Floating World [Remastered] - Jade Warrior

Under Starters Orders at the Jade Pavilion

Advantages: Beautiful setting and gorgeous food
Disadvantages: Not the most salubrious part of town

the police statistics showed that more crime happened during a hanging than was ever cleared up by it. Hence, hanging went private and moved to the local courthouse and eventually to Bedford Prison. Racecourse Park is now the centre of things each summer when the Northampton Balloon Festival comes to town - other than that, it's just a big open park. The racecourse attracted the local folks as well as the great and the good, and a pavilion was built to keep royalty and gentry away from the hoi polloi. Today, this pavilion is the home of an oriental restaurant called Jade Pavilion. After more than 4 years of saying 'We really ought to eat there' we finally got round to doing so a few weeks back. I phoned ahead on Saturday and despite understanding barely a word from the man on the phone, I was pretty sure I'd succeeded in getting a booking ...

koshkha 11.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Jade Pavilion, Northampton

HMS WARRIOR - ONE OF OUR GREATEST NATIONAL ATTRACTIONS

Advantages: Authenticity. History. Experience. Educational. Setting. Photogenic.
Disadvantages: Crowded in Summer.

. Although even the great Brunel himself, autocratic as he was, had to contend with company owners and financiers, he was not constricted by them in the way that Watts would have been working for the crown. The crown of the day was Queen Victoria, the British Empire was rapidly building, Britannia ruled the waves, even with a Royal Navy then outdated by around 100 years. The world was a much larger place than it is today and the Industrial Revolution had already had just as profound an affect on society as the Computer Revolution has had over the past twenty years. What has all this to do with the Warrior? As with all historical attractions it did not merely ?materialise?, the very reason for it being a visitor attraction today is that it is an historical artefact of an era that is now well beyond anyone?s living memory. THE CONCEPTION In ...

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Review of HMS Warrior Portsmouth

RELEASED

Advantages: Excellent musicianship , originality. Great recording.
Disadvantages: A little longer maybe!!

Jade Warrior consisted of a duo Jon Field ( Flute etc ) and Tony Duhig ( Guitar ) and on the earlier albums Vocalist ' Glyn Havard '. They released their first album in the UK in 1971 with the self same title.The so called Vertigo years in which they released all together three highly influential albums including this one. With Flute they could on occasion sound like Jethro Tull but these were no rock band as such and had a far more distinctive progressive rock style while incorporating quite a lot of ' World Music 'elements. 'Realeased ' is probably the best of the three Vertigo albums and certainly my favourite one! From the opening ' Three Horned Dragon King ' with it's riffing guitars. sax, flute and driving tabla's.To the classic ' Barazinbar ' a magnificent 15 minute slice of driving ethno spacey rock with a touch of early ...

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Review of Released [Remastered] - Jade Warrior