Since a lot of you keep asking us about releases from this tour, here is a list of what’s available. This was originally compiled by Steffen Gerlach.

CDs from the Encore Series
The official 2CD recordings of all European concerts are not available in regular record shops, but can only be obtained from the American company www.themusic.com. These recordings are a mixture of the soundboard sound and open microphones in the field of the night’s show. They were not modified by Nick Davis. Their quality cannot compare with regular live records.
The North American Encore Series was confirmed just before the dress rehearsal in Toronto (5th September). The Series includes 22 shows from North America (New York City and both Hollywood Bowl Shows are NOT part of this series!)

Live CD
An official 2CD live album will become available in autumn. It will consist of all all the songs that were performed live minus Collins’ introductions, however. The recordings for this will receive post-production by Nick Davis. The music on this release will be compiled from the best takes of all the European shows.

Live DVD
A double DVD set featuring the complete show in Rome (July 14) in a 5.1 mix will also be released in autumn. There will also be a HD version. The bonus material will consist of some backstage impressions from the European tour.

Tour DVD
The Premium members of the official Genesis website (annual fee US$ 35) will receive a DVD with a tour documentary probably early in 2008. This DVD will not be available in record stores. It will contain video material that was not used for the bonus features of the Live DVD.

Backstage clips
The video clips offered in the media / virtual ticket area of the band’s official website may be a teaser for the tour documentary DVD. Premium Members (annual fee US$35) and Virtual Ticket members (for free) are able to access these clips. Further clips will be added until the end of the North American tour (currently available: clips from Herning, Hamburg, Berne and the dress rehearsal in Brussels). Further backstage clips from Paris and Amsterdam have been published at www.telecomcerto.it. These are available for everyone; they were part of an Italian MTV tv special (>torrent* at the Genesis Movement website<).

More live stuff

May 12 - Las Vegas / “Rock Honors“
The first official reunion performance in Las Vegas was broadcast on XX.XX by American tv station VH-1. The band performed Turn It On Again, No Son Of Mine and Drum Duet / Los Endos. The latter piece was only available as a stream from the VH-1 website. Several DVD recordings of this are available as >torrents*<.

June 26 – Düsseldorf / VUE test broadcast
The first concert in Düsseldorf was broadcast via satellite as a test run for the live broadcast to cinemas in England, Spain and Sweden the day after. Satellite TV experts could capture both audio and video of the test broadcast that was not intended for the public, and some of them did. No recordings of this have surfaced yet.

June 27 – Düsseldorf / VUE broadcast
Like the test run, the actual live broadcast could be captured live because the transmission was unencoded. The data stream consisted of the complete concert plus a brief interview special in HD quality and a live 5.1 mix by Nick Davis including a couple of hiccups in the transmission. Several versions of this became available in fans’ cirles on DVD both in HD/5.1 as well as in standard 2.0 sound format. Genesis management very soon after forbade further trade and spread of these DVDs.

June 30 – Paris / RFM Broadcast
French radio station RFM broadcasts the first part of the show from the Parc des Princes. The broadcast included the intro, Behind The Lines (instrumental) / Duke’s End and Turn It On Again. Various CD versions of this are available as >torrents*<.

July 07 – London / Live Earth
Genesis’ performace at this worldwide mega-event at Wembley Stadium London was broadcast by many tv stations either live or as a recording, though not always completely. The band performed Behind The Lines (instr.) / Duke’s End, Turn It On Again, Land Of Confusion and Invisible Touch. The sound was mixed by Nick Davis. Gemischt wurde hier wieder von Nick Davis. Various DVD versions of this are available as >torrents*<.

July 08 London / BBC Special
Several songs from the gig at Twickenham stadium were mixed by Nick Davis after the show and broadcast as a one-hour special on XX.XX by British radio station BBC2. A ninety-minute version is to follow in autumn 2007. The 60-minute special consisted of Behind The Lines (instr.)/Duke’s End, Turn It On Again, No Son Of Mine, Land Of Confusion, Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea, I Know What I Like, Mama, Los Endos and Tonight, Tonight, Tonight/Invisible Touch. The longer version is to also include the In The Cage medley and Domino. Various CD versions of this are available as >torrents*<.

