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September 17, 2003
PLACKBAND AND MANGALA VALLIS ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 3rd in HET KASTEEL IN
ALPHEN AAN DE RIJN IN HOLLAND The band PLACKBAND from Holland and the Italian MANGALA VALLIS perform together on Friday October 3rd in Het Kasteel in Alphen a/d Rijn in Holland. It’s already the fourth time they give a gig together in Holland. For PLACKBAND, that released their debut album “After The Battle” last year, it will be the first show with their new singer Karel Messemaker, who’s following in the threads of Kees Bik, who left the band for personal reasons. The new vocalist has already played with the guitarist and keyboard player of Plackband. In 1995 they played together with Edwin Wernke from For Absent Friends in the successful band November. Karel gives the band a lot of opportunities to expand the repertoire. You will certainly get a taster in Het Kasteel.
Both bands are travelling to Belgium the day after to perform at the prestigious festival Progresiste in The Spirit Of 66 in Verviers.
ww.hetkasteel.nl Dream Theater's latest CD "Train Of Thought" is tentatively scheduled for release on November 11th 2003. The track listing is:
1. As I Am
Produced by John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy
Pre-order "Train Of Thought" at CDUniverse.com now!
Neal Morse - Testimony LIVE (with special guest Mike Portnoy)
Nov 13th Manchester, UK - MDH
For
more information about Neal Morse, please visit his website.
RISING UP - CAGE MEETING 2003 Cd presentation Day Six: Between December 2002 and June 2003, the symphonic metalband Day Six has recorded their debut CD “ETERNAL DIGNITY” in “Pop Ei” and in the “Harrow studio”.
On
Friday October 3rd they will present this CD in OJC Jonosh,
Asten/Heusden in Holland. Doors: 20h30. Start: 21h00.
More info at: www.day-six.com Good news for the Porcupine Tree fans. XM satellite radio has given them permission to print another 1000 copies of the latest limited live album XM. Initially there were only 1500 and the fans were paying a lot of money on ebay. The album will be sold on the coming European tour. Rockband Sanity’s upcoming CDRamses Shaffy in a symphonic rock version Leerdam (Holland) – The progressive rock band Sanity has entered the studio to record their new CD. One of the tracks will be a ‘Tribute to Shaffy’ – an ode to one of the greatest and loved chansonniers of Holland. The session started on August 29th, Ramses Shaffy’s 70th birthday. The album is recorded by MBR Produkties in Capelle aan den IJssel.
The
new Sanity CD will be released by the end of October. The question
remains if it will be an own release or if a record label will make a
deal. More info about Sanity on www.sanity.nl A few words from John Jowitt:
On
14th October I will be travelling to Tokyo to see the Japanese IQ
tribute band, IQ-J. Earlier this year, each member of IQ received a CD
of the band playing live, and good fun it was too! All of the
musicians are tip top quality, playing in their own bands in Japan as
well (Azoth and Cinderella Search).
IIf all goes well John and Mark might well joing IQ-J on stage for a couple of IQ and Dirtbox tunes.
FRAMESHIFT PROJECT FEATURING JAMES LABRIE OF DREAM THEATER TO BE
RELEASED IN OCTOBER 2003
ATMOSFEAR IS SIGNED TO PROGROCK RECORDS AND RELEASE "Inside the
AtmOsfear"
www.progrockrecords.com
THE MAGICIAN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY 2003 The song "Some of Us" by the British band Starsailor becomes the title track for the belgian movie "De Zaak Alzheimer", says distributor Kinepolis. You can find "Some of Us" on the album "Silence is Easy" that’s just released. In Belgium you will also find “Some Of Us” as a single. You could see them on Pukkelpop and on November 3rd they will perform in the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The movie, based on a best seller by Jef Geeraerts opens on Tuesday October 7 the 30th Film festival of Gent and on 15 october it will be officially released.
IQ are delighted to be associated with this great initiative by the London Astoria to stage a festival of progressive rock in the capital. We will be playing a full 2-hour set as the headline act on the Saturday. Details as follows: LONDON ASTORIA 157, Charing Cross Rd, WC2, www.londonastoria.com
Tickets £13.50 per day or £22 for weekend tickets. We’re sure you’ll agree that this is a fantastic bill and we hope that you will support the festival so that hopefully it will become a regular event. The rumours are true. The Eighth Edition of the annual Baja Prog Festival will take place on March 3, 4, 5 and 6 of 2004. Now more than ever, you might want to start making plans early, since the attendance is still growing every year.
Baja Prog is a series of progressive rock concerts within consecutive days, where bands and spectators from many countries gather to exchange ideas and make new friends. The Festival takes place in the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, across the border with California.
