Latest Site Updates

16/11/2008 - News & Gossip and Concert Photos pages updated with live photos from the Beatles, Blues & Blue Violin gig at The Cavern Club, Liverpool last night featuring Phil Bates, Mik Kaminski & Tina McBain.

11/11/2008 - News & Gossip and Concert Photos pages updated with some superb live photos of The Orchestra at Bristol Colston Hall & Northampton Derngate during their Autumn 2008 U.K. tour.

26/10/2008 - News & Gossip page updated. Also added some superb pictures from The Orchestra's concert at Shepherd's Bush Empire on 7th October.

19/10/2008 - News & Gossip page updated. Also added my review with photos of The Orchestra's superb concert at Blackpool Opera House on 6th October. Also added a live track from one of the U.K. Spring 2008 gigs to the Soundclips page. All Concert Photo pages updated with a new gallery display.

07/10/2008 - News & Gossip page updated.

01/10/2008 - News & Gossip and Home pages updated.

21/09/2008 - News & Gossip, Website Links and Home pages updated.
 

UPDATED - July 2008

The Move ft Bev Bevan and Trevor Burton have a few gigs planned throughout the rest of 2008. The band line-up is Bev, Trevor Burton, Neil Lockwood, Gordon Healer & Phil Tree. As well as performing the best-known Move hits, the band will also be playing many other songs such as Green Onions, Keep On Runnin' and Back In The USSR.
More details can be found at the Official website - www.themovelive.com.
 

UPDATED - November 2008

The Orchestra, the band featuring former members of Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II, have just finished their 2008 Autumn U.K. tour. This was the second tour of the U.K. this year,  having completed a hugely successful tour back in the Spring. Check out the Official Website and Ken Latta's Orchestra Fan Site for reviews and photos. Further gigs are planned for Eastern Europe and Russia later this month.
 

The band currently have copies of the new U.K. edition of 'No Rewind', and a new 'Orchestra Live' cd available at the bands' gigs. 'No Rewind' is also available from Parthenon Huxley's Website.

 

UPDATED - 10th November 2008

Phil Bates has a new album out now called 'Retrospektiv'. The 14 track collection is currently available at Phil's live solo gigs, Orchestra concerts and via his Official Website. Phil is also still gigging with The Electric Light Band in Germany and Poland.

Phil is also touring in November 2008 and March 2009 alongside Mik Kaminski and Tina McBain as part of the 'Beatles, Blues and Blue Violin' project. Keep checking the News page for updates of gigs.

Check out the Soundclips page to listen to a few short clips from Phil's excellent solo album 'One Sky'.

Future gig dates for Phil, The Orchestra, BBBV, The Electric Light Band plus a special Twixtmas Concert featuring Phil & Tina McBain on December 28th 2008 can be found on Phil's Official Website. Check out the News page for more details of the upcoming BBBV November tour including a new date at Burnham-On-Sea during the 'Illuminated Carnival'.

Also check out my review of Phil's 'Family Affair' gig in Tamworth on June 30th 2006.

More details for E.L.B. can be found at www.elb-philbates.com.
 

Argentinian E.L.O. fan Jorge Devincenzi is busy with a new 2008 series of his radio show charting the history of E.L.O. from the formation of the band via The Move and Idle Race right up to the Zoom album, The Orchestra, and Roy Woods Army.

To conclude his the first series of his show, Jorge fulfilled a personal dream of his by interviewing Kelly Groucutt which was broadcast on Radio Arte in his home country. Full details of the radio show, Series 3, Zoom 2005, 2006 and the new 2008 series can be found here.

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