July 14 – Rome / Telecomcerto/RAI Special
The final show of the European tour in Rome, where Genesis played to an audience of half a million, will soon be published on DVD, but part of it (60 minutes) will also be broadcast by Italian TV station RAI2. The compilation is to include Turn It On Again, No Son Of Mine, Land Of Confusion, Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea, I Know What I Like, Follow You Follow Me, Mama, Drum Duet/Los Endos and Tonight, Tonight, Tonight/Invisible Touch. Nick Davis has mixed the sound after the show. DVD recordings of the TV broadcast are likely to appear as Torrents.

September 05 – Toronto / Dress Rehearsal Live Stream
As a special for all premium members (annual fee of US$35) and Virtual Ticket members (for free) of the official Genesis website there will be a live stream of the first part of the dress rehearsal in Toronto. Backstage impressions featuring, among others, Nick Davis set the mood for it.

*Torrents are currently the most widely used means of exchanging uncompressed audio/video data via the internet. Genesis management tolerate these torrents, provided the material in question has not been officially released by Genesis. The links provided on this page lead directly to the best versions of the corresponding recordings at torrent.genesis-movement.org, the best address for torrents of Genesis and related. Go >here< to find out about torrents in general.

Yesterday afternoon I arrived back home safe and sound. The flight was uneventful but before I left the US I had a few very nice hours in Baltimore, Maryland. I had left Philadelphia around noon and took the Amtrak to Baltimore Penn Station. My flight later that night was leaving from Baltimore Washington International Airport so I thought it would be nice to see a bit of that city as well. The weather - again - was beautiful. Warm and sunny. I took a walk from the train station to the city center. Baltimore is by far not as big as Philadelphia but I really liked it. I had lunch by the harbor with a beautiful view on the city. In the afternoon the tram took me back to the train station from I where I continued my journey to the airport.

My flight took off on time. As it was dark already and still clear above the East Coast, I had great views on Philadelphia and New York City - spectacular! The stopover in Iceland was just long enough to get from the arrivals to my departure gate. After take-off I could also see Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. It’s really smaller than I thought. From Frankfurt Airport the ICE took me back towards Cologne and I arrived back at home just about 3 hrs after I had landed in Frankfurt! You can’t beat that with a car.

Now I have two weeks at home, back at work. Then on October 6th I will finally fly to L.A. for my tour finale in California. Another 4 shows to come. Pictures from the 4 I have just seen will be up in the gallery this week.

So once again I can say, I’ll be back!

Ulli

Guess what they played yesterday at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus….

Behind The Lines / Duke’s End
Turn It On Again
No Son Of Mine
Land Of Confusion
In The Cage / The Cinema Show / Duke’s Travels
Afterglow
Hold On My Heart
Home By The Sea / Second Home By The Sea
Follow You Follow Me
Firth Of Fifth / I Know What I Like
Mama
Ripples
Throwing It All Away
Domino
Drum Duet
Los Endos
Tonight Tonight Tonight (intro)
Invisible Touch

I Can’t Dance
The Carpet Crawlers

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“We’re back… if only for a little while.” That was Phil’s introduction to the last Philadelphia show last night. Whatever that means. The show itself was the best North American show I’ve seen so far and a little bit better than quite a few European gigs. It seemed they let loose last night and just played straight from the heart. Some of the songs were noticeably more powerful than on the other nights. And again the audience didn’t disappoint. That was maybe the best Philly crowd this time.

Before the gig I met up for a tailgating party with a bunch of members of the official forum. The weather was warm, dry and sunny once again. So it really made for a nice outdoor warm-up. The show itself didn’t have special incidents or surprises. But as I said before it was just great! Before Carpet Crawlers Phil thanked the audience for three great nights in Philadelphia and that they have always had a great time here and a very special support ever since they first played here in the early 1970’s. Phil’s voice though had noticeably suffered from his cold and the 3-shows-in-3-days run. But still he sang like he had nothing to lose. I hope he didn’t ruin his voice for Columbus. At least there’s a day off today to recover a little.

