15/12/2002 - For those
E.L.O. fans who think they have seen everything, well then check this out
- David Lee Roth has done his own unique cover version of the E.L.O. song
'Shine A Little Love'. The video clip can be downloaded from
www.davidleeroth.com .
15/12/2002 - Here are a
few photos taken by Chris Taylor during the interval at the George Harrison
Tribute concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
15/12/2002 - A number of
Beates fan sites currently have pictures and 'sounds' from the George Harrison
tribute concert ....
Beatle Mania -
www.beatlemania.de/news.htm .
Beatles Fan Site -
incolor.inebraska.com/sumaree/beatles/harrison.htm .
15/12/2002 - Owners of
Nokia and Samsung mobile phones can download E.L.O. ringtones from The Jippii
Club at www.jippii.com or
www.jippii.co.uk . Currently available are
Evil Woman, Livin' Thing, Mr. Blue Sky and Don't Bring Me Down.
15/12/2002 - Courtesy of
the Official ELO Mailing List are the following web links featuring reviews of
the George Harrison tribute concert held at London's Royal Albert Hall on 29th
November...........
Fox News -
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71793,00.html .
Fox News -
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71837,00.html .
Fox News -
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71859,00.html .
BBC News -
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2529707.stm .
Rex Features -
www.rexfeatures.com/cgi-bin/r2news0?s=397836G&m=3 .
15/12/2002 - Try out
this link and vote for E.L.O. !!!!! -
www.tctalent.com/orlandotrip/OrlandoVote.cfm .
15/12/2002 - The January
2003 issue of 'Guitar World' magazine features an in depth article on the
making of George Harrisons album 'Brainwashed' and features interviews with
Dhani Harrison and Jeff Lynne.
15/12/2002 - The Queen
tribute band 'Magic' who perform regularly throughout the U.K. to
sell-out audiences, are currently hard at work rehearsing for their upcoming
tour in February / March 2003. Only this time the band will be performing songs
by The Beach Boys and E.L.O. !!! The current tour dates are...
February 2003
13 Martletts Hall, Burgess Hill, West Sussex
14 City Hall, Salisbury
15 Palace Theatre, Redditch
16 Assembly Rooms, Derby
18 Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
19 Albert Halls, Stirling
20 Rothes Hall, Glenrothes
21 Caird Hall, Dundee
22 Glasgow Pavillion, Glasgow
23 Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
26 Opera House, Buxton
27 Albert Halls, Bolton
28 The Stables Theatre, Milton Keynes
March 2003
1 Palace Theatre, Mansfield
2 Magnum Theatre, Irvine
4 Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
5 Playhouse, Weston Super Mare
6 Theatre Royal and Opera House, Wakefield
7 Pennington's, Bradford
8 Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd
9 Roses Theatre, Tewksbury
29 Gunton Hall Holiday Village, Suffolk
24/11/2002 - The Jeff
Lynne & Dhani Harrison interview about George Harrisons new 'Brainwashed' album
can be heard at the following link -
www.npr.org/display pages/features/feature 848887.html .
24/11/2002 - Key Mail
Order are currently showing January release dates for ELO remastered editions of
'On The Third Day' and 'A New World Record'. Rob Caiger of FTM has confirmed
that this is NOT happening !!! There is currently no confirmed date for
these releases.
24/11/2002 - This weeks
tv magazines show that the repeat showing of 'Rock Legends' featuring
Roy Wood will be shown on Carlton Central ITV on Thursday 28th November at
12:00 midnight. Note that anybody with a Sky Digibox can receive this channel
anywhere in the U.K.
24/11/2002 - Courtesy of
the Official ELO Mailing List are the following web links featuring reviews of
the new George Harrison album 'Brainwashed' which was co-produced by George,
Jeff Lynne and George's son Dhani...........................
USA Today -
www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-11-21-harrison x.htm .
Ent. Weekly -
www.ew.com/ew/article/review/music/0,6115,390-698~4~0~georgeharrison,00.html
.
Orange County Register -
www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=11662§ion=SHOW&year=2002&month=11&day=15
.
Fox News -
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70322,00.html .
