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all the very best to you and your Mrs have a great christmas

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what a nice crowd in Boston,small gig but perfectly formed,changed the set around and sadly still couldn't do the ocean.maybe tonight we'll see.We had a curry too...........thats our dean happy...he gets withdrawal symptons without them,we REALLY enjoyed playing to a lovely crowd of Boston folks."Colder than a well diggers ass"as one of the locals said and she was right.



Hello, and Happy New Year.

I am Mia new to this forum and I was there when you played in Boston, we were so very lucky to have you play for us you were so great, a splendid and very intimate venue.
You most likely do not remember, (I hope I wasn't a pest, flash was off) I was the one shooting lots of photos both during and after the set.... some came out very nicely.
I was going to post one here but the html does not produce an image, and the url is not working for me.:oops:

You have a most amazing voice, I referrer to you as "The Voice",
I have been a fan since I first heard your music last January

Anyhoo, nice to have finally been admitted into the forum here to post to you, I registered on the 4th of December, same as your Boston show...... it was very cold, albeit not as cold as Toronto, eh?

All the best.

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Hi Mia, nice to see one of my My Space friends on here. Welcome to the mad house.


You need to host your pictures on line (flickr, image shack or tiny pics are good sites) and then copy the url for the relevant picture and paste into the post. The correct url will have [img]before%20it%20and[/img] after.

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Welcome to the forum, Mia!

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welcome Mia :wink:

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you'll have to come to hawaii next time

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never been whats it like?daft question i know i have heard mixed feelings about the place

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I'd love to go to Hawaii - unfortunately my perception is about 40 years out of date - but it was gorgeous when Elvis filmed there............. suppose its become more commercialised since then but that spectacular scenery, beaches, fresh fruit and fish................ what a tonic compared to the UK in January......... :?


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:D I have a vague memory that my step-dad has dozens of lps of very kitsch 60's hawaiian music ... might make his day and ask me to play some next time I'm visiting.

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I had an awful experience in Hawaii so I'm not one to judge by, but I thought it was ok. I'd been to Bali before going and Hawaii just didn't measure up (I was on Kauai). Maybe if I wasn't with such an asshole (ex) boyfriend I'd have liked it better.

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Hawaii can be really intense...sorry you had a crap experience...it probably was your crusty ex -- i think it is one of the most beautiful places in the world...I am sure if you ever went back you would fall in love.

Here's a great articles in the NY Times

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/travel/14twain.html

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now for a yorkshire lad that fucker is deffo a reason to go to Cleethorpes :shock:

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Heheheh...Cleethorpes? You mean like "Pleasure Island"?

http://www.pleasure-island.co.uk/

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Richard Hawley wrote:
now for a yorkshire lad that fucker is deffo a reason to go to Cleethorpes :shock:


No excuse....Isabella Bird was a Yorkshire lass who travalled to, and wrote about Hawaii in 1872...

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Here's an excerpt from her arrival to the Islands...

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bird/isabella/hawaii/chapter3.html

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Wow, Hawaii..where do I start...(where do I stop)

First of all the Islands are the most remote on the planet 2,500 miles in any direction from the next land mass.

Hawaii cannot be denied. To me it's a highly spiritual land -- and surfing was like yoga, another way to tap into the universal creative force.

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I can understand why some people have mixed feelings; beyond the fact that the US stole the islands from the people (what's new), so that they could turn the islands into a military stockpile of weapons and have an outpost in the pacific --- the Hawaiians had their country, language, Aloha and culture taken from them and almost wiped out in the early 1800's. Only 1% of the population is pure Hawaiian (and even that is debatable these days) however most people there these days have at least 5 different nationalities/blood e.g. Irish, Chinese, Hawaiian, German, Filipino, Dutch, Japanese, etc.

Waikiki, which used to be a swamp in the 1920's and had (only) 2 grand old hotels, was a destination for the 'romantic' traveller -- who would arrive by boat once a week - after endless days of enuie on the ocean crossing; the locals would take their ukeleles and leis down to the Aloha Towers, Honolulu Harbour and have a good old welcome party (luau), dancing and singing and crowning the malahini (newcomers)in flowers. (The light and the air are so clear and smell of flowers still to this day). The locals today are still as welcoming.

As a result of the jet age Waikiki (and certain parts of Maui, and The Big Island) have a touch of the syndrome you could find at one of Spain's British tourist hotspots (minus the fish and chips), a bit of a tourist nightmare/trap...so why the heck would someone want to travel that far, to see that?

Well because 80-90% of Hawaii is NOT like that. You have to look beyond your 'resort' (mind you I was never one for resorts)

I am somewhat stuck in the past...so I see beneath that, and it's not all about Waikiki. I was lucky to have been somewhat inducted into the 1920/30's Waikiki beachboy scene in the late 90's (part of the 30's, 60's 90's renaissance i guess), by having been 'adopted' by 300lb (James) Koko -- one of the Waikiki originals, who started on that beach in the 40's as an 11 year old beachboy. (Apparently had his heart broken by a roller-derby queen from SFO - she was married and he was just young 'un in the 1950's). I met him 6-months before he died of a heart attack :(, but because of him, I know the locals well - he was the last remaining full blooded Hawaiian on Waikiki Beach :)

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I used to help him take out the surf boards in the morning, and help the outrigger canoe with tourists in and out off the beach, at Aloha Beach Services, when I first arrived in Honolulu, in trade for free use of surfboards (I would go out on the water for up to 6 hours at a time -- lying on my surfboard and daydreaming about everything). Then they used to sit on Waikiki beach after work, get the Ukelele's out and the beer, and a bucket o' ice and some fish and food, they might have caught in the ocean that day, and we'd sit under the palm and papaya trees and 'talk story' & make music..all beneath the stars. It was through this group that I got to meet all the old timers who had been on the beach since the early days, and hear their stories. There was always the gratuitous Tahitian thrown in for good measure (SUPER friendly people who just want to kiss and hug you all the time), and then I came to meet a lot of the regular travellers to Hawaii, who had been coming since the 60's.

