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August 22, 2003 As you probably already know, Änglagård is back on the road. Don’t miss this opportunity. The gig on Monday August 25th in the Spirit Of 66 in Verviers (Belgium) is exclusive for the Benelux. They will be on stage with no less than 3 mellotrons.
Änglagård were founded in 1991 in Stockholm and they disbanded in 1994
after their final performance at the Progfest in Los Angeles. During
that time they released two albums which are considered to be classics
in the realm of original Scandinavian rock music.
NEAL MORSE – Testimony
Total Time: 123:34 minutes
Friday Sept 19
Saturday September 20
H-BAND The H Band is the band of Marillion vocalist Steve Hogarth. Steve has nothing but English top musicians around him; The Crew of Geniuses. This is his strong line-up:
From Massive Attack and The Stone Roses to XTC, Japan and Marillion. A
line-up to lick your fingers. Last year they already performed in the
Lantaarn.
See
the review on our site of the live album:
live body : live spirit
www.marillion.com
PRESSURE POINTS DVD:
SPECIAL OFFER: IF you order all three Camel DVDs (Coming of Age, Curriculum Vitae and Pressure Points), they’ll apply a 10% discount. GODS OF LIGHT: During the recording session with Andrew Latimer, Andy Ward and Doug Ferguson, the lads were gracious enough to take time out to autograph 50 copies each of 'Gods of Light' and 'Camel on the Road 1972'. There is no price increase for this special souvenir, but they are in limited supply so it is a first-come, first-served basis.
Dream Theater will be kicking off their 2004 World Tour in January
with the following dates (more dates coming soon). These shows will be
"An Evening With" (meaning no opening act). Contest
Dream Theater
Songwriting Contest "The Music That Died Alone"- released Sept 22 on Inside Out records
"The Tangent" is a musical project that involves seven of the most
dedicated progressive musicians of today. Taken primarily from two of
today's most prolific progressive bands (The Flower Kings and Parallel
or 90 Degrees), that core is augmented by the legendary Van Der Graaf
Generator saxophonist David Jackson, and the up and coming solo artist
Guy Manning. A line-up that historically spans the whole of the
progressive music era then. "The Music That Died Alone" is a CD
recorded by the people of that project.
There will be a few of you who wonder what an album made by a
concoction of Flower Kings & Po90 members sounds like... after all,
the bands are pretty different from each other. Po90 operate at the
darker end of the progressive spectrum, and have as such frequently
been compared to Van Der Graaf Generator, which makes this
collaboration with David Jackson all the more poignant.
The
Tangent seeks to be able to combine these views to avoid an
unnecessary polarization in the forces of progressive music. After
all, Po90 maintain that they are, (regardless of the titles) a very
positive band. ATD has frequently gone on record as such. Back in
progressive music's first heyday, there was another outfit where
musicians from both sides of the form could work, this being King
Crimson, which despite its frequently dark approach to "prog" found
room for Jon Anderson's uniquely optimistic and angelic voice. The Music that Died Alone is a remarkable album. For a start, it's a lot shorter than everyone expected given the scale of recent Spock’s Beard, Transatlantic & Flower Kings records. It clocks in at just under 50 minutes. It's made up of four pieces (or movements.. Andy jokes that this being a prog record, "it should have movements!") Arena DVD - "Caught in the Act" The new Arena DVD is now available at the Verglas store. http://www.verglas.com/Shop/vstore.htm
This exciting new Arena Live DVD includes the concert recorded in
Krakow, Poland:
Arena Tour
DEC 9: Germany, Gelsenkirchen, Kaue http://www.verglas.com/ArenaWorld/arenaworld.html Back in June the band performed at Sweden's largest Festival, the prestigious Sweden Rock. Despite Herman being in poor health, the band stole the show and not only received rave reviews, they were voted the number one performance of the festival, beating off 50 other bands who included Yes, Jethro Tull, Y&T, Anthrax, Uriah Heep, Motorhead, Sepultura, Queensryche, Whitesnake and Twisted Sister. We are currently putting together the final LAST EPIC Tour dates for 2003 and we hope to inform you of more dates in the coming weeks. Currently, the following are confirmed (subject to contracts)
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Oct 2003 Rotherham, England Oakwood Centre - Classic Rock Society
Are you good at making noise? You like a challenge? Well you might
like to have a go at this. For more information and the loops: http://www.digitallandfill.co.uk/loophole/instructions.php Psychonaut Records is planning a first VINYL release on the Gathering album 'Souvenirs': Souvenirs will be released under license by The End records as a 2 vinyl gatefold release and will contain the original song texts on the gatefold. We will print on very heavy type (230 gr) vinyl which will make it the best quality possible. Release date will be around October 2003.
