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& Music - Music News 18th - 29th April 2001 - E: kensington@myvillage.co.uk |
| Massive
Demand For Hear'Say Tickets |
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Five extra dates have been added to Hear'Say's
forthcoming arena tour following phenomenal demand for tickets which
went on sale today (April 6).
Tickets for the opening night concert at Cardiff Arena (August 28th)
sold out within an hour, with four further arena dates selling out
within two hours of going on sale.
New dates have now been added at Cardiff (August 27th & 29th), Wembley
(September 6th), Birmingham (September 15th) and Manchester (September
23rd).
Kym, Myleene, Suzanne, Danny and Noel have already made it into
the record books for having the fastest selling debut single and
album - now they look set to have one of the fastest-selling debut
tours.
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| Wookie
Backs Up |
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Wookie releases his new single, "Back Up (To Me)"
on the 30th April through Soul 2 Soul Recordings. The new song is
a re-worked vocal mix of the massive, underground tune, "Back Up
Back Up Back Up", which featured on his debut album. The new version
of the track features vocalist Lain, who was the voice of Wookie‚s
top 10 hit, "Battle".
Wookie's epnoymously titled debut album was released last October
to universal critical acclaim.
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| De
La Soul Nuggets |
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12 years ago Tommy Boy Records introduced a trio
from New York who brought a whole new twist to rap, they released
an album which changed the face of hip hop and rap for good.
The group was De La Soul and the album was "3 Feet High and Rising".
As part of the Tommy Boy 20th anniversary celebrations, the label
will be reissuing "3 Feet High and Rising" in June this year, it
was originally released back in 1989. It will be re-mastered for
a special limited double LP, while the CD version will feature extra
cuts. DLS have been one of Tommy Boy's most successful and longest
standing artists. They have recorded five albums to date, and are
currently working on the second part to the "Art Official Intelligence"
trilogy to be released later this year.
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| Enchanted
Garden sold out - Big Chill announces second summer event |
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This year's Big Chill Enchanted Garden festival
has sold out for the third year running, three months in advance
of the event. The weekend festival in Wiltshire, which takes place
over the weekend of July 20-22, was put on sale at the beginning
of the year and had only just announced its first artist names.
PK Events has just announced details of its major summer event -
The Big Chill Festival @ Lulworth Castle - which is taking place
over the weekend of August 17-19 in the grounds of the castle near
to the Dorset Coast. More details to follow.
Although there has been much talk of Foot and Mouth
disease and its impact on the festival calendar this summer, neither
The Enchanted Garden nor the forthcoming Big Chill Festival at Lulworth
Castle should be affected. The organisers are quietly confident
that they will run as planned. Both festivals take place in protected
parkland which is not used for grazing animals, and as such doesn't
fall under MAFF control. Also no incidents of Foot and Mouth have
been reported in either area.
Orgainisers have been in discussion with the Department of Environmental
Health and MAFF and both authorities are happy that they go ahead
as long as the festivals remains "closed" (no re-admission) in order
to control the movement of people within the area, and vehicles
which come onto the site are cleanse beforehand.
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