ROCK LEGEND NEWS - 2004

Robbo on Tour

Check out the official page:

Gary Moore News

                                                                                                                                
There has been quite a bit of Gary Moore news of late - rather than repeat it all here, check it out via his web site's news page.

Ninteen @ 19th Vibe

Nineteen have been confirmed to appear at the Vibe 2005

The band will feature:

Laurence Archer (Grand Slam, UFO, Stampede, Wild Horses) – Guitar
Mark Kirkland (Laurence Archer’s Grand Slam) – Guitar
Jon Stone (Laurence Archer’s Grand Slam) – Vocals
Jo Burt (Black Sabbath, Freddie Mercury, Brian Setzer, Virginia Wolf) – Bass
Simon Jeffrey (Laurence Archer’s Grand Slam, Bernie Torme) - Drums

Nineteen will also be joined by special guest Robbie Brennan (Skid Row, Grand Slam) and will play a selection of Grand Slam songs as well as other Lynott material that was incorporated into the original Grand Slam set. They will also play some acoustic numbers at the Pre-Vibe.

Jo Burt has a great rock'n'roll pedigree, having played with some of the biggest names in the business. While on tour with the Tom Robinson Band in Dublin, Jo was approached after the show by a young Adam Clayton asking Jo if he could pass his demo tape to Steve Lillywhite (Tom Robinson’s producer at the time) "I'll do better than that, he is backstage I'll introduce you to him" replied Jo. And so Steve Lillywhite came to produce the first U2 album and the rest is history!

Sykes/Gorham Tour

                                                                                                                                
Here's the latest schedule for next year's S/G tour:

JAN 28 Glasgow, UK Carling Academy
JAN 29 Newcastle, UK City Hall
JAN 30 Llandudno, UK North Wales Theatre
FEB 1 Liverpool, UK Liverpool Academy
FEB 2 Manchester, UK Manchester University
FEB 4 London, UK Shepherd's Bush Empire
FEB 5 Sheffield, UK Octagon
FEB 6 Birmingham, UK Carling Academy
FEB 7 Bristol, UK Carling Academy
FEB 8 Nottingham, UK Rock City
FEB 10 Waterford, IRE Forum
FEB 11 Castlebar, IRE Royal Theatre
FEB 12 Killarney, IRE INEC
FEB 13 Cork, IRE Everyman Palace
FEB 15 Dublin, IRE Vicar Street
FEB 16 Dublin, IRE Vicar Street
FEB 17 Belfast, IRE Waterfront ON SALE NOW
FEB 18 Galway, IRE Leisureland
FEB 19 Limerick, IRE University Concert Hall
FEB 22 Talinn, EST TBA
FEB 23 St. Petersburg, RUS Festival TBA
FEB 24 Helsinki, FIN Tavastia
FEB 25 Lappenranta, FIN Club Lappe
FEB 26 Rauma, FIN Raumalinna
FEB 28 Stockholm, SWE Rondo
MAR 1 Oslo, NOR Rockefeller
MAR 2 Karlskrona, SWE Kino
MAR 3 Copenhagen, DEN Amager Bio
MAR 4 Aarhus, DEN Train
MAR 5 Esbjerg, DEN Tobakken

Jari Salonen has been in touch with news of his band Cold Sweat ...

Cold Sweat will be playing a gig tonight Turku, Finland.
The happening is called DEDICATED TO THIN LIZZY
The venue is KLUBI
Doors open 9.00pm

Live & Dangerous on DVD

Live And Dangerous has been released on DVD in Japan. It is NTSC region 2 only.

We held back on this story until we were sure it was real ... but Nick has his copy now, so it must be!!

Brian Downey Gig

Blues up Front, the band Brian plays in these days, will be playing at:

The Blues Club,
JJ Smyths,
12 Aungier Street,
Dublin 2
on Tuesday 9th November. Showtime 9.30pm

Rock Legend domain name

I've given up on being able to get www.thin-lizzy.net back as our main domain name. It's owned by the original web designer Dave Hirst, despite a couple of requests via 'phone since the big server crash, I've had no luck in getting the domain pointed back at Rock Legend.

Since I own www.thin-lizzy.com, I think we'll just have to settle with that as the official domain name ... please let me know if you spot any links to the old .net name.

