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January 30, 2004 Barclay James Harvest drummer Mel Pritchard died during the night of 27th/28th January 2004
Melvyn Paul Pritchard was born in Oldham on January 20th, 1948, and went to school with Les at Derker Secondary Modern. Mel took up drumming after borrowing his father’s ukulele-banjo and deciding that it made better sounds when he took the strings off and hit it! Mel and Les joined the school band and went on to form Heart And Soul And The Wickeds, then stayed together when Barclay James Harvest was formed in 1967. When the band turned professional, Mel gave up his job as a central heating engineer and went to live with them in John Crowther’s farmhouse. A former member of legendary Seventies band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change operation and became a woman called Dee. Keyboard player David Palmer now has long blonde hair, along with make-up and black leggings. Palmer, 66, a former soldier in the Royal Horse Guards and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, is now set to embark on a solo career. She said: "I want to be judged on my musical ability alone, and nothing else."
Her desire to change sex had been an "open secret" in the music business for many years, she said, but she did not go ahead with the operation until the death of wife Margaret nine years ago. Palmer lives in Hove, East Sussex, but is currently in the Spanish resort of Lanzarote, recording her first solo album before launching a British tour next month. Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull's frontman, stood by his former bandmate, saying: "I found it difficult at first but I fully support his decision." Anderson finally accepted the news when Palmer rang him to say: "There's something I need to get off my increasingly ample chest."
Message from the band: Some of the more observant amongst you may have noticed that the release date of Marbles has moved, and is now scheduled for 3rd May - seven days later than the date originally planned. The extra week makes all the difference to our media campaigns, making sure that we get better retail presence and that we make better use of our campaign money. We thought we'd give you an explanation due to the fact that so many of you will no doubt spot the date change and email us to ask questions! Don't worry, though - for those of you who pre-ordered before the end of 2003, your copy will still ship a month before this new date. If you pre-order the Deluxe Campaign Edition in 2004, this will still ship on 3rd May 2004; and a standard Jewel-Case 2CD version will also be available from Racket Records from this release date.
There's also another chance to own a piece of Marillion history: Steve Rothery is selling his Roland Guitar Synth and companion Guitar. This is the guitar that was used for all of the Fugazi and Misplaced Childhood albums, and can be seen in the Kayleigh video. The synth part was featured on Assassing and side one of Misplaced Childhood. More information, photos, and details on the auction are available directly at: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D2374193717 And finally... for those of you who haven't been to the website lately, we've added LOADS more tour dates across Europe for 2004 - and more dates world-wide are being added every week. So don't forget to check out the TOUR section on the Marillion website to catch up on all the latest info at: http://www.marillion.com/tour
All
the best,
MARILLION eWeb Email Newsletter -
info@marillion.com I found this on Salmon’s site (www.salmon.nl ) Still, we are in the middle of the studio recording sessions of our new CD "When The Dust Settles" in the Polytrax Studio at Zeewolde, Holland. Due to the busy recording schedule, we can plan only one weekend every two or three weeks and therefore the latest expectation of finishing the recordings and the mix is around the end of February or the beginning of March. Considering the timetable of mastering, lay-out, printing and producing the CD copies etc., we still expect to present our CD in March 2004.
The drumparts have been completed a while ago and the guitar- and keyboards parts will be finished shortly. During January the rest of the guitar parts, lead vocal and bass parts will be recorded. Our second CD will be titled "When The Dust Settles" and will consist of six songs. One epic song "Time To Fantasize", two ballads "Grey Velvet" and "September Weeps" + three various songs "Three”, “Dubious Dried Ink" and "King For A Day". Lay-out and more details will follow... “- Eternal Dignity - Tour 2004” 2004
Sa.
14 Feb. – OJC Todo – Best Karnataka/Flick Productions are very pleased to announce that Karnataka will be performing as special guests of STATUS QUO at the Waterfront, Belfast on March 6th and Olympia, Dublin on March 8th. Ticket information for both venues can be found at www.ticketmaster.ie and the Official Status Quo website www.statusquo.co.uk. Karnataka have also been confirmed for the ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2004. Further details to follow. Headline acts confirmed so far include The Who, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and David Bowie. Official festival site can be found at www.isleofwightfestival.com Mixing of the live album commences shortly and will see the reuniting of the successful team that brought you Delicate Flame Of Desire - Producer Steve Evans and Engineer Joe Gibb.
