Relayer's (Max, Ozzie, Brian, Sean, Jon, Kim and Lester, and John MP's Docudrama of Live at Leeds, Mach 2!

Pre-show Photos

I Need a ticket....
OKCU Duke

I called Ticketmaster this morning in the UK
and I have tickets waiting at the Box Office.

The good news is that you can purchase tickets for UK concerts from the
USA.

Thanks to everyone and anyone who freely posts details of pre-sales and ticket
info online...

I am enclosing a Guardian link :
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1792020,00.html

maxcontemporary

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article656433.ece

Live at Leeds: Who's best...
Their 1970 performance, before 2,000 students at a
university refectory, produced what has been described
as the best live album of all time. Now Pete Townshend
and Roger Daltrey are to return to the site of their
rock masterpiece. Ian Herbert reports

It was with a sense of anxiety as well as fervour that
the Leeds University student union awaited the arrival
of its latest big-name band, The Who, on St
Valentine's Day, 1970.

A newly purchased stage ensured that Townshend,
Daltrey and Co would not have to jump up on tables to
perform, as some previous bands had done. But there
were serious concerns about the group's 10 massive
amplifiers, the like of which had never been seen
before in the student refectory which doubled up as a
rock venue. "We stacked the amps on dining tables,
five each side of the stage, and hoped for the best,"
recalls John Standerline, one of the university
entertainments committee which received the band that
day.

Happily, the amps did remain intact, delivering the
mighty, primal sounds which, though Leeds did not know
it at the time, were to assume a seminal part in rock
history. The furious three-hour concert in the
refectory that Saturday night was recorded for The
Who's legendary Live at Leeds album, which is still
considered by many critics to be the best live album
made and an inspiration to the heavy metal genre. It
is also common consensus that Townshend's searing,
improvised guitar solos during a 15-minute take on My
Generation have never been bettered.

Now, minus their drummer Keith Moon, who died in 1978,
and John Entwistle, the bassist who died four years
ago, they are to make a return pilgrimage. The
university announced yesterday that Pete Townshend and
Roger Daltrey would kick off The Who's forthcoming
world tour later this month with another gig in the
refectory. The legends will also unveil a local civic
trust blue plaque at the venue to mark the 1970 gig.

The inspiration for Live at Leeds II is Andy Kershaw,
who was entertainments officer at the university for
two years in the early 1980s before pursuing his BBC
career. Kershaw found himself in conversation on the
refectory stage with the university's vice-chancellor,
Professor Michael Arthur, last year, after receiving
an honorary doctorate in music. He was informed of the
plans for the blue plaque and two weeks later, a
chance encounter with The Who's manager Bill
Curbishley at Womad - Peter Gabriel's festival of
world music, arts and dance - led to an approach to
Townshend, 60, and Daltrey, 61.

Both musicians are said to be delighted by the idea of
returning to the refectory, the compact, low-ceilinged
art deco building which became one of Britain's most
improbable rock venues in the 1960s and has remained
one ever since. "Doctor Andy, I'm really excited about
this," Townshend told Kershaw in a recent e-mail,
which revealed that Kershaw's doctorate is evidently
taking some living down.

"Both of these musicians have a real grasp of the
historical and emotional significance of them coming
back," Kershaw said yesterday. "They are doing this
because they want to do it, not because they are going
to make any money out if it. It will be the starting
point for a tour which will take in football stadiums
and baseball stadiums across Britain and the US."
Fittingly, the band will be supported by the mod
rockers Casbah Club, featuring Pete Townshend's
younger brother, Simon, as guitarist and vocalist,
when they play the venue a week on Saturday.