Cheers, 

Dan

Fake Lizzy Tour UK & Ireland

A "Thin Lizzy" tour is planned for next year... the rumours that this would herald the return of Brian Downey & Darren Wharton to the line up have now been refuted. The RD Trust site has also removed its reference to this line-up so I guess it was a hoax after all.

The dates are:

28 Jan - Glasgow Carling Academy
29 Jan - Newcastle City Hall
1 Feb - Liverpool Academy
3 Feb - Manchester Academy
4 Feb - London Shepherds Bush Empire
5 Feb - Sheffield Octagon
6 Feb - Birmingham Academy
7 Feb - Bristol Academy

The Greatest Classic Rock Albums Ever

The following is from Mark Blake, Editor-In-Chief of Q, Mojo, Kerrang! Special Editions.

"I am writing on behalf of Q and Mojo, the monthly UK music magazines. We have just produced a one-off special edition entitled The Greatest Classic Rock Albums Ever.

This features a piece on Lizzy's Live And Dangerous, plus an in-depth feature on the band's glory years alongside 10 Thin Lizzy Songs To Make Your Life Better. Any chance we could get a mention of this on your excellent website?"

Snowy in Portugal

News from Tracey Ganapathy on the FanClubWebage

"Snowy has confirmed that, between the 4th and the 9th of November, he and the band will be in promoting the album in Portugal. This will include a special 'album launch' show in Lisbon on Friday 5th and another in Porto on Saturday 6th. The band will play a 40 minute set at each venue. Snowy tells me he will stay on in Lisbon for an extra three days to edit the live DVD. which will be available early next year."

Vibe 05 - Renegade

Robbo News

                                                                                                                                Check out the latest Robbo news on his Official Pages

Update: Due to family reasons Robbo will have to cancel the appearance at the Jimi Hendrix festival in Bucharest, Romania on november the 6th. We're truly sorry for this and hope to be able to give any romanian fans the chance to see the man live in a very near future anyway.

All the Best,

Sören/Yodel Productions

Snowy Interview

Check out an interview with Snowy White by Tracey Ganapathy on her Fan Club Web Page

Midge's Book & Book Signing Tour

Midge Ure has written an autobiograpghy and is currently on a book-signing tour around the UK. Find out more on his web site here!

Server Problems!

                                                                                                                                We're having a severe server nightmare! The main server is down and www.thin-lizzy.net doesn't work. So, we've loaded the site here on a different sever and pointed www.thin-lizzy.com at it - we hope to soon get www.thin-lizzy.net pointing there too but the domain name is owned by the original RL webmaster who is out of email contact at present.

Also our forum server in Florida has also been down too due to hurricane damage! We are trying to move the forum to the new server too - the URL should become www.forum.thin-lizzy.com. The problem is we cannot access the original messages and usernames until the hurricane damage has been sorted.

Check out the Vibe for Philo Site for an early announcment of the Jan 2005 Vibe. Some of the info is repeated below...

For the moment, however, set-lists, performers, venues and the huge amount of background work involved in staging the Vibe is under way and we look forward to letting you be the first to know what's happening as it's confirmed.

Roddy managed to find some oil for his auld computer and, now it's up and running again, he's been let loose with Photoshop (see pic) and has relaunched the Trust's Web Site  Note the new URL and email address.

                                                                                                                                Yes folks, we've moved Forum again ... hopefully for the last time! Follow the forum link in the main menu and get registered!!

Following on from the sins of their past, when they turned against Lizzy and Lynott, NME have now seen the light (and £s) and have included Thin Lizzy in a special release. No idea at this stage how much Thin Lizzy is included or whether it will be in their usual vein. This is from their editor .....

Following the infamous volumes on Glam!, Swinging London in the 1960’s, Punk and The Beatles comes NME ORIGINALS: GODS OF ROCK -

148 pages packed with some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll stories ever, reprinted from the archives of NME and its sister publication, Melody Maker.

Full of rare photos and salacious interviews, GODS OF ROCK includes Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zandt telling you how to stomp a guy half to death in a barroom brawl, Ted Nugent insisting that "Anyone who digs adventurous music would get off sleeping in a dead sheep", and Ozzy Osbourne getting arrested for pissing on the Alamo. Freddie Mercury boasts that his slacks are so tight that one lady writer rightly guessed his religion, Axl Rose does his damnedest to get a riot going, Perry Farrell shows you videos of himself shooting up and Lemmy claims to be a "reincarnated Nazi."

