Richard William "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008)

Shine On!
Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands
@ www.mostlypink.nl.

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David Gilmour
NEWS;

July 2009:
'If You Believe In Justice' – "Chicago/ change the world".
David's re-recording of Chicago, also featuring Chrissie Hynde and Bob Geldof, and produced by Chris Thomas, is available today via the UK Daily Mail newspaper as a download with a voluntary donation.
Download.
Please join!

This campagne is about Gary McKinnon, a young guy who managed to get access of computers of the Pentagon and Nasa. He was convinced that the American gouverment had more info about green energy and UFO's. As appeared he suffers a desease called "Asperge Syndrome", a kind of autisme. Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, one of the world's leading experts in autism, consulted him and stated: he had 'no terrorist agenda' and as posing 'no harm to society'.
Probably he must live his life in the American jail....

Jeff Beck
Some of you noticed that Jeff Beck is on tour again. At hte Royal Albert Hall Gilmour joined him on stage.

David Gilmour and Guy Pratt can be heard on a new song that's recorded for Greenpeace. The song is caled "Mayday".
Download it at this spot (4 free!).

Much-respected musician and producer Nick Laird-Clowes (Dream Academy), who has been a long-term collaborator (and in some cases, co-writer) with David Gilmour. He's been talking recently on social networking sites about the music he has just completed for a Greenpeace documentary about The Kingsnorth Six, which is set to go viral on the Greenpeace website from May 28th.
It is said to include a new song, 'Mayday' ("a meditation on street protest - circa '09") which Nick notes includes David Gilmour on backing vocals and guitar, and the "pounding" bass of Guy Pratt. More details of the documentary, which is directed by Nick Broomfield, as it emerges.
PS
Guy Pratt is now on tour in Australia with his comedie shows.

An in the time between he did guest performances with and African duo, Amadou and Mariam. A video of "No Way" from Davids first solo alnum ('78) you can find here.
With the ex-top model Kate Moss he played "Sumertime"... Info here.

New Competitions:
* a 3 cd box of the floydish Mostly Autumn (3 great moods, i get the creeps with disc 3... amazing guitar work a la David Gilmour and splendid harmonies),
* Mangrove (great Dutch Progressive band)(excellent),
* Riverside (Polish Rockers who managed to mix Floyd and metal, but the new one is more different...),
* Troy Donockley (this ambient tunes grabs me every time again deep and brings me into an other world, awesome).
(free cd's, no spam, no nothing!))

+ a lot of free tickets to help you thru the summer:

& of course laterz, decmeber; Mostly Autumn ;-)

Competitions.

Roger Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006).

Mostly Autumn - Heroes Never Die.

Those lyrics made me tears run down my face very often... beautiful lines... great song, certainly played live (it's on my MySpacePage ;-)
Do you've such lyrics too?
Please let me know.

Shine On!
Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands
@ www.mostlypink.nl.

Richard William "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008)

You'll never be forgotten
You're always on my mind
I look into the mirror
A good friend is hard to find
Would anyone please tell me
If all was fixed before
This year spring comes to early
'cause God has failed once more
The pictures I have found
You're face looks still the same
Whenever I'm asleep
My heart will call your name
To tell about your life
Is all I can do for you
Your end has come to early...

RPWL - as god has failed.

Do we care?

And maybe you should make some time to read this: GreenPeace about slaughtering the Amazon.

Greenpeace & David Gilmour.
Talking about Greenpeace;
David Gilmour and Guy Pratt can be heard on a new song that's recorded for Greenpeace. The song is caled "Mayday".

Download it at this spot (4 free!).

Much-respected musician and producer Nick Laird-Clowes (Dream Academy), who has been a long-term collaborator (and in some cases, co-writer) with David Gilmour. He's been talking recently on social networking sites about the music he has just completed for a Greenpeace documentary about The Kingsnorth Six, which is set to go viral on the Greenpeace website from May 28th. It is said to include a new song, 'Mayday' ("a meditation on street protest - circa '09") which Nick notes includes David Gilmour on backing vocals and guitar, and the "pounding" bass of Guy Pratt. More details of the documentary, which is directed by Nick Broomfield, as it emerges.

