GNC-NEWS 02/2007 [07 March 07]

[Christian]

Dear fellow Genesis Fans

As promised, a summary of the press conference in New York City

Also, we have a competition and with a little luck you may win promo-stuff from the upcoming SACD/DVD boxset.



GENESIS Press Conference

13 Shows announced for North America

During the press conference today in New York City, Genesis revealed their tour schedule for North America. So far, (only) 13 shows were announced. This is the list:

Sep 07, 2007 Toronto, ON - BMO Field
Sep 11, 2007 Boston MA, US - Banknorth Garden
Sep 14, 2007 Montreal, QC - Olympic Stadium
Sep 16, 2007 Hartford, CT - Hartford Civic Center
Sep 18, 2007 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
Sep 22, 2007 Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
Sep 23, 2007 Washington, DC - Verizon Center
Sep 27, 2007 East Rutherford, NJ - Giants Stadium
Sep 29, 2007 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
Sep 30, 2007 Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
Oct 02, 2007 Chicago, IL - United Center
Oct 09, 2007 San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
Oct 12, 2007 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl

General ticket sale for Montreal and Philadelphia starts 10th March 2007
General ticket sale for Toronto, Boston, Hartford, East Rutherford and Chicago starts 12th March 2007
all other ticket sale dates are to be announced soon

A Pre-Sale is available to premium members of the relaunched official Genesis website only on 8th March at 10 a.m. (4 hour time window). The premium membership costs $35 for one year. Therefore, we will not be able to provide Pre-sale links.

An overview of the North American Tour schedule is available here
http://www.genesis-news.com/genesis/...rica_2007.html

Our correspondent at the New York Press Conference, Frank Mitchell, will provide a full report about the event, to be available on our website shortly.

You can discuss the press conference and tour schedule in our upgraded forum and fan-community-portal (see below).



New FAN-COMMUNITY Portal / Upgraded Forums

As you know we constantly try to improve our site and our english Forums needed an upgrade. We have now installed the professional vBulletin Software and besides the FORUM, we have also installed a Fan-Community Portal, which gives you a nice overview about the Forum and its users.
The old forum is now closed and will be deleted soon. All contents from the old forum were transfered and all user-accounts can still be used are still active in the new forums. If you have problems, contact us at gnc-forum-admin@genesis-fanclub.de
We hope you like it!

The Fan Community Portal
http://www.genesis-news.com/community/

The Main Forum
http://www.genesis-news.com/forum/



COMPETITION

Genesis News Com gives away promotional CDs and DVD to some lucky winners

The SACD / DVD Boxset (in North America: CD / DVD Releases) and doubledisc album re-releases are on their way and will be released in early April in Europe and three weeks later (24th April) in North America.
Two Promo discs have appeared, one with a 5.1 teaser (DVD), and another one with a selection 17 tracks on CD from the first set.
You can see images of the cover here:
http://www.genesis-news.com/genesis/...dvd_review.htm
and here:
http://www.genesis-news.com/genesis/...omo-review.htm

We give away three copies of each promo, one person can only win one CD Promo OR one DVD Promo

What you need to do:

Log in in our new upgraded forums and submit your votes in these polls:
Vote for your three favorite Genesis Albums:
Vote for your 3 favorite Genesis Studio-Albums!

and
Which songs do you want to hear live on tour (5-10 votes)?
Which songs do you want to hear live? You have 5 - 10 votes!

you can find the polls also by entering our forums, then click on the "Genesis Polls" sub-Forum listed in the Genesis Category.

Genesis News Com will do an interview with Genesis and we intend to give the poll-results to the band. Both polls are currently running in the german Forum as well with great success (930 / 670 votes at the moment).

Submit your votes in both polls, then send an eMail to
1976-1982promos@genesis-fanclub.de
including your full name, postal address and your username, under which you have submitted your votes in our FORUM-polls.
If some of the required data is missing, you will not enter the competition.
You may also send a preference (whether you want to have a CD or DVD), but there's no guarantee!
The competition is open for anyone wordwide.

The competition closes 27th March, 6 pm, CET. Winners will be notified via eMail and the items will be send out immediately.
By entering the competition, you accept the above listed rules.



make sure to check out our news and tour-section, which are updated regularly

until next time

the team of
Genesis News Com | International Fansite
www.genesis-news.com