NDV - LIVE & ACOUSTIC In August/September of 2003, I went out on my 2nd little mini tour. I did four gigs back east and three gigs on the West Coast. For the gigs on the West Coast, I took my very good friend and one of my favourite guitarists, Rick Musallam. Rick played on my solo record KARMA, plays in the Mike Keneally Band with me, and also went with me on my first little mini tour back in 2002. Along with the tremendous help of Gruno and Barry Kimmel, the tour culminated with a gig at Imusicast up in Oakland, CA. We were able to film and record that show. So, my friend from way back, Stan Ausmus, who you may know from the last Spock's record "Feel Euphoria" (he co-wrote a couple of songs), is a fantastic video editor and put together this DVD. The DVD and CD are slightly different. The main show is just about the same as you can see from the song lists. It's the bonus stuff that makes the difference. On my first mini tour in 2002, Rick and were doing our "let's make a whole band out of two people" thing. The board tape from our Bottom Line show in NYC turned out pretty darn good, so I thought it would be cool to include some selections from that gig. The DVD has some really fun bonus footage that's different from the CD. There are a couple of funny bits. A drum solo from my gig in Lowell, MA, where the drummer for the band that opened the show was gracious enough to let me beat his drums for a minute. I played at the Prog Day festival in Chapel Hill, NC and there was a kit on stage, so I decided to play the song "Karma" on drums. And finally, there's a fun version of "Long Distance Runaround" by Yes, performed by me and Mike Keneally from Victor's By the Bay in San Diego, CA. I hope you enjoy what you see and hear. Just click the link and go to the order page to pre-order your DVD and CD. There is a special price and offer if you order both items at the same time. They both should be ready to ship by the middle to end of February. All the best, NDV
Track list CD:
Track list DVD: www.ndvmusic.com (renewed site) BLACKFIELD - a collaboration between Israeli singer songwriter Aviv Geffen and British musician and producer Steven Wilson
You can listen to "Pain", the second Blackfield single, on http://www.porcupinetree.com/blackfield/ IN ABSENTIA DVD:-A PROMO CLIP On the www.porcupinetree.com website in the news section, you can find a link to a short promotional clip in Quicktime movie format for the forthcoming surround sound mix of Porcupine Tree's In Absentia album (approx 19MB in size). From the Ayreon website:
Teaser-Trailer for The Human Equation
Ayreon signs with InsideOut!
Two
more guests announced!
Single appearance in
France, Saturday March 20th, 2004 ! Paris, January 2004 : For the first time in three years the legendary British band CARAVAN plays a concert in Paris. The concert is organized by Caravan Song Ltd, relayed in France by Prog La Vie. CARAVAN’s concerts in the last months of 2003 to celebrate their 35th anniversary have drawn ecstatic reviews from both fans and critics. This Tour will see the band perform material from “The Unauthorized Breakfast Item” and classics from their 15 albums. “The Unauthorized Breakfast Item” is released by ECLECTIC DISCS and is available in France from the end of January 2004. For further information on CARAVAN please visit: www.caravan-info.co.uk or www.eclecticdiscs.com
Tickets available from the FNAC network Tel 0892 683622
www.fnac.com
EXTINCT INSTINCT Inside Out Music are about to release a Special Edition version of Extinct Instinct. The release will include three bonus tracks - Mansion (an acoustic track from the original Japanese release) and radio versions of Exposed and Virtual Isolation as originally released on the fan club album Decadent. All the tracks have been remastered, and the packaging will include modified artwork and a 20 page booklet including new sleeve notes by Karl Groom and Richard West. The release dates are Europe 23/02/2004, UK 01/03/2004 and USA 16/03/2004.
