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Deadcalm Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 752 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 11:56 Ive just E Mailed  Steve Wright  at BBC2 to play a few Tks off L&S  I mentioned Surfing and Lakme as theyre the catchy ones Joe Public might raise a Ear 2....  If a few of us send E Mails into the BBC 2  website they might start playing it.... Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 11:59 I can't recall the name of the radio station,but former Mike's manager Nicky Horne has got a radio show which can be nice to ask for some L + S tunes as well as an interview with Mike. From BBC Radio 2 another choice can be ol' good Johnie Walker,those 2 times Mike appeared on his show were very nice,also including a webchat. -------------- "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

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 14:09 I e-mailed Simon Mayo's album chart show the week just before L & S was released, asking if there would be any interviews etc. I got the standard we-are-too-buisy-to-reply-to-individual-questions answer back in about 1 nano second. I was really disheartened as Simon Mayo interviewed Mike back in 2003. Oh well. I cannot understand the lack of promotion. Why release an album you don't want lots of people to hear? Did he do it just for us?!! Perhaps he just does not like doing the publicity thing. I can understand that, but these days I think you need a little something. And especially so because it is worth it. A lot went into making the music after all. According to the great interview translated by Maria ( over in the articles section of this website - thanks Maria!, Mike said something about only 10% of people who talk about his music, actually reach the spirituality  [ and  I believe - understand it]. Are we, the members of this board along with other Mike related websites worldwide, those 10%. Or are we 10% of the 10%? I love the new album btw. Apart form the techno drums. I can live with them, coz everything else is sooooooo good. -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 14:17 Also, we have the repeat problem of an American music company making the album difficult to get in the United States. Warners had this problem eventually, but only after "Tubular Bells 2". They made this one easily available and promoted it. After this, they did not. The inclusion of two bonus tracks, apparently only on the UK version, is also sure to create more ill will. Mercury is not starting out well here. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 14:25 I got the impression he was aiming that comment well and truly at us lot. Well put it this way, who else talks about his music? I don't really know what he means by 'spirituality', it could be seen by some as a bit of a pompous thing to say if he means that only 10% of us lot 'get' the spirit of his music. Its a bit of an ambiguous comment. Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 14:28 It seems the bigger the company - the weirder their policies. Or maybe it's just that so many people are involved in so many departments within the company it's more a case of not everyone singing from the same hymn sheet! Whichever way you look at it, it's us the consumer,who lose out and get disgruntled. In this day of instant download of whatever you want, why bother to have so many versions i.e bonus tracks etc. It's all very unfair. I'll send you a UK copy Hiawatha!! Lakme is beautiful. -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 14:45 Yes, Toby, I too thought it was an ambiguous statement that could have been aimed at us here. To be quite honest I felt it was more towards the negative remarks, quite cutting and hurtful some of them, and casually made. I'm talking generally, nothing specific. And a lot of it came about from having heard only tiny bits of poorly recorded (from a radio) music. I was growing tired of reading about what people didn't like. I'm sure Mike wouldn't do something he thought was not good. He is afterall an "artist" and the music is his "creation" and he choses to share it. Our lives would be considerably less enriched if he didn't do so. I do feel spiritually in touch with the music. I cannot ignore it, I always come back to it after a break, I am constantly hearing more each time I listen. It is so meaningful to me, when I listen I go elsewhere inside my head. Sounds a bit daft, but I need this music, it centres me. bee -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Guest Unregistered Posted: Oct. 05 2005, 10:59 I suppose the radio stations, and the record buying public in general don't really have an interest in any new product from Mike, and having bought the new album, I can quite understand why. Back to top

dreamweaver Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: Feb. 2004 Posted: Oct. 11 2005, 08:06 been listening to Radio 2 every day and no sign of any of the L&S tracks yet even though I've bombarded every show, every day!!! Come on UK radio!!!! -------------- I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-Life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heaven and Hell:" Back to top

Dave Parry Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Oct. 11 2005, 20:15 Wow you are a very dedicated fan, what's it like to be that loyal?  Perhaps Mike was feeling narrowed down from the radio 2 TB2003 interview, somehow I felt that he was dissapointed. -------------- Life is confusing Back to top

dreamweaver Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: Feb. 2004 Posted: Oct. 12 2005, 08:00 Quote (Dave Parry @ Oct. 12 2005, 01:15) Wow you are a very dedicated fan, what's it like to be that loyal?  Perhaps Mike was feeling narrowed down from the radio 2 TB2003 interview, somehow I felt that he was dissapointed.  its not really a case of being loyal.  But it seems that all the new and about to be released albums have been previewed and reviewed, and I've heard nothing about L&S.  Just seems odd... of course the answer could be that L&S has been reviewed on there and I've missed it!!!! -------------- I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-Life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heaven and Hell:" Back to top

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