June 26, 2000
HouseofBlues.com will rerun the Venice pay-per-view cybercast
on July 15, beginning at 6pm Pacific Daylight Time, and showing
every two hours until 6pm the next day. 28.8k and 56k streams
are free. Click
here for more info.
June 21, 2000
As you've no doubt already figured out, we have a domain now!!! All
thanks to our friend Hans
Veldhuizen, who
took care of the registration and generously donated the server
space. What a guy! Now it's much easier
to spread the word verbally. Just tell all your friends
to come to "venicecentral.com," and they'll make it
here no problem.
I did have to move all the
pages and pictures over to a new location, so if anyone has any
problems (files won't play, pictures won't load, pages aren't
there, etc.) PLEASE e-mail
me and let me know.
I can't fix the problem if I don't know it exists.
June 19, 2000
Marius
Suiker has started
up a Dutch counterpart to the Egroups Mailing List. It works
exactly like the current list, only none of it will be in English. To
join, click
here.
And now, my humble apologies go out to KC. I came across some pictures that Karin sent me over a year ago, and somehow they got lost on my hard drive. Well, they're great shots, and they're finally online. Enjoy them here. (Sorry, Karin!)
I have a stack of material
sitting next to my computer - audio and video, new and old, with
more arriving daily - and I have no idea when I'll be able to
get to any of it. But I think it's safe to say that sometime
within the next month, you guys are in for quite a few surprises. So
keep checking back.
June 16, 2000
Lots of goodies for you guys today:
First off, more pictures from Holland shows, courtesy of Simonette and Yanni.
Next up, an article from Holland's "Free Magazine," detailing Venice and the Pinkpop Festival. Thanks to Michael van Coevorden for this.
And finally, two new interviews, both recorded last week in the Netherlands. "Denk Aan Henk," the radio show where Venice performed "One Quiet Day," "The End of the World," and "Woodstock." (This recording comes to us courtesy of Rob Van Adrichem. Thanks Rob!) And Rebecca Radio's Rene Steenbergen's raw interview with the band, recorded immediately after last Tuesday's Paradiso show. Both interviews can be found here.
Enjoy!
June 14, 2000
Rene
Steenbergen sent
over a couple of Paradiso pictures. You can see those here. Also, be sure and check out John Baldi's
shots from the House of Blues last month. Those are on his
own webpage, right
here.
Tonight's the last Netherland
show, and the guys were scheduled to fly home tomorrow. However,
they've been invited to stick around a few more days and appear
on a couple of television programs, so there's a good chance they'll
do that.
June 13, 2000
Looks like Venice will not be videotaping tonight's Paradiso show.
However, they are recording the audio to multitrack. So
it could turn into a live album, or else select tracks might be
used as B-sides for singles. When I hear more, so will
you.
June 12, 2000
Congratulations to Venice for what by all accounts sounds like
a winning set at the Pinkpop Festival. The crowd of 60,000
awoke at 10:30am to the opening notes of "If I Were You,"
and were then treated to a high energy 55 minutes that included
"The End of the World," "The Man You Think I Am,"
"One Quiet Day," "Circus In Town," "Baby's
Calling," "The Family Tree," and the "Feelin'
Alright" medley. Great choices for this rock and roll
crowd, and performed perfectly, as usual.
As promised, television station NED3 broadcasted "The Man You Think I Am" and "The Family Tree" from the Pinkpop stage. "The Family Tree" will also be broadcast live later in the week when the guys perform it at the Enschede memorial.
Thanks to all the generous
Netherland fans who have contacted me, I should have lots of video
in the coming weeks from all these television appearances, and
will add them to the page as quickly as I can.
June 10, 2000
Holland's "Het Huis Van Oranje" television appearance
has been cancelled. However, the guys will be performing
"The Family Tree" at a benefit memorial concert for
the victims of the Enschede fireworks factory explosion.
As for the Pinkpop Festival, Dutch national TV station NED3 will broadcast about ten minutes of Venice's 45 minute performance at approx. 12:11pm. If you want to catch more of the set, you're probably better off with the live cybercast, already detailed below. Though I've been told that several stages run at once, and the cybercast will likely rotate between them. So Venice's airtime might be split with another band. However, Venice's set is at 10:30am (Holland time), so there's a chance that it will be the only stage running at that time. If you miss the cybercast, or don't feel like catching it at 1:30am Pacific Standard Time, don't worry, it looks like the Pinkpop website archives each year's show, and you'll be able to view it later. I will, of course, post a link as soon as I have one.
Thanks to all the Dutch
fans for keeping us up to date on all these latest developments.
June 6, 2000
More Holland Venice info, courtesy of Jan van der Haag. The guys will be guests
on Henk Westbroek's live radio show tomorrow (Wednesday) on Radio3
between 12.00 - 14.00pm. (I'm guessing that means the band
will drop in sometime during that time block, rather than a full
two hour visit.) We in America can listen to this interview/performance
tonight via the internet, but that means monitoring the station
between 3am and 5am Pacific Standard Time. Me, I'll be sleeping.
But if you happen to be up at that time, you can tune in here. (Click on REALAUDIO
on the far left, then do it again on the following page.) Keep
in mind, this is the same radio station that will be broadcasting
the Pinkpop Festival, so if the link provided in the news entry
below doesn't allow you to catch Venice's Pinkpop cybercast on
late Sunday night, you now have a second option.
By the way, I'd just like
to put out there that I would greatly appreciate it if somebody
in Holland could record this radio show for me, along with the
Pinkpop performance on television, and any other appearances the
band makes this week on television radio or print, and sends me
a copy of each so that I can post them on the webpage for everybody
to enjoy. (And yes, I can convert to American standard television.)
Please e-mail
me privately for
my mailing address. Thanks in advance!
June 5, 2000
As most of you already know, next Monday, June 12th, Venice will
be performing to close to 60,000 people at Holland's Pinkpop Festival,
and reaching far more through radio (Radio 3) and television (Nederland
3) broadcast. This is a massive amount of exposure with
the potential to break the band huge in Europe. And here
in America, we can watch as it happens through an internet cybercast.
The band begins their 45 minute set at 10:30am Holland time,
which I believe translates to 1:30am Pacific Standard Time the
night before. Which, to avoid all confusion, means
a very late night for you on Sunday night, June 11th.
To access the webpage where you can view the cybercast, go here. On the top left, run your cursor over the words "PINKPOP'00" and then click on "English," and the page will turn into a version you can understand. There is no link to the broadcast yet, because the festival hasn't started. But reports assure me that it will be there.
Thanks to Tom Jacobs for the hot tip!
June 2, 2000
Details are still being worked out, but it's now looking very
good that Venice's Paradiso concert in Holland next week will
be videotaped for future release. This tape will most likely
be sold in both Holland and America, and available in music stores,
at shows, and through mail order. Who knows, maybe I'll
even be able to post clips!!!
In other news, on the Egroups Community Mailing List, Jan van der Haag has reported that Venice will be performing on a Holland program called "Het Huis Van Oranje," which focuses on the EK Soccer Championships. The show is broadcast every evening at 11pm. Venice's showdate is unconfirmed, so check local listings. If I hear anything more, you will, of course, read about it here.
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