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April 30, 2006
Plackband
The Dutch symphonic
rock band Plackband releases a new DVD and CD “Visions”. It took the
band 18 months to complete it. The vision behind the DVD is the
history of the band: visions of yesterday, visions of the reunion,
visions of the concert and visions of today. The almost 30 years of
Plackband with three different vocalists, with the emphasys on the
great gig in The Boerderij in Zoetermeer. You also get an audio CD
of the gig and a 16 pages booklet.
The band was formed
in 1977 and played with lots of success in almost every club in
Holland, with as highlights the gig for Vara radio. They released
only 1 EP: Seventy Warriors, now a collector’s item! When they
splitted up, they remained a hot topid in sympholand and the band
got a cult status. When they rejoined in 1999, all the old tapes
were rediscovered and put on the CD “The Lost Tapes”, followed by
the awesome studio album “After the Battle” in 2001. In 2003
leadsinger Kees Bik was replaced by Karel Messemaker and in 2005
singer Koos Sekreve was added, so the band now performs as a sextet
with a mix of old and new material, and some covers of Genesis and
Peter Gabriel.
More information
Plackband:
www.plackband.com
Management:
www.solutionproductions.com
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"A Taste Of Belgium"
A Belgian
compilation CD wit symphonic and progressive rock
The
Belgian prog and sympho scene is doing quite well : a heap of new
quality bands are following in the footsteps of renowned
predecessors like Irish Coffee, Machiavel, Isopoda, Now, Univers
Zero and many others - one can easily say that there is a revival of
the musical style in spite of the lack of attention and respect from
the mainstream media.
Together with Geert Fieuw, guitar player for the band Beyond The
Labyrinth, initiator and coordinator of the project, Prog-Nose
vzw and Prog-Résiste asbl are compiling a CD to present
some of the bands in this scene.
These are the confirmed bands until now :
- Ghiribizzi (www.ghiribizzi.com)
- Karma Depth (www.karmadepth.org)
- Panopticum (www.panopticum.org)
- Globalys (www.globalys.be)
- Beyond The Labyrinth (www.beyond-the-labyrinth.com)
- AmAndA (www.polypheme.com/amanda
)
- Quantum Fantay (www.quantumfantay.com)
- Bubble Trap (www.bubbletrap.com
)
- Madelgaire (www.madelgaire.be
)
You can expect more names in the current of the weeks to come !
A Taste Of Belgium is planned for release in the month of May, and
will be exclusively available through Prog-Résiste and Prog-Nose (in
pre-inscription), and through the participating bands (after the
period of pre-inscription)
Prog-Nose vzw :
http://www.prog-nose.org
info :
jany@prog-nose.org
Prog-Résiste asbl :
http://www.progresiste.com
info :
dominique.genin@progresiste.com
Geert Fieuw :
geert.fieuw@telenet.be
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A
Day's Work
A Day's Work's drummer and bassplayer
will join Keith Caputo (Life Of Agony) on his European solo tour.
The tour will start on May 2nd in Germany and will take them to do
27 shows in seven different countries before the last one in Austria
on June 18th.
Dutchmen Michiel Rietveld and Jochem van Rooyen have recorded a new
album with the American singer earlier this year. "Heart's Blood On
Your Dawn" will be in the stores when the tour kicks off.
Michiel: "It's very cool to work with such a fine musician. We're
looking forward doing all these incredible shows."
The international band will do club shows aswell as some big
festivals like Nova Rock in Austria. They're on the same bill as
Guns N' Roses, Tool and Metallica.
These are the English, Belgium and Dutch shows.
05/22 Corporation, Sheffield, ENGLAND
05/24 Underworld, London, ENGLAND
05/26 Het Depot, Leuven, BELGIUM
05/27 Biebob, Vosselaar, BELGIUM
05/28 Maz, Bruges, BELGIUM
05/30 - Doornroosje, Nijmegen, HOLLAND
05/31 - O13, Tilburg, HOLLAND
06/01 - Nighttown, Rotterdam, HOLLAND
06/02 - Melkweg, Amsterdam, HOLLAND
06/04 - Vera, Groningen, HOLLAND
For the full schedule check
www.keithcaputo.com
For more details check
www.adayswork.nl
The new album of A Day's Work 'A Home In The Rain' will be released
on May the 30th, featuring the hitsingle: 'Welcome home'. Listen to
the NEW SONGS on their website.
