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29/06/04
db has confirmed all the dates for the
UK winter tour later this year and the dates are as follows:
NOVEMBER:
 Wed
24 Irvine, Magnum Leisure Centre
Fri 26 Glenrothes, Rothes Halls
Sat 27 Stoke, Victoria Theatre
Sun 28 Reading, Hexagon
Tue 30 St Albans, Alban Arena
DECEMBER:
Wed 1 Bradford, St Georges Hall
Fri 3 Plymouth, Pavilions
Sat 4 Leicester, De Montfort Hall
Sun 5 TBC
Mon 6 Doncaster, Dome
Wed 8 Preston, Guild Hall
Thu 9 Newcastle, Northumbria University
Fri 10 Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall
Sun 12 Southampton, Guildhall
Mon 13 Ipswich, Regent
Tue 14 London, Shepherds Bush Empire
Thu 16 Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Fri 17 TBC
Sat 18 Bristol, Academy
Sun 19 Birmingham, Academy
Tickets should go on sale shortly.
Image: Nic & Philip at SUE festival
in Chile last month captured by Noelia Ivonne Vega Briceño.
Singles of The Week: Rachel Stevens
- Some Girls - Richard X does it again
- electro glam rock with hints of Goldfrapp's Strict Machine. Check
it out here
whilst our 2003 interview with RX can still be read here.
Girls Aloud - The Show - another poptastic
slice of early 80's electro and both singles can be heard over at
Electronically
Yours.
UK broadsheet The Observer unveiled their much publicised 'definitive'
Top 100 albums list compiled with the help of industry insiders,
music journalists and prominent artists. Ultimately, most of the
entries are the same usual suspects championed by dullards and musos
alike featuring albums that few of us would admit to owning.
The top ten is a depressing affair though The
Stone Roses do manage to pip
The Beatles
to the top spot (sadly, this is the only surprise).
Most electronic artists are predictably ignored by the rock establishment
but Dare does creep in at number 96 with plenty of woeful albums
ahead of it.
Here's what The Observer had to say:
96 Dare, The Human League
Virgin, 1981; chart position: 1
Forget the haircuts, remember the songs
A triumph of content over considerable style, Dare was at once phenomenally
commercial and gleefully avant-garde. Phil Oakey recently recalled
that during the recording process both Virgin Records and producer
Martin Rushent 'were adamant that anything that made the record
more saleable must be included', yet the album remains true to the
Sheffield group's experimental blueprint. It just so happened that
with 'Don't You Want Me' they had a worldwide hit that still fills
dancefloors to this day.
(PR)
Burn it: Don't You Want Me; Love Action
The PSB's
excellent Behaviour album also
appears in the 90's whilst New Order's
only representation is 1983's sublime 'Power
Corruption & Lies' (no 'Get
Ready' or Technique??!).
ABC's 'Lexicon
Of Love' surprisingly manages to reach the top 40, though
for innovation - the lesser known 'How
To Be A Zillionaire' is a *far* better album. Once again,
one of the UK's biggest exports; Depeche
Mode are completely ignored so ultimately, I find it hard
to take these 'definitive' polls seriously but let us all thank
Paul Morely for at least getting
Dare into the Top 100.
I expected a more varied selection from judges who included Morrissey
(won't say a bad word about him as his latest solo album 'You
Are The Quarry' is breathtakingly good).
So to sum up, it's all mostly wank but you can view the entire poll
by clicking here.
 Secrets
Online today received the following belated email from Marcelo Alvaro
in Chile with regards to last month's SUE festival:
ESTUVO ESTUPENDO EL SUE , SANTIAGO URBAN ELECTRONIC, EN CHILE, TODOS
LOS FANATICOS LES AGRADECEMOS A HUMAN LEAGUE Y AL EQUIPO QUE LOS
TRAJO,ESTE GRAN SHOW QUE NOS BRINDARON GRACIAS HUMAN LEAGUE, AL
GENIO DE PHIL LO EXTRAÑAREMOS Y A LAS DOS BELLEZAS DE SUSASN
Y JOANNE TAMBIEN,LOS ESPERAMOS EN OTRA OCACIÓN CHILE TIENE
MUCHOS SEGUIDORES SUYOS..........GRACIAS AMIGOS.
MARCELO / ALVARO FROM CHILE.
Not quite sure about the English translation
but it sounds enthusiastic so gracias Marcelo :)
Image: Sue at SUE captured by Noelia Ivonne
Vega Briceño.
20/06/04
A respected online ticket agency has released details of a new UK
tour where the headlining act are the Human League though tickets
aren't officially on sale yet.
Rumours suggest that this isn't related in any way to previous 'Here
& Now' tours with the first date kicking off in November and
running through till the end of December.
The first date to appear online takes place
at the Victoria Hall in Stoke On Trent on Saturday 27th November.
Online details can be viewed by clicking here.
Image: Philip, db & Sue in Chile at the Santiago
Urban Electric May 28th 2004. Pic kindly provided by Noelia
Ivonne Vega Briceño.
Discuss
Human League news over at the Secrets forum > > >
>
May 04 news archive
July 31st: Here
& Now Outdoors, Bournemouth
August 21st & 22nd
V Festival
Electronically Yours Radio - League, Mode, ABC, Goldfrapp
- 'possibly the greatest radio show in the world' - orac
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