Happy 2000 from UK

Subject: Happy 2000 from UK
From: wildlone
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:16 PM

Its here as I write this it sounds like a war zone outside.
Happy new year to all at Mudcat

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:23 PM

GEEZIZ....What a FANTASTIC display!!! Wonder if WWII folks had flashbacks??? Tremendous...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:25 PM

well done UK! I just saw the fireworks from London....spectacular!....Greenwich time is here!! Now WE have 5 hours to wait...but I think I have already seen what I need to...wow!!!Along with pics of the Maoris in New Zealand, that was the best,,...

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:29 PM

Hapy New Year from Harlow - and welcome to the last year of the 20th Century.

Great fireworks - but the cats weren't too sure about them.

Looks like the bug's not got us yet, anyway.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Áine
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:37 PM

Happy New Year, UK!!! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! I just loved seeing Herself swinging hands with the PM -- what a hoot! Good show boys and girls!

Love to all of you, Áine

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Brakn
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:47 PM

Happy New Year, Altrincham,UK.

Mick Bracken

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Llanfair
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:49 PM

Just back from the gig. Happy new year. I'm going to be up for most of the night with a retreiver cross who is terrified of fireworks. Hey ho, Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Llanfair
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:49 PM

Just back from the gig. Happy new year. I'm going to be up for most of the night with a retreiver cross who is terrified of fireworks. Hey ho, Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:53 PM

Bang bang.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Davey
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 08:18 PM

Rather spectacular display you Brits put on. We all got a big thrill watching on the TVs here at work. (oops, I said the dreaded 4-letter word..) Unfortunately I have to be on a Y2K team here in Toronto, watching a bank's network computers at midnight, instead of making music with my friends.

My best wishes go out to all you Mudcatters for health, good friends and much music in the coming year and beyond....

Davey... (:>)

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 08:40 PM

Another Happy New Year form the UK. I just went out to a local pub and got fairly mellow. At the risk of upsetting the royalists, I must say that the highlight of my night was the TV getting switched off in favour of the Pogues "Fairy Tale of New York" on the juke box.

Jon

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 08:44 PM

Well, now it's done, can I go back to bed please?

My ears are still ringing from the discharge of gunpowder - I hereby declare that 2000 should be the year of the asthmatic - we've had a good start!!!

Love to all, esp those who are still sober for one reason or another, I had a great time, and only one mouthful of Cava, it can be done!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: bill\sables
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 09:02 PM

All the best to mudcatters wherever you are and a special thankyou to MAX for letting us all get to know each other. Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Curtis & Loretta
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 09:11 PM

It's only 8:09 pm here in Minneapolis, but there's fireworks going off in the distance. We can hear them from here, though we can't see them. We're safe and warm in our house, and don't want to venture out. Went to an afternoon New Year's Eve party.

Happy 2000 to you all!!

Loretta

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 09:11 PM

This has been a spectacular day on the tube. Just some great scenes. And Bill, you're right...a hat tip to Max!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 09:13 PM

Opps, I forgot to say the TV was switched off when God save the Queen was played.

Jon

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Micca
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 10:30 PM

BBs and happiness to all my Mudcat friends its about 3.30 in the morning and I am just going to bed after a ( purely medicinal) whisky. Lagavulin if you must know. oiche va Micca

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 10:34 PM

Micca, I wish I'd had some Lagavulin in! It is the best medicine that I know of (as well as being my favouite whisky).

Jon

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: alison
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 10:36 PM

Looked great... and Happy New Year to all ....

the bit I liked about the dome was just before the kids ran across to pull down the curtains... the queen had to open the rope to let them out..... maybe whoever was meant to do it forgot.... hahahaha .. or was that the queen's official opening of it... we only got snippets.. didn't see Auld Lang Ayne... they were busy interviewing hungover Irish backpackers on Bondi Beach.....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Brendy
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 10:47 PM

And a very happy New year to all of you from a white, -10 degrees, Oslo, where it is now 04.37.
Janet Baker is singing on the BBC World Service, my new candle is burning nicely on the top of my monitor, and all seems right with the world.
"Wouldn't it be nice if it was like this all the time?" - Van the Man.

