Remember the eighties - great bulletin!

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Hi folks

I thought I would do a bit of promotion for Richard at www.remembertheeighties.com as a thank you for picking me as one of the winners for tickets for last week's fabulous 80's Retro festival.

I won the tickets by entering a competition on the www.remembertheeighties.com web site after signing up for their weekly mailing.

I thought I would copy this weeks newsletter below as it mentions the boys a couple of times (promoting album sales too!) as well as lots of other great bands. Also this month you have the chance to win a signed T-shirt from the festival! If you are on Myspace then please add their page http://www.myspace.com/thisisnotretro.

Enjoy (sorry it's a bit long but I didn't want to edit it!) Razz

Andrea x

Newsletter 7 September 2007

HELLO...

I am very happy to say that after weeks and weeks of going on about RETROFEST it was an absolutely brilliant weekend and I had a blast! The music was great, the people were brilliant - hello to everyone I met by the way - and the weather was (almost) perfect!

But it wasn't entirely a selfish, hedonistic weekend for me because I GOT YOU A PRESENT! I took a RememberTheEighties.com T-SHIRT along to the festival with me along with a couple of marker pens and asked as many of the bands and guests as possible - through charm, persuasion, bullying and stalking - to AUTOGRAPH it for me so I could give it away as a COMPETITION PRIZE on the website!

So if you fancy entering an EXCLUSIVE COMPETITION to win a very special one-off t-shirt signed by members of ABC, BANANARAMA, THE BEAT, CULTURE CLUB, CUTTING CREW, FOURGOODMEN, GO WEST, IMAGINATION, HOWARD JONES, KAJAGOOGOO, KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS, SIMPLE MINDS and WET WET WET as well as TONY HADLEY, NICK HEYWARD, HAZEL O'CONNOR and KIM WILDE then you should get over to the website as soon as possible for all the details!

I am in the process of doing a kind of REVIEW of the whole weekend but I could use your help if you were there! Please email me with your favourite memories of the weekend; the best bits, the worst bits, the people you met, everything and I will put all our memories together in one place to tease all the people who couldn't be there! The very good news indeed is that there WILL be a RETROFEST 2008 so just watch this space for news of that...

And if that's all not enough there is also a brand new EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with THE PROCLAIMERS online for you this week, the band talk about all sorts of things from their love of DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS and opening LIVE 8 in Scotland to hitting the top of the UK charts this year, SHREK and their beloved football team, HIBERNIAN... it's online for you now if you fancy having a read.

In the meantime here's the news that was added to the website since the last newsletter...

A-HA singer MORTEN HARKET is hoping to release a new solo album before the end of the year following his signing an international record deal for the record with the Universal label in Germany.

DEPECHE MODE singer DAVE GAHAN has hinted that there might be a short tour to promote his upcoming solo album 'Hourglass' which is set for release on October 22nd.

MORRISSEY's songs are to be made into a stage musical according to reports this week. Thomas Lennon, one of the duo behind the planned show has - rather bizarrely - said 'I have an outline in my head, like a'Mamma Mia'- type musical...'

IRON MAIDEN will embark on a massive world tour in 2008, playing to an estimated one and half million fans. The gigs are expected to draw heavily on the band's mid-eighties 'Powerslave' period and an elaborate stage-set based on a classical Egyptian theme has also been promised. Dates will be announced shortly.

MADNESS will play a seven-date UK tour in December on which they will preview tracks from their forthcoming studio album 'Lucky 7' which is expected to follow in the new year. The band are also promising 'inspired collaborations' and 'secret gigs' which are to be announced shortly. See GIGS for all the dates.

THE POGUES have announced their annual Christmas tour with news of seven December shows around the UK. See GIGS for the dates.

SANANDA MAITREYA, formerly known as TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY, has announced a short European tour in October and November which will see him play shows in France, Spain, Belgium, Holland and Italy. See GIGS for all the details.

THE POLICE will play an extra Uk show at London's Wembley Arena on September 20th, their first show at the venue since 1983's 'Synchronicity' concert. See GIGS for the full UK schedule.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has announced shows in the USA and Europe starting in the US in October and reaching Europe at the beginning of December. The shows are in support of a new album 'Magic' which is released on October 1st. See GIGS for all the dates.

ALISON MOYET will play a fifteen date UK tour in January and February in support of her new album 'The Turn' which will be released in October. See GIGS for all the details.

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN will headline the forthcoming Coke Music show which will take place at Liverpool's Cavern Club on October 26th.

THE HUMAN LEAGUE have expanded their forthcoming 'Dare' tour which now sees the band play shows in Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Germany as well as thirteen concerts in the UK in November and December. See GIGS for all the dates.

THE MISSION will play four shows at London's Shepherds Bush Empire in February and March with each concert being dedicated to a different Mission album which will be performed in it's entirety along with single b-sides and other favourites from that particular period. The series of shows will in turn focus on the albums 'Carved In Sand', 'Children', 'First Chapter' and 'Gods Own Medicine', see GIGS for the dates.

KYLIE MINOGUE will release a new single '2 Hearts' - a collaboration with electro-punk act Kish Mauve - in October or November in advance of the release of her currently untitled new album which is expected in November.

THE B-52s' FRED SCHNEIDER has collaborated with teenage New York punk act Tiny Masters Of Today on a track for their new album 'Bang Bang Boom Cake' which has just been released by Mute Records.

BOY GEORGE has finalised the details of his 'Songs That Made You Dance and Cry' residency at London's Shaw Theatre with the announcement of five shows at the venue in January. See GIGS for the dates.

UB40's ALI CAMPBELL will release a solo album 'Running Free' on October 8th through his own label Crumbs Music. The album features guest appearances from a selection of other artists including SMOKEY ROBINSON and MICK HUCKNALL.

BIG COUNTRY have added two more shows to their forthcoming tour with news of shows in Newcastle and Manchester. See GIGS for all the dates.

XTC frontman ANDY PARTRIDGE has been working with former Atomic Kitten singer Liz McClarnon who is to include a new track by Partridge, 'Shut Up And Kiss Me', on her forthcoming solo album.

QUEEN's BRIAN MAY and ROGER TAYLOR have announced that they will play at a special concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday next year. The show - under the banner of Mandela's 46664 HIV Aids campaign - will take place in London on June 27th.

MARILLION reunited with original singer FISH for the first time for almost twenty years last week when the singer joined the band onstage in Aylesbury for a version of the band's debut single, 1982's 'Market Square Heroes'.

NEW ORDER have recorded three instrumental tracks for inclusion on the soundtrack of 'Control', Anton Corbjin's forthcoming film about JOY DIVISION. The tracks are titled 'Exit', 'Hypnosis' and 'Get Out' and appear on a soundtrack that also includes DAVID BOWIE, KRAFTWERK and ROXY MUSIC.

That's all for this week, but please do visit the website this week for all the latest TOUR DATES, INTERVIEWS, LINKS, RELEASES and REVIEWS... please also support the site and think about buying a copy of our 19-track compilation CD 'This is Not Retro' (nineteen NEW tracks from nineteen of the eighties' most enduring artists!) or LOTUS EATERS frontman PETER COYLE's fantastic 'Meltdown For The Mindless' CD, the first EP from SIMPLE MINDS / BIG COUNTRY / H2O spin-off FOUR GOOD MEN or any of the Hi-Bias RETRO:REMIXED and RETRO:ACTIVE titles in the SHOP section...

You can also find me on MySpace... it's here if you fancy joining me http://www.myspace.com/thisisnotretro!

Cheers!

Richard

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