David Gilmour joined duo Amadou and Mariam.
A unique performance in aid of the homeless charity, Crisis, took place at the Union Chapel, Highbury and Islington, 25 May 2009, seeing David appearing with Malian singing duo Amadou and Mariam.

The special show was on Monday 25th May at a secret venue in Central London; ticket holders will be informed of the venue details on the day prior to the show.
Amadou & Mariam, whose albums include Dimanche à Bamako (Sunday in Bamako) and their latest, Welcome to Mali, are huge David Gilmour fans and were able to meet him at the Mojo Awards a couple of years ago, so it was natural for Crisis to suggest a musical collaboration between themselves and David around their May 24th Jazz Café show. Crisis will receive all proceeds from the 'hidden' May 25th gig, which will include support acts, after which Amadou & Mariam will play with their electric band for around an hour, including a portion with David Gilmour on guitar.

YouTube "No Way";

"No way" was released on David Gilmours first solo album ('78).

More Photos.

www.myspace.com/amadouandmariam.

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RPWL.

The German Prog Rockers will release their live DVD the 15th of June.
A new album is planned for early 2010.
Please check them out; a mix of Floydian tunes with rocking catchy songs.

www.myspace.com/rpwl.

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Mangrove CD presentation "Beyond Reality".

My friends of Mangrove are going to release their new album 'Beyond Reality' on June 27th 2009 in collaboration with Gigant. Get your tickets for the releaseconcert at Gigant, Apeldoorn (NL) soon!
Click here for information about the tickets.

www.myspace.com/mangrovemusic.

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The Reasoning.
It was a bit quite about this band from Wales. They had a great review in the ProgRock Magazine.
And Matthew was busy to rebuild the studio, new equipment had to be installed. So now there is time to record a single!
Plans are slightly taking forms to tour early 2010 again, and yep also in Europe.

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Iona.
According their website:
UK GIG and DUTCH GIGS CONFIRMED / LIFE JOURNEY ALBUM & BOOK NOW IN STOCK!!
The band will be returning to The Netherlands for dates in Zoetemeer and Zwolle in October - see GIGS page for full details. Meanwhile on Monday 31.08.09 at 4pm IONA are to play an exclusive UK date at the Grapevine event (in the Big Top), Lincolnshire Showground, nr Lincoln, England.
See www.grapevinecelebration.org.uk for further details.
NB Troy will not be with us on the upcoming gigs due to his heavy touring schedule with Nightwish and The Bad Shepherds. However, we have guesting with us on uilleann pipes and whistles the excellent Martin Nolan from Dublin (see www.martinnolan.com).
We are also pleased to announce that we now have 'Life Journey', the deeply moving new album from IONA co-founders Dave Bainbridge and David Fitzgerald in stock. Thanks to Mark and Mark Fleeson from the Lindisfarne Scriptorium we also have a special package offer of the cd plus Mary's amazing book of the same name which inspired the music. Order online at our webstore now!

*NOTE The cd and book package deal will be only for a limited time, until our stock of the book runs out.

Listen to extracts from the album at www.myspace.com/davebainbridgeuk
and www.myspace.com/davidfitzgeraldwoodwindreeds

Life Journey extracts on the web
Dave has now uploaded short extracts from most of the tracks on new collaboration album with David Fitzgerald on his my space site. Got to www.myspace.com/davebainbridgeuk to have a listen. We're hoping to have the album in stock in the next week or so. This is another epic, at just over 71 minutes long!!

www.myspace.com/ionauk.

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Mostly Autumn.
The art work of the new remastered 3 cd box is revealed:

New 3 cd box !!!

www.myspace.com/mostlyautumnband.

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Stream of Passion.

New Interviews.
Interviews with Marcela Bovio from Stream of Passion and Rob Reed & Christina Booth of Magenta are online.

Christina Booth from Magenta.

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My next gigs are:

19-June: The Gathering @ nieuwe Nor (New Jail) @ Heerlen.

15-August Bad Shepherds Eindhoven (That's with Troy Donockley).