The refectory, a long, narrow room where Leeds
students have dined since 1955, had its share of big
names before The Who rolled into town. Fleetwood Mac,
Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin had all gone before. But
few groups were making waves quite like Daltrey,
Townshend, Moon and Entwistle. The Leeds concert came
on the back of the band's success at Woodstock,
broadcast to the world in an accompanying documentary
film, where they performed much of their rock opera
Tommy. A live album had remained beyond them, though.
The group balked at the idea of wading through
recordings from their American tour to produce one, so
decided to make one at a British concert. The band's
appearance at Hull on 13 February seemed the perfect
opportunity and the concert which made Leeds a
household name might have been called Live at Hull,
had the line connecting the bass guitar to the tape
recorder been working properly on Humberside. It was
not - and the concert at Leeds, which was arranged at
just two weeks' notice, suddenly assumed a huge
significance.

For a time it seemed the Leeds concert was destined to
go the same way. "During the afternoon, we realised
that the recording would need double the electricity
that was available," recalls Simon Grogan, an ents
officer, who secured the gig for the university and
went on to work for Chrysalis before swapping music
for a life as a sheep farmer in Scotland. "Luckily,
two students on the committee were technical whiz kids
and got the problem sorted."

The band launched the concert with "Can't Explain" and
"Substitute" moving on to Townshend's masterpiece
Tommy. With two hours' furious music behind them,
there was no let up. "Summertime Blues", "Shaking All
Over" and "My Generation" were to follow.

A delirious audience must have helped. The gig had
prompted 6am queues at the student union that day.
Even the queues became a story for the university
newspaper, which reported on "a rota system for
leaving the queue to warm up" which was in operation.
The 11s 6d tickets (£6 in today's money) sold out in
an hour. More than 2,000 students crammed into the
refectory for the gig and 1,000 listened on the roof.

"We just had a feeling it was going to be good,"
Townshend told the Yorkshire Evening Post a few days
later. "We played better than we have for a long
time." The band's fee for the concert was £1,000 but
they didn't even cash the cheque. "I had to give them
another cheque when they came the following November
to play Leeds again," says Brogan.

Only six tracks made it on to the famous album which,
with its plain brown cardboard cover and ink
lettering, was designed to look like the simple cover
of a bootleg LP of the era. The label was handwritten
(apparently by Townshend), and included instructions
to the engineers not to attempt to remove any
crackling noise. Townshend remixed the Live at Leeds
tapes when the full concert was finally released four
years ago.

Q magazine recently voted the work the greatest live
rock album of all time. "We may never see the likes of
such an event again," says Kershaw. "It's a corporate
world now. The venues are bigger and the student
unions just don't wield any power."

To celebrate the concert, Sir Peter Blake, art
director for The Who's Face Dances album, will also
create a new artwork, to be added to the Sir Peter
Blake Music Art Gallery at the University's School of
Music.

The Who will play the Leeds University refectory on 17
June. Tickets go on sale on 9 June at 9am at the Leeds
University Union on the university campus, £37.50. No
telephone bookings. Two tickets per person.

Re: How to buy Leeds Pre-Sale tickets in The USA

The website tickets are sold out as of now. 5PM EST. I got the go
ahead from my bride this morning at 8:30 and by 10am I had someone on
The Shout pick me up a ticket and away we goooooo woo whhoooo....

"ohsclassof1980" (Brian)

> >
> > Good for you Brian!!! Frequent Flyer miles?
> >
> > Bob

Nope..it's this year's father's day/birthday/Anniversary/Christmas
present.

The actual show tickets are very special, large, souvenir format,
(with an embedded security hologram) - we will scan the whole ticket
and put it in the Relayers files section, (post gig), though
we are pleased to report we have ours in hand right now!

Hopefully the show will be just as special, in a smallish space,
which is very reminiscent of The Belfry (StepMothers) where
they played the best show we ever saw, also in 1970.

By comparison, Hedgestock was a joke, in value terms,
1.25 hours for £587, or a full show in a tiny club like
environment for £37.50 - OK, it was for TCT, and the decision
to pay is a personal one. Maybe the feeling that this particular
series of shows is less than conducive to the diehard fans........ioho

Leeds goes some way to making up for all that, and yes, for those who
have commented, the significance is highly prominent in our minds! A
detailed report will appear here, approx. 4 hours after the gig!

