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TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Aug. 07 2005, 22:23 Hi all, Wanted to share this little story with you. About 5 years ago before meeting my partner, I had been advertising in the local newspapers dating column to meet someone. My ad read, "LOOKING FOR LONG HAIRED HIPPY JESUS LOOKING MUSICIAN OR MUSIC LOVER". I then decided I wanted to be even more specific than that so in the 'social' section of the dating column I advertised for "MIKE OLDFIELD FANS TO MEET ONCE A MONTH FOR MUSIC APPRECIATION AND DISCUSSION". In the back of my mind I hoped I might meet a single male who shared my love for Mikes music and my life would be complete. I met about a dozen wonderful people, married men, married women, couples, single women, but not one single male! I even asked one gentleman out for a drink sometime to which he replied, "Why I'd love to but I don't think my wife would approve!" I now have to see that man every week as he is the manager of my local supermarket! Only one long haired hippy Jesus looking musician (married with a young child) came to visit that night. He had no idea about my other ad in the same paper. After everyone else left, my brother and he sat together until 3am playing their guitars along to various pieces of Mikes music, and he was brilliant. It was a night that my brother and I will never forget, I was in sheer heaven. I fell in love with this person instantly but was happy just to share the music with him. He changed his phone number and I moved before we made contact so I didn't see him again. My partner had since answered my personal ad, a music lover but not a musician and not a fan of Mikes at all, he had long hair at the time but has cut it all off and grown a beard! and we bought a house together. Just two nights ago my partner, my girlfriend and I went to a nightclub. She saw a long haired hippy Jesus looking man across the room and said to me, "I bet he is a musician" and approached him and indeed he was. She said, "so what sort of music do you like?" and he said, "Mike Oldfield" and she said, "my friend Tracy likes Mike too" and he said, "I think I know her" and she brought him over to meet me.  He told me he was very attracted to me then, obviously for the same reasons, our mutual admiration for Mikes music, and was single now and asked if I was too! He said he had been writing some new music and would love me to hear it, he stood there chatting away about Mike, looking like a young Mike, only 33 years old, the same age as my partner. I dared not asked for a contact number. By the end of the evening he had exchanged phone numbers with my girlfriend, I heard her tell him that she was not a fan of Mikes music at all, and he pulled a face at me. I'm happy to possibly get the chance to hear him play again but........... The sad irony of life, what can I say! Tracy. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 00:47  sad story but good! its very difficult to imagine my girlfriend loves mike.. he he.. if i play him she give me the upset face, just like; oh no, not again... dont you have gorillaz??? But my love to this MO world of tunes and music is almost in my every corner. He is my big inspiration to my arts and drawnings. I must play him, sometimes everyday, and other days i have mike days. I can just add mike albums to winamp player and they goes all day. that is one of those days when im in very good MO mood. Its those days that everything he have made is perfect and not boring. but of course i have breaks too, but there are few who can play like him. i dont know what this have with your story.. I just wish that we had a partner that love mike just like us... I think that is sad. its inportant for me. Shes thinking about mike like just sound, but i, i see and hear it like my own wondeful land. The same way she feel about Jarre, she think that he music is scary, its to many sounds she says... well well, jarre is sounds.. we are all different... sorry!! but after all, we can share our love to his music on tubular.net!! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 01:51 Exactly Tubularman, I waited for 25 years to meet someone who loved Mikes music and then I stopped. The hard part for me, as you say, is that not only does my partner not appreciate Mikes music, he pulls a face whenever I speak of him and I simply cannot play him when he is at home. He is a truck driver and works very long hours and is away overnight once a week so I have plenty of time to listen to Mike alone and I don't like people talking or doing other things when Mike is playing, delegating him to background music.  But often I feel so lonely and just wish to share Mikes music with my loved one on the sofa with a bottle of wine and a little romance. When I first met my partner I still had hopes and he had never heard of Mike Oldfield (can you imagine that?) and didn't mind him at all, but my obsession with Mike has unfortunately had a negative effect and every time I mention Mike, which is every day, my partner moans and complains. He says he is joking but he doesn't understand how hurtfull it can be, as if he was complaining about one of my own children! So my dream to make love to Mike Oldfield! or his music will always stay in my dreams. Such a small thing to ask and be refused but better to be denied than to be disappointed. I smile as I write this but it is a very serious subject for me. Tracy. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 02:46 i see and knows what you meen. i have the same problem at home. She really dont cares about romantic music. For me the hole thing started with Vangelis when i was young. In my heart i desided that i would find a romantic girl. My wish as (only 17 years old) was to make love in the moon with fine music. Well well.. that never happened. I had one girl but she just loved Prodigy, Smashing punkings, and hard stuff.. There was alot of kissing and love but not to the music. I remember just one song we had! That was the crying song (theme to romeo and juliet) "kissing" , i think... with Desi're (i dont remember so well about the title and the group, just that it was from the soundtrack Romeo and juliet. Then after some time my wife came in. (in that time i only listen to Pink Floyd (not the most romantic music in the world) ehh just dont work that way *laugh.... But arround 2001 i found MO's world, and new romantic music. Something that i felt too share with someone. But she had not interest. from that moment i should turn away, because its just dont work sometimes. We dont share my deepest passion ect.. She dont care, so what can i do?? Nothing.. Now that i finally found this tubularboard, i could share my love to mike! Share thougts about him and his music. Thats wondeful, but its not so good feeling when we cant do it in our home. I never relax when i play mike when she is here. Never! She always ask; is there not anything else??? And that i hate (i just think, there she said it again, never share something It sounds depressiv but sometimes it is. Why not listen, just one time!!! And say; wow hes good! What album is that?? just say something... confusing -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 04:42 Quote (TubularBelle @ Aug. 07 2005, 22:23) The sad irony of life, what can I say! That's just cruel!! Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 12:46 dump your husband for that hippy musician man! lol. I was joking but you can always do so anyway I guess   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