Winnipeg Sun -
www.canoe.ca/JamAlbumsH/harrison brainwashed-sun.html .
The Onion AV Club -
www.theonionavclub.com/reviews/music/music g/georgeharrison02.html .
24/11/2002 - Courtesy of
the Official Move Mailing List.... 'From the Sandwell Express & Star.
Star lights up festive celebration.
A chart topper from the 60s and 70s will light up a Black Country town when he
switches on the Christmas lights. Bev Bevan, drummer with ELO and
The Move will switch on the Langley lights at a special event at the end
of the month. It will be the highlight of a special Christmas launch organised
by Langley Traders' Association, one of the most vibrant traders' groups in
Sandwell. Bev will start the night's festivities, which will also include a
children's fun fair, Santa's grotto and seasonal entertainment.
There will be a table top sale, charity stalls and late-night shopping and the
evening will end with a fireworks display. The Langley lights switch-on is an
annual event which has taken place for the last 12 years.
The shopping centre has no chain stores or big name stores in its High Street,
but prides itself on independent retailers who give a friendly and personal
service. Chairman of Langley Traders Association, the Rev Robert Brindley says
the town can provide for everyone's shopping needs in a comfortable, safe and
friendly environment.
ELO drummer Bev will start Christmas festivities off at 6.30pm on November 29,
the shops will be open normal hours right up to Christmas. Master of ceremonies
for the night will be DJ Simon Cee and the programme of events will be 6pm
Street closed to traffic; 6.20pm Bev Bevan on stage to say Hello to Langley;
6.25pm Santa Claus and Marching band parade down the street; 6.30pm lights are
switched on; 6.35pm children's choir in church (20 mins); 7pm Langley brass band
in church (45 mins); 8.10pm Tividale Tigers marching band (20 mins); 8.45pm
fireworks finale.'
24/11/2002 - The latest
Volkswagon advertisement features a reworking of 'Mr Blue Sky' by ELO.
The commercial is currently being shown in cinemas around the USA and Europe and
also is starting to show up on tv. The commercial can be downloaded from
www.vw.com/NASApp/newmodellaunch/nbconvertible/index.jsp which is the VW of
America site, ensure you have Quicktime loaded first.
24/11/2002 - The Classic
Rock website is currently looking for votes for top rock track, with ELO's
'Dont Bring Me Down' on the list of candidates, so why not take a visit
to the polling booth at
www.popsongsmusicvoice.bravepages.com .
24/11/2002 - The ELO
track 'Four Little Diamonds' is one of the songs featured on the new
Playstation 2 game 'Grand Theft Auto - Vice City' which is an ultra-violent
Miami Vice style game set back in the 1980's.
24/11/2002 - Released on
25th November here in the U.K. is the new track 'Be With You' by Atomic
Kitten. This excellent track is based around the ELO track 'Last Train
To London' and is destined for a Top 5 hit next week. The video of the song
can be viewed at the official website at
www.atomickitten.com . The video is also on constant play on Sky Digital tv
channels 'Smash Hits', 'The Box' and 'The Hits'.
21/10/2002 - Just
uploaded a new track to the
Soundclips page. It is a
cover version of 'Mr Blue Sky' by a group called Nerf Herder.
20/10/2002 - Tickets for
the George Harrison Tribute concert at London's Royal Albert Hall on
November 29th sold out within a couple of hours of going on sale. This has left
many fans unable to purchase tickets to see Jeff Lynne and many other
well-known artists paying tribute to the late Beatle. Tickets have become
available on Ebay but at ridiculously marked-up prices.
20/10/2002 - Olaf Heeg
has uploaded some of his photos taken at the recent 5th ELO International
Convention hosted by FTM Germany in Frankfurt. The photos can be viewed at
www.olafheeg.de and follow the links down
from the Galerie section.
20/10/2002 - Rick
Price, formerly of The Move and Wizzard has a couple of new cd's available
for sale. Details of how to buy these cd's and to listen to a couple of sound
clips of Rick's live versions of 'Flowers In The Rain' and 'Angel Fingers', can
be found on Martin Kinch's site at
www.martinkinch.members.beeb.net/rickcd.html .
