Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Hey guys, every time I line up to pay me bills I am confronted by a display of Andre Rieu CD's in the local PO ... then today in the mail box: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu ... and all you have to do is to buy one of his products from Aussie Post to enter the draw to win! Why oh why am I confronted with him at every turn ... like this fer instance: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G5H50j4DHXk ... and not a sign of any proper Irish trad to be seen anywhere in the town. Do I really have to buy one of his CD's to have a chance to win the violin? Sickening! OOoooo sorry!
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
I sympathise though I haven't seen those ads in the PO over here yet. We are inundated with other forms of advertising about his concert tour etc. I would also like to know if anyone can enlighten me as to why this guy is so incredibly popular.
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Davydd, I think he's so popular because he reaches all sorts of people, even the ones who don't know anything about music at all. And naturally his talent for entertainment..
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Clear Drops, you are a musician. Like Ainekenaz points out, the less you know about music, the bigger the appeal of Andre Rieu is likely to be. So you're not qualified to judge here
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Some twelve years or so ago Rieux forked out big time to buy a Stradivarius at auction. Sort of token piece of status everybody thought quietly. Within months he sold it again, as the whisper was he couldn't manage it. There was a great amount of slagging going on over it.
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Ah! the definitive version of the Irish Washerwoman played by a 'Jason King look alike'.(and just as swarmey) ....Andre Rieu. (I lave your Irish music) I can only imagine at the amount of hours of practice he put in before playing that complicated piece of music in public.. Is there any truth in the rumour that he is going to do a duet with James Galway playing The Belfast Hornpipe? Awesome.!!!!
Who be Jason King..you ask? Cue Link.
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
"He knows what the big audience wants."
The big audience are told what they ought to like, and so they like it...
Fortunately, some people have woken up, and there's more awake here than on most forums...
"It took me a long time to realise that what I thought was my own free will was actually a mercilessly manipulated and largely predetermined way of living my life: “free will” was whatever this civilization told me was the “right” way to live. It took me even longer to accept that I didn’t have to live this way – that there was a multitude of other paths that my life could take, if only I could shake off the devil that seemed to cling to my back, always urging me to follow the “right” way; the way of the machine, the way of economic growth and the way of the cosy disconnected existence. Then I got angry."
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
So many of the lesser conductors—Leopold Stokowski, Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur—failed miserably where Andre Rieu has succeeded spectacularly: in getting his lady players to stop dressing like they are merely weak and puny unmustachioed versions of the male players.
Yellows, pinks, and cerulean blues predominate on the Rieu stage. One sees rows of plump, flush-faced ladies content simply to emulate the pure lilies of Easter. And what red-blooded fellow would not enjoy eye-balling that jolly arrangement! Fine, wide-hipped women, as fresh as the Alpine flowers ringing the Stausee Wasserfallboden in God's heady and eternal springtime.
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Hey, Reverend, how about a "Rieu poo" teeshirt YYYYYyyyay! That'd show 'em around here, (instead of the more standard "Roo poo") ... and on the back could be some ... vvvvv ... vvvv ... vomit! Yay!
Thank you guys for your sympathies. I'm gunna join that group Davydd ... but I see you've beaten me to it! ... what gets me is that assumption that the people of this town (at least, if not the whole of the land of Oz) are of the glitzy no taste elk ... or maybe we are !!!!!!!!!!! (Oh, gawd!) ... talk about angry, hey Wolfbird.
... but I think it much more likely that someone in Aussie Post has fallen prey to some sort of marketing giant ploy, they're saddled with all this useless stock they can't shift fer love nor money and they're now DESPERATE to be rid of it. The violin might not be THE Strad (tee hee hee, and thanks fer that tale, Kilfarboy) but its hardly likely to be a Chinese cheapy for such a national promotion, hey? The trouble is, I guess they think we're all so bluudy hick we wouldn't be interesting in the details of the prize ... not even how much its worth (without the useless bluudy signature)!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, I don't lose it very often ... but now I think I have! Henk, I love you forever, because I think that is the very first time in my life that someone has called this old scraper out in the bush, a musician!!! Oh my!! ... and I'm so pleased you didn't put in the following adjectives before it : "bluudy" and "awful" Cheese! ... and, yes, I'm RATFLOL!
Thanks all. You have warmed a freezing morning ... a tad better than a slice of toast and vegemite.
