Bohemia Place

BOHEMIA PLACE

Updates, 18 July 08 - Happy 90th Birthday to Nelson Mandela!: South Africa's New Struggle, Heaven for Everyone, One Vision: Goodbye Bafana

Updates, 8 June 08 - Additions to The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, WWRY Sixth Anniversary, Heaven for Everyone-Rumi's Wisdom

SEE 'SITE GUIDE' BELOW FOR FULL HYPERLINKS TO OTHER SITE PAGES. IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS READING ANYTHING ON THE SITE, SELECT THE TEXT AND IT WILL BE CLEARER!

WEBSITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION - formerly Now-im-here.com, now Bohemia-place.net

(If the Register.com navigational frame appears at the bottom your screen, you have been re-routed from now-im-here.com. It will disappear if you enter

www.bohemia-place.net in your browser).

This site fully supports the Queen Fan Club

(With thanks to Vern for the unofficial logo!)

I'M JUST A FAN, WRITING FROM THE HEART...

If you're a fan club member, you can read my article 'in the Lap of the Limmat' in the spring 2007 issue of the magazine, my on-line interview with Austrian Fan Club webmaster Manuel Benes in the Christmas 2006 magazine and my article 'Queen and Paul Rodgers - A Tale of the Unexpected' in the Spring/Summer 2006 magazine! For more on Queen and Paul Rodgers, click here. For the site of Hiding in Public, the band of Queen and Paul Rodgers second guitarist Jamie Moses, click here. See my 2007 interview with Jamie conducted for the Fan Club magazine here. The Winter 2007 edition of the magazine contains my article on 'Queen Ballets'!

Queen Fan club on myspace:

Vicki Moore Zac Vincent

Lynn Carey Saylor

FOR A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THIS SITE, SEE BELOW:

Herzlich Willkommen an deutsche und österreichische Besucher! Lesen Sie meine Rezension zur Londoner WWRY Show hier. Aus besonderem Interesse (vielleicht!) für Sie: ‘Hammer to Fall: The German Connection’ - (das dritte Stück).

Let me live...and make a brand new start! - Queen (Let Me Live)

You have reached the unofficially official website of Alison the Aged Adolescent, aka 'somedayoneday':

Alison: From an Old German name meaning 'nobility'. She is one of life's silent achievers with a great talent for communicating with others.

Me and the 'Japanese Freddie', Freddie's 60th birthday bash, Dominion Theatre, 5 Sept 06

"We can always come back to Queen, like coming back to mother".

- Roger Taylor

From Bohemia Place to Logan Place:

Outside Garden Lodge, Freddie's earthly home, 4 June 06. Jamie's outside - the picture's from her collection - but I was there!

Here are selected pieces of the messages from my original site, Now-Im-Here.com, opened in autumn 2004:

Welcome to my Web site!

'Now I'm here' - (the name of my original site, named after a great favourite song of mine as a teenager - and still!) an arrival, but also a place from which to move on. This site is a

tribute to the champions themselves, Queen, a dedication to them and their music.

You won't find that many pictures, or discographies, biographies etc. - there are so

many brilliant sites like that out there and I would never be able to do justice to

such a job! So this is a different kind of site. I invite you to join me on my personal

journey, containing reviews, reminiscences and reflections...

My name is Alison, I was born in 1962 and live in the ‘Garden of England’ with my

daughter, born when I was 30. I'm a qualified secondary school teacher of languages.

but nowadays I teach Humanities and German to teenagers in a special needs environment.

This site aims to uphold the spirit of Queen, to provide my personal perspective on

their achievements, and to be my forum for any other items which may be of general interest.

"There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill"

- Nelson Mandela

Midsummer Message:

It’s June 2005, and the right time, I feel, to add a few more words about this site.

I started writing for it in July 2004, and was ready to upload a few weeks later, but

had some technical difficulties. The initial pages were finally uploaded a matter of days

before the Fender 50^th anniversary concert in September when Brian May and Paul Rodgers

started something off by performing together! The site is about Queen, for sure – but it’s

also about me. It contains details about my life, my beliefs and my opinions.

Through their music, Queen have not only been a significant part of popular culture

around the world for decades, but have had an influence on people’s personal stories.

Therefore it’s not surprising that there’s someone who’s in a position to have started

a site like this. There’s a lot here that’s personal – my story, my journey – so it’s unique.

As I’m quite well travelled, some items on this site concern matters of interest in world

history from the last twenty five years or so.

At the time of writing this, there is still a lot to add – I’m nowhere near finished! So, if

you have enjoyed your visit here, please check back from time to time. Also, a donation

to one of the charities whose links appear on this page would be welcome!

Thanks, love, and keep rocking!

Alison

I'll tell you a story, and it's a true one, and I'll tell it like you'll understand

And I ain't gonna talk like some history man...

Buffy Sainte-Marie, 'Soldier Blue'

June 2006 - It's hard to believe that a whole year has passed since I wrote that 'midsummer message', and I've now organised my writings better on this new site. I think I had more right than anyone, even the members of Queen, to pinch myself over the events of 2005! Nevertheless, by the end of the year, I felt able to lay the whole thing to rest. But then the problems of the fan club with its loss of premises, because of another geographical connection, again pointed back to that period of my life which I've been trying to put together like the pieces of a smashed vase. I know it was all a long time ago, but other things have fallen into place since I started that 'repair job' - with the help of various pieces of 'glue' - the 30th anniversary DVDs of 'A Night at the Opera' providing the strongest one!

