Re: Meshell tourdates

From: Mark Allerton (Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 21:34:52 MET DST

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    I was at that gig at the Grand too - I was _so_ pissed off at the way things
    were cut short.

    Actually, I seem to recall Travis causing major lateness at V99 last year
    too...

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Richard Hawkins <rhawkins@stark.co.uk>
    To: Acid jazz list <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 12:41 PM
    Subject: RE: Meshell tourdates

    > Sounds like she doesn't have much luck in that department.
    > I saw her at the Clapham Grand a couple of years ago on her own gig night.
    > The Grand at that time was apparently having a lot of licensing problems
    and
    > the local residents had complained about noise. The band finished their
    set
    > about 11 o'clock and were cheered back on for an encore but the management
    > cut the power to their instruments to stop them playing. The drummer and
    > percussionist carried on and you could see Meshell singing but obviously
    > couldn't hear her. The crowd were cheering away but eventually Meshell got
    > pissed off and stormed off stage.
    > The crowd should have ripped the place apart but being English they
    departed
    > in a fairly orderly manner.
    >
    > Richard
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Rene Wirtz [mailto:rwirtz@xs4all.nl]
    > Sent: 11 May 2000 11:53
    > To: 'acid-jazz@ucsd.edu'
    > Subject: RE: Meshell tourdates
    >
    >
    > Same thing happened at the North Sea Jazz edition of 97 I believe.
    > Originally she was scheduled as third act of a series of six, but on the
    > day itself she was rescheduled to the 5th time slot. As you can imagine,
    > every preceding act overran it's time limit and the organization decided
    it
    > might be a wise idea to win back some time at Me'shell's set. At the time
    > she would have normally ended her set (she played 45 minutes of the
    > original 90 minutes) someone whispered her something in her ear and the
    > reaction was the same as at River Stages. She thanked the audience and
    then
    > cursed the organization and vowed never to come back again.
    > Imagine my surprise when she showed up at the preliminary list of acts for
    > North Sea Jazz 2000 ...
    >
    > h a s t a l a b y e b y e,
    >
    > r e n e w i r t z
    > don't forget to discover your bueno side ...
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Leftalive1@aol.com [SMTP:Leftalive1@aol.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 11:23 AM
    > To: flyamazon@netzero.net
    > Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    > Subject: Re: Meshell tourdates
    >
    > I am the maddest motherf**ker on earth...
    > Meshell was scheduled to play River Stages ( an annual weekend long
    orgy
    > of bands held here in Nashville ) this past weekend. She was to go on
    > after
    > Travis, who ended up being an hour and a half late going on, essentially
    > playing in her time slot. After they were finished with their set it was
    > another fourty five minutes until Meshell took the stage, but I didn't
    > care,
    > I was going to get to see Meshell do her thing and I was excited. ( she
    was
    > the only reason I bought the freakin' ticket... ) Three songs into her
    > set,
    > one of the stage hands comes out and whispers something into her ear that
    > pisses her off so bad that she takes her bass, throws it down on the
    > ground,
    > and walks off stage with the rest of the band in tow. A split second later
    > some local radio yokel introduces Gov't Mule on the second stage and they
    > launch into their set. The only explaination that I can come up with is
    > that
    > they must have cut her off in the interest of time. The whole deal had to
    > be
    > over with at a certain time and there were still three more bands to go
    > after
    > Gov't Mule. I was so pissed off that I left. She was the only soul / r&b
    > artist amongst the onslought of three chord rock that dominated the
    > weekend,
    > and she gets clipped short because a bunch of scottish cats can't show up
    > on
    > time? Please...
    >



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