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27 September 2008
A good review of the American release of the Berlin dvd can be found here
It looks like the American release has different extra's then the UK version. The extra's on the American release include a 5 minut interview with Lou Reed and Julian Schnabel. And six minutes of behind the scenes, with the band and Lou.
16 September 2008
Ask Lou Reed is back again! So visit Lou Reed Forum to ask away!
Below the press release of the blu ray release of Berlin in Holland
Lou Reed: Berlin
Lou Reed: Berlin
(Release 14 oktober 2008)
In 1973 nam LOU REED 'BERLIN' op. Een ambitieus album dat een scherp contrast vormde met zijn superhit 'Walk on the Wild Side'. De scherpe recensies die het album kort na zijn release kreeg, deden de hoop die Reed en zijn producer Bob Ezrin koesterden om het live te brengen uiteen spatten. 33 jaar na de release van zijn absolute meesterwerk 'Berlin', besloot Reed toch een integrale opvoering op poten te zetten onder begeleiding van het Brooklyn Youth Chorus dat het achtergrondkoor vormt. In 10 songs vertelt hij het tragische leven van het junkie-koppel Jim en Caroline en komen woede, jaloezie en verlies aan bod. Julian Schnabel filmde vijf nachten lang in het New Yorkse St. Ann's Warehouse. Zijn dochter Lola draaide de impressionistische filmpjes die tijdens het optreden geprojecteerd worden. Deze concertfilm is een unieke registratie van een mythisch optreden. Reed, die nu 60-plus is, is nog altijd één van de beste en grootste muzikanten uit de muziekgeschiedenis. Er is heel veel veranderd sinds 1973, maar het verstrijken van de tijd maakt de songs nu nog veel beklijvender.
05 September 2008
The release of the UK version of the Berlin DVD has been pushed back the new release date is 27 October instead of 6 October as mentioned before.
31 August 2008
A bit of topic but stil very interesting:
John Cale will be returning to the Southbank Centre to perform a tribute to Nico ("Life along the Borderline: A Tribute to Nico") on October 11, 2008 at the Royal Festival Hall. In addition to being one of the original members of the Velvet Underground, Cale also played with La Monte Young during the 60s and was one of the pianists who performed at John Cage's production of Eric Satie's Vexations in 1963 at the Pocket Theater in New York.
Special guests, yet to be announced, will also be appearing with Cale at the Nico tribute. The website for the Southbank is at: Southbankcentre
19 August 2008
Matador records will release the soundtrack to Lou Reed's Berlin the movie on cd.
9 August 2008
Check out the new pictures of the Berlin tour in Europe on Lou Reed's Official website All pictures taken by Amy Beth McNeely
6 August 2008
Good news Lou Reed's Berlin wil get a blu ray release on october 6. This will be a special edition also containing an interview with Lou Reed held in London in July, it will also be released on dvd on that date. The dvd also includes the interview!
I guess this will be my first Lou Reed blu ray!
On the right you can see the cover for the blu ray and DVD
5 August 2008
Lou Reed is on the cover of the new Record Collector, The magazine has feature an interview with Lou Reed
On the right you can see the cover.
20 July 2008
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Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson will perform live together at the Licoln center festival together on July 22 in New York!
Yet an other review from Lou Reeds Berlin from Cinematical
19 July 2008
A couple of reviews of Lou Reed's Berlin from the American press
The first one is from New York sun It's not a bad review at all.
A second and even better review comes from Filmcritic
The review end with this: "The cool, of course, could have been delivered in an all-white bedroom with stuffed bunnies and posters of High School Musical, as long as Reed was there"
Third review comes from the New york times
Lou Reed in Brussels my own short review.
On july 16 Lou Reed and band gave a wonderful performance of Berlin in Brussels!
First it was of course Berlin from start to finish and then after a short break they played the encore. This almost felt like a second concert. It started with Satellite of love, it went into Walk on the wild side.
