If you really haven't gotten on the bandwagon yet and watched the broadcast of the Press Conference on November 7th, then you can read the complete transcript kindly done by our friends at IT - The German Genesis Fanclub who have posted it on their website.
The gig in Monaco has had to be cancelled due to the production size of the show being too big to fit in the Louis II stadium.
This from Genesis Manager, Tony Smith:
Now we are getting close to a final design for the stage show; and following a visit to Monaco by our production manager; we have realised that we will not be able to put the show on in the Monaco Stadium due to the size of the production. Once we have had time to review the options we will update our information on this site.
Parc Des Princes, the only venue for the 1 French show will start selling tickets next Wednesday, December 6th. More details to follow.
This is the 1 page advert that appeared in both editions of London's Evening Standard newspaper on Friday 24th.
All dates for the European Tour next year are on sale bar the shows in Monaco and Paris. Dates that went on sale recently:
Holland and
the 2 shows in the UK.
The dates at Old Trafford and Twickenham have sold out, although you can bid on auctions for both these dates on Ticketmaster for premium seating (seats in the front 10 rows). The Twickenham venue might have set a record for fastest sellout as all 55,000 or so tickets were bought within 75mins!
Sincere apologies for the lack of updates here. Been under the weather lately, but on the mend!
Anyway, tickets for that have gone on general sale recently are Helsinki and Hungary.
The 2 shows in the UK and the gig in Poland will be on sale this Friday (24th). And Saturday (25th) sees the shows in Holland & Switzerland ticket sale start. Links to ticket agencies will be provided for these shows when they become available.
Although it was mentioned that the 1st Dusseldorf show is sold out, if you visit the ticket page at eventim.de, you occasionally may find that a new allocation of tickets are available for purchase, so if you've planned on only going to the 1st show or attending both, keep trying! The Frankfurt show is the same. Until we have official word that a ticket agency is no longer selling tickets, please do not take it as read that a show is sold out. Keep clicking or calling!
Also the 2nd Dusseldorf show went on sale today.
It appears that fans who didn't purchase tickets for the show in Denmark yet will be disappointed as all 30,000 tickets sold out within 40 minutes! Must be a record or something!
It has been announced that there is to be a second show at the LTU arena in Dusseldorf, Germany on June 27th. The first show has already sold out. Tickets for the 2nd show will be going on sale, November 17th, 10am local time.
Incidentally, the Denmark show (June 14th) will be on general sale tomorrow, here.
http://www.genesis.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1841
This just in from the official website/forum:
Genesis have rearranged their two UK stadium dates on their ‘Turn It On Again’ 2007 European Tour, which was announced last week, due to routing issues.
The dates at Manchester’s Old Trafford Football Stadium and Twickenham Stadium have been switched.
The new dates are as follows:
Saturday 7 July Manchester Old Trafford Football Stadium
Sunday 8 July London Twickenham StadiumTickets for these two UK dates go onsale on Friday 24 November at 9am.
Tickets for the German leg of the tour in 2007 went on sale on 10 November and demand was unprecedented with so far over 200,000 tickets sold.
If you missed the pre-sale, all of the dates in Germany are now on sale to the general public, and none of the shows have sold out yet.
The only Austrian date on 18th June is also on sale at:According to the official forum, an estimated 67,000 fans/people/computer etc, logged in to watch the webcast on Tuesday.
Glad that the server it was being hosted on could cope with that amount!
http://www.genesis.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1232
An interview appeared on BBC Radio's Five Live station early this morning. They talk about why they got back together, hint on setlists for the tour including 'the medley question', Peter's possible involvement at a later date and Tony talks about his garden!
Kudos to the interviewer for good questions. Listen in again here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/fivelive_aod.shtml?fivelive/genesis_0911106 (you will need Realplayer to hear the clip)
Incidentally, I should mention that the webcast has been back online, so you might want to catch it if you've already missed it:
http://www.genesislive.tv/
A 5 minute segment appeared on BBC's 'Newsnight' programme on the evening of the 7th. Thankfully, someone has uploaded it to You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wYSCD-g2OA
Steve Hackett has spoken out following the press conference yesterday and this was posted on his official website.
