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Yes were in Melbourne 19th, Sydney20th and Perth 23rd September 2003 (respectively) for the Oz/NZ leg of the Full Circle Tour. In celebration we held a couple of special parties in Melbourne and Sydney, at the venues. and we were most fortunate to have the Band join us. See our reviews page. Australia's Own Sebastian Hardie were the support act for both Melbourne and Sydney gigs and joined us at our parties as well. YesFANZ also helped organize the Roger Dean Art Exhibit in Australia. Roger came to Australia and also joined us at our functions, and graciously allowed us to displays some his works.
YesFANZ is still very active, see News/Calendar , and have new plans for the future including, encouraging the next YES tour to Australia, a Prog Rock festival, YesFANZ party "reunions" , Rogers Deans Art exhibit, Centre point for Ozzie YES chat, music and paraphernalia swap, and get togethers, and anything else we can think of.
We are also constantly building relationship with other organizations' websites of very similar interests and or collaborations. Our latest inclusion is "Imagewide". Ron at Imagewide was permitted to Photograph the Sydney concert and the Gig Gallery, as well as some casual images and now has made available is superb collection to visitors of our site at very reasonable commercial rates..
This has been our page explaining what we have been about. It is retrained for the short term for those who attended the concerts but otherwise would like to know what we were doing. It will be updated soon. The Roger Dean Sydney Exhibit described below was extended till November 16, and Roger has signalled his intension to include the Gig Gallery as one of his bases for his works in the long term.
Please also register with the "Like Leaves We Touch" project.
Visit our sister site - Alex's Oz Tour site..
The following is the "about" page as it appeared up to the September 2003 concert tour of Australia.
After 35 years together, YES . the greatest band in existence, is sounding stronger than
ever,
recording and touring. It was 30 years since we last saw them and now,
" ... Yes will be performing in Australia
...
The
prospective schedule includes
... Melbourne, Vodaphone Arena.. and...Sydney,
Entertainment Centre ...
"
From www.yesworld.com
28/Aug./02
(STOP PRESS : PERTH
NOW
ADDED AS WELL)
| Melbourne Friday 19th September 2003 Vodaphone Arena |
Sydney Saturday 20th September Sydney Entertainment Centre |
Perth Tuesday 23rd September Burswood Theatre, Burswood |
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Concert Tickets for Melbourne and Sydney are available through Ticketek ,  |
YES
Concert Tickets for
Perth
, Bocs
Ticketing
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Parties Private pre concert parties Parties 3pm-6pm on the same days as the Sydney and Melbourne concerts. Admittance by separately purchased ticket only (see below) |
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| Sydney & Melbourne YesFANZ are at the venues as above | Sorry no Party for the Perth Concert | |
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Party Tickets
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will soon embark on the Australian/NZ leg of the Yes 2003 Full Circle Tour
and in celebration we are planning a special party, a "Yes Festival for Australia and New
Zealand", to be held in the
afternoon of the evening concerts, at the venues. Mix with other Yes fans from all over the world and enjoy refreshment, AV & live entertainment, official
Roger Dean artwork on display/sale, media coverage,
indigenous welcome of the band, and more.
YesFANZ
have helped to organize the first Roger Dean Art Exhibit to be held in Australia - details
Second run of YesFANZ T-Shirt soon. Sales/orders/info
here. Festival and Concert tickets sold
separately here.
Check out our calendar and
what's news at YesFANZ festival
preparations Register
or comment on our on-line form
or contact the co-ordinators
We also publish a regular newsletter which is edited by Brian Draper, and is emailed to our members and also downloadable from this site. This is a must for the local yes fans. There are back issues available for you to browse the party preparations and the development of our group and activities.
