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30Jun2008

Glastonbury



Just back from Glasto, which was mer­ci­fully dry. Had a good show on sat­urday, but realise that it’s an old and tired rou­tine so I’m retir­ing it until I can write a new one…

18 comments

  1. Thomas Robinson - June 30, 2008 3:59 PM

    Good luck with the new show, not that i expect you’ll need it. You prob­a­bly have enough funny sto­ries that you could tell to write another ten books, so i guess the hard part will be pick­ing which lucky ones to reveal to the pub­lic. You might find peo­ple start being very gen­er­ous to you in the hope you’ll keep quiet about them! 😆

    Do you think that you’ll per­form the new rou­tine in this coun­try or are you going to tour aus­tralia or amer­ica with it?

  2. Phoenix - June 30, 2008 8:16 PM

    It’s a sign of what I con­sider to be a bet­ter artist/​performer/​creator. Instead of rehash­ing the same old stuff, you seek to keep things fresh and new. While I’m a faint touch sad it’s not likely I’d get to see the older stuff (which for American audi­ences would be pretty new despite hav­ing read the book — sev­eral times), I’m very glad there’s more where that came from, I’m sure. 🙂

    Getting ready to spend the evening watch­ing my sec­ond most favorite bass player and his crew from the Great White North,
    Nix.

  3. suzie - June 30, 2008 10:41 PM

    Thank you for an unex­pected and enjoy­able set on the out­side com­edy stage at Glastonbury on Sunday. I must admit I am igno­rant of most things musi­cal, I have a lazy inter­est in music and like inter­est­ing things to present them­selves to me, rather than look for them myself. So it was so nice to dis­cover you and your musi­cal his­tory. I will be check­ing your book out for sure and all the work that you have done that is so famil­iar. Thanks again hope to see you pre­form again soon. S x

  4. Stefano - July 1, 2008 5:08 PM

    Dear Guy,

    if you still haven’t found an inspi­ra­tion for your next book, an idea could be come in Italy, drink a good glass of wine (red), remem­ber the fan­tas­tic gig in Venice, Florence, Milan ecc…, prob­a­bly you could take an inspi­ra­tion.

    If I could write for you, prob­a­bly I Will write In a chap­ter of your new book about the gran prix that I had in Milan (after the sec­ond show of David) from Teatro Arcimboldi To the Hotel Savoia.…to fol­low you Bus.…..my lit­tle Smart has been burn­ing!

    The name of the chap­ter could be “A Monza GP to take an auto­graph from Guy”.….

    By the way, thank’s again for the auto­graph (that is not for sale! :-)) )

    Best best best regards.

    Stefano

  5. Sarah - July 1, 2008 9:07 PM

    Hello Guy,

    I am the co-admin­is­tra­tor of rick​-wright​.org and I was won­der­ing if you might be able to give me some advice. We have wishes to make our site an offi­cial site because we would love to help pro­mote Richard in any way, but we’re not sure how to go about it exactly or if it’s even a pos­si­bil­ity. So I was hop­ing that maybe you could offer me some advice. Where should I even begin? Would Richard even be inter­ested in hav­ing an offi­cial site? Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appre­ci­ated. 🙂 Thank you so much Guy!

    Cheers!
    Sarah
    xx

  6. Jason Bell - July 2, 2008 10:52 AM

    Guy,

    I think you and Tony Levin should trade sto­ries, pre­tend you were in King Crimson… try the Chapman Stick…

    With all this men­tion of credit crunch I’m resort­ing to read­ing the book in the local newsagent, I got some strange looks while I was howl­ing out loud, then I blew my cover and had to leave.

    Pop over for a few Guiness any­time.

    Greetings from Northern Ireland
    Jase

  7. Caroline - July 4, 2008 5:23 PM

    Completely under­stand your want­ing to retire ye olde rou­tine, Guy…as ‘Nix pointed out, great enter­tain­ers know when some­thing is get­ting tired and needs to be made fresh again. Like ‘Nix, I’ll hate miss­ing the old rou­tine, but that’s what your (con­stantly read) book reme­dies. 🙂 That said, could your inkling towards even­tu­ally work­ing on a new rou­tine pos­si­bly mean a new book too? If it does, you can bet that I would be among the very first to nab a copy… 🙂

    - Caroline

  8. Thomas Robinson - July 8, 2008 7:46 PM

    I don’t think any­one minded too much that the show two weeks ago was pre-recorded did they? I bet there were one or two that com­plained though weren’t there? There are always a few.

