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meikken
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

TommyGun wrote:
Newspage says that ECOTD will be released in germany soon and different magazines will contain interviews with our favourite band soon(dont worry i will get them all)

sparks once replied to my questions on myspace, the response said that german gigs are planned "in the near future"

so i still hope to get to see them soon..




TommyGun, I asked the same question yesterday on myspace. The answer: "Hopefully toward the beginning of the year. "
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my conservatory in Wales would just be perfect!!! lol !!!!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jill wrote:
@ Eddy: Yes, on kindamusik.net - pretty recent, from Aug.1. He seemed sure about that, didn't say "we hope" or "maybe there'll be a tour".

@ Tommy: On the Sparks last.fm page (who is maintaining it?) there's a weird link to this event in Berlin (see the poster )
http://www.last.fm/event/665200
but actually it's about a German band with the same name - go figure!
http://www.myspace.com/sparksberlin

German Sparks was already mention in the Sparks not Sparks topic.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bryan_davey wrote:
my conservatory in Wales would just be perfect!!! lol !!!!!!!!!!

Is it an all-seating venue??
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

E-Clect-Eddy wrote:
jill wrote:

@ Tommy: On the Sparks last.fm page (who is maintaining it?) there's a weird link to this event in Berlin (see the poster )
http://www.last.fm/event/665200
but actually it's about a German band with the same name - go figure!
http://www.myspace.com/sparksberlin

German Sparks was already mention in the Sparks not Sparks topic.


Is another band allowed to use the name Sparks?

UK bands Yazoo, The Beat and Suede had to change their name to Yaz, The English Beat and The London Suede in the USA, as there were already bands using their names!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess that depends on that countries laws and Sparks management.
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Franz Kafka
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope Sparks Management or R &R do/does take care about this issue!!

I guess it is very unpleasent for both bands to get in this mixed up mess iIt is possible that the members of this german band have never heard about "real" Sparks.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I once almost booked a train journey to berlin and noticed this is an other band in the very last second
i never heard a song of them but i already hate them
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i bought a compilation cd a while back thinking id found a rare sparks song, and was totally miffed to find it was another band sharing the sparks title, i thought bands couldnt use current living bands names. i hope sparks sort this matter out also!!!!!, id be more miffed travelling to a concert only to listen to to find the name sake band playing!!!.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sjadey wrote:


Is another band allowed to use the name Sparks?

UK bands Yazoo, The Beat and Suede had to change their name to Yaz, The English Beat and The London Suede in the USA, as there were already bands using their names!


Spinal Tap were at one point called The Originals but it conflicted with a previous band name so they did consider calling themselves The New Originals.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bryan_davey wrote:
i bought a compilation cd a while back thinking id found a rare sparks song, and was totally miffed to find it was another band sharing the sparks title, i thought bands couldnt use current living bands names. i hope sparks sort this matter out also!!!!!, id be more miffed travelling to a concert only to listen to to find the name sake band playing!!!.


In the late 80s a friend, working in Kuwait, gave me a cassette of No.1 In Heaven, which he'd bought in Dubai. In addition to the 6 songs I already knew, these 2 songs were listed:
    Holding On
    Don't Stop Loving Me Now

I thought "Wow, 2 bonus Sparks tracks I've never heard before! "
However, when I listened to them, they were clearly not by Sparks but some Motown-style soul band! The tracks had been added just to fill blank space on the tape! With hindsight, those titles don't sound like anything Ron would write.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope Sparks will come to Australia again, and this time include Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Perth, and Chinkapook (yes, there is a place called that!!) in their intenerary. I'd love to re-live the magic of January 2001 again especially as they are starting to gain some fandom in my town with local musicians.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder if the dates being booked for 2009 will include a few UK dates, as well as European dates. I couldn't make any of the 21x21 gigs due to illness, so i need a Sparks fix soon.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please Sparks!...Come to Södra teatern theater in Stockholm again soon...I think the theater miss you and I guess you REALLYREALLY enjoyed playing there..great atmosphere and great sound...I`ll be there again for sure..I have been to that theater 6 times and them 6 times were for seeing/hearing Sparks LIVE (6 out of 7 so far)...
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are ANY definite UK dates known yet??
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