Johnny Rotten gets beaten up by the cops, Eddie Van Halen pummels a wall until his knuckles bleed, Kurt Cobain denies doing smack, Johnny Thunders chucks up on the tarmac at Paris Airport, Slipknot punch each other in the face, Stevie Nicks refers to cocaine as a little more-ish, like Sarah Lee Cheese Cake and Courtney Love is dragged screaming and kicking from somebody else’s stage.

Featuring Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, The Rolling Stones, The Cult, The Runaways, New York Dolls and many, many more, NME ORIGINALS: GODS OF ROCK is the most lairy, lewd, ludicrous and life-affirming read on the planet.

On sale now: £5.50.

At last Robbo and Yodel have an official web presence at www.robbo.info

Okay folks there's 3 days to go! Saturday September 4th!

We've heard great reports about the Peterborough and London (Putney) Gigs.
Let's hope Derry can match up and more! More info: Derry Tribute Gig

This goes out to Paddy, Jim, Chris and Marty. See ya very soon, awright?!

As we start Year 3 of Rock Legend, we'd like to pay our respects to the man responsible for it all!

Happy Birthday Philo!!

To celebrate two full years of RL, Nick has written a new editorial - check it out via the News sub-menu on the main page. We've also clarified the credits and contributions to the site on the Who We Are link, so now you (and your lawyers - arf arf) know who really is behind all this.

Also, look out for yet another new forum - we returned to the original VOY forum when our new home was taken away ... but VOY is just a just a temporary home while we get something better sorted out. And it's on its way!

Following the controversy over the critics' choice of their 50 Greatest Live Albums Ever, Classic Rock magazine re-conducted the poll but this time they asked their readers - the fans! The September 2004 issue contains the results.

The great news is that Live And Dangerous comes out on top again! This is a fantastic achievement! Okay we already knew it was the best ... but what a result to top both polls! It is absolutely brilliant to see Lizzy get the respect and acclaim they have always deserved after they've been away so long. Yet again Thin Lizzy grace the cover with a great shot of Philip and the write-up of the album is a treat to read and well worth the cover price alone.

And there's more ..... there's an eight page feature extracted from Alan Byrne's book Thin Lizzy - Soldiers Of Fortune graced with some great and unseen (to these eyes) photos. Okay some grumblings on this site's Forum that it is a straight lift from the book rather than a proper new article but this is still a must have.

Footnote : Alan told me he was doing something for Classic Rock and I thought "Aye, I'll believe that when I see it!". Well b*gger me!

Any of our overseas readers who want a copy contact Phil at [email protected] as my new local, round the corner 24 hour Tesco's, now stocks it. You'll have to pay for it and p&p; mind :-)

Classic Rock (August) ....

reviews the Greatest Hits CD (nice photo of Phil) and the Rockpalast DVD.

Record Collector (August), 'The Third Annual Thin Lizzy - A Celebration Of The Music Of Philip Lynott' in Toronto gets a mention on page 14. Well done Rog.

Guitarist (August) includes a Gary Moore Tuition Video - see 30th June item below for more details.

Latest news from Jörgen Holmstedt about the Thin Lizzy Forever Documentary .....

Dear Lizzy fans,

It's been two years since I, Jovan Radomir and Gerhard Malmberg started work on the documentary Thin Lizzy Forever.

We are delighted to tell you that there will be a preview of some of the material on Sweden's main TV station SVT 07.35 CET on Saturday the 17 July. It's part of the massive music show Hårdrocknatt (Hard Rock Night) which will run for 12 hours starting the previous evening. The Thin Lizzy Special, as this 45 minute thing will be called, features videos of the band with bits and pieces from our interviews with Brian Downey (done in Dublin 2004 04 23) and Scott Gorham (Stockholm Spring 2003). This way we will get our fave band on TV twice.

And the real thing? You'll have to wait a little longer. But it's gonna be good, I promise you.

Rock hard,

Jörgen, Jovan and Gerhard.

