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November 2006

Andy Whitaker and Andy Clegg, former members of MUSIC for ABORIGINES, THE SUN and THE MOON, and WEAVEWORLD are doing a CLUB CHAMELEON gig, managed by John Lever, gig on Thursday the 16th November at the Witchwood, Ashton-under-Lyne. Entrance will be £5. on the door. They will be presented as WEAVEWORLD.

Anyone attending this show and taking photos of this event... could send us some of them to be posted onthe Photos´ Section?. Thanx in advance.

Andy Whitaker has also informed us that he has put OLIVER’S GIRL up on his page. It’s song taken from my solo album BEWILDERBEAST. This song will be up for about three days and will then change to LEVITATION, UFO’S, CORNCIRCLES AND GHOSTS a track also taken from BEWILDERBEAST.

(Thanks Andy Whitaker)

Oscar, a Chameleons´fan, has sent us some scans from tickets of Chameleons Spanish gigs in the middle 80´s. The venues are Rock Ola, Astoria and Universal, all of them in Madrid. The scans have been uploaded in the Photos section.

(Thanks Oscar)

Pedro has updated his web site dedicated to Dave Fielding/The Reegs/Coconut Dog Fuck with some reviews and pics from the last concert of Coconut Dog Fuck in Lincoln.

(Thanks Pedro)

October 2006

Coconut Dog Fuck, the band of Dave Fielding will be playing live on October, the 28th at The Jolly Brewer, Lincoln (England).

(Thanks Pedro)

Mark Burgess has updated his personal web site. A benefit gig has been organized for November in favour of Andy Moore, friend of Mark, who also collaborated with The Chameleons playing keyboards in their gigs, and who unfortunately suffers from a serious disease. People close to Andy Moore will take parte on this event, like the band Puressence and some member of Dodgy, as well as Yves Altana andMark Burgess himself. On this event, named PLAY 4 MOORE, a new CD with some rarities of The Chameleons including previuosly unreleased photographic material from the Chameleons. All the benefits will go to Andy Moore and his family.

All our encouregement to Andy and his family.

This is the original information taken from the The Chameleons official page and the personal web site of Mark Burgess:

Hi

We’re planning a short series of live dates in the UK for the last week of November. Basically this decision stems from some rather bad news regarding a good friend of, and former live keyboard player with, The Chameleons, named Andy Moore. It seems that Andy is suffering from a very, very serious form of brain cancer and the prognosis is not good. Andy is barely 40 years old and has a wife and two young children. Those closest to him therefore have organised a benefit concert in his honour and naturally myself, guitarist Yves Altana and drummer Achim Faerber have all agreed to take part. Also on the bill will be members of Manchester band Puressence and UK band ‘Dodgy’, for whom Andy did extensive work as a lighting designer and operator. In addition Martin Coogan, DJ with Manchester radio station ‘Revolution’ has agreed to DJ the event. All proceeds raised from this event, including proceeds from a planned auction and merchandising, will go directly to Andy and his family.
Now, flying the band into the UK to play the show from the continent, where the band is based, is an expensive business, but we don’t want any of the money raised for Andy’s fund to go toward covering costs. So with this in mind we’re trying to organise a few additional shows to offset costs incurred in the preparations and various logistics involved.

The current confirmed schedule:

* Saturday November 25th- Middleton Civic Hall - Benefit for Andy Moore (see below)
* Sunday November 26th - Sheffield Boardwalk
* Monday November 27th - Glasgow Barfly
* Tuesday November 28th - York Fibbers

We’re still in discussions regarding a London show but at the moment it’s looking pretty good. Details when I have them.

Thanks for reading this.

love

mark

PLAY 4 MOORE
Live on Stage

* BIRD featuring Mark Burgess
* Puressence (Acoustic Set)
* Nigel Clarke (Frontman of Dodgy)
* Dermot O'Dea and friends
* Plus D.J. Martin Coogan

Sat 25th Nov
Middleton Civic Centre
7pm till late
Tickets: £10 ( Ticket info coming soon)

Chameleons fans will also be excited to know that a special CD is being put together especially for this event and will be on sale on the night of the benefit show.
This CD will feature a number of whats thought to be not widely heard tracks and will also feature new and unseen photographs from The Chameleons photographic archives, the CD will be limited to between 100 & 200 copies and will feature original artwork by Reg Smithies, the CD will be available on the night on strictly “first come, first served” basis.
There will also be auctions of music and sporting memorabilia
This event is being arranged by a team of 8 people and all of us would like to thank all the artists and friends who have committed their time and input into making this thing happen.
Please Please support this event people...

