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April 23, 2003 The line-up for the progrésiste convention in the Spirit of 66 in Verviers (Belgium) has been confirmed. Saturday October 4, 2003:
16:00
Plackband Sunday October 5, 2003:
16:00 Lord of Mushroom’s
Spock's Beard drummer and now also their singer Nick D'Virgilio has become full member of the post-punk formation The Rubinoos. Recently, Nick was with the band in Spain and Japan to perform a lot of gigs. You can also hear Nick on their newest album "Crimes against music" on which the band bring you 13 covers in their own “bubblebum” way. Songs from amongst others, Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, American Breed, Sweet, Del Shannon, Beach Boys and Todd Rundgren's Utopia are given a specific Rubinoos arrangement. Certainly a very busy boy, our Nick!!!
Rock super group Rush gives the performance of their careers in this amazing show shot at the world-famous Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Shot on November 23, 2002, it was the band’s final date on their wildly successful “Vapor Trails World Tour”. The show, shot with 22 cameras in 16x9 widescreen format, beautifully captures the energy of the 125,000+ fans that saw Rush perform during their Brazilian tour. This was Rush’s first trip to Brazil and one that will certainly not be the last!
The
show contains killer performances of 28 songs that span throughout the
band’s critically acclaimed career. The DVD will be a 2-DVD box set
that will include a documentary of the band’s tour of Brazil including
footage from shows in Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
There will also be extensive bonus features such as: multi-camera
angles, hidden scenes, photo gallery and exclusive footage provided by
Rush. The audio will be offered in Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby 5.1
Surround Sound and DTS Digital Surround sound. It will also be Sony
Play Station 2 compatible. Setlist
Press Communication: April 17 2003
Due
to extra complications, Gary Rossington will not be recovered from his
open heart surgery. Therefore the 1st part of the European Tour of
Lynyrd Skynyrd has been cancelled. So they won’t play in Belgium,
Italy, Danmark, Sweden and Finland.
HALLEN Belgium MAY 29, 2003
TICKETS:
46 € Tickets can be ordered : www.schwung.be or on 0900/00.600 Info : www.schwung.be
Before Uriah Heep's new studio effort, coming out this year, a new
live recording is being released: "Live In The USA". Recorded during
Heep's gig at the Classic Rock Festival 2002 in Trenton, the show will
be available on both CD and DVD. The new John Lawton Band studio album - "Sting In The Tale" - is ready, and to commemorate that what's better than... yeah, a live concert!! Take note: Friday, May 11th 2003, at the Mean Fiddler (ex-London Astoria 2) in London, UK. They will be co-headlining with Bulgaria's top rock band BTR. This event promises to be a winner, so don't miss it! For more details, please refer to http://www.johnlawtonband.com . See you there!
EMILA DERKOWSKA has left Quidam. She will concentrate on a Gospel carreer. The band is in desperate need of a vocalist. (and they seem to search a male singer) Hopefully they will find someone soon, as we all love to see and hear from them as soon as possible. http://www.caladan.art.pl/quidam/
Located over at
the 'lost and found' counter are UK melodic/prog rockers It Bites.
Here is a press release from the
www.itbites.com
website
announcing their imminent return:
Two decades after Queensryche released their self-titled 12-inch debut EP, EMI is celebrating the band’s career by reissuing the disc and the six critically acclaimed albums that followed: THE WARNING, RAGE FOR ORDER, OPERATION: MINDCRIME. EMPIRE, PROMISED LAND and HEAR IN THE NOW FRONTIER. Each of the seven ‘Ryche records has been repackaged with bonus tracks, unreleased photos, memorabilia and liner notes by lead vocalist Geoff Tate and Paul Suter (who wrote the first demo review in Kerrang Magazine, which eventually was responsible for getting the band signed). There’s also a new album coming up, with Chris DeGarmo, who rejoined the band.
TRIBE April 11, 2003 News Update From Roine
Mixing of new Kaipa CD will start within the next week.
My
guess is that it will be,from a music point of view, one of the major
'prog' releases of 2003, together with Tomas Bodin's new CD, that has
some lovely soulful writing & great new sounds from Glenn Hughes
guitarist Joachim Marsh recommended to Mr Bodin by yours truly ;-)!