(Sure if Matt had been around, he would have sorted more tickets for
the diehards. As it was mentioned here, after Pete's diary entry, Matt
himself delivered all the messages that you fine people sent to us for
forwarding to Pete, in person).

Brian and Max(contemporary) posted the links to the Leeds articles in
The Independent (Pete's favourite newspaper, if that is not very apparent
already!), and The Guardian - the printed versions are worth seeing, with the
added pictures, those we will put on the Files section ASAP.

Take care,
Kim+Lester

Oh wow, Max and Brian....what's that thing I'm
feeling....it's....it's..(sorry to disappoint Seth and
Terry)....IT'S JEALOUSY!!!! I'M JEALOUS!!!! I WANNA GO!!!

Sorry about the outburst.

I cannot wait to hear reports back from this one.

trrish

Max and Brian are going to Leeds?! Yay! Shoot, now I want to go!

Cynthia

Through the crazy workings of the Who universe and the coming together
of all sorts of vibrations, Ozzie is going to Leeds. Look out Leeds.

He's in search of a ticket in case anyone has a line on one...

trrish

ps. Yes, Ozzie and just Ozzie. It is Father's day that weekend,
after all. Yes, I am jealous!!!!! But it's the next best thing to me
being there....

From: Richard Kaplan

Have a smashing good time!!!

hey oz -- don't take that too literally...try to keep your bum intact...

sdwho

Thanks to Trrish-who-babe-mod-erator for inviting me in again, not to
mention an amazing amount of understanding in being okay with me going
to Leeds. I received the following as part of my Welcome message email;
{Hello, and welcome to Relayers! ozzie here, and I'll be keeping on
eye on Relayers for Trish. Have a good time!}

Weird.

Kind of nostalgic being back here in Relayers-ville! Yes the reports
are correct; I'm heading back to the place where last I broke my
camera and my ass; under the supervision of our friend JMP. Anyway
hello to all, I hope you don't get sick of my ozzie reports on this
last minute Cinderfella trip to the land where I belong (sorry it
fit). Flights are confirmed I think, and now to find a ticket. I
signed up over at the Shout, and I'm just waiting for a reply. Please
let me know if you here anything in the meantime.

Thanks, and love to all,
ozzie
ps
LEEDS BABY!!!

> Have a smashing good time!!!

Thanks Richie! That's what I shooting for, and since my man Duke took
care of my ticket situation, I'm one step closer to that goal. So now
it's a matter of figuring out what to wear.
ozzie

ps I've switched to the cool bottom replier style, not to be confused
with a bottom feeder.

ozzie

...For the band, the venue and the audience obviously helped to make
the performance something spectacular. Quoted in the student union
newspaper after the gig, Keith Moon said: "We fed on the audience as
much as they feed on us … they were just too incredible."

the whole thing:
http://www.leedstickets.com/eventinfo/366/The-Who

ozzie

Since i seem to have become the world's busiest man that I know I have
had little time, let alone the finances to make big plans for the
summer shows. Leeds Uni was to pass me by it seemed without my having
time to even have a browse on ebey for tickets, the list only gets
looked at once or twice a week and I still haven't heard the new
stuff!! Although for the first time ever I asked a good contact to
try and get a leeds pass or two.

Then... last night a (transatlantic) phone call out of the blue and a
wonderful relayer has provided me witha ticket and I'm going
Whoooohoooo.

I shan't identify the generous person in question but you know who you
are and your a true mate, cheers.

now that's a cure for the summertime blues.