“First of all I would like to congratulate Tony, Mike and Phil for flying the flag once again. Good luck to them and I really hope they have a very successful tour.http://www.stevehackett.com
I was originally approached to discuss the possibility of a five piece which would have included Peter Gabriel and yours truly but since Peter’s schedule precludes this it makes sense for the other three to celebrate the brand in their ‘own special way’ as it were ….”
Steve Hackett - Nov ‘06
Daryl's interview on a local Milwaukee radio station, Daryl's site now has links to the interview in 4 parts.
http://www.darylstuermer.com/music/11-daryl%201.m3u
http://www.darylstuermer.com/music/part2.m3u
http://www.darylstuermer.com/music/part3.m3u
http://www.darylstuermer.com/music/11-daryl%203.m3u
Lots of press reports today, obviously, so here are links to a few of them. They all pretty much say the same thing, however some of them mention that tickets for the 2 UK gigs go on sale this Friday (10th). However they are going on general sale on the 24th of this month.
For those who were lucky enough to get an invite to the press conference yesterday in London, it seems that along with a press pack, attendees were also given a promotional DVD containing 5.1 surround sound versions of the following:
Whilst it appears to be promoting "Turn It On Again - The Tour", it is more in line with a teaser for the forthcoming new releases of the double SACD/DVD sets; the first batch of these coming out in March 2007. And it just so happens that the tracklisting above is in line with the 5 albums that are being released first.
There are a couple of professional photographic websites that serve media outlets which have new photos from the conference listed on their sites.
Rex Features (37)
Getty Images (11)
From CNN's Entertainment section:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/07/genesis.reunion.ap...
Now that the conference is over, expect more links to press coverage of the announcement located in the press. We shall start with the 'always on the ball' BBC.
The conversation with Daryl has just recently finished with radio station WKLH. Aside from a mention of his new CD called "Rewired - The Electric Collection" being released next week, the obvious topic was the recent announcement. Points of interest were:
Pollstar, the ultimate wire for concert dates now has the European dates listed.
http://www.pollstar.com/tour/searchall.pl?By=Artist&Content=GENESI&PSKey=Y
There is also a news article:Incidentally tickets for the shows in Germany will going on sale this Friday, November 10th and November 24th for the 2 UK shows. Other countries are to be confirmed.
With the conference now over, it's time to sum up the term of events in the approx 40 mins that was dedicated for it.
It started off with comedian David Baddiel reminiscing about his love of the band which was followed by a video montage of their history, including some very recent rehearsal footage of the band performing Home By The Sea. John Giddings from UK promoter, Solo then appeared on stage announcing the 20 European dates (as have already been listed below).
Then the main event, as Collins, Rutherford and Banks approached the stage and the 3 of them took questions, initially from David Baddiel and then from the selected audience of invitees (mainly press). The obvious questions were asked throughout. The most important question to me, was that they were going to perform 20 selected shows in the US. Details on when they would be announced, when they will be and what cities, was not addressed and no questions relating to this came from the audience.
The webcast was broadcast at: http://www.genesislive.tv/ and you will be able to return there as a full recording of the conference will available at a later time.
The official website has been updated as well:
The Press Release of the conference:
http://www.genesis-music.com/genesispr.htm
The tour dates so far:
http://www.genesis-music.com/genesisdates.htm
A new biography of the band:
http://www.genesis-music.com/genesisbiog.htm
Not surprisingly the official forum is particularly slow with obviously lots of people wanting to discuss the announcement.
German concert promoter, Peter Rieger has jumped the gun a bit early of the Press Conference and has a dedicated micro-site for next year's tour. On it are new band pics along with a biography, info about the conference and the fact that british comedian David Baddiel will be Master of Ceremonies at the conference. But most importantly is that it lists the dates for the European tour. And they are:
11 June Helsinki, Finland Olympic Stadium
14 June Herning, Denmark Messecenter
15 June Hamburg, Germany AOL Arena
17 June Berne, Switzerland Stade de Suisse
18 June Linz, Austria Gugl Stadium
20 June Budapest, Hungary Puskas Ferenc Stadion
21 June Katowice, Poland Slaski Stadium
23 June Hannover, Germany AWD Arena
26 June Dusseldorf, Germany LTU Arena
29 June Stuttgart, Germany Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadium
30 June Paris, France Parc Des Princes
1 July Amsterdam, Holland Arena
3 July Berlin, Germany Olympiastadion
4 July Leipzig, Germany Zentralstadion
5 July Frankfurt, Germany Commerzbank Arena
7 July London, UK Twickenham Stadium
8 July Manchester, UK Old Trafford
10 July Munich, Germany Olympiastadion
12 July Monaco Louis II Stadium
14 July Rome, Italy Telecomcerto at Colosseo
A recent post on the official forum included 3 new promotional pics of the band. One of them should quash the rumors about whether or not longtime cohorts Daryl Stuermer and Chester Thompson will be joining them on tour.