They are proud to announce some participating bands:
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ANEKDOTEN (Sweden)
www.anekdoten.se/ September 04, 2003
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Announcing Vocalists! Starting next week we will slowly begin unveiling the secrets of the new Ayreon album. One by one we will give you the names of vocalists that have been confirmed to make a guest appearance!
Work on Ayreon! Message from Magenta: Are you all sitting down? Here is the big news........ Rhys Jones the drummer in Magenta for the past year has LEFT the band. The split has been totally amicable. He is in another band as well and our schedules were starting to clash so Rhys decided that he couldn't give the time Magenta deserved and left. We wish him all the success with his current band and thank him for a great year of gigging and I know that all you out there wish him the best as well. Cheers Rhys and see you when our paths cross on the road.
We
are very happy and proud to announce the new drummer in Magenta is
Allan Mason-Jones. He has played with Matthew before in Unbroken
Spirit back in the mid 90's and we have been rehearsing with him now
for the past 4 weeks. Allan is a great drummer and a great soul and
his joining the band has been a smooth one and thoroughly enjoyable
experience. We have the set learnt now and we are ready to rock.
Magenta's first gig with Allan will be at the
Spirit Of 66 in Belgium
on
the 4th October (Allan's Birthday, how cool is that?). We hope you
will make him feel welcome, which I am sure you will. This is a new
chapter in the Magenta story and I promise you that this new era
Magenta will be bigger and stronger and deliver some of the best live
shows you will ever see.
A
short biography of Magenta: Rob met Nigel Voyle whilst recording the second Cyan CD "Pictures From The Other Side" and he took over lead vocals for that recording. Christina was a guest on this, singing backing vocals. Rob Reed then produced and played keyboards on the debut CD by the "Fyreworks" that attracted the interests of "F2 Music" who eventually signed the band. The demise of SI Music took the project to the next stage. F2 Music asked Rob Reed if Cyan would like to sign to them. Rob was impressed with their dedication to music and was happy to sign to the label, releasing a third Cyan CD called "The Creeping Vine" that sold extremely well and featured Christina on backing vocals again. As well as Rob's work in the field of Progressive Rock, Rob has also formed many bands covering many different styles, although their styles were sometimes hard to describe! The most successful of these bands was called "TRIPPA". Described as ‘a contemporary Eurhythmics for the new millennium mixing their own brand of edgy industrial pop with soaring orchestral arrangements. The band has Christina on vocals and Rob plays guitars and keyboards. They are joined by couple of other musicians on drums and backing vocals. They have so far released one single that was voted ‘Record of the Week’ on Virgin Radio, and have also appeared on TV a number of times. It was during this time that Rob decided that Christina has the perfect voice to sing lead vocals on a future Progressive Rock project. The initial ideas for "MAGENTA" were formed then.
Rob then worked with a new signing to F2 Music called "Erasmus", producing the CD and then started the writing of an album that was to become the debut Magenta release "Revolutions". Rob wanted to do something new, something bigger and more conceptual. "Current Prog bands were always scared and shy about admitting influences of the great bands of the 70’s and I wanted to come clean and admit and celebrate these influences and hopefully create something as worthwhile as these classic," said Rob. Clearly he has done so. How? "To do this, all I had to do was to give priority to melody rather than technical showmanship, something I have always tried to do with all my work although many current Prog bands seem to forget about it." On October 22, Lion Music will release Sun Caged's self-titled debut album, mixed by Arjen Lucassen (Star One/Ayreon). Sun Caged are true masters of progressive metal and have been around long enough to develop a highly original sound and great compositional and technical skills. Tracklist
Sedation / Sun Caged / Home / Soil / Hollow
/ Closing In / The Eighth Day / Secrets Of Flight / Unchanging.
Meet The FlowerKings - A Live Recording (Released on Inside Out in October)
Roine Stolt
- Guitars and Voice
Tracklist & Info:
Disc One:
Artwork By Jan Ternald The never ending story Transatlantic DVD is in the making! The long awaited Transatlantic DVD will be available soon. 'Live In Europe' is coming out in three different versions. There will be the double live CD or the double DVD, or you can get both versions within the Limited Deluxe Edition. The artwork is done and the DVD's are almost finished as well. We will keep you updated regarding the release date. The day before on the same www.insideout.de there was a message about a release on september 29th. It also mentioned there it would be a PAL version. But this changed when Neal Morse saw this and wanted the next mail to be distributed: Yeah, I saw that yesterday and emailed Inside/Out Europe to see what was up. They got back to me today saying it's a mistake. The release date is in late October and there will be a NTSC version released in the states. I'm kinda busy today... can you post this in all the appropriate places? Thanks, Neal
Jadis DVD
Yeah, I know, you’ll wonder why this is on a prog site being a CD released in 2001. But just take a look at the line-up of musicians. Interesting, isn’t it?
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