Love and peace - Breandán

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Brendy
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 10:56 PM

Apropos the pre 12.00 concert in the Dome.
They really made a mess of 'All you need is Love' didn't they? Somebody should have given Hucknall and Co. a sheet with the words on it. I thought Jools Holland's face told it all.
It was the most entertaining rendition of the song I've heard in years.
I noticed HRH didn't cross her arms for 'Auld Lang Syne'. Phillip neither!
Nice fireworks though.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: alison
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 11:29 PM

Hahaha... yeah only Mick Hucknell came in at the right place in the first verse... we saw that bit...... getting the Bee Gees from somewhere now......

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Escamillo
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 12:16 AM

Happy New Year and congratulations for (seems to me) the most musical of the celebrations, the London's.
Un abrazo - Andrés Magré

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 01:20 AM

Happy new year, UKkians! Those were great fireworks over the old Thames! T.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: roopoo
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 04:19 AM

Happy New Year to the world! I know I'm a bit late for some, but I wasn't to be trusted with technology at 2am, and now I am conscious again at 9, I would like to welcome one and all to the first new day of a new year, in what I suppose I must learn to call a new century. I would like to think it is also the dawn of a new age of humanity, in all ways.

I think I must be one of the few who hasn't seen anything of what went on at the Dome! I daresay highlights will be shown.

Gotta go now and have my first caffeine. I am cutting down and I mean to savour every sip! Only allowing myself 3 cups a day. I am making sure they are bigguns!

mouldy

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 05:01 AM

G'day,
The London fireworks were nearly as good as the Sydney ones. Not surprising I suppose - they were done by an Aussie.

Cheers,
Alan (a completely unbiased Aussie)

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 06:27 AM

But did anyone notice? - shots from all over the world, and pretty well every where there was something reflecting the traditional music of the place. The exception being England, where the locals are embarrassed by it.

Though I don't suppose massed Morris dancers would have gone down as well as nekkid samba!

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 07:32 AM

What about nekkid Morris dancers? THAT would have been a sight to see!
Allison-who-watched-American-public-television-which-didn't-show-ANY-of-the-UK-celebrations!!:-(

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Alan Francis
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 08:51 AM

I spent ?Millennium Eve? at my Sailing Club, with 50 other dinghy sailing cronies, pigging out on imported Fruits de Mer and being entertained by four teenagers from the East Herts Youth Jazz Orchestra who played so well that I wished I had been as good a musician at their age. Perhaps I was, and the talent has subsequently dissipated. Watch out for a lad called Eddie Gray - one day he'll give Jools Holland a run for his money!

The point of this is that the Club is on the Greenwich Meridian, so we lit one of a chain of beacons that marked the line. Ours consisted of several superannuated boats - a sort of southern Up Helly Aa (Down Helly Aa?).

Yes, we had fireworks; ours, plus the glow of London's from the south, plus about fifty other local and distant displays, all reflected in the lake. Fireworks work best over water.

Is Sydney Harbour Bridge still standing - they seemed to use an entire Somme of pyrotechnics!

Anyway, the atmosphere was magic - as it seemed to be almost everywhere, so to hell with pedantic "it is" "oh no it's not" millennial considerations. Let's do it again next year and cover our options - come to that, why not every year?

Ageing Hippy he say "Love and Peace to All, Mudcats, Musos, in fact, everyone"

Perhaps not naked Morris dancers, though.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: alison
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 08:53 AM

there were Morris dancers ... but they were in Spain!!!

They showed "Boys of the Lough" here.. just a snippet of them playing in a pub... followed by the comment "Ally Bain, she's one of the finest folk performers in Scotland."