New The Gathering EP called 'Monsters': ‘Monsters’, the most heavy rock song from the album ’Souvenirs’, hits you with grooving drums and heavy guitars while Anneke van Giersbergen again steals your heart with her intriguing and breath-taking angelic voice. Besides a radio edit and an extended promo-cd version Monsters e.p also contains three cool remixes. As extra bonus the fans are treated with over 30 minutes of unique cd-video live recordings from two German shows filmed during the European spring tour and an English spoken live TV interview with Anneke at the German TV station RCN TV. THE GATHERING TOUR DATA:
Sept 13 Showcase 'Amsterdam calling' - at 'In The City' Music
Conference - Manchester - UK On Saturday October 4th, Trisomy present their CD “Entanglement”. The CD presentation itself is held at De Plato, Molenstraat 123, Helmond. At the CD presentation, a couple of guests will play: Sylver Myst, Annatar, Her Enchantment and Whispering Gallery. The evening starts with two bands playing, followed by the CD presentation itself and ends with again two bands playing. The schedule will be available in time on the website http://www.Trisomy.nl. For clubinfo and roadmap: www.plato.helmondweb.nl
Trisomy was founded in 1996 and consists of 5 members. After some changes in line-up finally the Trisomy sound grew mature. Since no existing style covers the sound exhaustively we decided to describe the sound in the way the music is experienced: as an "Emotional Rollercoaster". At the end of 2002 everything was set to roll out a plan to put Trisomy in the spotlights. About 15 concerts at venues and festivals throughout The Netherlands followed in the first half year of 2003 to get the public acquainted with Trisomy. Also Trisomy recorded the mini CD called "Entanglement". After having closed the first line of concerts with the Summer Darkness Festival (Paradise Lost, Autumn, After Forever, Orphanage, Epica, a.o.), everything is set to launch the new CD. This launch will also be the kick-off of the Entanglement tour through The Netherlands consisting of about 25 concerts from October to December.
MP3 NEWS DOUBLE HEART PROJECT is composed of Vincent Fabre ( Ex - Cyril Achard' s Drummer, and Guitarist ) and Franck Ribiere ( Guitarist ) giving with Passion an instrumental music, with influences coming from Metal, Rock, Jazz, Classical ...
The Music tries to be the most original possible, in a place where so
many things have already been done ... http://www.doubleheartproject.com/
The
German band Transmission, formed by Thorsten Koenig and Juan Roos,
devote themselves to the 80s and 90s progressive metal, established by
bands like Fates Warning, Watchtower or Dream Theater. They got two ex
CHAIN members in their band, Stephan Kernbach and Christian Becker http://www.transmission-online.de/ August 15, 2003 In the weekend of 15, 16 and 17th of August 2003 there will be the first edition of Summer Darkness, a festival that no one involved with gothic music can ignore. It’s a 3 days “(cyber) gothic lifestyle meeting” on several locations in Utrecht, epicentre ‘Tivoli’, the place to be. There will be gothic markets, you can join’ a gothic walk through Utrecht, feeling hungry it’s time for a ‘gothic piknik’, you can visit exhibitions, do a canal trip and discover special shops. Last but not least we have the music, at several locations based around ‘Tivoli’. At Sunday we have Epica, Autumn and Paradise Lost. The other days they will be cyber gothic and gothic metal, all mixed up in a total gothic experience. It’s worth checking out bands like Orphanage, Bloodflowerz, Wolfsheim, Das Ich … When the bands stop playing there’s always an afterparty, one day gothic metal, another day cyber gothic, and the last day ‘final beats’ with a mix of every gothic relied style.
Visit www.summerdarkness.nl and find out all about it ! The Day of Dreams festival in Holland has been officially cancelled. There’s no alternative as they first announced on Saturday December 6. Because there’s no Steve Hogarth (a second booking previous to Day of Dreams, without the knowledge and approval of the festival), one of the main guests of the festival has disappeared. So we can’t give enough quality to go on with the show. The organisation of Day of Dreams is sorry that it all went this way, but the public is the more important.
More info via
suzanna.vanhetzand@planet.nl The Neal Morse website is up and running, www.nealmorse.com
You
may know him as the primary writer and vocalist for the progressive
rock band
Spock's Beard.