More info coming soon....
Mark

 

(Thanks Mark)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to unforeseen and serious computer problems, our web site has been out of date since last August. Unfortunately we have lost all the information regarding the documentation and messages all of you, Chameleons fans, have been sending us for years, as well as your email addresses. If, since August, you have sent us any email, we apologize for not being able to read them nor to answer them either. We would be very grateful if you could send them again to our new email address.

This is going to be our actual email address. Please, update your contact addresses, and we´d also be grateful to all of you, who periodically send us your comments if you could send us again your email address, in order to update our personal contacts section. Thanks again to all of you.

Antonio


June 2006

Ascension DVD will be released on June, the 26th. This official double DVD release presents live footage from The Chameleons playing Live at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, in 2002. This is the track listing:

DISC 1:
Swamp Thing / A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days / Pleasure and Pain / Here Today / Less Than Human / Dangerous Land / Intrigue in Tangiers / Anyone Alive? / Indiana / Tears / Soul In Isolation / Perfume Garden / Miracles and Wonders / Caution / Second Skin / View From A Hill / One Flesh / Don’t Fall / Splitting In Two
DISC 2:
The Healer / Nathan’s Phase / Pleasure and Pain / Less Than Human / Intrigue In Tangiers / Seriocity / Soul In isolation / On The Beach / Is It Any Wonder / Thursday’s Child / All Around / Second Skin / Moonage Daydream / View From A Hill / Bonus Track: One Flesh
Total Running Time: 3h 30 min aprox.

The DVD is NTSC region 0 Format, and it can be ordered directly through Paypal in http://www.ascensiondvd.co.uk. Price is £19,99 + £2,75 postage

The edition is limited strictly to 1000 copies, so hurry up!. A Trailer of this DVD is available at http://www.thescourge.com/chameleons_trailer

(Thanks Simon Lawlor)

Mark Burgess has had to cancel his gig in Omaha, Nebraska, due to personal problems. The gig was planned for June, the 16th.The artists has announced in the official forum that he will perform this gig in September.

(Thanks Mark)

Andy Clegg and Andy Whitaker (members of MUSIC for ABORIGENES, The SUN & The MOON, WEAVEWORLD) have released under their own label Going Nowhere Records the second part of the compilation of WEAVEWORLD, with a lot of har-to-find material.

Listado de canciones:

Davy Jones (Radio 5 Sessions)
Out and Down (Radio 5 Sessions)
Perfect Day (Radio 5 Sessions)
Cyanide for the Bride
Times arent a Changin'
Foetus of Obstacles
Perfect Day Intro
Improvisation One
Improvisation Two
Pieces of Davy (Studio Outake)
Out and Down (KFM Radio Sessions)
End of the Season (KFM Radio Sessions)
Open Up My Eyes (KFM Radio Sessions)
Davy Jones (Live 4-track recording)
Down and Out (Live 4-track recording)
Interview for KFM Radio
Interview for Mark Radcliffe

 

The price of the album is 10£ + 1,50£ for postage in U.K. and 2£ for postage for the rest of the world. More info in: Going Nowhere Records

(Thanks Andy Clegg)

 

May 2006

Fantastic news for all Andy Whitaker and Andy Clegg fans. They will we playing live on May, the 28th an acoustic set under the name of WEAVEWORLD at Live Cafe in Peter Street, Manchester. They will play at 1:40 pm followed by a lot of bands. The event is being organized by John Lever (drummer of The Chameleons), so he will be surely around.

This is the information received directly from Andy Whitaker:

May, 28 2006 at Life Cafe
Peter Street, Manchester,

I will be doing an acoustic set with Andy Clegg. We are going to be performing under our old band name WEAVEWORLD for this gig. The event is being organized by Chameleons drummer John Lever and there will be loads of brilliant bands on all day and into the night. If anybody would like Tickets to this event please e-mail me at moore.andy1@ntlworld.com. Tickets cost £5 including post. We will be going on at 1.50pm. There will be 13 other bands throughout the afternoon and into the night. The line-up being.. WEAVEWORLD, EYESWIDE, INTERSTAT, TRIPWIRE, THE CIRCLE, BEHIND GREEN LIGHTS, LOACRE, YOUTH HONEY, GABRIELLES WISH, REDSEA, THE MOODS, GREEN13, KNIGHTS, WAR POETS. Hope to see you there. Andy

If somebody takes some photographs of this event, we will be proud to publish them on the Photo Section.

(Thanks a lot Andy Whit)

Mark Burgess has confirmed some dates in May and in June in which he will be playing live. There´s one Show in France, another one in Netherlands, and some gigs in the USA.This is the info:

Hi all,

A couple of shows have been confirmed for May and June.

