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| Monday, March
31st, 2003 |
| "Friends Of Live" have confirmed that the release date for "Birds
Of Pray" will be on May 19th for ALL international countries. I will be adding
an excellent quality mp3 of "Heaven" to the New Songs Section later tonight. I have added an image of a scan of the "Heaven"
promotional cd to the Album 6 Section.
Setlists and reviews from all of the concerts this past weekend have been added to
Setlist
& Review Section. And
"Alligator Online" has added a new review to their site, from the March 22nd concert in Orlando,
Florida (thanks to Cole for this link). |
| Friday, March
28th, 2003 |
| I made a recording of the broadcast
of "Heaven" (aired on "105.7 The X" in York, Pennysylvania yesterday
evening), which I added to the New Songs Section (thanks to Greg of "AU Publishing" for hosting this file)! As announced in
an update on Wednesday, the release date for LIVE's new album, "Birds Of Pray",
has been pushed up to May 20th (originally sheduled for May 27th) in the United States.
The release date (for the new album) in Holland is now slated for May 19th. I was
searching the "Collegiate Times" website and came across a cool review from the March 24th concert in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Setlists and reviews from the March 26th concert in Hempstead, New York and the concert
last night in Lincroft, New Jersey have been added to the Setlist & Review Section (setlists and reviews from the concerts this weekend will be added
to this section as they become available). And Tom (Tropez) sent me a link to another
cool article on LIVE, which is located on the "Music Gear Review" website. Have A Nice Weekend! |
| Wednesday,
March 26th, 2003 |
| I have added the new LIVE logo (to
be associated with the new album) to the Album 6 Section. According to this article (which is in dutch) on the Universal Music website,
"Birds Of Pray" is slated to be released on May 19th in Holland. Setlists
and reviews from the March 23rd concert in Norfolk, Virginia and the March 24th concert
in Blacksburg, Virginia have been added to the Setlist & Review Section. If you visit this page on the WMMR radio station website, you can listen
to song samples from 5 different bands, one of which will be opening for LIVE at
the March 28th concert in Philadelphia. After you've decided who your favorite artist
is, you can vote for one of them on the main page
of their site. The Live Lounge Newsletter (Issue 83) was sent out this evening...
if you haven't subscribed yet, subscribe now!
And with 56% of the votes, the majority of voters think the new live recording of
"Like I Do" is EXCELLENT.... full results of this past weeks poll are located
here. Make sure to vote on the new poll posted below! |
| Monday, March
24th, 2003 |
| The results have been tallied from
the Cover
& Remix Contest! The
winner of the best cover is Clay Lancaster (lead singer of the band "SoMa") of Santa Cruz, California, with his winning cover
of "Run Away". And the winner of the best remix is Marc Heubeck (of Karlsruhe,
Germany) and Michael Ramskov-Baek (of Hornslet, Denmark), with their remix of "They
Stood Up For Love" (no balls attached ballad mix). Entries that were submitted
to this contest will only be available for download for a limited time, so if you
haven't download them yet, make sure to download them now! For those that are interested, Ed's head is now completely shaved,
so he's back to sporting his bald hairdo. Setlists and reviews from the March 21st
concert in Boca Raton, Florida and the March 22nd concert in Orlando, Florida have
been added to the Setlist & Review Section (setlists and reviews from the concert last night in Virginia, as
well as the concert tonight, will be added to this section as they become available).
The WDCV radio station (in Carlisle, Pennysylvania) will be giving away tickets to
the March 30th concert at Dickinson College this week (starting tonight)... check
their website
for times and details. And the "York Daily Record" newspaper (in York,
Pennysylvania) has a cool interview
with Chad Taylor on their website (from November of last year), which talks about
the new album some (thanks to Tropez for this link). |
| Friday, March
21st, 2003 |
| LIVE will kick-off a string of tour
dates (performing 9 concerts in 10 days), starting tonight at Florida Atlantic University
in Boca Raton, Florida, and ending next Sunday (March 30th) at Dickinson College
in Carlisle, Pennysylvania. Setlists and Reviews from all of these upcoming shows
will be added to the Setlist & Review Section as they become available. Tickets for a bunch of the overseas tour
dates have gone on-sale... check the Tour Section
for the latest links to purchase tickets. Voting will end this evening (around midnight
EDT) for voting on the LIVE Cover & Remix Contest, so if you haven't voted yet,
make sure to vote now!
And "Friends Of Live" have added a bunch of new pictures from "Adam
& The Weight's" cd release party (which Ed was also at) to the Tour Diary
section of their site. Have A Nice Weekend! |
| Wednesday,
March 19th, 2003 |
| I have added a mp3 of "Life Marches
On" (from the 11/22/02 concert at F&M College in Lancaster, Pennysylvania)
to the New
Songs Section. I have come
across a new press photo of LIVE to the Album 6 Section, which was taken during the recent Lake Tahoe concerts in February.