JMP

Hello all, I just pulled (no Seth) into Ohio and have 3 hours before heading off
to NJ to catch the real flight. I'm walking through the metal ditector in
Denver, and the 60 something security agent looks at my shirt and says "they're
so old they call them the...? I missed the punch line. So I spend the next three
minutes redressing, trying to think what it could be, "the whom," "the how"
based on the soud, I can't come up with anything that could have made sense, let
alone been funny. So, as i'm threading my belt through the last loop, I think
i'll just ask him, but the fact was I politely laughed at it, and my ..."looking
in the mirror and seeing a police car" sensibility kicked in and, having a long
way to go, I just walked away, leaving it a mystery. So I get into Ohio, and
having 3 hours, I start searching for a healthy breakfast, when I pass this 30
something couple, and the woman looks at me and blurts out "I love your shirt!"
(30 yrs. Of M R&B) I love when that happens, and I quickly think about telling
her the whole story, but I only have 3 hours, so I say thank you, and with a big
smile, i just keep on going. I sit down to enjoy my excellent breakfast find (.5
lbs nut, seed and raisen mix, banana, and orange) and I get a txt msg from Max,
I txt him back and then my phone rings, it's Max! I just love the tree to tree
thing. Oh(hio) well, just two more hours! Love, -ozzie

Oops! Next stop was really Brums, or Birmingham for the uninitiated. Anyway, I
get to passport control and the 60 something control officer asks,
"What is the purpose of your stay?"

ozzie: "Who show"

Officer: "Say what?"

ozzie: "Who show"

Officer: blank stare.

ozzie: "concert"

Officer: "okay then, enjoy your stay"

ozzie: "thanks"

Next stop: Kiddy!
(i think)

Love,
ozzie

I stop in at the mall and Johnnie Walker has a huge display with a formula one
car, and the beautiful blonde 20 something spokesperson hands me a coupon for a
free shot of JW Blk, and points me to the bar. I look over and there are a
couple of fresh bartlet pears on the bar along side 100 waiting shotglasses. So
i think for a second, it is fresh fruit, and then i just keep walking.
ozzie

Right behind you bro..'cept my flight is JFK to Manchester. See ya
there!!!

Brian

NEW PETE DIARY

Ready to Roll, Wobble, Slip, Slide and Collapse.

Sorry, I meant ready to rock. There are a number of moments in the
Who set when I feel like Jack Black in School of Rock. He has
parodied so many of my moves, and so brilliantly. But the key moment
is when I play a series of AC/DC like semi-quavers with my fingers
during the middle build up in Won't Get Fooled Again. The only thing
that's missing is his enthusiasm - I won't mention the school girls.
But on our test webcast we had the guy with no shirt, Rabbit didn't
even know we were filming, or so he said. He must live in a
completely private world back there in that keyboard array. In the
flesh he looked pretty scary. I was stunned to see that on the TV
screens he looked completely gorgeous.

The rehearsals are complete now and the equipment is on its way to
Leeds. This time the caravan of vehicles headed up the M1 motorway
includes four new ones - Rachel's Airstream studio for In The Attic,
a Satellite truck (or more accurately a rented white van with a free-
standing satellite dish in the back), a Production vehicle (a huge
camper bus) and my own old Airstream bus. I hasten to note that I do
not entertain visiting fans in my bus - it acts as a private dressing
room. Ring the bell and you may get stale chicken goujons thrown at
you.

Leeds promises to be a very exciting and also movingly nostalgic day.
My friend Robin Denselow is now a correspondent for the Newsnight
show on the BBC, and is fairly fresh back to rock and pop reporting
after a stint in the actual fray in Iraq. He will be up there to
cover the unveiling of an English Heritage Blue Plaque that
celebrates the University building as the site of the Live At Leeds
recording. He is also doing a feature on our webcasting. Andy Kershaw
will be there, he was once a student at Leeds, is now a radio man
whose knowledge of World Music in particular makes every show he does
a treat; he has been a real force in getting the Who back to Leeds
this Saturday. Also present will be my old mate Sir Peter Blake the
Pop Artist I so adored as a teenager, who curated the sleeve for the
Who's multi-faceted Face Dances LP sleeve of 1981; he has done a
wonderful new sleeve design for Saturday's show. Peter Smith who was
the man who actually booked the Who for the show in 1970 will be
there of course. Lots to do, lots of people to see.