So now it’s Friday morning 10.15am and I will take the train to Baltimore soon. I’m flying out of Baltimore/Washington Airport tonight back to Frankfurt via Keflavik. A short night for me. I took about 1,000 pictures this time and hope to post them in the gallery pretty soon.

My next concert will be San Jose, California on October 9th. Only a bit more than 2 weeks to go!

Ulli

Genesis’ three day stint in Philadelphia has ended in style with a terrific show. Phil’s voice has audibly suffered from a cold and the three-show marathon, but now they will all have a day off.

Behind The Lines / Duke’s End
Turn It On Again
No Son Of Mine
Land Of Confusion
In The Cage / The Cinema Show / Duke’s Travels
Afterglow
Hold On My Heart
Home By The Sea / Second Home By The Sea
Follow You Follow Me
Firth Of Fifth / I Know What I Like
Mama
Ripples
Throwing It All Away
Domino
Drum Duet
Los Endos
Tonight Tonight Tonight (intro)
Invisible Touch

I Can’t Dance
The Carpet Crawlers

Last night’s show was even a little better than the night before, I think. Before the gig I was sitting in the AT&T Pavilion, a bar inside Wachovia Center, and the closest door leading inside the arena from where I was sitting was open. So it was easy to listen to the soundcheck. It was unspectacular as they played the standards (No Son Of Mine, Duke intro and Follow You Follow Me) but still quite nice. Again, I met a whole bunch of members from the official Genesis Forum before the show. So time passed quite fast and when I went down the stairs to get to my 2nd row seat the house lights were already being turned off.

As expected there were no changes to the set. But as I said before, replacing Hold On My Heart with In Too Deep wouldn’t have been the biggest surprise. The only special incident was Brad “Munchie” Marsh’s birthday yesterday. For about 20 years he has been Phil’s drum technician now and he’s the one who always brings out Phil’s barstool for Hold On My Heart. So when he did that again last night, Phil took his hand and pulled him back to the center of the stage. He told the audience that it was his birthday today and the whole arena sang “Happy Birthday” for him.

After the show I took the subway back to my hotel. It’s quite interesting, while in Europe they have to add train services to get all the people on subways or trams, here it was totally relaxed. In the subway everyone could sit so it was much more relaxed than fighting through the traffic when leaving one of the parking lots.

Today I had another walk through the city and again, I’m back at my hotel now slowly getting ready for my departure to the show - with an emphasis on slowly as I still have a lot of time until then.

Tomorrow evening I’ll already be flying back home from Baltimore, Maryland. Hope to put another update on the last Philly show online before my departure.

Ulli

There were rumours Genesis would replace Hold On My Heart by In Too Deep for the second Philly show, but they didn’t. Same set as usual yesterday:

Behind The Lines / Duke’s End
Turn It On Again
No Son Of Mine
Land Of Confusion
In The Cage / The Cinema Show / Duke’s Travels
Afterglow
Hold On My Heart
Home By The Sea / Second Home By The Sea
Follow You Follow Me
Firth Of Fifth / I Know What I Like
Mama
Ripples
Throwing It All Away
Domino
Drum Duet
Los Endos
Tonight Tonight Tonight (intro)
Invisible Touch

I Can’t Dance
The Carpet Crawlers

Soundcheck:
No Son Of Mine
Behind The Lines / Duke’s End
Follow You, Follow Me (parts)

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Yesterday morning, the day of the first Philly show, I did some sightseeing first. Philadelphia has a few really nice places. So I started with the Historic District where you find places like Indepence Hall or Liberty Bell. For lunch I had a typical Philadelphia cheese steak. Not the healthiest of meals but it tastes really good!

Towards the evening I headed down to the sports complex with Wachovia Center. First of all I wanted to pick up my will call tickets. They had a little trouble to find them (I guess it might have been because tickets were sold through Ticketmaster and Comcast). Finally I got them but I was told that I had to show up every night to collect my tickets. I had hoped to get all tickets at once. Hopefully tonight they find my ticket easier…

As usual I met quite a bunch of people before the show. This time I was seated in the left front block on the floor about halfway back. This made for a nice total view of the stage. But still I rather enjoy being up front. During a walk-around in front of the stage I had a look at “Phil’s little helpers”. He has got three laminated sheets at the edge of the stage with a few helping words for Mama, Ripples and Hold On My Heart. I probably post the photos I took of them when I’m back home.

