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The Headlines of Week 17 - 2010
This update published: Sunday, 25th April 2010
 SUPERTRAMP: reveal 40th Anniversary tour dates kicking off in September ... but no Roger Hodgson ...
Sep 02 2010 Gerry Weber Stadion Halle, Germany
Sep 04 2010 Warsteiner Hockeypark Mönchengladbach, Germany
Sep 05 2010 Ganser Open Air Freiburg, Germany
Sep 07 2010 Arena Verona, Italy
Sep 08 2010 Stadshalle Vienna, Austria
Sep 11 2010 Coruna Coruna, Spain
Sep 12 2010 Atlantico Lisbon, Portugal
Sep 14 2010 Palacio Cristal Porto, Portugal
Sep 15 2010 Palacio Deportes Madrid, Spain
Sep 17 2010 Bilbao, Spain Bilbao, Spain
Sep 18 2010 Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona, Spain
Sep 20 2010 Olympiahalle München, Germany
Sep 22 2010 Nuremburg Arena, Nuremburg, Germany
Sep 23 2010 Sap Arena, Mannheim, Germany
Sep 24 2010 Messehalle, Erfurt, Germany
Sep 26 2010 Color Line Arena, Hamburg, Germany
Sep 27 2010 O2 Arena - Berlin, Germany
Sep 29 2010 TUI Arena, Hanover, Germany
Sep 30 2010 Arena - Leipzig, Germany
Oct 01 2010 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Oct 03 2010 Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany
Oct 04 2010 Gelredome, Arnhem, Netherlands
Oct 06 2010 The 02 Arena (London), London, United Kingdom
Oct 08 2010 The 02 (Dublin), Dublin 1, Ireland
Oct 10 2010 Sportpaleis, Merksem, Belgium
Oct 12 2010 Zenith (Nantes), Nantes, France
Oct 14 2010 Zenith d’Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
Oct 15 2010 Geneva Arena, Geneva, Switzerland
Oct 16 2010 Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
Oct 18 2010 Bercy, Paris, France
Oct 20 2010 Le Zenith, Toulouse, France
Oct 21 2010 Zenith Omega, Toulon, France
Oct 23 2010 Torino Palavela, Turin, Italy
Oct 24 2010 Scheeyerhalle, Stuttgart, Germany
Oct 25 2010 Hallenstadion, Zürich, Switzerland
Full - up to date - tour dates are listed HERE.
 ROGER HODGSON: to embark on 2010 World Tour & Harmonic Management explain why he will not be touring with Supertramp this year ...
 Roger's 2010 World Tour is off to a great start! To find the specific cities and countries go to Roger's Tour page.
As many of you have heard, Supertramp will be going out on tour in Europe in the fall, and in answer to all the questions that have been pouring in, Roger will not be joining them in 2010.
When we first heard from a promoter a week or two before they announced their dates in France that Supertramp would be doing a fall tour, Roger was as surprised as the rest of us. At that time in mid February, Roger wrote to Rick and Sue asking if it was true that they were planning on touring, but he never received a reply and still hasn't to this day. So, obviously, Roger wasn't invited for this tour, nor was Dougie Thompson from the classic line up. John, Bob and Jesse Siebenberg have been invited, but even they were taken by surprise and were asked just shortly before they announced the tour in France, so nobody even knew, including Roger, that this tour was happening until the last 2 months, and even the promoters have said they just started putting it together in February.
So, unfortunately for many fans that have really wanted to see Roger with Supertramp again, Rick and Sue Davies chose to put this tour together very quickly, at the last minute knowing that Roger already had his 2010 tour dates in place. And as anyone who watches Roger's website knows, his world tour for 2010 had been planned for many months before Rick ever announced their dates in France.
We've been told that they are billing the tour as the 40th Anniversary tour of the band and we just find this very surprising, misleading and disrespectful of Roger since he is the only other member that was a part of Supertramp when he and Rick founded the band together 40 years ago. (Dougie joined the band in 1972 and John and Bob a year later in 1973 and have not actually been with Supertramp for 40 years).
You can read the full article HERE.
