ROCK LEGEND NEWS - 2004

Robbo on Tour

Check out the official page:

Gary Moore News

                                                                                                                                
There has been quite a bit of Gary Moore news of late - rather than repeat it all here, check it out via his web site's news page.

Ninteen @ 19th Vibe

Nineteen have been confirmed to appear at the Vibe 2005

The band will feature:

Laurence Archer (Grand Slam, UFO, Stampede, Wild Horses) – Guitar
Mark Kirkland (Laurence Archer’s Grand Slam) – Guitar
Jon Stone (Laurence Archer’s Grand Slam) – Vocals
Jo Burt (Black Sabbath, Freddie Mercury, Brian Setzer, Virginia Wolf) – Bass
Simon Jeffrey (Laurence Archer’s Grand Slam, Bernie Torme) - Drums

Nineteen will also be joined by special guest Robbie Brennan (Skid Row, Grand Slam) and will play a selection of Grand Slam songs as well as other Lynott material that was incorporated into the original Grand Slam set. They will also play some acoustic numbers at the Pre-Vibe.

Jo Burt has a great rock'n'roll pedigree, having played with some of the biggest names in the business. While on tour with the Tom Robinson Band in Dublin, Jo was approached after the show by a young Adam Clayton asking Jo if he could pass his demo tape to Steve Lillywhite (Tom Robinson’s producer at the time) "I'll do better than that, he is backstage I'll introduce you to him" replied Jo. And so Steve Lillywhite came to produce the first U2 album and the rest is history!

Sykes/Gorham Tour

                                                                                                                                
Here's the latest schedule for next year's S/G tour:

JAN 28 Glasgow, UK Carling Academy
JAN 29 Newcastle, UK City Hall
JAN 30 Llandudno, UK North Wales Theatre
FEB 1 Liverpool, UK Liverpool Academy
FEB 2 Manchester, UK Manchester University
FEB 4 London, UK Shepherd's Bush Empire
FEB 5 Sheffield, UK Octagon
FEB 6 Birmingham, UK Carling Academy
FEB 7 Bristol, UK Carling Academy
FEB 8 Nottingham, UK Rock City
FEB 10 Waterford, IRE Forum
FEB 11 Castlebar, IRE Royal Theatre
FEB 12 Killarney, IRE INEC
FEB 13 Cork, IRE Everyman Palace
FEB 15 Dublin, IRE Vicar Street
FEB 16 Dublin, IRE Vicar Street
FEB 17 Belfast, IRE Waterfront ON SALE NOW
FEB 18 Galway, IRE Leisureland
FEB 19 Limerick, IRE University Concert Hall
FEB 22 Talinn, EST TBA
FEB 23 St. Petersburg, RUS Festival TBA
FEB 24 Helsinki, FIN Tavastia
FEB 25 Lappenranta, FIN Club Lappe
FEB 26 Rauma, FIN Raumalinna
FEB 28 Stockholm, SWE Rondo
MAR 1 Oslo, NOR Rockefeller
MAR 2 Karlskrona, SWE Kino
MAR 3 Copenhagen, DEN Amager Bio
MAR 4 Aarhus, DEN Train
MAR 5 Esbjerg, DEN Tobakken

Jari Salonen has been in touch with news of his band Cold Sweat ...

Cold Sweat will be playing a gig tonight Turku, Finland.
The happening is called DEDICATED TO THIN LIZZY
The venue is KLUBI
Doors open 9.00pm

Live & Dangerous on DVD

Live And Dangerous has been released on DVD in Japan. It is NTSC region 2 only.

We held back on this story until we were sure it was real ... but Nick has his copy now, so it must be!!

Brian Downey Gig

Blues up Front, the band Brian plays in these days, will be playing at:

The Blues Club,
JJ Smyths,
12 Aungier Street,
Dublin 2
on Tuesday 9th November. Showtime 9.30pm

Rock Legend domain name

I've given up on being able to get www.thin-lizzy.net back as our main domain name. It's owned by the original web designer Dave Hirst, despite a couple of requests via 'phone since the big server crash, I've had no luck in getting the domain pointed back at Rock Legend.

Since I own www.thin-lizzy.com, I think we'll just have to settle with that as the official domain name ... please let me know if you spot any links to the old .net name.

Cheers, 

Dan

Fake Lizzy Tour UK & Ireland

A "Thin Lizzy" tour is planned for next year... the rumours that this would herald the return of Brian Downey & Darren Wharton to the line up have now been refuted. The RD Trust site has also removed its reference to this line-up so I guess it was a hoax after all.