YES are the most prolific and enduring Progressive Rock or Art Rock band whose themes of love and peace are a much needed inspiration and whose individual virtuoso talents are legendary. Their rock stage presence and powerful performances leaves all that see them in awe. The latest Album "Magnification" (available on import and now released locally by Warner Music through HMV, Redeye, online etc) is a benchmark in rock music. It features the San Diego Symphony Orchestra performing throughout, with orchestral arrangements written and conducted by Larry Groupe. This is excellently integrated into the YES line-up of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe and Alan White. In true Yes fashion a powerful, polished, and beautiful rock music statement. Yes with Orchestra! The resulting YesSymphonic tour has been brilliantly captured on the recent DVD release recorded live in Amsterdam.
Oz and NZ Fans of YES are passionate about the music but unfortunately starved of live performance. The enthusiasm of fans in Australia and New Zealand has been the deciding factor that ensured this tour came to fruition. We needed your help, and it was there. We needed to let those that make this tour decision know that there is massive support for the band and a successful tour. We did this, and we are confident this contributed to the tour decision.
A major part of that effort involved the preparation of a brochure that we produced and Bob F personally submitted to The band, via The Bands Management and Chris Squire himself. Bob flew to LA for the presentation, 23 August 2002. The theme of the Brochure was basically "please come and play in Australia and NZ" and was a colour magazine bound and sealed. The feature part was the compilation of submissions from YesFANZ from over Australia and New Zealand. Graphically the presentation was very professional thanks to the efforts of Justin Heffernan Brian Draper did a fantastic effort of the editing job, as well as many other significant member contributions. There were eight copies made. Seven were presented and we have retained one. A copy of the Brochure is available as PDF to download from this site <here> Check out our news page for more info.
Now that this dream has been fulfilled, we wish to make the most of it with a mini festival. An event to "meet and greet" other fans, exchange thoughts, souvenirs etc, and celebrate with each other. We will meet in special function rooms within the concert venues. We have negotiated the bands intention to appear at the Sydney party, and the Melbourne party is looking likely as well. A big deciding factor about the YES's availability will be the soundcheck requirements. In true YES spirit we are very hopeful.
This poster represents the promotional announcement for the September YesFANZ party/festival as well as serving as a promotional assistance for the YES tour itself. Unfortunately
have not been able to organise a party for Perth as we were unable to prepare in time.
Included at the festival party is the display of Roger Dean art, especially Yes related, and Roger himself has advised his intension
to join us. This has been organised through San Francisco Art Exchange, with whom Roger has a significant relationship. SFAE is also contributing special items for door prizes and souvenir bags to the YesFANZ festival.
A very exciting development associated with the Yes tour is the,
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Roger Dean Sydney
Art
Exhibit
70 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney, N.S.W.,2037 Australia : 0061 2955 21552 Logos and art copyright : Roger Dean, Lew Keilar, Glass Artists Gallery and Marc Grunseit as applicable.
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For much more info about the YesFANZ parties, the YES tour, and the Roger Dean Art Exhibit please visit our Newsletters pages. See also the YesFANZ wish setlist that John McInerney has compiled from member feedback. Please check out our links page and take a tour of what YES is now. The amount of web coverage of the band is staggering. There are heaps of great photos link sites at YesServices "Into the Lens" page. There are also many publications on the band including Yes: An Endless Dream of 70s 80s and 90s Rock Music, by Stuart Chambers, which will be a door prize at the yesfanz festival. We also recommend you to our sister site Alex van Starex's unofficial Yes 2003 Australian Tour site: which is very informative.
The online form that will enable you to register with us to receive informative emails about planning our newsletters etc. or complete a simple but valuable survey and give you the opportunity to have your say to help make the dream a reality.
Please also register for the
"Like Leaves We Touch" project at YesServices. This is a geographic listing of YES fans who have volunteered to answer questions and offer helpful suggestions to other fans about the areas in which they live in the global YES family.YesFANZ is a not for profit effort run by volunteers with any surplus donated to a charity nominated by the Band or Promoter
Archive re Feb March postponed : Michael Chugg Entertainment announced (15 Nov 2002) the Yes Concert Tour of Australia Full Circle Tour.
Visit our tickets page for more details. (NB. we are not the ticket sellers)
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