Last song was 'The power of the heart'. It was the perfect ending. And the song just stays in your head. I just kept singing the song the rest of the evening and the next day
Thank you Lou Reed, band and crew for yet an other 'Perfect day'
15 July 2008
Below two pictures of Lou Reed in Warsaw from 14 July. Pictures taken by Marta!
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8 July 2008
Two more reviews of the concert in Hamburg, real good ones this time!
The first one is from Das Abendblatt The review is called "Dunkle Klangberge und der glasklare Chor der Mädchen" which translate into something like 'Dark sound hills and a crystal clear choir of young girls'
The second review is from Die Welt This review is called "Großartiges Rockspektakel: Lou Reed zelebriert "Berlin"". This translate into something like Great Rock spectacle Lou Reed celebrates "Berlin"
Thank you Ralph for the links.
The hamburger Morgenpost has a review of the concert in Hamburg, you can read it here
On the site Oldie 95 you can see 11 great pictures of the show in Hambrug 2 nights ago!
7 July 2008
Just got back from the concert of Lou Reed in Hamburg yesterday.
It was again a lovely concert, the Berlin shows get better and better!
Thank you Lou Reed and band & crew!!!
Below a picture from yesterday taken by E. de Graaf.
6 July 2008
Read a very recent interview with Lou Reed held by Ignacio Julià, you can read the interview on the Rock and Roll animal page
4 July 2008
One review from the concert in Munchen
the first one is from The Sueddeutsche
On the right you can see the cover of a new Lou Reed dvd that will be released. The dvd is called Live! You can order the dvd at Amazon.com
Reading the review on amazon it apears to be a bootleg so of previous official released dvd's!
3 July 2008
A review from the concert in Vienna can be read on the website of the Tagesanzeiger The piece is called Bittere Worte, unnötig nachgesüsst (It's in German)
A bit about the two German concerts can be found in abendblatt, the piece is called Ich war kein Berliner
Read the review from Uncut magazine! it's a long and good review, including setlist.
2 July 2008
A rievew of the concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London form the Independent
Lou Reed get's 5 stars.
28 June 2008
A review from Lou Reed's Berlin live in Cork called Review of the week Lou Reed get's four stars from the independent!
27 June 2008
New pictures are online at Lou Reed's official site You can see pictures of Lou Reed in the studio, I wonder if this means we are going to get a new record in the [near] future
Yesterday Lou Reed played in Nottinghem. You can read a review on This is Nottingham
As an encore Lou Reed played Satelite of Love, Rock and Roll and Power of the heart. The review says Lou Reed saved the best for last with Power of the heart!
26 June 2008
A review from last night show can be found in the scotsman The review is called Fans give Lou Reed's Berlin its ovation 35 years on.
Last night Lou Reed played his first European Berlin concert of this summer!
He played whole of Berlin and as an encore Satelite of Love, Rock And Roll and Power Of The Heart
23 June 2008
Berlin - The Movie:
"Lou Reed's Berlin", a film directed by Julian Schnabel, will receive a Special Preview Screening at the Curzon Mayfair cinema on Sunday 29th June at 6:20pm. The screening will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with Lou Reed at 7:45pm.
A very limited amount of tickets are still available to the general public, priced £15. You can order tickets from 0871 703 3989 or from www.curzoncinemas.com (cinema address: Curzon Mayfair, 38 Curzon Street, London, W1J 7TY).
The film will go on general release on Friday 25th July in cinemas nationwide including London's Renoir Cinema and Curzon Soho, Arts Picturehouse Cambridge, Filmhouse Edinburgh, Watershed Bristol, Showroom Sheffield and will open at the Tyneside Cinema Newcastle on 15th August
22 June 2008
The Dutch release for the Berlin DVD is 24-06-2008! I guess Holland is one of the first countries to get it on DVD! You can buy the dvd at Bol.com for only 13,99 euro.
