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 All concert information listed here is subject to change. Please check with the actual venues for the most up-to-date information.
May 1st (German Public Holiday) - 3 Sat TV will have the next "Pop around the clock" day. Roger's Montreal concert, which is now out worldwide on DVD, will be aired from 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm. This can be viewed throughout Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and also via ASTRA satellite in Europe. Don't miss it!
2008 TOUR DATES
May 22 http://www.classicrockfestival.no/
May 25
May 26
May 30
June 7 Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
June 11 Montreal, Canada
Benefiting the Israel Cancer Research Foundation, most tickets will be sold as corporate packages; however, there will be a limited number available to Roger's fans.
Call the ICRF office for reservations at (514) 481-2723
Tickets: $250 each which includes an upscale reception prior to the show
$180 each show only
June 27 01432 355416
June 29 July 3 Lugano, Switzerland
Free festival in the city plaza
July 6 Free - open air
July 8 phone: 0800 911 811 711
July 9 0 892 683 622 (0,34 €/mn)
July 11 Ticketeast 0870-240-9049 www.ticketeast.co.uk
July 20 Ticket Hotline +49 (0) 731 / 967 64 29
July 22
July 25 (More dates in Spain to be announced soon!)
July 26 Cannes, France Tickets are on sale at FNAC and Virgin stores
August 23 More info coming soon
August 24 Tickets on sale 4/12
Clams aren't THIS happy!
View the commercial here: http://www.darnellworks.com/a52/media/anthem60.mov
View the TV ad for the Montreal DVD below.
NEWS
* 2006 Canadian Idol runner-up Craig Sharpe will perform as special guest with Roger Hodgson (formerly of Supertramp) at Mile One Stadium’s Molson Club in St. John’s, Nov. 6. Read the press release on The Garden Gate Community!
* View the TV spot for the Montreal DVD here! * Some nice photos of Roger in Bonn on August 16th, can be found on General-Anzeiger online.
* "Take the Long Way Home," the Montreal 2006 concert DVD was released on August 22nd. You can order it on Roger's site. It's also available in select Canadian stores. (If you find this DVD online anywhere else, please DO NOT place an order.)
NOTE from Harmonic Management: Orders placed through Amazon.ca will not be fulfilled so please order your DVD through Roger. Feel free to email us if you have any questions or need assistance wtih your order. Shakti and Linda HarmonicManagement@earthlink.net
* "Supertramp in Paris '79" Restored at Cups 'N Strings From Mixonline July 21, 2006 5:14 PM (Could a DVD be in the works? Exciting news!)
* "Keep on Tramping" - Supertramp's Roger Hodgson keeps his songs evergreen Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald Published: Thursday, July 13, 2006
* On May 25th, Roger was in the CHOM studio in Montreal for an interview and during his visit he played a few songs. Listen to "Take The Long Way Home" here. (Windows Media Player)
* Rita Maloney met with Roger at the Waukesha show. View her photos here! She has also started a message board so stop by and tell her I sent you! * Check out Mike Mantei's photo gallery of the Waukesha show.
* Click here to see the set list from the Kitchener shows
* Click here to read a recent interview with Roger from The Times Herald in Port Huron, Michigan.
* Roger was honored recently by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) with a POP Music award for his song "Give a Little Bit" being one of the most performed works in the ASCAP repertory in 2005. MORE GOODIES
Click here to read a review of The Shepherd's Bush show at Dutch Progressive Rock Page. Review by John Morley Louise Wilson at Getty Images Entertainment took some nice photos of Roger at the Shepherd's Bush Empire show. Click here and do a search for Roger Hodgson to view them. The Dutch Progressive Rock Page has an interview with Roger from December 3, 2005. Read it here. "In The Eye Of The Storm" and "Hai Hai" are now available for download on iTunes. Roger played at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, England on November 30, 2005. John Helliwell was in the audience! Here are a couple of photos from the show. (Click thumbnail to view larger size.)
More on the Photos page Photos: Ian Mayers Review from The Record Music Magazine
SUPERTRAMP - RETROSPECTACLE: THE SUPERTRAMP ANTHOLOGY - UNIVERSAL Record Rating: *****
Throughout the early seventies, Supertramp had a number of best-selling albums, which culminated into their 1979 masterpiece, Breakfast in America. On the strength of hit singles like The Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger, and Take the Long Way Home, the album sold over 18 million copies worldwide and made Rick Davies and his boys a household name.
There have been several Supertramp "best of" compilations in the recent past, but none have been of this magnitude. This latest compilation Retrospectacle: The Supertramp Anthology covers all of the band's bases and stands head and shoulders above the rest. This well-chosen collection spans three decades, but focuses intently on the five great years that cemented the band's reputation as one of the world's foremost rock acts.
The seventeen song offering predominantly spawns everything from their early rock n' roll (Crime of the Century, Ain't Nobody But Me) to the period when they matured and refined themselves into a well crafted hit machine. Singles like It's Raining Again, The Logical Song and Goodbye Stranger, well-crafted, tightly bound pop songs that skyrocketed to the top of the pop charts during the late '70s and early '80s, are on this compilation as well. That alone will make it worthwhile for a casual listener.
The more hardcore fans will notice some favourite album and fan favourite missing ~ for them there's a thirty two track limited edition two CD set being released of this compilation as well ~ all the Supertramp they could ever need in their collection. Still with this single Disc, you get a great deal. For it's chock block with songs you've probably heard before and might even know the words to, but didn't know it was Supertramp. This one gets two thumbs flying up all the way. iPod Garage reviews Supertramp Gold: Retrospectacle - The Supertramp Anthology
Being in my mid 30's, I have had the fortunate (some say misfortunate) experience to acquire many, many musical memories associated with times and places I once was. Certain bands, sounds and smells take a person back to that time and place the track was most familiar and fun. Vague memories as a child growing up to rock records and reel to reel mixed party tapes, Supertramp was always on those mixes, and now thanks to the iTMS, one of the best defining single band rock compilations can be on your iPod or in your iTunes music library.
With the majority of the composers being Rick Davies & Roger Hodgson, you can only marvel at the brilliance of structure and sound. All the classics can be found on this collection from School, Bloody Well Right, Dreamer, to Rudy and Give A Little Bit. All of which takes me back to those Sunday Brunch moments. Setting up the kitchen during my Chef Apprenticeship, practicing my air guitar and drums technique all while making twenty liters of hollandaise sauce and smelling nothing but bacon toast (I'm more than sure your scenario is a little different, but none the less, you were drumming, singing, or mimicking a guitar riff).
More than enough fun can be had grooving out to Crime of the Century, From Now On to The Logical Song. With thirty-two tracks in total, the album also comprises several remixes, live or re-edits. Land Ho gets a single version remix that I tend to like a lot more. The percussion seems to be bumped up and the vocals tamed down a bit (pitch wise). Summer Romance was made into a two and a half minute single mix that can only be described as an ass swaying, toe tapping blues power ballad. Another Man's Woman tops out the playlist of bonuses for a live nine and change minute interlude. The double CD pack finishes with Over You and as always, full of brass, harmony and crisp percussion.
Once again Supertramp has been reintroduced back into the kitchen with my return to the hospitality industry and so far has received great reviews as one of greatest rock bands of all time that will no doubt have you shaking your rump tapping your toes and swaying to the keyboards, doing, what ever you are doing.
Buy through the iTunes Music Store: Gold: Retrospectacle - The Supertramp Anthology by Supertramp
Todd Page is the Owner and Partner @ ChampionBeats record label Click below to listen to samples from Retrospectacle!
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