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Little Dorritt
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 12:07 PM

well i'm glad its all over really, another New Year where I have failed to make the Honour's List. really enjoyed Jools hollands Hootannay with lonnie donegan, travis and van morrison- best thing on telly all weekend the man should be given a knighthood. i think the queens inability to cross her arms during auld lang syne is the product of centuries of in breeding and she is physically unable to extend her arm sockets- either that or she was worried the bloke behind her was a pickpocket. Cherie Blair was giving it some welly though wasn't she, even if she didn't synchronise the words and the music or was that the Wembly effect. The best coverage I felt was from Stonehaven in Scotland where these masive kilted chaps were swirling huge bals of fire around in a procession - it was stunning.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: lajka
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 01:07 PM

Thanks! Have a great year! From Eva in Sweden.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 02:35 AM

OOOOOh, kilts, balls of fire, boy, was I watching the wrong channel!!!

And didn't HM Q have a face like a smacked bum!!! Mind you, if I had to hold hands with Tony Bleurgh and Prince Philip, I think I'd probably look like that too.....

Crossing arms over your chest is rather difficult if you are genetically disposed to short arms and big chests. You end up throttling yourself.....

LTS, after her 2nd party in 24 hours, is going to have a quiet day at church..... very quiet, I still have no voice!

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: roopoo
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 02:56 AM

D'you know, Liz, my mate in Wiltshire said virtually the same as you about HMQ. She did also notice however that the Princess Royal managed to crack a smile.

I'm off to church too very shortly. I spent most of yesterday semi-comatose in an armchair. Technically I have recovered. It's my daughter's 19th birthday today and we are very foolishly leaving the house to her and her student friends while Ian and I go off overnight to his company bash this afternoon. How will I relax in the sauna at the country club knowing that lot are on the loose?

Do I care?

mouldy

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Brendy
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 03:35 AM

As I write, there is a discussion on BBC 5 Live about the famous 'River of Fire'
Anybody who spotted it is invited to inform the BBC at bbc.co.uk
In breeding....that's a good'un!
B.

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Micca
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 06:18 AM

Hi Guys, Just when i thought the celebration was over the wheels came off. Our house guests, from the New years party at another friends, suggested we pop into the pub on their way to the station on their way home. 4 hours later, New Years Eve II was well under way, other friends turned up and we ate and went to the pub and came back to my house to drink copious quantities of Single Malt ( Tobermory, Lagavulin, Bowmore, Glenmorangie) and got to bed at about 3.30am Which accounts for the state in which we sent the Shark (her SO) home to Liz the Squeak. Liz didn't attend due to Flu,

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 07:38 AM

Happy new year to everyone at mudcat. Hope this year sees the fulfilment of all your hopes and ambitions. Best wishes for another year of musical co-operation where the boundries of the sea or land make no difference to people being people. harmony and peace. Eric ps My wife gave me a mandolin for Christmas, all I have do do is learn to play it. Any help would be appreciated to; [e-mail] Thanks

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: selby
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 09:44 AM

May we all have a Happy and Peacful New Year Keith

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: InOBU
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 11:18 AM

Happy New Year Boys and Girls:
Lovely fire works,
Best wishes
Larry and Genie Otway

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Graham & Sam Pirt
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 05:51 PM

Happy new(ish)year!

We've just got up after recovering from a great celebration - No fireworks, no TV, no millennium dome just lots and lots of great music with lots of people.

It was great - we'll do it again - next millennium!

Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 04:13 AM

No, Micca, LTS didn't attend because she was cooking 5 gallons of Millennium Minestrone soup for party No.2, which got underway at about 1.30pm, after the midday church service..... And was very annoyed because the Shark was supposed to bring the salt with him, and was late, so people had to have soup with no salt and no butter either! Mind you, out of 50+ people, only 3 asked for salt, so maybe it wasn't that bad..... I still had the flu though, but 85% of a Black Forest Gateau has made me feel a lot better.....

LTS