21 June 2008
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The scotsman has a piece about Lou Reed's Berlin in there newspaper called Lou Reed breaks wall down on Berlin album
Read this new interview with Lou Reed from 'The mirror' it's called legendary Lou Reed proves that he’s just as grouchy as ever
The Daily mail also has an interview with Lou Reed, they called it The Grinch of rock: Lou Reed's back on the road and in this rare interview is as dazzling, and grouchy, as ever
20 June 2008
Lou Reed has added a new date to his Berlin tour in Europe. It's on Friday 4 july in Vienna in Austria you can read more about it here
15 June 2008
Lou Reed's Berlin will be released on DVD in Germany on 25-07-2008. It's from the label Art Haus On the right you can see the cover for the dvd. Only extra on the dvd is a trailer.
The dvd can be pre-ordered at Amazon.de Looking on amazon.com it looks like the USA release date is 16 September 2008
I hope Holland get's a better release with more extra's
14 June 2008
On the rigt you can see a scan of Lou Reed in this weeks 'Entertainment weekly!
Thank you Patrick for the scan.
12 June 2008
Lou Reed add's a date to his tour this summer. He will play at the Hal Wilner's Rogue's Gallery concert in Dublin on july 18 for more info visit Hotpress
8 June 2008
Have a look at the webiste of Moogmusic you can watch a video there of Lou Reed trying out the guitar. He likes it!
3 June 2008
An interview with Julian Schnabel about the movie Berlin is now online of the website of the Dutch newspaper NRC
Lou Reed's only Spanish date during this Summer Berlin tour has been confirmd. It will be held in Malaga on July 21
You can read more about it on the website of Spanish culture news
The other shows in Spain have been cancelled
2 June 2008
Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson will do a concert together in Milano, on 24 of September. The concert is setup by John Zorn For more info you can visit the Website
Thank you Michael for the info!
27 May 2008
You can see pictures and articles of Laurie Anderson's performance in Hasselt on May 22 on the website of the venue Kunstcentrum Hasselt
Lou Reed was there as well. He accompanied Laurie on stage for some songs.
16 May 2008
"You know me I like to dream a lot
of what there is and what there's not
but mainly I dream of you a lot"
9 May 2008
You can listen to Lou Reed's concert in Asbury Park, New Jersey from April 24 online at NPR radio , this also includes the new song 'Power of the heart'
You can read the lyric's to 'Power of the heart' here!
2 May 2008
A little story about how Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson got married can be found on Gigwise.com
28 April 2008
A very good review of Lou Reed berlin by By Christopher Bourne can be found here
Below a few lines from the review, I saw the movie a week ago, and could not agree more:
The concert also features such notable guest performers as Sharon Jones, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. Antony’s performance on “Candy Says,” a Velvet Underground number not on the original album (and referring to Warhol Factory stalwart Candy Darling), provides the film’s best sequence. Antony’s inimitable, delicately quavering tenor complements Reed’s weathered, gravelly voice perfectly, and the tears we see in Reed’s eyes at the end of the song give this performance a startling emotional frisson.
Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson got Married on April 12
Contratulations to you two!I wish wish you both love and happiness together!! Below three of my favorite pictures of the two together, taken by Guido Harari The second one is taken bij Timothy Greenfield-Sanders The Third and last one, I forgot who took it. But wanted to share this one too. Added a fourth picture taken by Annie Leibovitz around 1996
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22 April 2008
Fine review from Lou Reed's gig at Electric Factory on April 19th from Philly.com
18 April 2008
A Good interview with Lou Reed and Steve Hunter can be found on Mass Live.com
More updates later today.
8 April 2008
The film Lou Reed's Berlin will be shown in Eindhoven on Friday 18 April at 20:30. at The Euro Cinema The film will be shown only once. It is not listed on the website yet, but if you call them you can already reserve tickets.
3 April 2008
The film Lou Reed's berlin is shown in Dutch cinema's starting today, The city's where the movie is shown are: Amsterdam, Delft and Ede. And I also heard it is shown in Utrecht but not to sure about that.
You can read a Dutch review of the film on the website of Cinema.nl
27 March 2008
Lou Reed is interview by Perry Farrel, you can see the interview on the website of wired
26 March 2008
Arte TV will show an interview with Lou Reed on Saterday 29 of March. It will be about Lou Reed's Berlin the movie. You can read more about it on the website of Arte TV
The info is in German and French. The programm starts at 20.15
20 March 2008
A review of the film Lou Reed's Berlin can be found on the website of The Hollywood reporter
19 March 2008
The website of Rolling Stone You can read about the Speak Up benefit from yesterday where Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Antony, David Byrne and others took part.