After the summerbreak;

03-September: Ulysses and Sons of Season @ nieuwe Nor (New Jail) @ Heerlen.

06-September: Iona @ the Spirit of 66 Vervier.

I know it's early but October will be madness:
October

04 ProgPower at Baarlo; festival -

07 Dream Theater Ahoy Rotterdam -

10 Marillion Parkstad Limburg Theaters; more gigs;
(5/10 Leiden, 7/10 Eindhoven, 10/10 Groningen 11/10 Leeuwarden, 12/10 Den Haag)

12 Porcupine Tree AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands: Heineken Hall - more gigs;
(14/10 Brussels )

17 Stream of Passion Muziekgieterij Maastricht

23 Iona Hedon Zwolle

24 Iona de Boerderij Zoetermeer -

26 Riverside auw Kerk Bunde (A beautiful spot!) more gigs;
(28/10 Haarlem, 29/10 Leeuwarden, 30/10 Zwolle, 31/10 Uden, 01/11 Vosselaar)

Kayak & Alquin are tourring this mounth too, but not in the lovely South, check out more dates here.

There is a competition running @ my site: the new album of Troy Donockley.

 

Please take care &
have a green summer,
Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands
@ www.mostlypink.nl & www.myspace.com/.mostlypink.

 

 

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08-06-2009.

 

The ladies from Mostly Autumn.

A very powerful ambient movie soundtrack, but they forget the movie,
but that is no problem, imagines will flow and dazzle in your head when you listen to it.

The Madness of Crowds 8.54
Reeds 5.15
Exiled 5.16
Now, Voyager 9.13
The Procession 3.14
Orkahaugr 11.18
End of Faith 8.16

Torn from my face and from my heart, time has ended.
Do I fall in love? Oh, I think I do
My life is open, and open it will remain
The world is alive.

The Madness of Crowds has arrived... please sssss i want to listen...

Latin words spoken by Troy at the beginning, and the service starts. Views from a cathedral. Joanna Hogg, an Irish angel is calling, and she has indeed one of the most astonishing pure voices ... you want to close your eyes and feel the beauty. It creeps under your skin, into your brain and slowly it takes over your heartbeat ... I see a vivid and colourful painted church ceiling, heavenly Music, cow bells, spoken words, more madness. Joanna uses her voice to paint a great feeling of romance. But there is more happening; strange creepy sounds that suggest there is more than peace in our world.
The warm sound of a cello, haunting violin from Frank, Troy’s pipes are dancing, and the strings of the harp make you feel delighted. This is a kind of "tubular bells", but with moving and deep emotions. I close my eyes again ... a piano interlude, List & Rachmanoff in one hand, gathered with some dark celestial cello that takes you to a flight through a Tolkien-esque landscape filled with all the colours of the spectrum. But no! It's our own blue dot, that I see, and that we should take care of...
Then I arrived at a procession, warm air, misty and heavy with moisture, closing in around me; I see fading shadows in the dawn, seeping along a narrow, dark. Medieval street, and a group of monks emerging in the weak early morning sun, pulling a coffin, and chanting: weird, more madness and a happily a guitar break takes me out of this surreal dream.
Ah! And finally there she is; Heather Findlay in a smooth duet with Nick Holland... I feel more goose bumps on my skin, sprinkling echoes, a haunting theme is caring Heathers voice to a crystal blue sky, the bright side of the sun is shining but I'm freezing, and slowly I return to my own living room, to my own madness of crowds...
I'm awake, eyes shut, wide open, fixed, and see my daughter smiling. Yep life is beautiful.

My dream? See this performed life in the Royal Albert Hall, this is a new classical album, the new Renaissance in Music.

