Improv Theatr

[David Mccarthy]

Thanks for your efforts, Steve.  One of the YouTube clips has Peel referring to "The Improv" venue.  It starts to make sense.  Not strictly a Peel "session", I guess.


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <saipanda@...> wrote:
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> OK, seems like Peel was there. Here's the PJH set:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PL4dUc1Fg
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36yAIkP1ThE&feature=related
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VoAbR6ykoU&feature=related
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhwtP1_sEsc
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <saipanda@> wrote:
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> > Just from a quick google - seems like the venue was on Tottenham Court Road and there were a few gigs there in 1998/1999:
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> > http://www.songkick.com/venues/44683-improv-theatre
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> > (See the Cinerama ticket for Tottenham Court Rd address.)
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> > The PJ Harvey/Bunnymen gig - broadcast by Peel 1 April 1999) seems to have been an early event for the great man's upcoming 60th birthday. Unclear if he was actually there (imagine he was):
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> > http://www.nme.com/reviews/echo-and-the-bunnymen/888
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> > More on the venue itself from a listing for the 1998 opening:
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> > http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-380735-the-improv.do
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> > Hope this is some help.
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> > Cheers,
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> > SW
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> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "David Mccarthy" <dgmccarthy@> wrote:
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> > > No-one?  There are a couple of Peel sessions from Echo & The Bunnymen and PJ Harvey in 1999 that list the venue as "Improv Theatr" and I'm really curious as to what that is.
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> > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "David Mccarthy" <dgmccarthy@> wrote:
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> > > > Can anyone tell me anything about "Improv Theatr"?  I've come across a couple of sessions from it and I have no idea what it is.  Cheers. David
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