On the Right you can see a picture of this event, also from rollingstone.com.
Yet an other story from SXSW this time it is from Dallas news The titel says it all, 'Lou Reed as grumpy as Van Morrison'
17 March 2008
New More stories about Lou Reed at SXSW the website Gigwise They also have a couple of photo's of Lou Reed taking his pictures of the event.
On the right you can see the first one
An other very good story about Lou Reed at SXSW can be found at Sunjournal They also have a galary of photo's on their site.
The film Lou Reed's Berlin will be shown in Dutch cinema's. The premiere will be on Thursday April 3. You can read more about it on the website of Pathé
14 March 2008
More stories about Lou Reed at SXSW:
The first one is from Contactmusic It also contains some nice pictures of Lou ReedSecond one comes from Canada.com
Third a very good piece about Lou Read as keynote speaker from The village voice
13 March 2008
Read about Lou Reed as a keynote speaker at SXSW this morning:
First piece is from the Los Angeles Times
Second comes from the website Austin 360 called "Lou Reed’s keynote: Take a walk on the dry side"
On the right you see a picture from this moring taken from the website Austin360.com
12 March 2008
New An interview with Lou Reed from yesterday's Austin360.com 'Called A legend, in retrospect'
You can watch Leonard Cohen's Induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Lou Red on youtube
10 March 2008
There as been a second date been added to the European tour in Copenhagen!
July 08 Copenhagen Opera House
5 March 2008
Lou Reed has anounced the tour dates for Europe in June and July
The tickets for the 3 concerts in the UK go on sale Tomorrow
Berlin' 2008 European Dates
June 23 Cork Marquee
June 24 Belfast Waterfront
June 25 Edinburgh Playhouse
June 26 Nottingham Royal Centre
June 28 Paris Salle Pleyel
June 30 London Royal Albert Hall
July 03 Munich Philharmonie
July 06 Hamburg CCH - Congress Centrum
July 07 Copenhagen Opera House
July 08 Copenhagen Opera House New Date!
July 09 Stockholm Annexet
July 11 Tallin Saku Arena (Estonia)
July 12 Latvia Riga Arena
July 14 Warsaw Towar
July 16 Brussels Bozar
July 19 Lisbon Campo Pequeno
July 20 Loule Moinumento Dujarte Pacheco
July 21 Malaga Terral Festival
There is also an official site for the film Lou Reed's Berlin now, check it out it's cool, you can watch the trailer
2 March 2008
Happy Birthday Lou Reed!
I wish you a very good year and a lovely day with your friends and family You can add your birthday wishes to Lou Reed on his official forum24 February 2008
Found this interview with Lou Reed on The Hollywood interviews It't not a recent interview but from 2003. It's really worth reading. Lou talks about the Velvets and of course about the album 'The Raven'
20 February 2008
LOU REED & VELVET UNDERGROUND DOOR HENK KOORN (HALLO VENRAY) EN MICHEL VAN DIJK (ALQUIN).
Donderdag 21 februari wordt een topavond. Dat durven we vooraf al te zeggen. Niemand minder dan Michel van Dijk, legendarische zanger van dé rockband uit de 70’s Alquin, is gast van Henk Koorn (Hallo Venray). Samen gaan zij zorgen voor een avond vol kippenvel en dat doen ze met liedjes van Lou Reed en de Velvet Underground. Een jaar of vijf geleden hebben beide heren dit al eens gedaan en waren toen verantwoordelijk voor één van de beste recensies (Deventer Dagblad) die de Elegast ooit gehad heeft.
Michel van Dijk is zo’n levende rock legende die alles heeft meegemaakt. Wanneer hij je toezingt gaat het door merg en been. Ook gaat het hardnekkige gerucht dat Lou Reed een goede bekende van hem is. Zelf zwijgt hij hierover.
