Archived News Items
2002 - 2007
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In between tours to promote the latest Marillion
album 'Somewhere Else', Steve is doing another handful of h natural
dates around Europe. The dates are 25 Aug Cologne,
15 Sept Paris,
16 Sept Marseille,
22 Sept London, 29 Sept Zoetermeer
& 9 Nov
Barcelona. Full details at http://www.myspace.com/hnatural.
The second leg of the 'Somewhere Else' tour visits Europe in December, tour
dates at http://www.marillion.com/ |
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Harlow
& Neutrinos |
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There is a new page all about Steve Hogarth's pre-Europeans bands Harlow
& The Neutrinos. Click here to go there now. A
chance search on internet auction site ebay
recently unearthed a wealth of information about Harlow, which
I have collected together for the page. There is a link there also to
some previously unheard mp3 sound clips featuring Steve on
vocals! It all ties in nicely with the release of Steve's 'h-natural'
DVD which sees him telling a very entertaining
tale about life on a cruise ship with this, his first band. (see below for details of how to order it!) |
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'h
natural' DVD now available |
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The DVD of Steve's solo tour is now available to
buy from Marillion's website priced £14.99. Click here to go
there now. The two disc set was recorded in March 2006 in Sheffield and
has lots of great How
We Live & Euros content. The concert itself features Working
Town, Burning Inside You & Acid Rain plus an unreleased
Euros
track called Victoria Station. The second disc contains Games
in Germany recorded in Paris, plus rehearsal performances of Lost at
Sea & Acid Rain (again). It is a great show, very well
filmed by 'THE boomboom
BOYS' and well packaged.
There is exclusive content on the pages at http://www.myspace.com/hnatural including track by
track commentaries by Steve on all the songs in the show. |
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'h
natural' gigs available to download at 'h-tunes' |
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Head over to www.h-tunes.com
where Steve Hogarth has set up a website " so
that anyone who wants to relive the 'h-natural' experience can do
so." Sixteen shows are going to be released for download
only via the h-tunes site. These simple 'piano & voice'
shows were unique in terms of set list, chat, diary and general atmosphere,
and many featured songs from Steve's Europeans and How We Live days (see below). Each show will be available for
a limited period only before being replaced by another. Price is 11 euro
(about £7.50) per 2 hour plus show. Full details, including a 'reward
points' scheme for people buying multiple shows are also available on the
website! |
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Europeans
songs played: Acid Rain (Sheffield),
Hometown (Girona),
Burning Inside You (Sheffield,
Barcelona, Warsaw, Birmingham), Kingdom Come (Paris)
How We Live
songs played: Working Town (most
shows), Dry Land (Madrid,
Barcelona, Warsaw, Majorca), Games in Germany (Paris, Madrid, |
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Euros
& HWL videos on YouTube |
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A handful of Europeans and How We Live video clips have appeared
on the wonderful YouTube.com website. There are lots of Steve Hogarth 'h natural' clips and quite a
few Marillion videos worth checking out too. Click the links
below to see the clips. (Note: you'll need a Broadband
connection!) NOTE : As of June 2007, all the clips have sadly been removed from You Tube, except 'HWL All the Time In the World.' I will try and post some videos up on YouTube in the future. |
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Europeans - The
Animal Song (Promo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3v0_305wM Europeans -
Tunnel Vision (Live 1984) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDrY1cPaEBE How We Live - All the Time in the World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yPWCttDSGY How We Live -
Working Girl (Live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_arg_ePsrc Europeans - The Animal Song (Beavis & Butthead) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41A0l5NzQI |
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'h
solo' Tour in 2006 |
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(Nov / Dec 2005) Steve
Hogarth has announced that he will be undertaking a small 'solo'
tour in late Feb/early March 2006 in UK, Germany, Holland and France. Dates
will go on the Marillion website as soon as they are confirmed. Steve explains: 'h natural' or.. Steve Hogarth: Voice and Piano: An organic evening of music, rock n' roll diary excerpts, lyrics and conversation. "For many years, people have been asking me if I ever planned a one-man show. I told them it was a good idea. Since then, I've been a bit busy, but I have found a little time in February 06, so here goes.. I'm jumping out of the plane. This won't be a tight, well-rehearsed, "professional" show. I want the atmosphere to dictate what happens. I'm going to arrive with a list of songs that have been important to me. These are things I wanted to say when I was young, things I've written over the years with the Europeans, How We Live, The h band, and, of course, Marillion. I'll play some songs. (Hopefully I'll remember how they go..). I might read real-life rock n' roll reminiscences from the diary. If I'm in the mood, and you are too, we'll chat for a little while. If you ask me a decent question, I'll answer it. If the atmosphere is good, I'll keep going - perhaps for hours.. Let's see where it takes us. h" Tickets are available for shows in The Netherlands, London, Birmingham and Liverpool now, but are selling out fast. Details at http://www.marillion.com/tour/index.htm
