Joan)
February 11: One hundred and twenty-six days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
Added the next episode of the illuminating retrospective about Procol Harum, dealing with Broken Barricades (thanks, Phil)
We note that Keith Reid's book of song-words currently stands at # 818,747 in the Amazon USA sales-chart. Click here to order !
February 10: One hundred and five days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Bookings are coming all the time for accommodation and Palers' Party in Kristiansand. We still have many rooms available, but better safe than sorry.
Added a new article to the Procolpaedia, detailing the unreleased 1977 Bonzo Dog Band album that Barrie Wilson played on (thanks, Sam)
Other Procolers' sessions are listed here, and BJ's sessions here.
Don't forget to vote for Gary as 'Voice of the Century', incidentally: click on the banner above
Thanks to all who have bought the BtP benefit CD to help us pay our online charges etc and to those who still plan to!
February 9: One hundred and twenty-eight days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
Added some new information about 19823 Fandango songs on which Matthew Fisher plays organ (thanks, António)
Added some new information about 1978 Frankie Reid Band songs on which Matthew Fisher plays piano (thanks, Joan)
February 8: One hundred and seven days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
We are happy to announce the Base Camp hotel for the Kristiansand concert: Quality Kristiansand Hotel only 100 yards from the concert venue booking details and our special price here.
And we also invite you all to the Palers' Party in Kristiansand: all details here.
Base Camp hotel for Manchester, and a Palers' Convention, will be announced as soon as the details have been fully sorted out.
February 7: One hundred and thirty days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
'When I'm sixteen, they're still virgins, leaving for the coast'
Added a highly unusual AWSoP link (for cultural historians only), being a log of messages from Day 49 of viewers of the US version of the Big Brother show. Let the whole page load, then search for 'lighter shade of pale'. Persons of a prudish disposition should skip to the next item ('thanks', Sam)
Added 'a lighter shade of pink' to this ever-expanding page: search for 'queerness'. Persons of a prudish disposition should skip to the next item (thanks, Sam)
Corrected a tiny spelling-error here (thank you, Martin)
Added another BBC chart-placement for AWSoP in yet another retrospective (thanks, Sam) see here also what a difference a year makes
Don't forget to vote for Gary as 'Voice of the Century', incidentally: click on the banner above
February 6: One hundred and nine days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Added the lineup for the 2001 Procol dates just announced by Gary's office (thanks, Diane)
Added another item to the BtP shop an excellent and generous new idea from a BtP fan, intended by him to help us pay our online charges, site-rental, bandwidth tariff and so forth. (Many thanks, Larry)
Do please check it out, and listen to the sound-clips before placing your online order (in dollars).
If there are other artists out there who would like to contribute to the website in the same way, please send us a message!
Don't book your accommodation
yet
BtP is making good headway with plans for Palers' Conventions in
Norway and in the UK this summer, hoping to organise an all-in package
including a good communal hotel. Keep watching BtP for details
and do
let us know (no commitment) if you would like to be there at Kristiansand
(May) and / or Manchester (June).
February 5: One hundred and thirty-two days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
Added some more Guildford pictures from the Millennium concert last year (thanks, Paul)
Added news of 'The best video clip of AWSoP' to our Procol-on-the-soundtrack page (look for 'black cat') (thanks, Niels-Erik)
Added a CD scan and the track-listing (including bonus tracks) for the new Repertoire CD re-release of Grand Hotel
February 4: One hundred and eleven days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Added considerably to our page about recent legitimate video releases of Procol Harum's German video shows [listed here] all may be ordered from this page, which has numerous other good links to follow [such as this one!], and which now features two notes about mistaken reviews of the Best of Musikladen DVD that have lately appeared (thanks, Chris and Joan)
More Procol voting !
BBC Radio 2 is holding a poll to find 'the voice of the century'. If
you would like to vote for Gary Brooker, click right
here. A good showing in this poll, added to all the recent Procol
publicity, would continue to raise the band's profile, and bring people
in to this year's gigs. (thanks, Carrie)
And you can bid in an online auction for a Procol Harum album you've never heard of before (thanks, Beverly)
February 3: One hundred and thirty-four days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
Procol in Sweden 1967: added The Daily News's underwhelmed responses ... 'One would like to hear the original melodies being played by other, more skilful musicians.' (thanks, Jonas)
Added a CD scan and the track-listing (including bonus tracks) for the new Repertoire CD re-release Something Magic
Added details about the winner of the annual Nordic Council Literary Prize ... click here to find out what this has to do with Brooker and Reid (thanks, Niels-Erik)
Many thanks to everyone who visited the BtP shop and bought the psychedelic full-colour Procol-gig posters from 1969 now sold out. Still worth visiting the shop, though! Some more merchandise will appear there imminently.
February 2: One hundred and thirteen days until Procol Harum play band-only in Kristiansand, Norway
Added some news about new Procol Harum material to be heard in concert this year (thanks, Gary)
You recall this masterful article about
AWSoP and a Norwegian literary link, and this one about AWSoP
in a Norwegian novel
we have now added a piece now about AWSoP
in a Danish novel (thanks,
Niels-Erik)
And you may read a story ('Brooker's voice the very timbre of promise ') featuring a Procol Harum gig by clicking here (thanks, Sam)
Added a couple of new Italian items, Il Cento Passi and Denti, to our Procol on the sound-track page both films cope with the everlasting Mafia theme: this time the rebellion against the mobsters is the issue here (thanks, Niels-Erik)
February 1: One hundred and thirty-six days until Procol Harum and the Hallé Orchestra play Manchester UK
BtP had a record-breaking 132,247 page-views in January, a 10% increase from December, when our previous record was made. So now you know why we had to increase our monthly bandwidth-allowance. Keep coming back: we'd love to have to increase the bandwidth even more :-)
Added a page detailing numerous Procol Harum US gigs in the earliest days (thanks, Dave)
BtP would very much like to be able to add to this list so please mail us if you have a note of other dates that could be used to fill in the schedule
Though nothing shows
yet BtP is making good headway with plans for Palers' Conventions
in Norway and in the UK this summer. Keep watching BtP for details
and
do let us know (no commitment) if you would like to be there at Kristiansand
(May) and / or Manchester (June).
Read what was new on this website in previous months
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