In 2002 Ray Wilson brought his acoustic programme to German audiences for the first time. On June 15 he was headliner at the Park-Kult-Tour festival in Duisburg; the day after that he played his first real solo concert in Germany at Kaue, Gelsenkirchen. Christian Gerhardts was in the audience.
This fanclub meeting was also the release party for our first fan club CD. Here is our report from 2002.
A truly grand experience – that's what a new Norwegian CD release promises to be: Genesis For Two Grand Pianos is the pragmatic title of a project that was recorded in 1999 and 2000 and published early in 2002.
In 2002, we had the opportunity to conduct an in-depth interview with the first Genesis drummer, Chris Stewart.
The film that covers the six sold-out shows at Earl's Court in 1992 was finally released on DVD on 2001. Genesis presented themselves for the first time in sumptuous 5.1 sound on the rather new DVD medium. Alexander Pfaff has checked it out for you.
Ray Wilson has a home game every year at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. In 2001 Ray played 13 sold-out shows in a pub called Madogs. Martin Christgau was there.
When Steve Hackett toured Latin America in 2001, Roger King was once more his keyboarder. Roger made notes about the tour and then gave us his text and this is the first time in the history in our fanclub, that we can exclusively publish an article by a band member.
A two-day event was held for the first time in 2001. Everything revolved around the cult album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
Robin Platts published a compact biography about Genesis in 2001. Volker Stöckemann had a closer look at it …
Paul Young, one of the vocalist in Mike + The Mechanics suddenly died on July 15, 2000.