Or maybe you know him as the main writer/vocalist/keyboardist for the
"Supergroup"
Transatlantic
(comprised of members from
Dream Theater,
The Flower Kings
and
Marillion).
But with Testimony, Neal Morse has finally stepped into his own as a
solo artist, letting all his styles converge, going way beyond the
work of his first two, pop-oriented solo outings. Displaying a vast
array of talents, Neal not only writes all the material and plays the
majority of instruments on this album, but he also produces and
arranges them as well.
www.nealmorse.com
Steve will be travelling to Japan towards the end of August to participate in the Guitar Wars event. This is being presented in Tokyo and Osaka by Universal Music (Steve's label in Japan) and Udo Artists (Japan's leading promoter) in conjunction with Hard Rock Cafe's 20th anniversary in Japan. Other confirmed participants to date are Paul Gilbert and Nuno Bettencourt with the possibility of one more guitarist yet to be announced. The band will consist of Roger King on keyboards with King Crimson's Pat Mastelotto on drums and Mike Szuter of The Szuters on bass. Should prove to be an interesting evening! There are mutterings too about filming the whole shooting match so who knows what may eventually emerge. For the bigger picture see http://www.stevehackett.com/guitarwars/GuitarWars.htm.
Dreammetal… Imagine a mix from atmospheric pop, progressive rock and heavy fantasy metal, that’s a short description of the music Morning makes… Morning was founded in the summer of 2000 by Saskia van Heugten (vocals) and drummer Mauro Pi (drums). In autumn 2000 the brothers Pol Bannier (bassguitar) and Stijn Bannier (synths) joined the band. Until summer 2003, the band released two demo-EP’s. In February 2001 they released "Little Moves", with Jerry Jacobs on guitar. This demo-cd caused, apart from Morning becoming more known, a lot of gigging in the Netherlands and abroad in 2002 and 2003, now with Gilles van Hoof as the guitarist. With this line-up Morning also released the mini-cd "Circle of Power" in April 2002, which was reviewed very positively in several magazines. The cd was recorded by Hans Reinders (Boondoggle) in the Pitstudio (Sun Caged, Banner of Thugs, Desensitised, Triple 7) in Weert, The Netherlands and it was mastered by Marcel Coenen (ex-Lemur Voice, Sun Caged).
After working for two years with just one guitarist, the Dutch band
(with members from Susteren, Nieuwstadt, Sittard and Heerlen) decided
in summer 2002 to continue with two guitarists. The remaining members
found Martijn Brauwers and Bas Rensen. The young band
(ages between 15 and 26) calls its style dreammetal, with influences
from bands like The Gathering, Ayreon, Rhapsody and Lacuna Coil. With
the new line-up the band is more powerful and intense like never
before and gets a decent name in live performing with provisional
zeniths like: In May and June 2003 the band started working on a new demo-EP called "Inside". This cd is recorded by Hans Reinders in the Pitstudio again. "Inside" was released in August 2003.
Unsung Heroes of Rock Guitar
is a collection of in-depth Q&A interviews with fifteen of rock
music's most underrated guitarists, many of whom have been very
successful as members of popular music groups, but whose music is more
recognizable than their individual names and faces.
Click here to read excerpts from Unsung Heroes of Rock Guitar After a long audition period and with the first days of rehearsals behind them SAGA would like to inform all of you that Christian Simpson will be taking on the drumming duties. Christian was born in L.A., but has been in Canada since an early age. Christian has been playing for over twenty five years, and in that time he has developed a solid reputation which places him in demand as both a live player and studio musician. Through out his career Christian has played and recorded with Gold and Platinum recording artists the likes of Moist, David Usher, Edwin, Glueleg, Trevor Hurst (Econoline Crush), Mudmen, Micro Maureen, as well as countless others. Through his work Christian has become a Yamaha Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Vater stick endorsee. Through out his career Christian has been written up a number of times in many of the music industry magazines such as; DRUM magazine, Drums etc, Canadian Musician to name a few. Christian has built a solid following through his recording and live performances, he has also taken on the task of teaching, which has also helped to solidify his following. Christian is looking forward to taking on the challenges of Drumming with the guys in the band, which by the way was one of his faves as a young upcoming drummer.
