As Nick Davis just posted on the official forum there are currently no plans to change the setlist for the upcoming North American tour leg. They might start the tour with an unchanged set and see what the audiences’ reactions will be before the make a final decision on changes.

Of course this can still change especially on the rehearsals which are set to start on September 2nd in Toronto, Ontario.

Yesterday (Aug. 22nd) Canadian Online Explorer has published an interesting interview with Tony Banks:

Link

Slowly the tension starts to rise again. On Sept. 2nd the band meets again in Toronto after their “summer break”. Until Sept. 5th they will test the indoor stage for the North American tour at the Air Canada Centre. At the moment it’s totally uncertain if there will be set changes at all. We’ll probably know more after the dress rehearsal on Sept. 5th.

The tour then restarts on Sept. 7th at Toronto FC’s recently inaugurated soccer stadium BMO Field. For this show as well as at Montréal’s Olympic Stadium and New York’s Giant Stadium the band will use the stadium stage from the European leg.

For details on the North American tour click here.

One personal remark: of course UK76’s TRAVELS will return. On Sept. 15th I’ll be flying to Boston to see my first North American show (of eight) in Hartford the following day. As usual reports will be available in this blog.

Milwaukee radio station WKLH have put a new interview with Daryl Stuermer online. In it, Daryl insinuates that Genesis seem to be considering to play more shows in 2008.

www.wklh.com/daveAndCarole_Daryl.asp

This August, as in every year since 2001, Ray Wilson performs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is going to play seven shows this year. I had seen the last three shows last year, so I decided I would attend the first three shows on August 9, 10 and 11 this year. Admittedly, I also had the hope to experience Edinburg in a nice summer warmth, which should be possible in early August, but temperatures only just reached 20°C (68°F), little sun and the occasional spot of rain. That’s Scotland for you. But then the shows were not outdoors but at the Madogs pub in the city centre. The venue offered room for 100 people, with seats only for some; while the first three shows were not sold out, it was still quite full. The August 18 performance is sold out. The pub has recently undergone a makeover, so there was a wee whiff of paint in the air but it was all very fine.
The location is of some historical interest for Ray, too. It was here that he rediscovered his love for music after the end of his depressive phase and Genesis in 2001 when he played a couple of solo shows for the festival. Back then he lacked (musical) self-confidence, as he reminisces during this year’s shows. It is a flaw that definitely has left him.
Ray basically sticks to a fixed setlist this year, and he intends to play that on all full band shows; he added Sunshine & Butterflies for the third show, though.
The set is a well-balanced mixture of loud and quiet, aggressive and melancholy, old and new.
The audience was in a good mood and there was the occasional contact between Ray and the folks in the front rows because the space was so tightly packed. Still the applause faded rather quickly before the encores and I was afraid that it would stop altogether; a couple of enthusiasts kept the applause level up until the band returned for the encores.
Ray’s father was among the audience during the third night (as in previous years), but Ray did not mention that. Two years ago his father had joined him on stage for a song.
The shows on August 17 and 18 are acoustic performances. They had not been scheduled as such. Ashley, the drummer, had long before arranged a show for these days with another of his bands who cannot make do without him. It took Ray quite long to find a venue for this August. I guess Ray made the best of it because the set is going to be different for the acoustic shows. His performance on August 11 was on the brink of being cancelled; Wolfgang Niedecken, vocalist of BAP [a very well-known band in Germany] had asked Ray to support them at the final show of their tour on Roncalliplatz in Cologne. Apparently BAP had asked him when they all played at a festival in Neustadt/Holstein in Northern Germany on August 5. After much consideration Ray decided to play Edinburgh instead.
There was also an unexpected bonus for me: Many artists appear in the Fringe Festival programme, but many more also play their music late at night in a pubs or simply sing along to backing tracks. During the first show Ray mentioned that Amanda Lyon, who sung in his band until 2003, would appear at Madogs’ the next night. I did not want to miss that! So I waited patiently until she appeared. She began at a quarter to one in the night and played three sets of 40 minutes. Her voice is still impressive. She now sings popular soul numbers you may know from the radio, but when she sings them they sound at least as good as the originals and it was evident that she enjoyed herself. I talked to her a bit after the first set and she seemed happy to meet a fan from back then, as it were. It was only three weeks since she had begun to do these performances. She does them twice a week after her day job in a shop, but since she has moved to a more expensive flat she needs the money. Actually, Ashley had stayed to meet her, too, and they shared a warm embrace. Ray and the others left, though, and it seems that there has been no contact between Amanda and Ray and the folks since 2003.
Last year I saw Ray’s brother Steve doing such a performance in another pub; he, too, played three 40 minute sets (guitar and vocals to a backing track). This year it’s Amanda. Funny if you consider that both used to play with Ray before they got to know each other too well, as it were. Now they have been reduced to performances like these that can be really frustating when you see how almost nobody cares about the show and they all consider it background muzak.