ERIC BELL BAND

31ST JULY 2004
TRINITY ARTS CENTRE
GAINSBOROUGH, ENGLAND

Address:Trinity Arts Centre
Trinity Street
Gainsborough
Lincolnshire
DN21 1JF
Tel:(01427) 676655

Band Website : http://www.ericbellband.com
E-mail : [email protected]

Doors Open: 7.15pm. Tickets: £10 (£9 Concessions)

A new bootleg of not exactly new material has been released by Langley Records in Japan.

Thin Lizzy 'Pop Spectacular' - featuring the two BBC In Concert performances from 1973 and 1974.

'BBC Radio 1 In Concert' Live at the Hippodrome, London on 26th July 1973 & the Paris Theatre, London on 27th November 1974. Stereo Soundboard

Disc 1

Live at the Hippodrome, London on 26th July 1973

1. Introduction by Alan Black
2. Rocker
3. MC
4. Things Ain't Working Out Down On The Farm
5. MC
6. Slow Blues
7. MC
8. I'm Gonna Creep Up On You
9. MC
10. Suicide

Philip Lynott - Bass, vocals
Brian Downey - Drums
Eric Bell - Guitars

Disc 2

Live at the Paris Theatre, London on 27th November 1974

11. Introduction by Pete Drummond
12. She Knows
13. MC
14. It's Only Money
15. MC incl. member introduction
16. Still In Love With You
17. Showdown
18. MC
19. Rock And Roll With You
20. Baby, Baby, Baby

Philip Lynott - Bass, vocals
Brian Downey - Drums
Scott Gorham- Guitars
Brian Robertson- Guitars

Stereo Soundboard Recording - Langley 300  Dust'n'Dreams

Dawn McCarrick from the Roisin Dubh Trust has sent us a photo of the new plaque .....

Racists have threatened to deface the proposed statue of Philip Lynott.

The following link contains strong racist language but, in order to see how low these people are, you may want to click here for more info

It appears that Philomena Lynott has hit back here although we have been informed that she did not give any interview to The Herald.

Moore features on the front cover of the current Guitarist magazine and inside there's an interview, video lesson and track from the lates album called Power of the Blues.

Power of the Blues is Moore's 23rd solo album where he is joined by Bob Daisley on bass and Darrin Mooney on drums. The album was produced by Gary Moore and Chris Tsangarides (producer of various Thin Lizzy recordings as well as Moore's classic Back on The Streets album).

Moore says of Power Of The Blues "This is rawest album I've done for many years, maybe the rawest ever......."

Full track listing:

1. POWER OF THE BLUES ( G Moore/B Daisley/D Mooney)
2. THERE'S A HOLE (G Moore)
3. TELL ME WOMAN (G Moore)
4. I CAN'T QUIT YOU BABY (Willie Dixon)
5. THAT'S WHY I PLAY THE BLUES ( G Moore)
6. EVIL (Willie Dixon)
7. GETAWAY BLUES (G Moore/B Daisley/D Mooney)
8. MEMORY PAIN ( P Mayfield)
9. CAN'T FIND MY BABY (G Moore)
10. TORN INSIDE ( G Moore)

Some news from BD's web site....

Blues Up Front will be playing at:

The Ardboyne Hotel
Navan, Co Meath.
on Wednesday 30th June
Showtime 12.00 midnight

Enniscorthy Blues Festival
County Wexford

The Old House
on Friday 2nd, July
Showtime 10.00pm

Holohans
on Saturday 3rd, July
Showtime 10.00pm

Some news from Sören....

Hi!

Robbo is featured on the new Five Fifteen CD The Man Who Sold Himself from Ranch Records(Ranch-26 982049-3). He plays on Jesus Went To N.Y.C.(Again) and Rocking Horse.

We've just finished recording 6 new songs for his next project which won't be called The Clan (as previous reported) due to the fact that it's musically too far away from The Clan or what you would expect from Robbo. The working title is Yodel! at the moment and it's inspired by The Darkness, Ash, Jim White, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle and many others. Guests includes Rob Lamothe (who also co-wrote 3 songs), Fredrik Akesson (Talisman), Hakan Persson (Skintrade) and jazz guitar player Andreas Pettersson. The recording was done in Das Boot Studios in Stockholm.

On July 11th Robbo will guest with Ash at the Oxegen festival in Ireland and a European tour with Five Fifteen will follow later in the autumn. There's been talks about collaborations with Dead Men Walking (Kirk Brandon) and the reformed Grand Slam.

