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Plans
are currently being put together for a possible U.K. E.L.O. Convention
for 2011 in Tamworth. It is being organised by Tina McBain, Ian Gibbons
and Jeff Cooper. Phil Bates is also on board for this project. The
organisers really need to know if there are enough interested people out
there to pull off what they have planned for such an event.
A group has been set up on Facebook (Click
Here or on the Facebook Link in the right-hand column) for you to register your interest, so please go there and leave
a message. You'll need to sign up to Facebook if you're not already a
member (it's free). There is a massive international E.L.O./Orchestra
community on Facebook so join in the fun with this friendly community.
If you are not happy about joining Facebook to register your
interest, then please email myself directly at
jim@theelonetwork.com. Please feel
free to add any ideas you may have for the event, what you would like to see,
hear, etc. Also final dates for this event have not yet been set so any comments
on this would be most welcome.
All ideas, and numbers registering interest via myself will be
passed on to the organisers whom I am in contact with and hopefully able to
assist in this event.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PASS ON THIS
INFORMATION TO FRIENDS, OTHER WEBSITES, FELLOW E.L.O. FANS, etc.
SPREAD THE WORD AS WE WANT AS MANY
FANS AS
POSSIBLE TO BE
ABLE TO ATTEND THIS FANTASTIC EVENT!
27/08/2010 -
News & Gossip,
Concert Programmes & Videoclips
pages updated with a some superb live footage of The Orchestra live
at Shepherds Bush Empire back in October 2008 featuring the late-great
Kelly Groucutt.
15/08/2010 -
News & Gossip & Videoclips
pages updated with a great high quality video of The Orchestra
performing 'Ma Ma Ma Belle' live in Chichester last month.
13/08/2010 -
News & Gossip, Website Links, Videoclips
& Home
pages updated. Check out the News & Gossip page for details on the new
Beatles, Blues & Blue Violin cd which is available to order now!!!
08/06/2010 -
News & Gossip & Website Links
pages updated. Home page updated with 2010/2011 tour dates for BBBV.
Also check out the Facebook link in the right-hand section of the home
page for news of a fantastic compilation album being put together by
Tina McBain for the Mayor of Tamworths 2010 chosen charity, Children
In Crisis. Artists currently supporting the album include Sir Bob
Geldof, Phil Bates, Mik Kaminski, Groucutt & Haynes, Dean Johnson and
more!
Lots of new cd's in the shops - check out the
news & gossip page for more details.
UPDATED
- 27th August 2010
The new Beatles,
Blues & Blue Violin cd is now available to buy via the
Official BBBV website.
The 15 track cd features new re-workings of Beatles, Electric Light
Orchestra & blues classics. Don't forget, the BBBV UK Autumn tour
starts next week - get your tickets now as they are selling out
quickly!!!
Phil Bates will be
touring in September 2010 & April 2011 alongside Mik Kaminski and
Tina McBain as part of the 'Beatles, Blues and Blue Violin' project.
Keep checking the News page for gig updates. Phil Bates is also still gigging with The Electric
Light Band in Germany and Poland.
Check out the
Soundclips page to listen to a few short
clips from Phil's excellent solo album 'One Sky'.
Future gig dates for Phil, The Orchestra, BBBV, The Electric Light Band
and his new band Wheels Of Fire can be found on
Phil's Official
Website. Check out the News page for more
details of upcoming Wheels Of Fire and BBBV tour dates.
Also check out my
review of Phil's 'Family Affair' gig
in Tamworth on June 30th 2006, and photos
& reviews of the BBBV gigs
at Liverpool Cavern Club on November 15th 2008, Keys Restaurant in
Huddersfield on March 1st 2009, The Horn in St Albans on March 5th
2009, The Keys on November 15th 2009, the fantastic return visit to
The Cavern Club, Liverpool on March 13th 2010 and the third visit to
The Keys, Huddersfield on March 21st 2010.
The Orchestra,
the band featuring former members of Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part
II, have a few gigs booked for 2010, but note the next UK tour will not
take place until Autumn 2011. Check out
the
News & Gossip page for full
details.
Following the sad loss of Kelly Groucutt, the
band decided to continue as a tribute to Kelly and Glen Burtnik has joined the band as bass
player and vocalist. More details about Glen on the
News & Gossip page and also about the 'Evening Without Kelly Groucutt'
tribute concert at the Robin 2 in Bilston on 11th May 2009.
The
band currently have copies of
the new U.K. edition of 'No Rewind' and a new 2cd set 'Anthology
- 20 Years and Counting' featuring tracks from the various albums, tv
appearances and live shows by the various line-ups of E.L.O. Part 2 and
The Orchestra. Note that the 'Orchestra
Live' cd is still available at the bands' gigs. Both 'No Rewind'
and 'Orchestra Live' are also available from
former band member
Parthenon
Huxley's Website.
Argentinian
E.L.O. fan Jorge Devincenzi is busy with a new 2010 series of his
radio show charting the history of E.L.O. from the formation of the band
via The Move and Idle Race right up to the Zoom album, The Orchestra, and
Roy Woods Army - listen via
RADIOELO ZOOM.
To conclude the first series of his show, Jorge fulfilled a personal dream
of his by interviewing Kelly Groucutt which was broadcast on Radio Arte in
his home country.
Full
details of the radio show, Series 3, Zoom 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and the new 2010 series can be found
here.
Also check out
The ELO
Secret Messages Blog where you can access all of the Zoom radio shows
including the latest show featuring interview with Jim Onslow and details
of Steve Maher and his band Tinkerbells Fairydust.
UPDATED - 26th July 2010
The
Move ft Bev Bevan and Trevor Burton have gigs planned throughout 2009
including a new series of 'Brum Rocks' gigs. The band line-up
is Bev, Trevor Burton, Neil Lockwood, Gordon Healer
& Phil Tree. As well as performing the best-known Move hits, the band
will also be playing many other songs such as Green
Onions, Keep On Runnin' and Back In The USSR.
More details can be found at
the Official website -
www.bevbevan.com.
Bev Bevan and Trevor Burton will also be toruing as part of the 'It's Only
Rock 'N' Roll' tour from September to November 2010 alongside Raymond
Froggatt (legendary UK Country/Folk Singer),
Geoff Turton (The Rockin’ Berries, Jefferson), Hartley Cain (The
Raymond Froggatt Band) and Danny King (Birmingham’s First Pop Star).
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Plans
are currently being put together for a possible U.K. E.L.O. Convention
for 2011 in Tamworth. It is being organised by Tina McBain, Ian Gibbons
and Jeff Cooper. Phil Bates is also on board for this project. The
organisers really need to know if there are enough interested people out
there to pull off what they have planned for such an event.
UPDATED
- 27th August 2010
Argentinian
E.L.O. fan Jorge Devincenzi is busy with a new 2010 series of his
radio show charting the history of E.L.O. from the formation of the band
via The Move and Idle Race right up to the Zoom album, The Orchestra, and
Roy Woods Army - listen via