May 18th - Ninkasi Kao - Lyon France - Along with The Wedding Present.

This a full backllne show featurng Yves Altana on guitar and Achim Färber on drums

Infoline: 04 72 76 89 00 - www.ninkasi.fr

On June 4th something a little different. Pop One Records of Holland have some previously un-released material by Adrian Borland and will be releasing these tracks, titled 'The Amsterdam Tapes' in the near future. As a consequence they've assembled and augmented the original band that played on the recordings and have invited a few guest vocalists, including yours truly, to perform these tunes with the band, along with a few choice tracks originally recorded by The Sound. These too will be eventually released and titled 'Early Years'.

The show will be at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, Sunday June 4th.

For more info email info@poponerecords.nl


June 14th The Earl - Atlanta, US

This is also a full backline show featuring Yves Atlana on guitar, John Koldbeck I believe will be playing additonal guiars, Jack Sobel on drums and I'm very, very happy to be able to confirm that we'll also be joined by the mighty, Kwasi Asante.

Weezer is one of the promoters of this show so I should imagine it would be ok to email him for details.

June 16th Mick's Music Bar - Omaha Nebraska - This show has yet to be confirmed. When it is I'll ammend this note. This will be a solo acoustic set.

We're also in the process of sorting a venue for San Francisco for the weekend of June 23rd/24th. I'll be joined by my close friend James Oakes as usual and possibly one or two others, we're still working things out.

I'm also trying to orgnaise preview screenings, around 45 mins in length, from the forthcoming live Chameleons DVD, which has now been slated for release around the same time as the shows.

That's all for now,

be good to each other...

love

mark

(Thanks Mark)

Ian and Andy Clegg will be playing live as KIZILOK on these dates:

Venue: jacksons cellar pit in oldham manchester. Date:11th may
Venue: the dry bar in city centre manchester. Date: 16th of may
Venue: the witchwood in ashton under lyne. Date: 17th june

(Thanks Ian)

 

April 2006

This is not a proper related Cham news, but it will surely be interesting for all the fans. Richard Butler, ex-leader of Psychedelic Furs is going to release his solo debut self-titled album. In celebration there´s a Contest going on in his Web Site, where you can win autographed CD Singles, handwritten lyrics and autographed photos. Here is the information of his Tour dates. For more information regarding the Contest, visit http://www.richardbutleronline.com/contest.html:
Tour Dates:
03/20/06: Chicago, Illinois / Abbey
03/21/06: Cleveland, Ohio / Beachland Ballroom
03/22/06: Toronto, ON/Lee's Palace
03/24/06: Hoboken, New Jersey / Maxwell's
03/25/06: New York, New York / Canal Room
03/26/06: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / World Cafe
03/31/06: Seattle, Washington /Crocodile
04/01/06: Portland, Oregon / Dante's
04/03/06: San Francisco, California / Great American Music Hall
04/04/06: Las Vegas, Nevada / House of Blues
04/06/06: Los Angeles, California / Key Club
04/07/06: San Juan Capistrano, California / Coach House
04/08/06: Solana Beach, California / Belly Up Tavern

Streaming Link:
http://www.richardbutleronline.com/butlerstream.html

(Thanks Bo)

Good news for all the Chameleons fans. It has just been released under the label of Andy Clegg and Andy Whitaker, Going Nowhere Records,a new CD with previously unreleased material by WEAVEWORLD, the band which was formed in the early 90s by Aky, John Lever and both Andys after the demise of The SUN & The MOON. WEAVEWORLD relased originally only one Single named Davy Jones. Now it has been released PART ONE, a compilation of all their tunes, including the mentioned single, accoustic sessions, demos, and an Interview. Here is the detailed info:

WEAVEWORLD PART ONE

Track Listing:
Davy Jones
Out and Down
End of The Season
Life
Elements
Intimidation
Open Up My Eyes
Times aren´t a Changing
Cyanide for the Bride
Out and Down (acoustic session)
End of the Season (acoustic session)
Life (acoustic session)
Weaveworld Intro Music
Interview For KEY 103 Radio

A new compilation album by Weaveworld with previously unreleased material is now released under Going Nowhere Records. The CD can now be ordered through Paypal (write to Going Nowhere Records for details) or Cheque to g.n.r.records, 103 Hazelhurst Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 9BQ, UK.
The price is £10 + £1,50 for postage in Europe and £2 for postage to the rest of the world. If you need more information write an e-mail to Going Nowhere Records

Review of the album:
This Compilation album opens with the songs originally included on their debut Single (their only official release). Davy Jones is a rocky song with hard guitars, and Out and Down is a pop song with a soft and delicate melody (one of the highlights of the album). The CD also includes demos (What and incredible song is Open Up My Eyes!, it deserved from long time ago to be properly released) and the accoustic session it was never released. The album closes with the astonishing intro song they used to open their gigs with and an Interview to both Andys for KEY 103 Radio, recorded at the early 90´s. This is the first time all Chameleons fans can hear all the tunes from this fantastic band which was, once more, underrated by the music business.
On this album we can appreciate the talented musicians involved in this project, who had been previously in bands like MUSIC for ABORIGINES, The Chameleons, The SUN & The MOON and The Reegs, and who wanted to explore once more under the name of WEAVEWORLD an alternate way of creating Pop-Rock music.

