Tonight @ Spirit of 66

No Name will be present tonight when IQ is "back on the road" at Spirit of 66 in Verviers, Belguim.(Just to avoid any confusion, we will be there to enjoy the gig, not to play...)



We are very happy to see these guys again. So if you do not know what to do, just just join us. (Begin 18.30)
Link for more info: http://www.spiritof66.com/
Have a nice one.
Chris

Concert Confirmed

No Name is performing on the "Rock et" 2009 stage.

Location: Dudelange

Date: 27th June 2009

Further details to be confirmed.

News around 20 Candels

Let me begin with the following date you have to bear in you mind: 16th Apr 2009.

Kuffi will be present at RTL Television's show called "20 vir" (20 to) at 6.40 pm (which explains the name of the show) Don't miss it.

Further Kuffi uploaded a live version of "Mat enger Tréin" taken out of our 20th anniversary concert the 14th March 2009 @ "Op der Schmelz" on http://www.youmake.tv/ (Have a look it´s worth it)

Talking about http://www.youmake.tv/ , I did the same with a video used for the screen show on the 14th. I've chosen "Visions" for the first and some other will surely follow.

Last but not least, some negociations are done around some concerts and I will let you know as soon everything is confirmed.

Stay tuned.

Chris

20 Candles, The Show: Thank You All

Thousand thanks to all of you joining this event and giving us this huge and warm welcome. It was extremely motivating to see all these faces we knew since a long time and the ones, coming to this event out of sheer curiosity.





The show started with a chronological set, reflecting the songs from 1988 until 2008 followed by a set of songs we just love to play. All in all it was a more than 2 hours show and words fail me to express everything we experienced that exceptional day. I have to get together with the lads to discuss what impressions they captured. Yves came along, yestersay, and I had the impression he was still amazed about the event.Enjoying together a glass of good Italian wine, He gave me some really good feedback, he got from several people joining the event. (I heared nothing so far because I slept away nearly the whole Sunday an Monday...), and together we had a look on the, very poor, Video record I made of the gig, and some glint appeared in our eyes.



I will give a more detailed review once I had a chat with everybody, to consider all impressions and experiences of that very special evening.

This Blog will be continued with the same name until end of 2009. (Later I'll see how to rename it and let you know). Further you will have details of upcoming events and other things.

To see some pictures taken on Saturday, please simply click on the below image and enjoy.

Chris :o)

20 Candles: The Show

20 Candles completed

On Sunday, 28th February 2009, some champagne bottles have been opened at Tritone Studios to celebrate the end of a long journey. The mixdown and remastering have been finished. So by now we are quite confident that the disc will be available for the 14th March 2009 at our 20th anniversary concert.

Now our focus applies to this very big event and we had some re-hearsals already last week. Further, this concert needs a lot of engineering, in order to get it a worthy anniversary "party"

I will confirm our supporting act, tomorrow at this place.

Now I want you to put your attention on the following Radio shows where we will be interviewed:

Radio 100,7: Sat. 07-03-09 between 02.30pm and 04.30pm (Freq. 100,7)

RTL: Fri. 13-03-09 between 08.00am and 09.00am (Freq. 88,9)

DNR: Fri. 13-03-09 between 05.00pm and 07.00pm (Freq. 107,7)

Maybe there will be some more to confirm.

Have a nice one.

Chris

Big time at Tritone Studios

The warm welcome at Tritone Studios, Trier (http://www.audio.lu/tritone.php?lang=de&module=aboutus) was just the begin of a good relationship between them and us. On Monday, Alex took the whole day to get things started and after a really long session, Broken Heart was mixed down. Julio and Georges from Tritone were open to meet any exigences from the Band but never without investing their opinion, guidance and experience. After a few hours we made a good team, which I personally found one of the qualities to punctuate. The sound of the songs is full, dynamic and living. I know, some of you might say that this is the main goal of all studio, but beleive me, I had some opposite experience in the past.

(Georges (left) and Julio (right) in "action")

However, today will be the final mixdown. Alex had, I guess, a quite fullfilling week and he is surely happy that this load has been taken off him. Again I just want to thank him for all the work he has done the last few month. If everithing works fine today, tomorrow will see the remastering.

I'll keep you posted
Have a nice week-end

Chris ;o)

Recordings finalised

Yes, as promised, it's done. Finally we finished the recordings.

It was around 16.00 CET that we all met to take a look at the things we left out at the begin of the recording sessions. "Left out? How this?" some of you might ask. Well this is quickly explained: When recording sessions are in the beginning phase, everybody tries to start with the, let's say, more complex parts. And at the end of the recording period you have always something to play that you thought finished. However, now we are sure that our Album "20 Candles" will be available latest on 14th March 2009.

Kuffi opened the door to our rehearsal room this afternoon with the words: "Hi, the chants are taped" I can imagine that this took a load from him (and as well from Alex).

So, we went again to take some Band pics, followed by a last action from Yves. Mulles finished a "dum dum dum dum" (So did I too) and I was finishing a few more percussive things.
Now we are ready to rumble. The mixing phase is now upcoming. News will follow.
Have a nice week.
Chris