RUSH: Geddy Lee tells Rolling Stone Magazine that Rush will "release" new material prior to the The Time Machine Tour...
This summer, Rush will be hitting the U.S. and Canadian concert trail on their Time Machine Tour, which will see the trio perform their 1981 classic Moving Pictures in its entirety. They'll also be road-testing new material they're working up for their 19th studio effort. Frontman Geddy Lee tells Rolling Stone the fresh tracks are "upbeat, hard rocking songs" with a Rush trademark: "typically absurdist arrangements."
Will you release some new songs to coincide with the tour?
I'd imagine — because we don't have time to do more than two at the moment — we'll probably release one as soon as it's ready, before the tour starts, and then probably release the second one as the tour starts. But our hope was to really get something down on tape, so we could play these songs live and road test them in a way. We're still kind of throwing titles back in forth, but one is called "Caravan."
Why tour in the middle of recording an album?
Everybody was kind of itching to get on the road and try and get in "peak playing form" before we recorded the bulk of the record, just to see what that effect is. In a way, we have this tendency to take a long period of time off, and then we kind of get our chops together and then go record. We thought it's kind of ass-backwards really, because when you finish a long tour, you're in such amazing playing shape that really, that's the time you should go in and start laying down tracks. But of course, you're exhausted by then, so we're trying to figure out if there's another way of attacking it.
We thought it would be fun to put together a tour that was sort of "future/past," because those are some of the themes that are floating around the lyrical content and visual content that we're using for these new songs. So we thought, "Let's go out and do this Time Machine tour, where we can go mine our past, and at the same time, point to the future, try some new songs, and get us in shape.
Read Greg Pato's full review HERE.
COLOSSUS & MUSEA : presents "A Flower Full Of Stars ~ Tribute To The Flower Kings" - a quadruple CD box set including 80 page booklet - with a release date within Christmas 2010
LINEUP: (timings are approximate)
01) UNITOPIA (Aus) ~ "The Way the Waters are Moving" (3:12)
02) MAGIC PIE (Nor) ~ "There is More to This World" (10:15)
03) CHRIS (Hol) ~ "Different People" (6:19)
04) KBRIDGE(Ita) ~ "Retropolis" (11:10)
05) ASHWAVE PROGCHARD PROJECT (Ven) ~ "Alert: Turn the Flora to This World" (10:00)**
06) SUPERNAL ENDGAME (Usa) ~ "The Flower King" (10:28)
07) THE SAMURAI OF PROG (Ita) ~ "World of Adventures" (7:00)*
08) YESTERDAYS (Hun) ~ "My Cosmic Lover" (6:40)
09) PROJECTION (Ger) ~ "Stardust We Are" (10:00)*
10) FLAMBOROUGH HEAD (Hol) ~ "Blessing of a Smile" (3:12)
11) LA BOCCA DELLA VERITÁ (Ita) ~ "I'm the Sun - part 1" (15:00)
12) PHAEDRA (Ita) ~ "Calling Home" (11:19)
13) FINAL CONFLICT (Uk) ~ "A King's Prayer" (6:02)
14) FORGOTTEN SUNS (Por) ~ "In the Eyes of the World" (10:38)
15) RONALD WAHLE (Usa) ~ "What if God is Alone?" (6:58)
16) ARGOS (Ger) ~ "Cosmic Circus/Babylon" (8:00)**
17) AXMINSTER (Usa) ~ "Pioneers of Aviation" (7:49)
18) GUITAR GARDEN featuring Three Legged Fox (Usa) ~ "Ghost of the Red Cloud" (4:37)
19) SKY ARCHITECT (Hol) ~ "Silent Sorrow" (7:42)