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Recurring
Dreams CD |
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(August 2005) I am very, very pleased to announce that Europeans' second album Recurring Dreams is now available to buy on
CD. It has been released on the Intact label, catalogue number
Intact CD03. Buy it exclusively via the Marillion website at http://www.marillion.com/music/solo/euros-recurring.htm for £11.99, so please go and get your copy now! To
celebrate this re-release, I have put together a new 'Recurring Dreams' page which collects all the RD references from this site in
one place, plus info on the new CD and a few other new bits and pieces. |
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Re-Issue
News |
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(March 2005) It is looking like the re-issue of the Euros'
'Recurring Dreams' album is finally going
to happen! Colin Woore has been in touch, with exciting news that it
is "now almost
ready - just finishing off the artwork. We're hoping for a release by
the end of April." It should be
coming out on Marillion's own Racket Records label. This
re-issue has been on the cards for many, many years now, so it will be great
to finally see it on CD! I'll have some new interviews with band
members, and full details of where to get your copy SOON! |
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Sounds
Back Online |
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(Feb 2005):
The Sounds
page is once again back online. In addition to the previous MP3 clips,
I have added two new ones... Another How We Live demo,
and a rare performance of Tunnel Vision by the Euros as
performed on 'The Tube.' |
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Europeans
Promo & White Labels |
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(April 2004):
I have added a few more scans of new Europeans acquisitions to the Discography
page: a Recognition 7" White Label test pressing... a very rare one-sided
7" promo of 'The Animal Song' from Spain (See Back Cover / Label),
and a 12" White Label test pressing of AEIOU (See Cover / Label). |
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Colin
Woore & IHR Project |
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(April 2004):
I have finally found time to put together a page about Colin Woore's
involvement with the 'International
Hostage Release' Project. There is quite a bit of info
there, including an exclusive mini-interview with Colin and an MP3 download of his track.
It still amazes me how much stuff I still have in my euro-archive that
I have yet to put up on the site! More soon... |
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New
Marillion album & single |
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(April 2004):
'Marbles', the new (double) album by Marillion is available in
May via www.marillion.com. I got my pre-order
edition a few weeks back and it really is a great album. It is probably
their best since 1997's 'This Strange Engine' (in my humble
opinion!) A single, 'You're Gone' is released on April 19th and
could well go into the UK top 10 due (in part) to a record-breaking amount of
pre-orders at HMV! Please do go and buy it and get Marillion
into the Top 10! A big European tour starts in May which is shaping up
to be their best yet! Watch this space! |
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More
Otway / Europeans on CD |
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(November 2003): 'John Otway Scraps'
- curios and curious', a 3 CD
compilation of 'As & Bs, demos, outtakes, rarities and live cuts' is
available at his gigs (and soon from Otway's
Website.) It contains
the first official release of the Europeans-backed 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet'
on CD. It also includes the demo of a song called 'Dreaming Babies',
which may also be an outtake from the 1981 'All Balls & No Willy'
album sessions (although I have yet to hear it!) |
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Click here to see the John Otway cover. |
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'Recurring
Dreams' album re-issue |
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(October 2003): Europeans guitarist Colin Woore
recently got in touch, bringing good news: "I've
managed to finally license 'Recurring Dreams' back from the record
company, so hopefully we can release it on CD within the next couple of
months. The consensus at the moment is to release the album (on Racket)
as is, without any add-ons. It's never been on CD and the original
album sits so well as it runs. A future
release could contain extras such as demos and unreleased tracks." Colin has now got the
digital master, which apparently wasn't even used for the original
release! More news as I get it. Exciting stuff! |
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2003
'h band' gigs |
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(September 2003): How We Live drummer
Arran Ahmun was a last minute replacement
for Andy Gangadeen at Steve's recent
'h band' tour of Europe. I saw the Union Chapel gig on 26
September, and thought it was the best h band show yet! The show
featured the usual mix of 'Ice Cream Genius' tracks (Cage, Really
Like, Nothing to Declare etc...) plus familiar cover tracks from the 'Live
Spirit Live Body' album (Life on Mars, Life is a Long Song, Estonia
etc...). There were also a few new surprises : full band versions
of 'This is the 21st Century' & 'Three Minute Boy', and stunning solo
