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John confirmed for the Meltdown
From NME The initial line-up for PATTI SMITH’s MELTDOWN has been confirmed. This year’s event takes place at the South Bank Centre in London between June 11-26. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Smith’s seminal album Horses, and to celebrate the singer will perform the album in its entirety at the Royal Festival Hall on June 25. The album’s producer John Cale is the evening’s special guest. Elsewhere in the festival Smith and Steve Earle will appear at the same venue on June 19. The other events confirmed so far are: Yoko Ono (Queen Elizabeth Hall, June 17) Rachid Taha with special guest Patti Smith (Royal Festival Hall, 17)…
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John to work with Sean Lennon
According to the rumours which were circling around during the ATP festival, there’s a new exciting collaboration coming up: John Frusciante and Sean Lennon. Keep your eyes on it:)
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Another site has something for you….
The whole show is now available as 19 files you can download from http://www.frusciantefanclub.com 😀 TO GET THE AUDIO: Go to members’ area, then “Audio/ Live shows”, then “John Frusciante live at the ATP festival, 23rd April 2005” and right-click to download the songs, because left-click will lead you to a surprise for bandwidth-thiefs. No streaming allowed, that is. TO GET THE VIDEO: Go to members’ area, then click “Videos” and scroll to the bottom of the page. Three ATP videos should be there for you to download, same instructions and restrictions [as for the audio] apply. There will be more things. It’s just that the resident worker-bee has to…
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More ATP goodies for you!
Thanks to the wonderful, giving fans, there are now two small galleries of the ATP photos available here on the site. Go here to see photos taken by Alex Van Hamlin and here to see those taken by Hurley. Please, don’t use any of these unless the authors allowed you to. It’s not polite. And Alex was very very nice to send me a review of John’s performance. It’s beautifully written and it follows under the “more” link. Right, well i thought i might aswell say a few words about my experience seeing John at this years ATP Festival. After the late, dissapointing, but strangly packed event that was the…
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Some bits off the ATP festival
So, as you guys already know, John played at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival on Saturday 23rd April. Some lucky fans with enough money and abilities were there, the rest of us were anxiously waiting for any news, reviews or pics. The most of the people are travelling back home as the world is not a small place and those who live close to Camber Sands and who had already returned were nice enough to share some experiences:) For now, I can only show you one review and three pics, thanks to Michelle aka Moosha from the Ramparts forum. If you have anything else to contribute: video clips, photos, reviews…
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Even more updates
Before I say anything else…going to ATP next week? Please, if you’re interested in donating photos, audio or video to this website, email me. I appreciate anyone’s help. I am proud to present you images taken by Jasper Tandy on the 25th June 2004 RHCP concert in London. And many thanks to Lucy for refering me to Jasper, who also plugged i-m.net on his weblog. The other update in the gallery section occured in the 2002-2005 gallery, where I have added pics from this month’s Total Guitar magazine, donated by Dee Dee. The links section has been updated. New links have been added, the inactive ones were pruned and some…
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RHCP to give a free show in Las Vegas
(Reuters) The Red Hot Chili Peppers, a rock band once famous for stage costumes consisting of single, strategically placed sweat socks, will star in a free concert July 2 to celebrate the Las Vegas centennial. The Grammy-winning band will play in the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority parking lot at Paradise Road and Convention Center Drive, which was once occupied by the Landmark hotel. Tickets will be distributed starting at noon Monday through a Web site, www.vegasrocks100.com. About 50,000 tickets will be available, with a limit of four per person. Weezer is the opening act. “July 2nd is the date. In the parking lot. We’ve really made it. We’ve…
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John will probably play on 23rd April
According to Virtual Festivals, John’s performance at the second weekend of ATP festival next week will take place on Saturday, 23rd April. The [probably not yet official] line-up for 23rd April: Suicide Autolux Ted Curson John Foxx John Frusciante Women And Children Olivia Tremor Control Vincent Gallo and Sean Lennon DJ Ellen Allien PJ Harvey Buck 65 Vitamin B-12 For the full ATP weekend 2 line up, click here.
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A bigger update
– a bunch of new articles. Some of them are reviews found on various places. 5 of them were translated from Spanish, 2 from Estonian, 1 from Serbian (that one was obviously done by me), so there’s the international vibe going on. Many thanks to three translators who helped here; -there’s a very good and very long article from the Japanese “Crossbeat” magazine, issue for October 2004, thanks to wonderful Noriko; -three new wallpapers made by me for you. I insist that you should check the penultimate one, I consider it very good; -one new wallpaper made by a fan. Thanks Chris:) ; -the mistake on the site page was…
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John on Total Guitar cover
John is on the cover of next month’s Total Guitar which will be out on April 6th. The pic is older, but there could be newer ones inside and there must be some nice article, since he’s on the cover. So, watch out for it. John Frusciante style guide: Want to play like the RHCP’s virtuoso? Then TG shows you how John Frusciante interview: We couldn’t wait until the release of the new RHCP album to talk to John about his legendary playing, so the Chili’s guitarist tells us why he had to release six solo albums in six months. link to the mag. issue itself Thanks to Mila from…
