Unofficial Simply Red Forum

[simplymichi]

Hope you like this new "substitute" forum. And I hope everything works properly.
Please note: this is NOT official and I have nothing to do with Simply Red apart from being a huge fan of the band (and of Mick of course )

You don't have to register to read and write. Nevertheless it would be nice if you do so that everybody can identify you.

Love
Michi

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[moreluv in oz 2000]

Dear Michi, Thanks for the hard work and the new site. It makes it a little easier for us to follow each others comments and track things especially for us "old Folk" lol. WELL DONE.

[yolanda]

Hi Michi,
Yes I agree with Liz, it's great that you went through all this trouble to start a substitute forum!!
Wonderful to see old friends again!!
Great work, thanks.
Love Yolanda

[homelover]

Hi Michi,
Great idea and thanks,
Homelover

[night nurse]

Dear Michi~

Thank you so much for setting this up! It is great to have a place to go to now! Hopefully the old forum will be back soon~

thanks again~
Angie

[Spellbound]

Michi, great-looking site you made here! I really love that picture you have for it! My guess where it is from is the song Something For You when he raises his hand up clicking his fingers (LOL) I must have memorized that Sicily DVD, just loved that concert to pieces!!

[night nurse]

Michi the site is looking fantastic! Great job. I too love that picture

Angie

[linmark]

Thanks again Michi !
wow this looks even better and better !!

I am trying to spred the word for you
for others to find your site...

Love and Happy New Year !
Lin + Mark xx
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A little story ...............................

Once upon a time there was a group of people who had lots of collections of
music, sitting around on the floor. The music that was played the most was one of RED
COLOR, one with a guy with lots of long red curls falling down the front of his
face covering his blue eyes.

They tried to play the other music, but their ears kept their arms and hands
reaching for the RED MUSIC, and now the guy had long red dreadlocks falling down
his back and sometimes in a dreadlock ponytail. His colorful shirts didn't
distract us from the colorful melodies and lyrics.

The other bandmembers were mysterious, they never appeared on the album covers,
and their names and faces kept changing when you went to concerts.... you had to
read the back of the album covers to discover who they were....they all made
considerable contributions......

But that guy with the red hair's voice kept getting better and better and all
the people with their music sitting on the floor, discovered that they could
watch Videos on MTV and were able to fantasize about the guy.
The locals could catch a song or two if they were lucky....

Maybe Someday was the kicker. Oh, just to be that pretty woman in the video
first on top, then under, then on top, then under, then........
up against that tall fence.

Cassettes were invented and now people with the music on the floor could listen
to this red man in their car and on portable cassette players that they could
take with them everywhere....

But that was not good enough, now they could buy the red man's music on a new
device called a DVD and a Walkman and they could travel everywhere listening to
this special Simply Red music.

Now the car could play the DVD's and at home they bought Surround Sound and they
could watch concert DVD's Live In London, and could envision being at the live
concerts every night of the week. Why my gosh you could even inspect the dental
work (and ruby.)

The sound was just as it was at the Lyceum Theater, and not once did the red man
look into the camera during the entire concert DVD.

Then there was an abyss, a lapse of time, a lost weekend, a long space of time
that was missing from our hearts...no new music, no concerts, no compositions,
no sightings, no nothing. Where did he go ??? Would we ever hear that special
voice, the harmonies of the girls, the compositions, the sax, the flute, the
piano, the drums, the guitar, the horney horns, the brass, the total experience
blazed into our minds and hearts ?

Then an explosion happened. Somebody wanted to go HOME.......
We all wanted HOME too.....and in 2003 we went HOME at SUNRISE.

We stopped being FAKE, and we new in our hearts it was US when we heard "IT'S
YOU"....we all melted when we heard BRAND NEW and we could not get enough of the
Sicily DVD performances....we all needed to learn Italian today.

All the while we got to know the current BAND members and loved their
performances and got to know their individuality.....wow what a great band has
evolved, and we even got to KNOW THEM.....yes yes yes...

Now many of us had had the opportunity to go to concerts and LIVE the magic and
see the performances LIVE, some went many times (you dogs) and many purchased
the LIVE CD's from their concerts.....

Many of us even got to meet each other...found out we all shared a common cell
in our bloods that bonded us together, like we've know each other forever in the
cosmos, shining STARS glowing in the universe with our light brightening the
skies, shining on each other....

We all shared our stories about our fun on the website until one day it was
DARK. We didn't see anyone anymore, we were lost, we were starved for the Red
that we need to live, we missed each other..., we could not believe that our
lifeline was discontinued....

The concert experiences, meeting one another, the travel, the traffic, the
trains, the planes, (da money), the tickets, the performances, the after event
stage door freezing, the after after after drinks, the homeward bound return
trips home....all the stories vanished.....the heartbeats silenced....the shared
memories silent and invisible....

We experienced CUBA in that glamourous theater via clips on the website, and
waited forever for the DVD, and we had to learn to be Latin for a moment,
purchasing Tacos and Burritos, wearing ruffled shirts and skirts
(well, not the guys, well maybe some of them) and colorful fabrics, and rolling our R's when we spoke and sang.
Certainly a concert was to come soon to you....

And we made sure our neighborhoods didn't put up any billboards so we could
preserve our natural Cuban looking views.....organic.....

But we still kept clicking onto the SR website and there was nobody there, not
even a message, not any new concert dates, all the liveblood we came to rely on
and love and look for had vanished....

Everyday, Maybe Someday, Maybe Someday, Maybe Tomorrow.

Until Michi came up with this alternative substitute website for us all...

Omigosh.....Toto, the wizard brought us HOME !!! and he even made a stopover in
CUBA just for a quick vacation and Latino dancing.

So we all lived happily ever after in SimplyRedLand, dreaming of beautiful
partners, in love, forever, (with the hint of little feet dancing in the near
future) to the rythum of the Latin beat, and a symphony of Red music...
all are listening to the mature quality vocals, the sweet harmonies of the
girls, and the fantastic individually gifted band members to groove to ...

FOREVER....FOREVER......FOREVER......

Good Night and Have A Wonderful Sunrise Tomorrow....

Love,
Lin xxx twinkle twinkle little STARS....how I wonder...how you are ?



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YOU MAKE ME SMILE
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YOU MAKE ME SMILE
AGAIN + AGAIN...We will STAY......

Come along where lost love
stole a parking space.

[yolanda]

[masha]

Helllo everybody, nice to see you again.

[LoneStarRed]

I have really missed everyone and you are an angel to create this space for us. I look forward to re-establishing contact and finding out what is going on with Simply Red and all of their wonderful fans.

A billion hugs!

Karen

[linmark]

[suzen]

Hi Karen nice to see you on here - word has reached down in the heart of texas!!
love Sue x

[Nefertari]

Hi everybody
It's good to see you all
Congratulations for this site again Michi Wonderful work!

I hope many other SR site members will come and post on here soon.

Happy New Year to everyone

The SR site for Easter?? hehe! Wait and see!

Carine
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Nef

[MINI13]

The boards are back...well, unofficially speaking at least! I've missed you guys.
Thanks for putting this together, Michi! I've been going through message board withdrawal for the past couple of months. LOL