Just a couple of days after they had begun rehearsing for the Growing Up tour 2002 Peter Gabriel tested his band at the Könixxtreffen, the 20th anniversary of Virgin Germany, which took place on August 31, 2002 in Munich, Germany.
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.
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.
Before Up came out in 2002, Peter Gabriel got sidetracked by a number of other projects.One of these is the “semi-solo album” Ovo. It came out in 2000 and it is actually the soundtrack for the show at the Millennium Dome.
After the good experience and feedback of having a Question Time with Richard Macphail at the Early Years Event 2005 we wanted to do it with Armando Gallo. He accompanied the band in a way different from Richard and much longer, too, so he had much to tell…
Live performances by Mike with the Mechanics have become rare to a point when even the concerts after Paul Young’s death came as a surprise. Mike, however, occasionally plays charity shows.
Virgin / EMI Records have finally got around to releasing Steve Hackett’s early albums according to his ideas – to the delight of the musician and his fans alike, for the record company respected Hackett’s wishes about the sound as well as extras and the package.