All the best and enjoy your summer holidays!

Sören Lindberg

Yodel International Productions

To coincide with the release of (yet another) Greatest Hits CD, Thin Lizzy finally have an official presence on the web with the launch of www.thinlizzy.org

BBC Radio 2 have an interview with Scott Gorham and also a competition to win the latest Greatest Hits CD.

You can listen to the interview by going here.

                                                                                                                                 Sean Meaney presents:

A Special Tribute Concert to Phil Lynott

The first copies of Alan's book came through letterboxes yesterday.

At last the book is with us!

We look forward to hearing your views on the web board.

Phil: Still haven’t had time to sit down with mine.

Dan: Where the hell is mine! :(

"Thin Lizzy were the original punks. To be honest, the punks just tagged onto us. I went over with a bottle of Johnny Walker in one hand and had Johnny Rotten by the other. I said "punk, you're no fucking punk."

To be honest if they had come up to us with the "fuck everything" attitude we'd have just nutted them and they knew it."

Brian Robertson

"Thin Lizzy was a band that lived life to the full. In their heyday they mixed lilting celtic melodies with a rock'n'roll edge and had a reputation as one of the seventies best live acts – as exemplified on the multi-platinum Live And Dangerous album. A hard drinking, drug taking, lady-killer gang, they went on the rampage across the world's stages, often blowing away the opposition in the process.

Phil Lynott's six foot plus wiry frame and the label of the only black man in Dublin ensured that he stood out from the crowd. Thin Lizzy soon became the vehicle for him to play a range of characters – the vagabond, the romeo, the streetfighter, the reckless lover.

Backed by some of the best heavy rockers – Brian Downey, Scott Gorham, Brian Robertson and the transient Gary Moore – Lynott was the archetypal rock'n'roll rebel. In many ways a hopeless romantic, Lynott was a man of many contradictions, but he crafted some of the seventies greatest pop songs. Sometimes sensitive, sometimes bullying and arrogant, his workaholic tendencies often drove himself and those around him beyond the limit.

In January 1986 Lynott finally succumbed to the lifestyle he had so doggedly clung onto. His reluctance to abandon the recklessness that haunted many of the characters in his songs finally meant the difference between life and death. What emerges is the portrait documenting the rise and fall of the wild men of rock, whilst never losing sight of the lyricism inherent in Lynott’s Irish roots."

Alan Byrne

Some news from the Trust's Site .....

Some news from Sean Malone below:

We are having another Phil Lynott night in Peterborough. It’s on Saturday 14th August. We have everything lined up, including a hotel. Philomena, Graham and Audrey are coming over from Dublin.

Have a look at the poster and if you want tickets email ([email protected] or  [email protected] ) fast as they are going like wild fire!!!

Sean Malone

They Say: "This is the first complete critical review of the glory years when the late, great Phil Lynott led the band and features a survey of the band’s work from the first album through to Lynott’s swansong Thunder And Lightning."

Nothing about this release on the classicrockproduction website but we have emailed them asking for information.

UPDATE 25th May

Thanks for the e-mail. Here is a brief overview of the DVD. It runs for 70mins and covers some 13 albums from Thin Lizzy to Thunder & Lightning. There are some 30 tracks featured though not all are played in their entirety. As you would expect the classics The Rocker, The Boys Are Back, Whiskey In The Jar, Jailbreak etc are there. there are interviews with Phil, including a rare interview with him on the Australian tour.

Footage of the Bands appearance on The Tube playing Boys, Cold Sweat, Sun Goes Down, as well as the time they played Sydney Opera House and Gary Moore was with them. All in all a great product which we are sure you will agree. It will be shown on the website next week.

Kind regards

Classic Rock Productions
www.classicrockproductions.com

Midge Ure has agreed to co-headline the Xmas party outing of the Here And Now tour, taking in 7 arena venues across England during the month of December.

Click here for more info on this and other Midge-related news

A UK date for Eric Bell.

July 31st Trinity Arts Centre, Trinity Street, Gainsborough, Lincs UK

At long last Scott Gorham has an official presence on the web with a new site at http://www.scottgorham.com/

Yep, Robbo is selling a guitar on Ebay ... but it's not that Les Paul!

News from Sören....