Plus DVD News!!!! That's all for now. Roine. Steve Hackett’s first studio ‘rock’ album since 1999’s Darktown. The album was mainly recorded with his touring band after the North American shows last year and sees the reappearance of many of the Hackett compositional trademarks which graced earlier classics such as Voyage of the Acolyte and Spectral Mornings.
'To
Watch The Storms' will appear in two formats. As always there will be
the standard jewel case edition with 8 page booklet and this will be
joined by a deluxe Special Edition package, initially available in
the form of a deluxe hard back book with slipcase.
Steve Hackett
Vocals, Guitar
Provisional Release Date: 26th May 2003
CAMEL FAREWELL TOUR
2003 - CONFIRMED DATES: Van Links: Guy LeBlanc: keyboards : vocals Denis Clement : Drums Colin Bass : Bass, vocals Andrew Latimer : Guitars
http://www.camelproductions.com Take a look at the new web site dedicated to the music of Carmen, a rock band that in the early seventies created the perfect blend of serious rock and traditional Spanish and flamenco music. You'll only occasionally find any information on Carmen in encyclopedias or books of rock history but now you can find everything about them on www.fandangosinspace.com
Carmen began recording their first album, Fandangos in Space, in the summer of 73. They met Bowie, Angie, Bolan, Bryan Ferry amongst many others, and whilst recording their first album, Bowie helped promote them on his tv show, Midnight Special (have a look at an outtake).
Carmen recorded their second album,
Dancing on a Cold Wind,
with Tony Visconti in Feb/March of '74. They flew to the US and began
touring for the next year. Played with Santana, Blue Oyster Cult,
Golden Earring, Rush, ELO and others. Read the whole story and a lot more at www.fandangosinspace.com
Progrock Records
has released "Thorns of Anger" by Jack Yello in the USA. Arjen Lucassen mixes Sun Caged's debut album Message from Sun Caged: "We are very happy to announce that Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon/Star One) has just finished mixing our album. And we are very excited about the results...! Arjen has been a good friend of the band ever since our keyboard player, Joost, played with him on the Star One tour last year. Since we are all big fans of Ayreon, and the production on the Ayreon albums, the idea came up that it might be very interesting if Arjen would mix our album. Arjen visited several shows and started to really like our music. Since he was also very happy about the fact he was able to "borrow" Joost from us for two months for the Star One tour, and also because Dennis (who used to be a professional webdesigner) helped setting up the new Ayreon.com website, he decided to give it a try as a returned favour. Arjen has had uncountable offers from bands to mix their albums, and has always turned these offers down, so we were very pleasantly surprised. Arjen wanted to try one song first to check out the quality of the recordings and check out if he would be able to work with the recordings. He mixed one songs and that mix blew all of our socks off. Arjen was very happy with the quality of the recordings, and very excited about the songs, so he immediately started mixing the entire album. We are extremely happy with the results and we can't wait to share them with the world. The album will be released in the first week of June. We will announce the exact date and label very soon!" Sun Caged
Please visit http://www.suncaged.com for pictures of Sun Caged and Arjen Lucassen at The Electric Castle last week.
Now
that the European "Reflections" tour is nearly over, we wanted to
invite all those to the new "Fanclub" section on
www.apocalyptica.com,
who haven't been able to join Apocalyptica at one of their gigs. There
you can find a whole lot of interesting tour pictures in the new fan
galleries. Everybody who still has pictures, he/she would like to see
published on the official Apocalyptica website is very welcome to send
those to the heads of the fanclub.
April 04, 2003 Peter Gabriel DVD
Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live is finally to be released on DVD on the 14th April. Enhanced for widescreen television, remixed & remastered in stereo, Dolby 5.1 and DTS and including a host of extra features. Pre-order your copy now! http://www.camino.co.uk/sales/ Note: This disc is PAL Region 2 only - suitable for Europe. The Secret World Tour was one of the most extravagant, demanding and innovative concert shows when it debuted nearly a decade ago. It was Peter Gabriel’s first tour since 1986 and the mammoth run was seen by more than a million fans on five continents during an 18 month period. The concert featured on the DVD was filmed in Modena, Italy in November 1993 and was originally released in 1994 as a double live album and home video - the latter going on to win a Grammy Award. EXTRAS:
Two editions of Progfever this year. The first is on May 18th in the Boerderij in Zoetermeer, Holland.
Program: 20:00 - 21:00 Sylvan
www.everon.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The second is on June 20th at the same venue.
