Leeds ticket info

Tue Jun 6 10:12:34 CDT 2006

BASTARDS!!!!!!!  Saturday?!  Why a Saturday!!!!!!!????????  Don't they know that any self-respecting Englishman is playing cricket on a Saturday?

I always said I should take over The Who's management :-)

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Message Received: Jun 06 2006, 01:18 PM
From: "Brian Cady" 
To: "oddsandsods" , "Relayers" , "thewho at igtc.com" 
Cc: 
Subject: Leeds ticket info

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

The Who - Live At Leeds Again 

The Refectory, 17 June 2006 at 7.30pm
£39.00 (includes booking fee of £1.50 per ticket)

Thirty-six years after the Who recorded their seminal
album – Live at Leeds – the band will again take the
stage at the University of Leeds’ legendary Refectory
venue, it was announced today. The Who will return to
play at the Refectory on Saturday, 17 June. Doors will
open at 7pm and the band will be supported by mod
rockers Casbah Club, featuring Pete Townshend’s
younger brother, Simon, as guitarist and vocalist. 

Released in 1970, Live at Leeds is still the
definitive live rock album and has just been voted
‘greatest live album of all time’ by Q Magazine.
Students queued for hours to get tickets for the
three-hour concert on 14 February 1970 and many who
failed took to the roof of the building that evening
to hear and feel the music. 

The seeds for the Who’s 2006 return were sown in a
conversation between University Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Michael Arthur and former Leeds University
ents secretary and BBC Radio 3 presenter, Andy
Kershaw, when Andy came to Leeds last year to accept
an honorary degree. As they stood on the Refectory
stage after the graduation, Professor Arthur told him
of plans to celebrate the venue and commemorate the
historic concert with a blue plaque. 

Andy Kershaw said: "By sheer coincidence, just two
weeks after speaking to Professor Arthur in Leeds
about their plans, I met the band’s manager Bill
Curbishley backstage at WOMAD. I told Bill I thought
it would be great if we got some members of the band
to unveil the plaque. Then I said, ‘and while they’re
there
.’ Bill finished my sentence: ‘they’ll do it’,
he said. And so the idea of a concert began. 

"With the band deciding on a world tour in 2006,
everything fell into place. What better place to start
the tour than the venue which cemented The Who’s
reputation as the best live rock band of their time?" 

Professor Arthur said: "Leeds has had its Nobel
prize-winners and other eminent academic achievements,
but the Live at Leeds concert by the Who is an equally
important part of the University’s history. It’s a
real tribute to the Refectory’s reputation that this
legendary event is to be marked with a repeat
performance." 

A Civic Trust plaque commemorating the historic
concert and venue will be unveiled on June 17 – more
details to follow. 

Sir Peter Blake is also creating a new artwork to
celebrate the return Live At Leeds concert by The Who.
Peter Blake was the art director for The Who’s Face
Dances album which is included in the Sir Peter Blake
Music Art Gallery at the University’s School of Music.
This unique collection also includes Sergeant Pepper,
Live Aid and all of Peter Blake’s other key music art.
The Live At Leeds 2 artwork will be added to the
gallery collection at Leeds, as will Peter’s recent
Live 8 artwork. 

Pete Townshend is a longstanding friend of Peter Blake
and an admirer of his art. Peter Blake is a life-long
fan of The Who and he will be in the audience for the
landmark concert at Leeds on June 17. 

Tickets are limited and go on sale to the general
public in Leeds University Union (CTS) on the
University campus on June 9 at 9am on a first come,
first served basis, with a maximum of two per person
(no telephone bookings).Tickets cost £37.50 plus £1.50
booking fee for card purchases – no fee for cash
bookings. 

For more information, contact University of Leeds
Director of Media Relations, Vanessa Bridge on 0113
343 4030 

Live at Leeds cemented the Refectory’s reputation as
the most celebrated university music venue in the
country, which continues to this day. It boasts an
incredible roll-call down the generations from Led
Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, the Kinks
and Black Sabbath to Elton John, Queen, Roxy Music,
Bob Marley, Santana, AC/DC, the Clash, the Jam, Ian
Dury, Motorhead, the Pretenders, UB40, Simple Minds,
the Stranglers, the Smiths, James Brown, Ian Brown,
Embrace, Manic Street Preachers, Franz Ferdinand, KT
Tunstall and the Arctic Monkeys 

The concert came hot on the heels of the band’s
success at Woodstock and included the last complete
live performance of the rock opera Tommy as well as
many of the band’s best known songs. With its
distinctive brown cover, designed to look like a
bootleg, the original album contained just six tracks
from the gig. The full concert is now available on
double CD, but a mint original vinyl copy can sell for
up to £150. 

The University ents secretary who booked the band in
1970 will be travelling down from his Scottish sheep
farm for the gig. Simon Brogan had first seen the Who
live at the Marquee Club in London in 1965, when they
smashed up their equipment at the end of the set in
true rock fashion. He was a bit concerned that if the
band decided to do the same at Leeds it could put an
end to future gigs in the Refectory. 

Simon Brogan said: "As the temperature rose during the
concert and Pete Townshend yelled to his roadies to
get him some air, I had visions of smashed windows,
but luckily managed to persuade them to wait till I’d
got my keys out to open them." 

The band’s fee for the concert was £1,000 but they
didn’t even cash the money. "I had to give them
another cheque when they came back that November to
play at Leeds again," he said. Tickets for the Leeds
gig cost 11s 6d (equivalent to about £6 today) and
were sold out almost as soon as they went on sale. 

Another concert in Hull failed to make it to the live
album because a technical hitch meant the equipment
didn’t record the bass track. Similar problems nearly
put paid to the Leeds concert as well. "During the
afternoon, we realised that the recording would need
double the electricity that was available," said
Simon. "Luckily, two students on the ents committee,
Peter Jennings and Alan Hart, were technical whiz kids
and got the problem sorted in time for the show." 

Mike and Brenda Rigelsford, two Leeds students who got
engaged just before the Valentine’s Day concert in
1970 will also be returning to Leeds for the 2006 gig.
Still avid Who fans, they both remember the evening as
one of the best of many they shared at the Refectory.
"The band attracted a predominantly male crowd," Mike
recalls, "but there were a few enthusiastic female
fans. The Who’s untraditional rendition of Tommy was
just outstanding." 

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."

-Brian in Atlanta
The Who This Month!
http://www.thewhothismonth.com

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