The dates are:

28 Jan - Glasgow Carling Academy
29 Jan - Newcastle City Hall
1 Feb - Liverpool Academy
3 Feb - Manchester Academy
4 Feb - London Shepherds Bush Empire
5 Feb - Sheffield Octagon
6 Feb - Birmingham Academy
7 Feb - Bristol Academy

The Greatest Classic Rock Albums Ever

The following is from Mark Blake, Editor-In-Chief of Q, Mojo, Kerrang! Special Editions.

"I am writing on behalf of Q and Mojo, the monthly UK music magazines. We have just produced a one-off special edition entitled The Greatest Classic Rock Albums Ever.

This features a piece on Lizzy's Live And Dangerous, plus an in-depth feature on the band's glory years alongside 10 Thin Lizzy Songs To Make Your Life Better. Any chance we could get a mention of this on your excellent website?"

Snowy in Portugal

News from Tracey Ganapathy on the FanClubWebage

"Snowy has confirmed that, between the 4th and the 9th of November, he and the band will be in promoting the album in Portugal. This will include a special 'album launch' show in Lisbon on Friday 5th and another in Porto on Saturday 6th. The band will play a 40 minute set at each venue. Snowy tells me he will stay on in Lisbon for an extra three days to edit the live DVD. which will be available early next year."

Vibe 05 - Renegade

Robbo News

                                                                                                                                Check out the latest Robbo news on his Official Pages

Update: Due to family reasons Robbo will have to cancel the appearance at the Jimi Hendrix festival in Bucharest, Romania on november the 6th. We're truly sorry for this and hope to be able to give any romanian fans the chance to see the man live in a very near future anyway.

All the Best,

Sören/Yodel Productions

Snowy Interview

Check out an interview with Snowy White by Tracey Ganapathy on her Fan Club Web Page

Midge's Book & Book Signing Tour

Midge Ure has written an autobiograpghy and is currently on a book-signing tour around the UK. Find out more on his web site here!

Server Problems!

                                                                                                                                We're having a severe server nightmare! The main server is down and www.thin-lizzy.net doesn't work. So, we've loaded the site here on a different sever and pointed www.thin-lizzy.com at it - we hope to soon get www.thin-lizzy.net pointing there too but the domain name is owned by the original RL webmaster who is out of email contact at present.

Also our forum server in Florida has also been down too due to hurricane damage! We are trying to move the forum to the new server too - the URL should become www.forum.thin-lizzy.com. The problem is we cannot access the original messages and usernames until the hurricane damage has been sorted.

Check out the Vibe for Philo Site for an early announcment of the Jan 2005 Vibe. Some of the info is repeated below...

For the moment, however, set-lists, performers, venues and the huge amount of background work involved in staging the Vibe is under way and we look forward to letting you be the first to know what's happening as it's confirmed.

Roddy managed to find some oil for his auld computer and, now it's up and running again, he's been let loose with Photoshop (see pic) and has relaunched the Trust's Web Site  Note the new URL and email address.

                                                                                                                                Yes folks, we've moved Forum again ... hopefully for the last time! Follow the forum link in the main menu and get registered!!

Following on from the sins of their past, when they turned against Lizzy and Lynott, NME have now seen the light (and £s) and have included Thin Lizzy in a special release. No idea at this stage how much Thin Lizzy is included or whether it will be in their usual vein. This is from their editor .....

Following the infamous volumes on Glam!, Swinging London in the 1960’s, Punk and The Beatles comes NME ORIGINALS: GODS OF ROCK -

148 pages packed with some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll stories ever, reprinted from the archives of NME and its sister publication, Melody Maker.

Full of rare photos and salacious interviews, GODS OF ROCK includes Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zandt telling you how to stomp a guy half to death in a barroom brawl, Ted Nugent insisting that "Anyone who digs adventurous music would get off sleeping in a dead sheep", and Ozzy Osbourne getting arrested for pissing on the Alamo. Freddie Mercury boasts that his slacks are so tight that one lady writer rightly guessed his religion, Axl Rose does his damnedest to get a riot going, Perry Farrell shows you videos of himself shooting up and Lemmy claims to be a "reincarnated Nazi."