Also Waikiki is the origins of surfing- it's where the 'royalty' and the regulars, used to go to celebrate the 'makahiki' (party season), when all everyone was meant to do was surf, play games and music, luau (party) and well, enjoy life, that season went on for while. You know like Nashville to Music...Waikiki to Surfing. Despite the tourists in this two mile strip -- there is something magical about Waikiki sometimes you catcha glimpse of the old world staring you right in the face. Something along the lines of the clouds, and the ocean and the mountains and the surf have always been the same there since forever, even if the people have changed and there are horrendous skyscrapers there now...you can still see what the ancients saw...

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A lot of the old timers have died now...

But the magic of waikiki remains-- in the scenery; Diamond Head volcano crater in the background has been somewhat magical in preserving the integrity of Waikiki -- that although the skyscrapers and all have gone up, the magic is still there, that the water, and the scenery and the general 'mana' (spiritual presence/force)right there. You have only to take a stroll down the beach at night, and you will see the stars on the horizon; despite the hoards of tourists on the now tiny strip of sand in the daytime.

what turned into this;

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is now like this;

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OK I rambled way too much there...but if you care to look further afield;

Get a car, pack a pukka picnic and drive around the island --but make sure to stop and chill. Oahu has over 60 beach parks, lots of hiking, valleys, waterfalls, caves, and not all crowded, you can drive around the island in 2 hours (if you're in a hurry- but locals would recommend you get on "Hawaiian time" i.e. slow down and don't be obliged to any time restraints. Then you'll start to discover there are many beautiful undiscovered parts like this- waikiki, sunset, ehukai, waimanalo, makua beaches;

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My recommendation to anyone who has never been to Hawaii is to go to Oahu (even thought here are skyscrapers there), just to see it, stay on that island for 3 days, go to the beach, go for a drive, go hiking (MUST go to waikiki - which is tourist hell- but nonethelsss a HUGE part of Hawaii modern-history) then catch a plane to one of the other islands like Kauai or Big Island -- they are more remote and well each island has distinctly a different feel (the plane ride is literally you take off, have a drink and the plane is already descending - 45mins)

Black Sand Beach on Maui
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I guess overall it depends what you are looking for. It's not necessary to travel so far to find paradise, but Hawaii is truly a one of a kind unique place, where the modern world meets ancient culture. On the Big Island of Hawaii (the youngest of the islands yet the largest, where the volcano is, which btw: is the largest mountain on the planet) there is still a little village (or two) where they don't use electricity, if you drive to the south coast, you will see giant lava fields, and even a spot where the hot lava meets the ocean -- and then you can drive to the peak of Mauna Kea -- where they have a ton of Earth's hi-tech observatories, and well it looks like you are on the moon up there -- it's great to go at sunrise (drive up int he dark).

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Girl demands photo on black sand beach:
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Kauai -- one of the older islands, there is my favourite beach "Polihale" -- it is on the west side of the island, and is 12 miles of deserted isolated but very soulful beach. I went once and met these hippy kids who needed a jump start, which I gave them, and they in return traded Papaya. One end of the beach was overcast- but still gorgeous with these warm giant grey pacfic clouds hanging stationary over the north end of the beach, and the south end had this brilliant golden sunlight. The kind that you feel illuminates your soul. The North shore of Kauai is sleepy and rainy, but very very green, and there's these amazing caves and a 2-day hike along the razorsharp cliffs of the Na Pali Coast, where you end up in this ancient valley and can go camping. feels like real Mark twain stuff. (or you can always catch a dingy ride in there..or do a canoeing excursion). There is a mini-grand canyon there and also the wettest spot on planet earth. It really feels like being out in truly living nature.

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OK i'm going to stop rambling there as I've either bored you senseless (if you're still reading)or you dig-- but nothing compares to finding yourself there one day.

Talking of weather Hawaii has 21 out of the 23 world climates- snow, and surf, tropical and desert, sub-arctic and rainforest. And everything in between.

So it's like Ireland meets Bali, meets Mammoth meets St.Lucia with living volcanoes.

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And there's rainbows everyday, sunshine and rain...if the beach is too much go into one of the valleys. (everything is max 45 mins away from any other thing there)


And besides the Steel Guitar and ukelele were invented in Hawaii...and there's nothing better than getting sand everywhere & the warm full feeling of not wearing shoes or proper clothes for weeks, the sunkist and weathered feeling from being brushed by the ocean, saltair, sand, jungle and falling asleep exhausted from being outdoors and in rhythmn with the nature and the cosmos. Diving into the big blue...big water...

This link has GREAT video footage;
http://www.gohawaii.com/stories/stories.html

this is my piddly webpage dedicated to my stay in hawaii from 1996-2000 if you're interested in tripping anymore

http://69starchild.tripod.com

"And beyond the reef and beyond the blue, nestling among
cocoanut trees and bananas, umbrella trees and breadfruits,
oranges, mangoes, hibiscus, algaroba, and passion-flowers,
almost hidden in the deep, dense greenery, was Honolulu.
Bright blossom of a summer sea! Fair Paradise of the Pacific!"

-Victorian travel writer Isabella Bird inspired
prospective visitors with an exhilarated description of seeing Honolulu in
1873.


Live Aloha - Blow Horn;

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p.s. had to throw this in

irish wave
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hawaiian wave- if you go in winter you may be lucky to see these, when the land rumbles from the pounding of the big waves
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