Fish had a few starting problems with his new album, like an energy company that failed to work. He also didn’t want to let his broken relation have an effect on the album. But finally the inspiration came for "Field of Crows". It seems to become some sort of a concept album. 9 tracks are in different state of progress. The written songs are (in the same order as on the album): "The Field" (atmospheric changing into Celtic Rock), "Rookie" (straight rock with brass instruments), "Moving Targets" (rock around a strong rhythm guitar riff), "Zoo Class" (swinging), "Numbers" (straight rock), "Exit Wound" (bluesy ballad with Lennon influences), "Old Crow" (rocky, swinging, danceable !?), "Innocent party" (The Who-ish epic) and "Shot the Craw" (spacy, folky, female?). A few tracks are still in the writing process: “The Lost Plot" (Floyd epic) and "Scattering Crows" (accelerating rhythm upto heavy rock) which will eventually change into "The Field" revisited. During the coming weeks, everything will find its place and a few MP3’s will be placed on www.fieldofcrows.com. There’s also some bad news. Jim Drummond has left the band. His work for others and some cancellations of Fish gigs, made it difficult to spend enough time together to accomplish something good. The pieces that were ready weren’t good enough for the album. After Fish had spoken about this with Jim, he admitted that he had difficulties with the material. They decided to search someone else. It’s obvious that Jim won’t do any more live gigs with Fish. His last gig with the band will be the festival in Knockhill. You won’t like that news (every one will agree that Jim is a wonderful person), but his replacement is good too. Mark Brzezicki will take his place. He already played on Vigil en you could hear him on "Pigpen's Birthday". It’s possible that Mark will join the upcoming tour. Fish agrees that his technique and energy is what he was looking for. There is also some news from the acting front. Fish did a few auditions. The movie "Nine Dead Gay Guys" will be released on September 19 and this movie should help him to healthen his acting carreer. During the coming months, you can expect more dates for England and Europe. South America is also still on the agenda. Even more bad news, after Jim Drummond, Irvin Duguid has also left the band. The reason is the personal effect of Jim’s leaving the band and also his disagreement with this. Fish had no comment but says he’s very angry about what’s happening. Irvin will also play his last gig on Knockhill.
Mark Wilkinson’s colour rough for the Fish era FRC box set artwork that will be released.
You
can see a larger version of the rough at THE MASQUE ONLINE "Masque" the long awaited book on the Fish and Marillion artwork, written by Mark Wilkinson and Fish Available NOW from : http://www.the-company.com/merch.htm The Third Edition of Progfever will take place in De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Holland.
THE
FOLLOWING BANDS WILL APPEAR:
Sunday November 2nd: JOHN YOUNG BAND feat.:John Young (Asia, Fish,Greenslade, Scorpions), Robin Boult (Fish, Howard Jones), John Jowitt (IQ, Jadis) and Dave Stewart ( Fish, Deacon Blue)
presales start August 18th
www.ticketservice.nl
Info:
www.boerderij.org
DEEP PURPLE/URIAH HEEP Super group DEEP PURPLE/URIAH HEEP Super group To Begin Mixing Debut Album - Aug.11, 2003 The new super group featuring members of URIAH HEEP, DEEP PURPLE and OZZY OSBOURNE's former bass player Bob Daisley is putting the finishing touches on its debut album, tentatively due in late 2003/early 2004 through an as-yet-undisclosed label. The as-yet-unnamed band, which consists of Daisley, Lee Kerslake (URIAH HEEP) on drums, Jon Lord (DEEP PURPLE) and Don Airey (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) on keyboards, Steve Morse (DEEP PURPLE) on guitar, and Jimmy Barnes (COLD CHISEL) on vocals, has finished recording the CD and will complete the mixing process within a month. "There are five new original songs written by Steve, Jimmy, Lee and Bob together and they fit right in with the old classics," reads a post on Daisley's web site. "The total recording took just 15 days, which in this day and age seems like a miracle. Rumour even has it that maybe some old OZZY OSBOURNE band songs have been re-recorded at the same time." The new solo album from Tomas Bodin (The Flower Kings) will be officially released in Europe on September 8th. The album will be entitled “Sonic Boulevard”. You can find some samples on www.tomasbodin.com
August 01, 2003
PINK FLOYD
Eagle Rock Entertainment presents Pink Floyd-The Dark Side of the Moon
Classic Album on DVD and VHS, the creative story behind the
masterpiece that transformed Pink Floyd from art house favorites to
global superstars.
Recorded in London's famous Abbey Road Studio's and released in 1973,
Dark Side of the Moon spent 294 weeks on the UK album chart. To this
day it remains the biggest selling album by a British band. Pink
Floyd-The Dark Side of the Moon Classic Album will be available on
August 26, 2003.
