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From: ***SEMPSY*** <sre017%cck.cov.ac.uk@mitvma.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 13:59:08 WET
Subject: Convention!!!!!!!
What is coming is my report of the convention: 1990 KB Convention or A Day In The Life Of A Love-Hound!! It was an absolutely brilliant day,one which I'll never forget!!The doors opened at around 11.20,I headed straight for the merchandise desk.They were selling blue convention t-shirts with the new symbol,badges,KBC back issues,posters,Tour programmes,1985 convention t-shirts etc!!They were also giving out posters and badges free(not bad eh?).Throughout the day they showed a compilation(called 'this woman's work') of foreign peformances,rare clips etc;this was shown in 3 parts.They showed the special Hitchcock 'Hounds Of Love' done for the last convention again,plus a video of the 1986 video party.At the end of 'This Womans work' they showed a new video set to the song 'Reaching Out',compiling different clips from over the years;this was absolutely stunning!!Over the day various fans appeared doing their own versions of Kate's songs,all of them were very impressive(they certainly had guts!!).Del Palmer appeared in the afternoon to auction his stage passes and a photo card as well.Paddy picked out the raffle tickets,and one of our own love-hounds won a signed promo video(well done Neil!) All proceeds from the day went to the A.I.D.S charity 'Terence Higgins Trust'. The quiz was held in the afternoon(3.30 ish),20 questions were set.I think it is fair to say that most teams got around 18/19 except for the winners who got 20. The question that stumped most was 'Who was the director of the Cloudbusting Video?',the answer being Julian Doyle.Then Evan Welsh, Colin Davidson and myself managed to get to the front of the stage.Then................. Kate appeared to deafening applause.Earlier in the day we had been asked to write down questions with our names on paper.Kate then proceeded to pick them out of a box,read them out,the person who's question got picked,then had the chance to ask Kate themselves.I'll leaver it to someone else to remember the individual questions.Tho' one question no-one will forget,was one about touring ............... SHE MIGHT BE TOURING AT THE END OF NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If she does Kate says announcements will be made in January............. LET'S KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then Kate asked for some silence for Al Murphy and Gary Hurst,and she sang a short new version of 'My Lagan Love' with new lyrics.I was that engrossed with her singing,I didn't get chance to copy down the lyrics,though basically they were about thanking the fans for their love and dediKation.The flowers from Love-Hounds reached Kate,I think she was certainly overwhelmed with the love by the fans.Thanks to all the organisers,though especially to Kate who made it all happen.I hope I see you all at the end of next year again,this time for the TOUR!!!!......I CAN't WAIT!!!! It was very nice to see the following Love-Hounds at the convention(apologies if I missed your name on the following list,I couldn't remember everybody!): Evan Welsh,Neil Calton,Colin Davidson,Andrew Marvick,Vickie & Chris(I'm glad you liked the Q mag),Jorn Barger,Chris Ridd,Ed Suranyi(smaller than I had expected!!),Graham Dombkins,Meridith Tarr,Larry Hernandez,Stephen 'J' Carter, Jem Carroll,Greg Bossert and Rick(thanks for the directions!!!). __ () Andrew Semple /\ Coventry Polytechnic, / ) _ ____ _ _ , , Priory Street, JANET:sre017@uk.ac.cov.cck /__/__</__/ / <_/_)_/_)__(_/_ Coventry. Home Tel:(0203) 672308 / / ' ' 'I'm happy hope you're happy too.One flash of light,but no smoking,pissed off! I've never done good things,I've never done bad things,I never did anything out of the blue.What is next to break the ice,I wanna come down right now.Ashes to ashes funk to funky we know Major Tom's a junkie,stuck out in heaven's high, hitting that all time low!' David Bowie 1980