As a result of all this, I've become convinced that teenage bereavement is still not well-understood and also notice that bereaved children are struggling to find their voice. My current job has shown me that counselling, although now available, is not necessarily offered as a matter of course. Furthermore, the loss of a parent appears to figure highly in the background of youth offending in many cases. It's also to be noted that the one adult who really gave me space all those years ago - my headmistress - had had the same experience as me at exactly the same age.

Inevitably, in communication with others, the idea of meeting Queen comes up from time to time. Of course, it would be great.* But I have to be honest and say that my story has become more important because of the common ground (both metaphorically and literally!) I share with them in their own loss and revival. So I think that this site is serving a greater cause because it not only relates some experiences that may help others but promotes the band too! I live in hope that, one day, the significance of my journey is realised as it's been something so special to me.

For more information on the issues raised on this site, here are a couple of relevant links:

*But I know they're too busy. Still, it's been tough to confront my past. On this site I've just related events truly as I remember them. Are you who read them 'embarrassed' , as CS Lewis put it in 'A Grief Observed'? Or do you have other thoughts about me? Please e-mail me if you have something to say. I'd be interested to hear from you! Rock on! - Alison

We're the victims of the heartbreak

That kept us short of breath...

Bernie Taupin for Elton John's 'Live Like Horses'

Dec 06: Since I started this site so many great things have come my way. These were not blessings that I set out to get, they arrived anyway Furthermore, signs are there if you look for them. Recently, I had two signs. One, that those damaged old times are being damaged anew - I should genuinely be happy for the 'now' because, once a balance has been restored to you, you can really start to enjoy what yhou never had. The second showed me that the story of a meeting, however short, with someone who died young could mean something to that person's offspring many years later. In this case, I am talking about the late great Harry Chapin, whose words appear below...but relating all the details of that particular story here would not be appropriate right now. Suffice to say, with the idea that even brief meetings can be meaningful, I found at the start of this month that i'd come to a point where I would initiate a meeting with Brian, which was totally spontaneous, and, four days later, had the chance to talk with him again, but in different circumstances - the details are here.

The site updates are happening gradually right now, but I'm here to stay in my 'web home' which tells the story of the long way I have travelled since I started building it...remembering that, in travelling, physical movement to another place will only help you if your spirit moves on as well...

...You can travel on ten thousand miles

And still stay where you are...

Harry Chapin, 'WOLD'

More on Harry Chapin here.

26 Apr 08:

Well, it's been the best part of 18 months since I wrote one of these 'homepage messages'! I do so now looking back over the time since I've started this site and all that's happened. It's as if I've been living my dream. I can only explain it in the sense that, at that point in my life, I could only 'get to the future by going through the past' as John Trudell put it. I have never had such a strong message from my past. I know that any musician would probably like to connect with the great, joyful and triumphant points in someone's life. But, in doing so, they can finish up connecting with the tragedy too. The experience of the past few months has been the major part of a process that has changed my attitude, - fundamentally - from within and therefore changed me as a person in a really positive way. Some of the people I have met on this journey, who have made me feel so much part of a family, have helped here too. 'I thank you all'...and also...

THANKS TO...

Georgia, my daughter, for being suitably amused at what her mother was once crazed about when she saw 'Killer Queen' from TOTP 1974 on DVD. She prefers Hip-Hop (but is perfect in every other way). Her favourite Queen track is 'Another One Bites the Dust' with Wyclef Jean. ..and also to my good friend Peter for his endless encouragement and support. Guitars (and banjos) forever!

Site Guide

The Works - collected writings telling my story.

Links to: Schoolday Memories, More of that Jazz (miscellaneous, some Queen and also concerns my student days and travels), Let Me Live (more about my life, and Queen!), The Sunflower (fan fiction), Coronation Chicken (more fan fiction), The Tribute Concert, One Vision (my favourites in world cinema), Vicki Moore, Nevermore - My Auschwitz Project

Innuendo - A Queen collection of words and pictures. Some items by other fans.

Links to: Lover of Life Singer of Songs (Freddie Solo/Articles: Barcelona, Freddie in Munich, Freddie's Childhood Friend, Freddie:Asian Hero), A Kind of Magic (Roger page), Dreamer's Ball (SAS Band concert with Roger Taylor, Dec 04), Roger Taylor (Solo), Shove It (about Roger's other group, The Cross), Fun It, Driven by You (Brian page), Bang! - Complete History of the Universe, On the Bass Line - John Deacon page

Queen plus Paul Rodgers - A collection of items concerning the tours

Links to my reviews: Brixton Blog, Wembley Whinge, From Hate and Hell to Wishing Well (Hyde Park)

Action This Day - News Web feed from the Queen Fan Club site.

Links to: The Show Must Go On (those who have worked with Queen or recorded cover versions of their material), The Fan Club, Zac Vincent, Jeff Scott Soto, Gary Mullen and The Works, The SAS Band

Back Chat - Queen-related commentaries. Articles on the pre-Queen group Smile, Eddie Howell's 'Man from Manhattan', Roy Thomas Baker, Brian on early eighties material. Teo Torriatte - anything about Queen internationally.International Collaborations and items on the songs: 'White Man' and 'Say It's Not True'. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke - about the song from Queen II. We Will Rock You - The Musical - about the musical, both at home and abroad. Includes my unofficial 'sequel'! A Night at the Opera- some commentaries about the album. Hot Space - my soapbox!

Made in Heaven - Words of Wisdom and comfort from the Bible

Links to - Heaven for Everyone (some thoughts for sharing), Dear Friends (my own thoughts),

Good Company (where we remember departed friends).

Cancer Charities: