hago's website updates 2005

hago news from 2005 ...

December 2005

Merry Christmas from hago - read up about 2005, including how our MD meets his doppelgänger in a Curry House

Our now traditional Carol Concert at one of the local Sheltered Housing Schemes took place on December 15th

Our charity fund-raising total is now £25369

Welcome to the dozens of visitors from the Dave Gorman website forum, and more curiously, from the Kylie Minogue forum. If you're too far away to come to one of our concerts, let us at least show you around - see our Hampshire photos and watch us in video

Another month, another Zeitgeist, and our website grows to 500 pages!

November 2005

Two years after winning the Guitar Orchestra Competition of Great Britain, we're delighted to hand over the crown to this year's winners...
Orquesta de Guitarras de la Escuela Municipal de Música y Danza de Donostia San Sebastian Gipuzkoa Spain
(Should look nice, engraved on the trophy...) Well done everyone!

Our charity fund-raising total is now £24208 - come to our Xmas Concert on December 10th and help us reach £25000!

Hear Bruce Paine and hago playing part of Schindler's List from our July concert

Our set at Petersfield on November 12th in aid of Cecily's fund was a great success - the evening raised over £1000

All change at hago - we've bought more alto guitars (photo & story), and as a result, we have a Raimundo 1498 requinto & hard case for sale

Alan Carter-Davies from Nottingham contacted us about using one of our photos on the website he's building. If you enjoy poetry, visit www.poemsbyriver.co.uk

The month just gone was a busy one here at hago.org.uk - we served 48,892 pages - just 20% less than our local Borough Council!

October 2005

Our Spinnaker Tower pages attracted lots of visitors reading of the endless problems with the tower. Now the tower is open, it's time to present the other side of the coin in a set of glorious pictures from the Spinnaker Tower

Had a spam from a daft name at hago.org.uk?
Not us - honest - someone's using our email address as a fake reply-to again.
We don't sell fake pills. If you feel you need more inches down below to achieve that extra depth, we simply suggest a Niibori Bass guitar...

Following superb service from MB Music, we're pleased to add them to our list of suppliers of Altos, Basses and Contras - heartily recommended

A new home page photo

More guestbook entries & more popular than ever - we're serving 30000 pages a month

If you first came to our site following a link from Old New Thing about the Millennium Tower, you should know that there is good news - The Spinnaker Tower, which failed to open in 2000, is opening, by coincidence, just over 2000 days late...

A new home for us - our rehearsal venue is being redecorated (painfully slowly), we were assured it would re-open on September 16th. Sorry, October 1st. Sorry, October 14th. Sorry, October 21st. Sorry, November 7th. So we've moved to Lovedean - here's a photo of our October 6th rehearsal

September 2005

New to classical guitar? Ten photos showing you how to tie really neat knots when you restring your guitar

A triple celebration at our first rehearsal of autumn - 2 new players and a new playee!

Our July concert is reviewed in Classical Guitar Magazine

We're about to hand over our crown, awarded with our victory at the 6th Guitar Orchestra Competition of Great Britain, as IGF begin organisation of the 7th...

August 2005

hago play at the Birdman of Bognor

We regret that the Open Rehearsal we had planned for October 6th has been postponed because our rehearsal Hall is being refurbished and the contractors have failed to keep to their schedule, having slipped twice in two months...

Our page featuring the Bruce Paine & hago concert contains two reviews

More guestbook contributions

July 2005

See & hear Bruce Paine & hago on video in our moving concert finale on the day of the London bombings

Visitors from outside our area - come and view the latest picture in our Hampshire Gallery

Total raised for charity now £23812

The News features a large write-up and a photo of our July 1st Concert

Our July 7th Concert with Bruce Paine attracts a massive audience - one of the largest guitar concerts in the area. Photos and write-up.

Our July 1st Concert raises £580 for St James.

June 2005

Total raised for charity now £22532

Great fun at The Rowans - the audience start a singalong!

Thank you to our friends Cambridge Guitar Orchestra for a really enjoyable concert on June 11th!

May 2005

Phil Shaddock predicted disaster today if ... you guessed - the Spinnaker Tower again!

Wouldn't be a good month if we didn't have some good Zeitgeists!

Total raised for charity now £22451

April 2005

Welcome to the many visitors from the Old New Thing Blog - good to see you!

A new front page to help you leap feet first into our massive site

A small Press Kit for those people promoting our concerts.

News just in - we're playing at St James, Emsworth on July 1st in aid of their Church Hall restoration appeal - do come!

We're pleased to announce that our 2005 Open Rehearsal is on October 6th. If you can sightread at Grade 3 standard, make a note of the date now - enjoy a fun evening out and try our unusual guitars too! More details soon.

March 2005

hago wish all our visitors a Happy Easter!

We've just sent out our latest newsletter - it's free and you can subscribe here
Two copies bounced - if you change your email address, you'll need to tell us here

There's a fresh new look to our webpages as we spring-clean the website

The wanderer returns - we welcome back Avril, hago's first ever contra player

In response to a request - concert posters you can download

In response to a question asking for help, another string formula in our FAQs

Our ticket reservation system is upgraded to accept credit card payments for the Bruce Paine concert - AND you save money if you purchase on-line!

Updated rehearsal dates if you're thinking of joining or rejoining us

February 2005

The hago cup is awarded at the Portsmouth Music Festival again

Our Zeitgeist page - the "search me" of hago - yet more bizarre offerings

Our 6th Birthday - cake, wine, lemonade, cake, tea & coffee. And cake.

More technical blurb for stringophiles (if such a word exists!)

Details of our very special Concert with New Zealander Bruce Paine and news of other forthcoming concerts

A heart-warming epilogue to our Hale Court Christmas Concert - £100 raised for Lloyd Scott's Charity Appeal

January 2005

Our very first long service awards! Photos and report

A rather belated 2-page feature & massive photo in Classical Guitar Magazine!

Try our brand new Site Search - the easy way to find what you want!

Another Guestbook entry - possibly the world's shortest!

In response to an overseas request - photos of Hampshire - plus the connection between Privett & New Zealand

A new Guitar Family FAQ