In 2002 Ray Wilson brought his acoustic programme to German audiences for the first time. On June 15 he was headliner at the Park-Kult-Tour festival in Duisburg; the day after that he played his first real solo concert in Germany at Kaue, Gelsenkirchen. Christian Gerhardts was in the audience.
A truly grand experience – that’s what a new Norwegian CD release promises to be: Genesis For Two Grand Pianos is the pragmatic title of a project that was recorded in 1999 and 2000 and published early in 2002.
The film that covers the six sold-out shows at Earl’s Court in 1992 was finally released on DVD on 2001. Genesis presented themselves for the first time in sumptuous 5.1 sound on the rather new DVD medium. Alexander Pfaff has checked it out for you.
Ray Wilson has a home game every year at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. In 2001 Ray played 13 sold-out shows in a pub called Madogs. Martin Christgau was there.
Robin Platts published a compact biography about Genesis in 2001. Volker Stöckemann had a closer look at it …
Paul Young, one of the vocalist in Mike + The Mechanics suddenly died on July 15, 2000.
His most recent album Satisfy My Soul was excellent. Now Paul Carrack has released a recording of his last concert in Shepher’s Bush, London.
Ten years after the A History video from 1991 Genesis have published the more compact and up-to-date Genesis Songbook. Whether the new approach in this documentary lives up to the first attempt from 1991 is something Christian Gerhardts considers in this review.
On December 15, 2000, musical companions of Paul Young, amongst them Mike + The Mechanics, met at the Apollo in Manchester to honour their late friend and colleague.
In 2000 the Canadian cover band The Musical Box were the first band who obtained the license to perform the stage show for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway in Canada. Michael Spuck was there for GNC.