LIVE have confirmed a new tour date for June 14th at the "Heineken Jammin Festival"
in Imola, Italy. Tickets are on-sale now for this concert (a link to purchase tickets
is located in the Tour Section).
I have also received word that LIVE will be performing (along with "Coldplay")
in Nijmegen, Holland on July 1st. Tickets for this concert are expected to go on-sale
sometime next week (stay tuned for more info). The Live Lounge Newsletter (Issue
82) was sent out today... if you haven't subscribed yet, subscribe now!
And with 52% of the votes, the majority of voters LOVE the title of the new album
("Birds Of Pray").... full results of this past weeks poll are located
here.
Make sure to vote on the new poll posted below! |
| Monday, March
17th, 2003 |
| I have added a mp3 of "Like I
Do" (from the 11/22/02 concert at F&M College in Lancaster, Pennysylvania)
to the New
Songs Section. As announced
in an update on Friday, LIVE have confirmed a new tour date for May 3rd at "Nashville
River Stages" (at the Riverfront Main Stage) in Nashville, Tennessee. Tickets
are on-sale now (a link to purchase tickets has been added to the Tour Section).
A cover of "Lakini's Juice" by the band "Avenues of Approcah"
(of Houston, Texas), as well as a remix of "They Stood Up For Love" (no
balls attached ballad mix) by Marc Heubeck (of Karlsruhe, Germany) and Michael Ramskov-Baek
(of Hornslet, Denmark) have been added to the Cover Contest Section. Also, voting has begun for the LIVE Cover & Remix Contest! Please
make sure to vote on ALL 6 polls (if applicable) that are listed in the Cover Contest
Section! Voting will end this Friday around midnight EDT, and the winners will then
be announced on Monday (March 24th). And Baltimore-based band, "Lake Trout", will be one of the opening bands at the March
28th concert at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennysylvania. |
| Friday, March
14th, 2003 |
| "Friends Of Live" have just confirmed that "Heaven"
will be the first single off of LIVE's new album, "Birds Of Pray". It will
be released to radio stations on April 7th, so get ready to start requesting it!
As announced in an update yesterday, LIVE have just confirmed 21 new tour dates for
many new cities overseas! LIVE will be supporting "Bon Jovi" on most of these dates. Tickets for all
of the dates with "Bon Jovi" are on-sale now, as well as some of the headlining
shows, too. Check out the Tour Section
for the latest on ticket and event info (the tour section will be updated as info
becomes available). I have added the links to all of the mp3's from the 11/23/02
Atlantic City concert (that I remastered) to the LIVE Concerts Section. I will also be remastering the 11/22/02 Lancaster concert this weekend,
so I will have that whole concert available soon. I will be posting the full live
recording of "Like I Do" on Monday (March 17th), and the full live recording
of "Life Marches On" on Wednesday (March 19th) [both of these recordings
will be from the Lancaster concert]. In the meantime, I have added a sample of the
studio recording of "Like I Do" (which was aired on Zeta 94.7 in Miami,
Florida on 2/13/03) to the New Songs
section on the site (as well as an mp3 of "What Are We Fighting For" and
the acoustic version of "Run Away"). Regular on-sale for tickets to the
May 2nd concert at "Music Midtown" (in Atlanta, Georgia) went on-sale this
morning at 10am (a link to purchase tickets is located in the Tour Section). Advance
tickets for the April 25th concert at "CityFest Live" (in Charlotte, North
Carolina) will go on-sale tomorrow morning at 10am (a link to purchase tickets is
located in the Tour Section). Ed (and Railo) appeared last night at the cd release
party of "Adam & The Weight" (which features Ed's brother, Adam) in
California. I have added 4 pictures of Ed & Adam (from this event) to this thread
in the message board. And "Adam & The Weight's" new cd, titled "Looking Up From
The Ground", is now available for purchase on the "LaPriest Entertainment" website (there are also a couple samples
of some of the songs, too). Have A Nice Weekend! |
| Thursday, March
13th, 2003 |
| As announced in an update yesterday,
I received an e-mail from officials stating that "Heaven" has NOT been
confirmed as the first single off the new album (and may or may not end up being
the first single), as it is just a rumor as of now. Even though the concert on March
30th at Dickinson College (in Carlisle, Pennysylvania) is sold out, you still have
the opportunity to win tickets off the campus radio station. Starting on Monday,
March 24th, certain dj's at the station (WDCV) will be giving away tickets to this
concert. Please visit the WDCV website
for details on the exact times and dates that they will be giving these tickets away
(this station also has a streaming broadcast, for those that don't live in the Carlisle
area). Tickets for the March 26th concert at Hofstra University (in Hempstead, New
York) have just gone on-sale. You can purchase tickets at the box office on campus,
or by calling 516-463-6633. And "Adam & The Weight" will be holding a cd release party
this evening at the "Key Club" in Los Angeles, California. Their new cd,
which is titled "Looking Up From The Ground", will be available for purchase
over the internet soon, so stay tuned for more details. |
| Wednesday,
March 12th, 2003 |
| Chad Gracey announced that "Heaven"
will be the first single off of the new album, and is expected to be released for
airplay to radio stations around mid-April (this news courtesy of "Gracey Notes").
