Suvi
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Post by Suvi on Nov 20, 2020 16:43:55 GMT -5
What a beautifully crafted piece of artwork! Roma must be a highly intelligent person, she has such a vast general knowledge that no wonder it reflects on to what she writes! Loved the letters as well... Ha, the usage of that clingy film on the Only Time video might get some thinking why they didn't even want to hide it! "Poor" Eithne, she looked like she was getting maybe a bit too wet there (and I think the cameraman got even some sand in his mouth too)...!
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Post by sempiternity on Nov 22, 2020 2:49:29 GMT -5
It appears Nicky's message has been removed from the archived video. When I watch it, I see the messages from Enya and Roma, but not the one from Nicky. I'm glad people shared screenshots on Facebook! I just had a look. Nicky's message is still there, at the very end of the video, minutes 54:35 to 54:59. Overall a lot of the content- maybe a third to a half- was identical to parts of the A Day Without Rain Electronic Press Kit (EPK) DVD. But a lot of it, mostly the gorgeous and suggestive scenes of nature while songs played, were novel. They were mostly or all autumn scenery and blend into the EPK-used video almost perfectly. Hard to say whether these were from filming in 2000 or made recently, though the latter seems more likely. In either case it's probably almost all from fall in Ireland, taken in some of the beautiful out of the way places the trio has found over the years. The company during the watch party was very nice, talky, and very international. A little over 1,000 people streamed it live at any one time. More and the live chat section would have been unreadable! I saw some familiar names and aliases from Unity and a few from here. :-) Lots of people from all continents and of all ages dropped into the comments and chat to tell the trio that they're not forgotten and much appreciated. The music, Enya's unique persona, and the trio's artistic integrity and strong aesthetic still have them in awe and thrall, still touches many twenty and thirty years after first awareness of them. A surprisingly large number of people who commented who were young, who said ADWR was an album of their childhood or their parents then and the appeal had remained. Others said the same of Watermark or Shepherd Moons. Views are past 48,000 less than 48 hours later.
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Post by Riene on Nov 23, 2020 11:54:51 GMT -5
Well, I completely missed seeing any of it. It's now marked as unavailable. I wonder what the point of taking the videos away was?
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Post by Suvi on Nov 23, 2020 13:42:16 GMT -5
Well, I completely missed seeing any of it. It's now marked as unavailable. I wonder what the point of taking the videos away was? I wonder that too, especially as so many of us live in different time zones anyway and all we have our busy lives to live... Pity they took it off so soon! Suvi
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Post by RichardF on Nov 23, 2020 14:00:37 GMT -5
I just had a look. Nicky's message is still there, at the very end of the video, minutes 54:35 to 54:59. ...The company during the watch party was very nice, talky, and very international. A little over 1,000 people streamed it live at any one time. More and the live chat section would have been unreadable! I saw some familiar names and aliases from Unity and a few from here. :-) Lots of people from all continents and of all ages dropped into the comments and chat to tell the trio that they're not forgotten and much appreciated. The music, Enya's unique persona, and the trio's artistic integrity and strong aesthetic still have them in awe and thrall, still touches many twenty and thirty years after first awareness of them. A surprisingly large number of people who commented who were young, who said ADWR was an album of their childhood or their parents then and the appeal had remained. Others said the same of Watermark or Shepherd Moons. Views are past 48,000 less than 48 hours later.
Yeah, someone clued me in that Nicky's message was moved to the end of the video!
Doh! I missed seeing the live chat. TBH I'm not sure I realized there would be one! I don't do watch parties, as you can probably tell, LOL.
And now the video is gone from YT. (Or are you referring to a live chat that occurred elsewhere?)
Nicky's message was at the end of the live 'Broadcast'. I've checked Anton's archive; and at the moment it wasn't there, but a few of the Tweet advance warnings were.
Looking at the Youtube metrics, they attracted an extra 48K views for the two days it was up. It looks like they have managed to get about 100 million views on Youtube over the past year.
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Post by RichardF on Nov 24, 2020 12:14:40 GMT -5
The original screening only had a single ad. The whole video had no ads breaking into it.
You have a copy of the video ?
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Post by Riene on Nov 24, 2020 12:26:11 GMT -5
Wish I'd seen it. Any idea who was hosting the watch party?
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Post by RichardF on Nov 25, 2020 2:04:02 GMT -5
The original screening only had a single ad. The whole video had no ads breaking into it. You have a copy of the video ? There is a thing called adblockers to make those ads disappear. If you are a computer savvy nerd it is quite possible to get online videos for offline use. It is still copyright infringement but fair use applies. YouTube has lots of unofficial channels showing celebrity interviews and performances... which is also wrong in a sense. YouTube actually helps normal people go viral and keeps older video footage relevant... If you use ad blockers, then you are stopping companies who provide you with a service a way to recoup their costs. There isn't such a thing as a free lunch.
I was appreciative that Aigle chose to not intersperse their video with ads during the initial screening, they would have made about 5 times the revenue.
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Post by RichardF on Nov 26, 2020 15:07:56 GMT -5
I was going through my Youtube history and saw the watch party was still present. I clicked on the link and it worked for me under two different accounts. It's marked as Unlisted. See if this works for you. youtu.be/fye7LtjOuEE
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Post by RichardF on Nov 27, 2020 12:55:47 GMT -5
It's now been reactivated on the FB page, but is still listed as Unlisted.
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Post by Moe on Dec 1, 2020 11:02:54 GMT -5
Indeed, it's currently available at the link Richard posted. Will it last? I was secretly hoping they had taken it down to fix some errors, but alas they're still there. [Michael Anderson listed on both shifts of the Columbia crew while Rick Husband was left out.) Glad you caught that - I also wish they had done it correctly.
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Post by Riene on Dec 1, 2020 23:05:23 GMT -5
Thanks for the chat note. I hope to be home tomorrow and watch this!
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Post by phoebus on Feb 4, 2021 20:18:06 GMT -5
I'd love to get a video like this for all the albums with juicy bits about the songs, maybe even some new information we haven't had before.
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Post by πͺ·aestasπͺ· on Feb 5, 2021 8:18:26 GMT -5
I know! Why only ADWR despite it having the anniversary...
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