Around 8.20pm “Dead Already” sounded throughout the gigantic arena (a capacity of about 20,000 people!). No real surprises again, I only noticed that Phil’s voice wasn’t on top that night but it got better during the show. The audience was very good and it was fun spotting especially one guy on the lower level who was strangely dancing all time. He really seemed to be having the time of his life!

This morning I went for sightseeing once more. This time I walked up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway towards the Art Museum. That’s the place where Rocky Balboa aka Sylvester Stallone ran up the stairs in the famous movie! There’s also a Rocky statue right next to those stairs. Just when I started walking back I bumped into Daryl Stuermer! We talked for a short while and then I continued my walk through the city. So here I am now back at the hotel. Will go out for lunch soon and then drive down to Wachovia Center once again. Judging from what Daryl told me they most likely won’t change the set at all. So it will be Hold On My Heart again and not the rumoured In Too Deep.

Bye for now, might post another update tomorrow.

Ulli

Still, no changes:

Behind The Lines / Duke’s End
Turn It On Again
No Son Of Mine
Land Of Confusion
In The Cage / The Cinema Show / Duke’s Travels
Afterglow
Hold On My Heart
Home By The Sea / Second Home By The Sea
Follow You Follow Me
Firth Of Fifth / I Know What I Like
Mama
Ripples
Throwing It All Away
Domino
Drum Duet
Los Endos
Tonight Tonight Tonight (intro)
Invisible Touch

I Can’t Dance
The Carpet Crawlers

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After my last post I was taken by car to Hartford, Connecticut which is about 2 hrs to drive from Boston. The city itself is extremely unspectacular. Once we arrived I checked in at the hotel and right afterwards we headed for a tailgating party on a parking lot near the Civic Center. It was much fun meeting so many nice fans, some of them members of the official Genesis messageboard. By 7pm we went back to the Civic Center and I tried to sell a pair of spare tickets. There were so many people trying to sell tickets that I ended up getting about 10% of what I paid for them…

I then entered the Veterans Memorial Coliseum (the actual concert arena) inside the Civic Center. It was great to finally see the indoor stage with my own eyes. Again, I met quite a bunch of fans and soon it was already about time to take my seat for the show. In my opinion the light show and use of the video screen is now even better than it was outdoors. Not only because it’s dark inside the arenas but they now have lights at the side of the stage and use a few slightly different animations on the screens. The stage is also much lower so that people on the floor can actually look onto the stage floor when they are standing.

The set of course was exactly the same as in Europe though Phil and Chester have slightly different variations now for the barstool drum duet. The interaction with the audience was great. It really makes a difference if Phil talks to English speaking people or not! During Land Of Confusion he even grabbed a cell phone from someone in front row and sang right into the phone. I’ve seen Phil do something similar on his last solo tour in Chicago already. The “scary people” story was a bit extended as well. Even more scary this time!

After the gig I headed back to my hotel and straightly went to bed as I had to catch a flight at 10am today. I got up at 6.30am this morning and took the bus to the airport. The flight I was talking about was going to Cleveland with a connecting flight from there to Philadelphia. Strange routing but a cheap rate! When it was time to board the aircraft I was called to the counter where a lady asked me if I would be willing to take a different flight. As usual the flight was overbooked and quite a few people were waiting for spare seats. They offered me to book me on a direct flight with a different airline, departing 1.5 hrs later but arriving in Philadelphia about 1 hour before my flight via Cleveland, and a flight voucher worth 200 dollars. Well, how could I resist? Of course I opted for the direct flight and the voucher.

The direct flight was not only on time but arrived about half an hour early in Philly. During the drive into the city I already saw the Wachovia Center with the famous Spectrum right next to it (as well as Lincoln Financial Field and the Citizens Bank Park). Now I’m at my hotel already. Great weather outside so I will head into the city to see a few things. No need to hurry though cos I’ll be here until Friday. A lot of time to see everything. And not to forget the run of three shows in a row starting tomorrow night!

Ulli