However, this is NOT confirmed by FOL or management, so this may not end up being
the first single afterall. A pre-sale for tickets to the May 2nd concert at "Music
Midtown" go on-sale this morning at 10am. This pre-sale ends tomorrow at 10pm...
regular on-sale for these tickets will go on-sale Friday at 10am. Entries for the
Cover
& Remix Contest must
be received by this Sunday, so make sure to go your entries in by then! I will begin
adding the links to the mp3's from the 11/22/02 concert at "Trump Marina"
in Atlantic City, New Jersey to the LIVE Concerts Section as soon as I get some of them uploaded (this concert is not of the
best quality, but has never been surfaced before). The Live Lounge Newsletter (Issue
81) was sent out today... if you haven't subscribed yet, subscribe now!
And the current poll will be extended until next week... according to the current results, the majority of voters (54%) LOVE the title of the new album ("Birds
Of Pray"). |
| Monday, March
10th, 2003 |
| Tickets for the May 2nd concert at
"Music Midtown" in Atlanta, Georgia will go on-sale this Thursday (March
14th) at 10am via Ticketmaster. More information on tickets to this event is located
here.
Tickets for the April 25th concert at "CityFest Live" in Charlotte, North
Carolina will go on-sale this Friday (March 15th). More information on tickets to
this event is located here. Jimmy Lang from "Shooting Live" has posted a bunch of cool new pictures to
his picture gallery (these pictures are from the February 28th and March 1st concerts
at "Caesar's Tahoe" in Lake Tahoe, Nevada). And I am currently remastering
some recordings that I received (from the November 22nd concert at F&M College
in Lancaster, Pennysylvania, and the November 23rd concert at "Trump Marina"
in Atlantic City, New Jersey), so I will have mp3's available (from both of these
concerts) sometime in the near future. |
| Friday, March
7th, 2003 |
| "Friends Of Live" have just posted the WMMR Interview with Ed
(held on February 19th) to the Media Section of their site. For those of you that were planning
on attending the sold out concert on March 30th at Dickinson College (in Carlisle,
Pennysylvania), there is still hope. The radio station on campus (WDCV) will be offering
several ticket giveaways to this concert. Make sure to stay tuned to this site (and
the WDCV
website) for the times of
these giveaways. Have A Nice Weekend! |
| Wednesday,
March 5th, 2003 |
| "Friends Of Live" have confirmed that LIVE's new album (titled
"Birds Of Pray") will be released on May 27th. LIVE have also confirmed
2 new festival dates! The first festival is on April 25th at "CityFest Live"
in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the second festival is on May 2nd at "Music
Midtown" in Atlanta, Georgia. Ticket and event info for these new dates will
be added to the site when it becomes available. Tickets for the March 30th concert
at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennysylvania have completely sold out (before
the public on-sale date), so no tickets will be available to the public. Tickets
for the March 21st concert at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida
have just gone on-sale (a link to purchase tickets has been added to the Tour Section).
Stay tuned to the "Friends Of Live" website for a couple new surprises in the near future (I hope
to have atleast 1 new surprise within the near future, too). Adam Kowalczyk's new
band, "Adam & The Weight",
will be releasing their first (new) cd, titled "Looking Up From The Ground",
on March 13th. They have also added a new tour date for the "House Of Blues"
in Anaheim, California on March 14th (more info on this date has been added to the
Tour
Section). The Live Lounge
Newsletter (Issue 80) was sent out today... if you haven't subscribed yet, subscribe
now! And with 62% of the
votes, the majority of voters believe that "What Are We Fighting For" is
AWESOME.... full results of this past weeks poll are located here. Make sure to vote on the new poll posted below! |
| Monday, March
3rd, 2003 |
| Ed announced at the March 1st concert
(at Caesar's Tahoe in Lake Tahoe, Nevada) that the official title (of the new album)
will be called "Birds Of Pray", and is slated to be released on May 27th!
Also, LIVE performed a new song called "Heaven" at this show. The setlists
from the 2 Lake Tahoe shows this past weekend, as well as several concert reviews,
have been added to the Setlist & Review Section. And LIVE will be performing "Lakini's Juice" during a
re-airing of "Saturday Night Live" this afternoon on the Comedy Central network, between 6pm and
7pm EDT. |
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