Weybridge, July 11 - on general sale

[curiousberyl]

I was joking about Tescos and I assumed Tony was too!

PHEW!! - i was ever so slightly worried

[Kristin1980uk]

Where did you bump into him? Did you talk to him?

Yes Philippa, we did get to talk to him, here is a link to the post my Mum (EvieB) posted, including the photo of my Mum and Leonard Cohen together, under the RAH Concert topic on this forum: It's location is: Board index ‹ News ‹ The Fall Tour 2008 - on the road with Leonard

Here is a quick link to it:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=12816&st=0&sk=t&sd=d

It was an amazing two days!

[stargazer61]

Where did you bump into him? Did you talk to him?

Yes Philippa, we did get to talk to him, here is a link to the post my Mum (EvieB) posted, including the photo of my Mum and Leonard Cohen together, under the RAH Concert topic on this forum: It's location is: Board index ‹ News ‹ The Fall Tour 2008 - on the road with Leonard

Here is a quick link to it:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=12816&st=0&sk=t&sd=d

It was an amazing two days!

read the post on the link...what a wonderful experience and a wonderful photograph.

[hydriot]

Philippa and stargazer61: all recent meetings with Leonard are assembled here viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13968&sid=90fda00b9 ... 79#p158747 including EvieB's.

[Philippa]

Dear Kristin and Hydriot
Many thanks for those stories. Fascinating. How exciting for all those people who bumped into Leonard.
Philippa

[kevwill]

Haven't seen this on the board, so apologies if it's old news.

LBC are running a competition to win 10 pairs of tickets for the Weybridge concert. Closing date is 28 April, so hurry, hurry, hurry. Link below:

http://www.lbc.co.uk/win-10-pairs-of-le ... ckets-7681

[sebmelmoth2003]

isn't there a river in weybridge?

if it links into the thames perhaps leonard could arive by state barge?

perhaps cliff will come along if he's in residence at st george's hill

viewtopic.php?f=35&t=14425

http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content ... _Live.html

[somewhat_nifty]

Great news - a 'barbecue summer' is forecast

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/3 ... k-forecast

Bring your shades!

[golo99]

Hi,

I posted this in another thread a couple of weeks ago, but it seems worth reposting.

I come from Weybridge, and unless things have changed since I moved away, pretty much the only place to meet near Brooklands (on the other side of the railway line but only two minutes from the station) is the Hand and Spear pub.

It used to be full of underage drinkers (next door to a sixth form college), but it looks like they've tarted it up as a gastro pub/wine bar now.

More info at their website:

http://www.handandspear.co.uk/

[Melvyn]

Great news - a 'barbecue summer' is forecast

Yes but, "However, they warn that heavy downpours cannot be ruled out."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8026668.stm

Regards.

[Jim Williams]

Got mine. D7.

[Jim Williams]

Weybridge factoid number 1: John Lennon lived in Weybridge in the mid to late 1960s. He and McCartney penned plenty of songs here including most of the tracks of the Beatles for Sale and Help! albums in the mansion on St George's Hill.

[Evie B]

Hi Jim
I think this subject is ongoing over on the thread 'Liverpool & Weybridge...' started by John Etherington.
John was living there with Cynthia and Julian, probably Paul did visit him and they quite probably worked through a lot of stuff there, though I believe Paul was resident at his home in St John's Wood where he still has the same house which he bought quite early on. John and Paul used to write independenly a lot of the time, and then just get together to sound each other out about songs where they thought they needed 'something extra'. I love the story about how John wrote 'I am the walrus' melody after hearing a police siren in Weybridge. When you listen to the repeated 2 notes of the first couple of lines it seems quite evident. Brilliant.
Evie

[Jim Williams]

Thanks, Evie. Interesting stuff. Sorry I missed the other thread.

[honeyrose]

Double8tickets who specialise in sold out premium tickets are currently offering Leonard tix on their "deal of the week". Block A5, centre block, first ten rows, £195 each (3 seats); Block A4 or A6,first FIVE rows, (4 seats) £175; Block A4 or A6, first 15 rows £145 (1 seat); Block A3, first 15 rows (18 seats) £125; Block A3, first 20 rows (14 seats) £110; Block A3, first 30 rows (10 seats) £95; Block B sold out; General reserved seats (6 seats) £80. Their site makes it clear this is a tickets only deal and says the face value is £65.