vocal/piano version of 'Easter' (all by Marillion), 'Helter Skelter' was back as encore, and there was one new cover
'Greek Song' by Rufus Wainwright. |
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Photo by Kate Macca. See more of her 'h' pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/11053964@N05/sets/ |
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Euros
/ HWL News Round-Up 2003 |
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At long last, some more updates! An AEIOU
Promotional Address Book, the A&M Records database website, a
long awaited Marillion biography, more on 'The Edinburgh Playhouse
Incident' and a round up of new Europeans and How
We Live Records... All these items can be found on the News Round Up 2003 page. |
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2003
'h band' gigs + new Marillion album |
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The 'h
band' will be touring Europe in September. Steve
writes :"I'm proud, delighted and relieved to announce another chance
to experience the dark and beautiful magic which is my band of eight
like-minded sorcerers, committed to the summoning up of spirits and the
stirring up of souls." Dates are as
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19 Sept De Kada,
Zaandam 20 Sept
De Lantaarn, Hellendoorn (replacing the cancelled 'Day of Dreams' festival in
Zwolle) 21 Sept
Alter Wartesaal, Cologne 22 Sept
Thunder Road, Milan 24 Sept
Bikini Club, Barcelona 26 Sept
Union Chapel, Islington, UK. Full details, including ticket availability at www.marillion.com/tour/index.html . Meanwhile, recording is under way at Racket Studios for the new Marillion album. Entitled 'Marbles', it will be a double album of new material. More details, including info about the pre-order scheme, at the Marillion website above. |
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Geoff
Dugmore Website |
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Apologies for the lack of recent updates. I have
been working on Geoff Dugmore's official webpages
which are now up and running at www.geoffdugmore.com.
The site contains a frequently updated news page, a full CV listing all
Geoff's session and live drumming credits, a biography, endorsements links
and much much more! Please have a look and
email Geoff (or me!) with your comments. More euros
updates on this site soon, I promise! |
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Website
Overhaul & New Features |
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I have changed the look of the site a bit, I hope you like
it. All the old features are still here, they just look a bit
different! I am also pleased to announce that there are a couple of
very exciting updates that I have been promising for a while. The Videography
pages now have 4 new sets of europeans vidcaps from
various sources. The other big addition is a How we Live Tour Diary written
by keyboardist Raine Shine back in 1986. More updates in the new
year. Thanks for visiting. |
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Marillion
'Online Forum' |
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Marillion's official
website has set up an 'Online Forum' at www.marillion.com/forum.
It takes the form of a newsgroup / chat room facility solely for Marillion
based topics. Over the summer, I noticed that a few Europeans and How we Live
questions were asked, and answered by Steve in the 'Ask the Band'
section. I have reproduced a couple of them here. |
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Wed, 19 Jun 2002, 9:12 A.
Moves are afoot to acquire these from Polygram who now own the A&M
imprint. Lucy J is working on it. More news soon hopefully. h. A. Well, we sold so few of 'em, that we probably signed MOST of 'em.
My money's on it being Ferg.. or
some kind of price-reduction tag! One of the music papers said it sounded
like "a coal scuttle full of vomit" - I'll never forget that piece
of incisive music journalism. h.
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September
2002 'h band' |
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Steve Hogarth undertook
a mini-tour in September to promote the 'Live Body: Live Spirit'
album, and by all accounts they were the best shows yet. I got to see
the last show at Dingwalls, and the band
were the tightest I had seen them. The set included a handful of 'h'
tunes ('Really Like', 'Dinosaur Thing', 'Until You Fall' etc...) plus many of
the covers featured on the album ('The Loving', 'Life on Mars' etc...).
There were a few extra treats in the shape of a new opener, 'A Few Words
for the Dead' (from Marillion's 1998 album 'Radiation') and 'Middle
Road' (another Aziz tune with backing vox from
h). Two tunes played at the LA2 back in January were also added : How We Live's 'India' (introduced by Steve with a tale about the
record company's dislike for the band) and 'All Things Must Pass' as a
further tribute to the late George Harrison. The double live album is fantastic, and I would urge
anybody who hasn't bought it yet to head over to www.marillion.com
! The liner notes reproduce a handful of emails sent between Steve and
guitarist Dave Gregory listing potential songs for the initial gigs. In
the shortlist of songs were 'Acid Rain' (by the europeans)
and 'Nothing to Hide' (described by Steve as an "unrecorded old How We Live song
if I can find the demo!") |
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'h
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Steve Hogarth's
long awaited live CD is finally available from www.marillion.com
as are details of an 'h band' mini-tour this September. The
double album comprises highlights of the 'Spirit' and 'Body'
evenings recorded at 'Dingwalls' last summer.