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
One can only watch in awe at the incredible lift Rieu gets the last two times through Irish Washerwoman, as the the other musicians struggle to play with some sense of dignity while chasing a bullet train doing about 180 bpm and still accelerating.
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Heya Clear Drops, I hear ya, I got a faceful of this when I went to the Kings Cross post office up the hill from work one lunch time. He gets around, eh?
But, like, WTF??? The post office is supposed to sell stamps and envelopes. I don't expect commercial advertising assault and battery when I get there. I've never heard him but I didn't need to after one look at the PO promos.
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Stay away from the PO, Hup, trust me, stay right away. He sure is getting around, hey Tish, but I guess the fans'll have to buy their tickets now! He sure knows how to butter his bread, and there's an 120% money back guarantee on his shows going ahead.
... Yay, I checked, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane ... the one time I'm hilariously happy we're missing out. Phew!
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
... they must've heard me. He's been relegated and is much less obtrusive, yay! ... the violin on offer is worth around $200 unsigned ... and the signature is gross. Easily ignored.
Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Hey guys, every time I line up to pay me bills I am confronted by a display of Andre Rieu CD's in the local PO ... then today in the mail box: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu ... and all you have to do is to buy one of his products from Aussie Post to enter the draw to win! Why oh why am I confronted with him at every turn ... like this fer instance: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G5H50j4DHXk ... and not a sign of any proper Irish trad to be seen anywhere in the town. Do I really have to buy one of his CD's to have a chance to win the violin? Sickening! OOoooo sorry!
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Clear Drops
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Hey, I'm looking for a bit of sympathy here. I think I need it.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Clear Drops
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
I sympathise though I haven't seen those ads in the PO over here yet. We are inundated with other forms of advertising about his concert tour etc. I would also like to know if anyone can enlighten me as to why this guy is so incredibly popular.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Donough
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Sympathise completely!
I don't think i'm that desparate for a violin. (Plus i'm not sure that signature would add much value)
Why is he so popular? He's another 'player' that appeals to those that are after a spectacle.
:o(
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by davydd
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i hear he has a new dvd out soon tho... Andre Rieu does Dallas.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by davydd
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Oh no! Help!
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Clear Drops
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Davydd, I think he's so popular because he reaches all sorts of people, even the ones who don't know anything about music at all. And naturally his talent for entertainment..
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by ainekenaz
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
He's the new James Last.
He knows what the big audience wants.
People don't want music in the first place, they want to be entertained.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Henk Bos
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Sorry, but I don't call that clip entertainment. It is massacre (in my HO)
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Clear Drops
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
He throws out the people in his orchestra (especially the women) when they get too old. He's the only older person on stage that is allowed to stay.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Henk Bos
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Clear Drops, you are a musician. Like Ainekenaz points out, the less you know about music, the bigger the appeal of Andre Rieu is likely to be. So you're not qualified to judge here
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Henk Bos
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Great impersonation of Andre here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGrGl4BxZ9k&e
(2nd scen in)
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by davydd
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Some twelve years or so ago Rieux forked out big time to buy a Stradivarius at auction. Sort of token piece of status everybody thought quietly. Within months he sold it again, as the whisper was he couldn't manage it. There was a great amount of slagging going on over it.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Ah! the definitive version of the Irish Washerwoman played by a 'Jason King look alike'.(and just as swarmey) ....Andre Rieu. (I lave your Irish music) I can only imagine at the amount of hours of practice he put in before playing that complicated piece of music in public.. Is there any truth in the rumour that he is going to do a duet with James Galway playing The Belfast Hornpipe? Awesome.!!!!
Who be Jason King..you ask? Cue Link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc8q16fttSQ
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Free Reed
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Clear Drops... looks like there is a support group on Facebook for you to join.
Ironically it looks like it was set up by one of our very own.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5828938253
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by davydd
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
"He knows what the big audience wants."
The big audience are told what they ought to like, and so they like it...
Fortunately, some people have woken up, and there's more awake here than on most forums...