20/10/2002 - Radio 1 dj
John Peel featured the band The Delgados live in session on Wednesday
night, and one of the songs the band played was ELO's 'Mr Blue Sky', and
a very good rendition it was too!!! The session can be listened to at the link
below, just click on 'here' where it mentions The Delgado's Peel Session and
skip the first 15 minutes or so until the bands live session begins. Please note
that you will need Real Player installed to listen to the show.
The website is at -
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/features/delgados interview.shtml
.
20/10/2002 - Posted on
the Showdown Mailing List - ELO performing 'Showdown' will be shown on
Top Of The Pops 2 on Tuesday 22nd October at 6:20pm.
20/10/2002 - Posted on
the Showdown Mailing List by Damien Spanjer - VH1 have updated their George
Harrison page with a video about the making of 'Brainwashed' and includes
previews on some of the album tracks plus interviews with Jeff Lynne, George and
his son Dhani.
The web link is -
www.vh1.com/artists/az/harrison george/artist.jhtml
.
22/09/2002 - Just
uploaded some screen shots of Roy Wood from his appearance on Harry Enfield's
new series 'Celeb!' broadcast on BBC1 TV on Friday night.
22/09/2002 - News
courtesy of the Showdown ELO Mailing List - the planned George Harrison tribute
concert on November 29th would appear to be going ahead at Londons Royal Albert
Hall. Rumoured to be appearing are Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Ringo
Starr, Jools Holland and more. More information on this can be found on the
Rolling Stone Online website at
www.rollingstone.com/news/ . Also courtesy of the Showdown List is news that
George Harrisons new album will be released on November 19th. It is to be called
'Brainwashed' and has been produced by George, his son Dhani and Jeff Lynne.
The album features 12 tracks and will be released by Dark Horse / EMI.
08/09/2002 - Just added
a new file to the Downloads section - the 'Zoom'
font which many fans have been asking for details of, it can also been
downloaded from the following site -
www.fontfreak.com/fonts/no/1979.zip .
08/09/2002 - Fans of
The Move may be interested in the following four dvd's which have just been
released in Holland. Most of the videos are from performances on the German pop
programme 'Beat Club' many only in black & white and include 'Fire Brigade',
'Blackberry Way', 'Curly', 'Flowers In The Rain' and 'Tonight'. There are also
performances by Wizzard with 'See My Baby Jive' and 'Angel Fingers', and
Roy Wood with 'Dear Elaine'. Released by BR Music, catalogue numbers
BD3001-2, BD3002-2, BD3003-2 and BD3004-2. The dvd's can be ordered direct from
BR Music's website at www.brmusictwo.com
or from CD Zone's website at just over £9.60 each at
www.cdzone.co.uk .
**NOTE** - these dvd's have been released without the permission of the
artists and their record companies, so no royalties will reach them. Hopefully
these particular performances will be released officially with the artists
involvement at some point in the future.
18/07/2002 - The tribute
single 'Do Ya' can now be purchased using credit card payment direct from
the Tallboy Records website.
18/07/2002 - Just
updated the Website Links page with a number of new
sites to check out and some sites which have updated url's.
18/07/2002 - ELO's
appearance on VH1's 'Storytellers' has now been made available on video
in Eastern Europe in VHS NTSC format. Running time is about 50 minutes which is
slightly longer than the show broadcast in the U.S.A.
06/07/2002 - The
upcoming film 'Austin Powers in Goldmember' features the classic ELO
track 'Evil Woman'. The soundtrack to the film however features a cover
version of the song by Soul Hooligan with Diana King. ** AND IT IS
EXCELLENT!! **
06/07/2002 - Some
exciting news reported in the July 2002 issue of 'Record Collector' magazine - a
previously undocumented track featuring Jeff Lynne and Marc Bolan
called 'Everyone's Born To Die' recorded in April 1973 at Air Studios, has been
remastered at Abbey Road Studios and will feature on the upcoming 2cd remastered
edition of 'ELO2'. The slip-cased edition expands the original 5 tracks to 22,
with 8 bonus tracks on the first cd and 9 on cd2. Eleven of the tracks are
previously unreleased, with three of them featuring Carl Wayne. The album
is due for release hopefully in September.
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