June 2004

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June 29, 2004


Marillion

Extra European Tour

SEPTEMBER 2004

DATE

CITY, COUNTRY

VENUE

TICKET INFORMATION

Mon 13

St Lievens Houtem, Belgium

De Fabriek

Online: FNAC, ConC
In Person: FNAC storess across Belgium and France, and from Venue Box Office

Tue 14

Paris,
France

Elysee
Montmartre

Coming Soon

Thur 16

Utrecht,
Netherlands

Vredenburg
Muziekcentrum

Online: Ticket Service

Sat 18

Cologne,
Germany

German
Space Day

FREE EVENT
More Details In Special Events

New Single

The new single "Don't Hurt Yourself" is released in the UK, Holland, and Germany on July 12th; we're hoping we can match the success of "You're Gone." Hopefully you'll be hearing it on the radio over the next few weeks, and also watching the new video - which has been sent out to all the TV channels.  Please help by pre-ordering your singles from your local retailer or for by pre-ordering it online at www.hmv.co.uk

Info: www.marillion.com/single

1. Don't Hurt Yourself [Single Edit]
2. Fantastic Place [Live]
3. The Damage [Live]
4. Don't Hurt Yourself [Video]

1. Don't Hurt Yourself [Single Edit]
2. Angelina [Steven Wilson Mix]

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Neal Morse

Mike Portnoy working on new prog album with Neal Morse

Mike Portnoy joined Neal Morse on June 3rd, 2004, to record a new progressive rock album. Please visit NealMorse.com for Neal Morse's indepth studio diary and exclusive photos from the studio.

From that site : We've ended up with a tracklisting that looks something like this (with very rough timings shown) :

Long song #1

17 minutes

The Man's Gone

  3 minutes

Author Of Confusion

10 minutes

Long Song #2

17 minutes

Cradle To The Grave

  5 minutes

Spirit And The Flesh

10 minutes

Father Of Forgiveness

  5 minutes

One Voice

10 minutes

It all comes out at about 79 minutes – just short enough to fit on one CD – praise God !

http://www.nealmorse.com/diary.asp

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Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree are still in the studio working on their new album. 14 tracks are in various states of progress, from which the final running order of 9 or 10 will be selected:

Deadwing
Revenant
So Called Friend
Christenings
Open Car
Shallow
The Start of Something Beautiful
Halo
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Glass Arm Shattering
Mother and Child Divided
Lazarus
Mellotron Scratch
Half-light

They hope to have some audio clips available later in the Summer as the album nears completion.

Contrary to rumours the album remains untitled at present, and no release date is confirmed.

www.porcupinetree.com

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Galahad

Message from Stuart (from the Galahad Mailing list)

Room 801 is after YOUR opinion. As you will have read on the site, work on the next GALAHAD studio album is well under way; it's more than just a twinkle in the band's collective eye. But even at this stage, there's still an opportunity to influence how the recording will work out.

There's a thread running on this very subject on our new forum right now. As Dean Baker puts it, "Should we try and keep our progressive roots or break away into a much more commercial sound?" Whatdyathink? Views of all persuasions are warmly welcomed.

Just visit http://pub48.bravenet.com/forum/4041020050/fetch/314639/ to put your oar in.

All the best,

Stu Cormie

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Saens

The newest album by Saens (France)

Prophet In A statistical World

... freely inspired by famous anticipation novels and dystopian stories :

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Time Machine - H. G. Wells
This perfect Day - Ira Levin

It’s the occasion to rediscover these masterpieces that may reveal themselves as terrible prophecies of our our so civilized world...

Don't be afraid ! Come over
here and take a look at their...

STATISTICAL WORLD !!!!

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Hubi Meisel

+++STUDIO NEWS+++

The production of Hubi Meisel's 3rd album is in progress and Hubi has just entered the studio again. Likewise EmOcean (Lion Music, 2004), the next album will become a complex concept album with international top-class musicians.

The new line up is:
Hubi Meisel - vocals
Vivien Lalu - keys (Shadrane)
Marcel Coenen - guitars (Sun Caged)
Jorge Salán - guitars (José Andrea, Mago de Oz)
Daniel Flores - drums (Mind's Eye)
Johan Niemann - bass (Therion)

The release is scheduled for spring/summer 2005.

 

+++BOOK OF REFLECTIONS+++

On June 25, the debut album of Lion Music's the new international Power Metal project BOOK OF REFLECTIONS will be released. Hubi has recorded vocals for 3 tracks of this album, which features Vitalij Kuprij (Artension), Andy Engberg (Ex-Lion's Share), Lars Eric Mattson and more! The album will also be available in Japan via King Records.

Further information & MP3s on www.HubiMeisel.com
This album can also be ordered at a fair price in Hubi's online shop!

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Short News

  • Steve Hackett
    The audio visual department of the Steve Hackett site has been burning the midnight oil to bring you exclusive live GTR footage, and it's now available for streamin' from the Hackett website. Go here ... http://www.stevehackett.com/vidstreams.html
    For those of you who don't know (if any!), GTR was a group formed in the '80's by Steve Howe from Yes and Steve Hackett, recording just one studio album before disbanding - therefore live footage is pretty scarce!
     