    Guy can you remem­ber which Neil Young song it was that you played on Sunday? I’m pretty sure it was just before you did the smack the baby bit and then played Black Dog. Or if any­one else knows i’ll be equally grate­ful. I’ll just try the lis­ten again fea­ture but i dont think you said the name of the song.

    Cheers
    Thomas

  9. Phoenix - July 9, 2008 5:24 AM

    Thomas, Rocking in the Free World?

  10. Karen - July 9, 2008 9:09 AM

    [smack the baby bit] that’s funny

  11. Caroline - July 9, 2008 4:29 PM

    Yea…that’s “Rockin’ In The Free World”, off of Mr. Young’s Freedom. And for some rea­son, I swear a radio sta­tion I used to lis­ten to in Raleigh, NC claimed that Pearl Jam joined Neil on the orig­i­nal. When, based on what I’ve looked up and have already known, Pearl Jam could have only per­formed “Rockin’…” with Neil when they were tour­ing in sup­port of Mirror Ball (not count­ing any var­i­ous ben­e­fit-type concerts/​shows)…

    As much as I loved it grow­ing up, that sta­tion could be a bit weird sometimes…and not to men­tion occa­sion­ally more than a lit­tle off on their band/​artist facts. o_​O

    - Caroline

  12. Mondo - July 23, 2008 8:04 PM

    Hello Guy!

    Just a quick per­sonal ques­tion.

    I have a woman friend who says she used to be very good friends with you. Her name is Leona Whitehead. Do you know or remem­ber her?

    Cheers guy!! Love your work.

  13. Guy Pratt - July 24, 2008 8:32 PM

    Mondo
    Doesn’t ring a bell…But that does­n’t mean much..Any clues?

  14. mondo - July 24, 2008 10:39 PM

    She said she was good mates with you before Pulse tour days.

    But never mind. Cheers for the reply.

    And best of luck on writ­ing your new mate­r­ial. I never got to see the old show. By the time I found out about it it was all too late. Will make your next one.

    Catch ya later mate.

  15. Thomas Robinson - July 30, 2008 7:45 PM

    Just a cou­ple of quick ques­tions Guy if you’ve got a spare cou­ple of min­utes.

    Firstly, you were just kid­ding when you said that you drive a prius weren’t you? I hope you were.

    Secondly, and a bit more impor­tantly, do you think that your show will be moved and have you got any ideas where it could end up? Is it going back to its old slot? I remem­ber that you said some­thing like “in their infi­nite wis­dom they’ve moved my show to a new slot” when it was moved to the sun­day evening which sug­gested that you pref­ered the fri­day night tim­ing.

    Cheers Guy,
    Thomas

  16. Karen - August 1, 2008 7:28 AM

    Umm, had to lis­ten to your show via lis­ten again option, but it cut off last few min­utes, you started to say some­thing about maybe not being there next week, but I missed the rest. 🙁

  17. Caroline - August 2, 2008 8:17 AM

    Well, accord­ing to the Planet Rock newslet­ter I got yes­ter­day, Guy’s show is still sched­uled to come on Sundays at 7PM GMT. Unless the poten­tial sched­ule change is to take place later this month, hope­fully that’s a sign that the show will stay put where it is…

    Before you men­tioned Nigel Slater on your show last Sunday, Guy, I had actu­ally heard of Nigel. But I don’t know how…given that BBC America nor the Food Network have not fea­tured him, at least as far as I know. *sighs* A shame, really, for in what I have read on and off about Mr. Slater, his cook­ing and recipes sound GREAT.

    Come to think of it, I don’t think FN and BBCA are even fea­tur­ing any­thing with Jamie Oliver right now, and haven’t for some­time. *sighs again* If there was any­one else I would credit with really get­ting me into cook­ing besides Alton Brown and the Iron Chefs (the REAL ones from Japan…not that IC America slop), it is def­i­nitely Jamie.

    - Caroline

    P.S. Phoenix, you still here? If you are, you (along with any­one else here) may be inter­ested in one or more of a TON of comic books and related col­lectibles I am finally let­ting go of and sell­ing after quit­ting col­lect­ing comics a lit­tle over five years ago. If you are indeed inter­ested, e‑mail me (mandala4444@​gmail.​com), be it with whichever superhero(es) or team(s) you col­lect or in gen­eral, and I’ll see what I can gather for you ASAP.

    And that said, I already apol­o­gize for the (very) shame­less AND geeky plug…I promise it will be the only one of its kind I post here.

  18. Phoenix - August 3, 2008 12:18 AM

    Oh, I’m always here.