20) CONTRARIAN (Usa) ~ "Corruption" (5:55)
21) EXPEDITION DELTA (Jug) ~ "Selfconsuming Fire" (5:49)
22) TABULA SMARAGDINA (Hun) ~ "Monster Within" (12:55)
23) ABARAX (Ger) ~ "Last Minute on Earth" (11:40)
24) TINYFISH (Uk) ~ "Jealousy" (3:22)
25) VANGOUGH (Usa) ~ "I Am the Sun - part 2" (10:48)
26) APPLE PIE (Rus) ~ "Chicken Farmer Song" (5:09)
27) KATE (Fin) ~ "The Man Who Walked With Kings" (4:59)
28) GAOU (Jap) ~ "Rumble Fish Twist"(8:06)
29) VANILLA PROJECT (Ita) ~ "Serious Dreamers" (8:59)
30) PANDORA (Ita) ~ "Theme for a Hero" (8:32)
31) MARCO LO MUSCIO (Ita) ~ "Pipes of Peace" (3:00)
32) ROZ VITALIS (Rus) ~ "Dream on Dreamer" (5:00)
33) ORCHESTRE CELESTI (Ita) ~ "The Rainmaker" (6:02)
34) MICHAEL OGODOROV BAND (Rus) ~ "Close Your Eyes/A King's Pray" (10:00)**
35) MIST SEASON (Fin) ~ "Lobsterland Groove" (6:19)
36) THE SILENT SEA (Pol) ~ "Touch My Heaven" (6:08)
37) SPOTON (Usa) ~ "Dont Let the Devil In" (3:11)
38) ORACLE (Can) ~ "World Without A Heart" (4:29)
39) SONIQ CIRCUS (Swe) ~ "Sword of God" (6:00)
40) CONTEMPORARY DEAD FINNISH MUSIC ENSEMBLE (Fin) ~ "Grand Old World" (5:10)
* de-constructed
** medley
More information can be found at: www.myspace.com/colossusprojects.
KEITH EMERSON & GREG LAKE: “An Intimate Evening With Keith Emerson & Greg Lake” 2010 US Tour Sells out venues across the country. Keith Emerson and Greg Lake kicked off their “Intimate Evening” US Tour to great fan and critical acclaim, prompting the addition of three NEW dates to the tour, which claimed six SOLD-OUT shows at the tour’s inception.
May 11 - Peekskill, NY (Paramount Center for the Arts)
May 14 - Stroudsburg, PA (Sherman Theatre)
May 15 - Atlantic City, NJ (Trump Taj Mahal)
PENDRAGON: announce the following live dates:
Fri 30 Apr - Rosfest – Gettysburg - PA USA
Fri 07 May - The Subscription Rooms - Stroud - UK
Sun 16 May - The Robin 2 Bilston - UK
Tue 18 May - Spirit of 66 Verviers - Belgium
Wed 19 May - Bergkeller Reichenbach - Germany
Thu 20 May - Colosaal Aschaffenburg - Germany
Fri 21 May - Z7 Pratteln - Switzerland
Fri 28 May - The Ferry Glasgow - UK
Sat 29 May - Legends - Newcastle - UK
Sun 30 May - The Musician – Leicester - UK
Thu 10 Jun - Sweden Rock Festival - Sweden
Sat 24 Jul - High Voltage Festival - Victoria Park - UK
Fri 10 Sep - 2Days Prog Festival – Veruno - Italy
PANIC ROOM: announce dates for September:
South Wales band Panic Room have announced four dates in September, they are:
Thu 9th Sept: Glasgow - O2 ABC
Fri 10th Sept: Sheffield - O2 Academy
Sat 11th Sept: Bury - The Met
Fri 17th Sept: London - O2 Islington
The band will also be appearing at the Cambridge Rock Festival Sunday August 8th
TOUCHSTONE: have announced the launch of their first Live Album - capturing the energy and excitement of two gigs performed in the USA in 2009, where the band received rave reviews!
This album launch will take place at The Horn, St Albans,on Friday 16th July 2010. Touchstone will be playing a full set, with a support band (to be confirmed). This will be the first ever opportunity to buy the new CD – “Live In The USA” - whose official release date is 24th July.
In order to celebrate this one-off event - every album bought at the gig will come with 2 exclusive signed prints. The first is a saucy picture of Kim, and the other being a not so saucy, but nonetheless jolly marvellous, picture of the entire band in all it's glory - and a free badge.