Program:
Mangala Vallis
www.mangalavallis.it
Radiohead will release their sixth album “Hail To The Thief” on
Parlophone on June 9. “Hail To The Thief” features 14 tracks and was recorded in Oxford and Los Angeles. It was produced by Nigel Godrich and Radiohead, and mixed by Nigel Godrich. The track listing is:
2 +
2 = 5 Radiohead performs at Werchter on June 26th
SHINE ON or the little PINK FLOYD 25-04-2003 Hoeve Ferme Holleken – 212 Hollebeekstraat – 1630 Linkebeek (Belgium) Doors : 20.00 h Concert : 21.00 h Dance party 24.00 h(€ 7.00) Information : Michprog 0032-475 83 01 49 We are lucky to have them in our small village for a promising, big show. Their first gig was in 1997 in Cultuur Rock in Châtelet. The band changes into the present formation with Jacques Leboute (founder, guitar and biggest fan), Giacomo Aronica (keyboards), Carlo Di Calogero (guitar), Dominique Leroy (percussion), Marc Weymaere (drums) and Eddy Broodcoorens (bass) Their setlist is inspired on the concerts of Pink Floyd, especially on the worldtour “Pulse” from the nineties. They start their show with “Shine on you crazy diamond”, followed by several hits (we don’t tell you all yet) during a 130 minutes lasting concert. A show you have to see, so put it down on you calendar.
After a great deal of coaxing, Clive and Oliver have revealed the subject for the next Nolan & Wakeman project. They are, as they put it, "Going more over the top than ever before", and have chosen to call their next album, simply "Frankenstein". Well, that pretty much gives us a clue!! http://www.verglas.com/nw/nw.htm AEMEN ON VLIETPOP Their videoclip “Time” is on number 1 on The Box Rock Top 20, the single is on number 27 of the ‘Dutch Top 100 of all time 2003'. This good news hasn’t gone unnoticed to the programmers of Vlietpop. On July 5th, Aemen will play a gig, for the first time in their carreer on this open air festival. If the weather’s allright, they expect almost 20.000 visitors. A lot of bands were on Vlietpop on the eve of their breakthrough: Anouk, Kane, Di-rect, Within Temptation, After Forever. For most of them, the next step was a gig on Parkpop.
Mission Accomplished! Wojtek Szadkowski from Collage, and now also from Satellite, asked to let you know that Satellite's debut album "A Street Between Sunrise and Sunset" has just been released in Poland. Satellite is Wojtek's solo project and it includes three other Collage members. "A Street Between Sunrise and Sunset" is a concept album, just like "Moonshine." The Satellite's album is melodic but very progressive and there are a lot of tempo changes and solos. Four songs are over 10 minutes long and there are some shorter ones as well.
You
can now download sound samples from the
Satellite's album
"A
Street Between Sunrise and Sunset":
Track listing:
DAVE RECORDING WITH OLIVER WAKEMAN
HUGH McDOWELL (CELLO) TO GUEST WITH LANDMARQ
LAURENT HUNZIKER (SAX) TO GUEST WITH LANDMARQ
L A
N D M A R Q
Symphonic
Rock Opera KnightArea is a new symphonic project, composed by Gerben Klazinga. The album is called 'The Sun Also Rises' and will be released this summer. Guest musicians: Mark Smit from MIRACLE, Peter van Heijningen (TOYZ), Gijs Koopman (CLIFFHANGER) and Ron van den Bas (TOYZ). www.knightarea.com
On Sundaynight April 27, there’s a project presentation of “Lifecycle from the symphonic rockband Lorian in De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. The project is about a brother and sister who are looking for their disappeared father. They find his diary carved in a wall of their parental house. The story gives them the opportunity to get to know him better. The story is spread over 9 different songs. The members of Lorian have listened very well to bands like Marillion, Camel and Pink Floyd, but they produce their own sound. They combine melody and a strong, dynamic rhythm. During the gig, the story is explained by the projection of images above the stage.
Date :
27 april 2003
Members
Adress
Reservations:
020-6385606 There has been a recent release of the album "Parallelebiped" from THE FAR SIDE, a "power prog" trio from Rome, Italy. The CD is available for order from Mellow Records.
Message from James Onysko from Drumplay:
My name is James Onysko with Drumplay,
winner of Best World Music Act 2002 in the Cleveland Free Times Music
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