Just a brief info about what's going on in our camp...we've just finished mixing a song for the forthcoming documentary Thin Lizzy Forever!, recorded a new song with The Darkness in mind and also recorded 4 new songs(3 co-written by Rob Lamothe) for a forthcoming Robbo CD.

We're doing a B.B. King Tribute in Stockholm, Sweden sunday 23/5 and the Oxygen Festival in Ireland with Ash, The Darkness and David Bowie the 10th of july.

Some people have asked about Robbo's sound on the Live And Dangerous album and the simple truth is a bloody good guitar, a great player, Marshall 100's with reverb, Marshall 4x12's, a wahwah-pedal, attitude and lots of whisky!

There's also been questions about Robbo playing with Motörhead in the future and that's not going to happen ... Robbo loves the album he recorded with the band, but not anything else from that period! Neither does Lemmy, by the way! He's played Rock It live with Five Fifteen at several gigs and like I said before, he's not ashamed of any of the songs he recorded with the band, but he never wished to be a member of the band and in hindsight maybe he should have passed the offer down.

All the best,

Sören Lindberg

Yodel International Productions

Darren Wharton has updated his site with the news we featured earlier....

Lithuania
May 19th Klaipeda: "The House of the Fisherman" Showtime 19:30
May 20th Villnius: "Club Galaxy"
(being filmed/recorded for DVD) Showtime 19:30
May 21st Jam-session: club "Prie Maluno", Vilnius.

Some news from BD's web site....

Blues Up Front will be playing at:

The Mezz, Eustace Street, Temple Bar,Dublin 2
Saturday 15th May - Showtime 9pm

The Cobblestone, 77 North King Street, Dublin 7
Friday 21st May and Friday 28th May - Showtime 9pm

The Loft Blessings Bar, County Cavan
Saturday 22nd May - Showtime 9pm

Brian will be playing with The Ben Prevo Band The Mezz,
Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Saturday 5th, June - Showtime 9pm

More from Jörgen Holmstedt on the exciting project that we featured earlier.....

Dear Lizzy supporters,

Just got back from Dublin where me, Jovan Radomir (my excellent 'co-pilot' on this project) and Gerhard Malmberg (top photographer and crystal clear sound tech) did the Irish part of the Thin Lizzy Forever documentary.

I'm happy to report it was a complete success. We met up with Brian Downey, Jim Fitzpatrick, Philomena Lynott and one more person, very close to the Lynott family, who has previously never given an interview. Especially the Brian Downey part turned out very interesting. The generous and ever so kind drummer spent eight hours with us doing something which has never been done before when it comes to all things Lizzy.

When will we get to see it, I hear you cry? Sorry, but I really can't say. We've been working in this thing in our spare time for almost two years now, financing it ourselves. From the beginning it was supposed to be just a 30 minute programme with Robbo saying a few things inbetween some Lizzy music (See the photo by Poke Industries, taken during the making of the docu). Then one thing led to the other and now we will not stop until we think we have the best possible docu we can produce.

Like with everything else I've done regarding Lizzy over the last 25 years (the fan club, the fanzines, the compilation albums, the radio docu, the articles etc), this is turning into an obsession, I tell ya!

Besides there is no reason to hurry. That's the beauty of working independent, there is no boss or company demanding you to deliver on a deadline. We work until we are satisfied. But sometime between August till December is a good guess. Fingers crossed. Me, Jovan and Gerhard would like to take this opportunity to thank Brian Downey, Jim Fitzpatrick, Philomena Lynott and everybody else in Dublin for taking the time out to turn our ideas and dreams into reality when it comes to the Thin Lizzy Forever documentary.

Rock hard,

Jörgen

P.S. I will personally reward the person who can supply me with a clean video copy of Cowboy Song which was left over from the Live And Dangerous live video but used for promotion. I desperately need if for the docu.

Please send it to me and I will make you a happy Lizzy fan indeed:

Jörgen Holmstedt,
Barnängsgatan 30, III tr
SE -116 41 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Also, if any of you fans out there has anything else you'd like to be considered for inclusion in this docu (pics, videos etc), send it to me and I promise you we will take serious look at it. If we use any stuff the fans send us, like a useable copy of the Cowboy Song video, they will be credited in the film.

I'll be back with another report in a few months time.

