Ray Wilson – reviews, concert reports, interviews and much more about the former Genesis singer
In late 2007 Ray Wilson announced a new album for 2008. At first it was scheduled to come out in summer, but it took until the acoustic tour Wilson did in autumn until the new title Propaganda Man was revealed. The album can be bought directly from Ray, and it will become available in stores in spring. We have listened carefully.
Ray Wilson does not play in football stadiums or big arenas, quite the opposite. His shows take place mainly in smaller venues for up to a couple hundred people. Ray’s shows thrive on this closeness to the audience, an intimacy that is almost always lost in larger venues. Sönke Bohm attended several of Ray’s shows in late 2007 and early 2008.
Ray Wilson will be touring in 2008 – as a duo with Ali Ferguson as well as with Stiltskin. On both tours he will present songs from his new album Propaganda Man.
In summer 2006 Ray played a couple of shows to warm up, as it were, for the upcoming Stiltskin fall tour. It was suffocatingly hot when he played a small club in Heiligenhaus near Essen, Germany, on July 19, 2007. Christian Gerhardts tell us his impressions.
Back in late 2004 Ray Wilson announced that he might want to use the band name Stiltskin again for some very heavy material he had written. With Uwe Metzler and Andy Hoff he produced SHE, a new Stiltskin album which came out in March 2006. Christian Gerhardts explains what SHE is all about…
On February 14, 2005 Ray Wilson played the KKC, a student-run club at the Duisburg-Essen University, with Irvin Duguid and his brother Steve Wilson. Christian Gerhardts set up this gig. Here are his impressions.
After a brief acoustic tour Ray toured again with a full band in 2004. Melanie Hohmeyer saw several shows.
Ray’s second solo album was released some fifteen months after his debut Change. The Next Best Thing is a completely different album, says Christian Gerhardts.
In the autumn of 2003 Ray Wilson toured Germany with a full band for the first time since Cut_. Melanie Hohmeyer watched and listened closely.
Ray Wilson’s first solo album Change was released in 2003 by InsideOut Records. We checked it out for you.
