Anyone going along to Ken's talk at Waterstones, Glasgow, as part of Peel Day?

[Neil Saddington]

I look forward to seeing and hearing you talk on Thurs Ken, don't 
fret about any mistakes too much. I guess it's inevitable with such a 
large research task, as the one you embarked upon, that there's going 
to be a few wee errors here and there. I'm sure the reviews in the 
Sunday papers will be deservedly favourable.

All the best,

Neil--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for those kind words, Neil. All I can see are the mistakes 
at 
> the moment (there are a few, but nothing absolutely catastrophic - 
> yet! Although collectively we did mess up one of the picture 
> captions, oops) but I still feel ok about it.
> 
> It would be great to see some of you at Waterstone's Sauchiehall 
> Street on Thursday, 6.30pm start, but please don't get too excited 
> about the "guests". It's very informal, and likely to be two or 
three 
> Glasgow band people only, who I might ask to contribute from the 
> floor. I'll be showing some pics from the book and some others that 
> did not make the cut for various technical reasons, and playing 
some 
> session tracks, including one or two that are not generally 
> available. But mainly it's me talking, and if you've read the book 
> already by then there won't be much you don't know in my spiel, I'm 
> afraid. If you want your copy of the book to decline in value 
> dramatically I'll deface it with my illegible signature...
> 
> Nice feedback so far from some of my contributors: lovely postcard 
> from Helen Walters, nice messages from Louise and Hanna at Radio 1, 
> long phone call from Bernie Andrews last night saying "you've 
> made an old man very happy" (I didn't know what to say), tear-
stained 
> email from Chris Lycett at work today. Plus 5 stars in Metro and 4 
in 
> Q and even a blob plug "one 2 read for the weekend" in today's 
> Scottish Sun! (coincidentally written by one of my journalism 
> graduates, fancy that). Now I am nervously awaiting the posh 
papers' 
> reviews tomorrow and Sunday.
> 
> I'm in London all day Wednesday (up at 5.30am for the early flight, 
> not back till midnight) doing loads of pre-recorded interviews (to 
go 
> out the next day, Peel Day) for BBC local/regional stations, BBC 
> Ulster, Nemone on 6 Music, and a Guardian Music podcast, 
apparently. 
> Some of it is bound not to come off but I am going to be well and 
> truly knackered by 6.30pm on Thursday!
> 
> ken
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Neil Saddington" <neilsaddington@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hiya,
> > I was just wondering if anyone was planning to make it along to 
> > Waterstones in Sauchiehall Street next Thurs for Ken Garner's 
talk, 
> > which is part of the Peel Day celebrations, about his new book. 
> > 
> > I think there is going to be some special guest appearances from 
> > artists who recorded sessions as well.
> > 
> > As i live in Edinburgh, i'm going to make a big effort to make it 
> up 
> > for, what should be, a great event.
> > 
> > All the best,
> > 
> > Neil.
> >
>