Johnny Rotten gets beaten up by the cops, Eddie Van Halen pummels a wall until his knuckles bleed, Kurt Cobain denies doing smack, Johnny Thunders chucks up on the tarmac at Paris Airport, Slipknot punch each other in the face, Stevie Nicks refers to cocaine as a little more-ish, like Sarah Lee Cheese Cake and Courtney Love is dragged screaming and kicking from somebody else’s stage.

Featuring Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, The Rolling Stones, The Cult, The Runaways, New York Dolls and many, many more, NME ORIGINALS: GODS OF ROCK is the most lairy, lewd, ludicrous and life-affirming read on the planet.

On sale now: £5.50.

At last Robbo and Yodel have an official web presence at www.robbo.info

Okay folks there's 3 days to go! Saturday September 4th!

We've heard great reports about the Peterborough and London (Putney) Gigs.
Let's hope Derry can match up and more! More info: Derry Tribute Gig

This goes out to Paddy, Jim, Chris and Marty. See ya very soon, awright?!

As we start Year 3 of Rock Legend, we'd like to pay our respects to the man responsible for it all!

Happy Birthday Philo!!

To celebrate two full years of RL, Nick has written a new editorial - check it out via the News sub-menu on the main page. We've also clarified the credits and contributions to the site on the Who We Are link, so now you (and your lawyers - arf arf) know who really is behind all this.

Also, look out for yet another new forum - we returned to the original VOY forum when our new home was taken away ... but VOY is just a just a temporary home while we get something better sorted out. And it's on its way!

Following the controversy over the critics' choice of their 50 Greatest Live Albums Ever, Classic Rock magazine re-conducted the poll but this time they asked their readers - the fans! The September 2004 issue contains the results.

The great news is that Live And Dangerous comes out on top again! This is a fantastic achievement! Okay we already knew it was the best ... but what a result to top both polls! It is absolutely brilliant to see Lizzy get the respect and acclaim they have always deserved after they've been away so long. Yet again Thin Lizzy grace the cover with a great shot of Philip and the write-up of the album is a treat to read and well worth the cover price alone.

And there's more ..... there's an eight page feature extracted from Alan Byrne's book Thin Lizzy - Soldiers Of Fortune graced with some great and unseen (to these eyes) photos. Okay some grumblings on this site's Forum that it is a straight lift from the book rather than a proper new article but this is still a must have.

Footnote : Alan told me he was doing something for Classic Rock and I thought "Aye, I'll believe that when I see it!". Well b*gger me!

Any of our overseas readers who want a copy contact Phil at phil@thinlizzy.biz as my new local, round the corner 24 hour Tesco's, now stocks it. You'll have to pay for it and p&p mind :-)

Classic Rock (August) ....

reviews the Greatest Hits CD (nice photo of Phil) and the Rockpalast DVD.

Record Collector (August), 'The Third Annual Thin Lizzy - A Celebration Of The Music Of Philip Lynott' in Toronto gets a mention on page 14. Well done Rog.

Guitarist (August) includes a Gary Moore Tuition Video - see 30th June item below for more details.

Latest news from Jörgen Holmstedt about the Thin Lizzy Forever Documentary .....

Dear Lizzy fans,

It's been two years since I, Jovan Radomir and Gerhard Malmberg started work on the documentary Thin Lizzy Forever.

We are delighted to tell you that there will be a preview of some of the material on Sweden's main TV station SVT 07.35 CET on Saturday the 17 July. It's part of the massive music show Hårdrocknatt (Hard Rock Night) which will run for 12 hours starting the previous evening. The Thin Lizzy Special, as this 45 minute thing will be called, features videos of the band with bits and pieces from our interviews with Brian Downey (done in Dublin 2004 04 23) and Scott Gorham (Stockholm Spring 2003). This way we will get our fave band on TV twice.

And the real thing? You'll have to wait a little longer. But it's gonna be good, I promise you.

Rock hard,

Jörgen, Jovan and Gerhard.

ERIC BELL BAND

31ST JULY 2004
TRINITY ARTS CENTRE
GAINSBOROUGH, ENGLAND

Address:Trinity Arts Centre
Trinity Street
Gainsborough
Lincolnshire
DN21 1JF
Tel:(01427) 676655

Band Website : http://www.ericbellband.com
E-mail : ericbellband@hotmail.com

Doors Open: 7.15pm. Tickets: £10 (£9 Concessions)

A new bootleg of not exactly new material has been released by Langley Records in Japan.