Our set will certainly fail to match the now legendary show we did in
1970. That show happened at the end of a long and elegant American
tour, at a time we had our original line up, just the four of us, and
despite our apparent lunacy, were fit, strong and playing powerfully.
Tonight is the first show after an exhausting rehearsal schedule, and
kicks off a tour that will last slightly over a year if I get my wish
to end it next year at Glastonbury. Now that will be the show to
watch. We should be warmed up by then.

Spitfire Films are filming the show on Hi-Definition, and if there is
more history to be made, perhaps it is simply that we are all of us
able to gather again thirty-six years later and celebrate not only a
great Who record, but also - at Leeds Refectory - a great a tradition
of British University life in the discriminating patronage of
emerging music artists. We owe so much to the gang at Leeds
University of 1970. And so does Mose Allison……..

okay, after reading the article about Leeds that Brian posted and then reading
Pete's diary about returning to Leeds, I'll admit to getting a bit misty each
time. Trishee...have you cried yet today?

iaam(istyeyes)g

Re: hey, trishee...got a tissue?

Hee.

Reminds me of someone...might have been Jay Leno, or actually I
think it was Triumph the Comic Insult Dog, going down the line of
Morrissey mopes standing in line for the show that night. With their
black clothes and eyeliner and suicidal outlook it was easy to find
plenty of comedy fodder. He asked one chubby male teenager with a
dyed black Flock of Seagulls haircut, "When was the last time you
cried?" The kid thought a second and said, "This morning." It was
classic.

Alan
txgeezer

See attached Link from to-day's Guardian. The Blue Plaque will be unveiled....

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1798900,00.html

maxcontemporary

From PT.com - http://tinyurl.com/mqwvz

16 June 2006
The Who Encore Series

We're happy to announce that The Who 2006 Encore Series will once
again be brought to you by the combined efforts of the band and the
encore series team at TheMusic.com. After successful Who Encore Series
CD's for both the 2002 and 2004 tours, there will also be available
DVD's of each show in addition to the standard 2-CD gatefold,
collector's and deluxe-edition sets. The DVD's of each show will be
shot with a four camera crew and are expected to have both a surround
and stereo mix on each disc. As in the past, the audio for the CD's
and DVD's will be a "Live Mix" by The Who engineering team, mastered
by Jon Astley at Close to the Edge, and pressed onto high-quality
manufactured discs - not CD-R's or DVD-R's. As always, the profits
from The Who Encore Series will go to charities designated by the
band. For those unable to attend one of the concerts on this tour, the
Encore Series offers a chance for you to experience The Who from home,
and for those of you that do see a show, an opportunity to relive the
experience again and again…..

DVD's of all European shows (with the exception of the June 17th
Leeds University Show) will be made available as NON-region encoded
(plays on most players) PAL format discs. In order to play these DVD's
you must have both a PAL-capable DVD player AND PAL-capable
Television. These discs will play WORLDWIDE on DVD-equipped computers
which have DVD playback software installed and operative.

So, I just got back from a Memorial Day diving trip and MyWifeDiane has now
booked us for another week of diving in mid-August, when she suddenly pipes up
with "so why aren't we going to europe for any of the shows this summer...I'd
love to go to Barcelona..."

uh... oh...

sdwho

Per the Leeds Uni website:

The blue plaque will be unveiled by Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey
at 4pm at the University of Leeds refectory on Saturday.

"ohsclassof1980"

Re: Leeds Calling - Blue PLaque

Paque, Plaque..whatever..I am just a tad overly excited!

"ohsclassof1980"

Just arrived and went to the campus to figure out how to find the box office.

There is a hive of activity and more security than you can imagine. The stage is
assembled in the refectory and there's a mega boogie on PT's side of the stage
with a hi-watt head. There are three tractor trailers in front and two huge
coaches at back plus a power generator.

I did not see any backdrop. The student's union is next door and they are
bringing in ten barmen for to-morrow . Imagine a campus like this in the
USA...

I guess the pre show will be at the Student's Union !

Max

Ps... if you are driving in this city do not blink !

Re: Leeds pre show

Showing up 24+ hours early to suss out the venue...good work, Max.