News from melodicrock.com:

"I thought it time to catch up with Dare frontman Darren Wharton for a quick chat about the band's new album Beneath The Shining Water. The album is due out in Europe through MTM Music June 7, with a preview song Sea Of Roses currently available.

I caught Darren in the midst of the final mix - the very last track to be done in fact. He describes the album as a mix of Out Of The Silence and Calm Before The Storm and definitely rockier than the band's last album Belief. But don't expect anything like Blood From Stone.

Darren is adamant he won't record anything as heavy as that again. The album features a couple of very radio friendly tracks which Darren hopes will catch the attention of radio programmers in the UK, just as White Horses did from Belief. The rest of the album is a little darker and moodier. And Darren also apologizes for the lack of Dare website updates. He has been "killing himself" getting Beneath The Shining Water completed and hopes to spend a little more time on the web soon. So don't forget the album is due out June 7 and Dare will appear live at a few European festivals over the summer, including the Deep Impact Open Air Festival in Munich, July 24! (www.deep-impact2004.de)."

News from Paddy Harkin:

Early call for the Derry/Londonderry Tribute Night Saturday 4th September 2004 The Nerve Centre, Magazine Street, Derry/Londonderry, N.Ireland

Featuring :
The Wild Ones and at least two other acts to be confirmed (hopefully one acoustic/one Eric Bell era).

Philomena/Graham will be attending.

Just for info - the Nerve Centre is a purpose built concert hall/recording studio with a 2.5 kW PA system and full lighting rig - should be a good one! I'll update any other info as I get it and if anyone is interested in coming over we'll do everything we can to help them out (www.imarocker.com).

It was of course a JOKE - check the date of the news item!!!

There can only be ONE Thin Lizzy ..... and we all know that ended in 1983. :-)

News just in that Brian Roberton, Brian Downey and Eric Bell are teaming up to form an alternative version of Thin Lizzy

Management of the new band stated "We have two original members, so we have as much right to the name as Sykes and Gorham. The band will cover the early Lizzy material up until Live and Dangerous.

It's not clear who the vocalist and/or bass player will be at this stage. More news as we get it....

Colbert Hamilton is the Black Elvis. He apparantly worked with Philip Lynott in the last weeks of Phil's life. According to Colbert, they recorded a track called D'you Wanna Rock? and Colbert is now looking for a backer to help release this track and to share the story of his time with Phil. He wants this piece of rock history documented respectfully.

News of a new bootleg - The Sun Goes Down

Seventeen Demo' versions of The Sun Goes Down!

                                                                                                                                 Sykes' website just announced 4 April dates in Japan.

April 16 Osaka
April 17 Nagoya
April 20 Tokyo
April 21 Kawasaki

                                                                                                                                 Snowy's fan club have some recent photos from the recent dates.

                                                                                                                                 The Vibe pages have a load of pictures from the 2004 Vibe.

News about Midge Ure via his news page .....

Midge Ure will play at the Ronnie Lane Tribute Concert, One For The Road, on April 8th, at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Current line up features Paul Weller, Kenney Jones Ian McLagan, Ronnie Wood and Ocean Colour Scene as well as Midge who will be performing My Mind's Eye and Become Like you. It's anticipated that Midge will also take part in the grand finale. Proceeds from the show go to help financially support Ronnie Lane's kids.

From the official Gary Moore site .....

Gary plays on a track on the new Trilok Gurtu album Broken Rhythms due for release in April. (Available in France on March 22, on Cream Records / distribution Sony Music)

Thin Lizzy - Rockpalast 29th August 1981 - DVD

The DVD is due for release on 29th March. Line-up: Phil Lynott, Scott Gorham, Snowy White, Darren Wharton, Brian Downey.

The complete concert on 29th August 1981 (100 min.). Pal/region 2, Dolby Surround 5.1. Stereo 2.0 4:3

Emerald

A new studio album is expected to be released on Sanctuary Records, towards the end of May, 2004. This, as yet untitled, 10 track set, will feature some blues standards, together with plenty of blues rock originals, which have been recorded over the past three months. The complete track listing is still undecided at this time, but hopefully will be finalized in the next week or so. Joining Gary, on the album, is regular drummer, Darrin Mooney and an ex band member, Bob Daisley on bass, who was last heard on the Still Got The Blues CD, in 1990.

Some news posted on the Trust web site .....

From Tracey at the Snowy White Fan Club ....