January 18, 2004 The SECOND TANGENT ALBUM. Work for the second album by The Tangent has already begun. The album is currently under the working title of "The World that we Drive Through". Andy Tillison will once again be leading the project, and he has drafted and made demos for four songs, with a fifth penned by fellow Po90 member Sam Baine. The album will feature Andy, Sam, Roine Stolt, Jonas Reingold and Zoltan Csorsz... all confirmed. At this moment it is not possible to confirm David Jackson or Guy Manning's involvement owing to scheduling and other projects. However, nothing is ruled out as yet, and there may be other participants this time too. The Tangent is intended to be a fluid unit.... Ed Unitsky WILL be being asked to design the sleeve again.
This time there will be closer work between the musicians than on the last album, and Andy will fly to Malmo, Sweden in mid February to record the backing tracks with Jonas, Zoltan and Roine. After that, work will continue at Cosmic Lodge in Uppsala and at MBL in Yorkshire with a view to release towards the end of this year. At present, the idea is to release an album that should appeal to those who enjoyed the first album, yet develop the idea further. If TMTDA was an album that picked up where first wave progressive music left off, the next album is intended to step onward from there. Expect a darker feel to some of the tracks (a la King Crimson, VDGG, Anekdoten or Po90 perhaps!) Read more on www.thetangent.org CIRRHA NIVA 13-01-04: After being part of Cirrha Niva for 8 years, Liselotte Hegt (bass) has decided to leave the band. She can no longer combine her private life with the ambitions of the band. For the same reason Rommert van de Meer (guitars) also left the band. The band is now searching for a enthousiastic bassplayer / second guitar player. If you’re interested, mail to: management@cirrhaniva.com
Warszawa CD The second CD to be issued on Porcupine Tree's Transmission label is a live in the studio recording made by Polish radio during the band's 2001 tour (the last with Chris Maitland on drums). Also in the studio during the broadcast were an invited audience of Polish fans who helped to make the atmosphere on the night and on this recording so special, and the band consider this to be one of their best performances. The CD runs over 79 minutes and features almost the entire performance remixed from 32 track master tapes into pristine sound quality that is far superior to the original on-air broadcast. The Warszawa CD comes in a beautiful digipack sleeve and is available exclusively from this website. The first Transmission release "XM" is now completely sold out. Released on 2/2/2004 - Preorder now for £13.00 (including VAT) Available from http://www.burningshed.com/ptshop.asp
Track list
In Absentia DVD-A
A
new surround sound mix of Porcupine Tree's In Absentia will be issued
in February by DTS. Steven spent time in the USA in October and
December to oversee the new version, which was mixed by multi-grammy
award winning producer and surround specialist Elliot Scheiner. Live Archive 03 (2CD) This release is the most recent in the Hackett Live Archive series and is exclusive to www.stevehackett.com
It
‘s double CD compiled from Hackett's 2003 To Watch The Storms European
tour, and features tracks from High Wycombe, Stockholm, Braunschweig,
Croydon, Mannheim, Rotherham & Limbourg.
A
perfect souvenir for anyone who made the tour, and an ideal catch up
for those of you who missed it!
Track List Last Magellan effort "Impossible Figures" is now available also in Korea (through Sail Music - http://www.sailmusic.co.kr ) in a limited, rare edition with 5 Bonus Tracks. These bonus tracks (Hallucination, Jab for Jab, Mozambique, A Drummer's Prayer, Football Soul) are unfinished demos recorded in the studio session of Impossible Figures. You can download audio files of these songs at http://www.magellanweb.com/magrarities3.htm . In the same page you could find some links of websites where the album can be purchased!! Message from Jonas You can find them in the news section of www.theflowerkings.com Just thought I would share with you a few samples from the forthcoming Karmakanic CD 'Wheel Of Life'
Wheel of life
Do
u tango?
