NEWSLETTER
Issue 32 : June 2007
Editor:
Brian
Draper
Topics
·
Yes -
back
together in 2008?
·
Yes - solo and
collaboration tours 2007
·
New Yes and Yes solo releases
·
Sydney YesFANZ
Social Events
·
YesFANZ Members'
Music and other Projects
·
YesFANZ Members
Compilation CD
·
Progressive Rock in Australia
·
YesFANZ Inc
Office Bearers and Contacts
Yes -
back together in 2008?
Ý
Rumours continue about Yes reforming next
year and possibly recording an album. But there are no firm commitments or
announcements. Meanwhile band members continue their various activities
unabated. See Henry Potts website for
updates.
Yes - solo and
collaboration concerts/tours 2007 Ý
Circa:, the
new group comprising Billy Sherwood, Alan White, Tony Kaye and Jimmy Haun will
play its first concert on August 23 in San Juan Capistrano on the US west coast.
Details are available at the Circa: MySpace blog. They will play their new
album in entirety as well as some 'yes surprises'.
White
White has been
quiescent for a while but they are opening for The New Cars on June 24 in
On June 28
Alan White will be appearing at The Apple Jam in
Steve Howe Trio
There are
plans for The Steve Howe Trio to tour again later in the year after recording a
new album next October.
Asia - US and
European tours in July-September;
Asia is now
well into the first leg of their 'Heat of the Moment' North American summer
tour that will finish on July 6 in
There will
also be a'12 dates of Christmas' tour in the
Rick Wakeman 'Grumpy
Old Picture Show' tour -
This sounds like a really
interesting 12-date tour that will commence on October 24 at
'On stage for "Rick Wakeman's
Grumpy Old Picture Show" will be an acoustic piano, a keyboard rig and a
lectern, from where a rather "unbelievably silly", "tongue in cheek" and
at times, what may only prove to be adequately described as "hysterical",
version of much of my life will be related. Accompanying all this will be
specially prepared, and in many cases previously unseen, film footage
illustrating both the stories and much of the music that I will be playing and
finishing off with a specially prepared "film finale" that could well prove
to something of a show-stopper if all goes according to plan! A studio version
of "Rick Wakeman's Grumpy Old Picture Show" is being prepared for release
in time for the start of the mini-tour."
New
Yes and Yes solo releases
Ý
Rick
Wakeman
The Classic Studio T label have
recently released (through major international e-tailers) 'Journey To The Centre Of The
Earth Live' (1975), 'Live From Buenos Aires', 'Made In Cuba'
(2005) and 'The Legend Live In Concert
(2000)' as Fully Authorized Digital Audio
Downloads. The label will also have a worldwide
Digital Audio
Download Only release 'Rick
Wakeman - The Grand Piano Tour' on 25th June
2007. It will be available from all good
Digital Download Stores Worldwide including iTunes.
On June 25 a new DVD 'The Other Side of Rick Wakeman'
is released in the
Chris
Squire
The much talked about second
Chris Squire solo
album is now slated for release in the northern summer. Meanwhile
an expanded version of Fish out of Water
is scheduled to be released on June 25 by his new label Stone Ghost
Records.
Asia will release a 2-CD live
recording from their recent tour of
Steve
Howe was
recently interviewed on Billboard about the plans for a new
Patrick
Moraz did an interview earlier this year
on ProgRockRadio.com and you can access it from his website.
Here are some more Yes-related
YouTube productions. First an interesting one inspired by Olias of Sunhillow; then Shoot High, Aim
Low; and two inspired by Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Part 1 and Part 2.
Wolfgang's Vault is featuring a Yes concert from
the Tormato tour in 1978 although it is a little unclear which one it is, being
labelled as the 26th November LA
Forum
concert on one page and the 28th October
Wembley
concert on another.
Sydney
YesFANZ Social Events
Ý
Two
The Next YesFANZ "birthday
dinner" will be on Wednesday 18th July evening from 5.30pm at Stable's
Brasserie in the Nag's Head Hotel in Glebe http://www.nagshead.com.au/new.stables.html
Take a look at the menu then come
and join us to celebrate our July birthdays - Fred Grima and Bob Forbes are
two for a start.
YesFANZ
Members Music and Other Projects
Ý
'321 hours', the single
commemorating the Beaconsfield mining disaster from the new double CD by
Unitopia, 'The Garden' was released on
May 9th. It featured on the Channel 7 '
YesFANZ
Members Compilation CD
Ý
Thank you to all of you that have
already contributed to this project where we will compile a CD of YesFANZ
members' original music. It is not too late
to join! We still need more songs!
The general plan is as follows. We
would like any interested YesFANZ members to submit three ORIGINAL songs that
you own copyright to. In submitting the songs you will be required to sign a
release that will allow YesFANZ free use of the material on the CD. Any profits
made from this CD will go to support YesFANZ Inc.
Please contact
me on b.d.draper@bigpond.com if you want to be involved. In
the near future I will be sending out instructions to those that have indicated
an interest in participating about how to submit your music for the project.
Bernardo Pulgar has agreed to do the cover and is keen to start!
Progressive
Rock in
Graeme James found this Norwegian
Jon English website that features Sebastian Hardie and Jon
English.
Ian Joyner sighted
YesFANZ Inc.
Office Bearers and Contacts
Ý
President:
Bob Forbes
yes@robert-forbes.com
Vice
President
Alex van Starrex avanstar@ihug.com.au
Secretary
Anne Corris corrisa@willis.com
Treasurer
Production Manager
Roger Clark
podo@telstra.com
Public
Officer
Louise Steer
louise@futuresoftware.com.au
Newsletter
editor
Brian Draper
b.d.draper@bigpond.com
Membership
John McInerney
yesfanz2003@hotmail.com
Webmaster
Steve Black
cbassoc@optusnet.com.au
The following
YESFANZ members represent each of the States and
Territories of Australia and
ACT:
Reidar Jorgensen
reidar@jorgensen.com
Phone: 08 9275 2129
If you still haven't provided us
with updated information regarding your contact details, please email John
McInerney at yesfanz2003@hotmail.com with the following
information:
Name
Postal
Address
Daytime
phone
AH
phone
Email address for newsletter (if it
is different from current one)
By sending this information you
will also be confirming that you wish to remain a member of YesFanz Inc.
To assist in
the production of this
Newsletter, I would like your
contributions. Any Yes related items, particularly with an Australian or