The
program features live tracks Speak to Me, Breathe, On the Run, Time
the Great Gig in the Sky, Money, among others. DVD special features
include 43 minutes of extra footage with acoustic versions of Brain
Damage and Breathe, extended interviews and discussions with all four
members of the band.
Chapter Selections - Main Program
DVD ONLY Bonus FOOTAGE http://www.eaglevisionusa.com/ecards/PinkFloyd/ Sanity performs on stage for freeAfter three years of preparation, the time has come to get Sanity on stage full-time. In order to give everyone the chance to get familiar with the music of Sanity, the progressive rock band from Leerdam, The Netherlands will be available during a limited time period for free gigs in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Stages that are interested in a free gig of Sanity may submit themselves by filling up the contact form on www.sanity.nl Sanity was founded in 1999 during the finals of the pop competition ‘Parel van de Betuwe’ by some ex-Blind Fury members and the former singer of Bagheera, Kees van Keulen. In the years to follow they were a regular appearance in these finals. The reactions of the press and the audience are very positive.
Sanity creates (without hodgepodge) symphonic rock with a metal touch. Emotion plays a great part in the self-written songs. Fierce up-tempo pieces, sensitive parts and floatingly conducted excesses take turns without trouble. The lyrics deal with subjects like happiness and sorrow, but also other aspects of the human (emotional) life. Autobiographic elements are not absent in these songs. Performances of Sanity are very intensive and driven and the show element is certainly not forgotten. After much deliberation, we have finally decided on a name for the new Marillion album - it's going to be called MARBLES. And it’s a double album! Yes, that's right, a full 2CDs of new music.
Shortly, we will be putting the new album on sale for pre-order from our website. For every copy of Marbles that is pre-ordered, profits from that sale will go into our Campaign Fund. Using this money, we will take out adverts in magazines that we know our fans read, advertise on radio stations that we know our fans listen to - in short, try to reach all the people who don't necessarily visit our website or receive our eWeb, and potentially reach NEW fans too! Radio advertising is a very important medium for us, as we are sure you will agree - if people can hear our music then they generally love it. As radio stations will not play Marillion songs (politics and playlist restrictions - DJ's have told us they're not ALLOWED to play our new music!), then this seems an obvious route for us. The Campaign Fund will allow us to take control of our marketing and destiny. As of 1st September 2003 MARBLES will be on sale for pre-order only through Racket Records at http://www.marillion.com The MARBLES "Special Edition" package will be on sale through Racket Records at the special pre-order price of 27.99 UK Pounds. If you purchase this Special Edition before 31st December 2003 you will be directly helping our Campaign, and as a "Thank You" will we print your name in the album credits, AND ship the album to you at least a month before the currently planned release date of 26th April 2004. Remember, this is a Double Album - 2 full CDs of new Marillion music! As of 1st January 2004 onwards you will still be able to buy the double album, but your name will not be in the credits and it will not be shipped to you until the release date; but it will still be the "Special Edition" packaging. For those of you who want all the music but don't want to pre-order and take part in the campaign, we plan to release the full double album in a standard CD box from the release date of 26th April 2004. The current planned release date for MARBLES is 26th April 2004. From this date, there will be a 1CD version of the album for sale in retail shops around the world. When this has gone on sale in the shops, we will also be selling this via our website. The full 2CD double album will NOT be available in retail shops. A major tour will begin end of April 2004, and we will hopefully start announcing dates early this Autumn. H, Mark, Ian, Steve, and Pete
Also available from Marillion on DVD: “From Stoke Row to Ipanema” and
“Recital of The Script”
For track lists and info: www.marillion.com The new Stratovarius album “Elements Part 2” will be released on 27th October 2003. They will also release a Special Edition, just as they did with Part I. The Elements Part 2 cover follows the Elements atmosphere and where they covered Fire and Water on Elements Part I on Elements Part 2 they cover Earth and Wind. The credits for this artwork goes again to the brilliant Derek Riggs.
Elements Part 2 features 9 songs and for Japan 1 Bonus song. Tracks on the album are as follows:
1.
Alpha & Omega All music and words are by Timo Tolkki except for 'Ride Like The Wind' music and words by Jens Johansson. Elements Part 2 is produced by Timo Tolkki and mixed by Mikko Karmila at Finnvox Studios. Keyboards recorded by Kuken Olsson at Studio Presidentti and Helka. Orchestra and choir arranged and produced by Laine & Niemi. Joensuu City Orchestra and Stratovarius singers conducted by Riku Niemi. |