Ook van Henk Koorn is bekend dat hij een groot Velvet Underground en Reed fan is en dat is op de platen van Hallo Venray terug te horen.
Dus: Take a Walk on the Wild Side (Elegast) en dompel je onder in een Velvet Underground.
Aanvang: 21.30 uur.
Entree: 4 euro.
22 January 2008
Lou Reed played a private gig yesterday in Paris for a roup of Parisian financiers you can read more about it here
28 December 2007
The film Berlin directed by Julian Schnabel will be shown during the Rotterdam Film Festival in January. The festival runs from 23 januari - 3 februari 2008
The program of the Festival will be online in January
The Dutch newspaper NRC included a reivew of Saw by The killers. The review was not to positief about the cd they did howerver love the duet of Lou Reed with the killers
Picture on the right by Mark Mawston
19 December 2007
Lou Reed did answer questions on his official site, check it out, it's a good read.
12 December 2007
News form Lou Reed's official site!
You can ask Lou Reed questions, Lou Reed will answer some of them every week. They also made a kind of forum where you can talk about Lou Reed's latest releases.
I asked a question already ;-)
21 November 2007
You can listen to the complete version of Gravity and saftey zone at Here comes the flood weblog
Enjoy the songs, they are good!
Also take a look at the news on the website of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. where you can see a picture of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at the Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' portraits from Alive Day Memories exhibit. On the right you can see a small version of the picture.
Make sure you also read the interview with Greenfield-Sanders about show, it gives some interesting background about it. On the website you can view 13 Portraits that are part of the Exhibit.
8 November 2007
From Lou Reed.com
The two new Lou Reed songs Gravity and Safty zone will soon be available from Itunes.
That is good news! I sure will get them. I hope they will also be for sale in Europe.
7 November 2007
Found this cool video on youtube of Lou Reed and Garland Jeffreys They did a duet about two month ago in Lokeren Belgium.
Enjoy if you have not seen it yet!
6 November 2007
The video for Tranquilize is now online, watch the duet of Lou Reed and the Killers below!
3 November 2007
You can watch the song Gravity on aol video
It's not the complete song.Click on the image below
2 November 2007
Two new Lou Reed songs!
From LouReed.com
Lou Reed wrote two news songs inspired by the movie called Nanking. For more info about the film click on the name or go to imdb.com
The two songs Lou Reed wrote are Gravity and Saftey zone. You can listen to parts of the song on Lou Reed's myspace page
31 October 2007
You can watch the whole video of Stephen Emmer's Passengers feat. Lou Reed by clicking on the link below! Enjoy!
Thank you Fred for the Link.
30 October 2007
In the Dutch program de wereld draaid door Stephen Emmer tells about his new CD. He made a cd with music to spoken word. Lou Reed speaks one of the parts on ther cd. The cd is called Recitement and produced by Tony Visconti The cd was released on 8 oktober in Holland!
You can see and listen to a snippet of the song Passengers spoken by Lou Reed on the website of the de wereld draaid door.
Today's program is not online yet. But I'm sure it will be tomorrow. The part you want to view starts after about 18 minutes of the program!
You can listen to part the song passengers spoken by Lou Reed on the website dedicated to Recitement
27 October 2007
Today's edition of the Dutch newspaper NRC contains an article about Andy Warhols films, which are part of Warhol Other Vocies other rooms show in 'het Stedelijk museum' in Amsterdam.
The writer gives a little review of the movie 'Empire state building' and he writes about the time capsule that is on display. The capsule includes an unused ticket for a Velvet Underground concert.
Next time I go to see the expositioin I have to see if I can spot the ticket ;-)
24 October 2007
I add a second page of photo's from The opening from 'Lou Reed's New York' in Amsterdam to the site.
All these photo's are taken by Corine van Mierlo!. They are real good so make sure you take a look
23 October 2007
Lou Reed made it into the charts again! The Duet he did with the Killers 'Tranquilize' made it into the top 20 in Britan this week.! You can read a bit more about it on About.com
17 October 2007
I added a page with photo's from the opening of Lou Reed's New York More photo's will be added but this is a nice start.
