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yanouch65 Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Jan. 13 2008, 14:15 I have just found this item on Ebay. It is an article on Mike. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220191504179 -------------- Ray said : "it is a shame you don't play" manintherain said: "You´d better ask Mr. Y who was first" yanouch65 says: "I am in love with Scotland" Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Jan. 13 2008, 15:25 It's from today's Mail on Sunday.Anyone has got a better scan of it? -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

yanouch65 Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 02:29 Hi Tati... I bought it. I will send you a copy as soon as I got it. -------------- Ray said : "it is a shame you don't play" manintherain said: "You´d better ask Mr. Y who was first" yanouch65 says: "I am in love with Scotland" Back to top

Moonwing_Shadow Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: Jan. 2006 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 14:20 I have the paper. I can scan it tonight, if anyone wants... Got a bit sad today, thinking about it again...somehow the cold felt colder... -------------- I'd rather be on Dragonback Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 16:09 I'd love to read the article if you do get a chance to scan it. Sad? Is it that depressing an article or is it just the c**p weather at the moment! -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

Moonwing_Shadow Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: Jan. 2006 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 17:05 Well, England's notoriously rubbish weather is one thing Mike talks about...and he's right... I was also sad to hear about him leaving the country in the first place... I'll go scan it now. -------------- I'd rather be on Dragonback Back to top

Moonwing_Shadow Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: Jan. 2006 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 17:54 Here we go. The headline! And underneath The article 1 The article 2 The new home Mike -------------- I'd rather be on Dragonback Back to top

SentinelGard Group: Members Posts: 358 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 18:36 Great read thank you .   -------------- "Onwards & Upwards'" Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 22:35 Quote (Moonwing_Shadow @ Jan. 14 2008, 23:54) Here we go. The headline! And underneath The article 1 The article 2 The new home Mike thanks nice to read before sleep   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

zeit Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 22:49 Thanks Jo !!! this is a sad article for those that can't escape. sunshine is now reserved to rich people but beware the burns! I know too much this "shroud of clouds" that is terribly depressing, it's covering the northern Europe for years and it's not casual. Living in France, I would have done the same move but firstly because of political matters, globalization having breeded worldwide the same kind of shitty politics so eager to dump our liberties....... Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 02:01 Thanks for the scans! Mike is sounding contented but it doesn't sound like any new albums are imminent. In fact, the way he is speaking MOTS could be his last! But this is Mike so things may well change, maybe he'll find some new inspiration sitting in the bay listening to the waves lapping at the boat. -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

SentinelGard Group: Members Posts: 358 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 05:16 Quote (Matt @ Jan. 15 2008, 17:01) maybe he'll find some new inspiration sitting in the bay listening to the waves lapping at the boat. I hope so   -------------- "Onwards & Upwards'" Back to top

Silver Negus Group: Members Posts: 357 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 10:43 Quote (Matt @ Jan. 15 2008, 02:01) Thanks for the scans! Mike is sounding contented but it doesn't sound like any new albums are imminent. In fact, the way he is speaking MOTS could be his last! But this is Mike so things may well change, maybe he'll find some new inspiration sitting in the bay listening to the waves lapping at the boat. Actually for a little while, I had been sensing if Mr Oldfield was due to retire. And he has had a long career. But lets hope i'm wrong. Back to top

El Bosnia Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 11:13 Thank you dude. Cool scans. -------------- "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering" "Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny" Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 12:25 I've read the article...quite interesting really.My fav part was regarding the day he took 5 hours to return home because of the rain,it reminded me here in Sao Paulo,where you can have big big big traffic jams - especially on raining days(and it drives me nuts).And sometimes during holidays,the traffic jams are there too,as well as when I go to some parties here Mike does care with the way he lives,with quality and not getting too stressed.He can afford to it,and I try to do my best here,if you don't,you can get mad! It feels like the musician Mike Oldfield is now in standby mode on and Michael Gordon Oldfield is there 100% of the time   -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 14:59 Quote (Silver Negus @ Jan. 15 2008, 16:43) Quote (Matt @ Jan. 15 2008, 02:01) Thanks for the scans! Mike is sounding contented but it doesn't sound like any new albums are imminent. In fact, the way he is speaking MOTS could be his last! But this is Mike so things may well change, maybe he'll find some new inspiration sitting in the bay listening to the waves lapping at the boat. Actually for a little while, I had been sensing if Mr Oldfield was due to retire. And he has had a long career. But lets hope i'm wrong. i dont think he will retire.. Do you really think he will stop making music? He need peace and spain will give him alot of new inspiration. Im sure it will.   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 16:00 Quote (Tubularman @ Jan. 15 2008, 19:59) i dont think he will retire.. Do you really think he will stop making music? He need peace and spain will give him alot of new inspiration. Im sure it will.   Yeah, I think I agree with that. Mike needs his move and his rest and his peace and the new environment for family etc. etc. but making music seems to be something deeply ingrained in him so I suspect he'll have a *need* to make some music at some point. Here's hoping anyway! -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

Clodomir Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 16:03 I think this is the way Mike feels usually depressed after he delivers a big album or a bunch of albums. Like the way he felt a bit "empty", tired and depressed after HR, TSODE or after TB3/Gits/TMB. It seems that with years going on, it takes each time longer before he is able to perform music again... Anyway, I'm afraid to think that this "again" will certainly mean only a couple of albums before his definitive retirement... -------------- Mike Oldfield - Blog d'une passion http://www.mike-oldfield.net Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 16:05 Thanks very much to Moonwing for the scans!!! Nice to see a recent article about Mike again. -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 17:37 I think that the caption under Mike's photo is particularily nice... "Mike is enjoying life in Majorca without the pressure of having to create music". Nah, there isn't any talk of retirement IMHO. He's just resting. He's "enjoying life". He is recharging his batteries (physically and mentally). And I don'ìt think worry about him making new music in the future. I'm sure he'll make a lot of it. Maybe it won't be all out-and-out hard rock with distorted, screamin' guitars;  maybe he'll create totally electronic stuff (or maybe no, he won't... he's a guitarist!! ); maybe he'll make another Tr3s Lunas; maybe (as other composers have done before him) he'll move permanently into the classical/orchestral field. But to me there isn't any doubt that we are going to hear new music from Mike in the future. Lots of it. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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