  • Blackfield
    If you want to see a clip of the Blackfield album by Steven Wilson and his friend Aviv Geffen go to http://www.lassehoile.com/blackfield/blackfield_small.mov
     

  • John Wesley
    Those of you in the US will have a chance to catch our favourite 'tour guitarist' again soon - John Wesley is supporting Marillion on their upcoming US tour!
    Tour dates are here: www.marillion.com/tour
     

  • Dead Soul Tribe

    The new Dead Soul Tribe album “The January Tree” will be released on August 30th by
    www.insideout.de
     

  • Ayreon

    By the end of July, Inside Out Music will release a special edition of the Ayreon albums,  “Universal Migrator”. Both albums will be packed as a double CD.
    www.insideout.de

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June 11, 2004


Threshold

Here's an exclusive preview of the cover of Threshold's forthcoming studio album Subsurface. The album is due for release on August 3rd.

Track List

1. Mission Profile (8.15)
2. Ground Control (7.10)
3. Opium (6.47)
4. Stop Dead (4.18)
5. The Art Of Reason (10.17)
6. Pressure (5.13)
7. Flags And Footprints (4.57)
8. Static (5.06)
9. The Destruction Of Words (6.10)

Musicians

Mac: vocals
Karl Groom: guitars
Nick Midson: guitars
Richard West: keyboards
Steve Anderson: bass
Johanne James: drums

www.thresh.net
www.insideout.de

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Asia

The release of Asia's new studio album "Silent Nation" has been delayed for about a month. The release dates are now:

- August 30 in Europe
- August 31 in North America


In addition, their label, InsideOut, has posted the following on their US web site:

"Asia will offer their fans a choice when their new album Silent Nation comes out August 31. It will be available in both a standard, music-only version, and as a special edition that comes with a DVD called 'The Making Of Silent Nation.' The DVD will have new interviews with the band members and footage of them working on 'Silent Nation.' Asia is planning a summer tour of North America. The first announced show is June 16th at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan, on a bill with Kansas."

www.asiaworld.org
www.insideout.de
www.insideoutmusic.com

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Ayreon

***Next single announced!
Due to the huge chart success of Ayreon - The Human Equation, we are happy to announce the next single to be released is an alternative version of 'Day Sixteen: Loser' called 'Loser'. It will be the so-called 'Star One version'. Joost van den Broek (Star One, After Forever) and Arjen Lucassen battle it out in a true-to-form keyboard versus guitar battle, with electric violin by Robert Baba thrown in for good measure. Also
Peter Vink (Star One) recorded new bass guitar especially for the single. And Ed Warby added some extra 'zing' to his performance also.

Track list:
Loser (Star One Version)
How You Gonna See Me Now (Alice Cooper cover by
Mike Baker and Arjen Lucassen)
Into the Black Hole (recorded live at 'Stairway to Heaven' Pre-release party April 18, 2004)
Castle Hall (special acoustic version feat. Ewa Albering on flute and Dewi Kerstens on cello, vocals by Irene Jansen)

Release date: 19 july 2004.

www.arjenlucassen.com
www.insideout.de

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Lorian

Message from Lorian (Holland)

On May 22nd, Lorian had a gig in Antwerp with the Belgian band Mindgames. You can see some nice pictures of that show on the Prog-Nose site (thanks to Jany)

Lorian closed the gig with the track “The Last Chord”, and it turned out to have a symbolic value...

After 3 years of coöperation, there are some changes in the line-up of Lorian.
Marc Besselink (vocals/piano/composer) has decided to get on with the Life Cycle project on his own. He’s forming a new band with bass player Jeroen Vriend.

It’s still unkown which name they will use. If you have questions, mail them to Marc.Besselink@hotmail.com

The remaining members of Lorian, Pepijn (synthesizer/composer), Eric (drums) and Rene (guitar) continue with Lorian and will search for new members on a short notice. They are working on some new symphonic material. More about this in the usual Lorian Newsletter. For questions about this, mail to lorian@lorian.nl

You can find more information on www.lorian.nl

Lorian wishes to thank you for the enthousiasm during the last years. We hope to meet you soon, in front of one of the stages in Holland and/or Belgium.

Greetings,

Eric, Marc, Pepijn, Jeroen and Rene

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Day Six

Day Six wins the national band contest “Metalbattle 2004”.
End of May, we’ve played in the final rounds of Metalbattle,
Atak, Enschede.(Holland)
The results of the evening:
1. Day Six - 2.
See my Solution – 3. Stronghold– 4. Another Messiah
We’ve won 14 our of recordings at the
“Harrow studio”, Losser, where we also recorded our debut album “Eternal Dignity”. And next year we’ll be playing at the final rounds of Metalbattle 2005 during the jury-considerations.
Because of the high quality of the bands and the very good atmosphere between them, the idea grow to set up a “Metalbattle final bands package”. Hopefully you’ll hear more about that later on.
For more info, check the
"Metalbattle website”.

www.day-six.com

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Alan Parsons

The new Alan Parsons album "A Valid Path" will be released August 2004 by:

  • US: 5.1 Entertainment
  • Europe: Eagle Rock
  • Japan: TBA

This will be the first record without his long-time bandmates Ian Bairnson, and Stuart Elliott. The new album will take Alan in a new direction and into the world of electronica.

Artists appearing on this record include: Nortec Collective, The Crystal Method, Shpongle, PJ Olsson, and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.

The cover artwork for "A Valid Path" (left) was created by Storm Thorgerson. (Pink Floyd artwork)

www.theavenueonline.info

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