Commercial release confirmed
After 'Bare' started with top ten chart positions around the world the second single, 'A Thousand Beautiful Things', will be released commercially.The first single, 'Pavement crack', was only released as a radio single.
BMG confirmed to AnnieLennox.de plans to produce a promotional video clip and to release the single on September 1, 2003.
Apple's iTunes: 99 cents / track... [news]
Apple's iTunes offers an album of 6 remixes of Pavement cracks for download. They cost 99 Cents each and are availalbe to Mac users only.Available are the following mixes: Mac Quayle Extended Mix / Goldtrix Club Mix / Scumfrog Club Mix / Gabriel & Dresden Club Mix / Scumfrog Knob Dub / Gabriel & Dresden Mixshow Edit. (thanks to Carlo for the pic)
South-Africa charity coming
According to MTV News the cancelled Mandela concert '46664' (homepage), named after Mandela's prison number, will take place on November 30 in Kapstadt, South Africa. So far confirmed are the appearances of Queen, Bono and Dave Stewart. For more details of the history of this project check out the ethrill.net new archives (e.g. 03/03/13 and 03/02/03).
Video snippets of the hot show
Last week the BBC aired a Top Of The Pops Annie Lennox special with a live appearance by the diva herself. She performed Little bird, Pavement cracks, Wonderful as well as the Eurythmics classic Here comes the rain again.
You find video snippet of these and other songs on the website of the show.
Today show performance videos
This morning Annie Lennox performed on the US tv show TODAY 3 songs in the streets of New York.
A video portrait as well as the fabulous live versions of Pavement cracks, Little bird and A thousand beautiful things are available for streaming (click little pic on the right side of the MSNBC page).
A video and mp3 of her performance of Little bird in the Letterman show this week is availalbe at GianCarlo Pitocco's homepage.
[UPDATE]: In the meantime a lot of thumbnail sized photos of the Today show performances have been published at Wireimage as well as some bigger photos at Yahoo:
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Annie Lennox shows her photos
On Tuesday night Annie Lennox opened her first photo exhibition in the Spike Gallery on 20th Street, New York. The gallery presents pictures from the Bare photo sessions with a mostly naked Annie Lennox taken by herself and her friend Allan Martin who joined her ansewering the journalists questions, e.g. where the dog collar on the cover photo comes from:
Lennox: "It was Allan's belt."
Martin: "It was just there."
Lennox: "Actually, when you do something in this process you maybe do something that seems arbitrary and after you look at it, and somehow it connects with other things, it becomes something symbolic and meaningful and there are meanings to it, but if I stopped to explain them, it sounds incredibly pretentious. But there are symbolic meanings and metaphor in that dog collar. Very much so." [NY Times]
More thumbnails are availalbe at WireImage and Rexfeatures.Win tickets to see Annie again
British Radio station BBC Radio2 presents Annie Lennox live in concert on June 27 in the Riverside Studios in London. The concert is meant to be aired on June 28, 9-10pm.
Radio2 is giving away 60 pairs of tickets for the concert on their website (only to UK fans).
Visionary Dave crashed with reality
After the Marquee Club, co-owned by Dave Stewart, run out of money eary this year, Artist Network/AN-Group, his radical different, artist friendly entertainment company, has also debts of 2.8m Pounds already. Expected have been a value of AN of 150m to 300m Pounds within 5 years. Some co-owners didn't pay what had been expected and other investments weren't made because of "ridiculous" delays by the "unprofessional" company (Independent).
Dave Stewart says: "In the end we just weren't getting enough money in. It turned out to be very difficult to establish an independent record company. You just need so much money for marketing and so on - and we ran out of it."
He tries to ensure that Artist Network artists will be looked after: "At the moment I'm making sure that the artists we have made records with will have their records released." The only so far release of AN, Jimmy Cliff's fabulous album "Fantastic Plastic People", might be its last and only one which would be a big loss after other AN artists, e.g. The Davey Brothers and Da Univerzal Playaz, recorded excellent, but still unreleased albums. (BBC, Financial Times)
North East England sampler ... [news]
The Northumbria Anthology is building up a continuously expanding collection of songs and poems from the North East of England. The region covered stretches from North Yorkshire to the Scottish Border.
Besides a 20 cd boxed set of such songs the sampler 'From Tees To Tyne' with contributions by artists like Bryan Ferry and Brian Johnson has been produced. Dave Stewart, born in Sunderland, recorded 'The Backleg Song' for it that hasn't been released before. The song, recorded in 2002 with DS on several instruments, comes from the singing of Tom Holmes Of Fencehouses in 1951 and was original contained in an 1831 manuscript scrap book. It relates to to the earlier solidarity of the Durham unions.
For more information and order please visit their homepage.
Car signed for charity
Annie Lennox (photo), Sir Peter Ustinov and some German celebrities (Helmut Lottie, Alfred Biolek, Dieter Bohlen) signed a new Ford Streetka in Cologne last week that will be auctioned for Unicef, a world charitiy organisation that celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, in cooperation with the city of Cologne and the philharmony (where Annie Lennox played on May 27) (photo: obs/Ford Werke AG)