Masterplan pt: 1 I don't have a fixed release date yet but we are talking early summer. Musicians:
Keep on proggin in a free world..... January 08, 2004
12:5 Swedish Prog Metallers, Pain of Salvation bring forth their fifth album 12:5. Lead by Daniel Gildenlow, who is also a guest musician for Prog legends Transatlantic and The Flower Kings, 12:5 is a live acoustic album conceptually separated into three books. Book I: Genesis, Book II: Genesister and Book III: Genesinister captivate the listener with vivid acoustic guitar arrangements and piano. With 12:5, Pain of Salvation show their acoustic and emotional, but also very intensive side. And they add another highlight to their already impressive œuvre. This CD was recorded during a very special unplugged show on May 12, 2003 in Eskilstuna, Sweden
www.insideout.de
THE
MIRROR (official German DREAM THEATER fanclub) and SKYLINE EVENT
present: On the 30th of January JORDAN RUDESS, the genius behind DREAM THEATER's keys and performing artist on David Bowie's Heathen Album, shows us his abilities in the CAPITOL Musiktheater, Paderborn (Germany).
In
his approx. two-hour appearance this great artist will improvise,
explain compositions and give us an idea of his and DREAM THEATER's
music. 'Cause DREAM THEATER will rock the "Westfalenhalle Dortmund" the same day, JORDAN already starts at 1 O'CLOCK p.m.. This way, there will be enough time left to experience the best progmetal band on the planet in the evening and additionally this perfect introduction. Tickets for this exclusive Event are available at www.skyline-event.de, at your usual ticket reseller (CTS, Germany only) or by Phone under ++49(0)1805 - 11 9 11 0 (12cent/minute) Michael Bitter (mailto:Michael@themirror.de) THE MIRROR - offizieller deutscher Dream Theater Fanclub The CD "Final Fantasy" is almost a fact. The CD contains 4 tracks; "Final Fantasy", "Weary Angels Heart", "C'est La Vie" and "Resurrection". The cd is recorded in Plug Unit Studio and is recorded, produced and mixed by John Radersma and René Speksnijder. Co-producing by After The Silence and Edwin den Haag (bassplayer from Highway Chile, Code Willem etc.) The cd will be mastered by Peter Brussee at Q-point. (he also works for Wisseloord Studio among others. He also mastered cd's from "Henk Westbroek" , "Kane" and "Ayreon / Arjen Lukassen" for example)
The
definitive After The Silence "Final Fantasy" CD Launch Party will be
at
LOOSE
END
in Reeuwijk. Date and time: Friday January 16th 2004 at 21.30 hrs.
Admission is going to cost
€ 5,00.
New Fanclub
The Official International Symphony X Fan Club Read more on http://www.churchofthemachine.com/ Re-issues The first four CD´s by Symphony X are now available as Special Edition re-issues. The CD`s are housed in a stylish digipak with extended booklet and each CD will also features an enhanced element with band interview filmed in October 2003 and a screensaver.
Symphony X Special Edition (2003)
The
Damnation Game Special Edition (2003)
The
Divine Wings Of Tragedy Special Edition (2003)
Twilight In Olympus Special Edition (2003)
www.symphonyx.com Message from Plackband:
It's our pleasure to inform you that Plackband will play again for the
Classic Rock Society in Rotherham on the 14th of February 2004.
KOTIPELTO AND MICHAEL OUT OF STRATOVARIUS
December 26, 2003 From an interview with Roine in the fanclub magazine “World Of Adventures”:
Is
Daniel Gildenlow now an official member of the band?
Any
mood settings about the new album? From an interview with Jonas Reingold in the fanclub magazine “World Of Adventures”:
How
about Karmakanic 2?
What’s the line up this time?
Would that be any members of the Flower Kings? A More Recent Message from Jonas: Wish you all a merry christmas. I hope you all will grab the opportunity to relax and find peace among your loved ones. I will take a couple of days off now but will have the next Karmakanic cd ready in a 1-2 weeks. I have done a mix of one song already and I will add some small things to the other songs and mix of course. I will provide you with a sample shortly. The Name of the disc will be “Wheel of Life” with titles like: Masterplan, Do you tango? I would like to dance. Wheel of life, Sum of substance, Alex in paradise, etc. There will be 9 songs on the disc with a couple of long ones...I´m very pleased with the result so far and I feel that the material is more mature then the previous one. More complex and more naive, the lyrics are written by my second half in life, Inger Ohlèn. She´s a very talented writer and she will leave some thoughts for you to contemplate over, plus it´s nice for me to work with someone that close to me. From The Flower Kings website:
The
new album.