Thin Lizzy 'Pop Spectacular' - featuring the two BBC In Concert performances from 1973 and 1974.

'BBC Radio 1 In Concert' Live at the Hippodrome, London on 26th July 1973 & the Paris Theatre, London on 27th November 1974. Stereo Soundboard

Disc 1

Live at the Hippodrome, London on 26th July 1973

1. Introduction by Alan Black
2. Rocker
3. MC
4. Things Ain't Working Out Down On The Farm
5. MC
6. Slow Blues
7. MC
8. I'm Gonna Creep Up On You
9. MC
10. Suicide

Philip Lynott - Bass, vocals
Brian Downey - Drums
Eric Bell - Guitars

Disc 2

Live at the Paris Theatre, London on 27th November 1974

11. Introduction by Pete Drummond
12. She Knows
13. MC
14. It's Only Money
15. MC incl. member introduction
16. Still In Love With You
17. Showdown
18. MC
19. Rock And Roll With You
20. Baby, Baby, Baby

Philip Lynott - Bass, vocals
Brian Downey - Drums
Scott Gorham- Guitars
Brian Robertson- Guitars

Stereo Soundboard Recording - Langley 300  Dust'n'Dreams

Dawn McCarrick from the Roisin Dubh Trust has sent us a photo of the new plaque .....

Racists have threatened to deface the proposed statue of Philip Lynott.

The following link contains strong racist language but, in order to see how low these people are, you may want to click here for more info

It appears that Philomena Lynott has hit back here although we have been informed that she did not give any interview to The Herald.

Moore features on the front cover of the current Guitarist magazine and inside there's an interview, video lesson and track from the lates album called Power of the Blues.

Power of the Blues is Moore's 23rd solo album where he is joined by Bob Daisley on bass and Darrin Mooney on drums. The album was produced by Gary Moore and Chris Tsangarides (producer of various Thin Lizzy recordings as well as Moore's classic Back on The Streets album).

Moore says of Power Of The Blues "This is rawest album I've done for many years, maybe the rawest ever......."

Full track listing:

1. POWER OF THE BLUES ( G Moore/B Daisley/D Mooney)
2. THERE'S A HOLE (G Moore)
3. TELL ME WOMAN (G Moore)
4. I CAN'T QUIT YOU BABY (Willie Dixon)
5. THAT'S WHY I PLAY THE BLUES ( G Moore)
6. EVIL (Willie Dixon)
7. GETAWAY BLUES (G Moore/B Daisley/D Mooney)
8. MEMORY PAIN ( P Mayfield)
9. CAN'T FIND MY BABY (G Moore)
10. TORN INSIDE ( G Moore)

Some news from BD's web site....

Blues Up Front will be playing at:

The Ardboyne Hotel
Navan, Co Meath.
on Wednesday 30th June
Showtime 12.00 midnight

Enniscorthy Blues Festival
County Wexford

The Old House
on Friday 2nd, July
Showtime 10.00pm

Holohans
on Saturday 3rd, July
Showtime 10.00pm

Some news from Sören....

Hi!

Robbo is featured on the new Five Fifteen CD The Man Who Sold Himself from Ranch Records(Ranch-26 982049-3). He plays on Jesus Went To N.Y.C.(Again) and Rocking Horse.

We've just finished recording 6 new songs for his next project which won't be called The Clan (as previous reported) due to the fact that it's musically too far away from The Clan or what you would expect from Robbo. The working title is Yodel! at the moment and it's inspired by The Darkness, Ash, Jim White, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle and many others. Guests includes Rob Lamothe (who also co-wrote 3 songs), Fredrik Akesson (Talisman), Hakan Persson (Skintrade) and jazz guitar player Andreas Pettersson. The recording was done in Das Boot Studios in Stockholm.

On July 11th Robbo will guest with Ash at the Oxegen festival in Ireland and a European tour with Five Fifteen will follow later in the autumn. There's been talks about collaborations with Dead Men Walking (Kirk Brandon) and the reformed Grand Slam.

All the best and enjoy your summer holidays!

Sören Lindberg

Yodel International Productions

To coincide with the release of (yet another) Greatest Hits CD, Thin Lizzy finally have an official presence on the web with the launch of www.thinlizzy.org

BBC Radio 2 have an interview with Scott Gorham and also a competition to win the latest Greatest Hits CD.

You can listen to the interview by going here.

                                                                                                                                 Sean Meaney presents:

A Special Tribute Concert to Phil Lynott