Hallowe'en: Procol Harum play Hoogeveen in three weeks' time
Added some nice clean screenshots from early Procol days (thanks, Sheila)
October 30:
Added the fourth page of the Wallace Collection of Procol / Australia photographs (thanks, Stephen)
Booking: Gary Brooker and Friends (Christmas Charity shows on his home territory)
October 29:
Added a second page of Procoler's pictures taken at St John's Smith Square in July 2007 (thanks, Matt)
October 28: One month until rare Procol film footage in London plus Dave Ball's Ballbreakers
Added the third page of the Wallace Collection of Procol / Australia photographs (thanks, Stephen)
October 27:
Added information about an upcoming concert by a celebrated Paler and ex-member of Procol Harum. The programme will include much unseen early Procol Harum film-footage (thanks, Henry)
Tickets for No Stiletto Shoes at Club Riga, Southend, on sale here (click for more about Gary Brooker and Friends' Charity Christmas concerts)
October 26:
Added a page of Procoler's pictures taken at St John's Smith Square in July 2007 (thanks, Matt)
October 25:
Added the fourth part of the BtP interview with Richard Brown which we conducted several years ago (thanks, Richard)
October 24:
Added the second page of the Wallace Collection of Procol / Australia photographs (thanks, Doc)
October 23:
Added a page of pictures from Procol Harum's 40th Birthday Celebrations (thanks, Axel)
October 22:
In July 2007 Stephen 'Doc' Wallace gave the BtP team a venerable photograph album containing some fascinating on- and offstage shots of Procol Harum in Australia in 1973. We have scanned these images and now make them available worldwide ... and here is the first instalment (thanks, Stephen)
October 21:
Added more pictures to Dave Knight's photo page
from July this year (thanks, Dave)
October 20:
Added
an eighth and final page of
Fortieth-Anniversary pictures
(thanks, Marvin)
Booking:
Gary Brooker
(Christmas);
PF Sloan + Procolers (21 October)
October 19: Happy Birthday Keith Reid (1946)
Added a page of
show pictures from
Treviso 2007 (thanks, Santo)
October 18:
Added a third page of photographs from Procol's 40th (thanks, U/F)
Don't forget to book also for PF Sloan's London gig on Sunday, where some of Procol will be playing ... and you never know whom you might bump into. LA's PF Sloan (website here) wrote The Eve of Destruction among many other songs ... one of which was recorded by The Paramounts, of course. More here.
October 17:
Added a booking page for Gary Brooker's Christmas charity gigs (thanks, Franky)
October 16:
Added a page of photographs,
in reverse chronological order, of Procol Harum in Sweden on 30 June
(thanks, Juliette and Axel)
October 15:
Added a seventh page of Fortieth-Anniversary pictures (thanks, Marvin)
Added a page about Fillmore East tiling (thanks, Larry)
October 14:
Added a second page of
photographs from Procol's 40th (thanks, Unsteady Freddie)
Added this link to alert Palers to PF Sloan's London gig in a week's time; PF is a close friend of Keith Reid's, and the Procol Harum rhythm-section will be accompanying him on this occasion ... Mssrs Dunn and Pegg. (thanks, Matt)
October 13:
Added a page of
pictures of guitar action during the
Palers' Band performance in London in July 2007, and some aftershow
celebrations with Procol Harum
(thanks,
Gary)
October 12:
Added
the third of three
fantastic pages about The Original Cat, after whom Procol Harum
was named: a brilliant investigation, and a BtP exclusive, that sets out to unravel whose cat
he really was,
what sort of cat he was, where he lived, with whom, and what happened to him: in
this episode, you complete the tally of Claude's residences, meet the
identically-named half-brothers, link to McGreggor, and confront the
ultimate unknowability of Procul Harun's fate
(many thanks, Marcus)
Your present from BtP: great tee-shirts at half-price during this birthday week only!
October 11:
Added a daring page that purports to reveal some arcane lore about one of Procol Harum's best-loved albums (thanks, John)
Your present from BtP: great tee-shirts at half-price during this birthday week only! Some sizes now almost sold-out: use the arrow-selector to find what's still available.
And as we enter our eleventh year of daily updates, our statistics show that BtP now consists of 5,001 webpages (each representing many printed pages of material) plus thousands of pictures.
October 10:
Added
the second of three
fantastic pages about The Original Cat, after whom Procol Harum
was named: a brilliant investigation, and a BtP exclusive, that sets out to unravel whose cat
he really was,
what sort of cat he was, where he lived, with whom, and what happened to him: in
this episode, you can click illustrations and print your own copy of the famous
feline birth-certificate (many thanks, Marcus)
Your present from BtP: great tee-shirts at half-price during this birthday week only!
October 9:
Added details of Gary Brooker's very
recent charity gig at Club Riga in Southend-on-Sea
(thanks, John)
Your present from BtP: great tee-shirts at half-price during this birthday week only!
October 8: 'Beyond the Pale' has been uploading pages
daily for ten years today
'Welcome to a forty year-old menagerie of fake cats, red herrings, wild goose
chases, and much barking up the wrong tree ...'
Added the first of three
fantastic pages about The Original Cat, after whom Procol Harum
was named: a brilliant investigation, and a BtP exclusive, that sets out to unravel whose cat
he really was,
what sort of cat he was, where he lived, with whom, and what happened to him –
what better way of celebrating ten years of daily
uploads about the band who made him the Most Famous Cat in Rock?
(many thanks, Marcus)
Your present from BtP:
great tee-shirts
at half-price during this birthday week only!
October 7:
Added a page of pictures from aftershow parties in July 2007, London (thanks, François)
Tomorrow will be the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the 'Beyond the Pale' daily update of Procol info. What will the team come up with by way of celebration? (Who is Pandora the Impostor? How are Hussein and Lady Sonia related to Claude?)
Coming very soon: the tenth birthday sale of tee-shirts – check out the available designs here, but don't buy them until the prices go down.
Robert Lukowski – please write to BtP from a different e-mail address ... your present address bounces.
October 6:
Added three images to various pages here, here, here, here and here (thanks, One-Eye)
Added a picture of Gary Brooker from 1992 here (thanks, Dietrich)
October 5:
Added a page – here – relating to yesterday's final day in the A Whiter Shade of Pale judgment appeal (thanks, Charlie)
Added an obituary about the 'nerve-racking' exploits of 'the eminence grise of the underground' including a Gary Brooker soundclip from July 2007 (thank you, Martin)
October 4:
Added several pages – here,
here,
here,
here and
here – relating to yesterday's
first day in the A Whiter Shade of Pale judgment appeal
(thanks, all)
October 3:
Added a page of
photographs from Procol's 1976 Warsaw
shows (thanks, Robert)
More Procol pictures of this vintage would be very
welcome: please
send by clicking here
Read about the rebirth of the Streetly Mellotron here
October 2: RIP Ronnie Hazlehurst
Added a page of pre-show pictures from Treviso 2007 (thanks, Santo)
October 1:
Added a sixth page of Fortieth-Anniversary pictures (thanks, Marvin)