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TO ALL BEACH BOYS FRIENDS, MUSICIAN FRIENDS AND LOVERS OF PEACE AND HARMONY
After a lovely and inspiring chat with my "Ideas Man" (aka James Crowther) and also after such a fantastic experience at this year's International Pop Overthrow Festival in Liverpool this year, we set our heads to work on what we could do for a Beach Boys Britain celebration, next year (2011) of 50 years of wonderful music and also celebrating that we know so many wonderful and talented musicians, Beach Boy historians and all generally good people. It NEEDS to be celebrated..and even those of us who have not seen eye to eye over the past few years for various reasons, could perhaps put aside the negativtiy and celebrate the POSITIVITY of this particular event.
So, having set the scene above, our idea is to get together as many of you as we can, for a day of fun and music, with all the people who have ever been connected by great music. Friendships were MADE with all this, in some cases we're asking that bygones BE bygones and a fresh "platter" presented for this, which could turn out to be a very special day, indeed.
We envisage an event on SATURDAY JULY 9TH AND SUNDAY JULY 10TH 2011 where great musicians and friends, old and new, would get together to perform not NECESSARILY Beach Boys Music, but the music that they make plus the music that inspired them to do what they do, in the first place. We would hope to tempt certain bands out of "retirement", just for this event or even just to come along for the fun of it and meet up with a lot of like-minded people.
OK - so it's going to (hopefully) be a big project - and one that I am most willing to work for, along with James and maybe one or two of you, even for old times sake and for the sake of the music? The one thing I would say is that since I would be the main co-ordinator, I would hope that this event could be staged in the Midlands of England (where I live!) which has its own "heart" significance..at The Wycliffe Rooms in Lutterworth - and is the home of so many great Beach Boys Britain events, where Jeffrey Foskett, Billy Hinsche, Alan Boyd, Trisha Campo, Stan Shapiro, Stevie Kalinich and our own Sean Macreavy and Andrew G. Doe have all graced the stage.
Suggestions, offers and thoughts most welcome... RSVP, hopefully in the affirmative...
Ken Isherwood has sent us some WONDERFUL mid '70
Photos check them out here