Update on Snowy's European shows - note some venues have changed and some new dates.

23rd "MilosClub", Thessaloniki
24th "Rodon Club", Athens

This an offshoot from www.thin-lizzy.net - www.philip-lynott.com

Thoughts to design and flash went out the window at an early stage.

There are many vagabonds, rogues and other such on display here, enter at your peril.

Phil O

Some Robbo news from Sören .....

Robbo will play a couple of dates as special guest with Five Fifteen in Scandinavia at the end of february. The band is out promoting their new album The Sensational Five Fifteen (Bluelight Records BHR 3399 2) with a line-up consisting of; Mika Jarvinen - Guitar & Vocals, Saana Koskinen - Vocals & Flute, Matti Salovaara - Guitar, Kalle Sinkkonen - Keyboards, Mikko Maatta - Bass and Santeri Saksala - drums.

They'll play a 30-min set before Robbo joins them for about one hour long set with songs by Thin Lizzy, Motorhead, Frankie Miller, Bob Seger, Joe Walsh and Five Fifteen. Expect a mean version of Ain't Got No Money which Robbo recorded for the Frankie Miller Tribute released by Eagle Records last year!

21/2 Karleby(FIN), West Coast
22/2 Turku(FIN), Downtown
25/2 Finland, TBA
26/2 Helsinki(FIN), On The Rocks
27/2 Vasteras(SWE), Club Rockers
28/2 Uppsala(SWE), Fredmans (and NOT Jonkoping as previously reported)

More dates TBA...watch this space!

Yodel,

Sören

Some news from Phil O .....

Philip Lynott – Solo In Ireland

Not to be found on eBay nor emanating from Japan; a new bootleg has surfaced.

Solo In Ireland – Knocknamore, Omagh, Northern Ireland 9th July 1982.

Contact your local dealer ...

Some Robbo news from Record Collector – January 2004

Statetrooper – Statetrooper
Catalogue Number: Escape ESM 095

After singer Gary Barden left the Michael Schenker Group at the peak of it’s powers, he dipped out of sight until 1986, re-emerging in a new six-piece, yet still trading in similar melodic rock goods. It’s taken ‘til now to get hold of the 9 track CD set, boosted by half a dozen bonus cuts – two demos from sessions with Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson and four live in the studio takes.

More on the exciting news from Jörgen Holmstedt that we featured earlier.....

Hi all! An update on the Swedish TV documentary Thin Lizzy Forever here. The last thing we’ve done is an interview with John Sykes when he recently was in Stockholm to play with Scott Gorham. That means we now have interviewed the following people: Sykes, Gorham, Eric Bell, Gary Moore, Brian Robertson (twice), Jimmy Bain, Don Airey, John Norum, Ian Haugland and Jan Johansen. They all say some very interesting things.

Rock hard,

Jörgen Holmstedt

Some pics of the Vibe 2004 here

Limehouse Lizzy resume their relentless schedule on February 27th with yet another massive tour. Check out these guys - tribute bands don't come any better!

John Sykes will apparently play in Japan as BLUE MURDER in April. These 4 shows are confirmed according to this Japanese promotor’s website (thanks to Kaori from Tokyo for the info).
16 Osaka
17 Nagoya
20 Tokyo
21 Kawasaki

Jari Salonen from Finland has sent us a copy of his Thin Lizzy tribute band’s great recordings of Cold Sweat and the Cowboy Song. The band are also called Cold Sweat. Very accomplished musicians they are too, they do a fine job. Both songs while not straying too far from the originals feature some very inventive guitar work and a solid rhythm section. The vocals are strong too and do not try and replicate Phil.

I met Jari at the Vibe and he said that they hoped to play it in the future, I for one would look forward to that.

Phil O

                                                                                                                                The Coallier page has finally posted the dates for Sykes/Gorham's tour supporting Deep Purple.

                                                                                                                                Phil O has posted a review of 2003 in the editorial section ....

Hope you all had time to spare a thought yesterday for the one and only Phillip Lynott on the 18th anniversary of his untimely death. Of course, I'd like to have been at the Vibe but instead I stayed at home and played a few songs on the old geetar.

Hopefully we'll have some news on the Vibe to post sometime soon ... as Rock Legend's very own Phil O was there. ;-)

Happy New Year everyone!

Dan