The attributes of the images say that the pictures were taken on October 21st.
Daryl will be on the radio tomorrow at 8am (CST or 2pm GMT) to discuss the Press Conference, which by that time would have already happened. He will be talking to 96.5 WKLH in Milwaukee. You will be able to listen live to the interview by going here and clicking on the 'Listen Live' link. Incidentally, Daryl's website has been updated to include the flyer advertising the Press Conference.
http://www.darylstuermer.com
This image just recently appeared on the home page of the Official Site. Strangely enough it's now disappeared from there. Obviously it is from the recent rehearsals in October.
Found an article published by United Press International, which for an organization that provides "critical information" to media outlets, I would have thought they get their stories right before releasing them publicly.
The upcoming Genesis reunion tour that begins in London next week
Nice one lads! Think maybe they are referring to said Press Conference?
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061103-035449-7682r
US music industry magazine, Billboard, finally catches wind of news with this article that appeared on their website today.
Genesis Reuniting With Phil Collins For Tour
Mega-selling pop trio Genesis is reuniting with Phil Collins for its first tour with him since the summer of 1992. An official announcement will be made Monday (Nov. 7) in London. Genesis hasn't toured since 1998, during which Ray Wilson replaced Collins on lead vocals alongside principal members Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford.
Former frontman Peter Gabriel will not be participating in the reunion with the group he exited in 1975. "Tony, Mike and Phil are rehearsing now," he said in a recent video message on his Web site. "I'm not involved in this round or this year. I haven't ruled out the possibility of doing something in the future, but right now I'm going to focus on my own work."
Also apparently not involved is guitarist Steve Hackett, who played with the band in the Gabriel era but left in 1977.
Collins hasn't toured since 2004, an outing billed as his First Farewell tour. Of late, he's been busy writing the music for Disney's "Tarzan the Musical" on Broadway; his contribution to the animated film's 1999 soundtrack, "You'll Be in My Heart," won the Oscar for song of the year.
And while he now seems ready to tour with Genesis again, Collins sang quite a different tune in a 1996 interview with Billboard, when he declared, "How interested am I in old Genesis material? Not very interested, to be honest."
"If I'm to be completely candid, I've never been our biggest fan," he continued. "I have no reverence for the older material, apart from the fun we had making it. I never really felt like we quite got it right on record, especially in the olden days. I can see Genesis fans sticking pins in my effigy as I say this, but you know, I have to be honest -- there's no point in being anything else in life. I'm very proud of some of it, and I could take or leave some other stuff."
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003352302
From the Official Genesis website:
Genesis Press Conference to be webcast live
3rd November 2006
The press conference due to be held at 12 noon GMT on Tuesday, 7th November 2006 will be broadcast live via the web. The link to the server streaming the press conference will be posted here, the Official web site, shortly before the press conference is due to begin. For details of the webcast please visit the front page of this site shortly before the press conference starts on Tuesday 7th November. Other information will also be made available on this site at the same time.
An Italian website has stated that Genesis will be playing a show in front of the Colosseum in Rome, July 2007. Telecomcerto is a yearly free concert at which they state that Genesis will be headlining for next year and that is to be the band's only gig in Italy. No exact date has been mentioned
http://www.ansa.it/main/notizie/ticker/2006-11-03_1031591.html [Italian site]
Peter Rieger, a German concert agent, who in the past has promoted Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel gigs in Germany, has an announcement on his website that tickets for the tour will be going on sale Friday, November 10th @ 9am [german time]. However, this is unconfirmed, at least until November 7th anyway.
http://www.prknet.de/
