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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