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by Atreides
Thu May 04, 2006 10:44 pm
Forum: Vanessa-Mae News!
Topic: Vanessa-Mae donates her electric violin to an auction
Replies: 4
Views: 4984

ohhhhh... nice .... The format of the internet side of the auction just suck tought, not knowing where the highest bid is, and there is no info on how they work for internationnal bid, convertion rate they use, shipping/payment if an internationnal bid actually win. If this was an ebay style auction...
by Atreides
Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:24 am
Forum: Vanessa-Mae News!
Topic: Vanessa-Mae speaks: new album released this summer
Replies: 14
Views: 17761

To my knowledge no news on a release has filtered form months.... I think the last time i heard anything on the matter was 1 year ago and it was supposed to coincide with a TV show in the US. But nothing ever came of it. I had to get my copy trought amazon. It took them months to fill in my order an...
by Atreides
Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:46 pm
Forum: Film
Topic: Lucky number Slevin
Replies: 0
Views: 5369

Lucky number Slevin

Just came back from that one. Good movie, very entertaining and keep you guessing till the end. Like all movie of that type you can pretty mutch tell how its gonna end after 10 min... But here you just cant figure how they gonna tie it all up till the very last minut of the movie. Pretty good acting...
by Atreides
Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:37 pm
Forum: Vanessa-Mae News!
Topic: Vanessa-Mae speaks: new album released this summer
Replies: 14
Views: 17761

LOL ... and yet Choreography is still not yet available in north america ... The best part is they still trumpet it a being available early 2005 :oops: ... maybe someone should tell her staff to change the page on their calender, its 2006 now. Maintenance on the official site is even more pathetic t...
by Atreides
Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:31 pm
Forum: Vanessa-Mae News!
Topic: Vanessa-Mae guest in 'Peschardts People' on BBC World
Replies: 10
Views: 7974

I hope you made sure your countries BBCW scheduling does include that show ... cause it does not apear in my listing for BBCW...

P.S. Beware, after tasting regular digital TV or especially HDTV, you ll never wanna go back to regular cable ;o)

Atre
by Atreides
Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:24 pm
Forum: Vanessa-Mae News!
Topic: Vanessa-Mae guest in 'Peschardts People' on BBC World
Replies: 10
Views: 7974

Hummmm...

I do have BBCW, altought i never watched it, just 1 channel among hundreds of others.

I dont see that program on the listing for april 15th. Makes me wonder if the BBCW listing is different for the Canadian boradcast. How annoying ...

Atre.
by Atreides
Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:23 am
Forum: Vanessa-Mae Discussions
Topic: new photos and articles
Replies: 2
Views: 1984

Nice pictures Rijko... I especeially like the last one, i belive its from the 2000 classical brits award.

On a side note, that page of yours contain gems, but it take forever to load du to in vast amount of content. Ever considered breaking it up into sections ?


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by Atreides
Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:05 pm
Forum: Vanessa-Mae News!
Topic: Vanessa-Mae in Mandarin Oriental Tokyo's Opening Gala
Replies: 2
Views: 4345

Hummm... I m puzzuled ...

Isn't her biological dad the owner of a hotel chain in asia? He must be trilled to have his daughter promote the competition...


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by Atreides
Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:33 pm
Forum: Vanessa-Mae Discussions
Topic: I have a question about... A new DVD?
Replies: 20
Views: 9232

Hummm, VM recording hardcore Paganini scores sutch as the caprices or one of the concertos ... well .. i m not so sure about that. I think the result would be avrage at the very best. Her sound and tight range she developped since "China girl" simply wont do the job. In my opinion her clas...
by Atreides
Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:22 pm
Forum: Vanessa-Mae Discussions
Topic: Vanessa Mae Live in Concert in Macau (1/1/06)
Replies: 5
Views: 3031

Thx for the info.

/rant on

Why am I not surprised the official web site dont mention it? seems it has not been updated since April. Heck , the official site still claim an early 2005 US release of the album!!!!...

Guess who went the EMI way ... ... ...

/rant off

Atre.
by Atreides
Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:24 pm
Forum: Vanessa-Mae Discussions
Topic: Reviews on Vanessa-Mae's video clips
Replies: 14
Views: 6621

You are right about " I m A Doun" Benji, its by far her best video. I love the thing. As for her worst ... well ... I personally think its The devil's trill ... It is soooooooo cheeeezyyyyyyy, The Violin Fantasy short movie would have made a mutch better video for that song. Red Hot is low...
by Atreides
Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:13 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Windows Media player on Asus Video cards
Replies: 1
Views: 5003

Windows Media player on Asus Video cards

Just a little warning guys... I just finished assembling my new computer and to my horror 3/4 of my video collection was not working anymore, I was getting distorted images. After some swearing , bashing, codec install / reinstall / re-reinstall ... I finally discovered the problem. It was the Asus ...
by Atreides
Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:32 pm
Forum: Musician's corner
Topic: Tequila Mockingbird
Replies: 4
Views: 5426

Hummm .... I do have a few 'Fan Made' partitions of VM music. But like Rijko I ve never seen one for that one. There are a few violinist that hang around in here, with some luck maybe one of em made a transcription. One thing is for sure, if no one in this forum has it ... chances are that it simply...
by Atreides
Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:03 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Amazon ... Never again
Replies: 11
Views: 12512

Thanks Arup ... but if you scroll up you'll see that i did receive the CD from Amazon .... after 9 months waiting ...lol

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by Atreides
Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:08 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Amazon ... Never again
Replies: 11
Views: 12512

What do you think of the music on the album? Do you like it? I just finished my second listening ... and yes i do like it ... but it does not live up to expectations for 2 reasons. 1) The recording and mixing are not exceptionnal. Sometime the orchestra is WAY too loud over the lead violin, it beco...