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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/live-music-reviews/9528853/Leonard-Cohen-Wembley-Arena-review.html

Probably wont work, because it isn't blue, but I tried!

Neil Young's voice is so weird I don't know how it works..but it does [same with Dylan, I guess. phoenix; d'you think someone could do us an 'idiots guide to posting links'. I'm always ranting on about things but can't put a link in to show what I'm going on about .

If I wasn't such a techno numpty I would post a link.

crimson Neil Young is another of my favourites, his voice transports me instantly to a particularly balmy Sunday afternoon in the early 70s
phoenix I'll see if I can see it online, the reviews from all over Europe since the tour began have been terrific.

Baubles there was a review in yesterdays Daily Telegraph of one of Leonard Cohens concerts on this tour, and it was brilliant!

...just dug out my Neil Young 'Best Of' cd; had a quick [and very LOUD] blast of Ohio [one of the best songs ever ever] and now on Cowgirl in the Sand....this quite often happens to me late at night [I'll just have a listen to..]. It's going to be a long night/evening [except the dog has just started howling to tell me, I think, that it's too loud].

One of my DSs loves Bob Dylon and John Lennon and he is 30!

crimson I'm a Dave Swarbrick/Martin Carthy fan too, even danced the Dorset fourhand reel to Swarb's music in my youth
Last heard him play about 3 years ago at the Sage in Gateshead, he didn't look at all well so glad he's still with us

I have stayed faithful to the Rolling Stones for 50 years this year, through thick and thin. I often play Bob Dylan CDs from the 60s.

In the late 50s, early 60s, I remember sugar starching many layers of pink and white net petticoats, which smelled like candy floss when they were ironed under my mum's linen tea towels, which then became sticky! They attracted wasps when my friends and I went out in the summer.

Thanks absent I'm sure we will all enjoy it & I'll have lots of time with my mother since she is very kindly putting all up. I like the tandem thread too

I've just bought Neil Young's 'Americana' and it's my 'music for driving to' at the moment. I'd love to see him live [he was brilliant at Glastonbury a few years back]. Got an autobiography coming out soon which I shall buy. And [better late than never] I've just started to appreciate the Stones, especially Keith richard's guitar playing. If there's one cd I go back to playing on a regular basis it's Pink Floyd's 'Relics'..alas no chance of seeing them play with Syd and Rick both gone. Also [and there's going to be lots of their stuff on BBC4 soon; hurrah!] Fairport Convention. I did get to see Swarb play recently at a Sandy Denny tribute concert, along with Maddy Prior. I did go to see Steeleye Span the other year and have to admit to being rather disappointed, but that was mainly due to the choice of songs they played [they used music from an album that even they admitted wasn't very good; I didn't see the logic in that ]. I suppose folk bands go on forever, as do heavy metal ones......[can't believe Leonard Cohen is 77]. And, the good thing about seeing folk groups is that I'm often one of the youngest people there .

Hooped petticoats in the 50s, when you sat down your dress went right up at the front and obscured your face, good for hiding your blushes.
I like Leonard Cohen.

feetlebaum and Elegran I was querying trouser slips that JO4 mentioned not slips for wearing under skirts and frocks.

Tweed skirts were quite popular in the 60s, I also was one of the knicker brigade but the doctors at the hospital, where I worked, were not so polite.
I do wear slips/petticoats if the dress material is quite see-through. I have found some of the crinkle dresses, particularly East, cling and show off my nana knickers.

eGJ on reading this thread that was just what I was going to say - you beat me to it! Oh yes, only too well. They went with hairspray in squeezy bottles.

We live in an area where all the old 60s group keep popping up. Recently went to see Alan Price and he was brilliant, had a dry sense of humour too which surprised us. The Hollies come round regularly too.

eGJ Yes paper nylon. Very fashionable in the 1950s. When my mother bought one for me I thought I was amazingly grown up.

I like the way this thread is covering two completely unrelated topics in parallel.

Does anyone else recalled those petticoats that you had to dip in a sugar solution after you'd washed them? Weren't they called paper nylon? They'd swish as you walked!!

baublesbandb I don't think it comes across to me. I had some of his LPs when I was a student and found them so depressing that I threw them away. However, I hope you enjoy your concert tomorrow and also have time to say hello to your mum.

absent that's a common misconception, he has quite a wicked sense of humour which comes across in a number of his songs.

So they did. Now hardly anyone wears skirts, and those who do don't seem to notice that they go all droopy and cling where you don't want them to. It is not only VPL, they show every lump and bump, even the crease in your bottom is revealed.

Don't they wear them any more? It was always claimed that skirts hung better over a slip or a petticoat.

I didn't know that JO4 and I have no idea why anyone would want them. Disguising the VPL?

janeainsworth I called those petticoats. A slip was a waist one. (never bother now even though DD said she could see my spotty knickers through my white skirt (no it's not chavvy!) (the skirt that is))

Oh I know Mr Ferry is considered 'hot' by the ladies... even quite hip ones. I remember taking some music to Shepperton for the pianist, Anne O'Dell who was rehearsing with Ferry for a tour - she was all fluttery - never seen her like that before! Couldn't take her eyes off him...

You can get trouser slips!