BlueTape Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: Dec. 2000 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 16:45 unless you want a toyboy? :P:P:P -------------- my music website www.bluetape.co.uk Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 18:14 With my dear boyfriend(5 years and a half together with on-and-offs),in the early days when I was being introduced to Mike's music,he really didn't care at all,but one day,after listening to Amarok by casuality,he got hooked on Mike's music,but not much like me.The only problem we've got is related to Mike's pics,which some of them are a big trouble from him,a bit of envy(I'm not ashamed of saying that I think that Mike is gorgeous and other hot adjectives...),but we deal 100% well with that. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

sohfar Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: May 2004 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 20:00 I like Beer.. I like Cheese... I like the smell, of a Westerly Breeze.   But I like more than all of theese... thoughts of meeting you at Hergest.       I would Love to meet you   Big brown beastie (I Know your not! lol) Big Brown face I'd rather be with you than flying through space To Hergest Ridge! you should come!... In Summer, Winter Rain, or Sun, It's good to be on Horse Back! Sun?   -------------- HEALTH WARNING This record could be hazardous to the health of cloth-eared nincompoops. If you suffer from this condition, consult your Doctor immediately. Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 21:12 Quote (The Bell(end) @ Aug. 08 2005, 12:46) dump your husband for that hippy musician man! lol. I was joking but you can always do so anyway I guess   Well my partner and I have bought a home together and this other guy has no money, can I live on Mikes music and romance alone? Never tried that before, interesting concept! he he. Quote (BlueTape @ Aug. 08 2005, 16:45) unless you want a toyboy? :P:P:P They are the same age, both 33, I am 45, so I already have my toy boy. Or hang on, do you mean you????? Quote (sohfar @ Aug. 08 2005, 20:00) But I like more than all of theese... thoughts of meeting you at Hergest.       I would Love to meet you   Is that an invitation? Are you a long haired Jesus looking hippy and can you play the guitar like Mike? Lucky you Tati! Sorry, I don't know how to put three different quotes in one post, can you do that? Quote (Tubularman @ Aug. 08 2005, 02:46) But around 2001 I found MO's world, and new romantic music. Something that I felt too share with someone. But she had not interest. from that moment I should turn away, because its just dont work sometimes. We dont share my deepest passion ect.. She dont care, so what can i do?? Nothing.. Now that i finally found this tubularboard, i could share my love to mike! Share thougts about him and his music. Thats wondeful, but its not so good feeling when we cant do it in our home. I never relax when i play mike when she is here. Never! She always ask; is there not anything else??? And that i hate (i just think, there she said it again, never share something It sounds depressiv but sometimes it is. Why not listen, just one time!!! And say; wow hes good! What album is that?? just say something... confusing And this last paragraph you wrote has a lot of meaning for me, did you really consider ending the relationship for Mike? That would be difficult esp as you met your wife before you met Mike so to speak. I got so close to meeting the man of my dreams, so close, I should have waited a little longer, but when I met this hippy and he was married, that was when I gave up looking. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 22:10 Quote (TubularBelle @ Aug. 09 2005, 02:12) Sorry, I don't know how to put three different quotes in one post, can you do that? Yes, I can, thanks for asking Simple way - highlight the text you want, copy, then hit the 'quote' button which is in the row of buttons below the 'post icons' in the window which comes after you hit the 'new post' button. That will insert a [ QUOTE ] tag into your text. Paste in the text you've copied, and hit the quote button again to insert a [ /QUOTE ] tag, which will close the quote. You can also write in those tags manually. You can put in as many quotes as you wish, in this manner. What that method won't do is provide you with something indicating who the quote is from, so you'll have to make that clear in some other way. Hard way - as above, but you can edit the [ QUOTE ] tag to include more information. If, instead, you have, for example [ quote=Tubularman,Aug. 08 2005, 02:46 ] (but remove the spaces inside of the [ ], of course - I'm just including those so the board won't interpret it as a command), it'll add the little line identifying the poster, and the time/date of the post. It must be added in exactly that format, otherwise it won't work (and please make sure, if you're doing this, that you get the right date and time - you can just copy it from above the post you're quoting, it's in the same format). This is the method I used when editing your posts above. Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 22:24 Thanks for that Korgscrew, it sounds a little complicated for my wee small mind but I will definitely refer to your post the next time I need to do that and give it a try, thankyou. Tracy. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

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