Alan

Amazing time in Kidderminster! It's a picture perfect morning, just 45
minutes to hitting the road. I have my custom made Long Live Rock
shirt on and I'm fucking ready to go (have been since 5:30 this
morning!)

Love,
ozzie

Ps loved the photos of the tour busses.

To-day's North Yorkshire Evening Post has a short Who article on page 9. It
mentions Pete Hart who arranged the additional power for the 1970 gig ( he lives
in Texas now!) Supposedly Peter Blake will have a new piece of art unveiled
to-day called Live At leeds 2 which will be in the music art gallery at the
University's school of music.....More later

maxcontemporary

I just got this note from Max. Made me laugh:

>Just got a call from jp and op.... They are here but lost !

trrish

Re: this just in...

we've arrived! standing in front of the red curtain waiting for pete and roger
to arrive and unveil the plaque!
ozzie

So fucking great! Pete an Roger looking amazing, and happy. Pete made a joke
about moony, roger in shorts with a cup of tea. Both saying how happy they are
to be back. Pete mugged a shot of ripping the plaque off the board, brilliant.
Duke had my beautiful ticket, and a most amazing line ticket #23!11 holy fuck
all, #23, you should see line of people with out line numbers. DUKE RULES!
Paul from Amsterdam had a picture of Rachel 's bus with the cutest caricatures,
on of Pete that was just precious.

This is ozzie reporting from leeds

I'm in and one off the fucking rail!
long live the fucking who!
Ozzie

Jon Pywell's head is blocking my view ! Paul De V is front center and it is
bloody hot. The crowd is. Old but there are two girls beside me who are 16 and
18 so there's a next generation.......

maxcontemporary

Hot as hell and mucho squishing.... Maybe last post.I think that Rabbit is
behind pete's stack...

maxcontemporary

Shades!

Pete put on his shades from the start! It's ROCKNROLL Pete in the
house!

Pete" "We are back! And this is question time! Who Are You?"

Alan

Bass is incredibly loud... Rachel is stage right next to bobby pridden. Phew it
is hot hot...ICE pt is using echo on guitar.

maxcontemporary

Rabbit representin'

Rabbit foregoing his customary nudity in favor of a "TEXAS" T-shirt.

Alan

Band are taking a break and gone outside for a breather after short tommy set.
Rachel had a lovely cup of tea ready for her man after such a hard day's work.
... Band now coming back ....

maxcontemporary

Show over... Nothing from Quad and NO MG.... Hmm must be that hot cup of tea !!

Encore was
Eminence
Naked eye
Won't get fooled... I think ! Very very very rough up front.

maxcontemporary

WOW!

ozzie: Pino you fucking rock!

Pete: what kind of language is that?

Guy with the guy from Parliament: American!

Relay, Cry if you want, Let's see action, Naked eye, and a bunch of new live
who music, oh and a crowd and security that were just amazing. That was the show
I've been waiting for, and the BBC asked Me about it, and i told them, and he
said he will only have to beep out one word.

This truly has been an Amazing Journey!
love and kisses to all,
ozzie

Re: WOW!

Nice one Ozzie! Hope it makes the DVD.

Bob

Re: WOW!

I was just putting together the posts from the show and realized what
this one said - WOW, Pete spoke to Ozzie!

trrish

now what?
call it a schoolboy crush, but it was cool!
i'm on a wonderful roll away in the beautiful Leeds Crowne Plaza hotel after a
simply amazing indian dinner, all arranged by Max. bless his heart. Wait till
you see the picture of our bread. Brian Lynch joimed uds for dinner, it was
simply the perfect post show party! Now it's time for gents to get some shut
eye.
ozzie signing off with love.