Resume: a very powerful album that will allow you to dream and see imaginary landscapes and pictures. Ambient rockin' with Celtic tunes and an almost classical approach, rich instrumentations with a fantastic bite and vibe. It brings you to worlds you never witnessed and back to this madness we live in. Troy is master on his pipes but he plays more; his guitar playing is excellent and how he easily he plays keyboards too! He's a great illusionist and with this piece of perfection he sails you to another dimension.
Moody, dark and shining. Most of the tunes are instrumental, but certainly the 3 ladies, Joanna Hogg, Barbara Dickson & Heather Findlay are singing on their best and they give the cd an extra heavenly boost.
It's hard to compare this, songs and or musicians that came in my mind were the song Castellorizon from David Gilmour, some older instrumentals from Alan Parsons, even some Peter Gabrielesque percussion patterns, the psychedlic Kate Bush and Emma Shapplin, Iona (of course), Excalibur II and the romantic sphere's of the Mandala Band. But is it fair to compare? Think Troy made an unique sounding album.
The Artwork really is Art with a capital "A", never saw something like that! Amazing and perfectly in keeping with the music. A real gem.

10+ out of 10.
Nick from the lovely South of... .

More reviews @ this spot.

Joanna Hogg is of course from Iona.
Barbara Dickson: Troy is her band member and they just finished a big tour in the UK.
Heather Findlay is one of the mainforces of Mostly Autumn.
Nick Holland played with Maddy Prior and also is band member of Barbara. Nowadays he play in Darwinswish.
Brad Lang is know from ABC, Enigma, Ash, Robbie Wiliams, Whitney Houston, Kylie Minogue, Barbara Dickson, Toyah, John Parr and others.
Frank van Essen is the flying Dutchman, know from Iona and indeed an excellent drumer and violin player.
Rosie Biss is indeed a classical trained cellist.

'End of Faith'
And this is where we finish. We move beyond words, past the old cage of tradition, fear and doubt. Hope for a new and better world, illuminated by the memory of our great heroic forefathers, born again in ourselves. The age of Enlightenment.

You can buy it here: www.troydonockley.co.uk.

Have a great Queenies Day ;-)
(we cellebrate this in the the Netherlands).

Take care,
Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands
@ www.mostlypink.nl.

Port Zelande 20 – 23 April 2009.
Happiness is the road.
The Reasoning & Marillion.

 
More pictures of Gianfranco

More pictures and of Port Zeelande at my place.

Friday.
Arriving in the late afternoon at Port Zelande, golden lighted birds were flying in magic beams of a shining sun which was slowly sinking.
At the entrance Graeme and Erik welcomed me. Ann-Marie Helder was standing in queue before us and so everything seemed to become a great weekend with friends.
The band arrived an hour later, traffic jam, but that was nothing with the last time they came to the Netherlands…
Feeling home and shaking hands with them, we could hear Marillion starting their show, but teaming up and drinking beers was important too, so it became late.
Saturday.
A coffee and a long walk on the beach in a bright sun, yes it came back behind us again ;-) made me feel a lot better.
Believe we all were impressed by the big stage and tent … anyway the Marillion crew was great. The Wishing Tree did a nice smooth set and the crowd slowly got awake.
However the Reasoning kicked asses with their new opening of “Awakening”, me just 5 meters from the stage could feel the vibe of the 2.500 people behind me. The applause and a “happy birthday to Rachel” was really Top. I really was impressed by their set and energetic performance. And yes mad dog Owain on guitar is a new diamond aswell. But the most credits went to the 3 voices of the Reasoning, which makes their music really special and unique.
After leaving the stage empty and put all the gear back in the van, we went to see Marillion. My first Marillion gig after 21 years… and it was a perfect show, Hogarth and his team are craftsmen and understand was is needed to entertain 2.500 people. The lightshow was unbelieveable stunning. And although I wasn’t familiar with the songs I was absolutely pleased to see this event. And when they started to play the oldie “Garden Party” I was finally singing and even more smiling.

Sunday.
Meting friends from Finland, Spain, Italy (Ross & Gianfranco (thx for the best pics!)), the U.K., my own home Town (Jan you piper!), Andy Smith (Mostly Autumn), Bart, Bert, Janke & Stuart, having some beers, enjoying Ann-Marie Helder and seeing some Marillion again. What can go wrong?

Monday
The time is gone, the party is over… .
Yep happiness was on the road when I drove home, home again. Sadly knowing that I will miss this bunch of fantastic people for a long time.

