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Little did they know that one day it would be the place where German hipsters got their first taste of Aussie-Bollywood flamboyance. It's where the Soviets abandoned their military base at Rechlin-Larz airfield in the former East Germany. Vive Le France!”įrom there they went to the “Fusion Festival in Germany. We watched Bastille Day fireworks from the mountaintop whilst supplying our own Punjabi rock soundtrack. None of the neighbours complained…at least not in English. “After visiting the castle garden we wrote a couple of killer psychedelic tracks which will appear on our second album released in 2014. Great vibes, balmy nights, portaloos overflowing on every side - what a festival!”įrom there they went to the quaint town of Avallon in rural France as they spent a week in a chateau working on new material, drinking wine, hunting boar and being fun guys and girls. “That night we played a show down at The Pussy Parlour and smoked cigars in the moonlight on the way to Shangri-La. [Um, something you know that we don’t? - Concerned Ed) We watched Mick Jagger strut out on stage, maybe for the last time,” Singh says. “Most of us tried to find a spot to watch the Rolling Stones play their headline set and ended up clinging to the security fence holding a bottle of single-malt to get a good view. Must have some serious guns, 300,000 people ain’t light. The Main Stage show had the crowd up and dancing despite the heat and The Colonel held aloft above a big crowd,” she says. “A midnight backstage show followed, including drinking sessions with Time Warner executives and rubbing shoulders with some of the festival big names. Singh reports fellow leadsinger The Tiger later “found himself accosted by a naked man on the way back from CD signings. She leads from the front as you'll see below when she hits the stage in the filmed Glastonbury performance. Melbourne’s 11-piece retro-sexual Bollywood spaghetti-surf heroes The Bombay Royale are a case in point.Īustralia’s best party band played thrice at the world’s most famous/infamous festival held at Chez Eavis where the Mysterious Lady “wore jewel-studded gumboots, she refused to wear anything less,” says Parvyn Singh aka The Mysterious Lady who likes a bit of third person dialogue. Ant class - Gadfly, Pincher, Griper and Tickler are sometimes referred to as the Gadfly class.All the latest in Australia's indie music scene with a Melbourne focusĮVERYONE who goes to Glastonbury comes back altered.Renamed Banterer in June 1915, sold for commercial use in 1928 and finally broken up at Inverkeithing in 1969 Vixen was the first twin-screw vessel built for the Royal Navy, and Waterwitch employed a form of water pump propulsion. The first two were towed to Bermuda (being considered unsatisfactory to sail under their own power) where they served as harbour vessels. The only ironclads of gunboat size were three largely experimental (and unsuccessful) vessels ordered in 1864. Sold to Cox for breaking at Falmouth on 4 April 1905īoom defence vessel in 1904. Sold in 1909 at Simonstown to Ward of Preston arrived Preston for breaking on Base ship on 3 April 1914, renamed Egmont. Sold to Cox for breaking up at Falmouth on īoom defence in 1904. Sold as hulk Arabel in 1920, and remained in Blackwall Reach on the River Thames for 55 years. Sold to Meyer Isaacs on 3 April 1906Ĭoastguard in 1886. Coastguard watch vessel, renamed WV29 in 1893. they had an iron keel, stem and stern posts, and iron framing, with wooden planking retained over the iron frames.ĭrill ship, renamed Drake on 13 March 1888. The gunboats designed from 1870 onwards were of composite construction, i.e. Served on Lake Ontario and later on Lake Huron. The right was relinquished in 1864ĭelivered in pieces to the Kingston Yard, Lake Ontario. The British Government made a part payment while during build, retaining the right to assume possession of the vessel on payment of the remaining portion. Campbell, Forsyth, Yarwood & Gaskin on 30 October 1851 Refitted and reboilered at Woolwich in 1843-44. Purchased while building at Montreal in 1841. Sold in 1847 or 1848Įx-merchant ship, purchased at Niagara on 30 April 1839 and sold in 1844Ī two-masted schooner (may not have had an engine) purchased for use on Lake Erie on 18 October 1839. Sold in 1843Īn ex-sailing ship, purchased on 21 July 1838 and converted to a paddle vessel. Wooden paddle gunboats (Great Lakes) NameĮx-merchantman Sir Charles Adam, built in 1834 in the USA and purchased by the Royal Navy on 7 July 1838. Steam gunboats Wooden paddle gunboats (Indian service) 1.4 Iron paddle despatch vessels/gunboats.1.2 Wooden paddle gunboats (Great Lakes).1.1 Wooden paddle gunboats (Indian service).