Ozzie, you are a giant among men, thank you so much for the great detailed
report, I look forward to hearing more. I almost felt like I was there too and
I didn't even see ITA or the appetizer.

meg

Meg,
thanks for the kind words! I love being able to Relay the story. Everyone has a
lot to be excited about with this tour.

ozzie
ps As i told trrish, i took some very cool photos, and recorded the plaque
unveiling. I'll get it all up on the Whola site when i get back.

you have to love, love love Pete for stopping roger fron whining.
Don't get me wrong, i also loved Roger tonight, he sang his heart out. And it is
a fucking who show. He's going to have to harden up before playing for 50,000
rabbid rock fans.

oh and Simon was awesome, awesome, fucking awesome. I know most of you saw for
yourselves, but i'll say it anyway, they were all amazing!
ozzie

Re: Roger the poof

I just sent a note to ozzie telling him that we didn't see much for
ourselves. He's thinking like I was that we were going to see the
whole thing. I wanna hear about Cry If You Want! I told him to
please send us more details.

I feel kind of mislead about the first three songs thing, but as
Alan says, beggars can't be choosey, huh. The CD awaits (wait, does
it?)

trrish

Well, that was quite a show, including The Seeker, Naked Eye, Wire And
Glass EP full preview.

Pete playing Let's See Action, wearing headphones, and with his own
stageside mixer.

The Fender Vibro King AND the HIWATT 100 with Mesa Boogie speaker cab,
blended as on the first night of the Forum shows - really gives the guitar
sound extra punch

The band is rejuventated in short, the new material, set changes help,
but they look fit and ready to take a significant World Tour.

It was really, really hot in there - PT 'weigh yourself when you get
home, you will have lost about a stone due to to all the sweat you will lose tonight'. Great, friendly crowd, outside and inside.

We stood with the lad who was first in the queue for the Union ticket
sales, who had lost his job to get tickets for him and his dad. There was a Geordie bloke going to the bar for beer, who kept bringing back two glasses of ice cubes for those up front who did not want to miss a second. Amazing fan sprit - we could give examples from the whole day.

We can confirm - Leeds was filmed in High Definition - (the cameras
had HD logos, bit of a give away!), we spoke to one of the cameramen, who said he had been told it would come out as a Who release via normal retail channels - not an internet only one.

We were interviewed by Yorkshire TV for their Calendar programme, which airs tomorrow - about what the show, and The Who meant to us (harder questions would have been nicer, please!!), we also directed them to Ron Dovey, who was standing a few feet away. Gary and Melissa (when not selling Who 2006 programmes) were our companions during the long wait for the Blue Plaque unveiling (as they were for
the Hendrix one Pete did!), it was supposed to happen at 4pm, but Roger did not arrive in Leeds by plane until 5pm, so it was closer to 5:30!

We spoke to Andy Kershaw, who is really the one reponsible for making
this actually happen, he was very excitable, nice, level headed bloke..........as is his sister Liz, who stood a few feet away to watch the show,
right down front with the punters, bless her! Andy is the one in khaki
on the left of the photo we put on Relayers files. There are two pics just now, Roger, Pete after the just appeared, with Andy, and one of Peter
Blake being interviewed by the BBC. He was dignified, gracious, and very happy to talk to the interested fans.

We will put some more pictures up later, it's almost 4am here, and we
have the Brighton Centre gig tomorrow.....

Take care,
K+L

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5086954.stm

K+L

Is that Ozzie in the background during the interview part?

Richie

Oh, good eye, Richie! Yes, that is him. It looks as if he made that
cameo appearance just for us, doesn't it?

trrish

rough, not in order

WAY
ICE
Seeker (fucking amazig!)
mini opera (Quite beautiful )
PW-AJ-Sparks-LTY
Mirror
CIYW
Relay
Emminence Front
Naked Eye
WGFA

I want to say I was close to letting the tears go halfway through CIYW. It was
truly something beautiful. It seemed to me that roger started off too fast for
pete, and pete used his hand to slow it down, and then it just transported me
right out of my body. Sounds corny writing it, but it's twue it's twue.I think
it was Brian L. That had another take on it, that it was Zak that pete was
slowing down. Pete was in total control, kind of conductor-ish. It was okay by
me.
ozzie

Ozzie,
You must still be on Mountain Time. Its not bedtime here for a couple
of hours, so you may as well see the sunrise. Thanks for the posts!
Are you going to Brighton?

bob

Managed to take around 55 photos. There are a couple of weird ones..... We saw
Rabbit in drag ( well sort of). At the Bar and had a great laugh. Managed to
find a great Indian restaurant at midnight and had great meal with oswald and
Brian...there's a nice photo of that. On our way back and we feel dead from
Leeds. More later.

maxcontemporary

I just love this place!

