What was new at 'Beyond the Pale'

August 31:

Added a picture here (thanks, Roxie)

Added a page depicting the tee-shirt from the 2001 European tour ... more Procol Harum tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course: click here

August 30:

Added a page containing an article by Jack Bond, director of Separation, the 60s film that used Procol Harum / Matthew Fisher music. Interesting Zeitgeist stuff, though mentions of the film itself are infrequent (thanks, Ian)

Tomorrow, when the Webmaster and his deputy will both be otherwise engaged, 'Beyond the Pale' will be updated late, or perhaps early.

August 29: Happy Birthdays Chris Copping and Geoff Whitehorn (treat yourself to one of  Geoff's solo albums) Procol Harum play in six weeks' time at Drammen, Norway

Added a portrait here, a portrait here, and the explanation here (thanks, Christ'l)

You can pre-order the Procol Harum Box Set now from The BtP Store or from Amazon USA or Amazon UK.

August 28:

Added a link and a picture to this Robin Trower page (thanks, Gary)

Added an insurance article to the page about 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' in common parlance (thanks, John)

August 27: Procol Harum play Hagen , Germany, in six weeks' time

Added a page introducing a long-expected and delightful new item, the Procol Harum Box Set, All This and More: three CDs and a DVD, 74 tracks, 38 of them live ... (thanks, Salvo)

August 26: Procol Harum play St Petersburg, Russia, in seven weeks' time

Added a page that whisks you back in time to the most-photographed Procol event of all (thanks, Andrè)

August 25: Procol Harum play at Moscow, Russia, in seven weeks' time

 Added a second page of excellent Norwegian Procol Harum photographs (thanks, Stein-Martin)

August 24:

Added a 'redecorating' article to the page about 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' in common parlance (thanks, Barbara)

August 23:

Added a couple of articles from a while back – here and here – relating to the A Whiter Shade of Pale lawsuit (thanks, all)

Apparently there is an extensive piece in today's Sunday Telegraph – page 14 of the colour supplement – by Jack Bond about his life in 1967, mainly his affair with Charlotte Rampling, and the premiere of Separation in Naples If anybody can send this in, we'd be grateful (thanks, Ian)

August 22: Procol Harum play in seven weeks' time at Drammen, Norway

Added a Gary Brooker / Georgie Fame snippet (thanks, Jim)

If you want Procol Harum song-words, you can safely get them from here (where we fix any errors that come to light) or you can get them from here (pinched from BtP ... your witness here and here ) but possibly not kept up-to-date in the same way (thanks, Robert)

Added a Procoholic Danish coffee here (thanks, Niels-Erik)

August 21:

Added detailed solution and Triumphant Victor's name to our page about the Grand Hotel Salvo competition 

Added a page depicting the 1997 30th Anniversary polo-shirt (white) ... more Procol Harum tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course: click here

August 20: Procol Harum play Hagen , Germany, in seven weeks' time

 ' ... after the episode at sea the prostitute will get a hideous treatment by her customer ... '

Added a fresh approach to the perennial question, what is A Whiter Shade of Pale about? (thanks, Miiko)

August 19: Procol Harum play St Petersburg, Russia, in eight weeks' time

August 18: Procol Harum play at Moscow, Russia, in eight weeks' time

Added a page of excellent Norwegian Procol Harum photographs (thanks, Stein-Martin)

August 17:

Added another competition, running until 19 August 2009, a straightforward bit of fun giving you the chance to win the seventh new bonus-laden Procol Harum reissue album (many thanks, Salvo Records).

August 16:

Added detailed solution and Triumphant Victor's name to our page about the Live in Edmonton Salvo competition 

Added something disturbing about teeth to this page (thanks, Joan)

August 15:

' ...definitely about the original Mohammed's last days, the bold lyrics won't go over well in today's tense world ...'

Added a very interesting and controversial review of the Salvo re-issue of Broken Barricades (thanks, Robert)

Ended this well-received competition, a simple bit of fun that gave you the chance to win the sixth new bonus-laden Procol Harum reissue album

August 14:

' ... Don't miss this stuff; it's powerful; it's "audio veritas" ...'

Added an interesting comment about the new Procol Harum re-issue series (thanks, John)

Also added an occurrence of Too Much Between Us to our list of PH songs in the movies

August 13: RIP Les Paul, musician, inventor of guitars and multi-tracking

Added a page about Gary Brooker's accident in Finland, including his own remarks addressed to the Finnish fans (thanks, Juice; thanks, Chris)

Added detailed solution and Triumphant Victor's name to our page about the Broken Barricades Salvo competition

August 12:

Added another competition, running until 14 August 2009, a simple bit of fun giving you the chance to win the sixth new bonus-laden Procol Harum reissue album (many thanks, Salvo Records).

Arguably this album, with the long-lost Simple Sister and Shine on Brightly from the original 1971 Edmonton concert, is among the most desirable of the whole series so far.

If you decide just to buy it, rather than competing for it, you can simply use the links provided here: either direct to Amazon, or to the BtP store.

Procol Harum / Matthew Fisher music will undoubtedly be heard on the streets of Bristol (UK) next month ... see here (thanks, Jane).

August 11:

Added information about Procol Harum's forthcoming German gig: hotel discount arrangements, some Germanic song-titles, and an offer concerning souvenir posters (thanks, Big Mike)

Added a poster here (available for sale here)

August 10:

Added some more pictures – replete with flou artistique – from the 'Faulty Log' Procol show (thanks, François)

Lots of people sending in strange answers to the current Salvo competition! Many correct responses, but some that can't possibly be right, given that we're asking for a number, not for words; and also given that we're asking you to identify a track you don't hear in the medley ... if competitors want to reconsider, they're welcome to send a second or third answer. We'll use only your last offer.

August 9:

Added a competition, running until 11 August 2009, a simple bit of fun giving you the chance to win the fifth new bonus-heavy Procol Harum reissue album (many thanks, Salvo Records)

Updated this vital page, and this one

August 8: RIP Willy DeVille

Added two exciting October dates for Procol Harum, here and here (thanks, Chris)

Added a new Separation index page and another index-page here; updated this interesting page.

Updated pages so that our visitors may order the latest bonus-laden Salvo Procol re-releases – Broken Barricades, Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and Grand Hotel – direct from the 'Beyond the Pale' online shop 

August 7:

Added another date – in Norway – for Procol Harum's October schedule (thanks, Chris).

Check in soon for additional, non-EEC shows

Unrelatedly, added an image to the foot of this page

August 6:

August 5:

Added the first date for Procol Harum's October concerts (thanks, Chris)

August 4:

Added a page depicting the tee-shirt from the 1995 Summer tour, UK ... more Procol Harum tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course: click here

Added press releases from several news agents re the AWSoP case (thanks, Phil)

Added a press release from Harbottle and Lewis here (thanks, Chris)

August 3:

 Added a page depicting the tee-shirt from the 1995 Summer tour, USA. More Procol Harum tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course: click here
 

August 2:

Added No 2 in an occasional series in which Procol Harum fans recommend other music that they enjoy, pointing out parallels between occasionally very diverse genres (thanks, Elizabeth)

We welcome other contributions for this series! 
 

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