Shows:
21-04-06 - Gigant, Apeldoorn, with Vertigo
08-07-06 - Loodspop, Coevorden, with many more
03-09-06 - Zomerpop festival, Hoogwoud, with Solo, Gem and many more
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Mermaid Kiss
Mermaid Kiss has
added a new page to their website, where they offer tracks for free.
It will be a mix of demos, alternative versions, tracks from their
sold out , early CD-R’s ‘Shine’ and ‘Electric’ and songs that, for
some reason, never made it to the ‘The Mermaid Kiss Album’ or ‘Salt
On Skin’. The first track on offer is ‘42’ that was meant for “The
Mermaid Kiss Album”.
www.mermaidkiss.co.uk
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ProgdecenniO Festival
Magazine
celebrates their 10th year with ProgdecenniO-festival
First national iO
Pages ProgAward
A Dutch
progressive rock band will receive the first national ProgAward on
Saturday May 20th in De Boerderij in Zoetermeer(NL). This band will
be selected by a panel from the specialized magazine based upon the
best progalbum of 2005. This will happen during ProgdecenniO, the
festival to celebrate their 10th anniversary.
iO Pages writes about symphonic progressive rock.
They went for exclusive names and found three big ones! Magenta
(Wales), Satellite (Polen) and Mangala Vallis (Italië) are bands
that received great reviews in (prog)media, nationally and abroad.
Satelllite Magenta
(picture: Chris Walkden) Mangala Vallis (pic:Marco Montanari)
Tickets for the
festival: presales 20 euro, reservation: ticketservice, tel.
0900-300.1250 or
www.ticketservice.nl
More information:
www.boerderij.org
and
www.iopages.nl
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Hammer of the Gods
DVD and double CD
available now!
The Hammer Of The Gods
(Led Zeppelin tribute featuring Paul Gilbert, Daniel Gildenlow, Dave
LaRue and Mike Portnoy)
DVD
and double
CD
"Two Nights In North
America" is now available exclusively from the online store at
www.mikeportnoy.com.
The tracklisting for both
titles is as follows:
One Night In Montreal:
The Song Remains the Same
Heartbreaker
Livin' Lovin' Maid (She's Just a Woman)
The Rover
Houses of the Holy
Misty Mountain Hop
Immigrant Song
The Rain Song
Dazed and Confused
One Night In New York City:
In the Light
Celebration Day
Night Flight
The Wanton Song
Out on the Tiles
Moby Dick / Drum Solo
Ten Years Gone
Black Dog
The Ocean
Thank You
How Many More Times
I'm Gonna Crawl
http://www.mikeportnoy.com/
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Dream Theater
The
following Official Dream Theater Bootlegs are now available from
Ytsejam Records:
Awake
Demos
http://www.dreamtheater.net/buy/?a=yr_awake
Old
Bridge, New JERSEY - 12/14/96
http://www.dreamtheater.net/buy/?a=yr_nj96
Dark
Side Of The Moon - CD
http://www.dreamtheater.net/buy/?a=yr_dsotm_cd
Dark
Side Of The Moon - DVD
http://www.dreamtheater.net/buy/?a=yr_dsotm_dvd
"Dark
Side Of The Moon" contains Dream Theater's entire performance of the
legendary Pink Floyd album recorded live at the Hammersmith Apollo
in London, England on October 25th 2005.