I'll miss my new room in Kidderminster, A big kiss to John, Vanessa, the kids,
Tom, Max. Duke & Trrish.
love
ozzie

Couple more files, Pete and Roger after unveiling the plaque, on the
left is Andy Kershaw and next to him, in the cream suit/blue shirt, is Simon Brogan, he is the guy who booked the Who show back in 1970. He gave a short speech, leaving Roger in fits of laughter when he mentioned that one of Leeds other 'claims to fame' at that time was that the 'strongest LSD around was available on the Leeds Campus'! We have it on widescreen DV (digital
video tape), Roger and Pete did short speeches - Pete said he was
conscious of being there without Keith and John on this occasion.

The slightly mess picture (yes we could have cropped with Photoshop!)
does convey the considerable Media attention, national and local BBC, ITV and Sky TV were all picking up on the significance of the event. There was a press pack giving all the background, the BBC guy we parked close to and, seeing his ID badge,
had a short chat with earlier in the day - he mentioned there may be a
special programme, but BBC24 News and regular news slots, and Newsnight next week were definite. At the end of the show, he was at the back of the hall, looking through a pile of copious handwritten notes.

Plus, the ticket scan, really nice souvenir type, note the security
hologram in the top left corner.

Thanks to Max, Oz, for all the collaborative feedback - hope we have
all combined to give a flavour of 'being there' to you all...........all present company accepted, (or should that be excepted!), this was really
was all about Who2.

Take care,
K+L

Ozzie on the bbc....3rd word he spoke was f..king!! That was fun.
He's on bbc6 today at 1pm uk...shit that was 3/4 hour ago, maybe it'll
be archived or something, try bbc radio site. I don't need I saw Ozzie
live on the radio, front row, 6 inches away. Ozzie, I love you, thanks
for everything dude!!

John M P

On a balmy summer's night, the hottest ticket in town was The Who's
much-awaited return to Leeds. First things first, if this was the band
on the FIRST night of the tour god alone knows how good they'll be by
the LAST night because, from the opening chords of Who Are You right
through to the closing rush of Won't Get Fooled Again the band were
in blistering, breathless form.
Wire & Glass, the forthcoming single/mini-opera, was debuted and went
down a storm whilst old favourites like Relay were delivered with equal gusto.
I feel very lucky to have witnessed such an incendiary performance - as
I suspect everyone else in the packed, stiflingly hot Leeds Uni refectory felt
afterwards too. No need for me to wax lyrical about the performance as
it was all recorded for later release in the Encore Series so you'll all be
able to sample it for yourselves … can't wait. For now, some pix from
last night and the set-list. More pix to follow on Who site asap. And with that, it's on to sunny Brighton …

Hamish

Set-list:

Who Are You
Can't Explain
The Seeker
Substitute
Wire & Glass
Sound Around
Pick Up The Peace
Endless Wire
We've Got A Hit
They Made My Dreams Come True
Mirror Door
Baba O'Reilly
Relay
Behind Blue Eyes
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey
See Me
Listening To You

Encores:

Eminence Front
Won't Get Fooled Again

Um, sorry Hamish, but Ozzie said they did "Cry if You Want", and Max
said they did "Naked Eye" during the encore, and I believe them..!!!!

trrish

ps. yes, I know saying "um" is snarky.....

ozzie

JMP's friend Tom, JMP, Max, Max's son, Ian

Duke, Brian Lynch, ?, Ozzie

the who yep.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/realmedia/music/music_the_who_20060617.ram

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/thewholiveatleeds/reactions.htm

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