OVERHEAD: announce 10th Anniversary tour dates kicking off in May:
06.5.2010 Helsinki, Finland
12.5.2010 Russelsheim, Germany
13.5.2010 Basel, Switzerland
14.5.2010 Magdeburg, Germany
15.5.2010 Bielefeld, Germany
16.5.2010 Verviers, Belgium
18.5.2010 Hohenleimbach, Germany
19.5.2010 Bonn, Germany
20.5.2010 Berlin, Germany
21.5.2010 Roggel, Netherlands
22.5.2010 Lidköping, Sweden
The band are running competition where you can win concert tickets. Visit Overhead’s website or Facebook page for more info.
The band have also begun the recording of their next album - more details to follow…
ENOCHIAN THEORY:: also announce a couple UK dates…
19 May 2010 - The 100 Club - London
20 May 2010 - The Fleece - Bristol
For further details visit the band's website or MySpace page.
MANGROVE: have announced that Remco Engels is the bands new drummer, replacing Joost Hagemeijer who left the band earlier this year. Engels has been rehearsing with the band and was to fill in for the concerts with Magenta in early May which have been subsequently cancelled. He has now become a permanent member of Mangrove having previously played behind the kit for the cover bands The Genesis Project and Knight of the Progs and is currently also a member of Awaken.
AN ENDLESS SPORADIC: Roine Stolt and Jonas Reingold recently worked with progressive rock duo An Endless Sporadic on their first self-titled full-length CD:
 In May, An Endless Sporadic was recorded, and mixed in Lund, Sweden in only three weeks, with internationally-renowned progressive rock guitarist, vocalist and producer, Roine Stolt, producing. Mastering took place at M-Works Mastering Studio in Boston.
Stolt is best known as the founder of The Flower Kings, and lead guitarist and vocalist of the Prog Rock supergroup Transatlantic, featuring Dream Theater drummer, Mike Portnoy. All nine An Endless Sporadic tracks feature the brilliant bass playing of The Flower Kings' Jonas Reingold.
THE WINDMILL: from Norway have released their debut CD entitled "To Be Continued"... the band are planning a CD Launch concert on 7th May 2010 at Slemmestad, Norway with Free Entry. For further info check out the band's
website.
TYPE 0 NEGATIVE: It is with regret that we report the passing on 14th April 2010 of Peter Steele, lead singer, bassist and composer with Goth Metal band
Type 0 Negative, at the age of 48 from heart failure.
ANATHEMA: As reported in the News of Week 13, Anathema are to release their new album "Were Here Because Were Here" ... here's some follow up news from KScope ...
"Were Here Because Were Here", the long awaited new album from Anathema, is now available to pre-order from the Kscope store. A special mini-site is now online which features a free mp3, downloads, info and more.
The album will be released on CD, as a limited 2disc set (CD + DVD-A) and on vinyl. The vinyl edition will be available exclusively from the Kscope store and will ship from May 17th (two weeks before CD release). Limited to 2,000 numbered units, the vinyl edition of the album comes on double 180gms black vinyl in a heavyweight gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves. The vinyl edition also comes with a special 'drop card' with a link to a digital download of the album. The album is the first collection of new material from the band since the 2003 album, " A Natural Disaster". A multi-coloured, multi-layered work of unbridled emotion, passion, and intensity, the new album has been eagerly anticipated by their legions of fans around the globe.
The album has been mixed by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), who has described it as definitely among the best albums I've ever had the pleasure to work on. The limited special 2 disc edition of the album comes packaged in a luxurious rigid digibook format and features the album on CD plus a DVD-A with the 5.1 surround sound mix. Both editions are also available as part of album + t-shirt bundles.
Click HERE to visit the mini-site for further info.
MAGIC PIE: Brand new progressive song released by Norwegian progrockers Magic Pie; "Slightly Mad"
Please enjoy a brand new song from the upcoming CD. Check out Magic Pie’s MySpace page.
The music player will let you stream the song "Slightly Mad" in a rough mix edition (not final mix and not mastered!) introducing for the first time on CD the singer Eirikur Hauksson, and featuring a stunning guest preformance from Maria Bentzen of Silvanesti.
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