For
more Ytsejam Records releases, please visit:
http://www.ytsejamrecords.com/
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Akerfeldt – Portnoy - Wilson
OPETH frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has confirmed reports
that he is planning on collaborating with PORCUPINE TREE's Steven
Wilson and DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy on an as-yet-unnamed
new project. "We've been talking the three of us," Mikael said in a
recent interview with Tony of KASC The Blaze 1260 AM (web site) (the
campus radio station at Arizona State University). "It started with
me and Steve. Once we first met, which was like six years ago or
something, we've been talking about doing something, like writing
together. And since he worked with [OPETH as a producer] for a
couple of albums, we got that whole collaboration thing put on hold
because we were already working together. With him in the studio, it
was a very creative relationship that we had, but we've never really
written music together, so that's still… I'm 100 percent [sure] that
that's going to happen. And Portnoy... PORCUPINE TREE toured with
DREAM THEATER and he wanted to be involved. I used to be a massive
DREAM THEATER fan — I'm still a fan of them and he's a really nice
guy, good drummer, so that's cool. And we're looking at some other
people, maybe to involve some guests. I think we're gonna start slow
— it's not gonna be something blown out of proportion, it's just
gonna be for the sake of our love of music. I think we're gonna do a
song that Steve wrote for the 'In Absentia' album that didn't make
it, which is a massively fantastic song. That's what we're gonna
record first, I think, unless the band comes around and they record
it as a PORCUPINE TREE song, but I'd love to record that song with
him and then just write some stuff. And I don't know what it's gonna
be like. It's just talk right now. [But] I'm sure it's going to
happen."
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Apocalyptica
This year Apocalyptica look back on a 10 years'
bandhistory - reason enough to put the best tracks of this decade on
a new CD. On "Amplified - A Decade Of Reinventing The Cello" you'll
find wellknown hits like "Enter Sandman", "Harmageddon",
"Bittersweet" and "Seemann" (feat. Nina Hagen) as well as two new
songs: "Repressed" (with Max Cavalera/Soulfly and Matt Tuck/Bullet
For My Valentine) and an instrumental of Slayer's "Angel Of Death".
"Repressed" will be published as a single on 19 May, "Amplified - A
Decade OF Reinventing The cello" follows on 26 May on CD and DVD
(incl. Life Burns-tour and videos).
www.apocalyptica.com
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Landmarq
The new Landmarq DVD is finally
released and should be available from all usual suppliers and
outlets.
From Amazon.com:
"...majestic guitars and keyboards, sophisticated compositions and
Tracy Hitchings beautiful, mighty voice...a must for every prog-rock
fan!..." (www.amazon.com)
Full contents details:
LANDMARQ - "TURBULENCE - LIVE IN POLAND"
Label: METAL MIND RECORDS
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
- Concert filmed at Teatr Wyspianskiego, Katowice, Poland - 15
November 2005
1. Entertaining Angels
2. Calm Before The Storm
- part 1. Strange but Beautiful
- part 2. Spiderman
- part 3. From the Abyss
3. Prayer
4. Thunderstruck
5. Walking On Eggshells
6. Landslide
7. Timeline
8. Mountains Of Anglia
9. Lighthouse
- Bonus audio
1. Solitary Witness (Recorded live in Uden, Holland 1995)
2. Freefall (Recorded live in London 1993)
3. Instrumental Medley (Recorded live in Belgium 1998)
a. Killing Fields
b. Cutting Room
c. Ta'Jiang
d. Narovlya
4. Science of Coincidence (Unreleased single version 1998)
5. Summer Madness (Unreleased single version 1998)
6. Do or Die! (Unreleased studio version 1995)
- Bonus video
1. Between Sleeping and Dreaming (Recorded Live at The Whitchurch
Festival 2000)
2. Killing Fields (Recorded in Uden, Holland 1993)
3. Dancing on Stones - Why am I Standing
4. Janison Edge - Services of Mary Goode (Recorded at ProgFarm
Festival Holland)
5. Janison Edge - Beneath the Boy (Recorded at ProgFarm Festival
Holland)
- Band interview with Tracy Hitchings, Dave Wagstaffe and Steve Gee
by Darek Switala (Metal Hammer magazine)
www.landmarq.net
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