But that’s the great thing when you go and see Ray at the Fringe Festival – there will be the occasional bonus

Setlists:
9.8.07:
She
Space Oddity
Another Day
Lemon Yellow Sun
Hey Hey
Sarah
Constantly Reminded
In the Air Tonight (solo acoustic)
The Actor (solo acoustic)

Follow You Follow Me (full band acoustic)
Change (full band acoustic)
Carpet Crawlers
Alone
Goodbye Baby Blue
Taking Time
Footsteps
Inside
Fly High
Ghost
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August 10, 2007:
She
Space Oddity
Another Day
Lemon Yellow Sun
Hey Hey
Sarah
Constantly Reminded
In the Air Tonight (solo acoustic)
The Actor (solo acoustic)

Follow You Follow Me (full band acoustic)
Change (full band acoustic)
Carpet Crawlers
Alone
Goodbye Baby Blue
Taking Time
Footsteps
Inside
Fly High
Ghost
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Augsut 11, 2007:
She
Space Oddity
Another Day
Lemon Yellow Sun
Hey Hey
Sarah
Constantly Reminded
In the Air Tonight (solo acoustic)
The Actor (solo acoustic)

Follow You Follow Me (full band acoustic)
Change (full band acoustic)
Carpet Crawlers
Alone
Goodbye Baby Blue
Taking Time
Sunshine & Butterflies
Footsteps
Inside
Fly High
Ghost

(photos & written by Volker W., translated by Martinus)

After a two week break the “Warm Up” tour ended for Peter Gabriel and the band - luckily enough without any rain! There were no further surprises in the setlist, but a memorable incident occurred when they lost electrical power for ten minutes during “Steam”. These songs were played:

The Rhythm Of The Heat
On The Air
Intruder
Steam
Blood Of Eden
No Self Control
Solsbury Hill
Mother Of Violence
Family Snapshot
Lay Your Hands On Me
Secret World
Signal To Noise

Biko

The canadian Coverband The Musical Box is well known and respected among fans for their detailled reproductions of the Genesis-shows Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
This fall, the band will perform the legendary Black Show (Selling England) in Europe.
Over the past five years, the band had great success in Europe, especially in Germany. In 1996, the German Genesis Fanclub it hosted the Selling England - Event with special guests Denis Gagne and Serge Morissette, five years later we hosted the even more successful The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway-Event, that took place on two consecutive days. Both Events didn’t feature any live performance, it was a documentary of those albums and tours and Serge and Denis gave the German fans and further international fans an insight of how things were back then.
For many fans, a dream became truth in 2003, when Winfried Völklein decided to book the band for a German tour and a couple of dates in surrounding countries. The rest is history…
Now, The Musical Box want to give back somerhing by saying Thank You to their german and european fans.
The German Genesis Fanclub it is proud to present something special:

The German Genesis Fanclub it presents: The Nursery Cryme-Event 2007 - feat. The Musical Box - live!

31st Oktober 2007 - Duisburg - Theater am Marientor - 20.00 hrs

Highlight of the event will be a performance by The Musical Box. They will play a best of Nursery Cryme-Tour Set for you!
The band last performed a Nursery Cryme-Show in the mid-nineties. The stage was very simple, but several tracks hat were performed do not appear in later show reproductions, such as Stagnation, Twilight Alehouse or Seven Stones. This performance will not be a real Nursery Cryme-Show. The setlist of the 71/72 tour varied a lot so The Musical Box will play a selection of these tracks. So, for this event, the band will rehearse tracks they usually do not play live!

We are planning to have a signing hour after the show. We may also have a collector’s market and a little exhibition.

Tickets are available in three categories and are on sale NOW.
Prizes: € 28, € 32 and € 36

Although this is an Event hosted by the German Genesis Fanclub, Booking, Payment and Shipping is handled by WiV Entertainment. Tickets will be shipped during the first week of October!

This Event is not simple to put together, especially financally. Therefore, we need all your support and we hope for a full theater!

We’d also like to say thank you to Serge Morissette, Sebastièn Lamothe and Denis Gagne, for making this Event possible with reasonable costs.
The fact is, that this Best-of-Nursery-Cryme-Concert will be a one-off Event. Do not miss this chance!

cheers
the Editors of it.

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