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What was new at 'Beyond the Pale'

June 2008


June 30:

Added a Swedish news article (which we've been sitting on for quite a while) including some interesting information about The Keith Reid Project (thanks, Gunnar)


June 29:

Added a page of photographs from Gary Brooker's Band du Lac gig at Highclere Castle in 2006 (thanks, One-Eye)

The hits (including AWHoP) just keep on coming here (thanks, Scut)

 


June 28: Happy birthday Dave Knights (1945)

Added a third and final page of new pictures from the famous Procol Bloomsbury gig in March 2005 (thanks, John)

Last few days: order your Procol Rarum tee-shirt at 10 USD • while stocks remain, or until the end of the month

All the Rarum shirts ordered in the last few days are now in the mail: thanks, everyone.

Also about to run out: Procol Harum 40th badges ... just six remaining.

June 27:

Added two more Fillmore graphics to this page, and a New York State Pavilion gig too (thanks, Steven)


June 26:

Added another image of Procol fans getting together outside the context of the band's performances (thanks, Bert)

Added three graphics and a beach festival gig for Procol Harum to this page (thanks, Scut)


June 25:

Added another brief story of Procol fans getting together outside the context of the band's performances (thanks, Freddie)

Not too late to book for Stephen 'Doc' Wallace's talk (5 July): 'Affording Procolisation: explaining innovation through displaced networks of social-material agency' for the British Society for the History of Science.


June 24:

Added a second page of new pictures from the famous Procol Bloomsbury gig in March 2005 (thanks, John)


June 23:

Added a page of tour pictures sent in to BtP by Procol Harum's organist (thanks, Josh) including a surprising Doppelgänger image


June 22: Happy birthday Bobby Harrison (1939)

'We don't usually talk between songs ...'

Added a Homburg entry to this interesting page (thanks, Isaac)

Added the single word 'Mellotron' to this interesting page (thanks, Matthew)


June 21: Happy Birthday Mark Brzezicki (1957)

Added a first page of new pictures from the famous Procol Bloomsbury gig in March 2005 (thanks, John)

Celebrate Midsummer in London today by visiting this brief retrospective from Procol Harum's 1960s' photographer (thanks, Rob)

Enjoy all the fans' comments at Wolfgang's Vault, where the Procol Harum Hollywood Bowl Orchestral concert is yours to listen to.


June 20:

Added a performance image to this page (thanks, Søren)

Added a useful snippet about the credits for In Held
(thanks, John)


June 19:

Added a photograph of Procol Harum's organist to the foot of this page (thanks, Josh)


June 18:

Added a fifth and last page of pictures from Procol Harum at Bloomsbury in 2005 (thanks, Martin)

BtP has just received new stock of Geoff Whitehorn's solo CDs ... thanks to everyone who's been waiting for these: they'll be in the mail very soon


June 17:

'Oh, I'm also doing another solo album ...'

Added an illustrated page about Geoff Whitehorn's signature guitar (thanks, Geoff)


June 16:

 Added a very recent setlist from Denmark's Procol Harum Project (thanks, Søren)

Catch them next on 5 August: see here


June 15:

Added a page devoted to incompetent composer-attributions for A Whiter Shade of Pale (thanks, both)


June 14:

' ... and all of these dreams that bind us together are just pieces of that common thread ... '

 A BtP exclusive – added the first news of Keith Reid's 2008 solo CD, The Common Thread

Reorganised Keith Reid's page at BtP and added an excellent, hitherto-unseen portrait of the wordsmith (thanks, Keith)


June 13:

Added another page of pictures from Procol Harum at Bloomsbury in 2005 (thanks, Martin)

Added a short note about Keith Reid's 1980s hit song ... search for 'Greenpeace' (thanks, Keith)


June 12:

Added another page of pictures from Procol Harum at Bloomsbury in 2005 (thanks, Martin)

Remember the set from this brilliant concert from the six-man Harum?


June 11:

Added a page containing some background about Procol Harum's current manager (thanks, Chris)


June 10:

Gary Brooker played a guest spot at the weekend with Albert Lee and Hogan’s Heroes, at what was probably the final gig at the Chiddingfold Club. GB played A Whiter Shade of Pale and Goodnight Irene (with changed lyrics in one verse to lament the closing of the music club at Chiddingfold) (thanks, Mark)

As on 27 March, Gary Brooker will play with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings again at the Cahors Blues Festival in July.

'... masters past caring for fame gather for the bliss of one another's company ...'

Added an interesting 2001 article touching on Gary Brooker's role in the all-star bands of Ringo Starr and of Bill Wyman (thanks, Geoff) 


June 9:

Added a setlist from 38 years ago (thanks, Isaac)

'Fire Starter by The Prodigy is a great record ...'

Added a link to Keith Reid's recent comments – brokered by BtP – about poetry and song (thanks, Jeff). We also put the website in touch with Chris Difford

 


June 8:

Added the eighth and final page of a photographic record of the Brookers' charity gigs in Chiddingfold, Surrey, last Christmas  

June 7

Added the seventh page of a photographic record of the Brookers' charity gigs in Chiddingfold, Surrey, last Christmas  


June 6:

Added a sparkling new Procol Harum calendar for June (thanks, Victor and Sergey)  

Trower fans: listen to the new Opeth album, Watershed, for a cover of Bridge of Sighs. And here's another. (thank you, Martin)


June 5:

Added a fourth and final page of photographic impressions from Procol Harum's recent concert at Hoorn (thanks, One-Eye) 

June 4:

Added the sixth page of a photographic record of the Brookers' charity gigs in Chiddingfold, Surrey, last Christmas  

June 3:

Added a second page of pictures from the Paramounts' reunion concert in 2005 – thanks Axel – and again remember you can own this show on DVD if you click here 

Procol film-maker Henry Scott-Irvine invites you to explore his new website, launched this month (thanks, Henry)


June 2: RIP Bo Diddley

 Added the fifth page of a photographic record of the Brookers' charity gigs in Chiddingfold, Surrey, last Christmas 


June 1:

Added a third page of photographic impressions from Procol Harum's recent concert at Hoorn (thanks, One-Eye)

  Read what was new on this website in previous months
 


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