What was new at 'Beyond the Pale'
January 2010
January 29:
January 28:
Added a page depicting the
2009
Procol European Autumn tour tee-shirt ... more Procol Harum
tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course:
click here
January 27:
Added a footnote to this page, and
a 'Musical Fish' teeshirt here
(thanks, Maurice)
January 26:
'Beyond the Pale' relies greatly – indeed is largely based on – feedback and
facts from Procol-minded people who write in. Four points arising in the course
of the last 24 hours, therefore!
1. Regarding
yesterday's item, about the statistics relating to countries from which BtP
is visited: yes, the counter is still on the 'What's New' page ... scroll down
and have a look at it! (If the numbers look different, that's because it's 24
hours since we made the table). You can read a previous announcement,
heralding this counter exactly one year ago,
2. Good point: we've added a table to
that page showing the 'rank order' of countries according to their absolute
scores (obviously, this gives a very different order from the original table
showing the scores relative to the countries' populations).
3. To our Canadian friends ... sorry, we referred to the
upcoming Procol Harum dates as being 'in the USA' though we do know very
well that Toronto is not in America. A question of judgment decided in haste ...
the dates had just been confirmed and we were rushing to get the news out
(thank you, Martin)
4 Added
about 20 American (and Canadian!) Procol Harum dates ... feedback welcome!
(thanks, Dave)
January 24:
Denmark, Norway, Jersey, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, Oman,
Ireland, Austria, Cook Islands, Germany, America ...
Why are these territories ranked in this order, and why are we publishing such a
list today?
Added an explanation here
January 23:
Added six concert dates –
here,
here,
here,
here,
here and
here – for Procol Harum in the summer
(thanks, Chris)
We understand that the confirmation of
these dates means that Procol's planned recording has been moved to later in the
year
January 21:
RIP
Ed Thigpen
Added another in BtP's 'Also' series in
which Procol fans recommend other music they enjoy, revealing sometimes
surprising links to the Harum world
(thanks, Fred)
Updated Jupp links here (thanks,
Lars)
January 20:
Added a page depicting the
2007 Brooker and Reid: Procol Rarum tee-shirt ... more Procol Harum
tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course:
click here
January 19:
RIP Kate McGarrigle
January 18:
Added the words of a hitherto-missing
Brooker/Reid song
January 17:
'Two great albums then, which should be hastily added to any
self-respecting fan of the era’s collection.'
Added
a review of the second pair of Salvo Procol re-issues
January 16:
'Mabel and ’Twas Teatime
... seemed very out of place in the order of the album
... they did disappoint me and a lot of Procol fans ...'
Added a personal
review of Something Magic in the Salvo
reissue series (thanks, Fred)
January 15:
Added a personal
review of Something Magic – to a 1977
concert-review by the same author (thanks,
Alfred)
January 14:
RIP Teddy Pendergrass
'Brooker, as a tunesmith, brilliantly
realised the often difficult task of setting Keith
Reid’s idiosyncratic lyrical barbs to memorable music'
Added a
review of the first couple of Salvo Procol re-issues
January 13:
January 11:
RIP Mick Green (BtP
picture)
Can I go back to the past a little bit?
Sure.
Is it okay with you?
Yeah, of course.
You had a long relationship with Gary Brooker ...
Added a good-length Robin
Trower interview (thanks, Bradshaw)
January 10:
RIP Tony Clarke
January 9:
January 8:
Added a page depicting the
tee-shirt from the 2006 Ledreborg shows ... more Procol Harum tee-shirt
snaps are welcome, of course: click here
January 7:
January 5:
Added
the twelfth and final instalment
in this Winterval's Procol puzzles – and a thirteenth instruction that
tells you what you have to do to win your choice of prizes.
January 4:
January 3:
Added the tenth and antepenultimate
instalment in this Winterval's Procol puzzles.
January 2:
Added
the ninth instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles.
Remember to consider the tracks that feature on the two Salvo
compilations, as well as having been reissued on their parent albums
New Year's Day:
Happy New Decade!
Added the eighth instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles, and watch out for bonus tracks!
Read what was new
on this website in previous months
With
great regret we announce the passing, on 24 January 2010 at the University Hospital, Regensburg, of