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3 Men & Black Tour Clarification
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January 24th 2005
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Please note that the February 2005 3 Men and Black tour is a 2Tone Special, featuring
Dave Wakeling (The Beat), Roddy Byers (The Specials), Nick Welsh (Bad Manners) and
Pauline Blacke (The Selector). Consequently (and contrary to some local advertising), JJ
Burnel will not be on this particular tour.
Further information can be found
here.
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Brits Award Nomination
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January 4th 2005
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(with thanks to Steven Smith)
"Golden Brown" has been short-listed as one of 25 nominees for the "Brits 25 The Best
Song Award". This award is for the best single of the past 25 years. After a first
round of voting (which ends on January 9th), the top five tracks will be chosen. The second
round of voting will then take place between January 21st and 30th.
For further information (under the "press" section), and to vote, see the Brits site at:
brits.co.uk.
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Merchandise Update
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December 3rd 2004
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Following the successful French tour, the
official merchandise site is offering
a limited supply of French Tour shirts for £10, in the "offers" section. New t-shirt
offerings include "The Men Covered in Birdshit" and a rat logo made from the titles
of every song ever released by the band.
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JJ Soundtrack
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December 21st 2004
REVISED
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JJ has provided the soundtrack for the new Japanese animated TV series "Gankutsuou". This
is a re-working of "The Count of Monte Cristo", in a futuristic setting.
The official site (in Japanese) is: www.gankutsuou.com.
Sample video can be found here.
For those not fluent in Japanese, you may wish to go through the
Babelfish Translator.
The soundtrack album (as yet untitled, catalogue no. VICL-61551) for this project
will feature
the starting theme ("We Were Lovers") and ending theme ("You Won't See Me Coming") and
other instrumental pieces by JJ, together with various classic music pieces compiled by
sound designer Koji Kasamatsu.
December 21: The Japanese release date for this CD is now
February 23rd, 2005. No word as yet on releases outside Japan.
The track listing will be:
Mardi Gras; We Were Lovers*; Prologue; Dark Dream;
Anger (A Letter From Edmond); Scene, On a Sunny Day;
Distant Memory; Montecristo; Celestial Globe; Sorrow
(Destiny); Auteui; Days of Boys; Waltz (Waltz in Blue)*;
Desire (Revenge); Mercedes (On the Beach); Underground Palace;
Moonlight Night; Eagre; You Won't See Me Coming*
(TV version); You Won't See Me Coming* (Full Version).
Tracks in blue are by JJ: those with an asterisk are songs, the others are instrumental.
The titles in italics are translations from the original Japanese, kindly provided by Yuka
Takahashi.
For JJ's tracks, instrumentation and arrangements are by JJ and Louie Nicastro. Additional
guitars are provided by Baz Warne and additional vocals by Phillipa Cookman. These tracks are
produced and engineered by Louie Nicastro.
A DVD of the first and second episodes of the TV series will be released in Japan on February
25th.
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Plymouth Academy Cancellation
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November 15th 2004
REVISED
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We have been asked to post the following regarding this show:
Over the last few days it has become clear that the venue is not prepared
to deliver the conditions necessary for The Stranglers to be able to put on
their usual quality performance for the West country fans and as a result
the band feel that it is in everyone's interest not to proceed with the
show at Plymouth Academy on December 9.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Tickets are
refundable from point of purchase.
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French Tour: Revised Dates
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November 10th 2004
REVISED
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The Stranglers' major tour of France is now underway.
November 9th: Please note that the 14th November gig in
Mulhouse (at Le Noumatrouff) has now been CANCELLED.
November 9th: Please note a venue change for the Nice gig on
November 27th. The Stranglers will now appear at Le Palais Nikaia (as the original venue
has burnt down). November 10th: All tickets purchased for the original venue will be valid for the new
venue.
Tickets can be obtained via ticketnet.fr.
More details on the venues, etc., can be found
here.
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Iceland
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November 15th 2004
REVISED
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We have just received confirmation that the Stranglers will be playing the
Smarinn Sports and Convention Centre, Reykjavik, Iceland on December 4th.
From November 16th, tickets for this show can be purchased from:
www.poxpromotions.com.
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3 Men and Black
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November 10th 2004
REVISED
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The 3 Men and Black acoustic studio album (featuring JJ Burnel, Jake Burns, Bruce Foxton, Pauline Black
and Nick Welsh) is now available. The track-listing is:
Alternative Ulster; Skin Deep; That's Entertainment; Three Minute Hero; She Grew Up;
Me and You; Smithers Jones; Missing Words; Harp; Jelly Fish; David Watts;
Armagideon Times; Quark, Strangeness and Charm; Down in the Tube Station; On My Radio;
Wasted Life.
More information (and some samples) can be found
here.
Please note that JJ will NOT be joining the
3 Men and Black tour
in October/November due to other commitments (primarily the tours of Australia, Canada
and France).
Canadian Live Dates and Media Events;
Release of Norfolk Coast
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October 20th 2004
REVISED
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 "Norfolk Coast" is now available in Canada,
on the Universal label (catalogue no. 7697422882). This release contains the same
tracks as the UK version (see below),
with the exception of the bonus track "Peaches 2004".
A short tour of Canada, in support of the album, will take place in late October. A
full tour of Canada is being planned for the New Year. The October dates are as follows:
We have two other events to announce for Toronto: On Friday October 22nd at approximately
6.20pm, the band will perform a couple of acoustic numbers at the Edge FM --
228 Younge Street. At 1pm on Saturday, there will be a signing at Sam the Record Man,
347 Younge Steet.
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Stranglers.ca
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October 17th 2004
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We are pleased to announce the opening of
a new Canadian merchandise site: Stranglers.ca. This
site currently carries an innovative line of t-shirts, with (we are told) more to follow.
Other items are planned for the future, including a novel version of the Norfolk Coast
cover-art.
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30th Anniversary
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September 11th 2004
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On 11th September 1974, "The Stranglers" are born.
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Shepherd's Bush
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November 15th 2004
REVISED
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The Stranglers will play the Shepherd's Bush Empire on December 10th, 2004.
Tickets can be purchased
here.
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Australian Tour
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September 2nd 2004
REVISED
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August 10th: Please note that the Sydney show will now be
on October 9th. All other dates remain the same.
August 16th: Please note that the venue for the Brisbane
gig has been changed to the Tivoli.
Date
8th October
9th October
12th October
14th October
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City
Brisbane
Sydney
Melbourne
Perth
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Venue
Tivoli
Metro
POW
Lookout
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More information and ticket sales can be found
here
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