Swedish tour.
European Tour
New
DVD
Projects DJAM KARET’s 20th Anniversary in 2004, and New Releases info!
NEW RELEASES
NEARfest Records will be releasing Djam Karet's performance at the
2001 NEARfest! This digitally recorded release has been assembled and
mixed by the band over the last 6 months of 2003 at their own studios
and is a great portrait of Djam Karet live as it captures both the
energy and improvisational moments of the band's infrequent live
shows. For more details, please head on over to NearFest Record’s
website (http://www.nearfestrecords.com) Djam Karet will also be self-releasing a specially priced 2 CD set in honor of their 20 Year Anniversary that will be available direct from the band as well as a few independent specialty web based retailers. “No Commercial Potential & ... And Still Getting The Ladies” ties together the band's roots in improvisational rock as it presents the band's first cassette-only release of live direct to analog 8 track improvisations from 1985 (digitally mastered and transferred to CD) along with live in-the-studio improvisations recorded during the Night For Baku sessions in 2002. Heady energetic stuff that both shows their roots and breaks new ground! Both releases will be available through their website and for a limited time as fully autographed at no extra cost versions. Best way to stay on top of it is to join their mailing list on the Djam Karet website.
The
rest of 2004 will be spent writing and recording a (as yet untitled)
studio CD and companion DVD for release on Cuneiform in May of 2005.
There will be no live Djam Karet performances during 2004. 2005 is
another story... Uriah Heep In Holland
Classic Uriah Heep DVD
From the Byron era on DVD 2 DVD set and 48 page book featuring David Byron and Gary Thain
STRICTLY
LIMITED EDITION
Released January 30th
2004.
DISC 1 URIAH HEEP LIVE FROM 1974 AND 1975 Features the only known footage of the Byron /Box/Hensley/Kerslake/Wetton line up performing Return To Fantasy , Easy Livin' , Stealin' ', Prima Donna and Shady Lady . FULL TRACK LISTING DISC 1
Return To Fantasy '75 - Easy Livin' '75 - Stealin' '75 - Prima Donna
'75 - Shady Lady '75 - So Tired '74 - I Won't Mind '74 - The Easy Road
'74 - Love Machine '74 - Something or Nothing '74 - Love Machine '74 -
Rock'n'Roll Medley '74 DISC 2 COLLECTORS RARITIES FEATURING URIAH HEEP AND DAVID BYRON'S ROUGH DIAMOND FULL TRACK LISTING DISC 2 *
COLLECTORS RARITIES
BONUS
TRACKS
THE BOOK A specially written full colour 48 page book by Heep's current Executive Producer Bob Carruthers featuring previously unseen photographs, new interviews,... NEW DRUMMER FOR SUN CAGED !! After several auditions Sun Caged have found a new drummer. His name is Roel Van Helden, age 23, student at the academy of music in Tilburg, Netherlands. He surprised us with the fact that he managed to play the whole album within a week. Besides that, there is a very good chemistry between us and Roel, musically as well as on a personal level. We never played our songs that well before ! What's funny is the fact that Roel is already a member of Marcel's soloband and he is also the drummer our bassist Rob played with, at age 14, in his first band. We welcome Roel in the Cage, and we are sure that this has brought Sun Caged to a higher level. We also would like to thank all other drummers who showed interest, and we also hope that the true Sun Caged fans will welcome Roel with open arms, possibly at one of our upcoming gigs. Rob, Joost, Marcel, Andre and Roel !! Sun Caged Christmas and New Year wishes from the bands.
Rick Wakeman
Karnataka
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.
Isildurs Bane Isildurs Bane would like to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. We are grateful for your support and your interest in the band. Hopefully, we will see you on tour during 2004. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
December 16, 2003
BEST BAND - Karnataka BEST CRS GIG - Steve Hackett http://www.classicrocksociety.com/ "OUT THERE: THE MOVIE"
Ben
Williams from Classic Pictures has sent a press release announcing a
new DVD starring Rick Wakeman and The New English Rock Ensemble:
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