News Archive 2008
Thankyou all for your support during the whole of 2008. We hope you continue to enjoy the SAILOR club website. Please keep coming back to us here at www.sailor-music.com in 2009!
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some of the best and funniest SAILOR live moments 2008:
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December 2008: Oliver Marsh to leave ... |
I have
just been informed that Oliver Marsh has decided to leave
SAILOR in the New Year in order to pursue his career in
opera. If you go to
Milton Keynes this Saturday, have fun and make sure that
it will be a marvellous SAILOR's night on the town (as
ever at SAILOR shows!) and show them your support. Best wishes
and SAILOR-greetings, |
11 December 2008:
News from Phil...
Some days ago, Phil Pickett sent me the
following news. Here's what he said: "Hi
Katrin |
08 December 2008: Here's the archive of Henry's Birthday Guestbook |
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19 November 2008: Here's the archive of Phil's Birthday Guestbook |
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14 September 2008: in music magazine "Good Times" After ten
years of saying "maybe" and "soon",
German music magazine "Good Times" has finally
published a big article about SAILOR in issue 5-2008. Best wishes
and SAILOR-greetings, |
Update 01 September 2008:
re-release on CD:
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FINALLY somebody out there has taken the wishes of all worldwide SAILOR fans seriously... Now you can
get the long awaited re-release of the first two SAILOR
albums "Sailor" from 1974 and
"Trouble" from 1975 on 7Ts Records, a division
of Cherry Red Records. If this release is successful, there might also be other releases including all the original SAILOR albums (plus bonus tracks!) which are all unavailable at the moment. So... fingers crossed! The CD
includes the following songs: You can order the CD at
Best wishes
and SAILOR-greetings, |
03 August 2008: on TV... |
This morning SAILOR played "Girls Girls Girls" and A Glass Of Champagne" at the German TV show "Fernsehgarten" which is broadcast live from Mainz.
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Best wishes and SAILOR-greetings,
~ Katrin
your webmaster
03 July 2008:
Steyr to Slovakia - A journey report by Grant Serpell Dear Everyone
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03 July 2008:
New Sweet CD featuring Peter Lincoln For all of
you who are interested: There's a new CD from The Sweet
available which features former SAILOR-captain Peter
Lincoln on lead vocals. The CD was available at their
recent "Glitz Blitz & 70s Hitz" UK tour and
includes some of The Sweet's greatest hits. Best wishes
and SAILOR-greetings, |
30 June 2008:
"Traffic Jam - Sound And Vision" to be released on Angel Air...
In August 2008, Angel Air will release a CD/DVD set called "Traffic Jam - Sound And Vision" (catalogue number: Angel Air SJPCD267). The set will
include a CD with 19 songs from SAILOR's "Buried
Treasure"/"Treasure Trove" anthology (a
mix of both orginal CDs) - as well as SAILOR's DVD "Pirate Copy -
SAILOR Live In Concert" from High Wycombe (UK) 2002 - but this time in the NTSC all
regions format. The set includes the following songs: For further details have a look at: www.angelair.co.uk/sjpcd267.htm |
Personally I as the webmaster can only wonder who mixed the songs for the CD in this set and why because they won't give anybody an insight on the real SAILOR and they belong to the original anthology and have their own stories in that context. But if you haven't got the SAILOR DVD yet because you needed NTSC you shouldn't miss out on this now! It will bring you a marvellous memorable concert you shouldn't miss!
Best wishes and SAILOR-greetings,
~ Katrin
your webmaster
21 June 2008: Forum / Guestbook "The Harbour Bar" Unfortunately,
the Forum "The Harbour Bar" had to be closed
down. It was meant to be a place for SAILOR fans to meet,
ask questions and exchange opinions etc. and I wanted
everybody to be able to write there. Due to a LOT of
spam-entries I had to restrict the forum. All forum parts
could still be seen by everybody, but only registered
members could post. Registration was free, of course. But
from then on, hardly anybody left messages at the forum
any more, apart from 5 or 6 fans. And still, about 100 -
150 spammers (or spam-robots) signed up every single day,
trying to create an account. I had to delete each one of
them by hand which took a lot of time. Best wishes and
SAILOR-greetings, |
Update 15 June 2008:
Phil Pickett
presents:
New Culture Dub album
"Bonfire Of The Sanities"
You may have heard
about Phil Pickett's project "Culture Dub - Cirque de
Silvio".
Their new CD "Bonfire Of The Sanities" was released on
01 June 2008 through their official website at www.officialculturedub.com.
If you want to know more about the band and listen to some songs,
go to www.officialculturedub.com or to their MySpace page.
Phil says:
"We have a new release!!! - the first from Culture Dub -
it's the basis of the live show, and features many of the songs,
some of which I co-wrote with Culture Club in the 80's. It's a
'limited-edition' CD release for Culture Dub fan club only - at
the moment. The CD with 17/18 tracks is presently available
direct for our fan base.