The tour stops at the customary Dingwalls once
again, Cardiff, Sheffield, plus two Dutch dates, in
Amsterdam & Hellendoorn. Well worth a
look I should think ! |
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News
from Geoff Dugmore (August 2002) |
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Geoff Dugmore maintains
a busy schedule as usual. He writes :
"I'm currently In Japan touring with legendary Rocker E Yazawa. Shows include Tokyo Stadium (56,000) and 10
nights at the Budokan Arena (15,000 a night.)
Big Tour !!! Recent recordings include Nick
Carter (Backstreet Boys solo album), Kamerey (new
signing to BMG) & Natalie Appleton (All Saints - forthcoming album on Polydor.)" Geoff's own website will be
up and running very soon at www.gdrum1.com |
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Euros
'Vocabulary' Cassette |
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I recently tracked down a copy of the
'Vocabulary' album on cassette, one of the few Europeans
items that I had yet to find. Not only does it sound superb (missing
the scratches from the vinyl!), but it also has a great inlay sleeve,
containing a shot of the band that may well be unique to this release. Click here to see: The Front Inlay / The Back Inlay / The Cassette |
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Sounds
Back Online I am very pleased to announce that the Sounds page is back online again. I had to take the clips down last year when my ISP (BTInternet) reduced my webspace from 2GB to 10MB. However, John Gardner has since offered to host the mp3s for me, and they are now available again. Thanks John! |
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Reissue
Possibilities I am always hearing rumours and speculation about the Re-release of the Europeans albums on CD Format. With that in mind, I have put together a 'Reissue Possibilities' Page documenting the current state of play, while also having a look at how the back catalogue might be best presented. |
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Euros
/ HWL News Round-Up 2002 |
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I have added a new page containing lots of Europeans and How
We Live related News,
including an update from Geoff Dugmore, info on some cover versions
of Euros tracks, more about an obscure 80s film soundtrack, hard to
find MP3s, and various other references. There were a lot of
items, so I've put them on a separate News Round Up 2002 page. |
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Recent
(and future) Website updates I have updated my 'Guide to Collecting' with the latest prices from Record Collector Magazine, and also archived the News items from 2000 & 2001 to a separate page. Coming Soon : a look at re-issue possibilities, a round up of euros and HWL news (including some interesting cover versions I've found!), an interview with Geoff about his 'Wildlife' band project, updated captures for the Videography page, Europeans newsletters from 1984... and much more... |
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2002
Hogarth Gigs & Album Sampler |
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The 'h
band' screamed genius in London, Amsterdam & Paris this
new year. The band line up was the same as the summer 'Spirit' and 'Body'
shows, and the sets featured much of the same material. I was present at the 'Mean Fiddler' (LA2)
London show, which started out a little shaky! It took a good half a dozen
songs before the band settled in to their groove. Steve admitted that they
had not timed the set, so the gig turned in to a race against the clock, with
a few songs being dropped towards the end of the night. The band were once
again outstanding, Aziz and Dave Gregory stood out once again! The biggest
surprise (and highlight) of the evening was a great version of the How We Live song 'India.' |
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Other songs in the set (from memory, and not in order)
were Really Like, You
Dinosaur Thing, Green Manalishi , Dream Brother, Life Is A Long Song, Better Dreams,
Cage, The Deep Water, Man Of The World, The Old Wild Men, Zen & Now,
Estonia, 80 Days, Life On Mars, The Loving and a poignant
acoustic rendition of George Harrison's
All Things Must Pass to close the show. Nothing to
Declare, See Emily Play and Alice's House were also played at the
Amsterdam gig. |
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On sale at the shows was a limited edition 'h band' ep.
The tracks are a live version of Cage
taken from the forthcoming live album, plus three 'bonus rarities' - home
demos of The Urban
Spaceman and Until
You Fall, plus a 'bootleg' mix of See Emily Play from
the Dingwalls show. The 2CD live album will be out
'early 2002.' |
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