(Thanks a lot Andy Clegg)

 

March 2006

Andy Whitaker, founding member of bands like MUSIC for ABORIGINES, The SUN and The MOON and WEAVEWORLD, has informed us about a new acoustic song available on his Site http://www.myspace.com/whitakerandy to listen to and to download. The song is called An Indidvidual Mind and has been recently recorded at Andy Clegg´s house. From his Web Site you can also download two tracks from his recently released album BEWILDERBEAST. The songs are TigerSkin Sunset and The Traveller.

 

(Thanks a lot Andy)

 

 

Herbert, a Chameleons´fan, has informed us about a new cover of The Fan and The Bellows the German pop-punk group Zarths did for the album UNITED-Music for Compilations, which was released in 1995 under Rough Trade Label. The Covers section of this Web Site has also been updated. This is the whole track list of the album:

1. Nowhere Land - Diesel
2. Michelle - Pink Turns Blue
3. Sleep No More - Escape With Romeo
4. Why Can't We Live Together - Cubicle F.
5. Act by Your Heart - Bellicoons
6. Nirvana - Diesel
8. Somebody [Unplugged Version] - Escape With Romeo
9. Last Love Tonight - Pink Turns Blue
10. Working Hard - Bellicoons
11. The Fan and the Bellows - Zarths
13. S.I.G. - Cubicle F., Die Krupps
14. Passion - Cubicle F., Natacha Atlas
15. New Harbours - Movement


(Thanks Herbert)

Andy Clegg has provided us with a lot of press material and some photographs related to WEAVEWORLD, the band which rose from the ashes of The SUN & The Moon and which had the same members that MUSIC for ABORIGENES had; that is to say John Lever, Aky, Andy Whitaker and Andy Clegg. We have created a new gallery dedicated to this little big band, which unfortunately only officially released a single before disappearing. You can access the gallery of WEAVEWORLD clicking here , or through our Photographs´ section.

 


(Thank you very much Andy)

 

February 2006

We have designed a new wallpaper of The Chameleons with pictures and drawings from their first era. The mentioned wallpaper is also available in the Downloads Section with two different resolutions: 800x600 y 1024x768. We hope you like it.


Resolution: 800x600; 1024x768
Author: StrangE TimeS

 

Bryan Glancy, Manchester musician and close friend of Mark Burgess has sadly passed away on January, the 21st. Bryan had worked previously with Mark in the recordings of Zima Junction.

Mark has recently created a personal Web Site. This Web Site is still under construction and has a more personal character than the official Chameleons Web Site. In the Mark´s Web Site, he has created a special section in loving memory of Bryan. There you can find a special alternate version of When Harmony Comes, which never was released.

In the same Mark´s Web Site (http://web.mac.com/chameleonsmark/iWeb/), in the Current Releases Section, you can see the following pictures related to View From a Hill (the autobiographic book Mark is preparing) and Ascension ( a DVD recorded on the 2002 American Tour of The Chameleons), both to be released soon. We still don´t know if Ascension is still a working title or the definitive one for this brand new DVD.

(Thanks Mark)

 

The back-catalague of The Reegs will soon be re-released. For current detailed information about The Reegs, Dave Fielding and the latest Shows Coconut Dog Fuck, please visit the fantastic Web Site Pedro created. There you will find rare pics, curiosities and hard-to-find info regarding the bands Dave Fielding was involved with before joining The Chameleons. Pedro has also created a special section for Coconut Dog Fuck, the lastest project of D.Fielding, with reviews of their latest gigs:

 

(Thanks Pedro)

 

 

January 2006

In the Web site of the Photographer of Philippe Carly, there are available some cool black and white live photographs from The Chameleons in a gig of June, the 13th, 1985 in Belgium.

 

Ian Clegg, brother of Andy Clegg, will be playing live under the name of KIZILOK on January the 14th and 20th of january at The New Oxford, in Bexley Square, Salford, Manchester.Free entry. For those interested, here is a link to his Website.

(Thanks Ian)