Well everyone!
Here I go again! (With thanks to Dave
Coverdale for lyrics.)
Firstly let me say that, sadly, once
again there will be no Annual Reunion this year either.
It always come down to firstly this
ever-changing world that we live in and the draconian rules and laws
that govern the old-fashioned art of going out, getting pissed,
listening to loud, raucous rock music the way we want to and then
falling over afterwards. Also, the lack of suitable venues in the
old homeland with all the necessary requirements and a door under
our control with the right licensing hours plus the obvious
accessibility via
road/rail/tube/buses make things almost impossible at this time. Our
Grand Poobah, Promoter-in-Chief, Gerry Kelly, has also had an
extremely busy year himself, and has
been promoted
to being the head of operations for a non-UK-based record label,
responsible for all things musical within the UK.
At the same time, old Soundhouse
regular, Mark Blake, continues to stun and awe his ever-growing
legion of fans in Q magazine, with his recently published book 'Pigs
might fly: The inside story of Pink Floyd' (check out Soundhouse
homepage), and elsewhere with his journalistic prowess -not to
mention his drinking ability or the staying power of his
liver....................which brings me to one,
journalist/broadcaster/entertainer/genuine nice guy Jerry
Ewing, also late of the Soundhouse, who is amazed to find that he
still HAS a liver left at all! A
state that he always blames me for, claiming that ANYTHING that he
does is my fault as I supposedly educated him during his formative
and more
tender years spent
at The Soundhouse whilst under my wing, and,
in fact, now he sees me as his
"spiritual" Grandfather! Thereby relieving himself of all earthly
responsibility for any/all or some of the more
rock n' roll episodes that
pepper his life so frequently and utterly and completely!!
Well all I have to say is that If I
did indeed live like that, I am very proud and were I not 358 years
old, (and that is only a conservative estimate) I certainly have the
yearning to go do it all over again -however, I don't have to
because..................I've got Jerry Ewing to do it for me -In
fact, think
that I will buy him a pickle jar for Xmas so he can put in it what
remains of his stressed-out, overworked liver,
and in the years to come, at Christmas time, he can gaze in
wonderment at it whilst warming his feet by the open fire, slowly
drawing and dribbling on
his pipe whilst sipping a nice warm mug of cocoa and reflect on his
past life
and times...................................and what a life -eh!!!
Here's to a great man!!!!!!
Anyway................I feel certain
that you all have many great stories of your times at The Soundhouse
so maybe you would like to send your memories to us and we would be
happy to see them on the Forum!
Next year, I am informed by
Webmistress Dawn, that the whole
website will be up for a massive rebuild with a new image and that
long-awaited Japanese Section, although you will all need to be
fluent in the language to get much out of the scribes!!!!!!!! -Still
that does give you all a few months to master the language!!!!!!! I
thought that what we have now is really brill, but Webmistress says
that, like Dr Who, the site has to be regenerated every so often,
and next year is the target, so let it be! Can't wait for it!
Our connection
to Totalrock remains strong still, and I can tell you that I, with
Malcolm Dome, the Green Team-Derak and Allen, with the good Father
Ignatius O'flarharty Darryl bringing some much needed spiritual
direction to the proceedings will be delivering a Christmas special
edition of The Rock N' Roll Round Table Circus on
Saturday the 22nd of December between the
hours of 3-9pm!!!!
Six glorious hours of some of Rock's
greatest tunes and NONE released after 1978!!!!!!!
It's going to be a
crazy crazy night, so I am hoping that you will be able to join us
on Totalrock.com for the Annual Soundhouse Christmas Broadcast! You
will be able to talk to us by phone, or E-Mail us while we are
On-Air to:-
studio@totalrock.com
or even join others in the Soundhouse chatroom on this site whilst
listening to the show.
I look forward to it all!!
Well Soundhouse (as I used to say on
stage!) the time has come to wish you all a very happy Xmas 2007 and
a successful New Year loaded
with all that the Lords of Excess would approve of wholeheartedly!
As for me..............I'm off to finish my cocoa by the log fire
and dream of those far-off, exciting, lunatic and now historic
fabulous Soundhouse Years!
Cheers
All........................................Neal Kay.