So thanks Rachel, Big Dave, Graeme, Vinden, Owain, Gareth, Dyaln & Matthew see you on the road again! I know you had a great time too and hope you will remember the daffodils and laughs ;-)

Photo's by Bert Treep from IO-Pages.

More pictures and of Port Zeelande at my place.

Fridaynight “nieuwe Nor” Heerlen 3th of April
Mostly Autumn.
Normally I try to attend all the Dutch shows, but if you’ve a family sometimes you’ve to choose for them, so I skipped the P60 gig… family business is important ;-)

Blue sky, a sun brightly and warm, so what could go wrong?
From the Judge, the guitar technician, I heard that the gig yesterday in P60 was one of the best ever “… the band is on fire..”. But he didn’t told me what happened this morning…

The intro of “Heart Full of Sky” filled the venue and the band came on stage, Iain Jennings, Ann-Marie-Helder, Liam Davison, Gavin Harisson, Olivia Sparnenn, Andy Smith, Bryan Josh and… “?!?” no Heather Findlay… mmm some people noticed it, some not…
Yep Heather had urgent family business and flew home in the morning. Unexpected…
The first 2 songs Olivia, who did the lead vocals, was searching, her voice grew, Dave the sound engineer did a marvellous job. The sound was really superb… scad quality.
And Bryan explained that Heather took a plane back to home; family business. Yep that can happen. And although Heather has her charisma and is together with Bryan the face of Mostly my personal feeling was; “Okay we write history tonight, give them a chance”. And yes they took the change, Bryan was indeed in flames, solo’s as diamonds came out his strat.
And the band was there, working hard, maybe they had the urge to compensate the absence of Heather, I don’t know, but yeah there was an extra vibe on stage and the sound was indeed absolute in Saints. Brilliant, and did I mention that Bryan was giving a way solo’s from a unearthly quality? That guy Rocks. So yes I missed Heather, her looks, her warm voice, but yes I had a great gig and I was glad I saw the band surviving. The “nieuwe Nor” wrote history with an enthusiastic crowd and a band that survived. “Turn it On again”, was their last encore a cover from a band that lost their face and voice and even went bigger after that, this is not the case with Mostly, Heather will return, sometimes family business are more important… please turn it on again!

11th of April The Rock Tempel Kerkrade.
PBII, Magenta & RPWL.

PBII
Old fashioned Prog, great musicians. Nice smooth show and a mix of Genesis and Camel stylish music. Sadly we missed Heidi Jo Jones, who was present in de Boerderij, but not in de Rocktemple. Think she could add something more fresh and news to their show. But; yep i was impressed; well done.

Picture by Bert Treep from De Boerderij Zoetermeer 10th of April.
(With Heidi Jo Jones).

11th of April The Rock Tempel Kerkrade.
PBII, Magenta & RPWL.

Magenta
They really rocked the boat, sparkling performance by Christina and the lads. This Welsh Prog Goddess really knows how to set the crowd on fire. Rob Reed the keyboard wizard is the main creative force on the Magenta team, but Chris Fry on lead guitar is given space to deliver some astonishing solos. They played some classics from their album Seven and some shorter songs from their latest, Metamorphosis - only 22 minutes long! It's a shame they don't tour more, 10 out of 10 for their show! Magenta is indeed the colour of Prog.

RPWL
A mix of well crafted Prog and Rock made a good impression on the 90 people who attended the festival. Sometimes funny, sometimes emotional and always holding a high musical standard. Kalle Wallner like Chris Fry is a great guitarist, with his own unique style. Kalle laid down some fab solos. And Markus on keys freaked a few times and proved he's more then just a keyboard player. Tight drums, rumbling bass and a Yogi who can certainly do some transcendental tricks. What more do you want? Only a longer set on a bigger stage, with their creepy videos!

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Please keep Prog-rockin',
Peace!
Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands @
www.mostlypink.nl & www.myspace.com/.mostlypink.

Torn from my face and from my heart, time has ended.
Do I fall in love? Oh, I think I do
My life is open, and open it will remain
The world is a live.


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