"It took me a long time to realise that what I thought was my own free will was actually a mercilessly manipulated and largely predetermined way of living my life: “free will” was whatever this civilization told me was the “right” way to live. It took me even longer to accept that I didn’t have to live this way – that there was a multitude of other paths that my life could take, if only I could shake off the devil that seemed to cling to my back, always urging me to follow the “right” way; the way of the machine, the way of economic growth and the way of the cosy disconnected existence. Then I got angry."
from chapter 14 of the online book
http://www.amatterofscale.com/
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by wolfbird
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So many of the lesser conductors—Leopold Stokowski, Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur—failed miserably where Andre Rieu has succeeded spectacularly: in getting his lady players to stop dressing like they are merely weak and puny unmustachioed versions of the male players.
Yellows, pinks, and cerulean blues predominate on the Rieu stage. One sees rows of plump, flush-faced ladies content simply to emulate the pure lilies of Easter. And what red-blooded fellow would not enjoy eye-balling that jolly arrangement! Fine, wide-hipped women, as fresh as the Alpine flowers ringing the Stausee Wasserfallboden in God's heady and eternal springtime.
Others may see this differently.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Thanks a lot, I was quite happy not knowing who this turd was.
After hearing that clip I feel I need to listen to some John Doherty or Denis Murphy or something to get the bad taste out of my ears.
And I love the Lawrence Welk style stage act, that's sure to draw in the elderly who are hard of hearing, and most likely to enjoy the show.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Marklar
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Andre Rieu-Lawrence Welk-Liberace-they knew which side of the bread was buttered; gotta hand it to 'em.
# Posted on August 18th 2008 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Hey, Reverend, how about a "Rieu poo" teeshirt
YYYYYyyyay! That'd show 'em around here, (instead of the more standard "Roo poo") ... and on the back could be some ... vvvvv ... vvvv ... vomit! Yay!
Thank you guys for your sympathies. I'm gunna join that group Davydd ... but I see you've beaten me to it! ... what gets me is that assumption that the people of this town (at least, if not the whole of the land of Oz) are of the glitzy no taste elk ... or maybe we are !!!!!!!!!!! (Oh, gawd!) ... talk about angry, hey Wolfbird.
... but I think it much more likely that someone in Aussie Post has fallen prey to some sort of marketing giant ploy, they're saddled with all this useless stock they can't shift fer love nor money and they're now DESPERATE to be rid of it. The violin might not be THE Strad (tee hee hee, and thanks fer that tale, Kilfarboy) but its hardly likely to be a Chinese cheapy for such a national promotion, hey? The trouble is, I guess they think we're all so bluudy hick we wouldn't be interesting in the details of the prize ... not even how much its worth (without the useless bluudy signature)!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, I don't lose it very often ... but now I think I have! Henk, I love you forever, because I think that is the very first time in my life that someone has called this old scraper out in the bush, a musician!!! Oh my!! ... and I'm so pleased you didn't put in the following adjectives before it : "bluudy" and "awful" Cheese! ... and, yes, I'm RATFLOL!
Thanks all. You have warmed a freezing morning ... a tad better than a slice of toast and vegemite.
Cheers
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by Clear Drops
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
One can only watch in awe at the incredible lift Rieu gets the last two times through Irish Washerwoman, as the the other musicians struggle to play with some sense of dignity while chasing a bullet train doing about 180 bpm and still accelerating.
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by ayedbl
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A "Post Office"?? What's that? Haven't been near one in ages ...
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by Hup
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
Heya Clear Drops, I hear ya, I got a faceful of this when I went to the Kings Cross post office up the hill from work one lunch time. He gets around, eh?
But, like, WTF??? The post office is supposed to sell stamps and envelopes. I don't expect commercial advertising assault and battery when I get there. I've never heard him but I didn't need to after one look at the PO promos.
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by Tish
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Stay away from the PO, Hup, trust me, stay right away. He sure is getting around, hey Tish, but I guess the fans'll have to buy their tickets now! He sure knows how to butter his bread, and there's an 120% money back guarantee on his shows going ahead.
... Yay, I checked, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane ... the one time I'm hilariously happy we're missing out. Phew!
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by Clear Drops
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I feel dirty now...
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by session savage
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... not at me I hope?
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by Clear Drops
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... it just occurred to me, durgh, that Aussie Post might possibly be sponsoring!!!!! him.
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by Clear Drops
Re: Win a violin signed by Andre Rieu - Aussie fiddlers
... they must've heard me. He's been relegated and is much less obtrusive, yay! ... the violin on offer is worth around $200 unsigned ... and the signature is gross. Easily ignored.
# Posted on August 27th 2008 by Clear Drops