Anyone who wants to order can go to Paypal and pay culturedub@mac.com at a special price of £ 10 + £ 2.50 p&p.
And I will sign every copy personally!!!"
The Culture Dub
"Bonfire Of The Sanities" album includes the songs:
Miss Me Blind, Karma Chameleon, White Boy, I'll Tumble 4 Ya/War
Song, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, It's A Miracle, Time (Clock
Of The Heart), Church Of The Poison Mind, I Just Wanna Be Loved,
I Feel Love, God Thank You Woman, Move Away, Everything I Own, Do
You Really Want To Hurt Me (Loft Remix), Mighty Real, Hoedown
Julie (DJ Mix), The Chameleon Overture.
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Best wishes and SAILOR-greetings,
~ Katrin
your webmaster
18 May 2008:
live in Bad Segeberg (Germany) 17 May 2008
You
can now see new photos and some first video impressions of the SAILOR concert in Bad Segeberg,
Germany, on 17 May 2008 at the Concert Photos-section.
Last night SAILOR returned to the "Kalkberarena" in Bad
Segeberg - the place where Georg, Henry, Phil and Grant
celebrated their comeback almost exactly 17 years ago (18 May
1991). It was the 4th time that SAILOR played in Bad
Segeberg: 1991, 1994, 2003 and 2008!
More photos, reports and videos bits (in better quality and
from a different perspective) will follow soon... so please come
back to the page about the concert.
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Best wishes and
SAILOR-greetings,
~ Katrin
your webmaster
29 March 2008:
in the list of the most
successful Oldies of all time in Germany... |
On 28 March 2008
SAILOR appeared on the famous German TV show "Die ultimative
Chart Show - Die erfolgreichsten Oldies aller Zeiten" on RTL
television. SAILOR performed a medley of "Girls Girls
Girls" and "A Glass Of Champagne", and afterwards
Phil and Oliver were interviewed.
The show included a countdown of the 25 most famous
"Oldie" songs, and SAILOR reached place 15.
Also on the show: The Sweet featuring "our" Peter
Lincoln.
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Best wishes and SAILOR-greetings,
~ Katrin
your webmaster
28 March 2008: As mentioned on German RTL television today: SAILOR's
original first edition of "Buried
Treasure" - their anthology CD boxed set - is
still available directly from the band. The beautifully
packaged boxed set includes 38 songs from the SAILOR
history plus a 20-page coloured booklet, band commentary,
archive photos and biography. Click here for details & track list about "Buried Treasure" anthology double-CD!! |
16 March 2008:
on German RTL
television |
On 28 March 2008
SAILOR will be at the German TV show "Die Ultimative
Chartshow - Die erfolgreichsten Oldies aller Zeiten" on RTL
television. The show will be repeated again on the next day.
Also on the show: The Sweet featuring "our" Peter
Lincoln.
Don't miss it!!!
Best wishes and
SAILOR-greetings,
~ Katrin
your webmaster
01 March 2008:
"Girls Girls Girls" by Free Bears The band "Free Bears" has recorded a great new cover version of "Girls Girls Girls" which will be released on 11 April 2008. This is what the Free Bears say: "Back in the 70s this
has been a No 1 Smash-Hit by SAILOR which really
everybody knows from the northpole down to Tazmania has
been picked up, assimilated and refreshed without losing
the quite nostalgic charme of the song. We simply built
in a little rock..n..roll switch, a lot of fun and
passion just make it a typical FREE BEARS song. Even
Georg Kajanus, formerly SAILOR mastermind and songwriter
gave his okay to this version and said: This does justice
to the meaning of the song! To listen
to the song and have a look at the video, check out their The Free Bears version is a great new approach to the song, in a different style than previous cover versions by JBO, Krügers Nationalpark etc. Best wishes and
SAILOR-greetings, |
24 January 2008:
Live Videos...
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20 January 2008:
Updates I have updated the Concert Photos, Reviews, Videos...-section so that it's now easier to see which pages about the concerts of all the various SAILOR line-ups show you concert photos, videos and/or reports. There is also new video material. You can see live and TV videos of all the SAILOR line-ups from the 1970s until today. Have a look... ;-) Best wishes
and SAILOR-greetings, |
15 January 2008:
Recent cover versions - "Jumping All Over The World" (= A Glass Of Champagne) by Scooter and "La Cumbia" by Cuba Club
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What do you think about these two latest cover versions? Let us know at the Forum!
Best wishes and SAILOR-greetings,
~ Katrin
your webmaster
02 January 2008: SAILOR mourn the sudden passing of
their friend and agent in Denmark, Calle Nielson, on
Christmas Eve. He was a wonderful guy and will be sadly
missed. |
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