I will try and add a page with photo's from the Andy Warhol opening tomorrow or Friday.
16 October 2007
Tomorrow I will add a page with photo's from Lou Reed's New York opening in Amsterdam to the site. Here is already a picture the picture is taken by Kris.
14 October 2007
Serge wrote a review about the opening of Lou Reed's New York expositioin Amsterdam.
You can reed it here it comes with a wonderful photo by Corine van Mierlo.
13 October 2007
You can watch yesterdays episode of 'De wereld draaid door' Online. The interview with Lou Reed is around 15 -20 min in the program. Make sure you watch it cause it is very funny!(Again this is in Dutch)But even without understanding Dutch it is funny.
You can listen to the duet of the Killer and Lou Reed called Tranquilize online. Just click online. It sounds real good!
12 October 2007
Tonight in De wereld draaid door there will be a feature about the opening of the Andy Warhol exposition and Lou Reed's performance. The program will be show at 19:30 on NED3 again this is in Dutch.
Lou Reed was in Amsterdam these past few days.
Yesterday he was the main part of the opening of the Andy Warhol exposition in 'Het stedelijk museum' in Amsterdam.
And on Wednesday Lou Reed opened his own exposition of 'Lou Reed's New York' at Serieuze zaken studioos.
I will put up a lot of photo's, reviews as soon as possible.
As a start, here is a link to an interview the Dutch TV show 1 vandaag did with Lou Reed on the day of the opening of 'Lou Reed's New York. The interview is in Dutch.
Below two pictures of Lou Reed at the opening of Lou Reed's New York. Pictures taken by Jan van Breda
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8 October 2007
Two more news bits about Lou Reed's New York exposition in Amsterdam
One from Trouw
And studio Brussel also has info about in on their site
More news about Lou Reed's Photo Exposition on various websites. All of them are in Dutch.
First one is from the website de Pers
Second one is from the site Nieuwsbank
Third one from Zoek zoek.nl
6 October 2007
Lou Reed's New York the photo exposition will come to Holland!
The expostion will be from 11 October to 15 Novemvber in Serieuze zaken Studioos The Dutch newspaper NRC has a short interview with Lou Reed in today's paper.
Lou Reed tells in the interview that he is very happy with how the Berlin movie turned out.
2 October 2007
On the right you can see a picture of Julian Schnabel and Lou Reed during the San Sebastian film-Festival, a few das ago.
At the festival the Film Berlin was shown. Picture from viewcom.
29 September 2007
Read this funny interview It's a mans world from the daily mail.
26 September 2007
The Killers new album sawdust an album with B-sides and other rareties will also contain the song Tranquilize a duet with Lou Reed. The album will be released on 13 November.
25 September 2007
You can watch a preview of the Berin Movie bij Julian Schnabel san sebastian.com The preview is Lady day and it sounds great. You can also get a a bit more information about the movie.
19 September 2007
On the website of Variety You can find a small review of the film Berlin.
18 September 2007
You can read a good interview with Lou Reed about the new release of Metal Machine Music at Pitchfork Media
16 September 2007
It has been quiet for a few days, but now you can read an Exclusive interview with Reinhold Friedl from Zeitkratzer on this site!!
12 September 2007
At Paste Magazine You can read more about Lou Reed's art program. And they also write a bit About Mark Selingers 401 art project, where also photo's taken by Lou Reed are shown. You can read more about that here and also few some photo's taken by Lou Reed
11 September 2007
Lou Reed to become an Art Nerd
Lou Reed is to host an episode of Aperture, a new series on the Gallery HD network (the only 24 hour network devoted to the visual arts). The episode airs TOMORROW night, Sept. 11, at 10 pm, and can be viewed on various operators as well as the Dish Network satellite folks. You can read the full story on Harpmagazine.com
The story comes with the famous first cover of Punk Magazine.
10 September 2007
Metal Machine Music is album of the week at Organ Art
In the latest edition of Q magazine you find the 10 most perfect songs ever!
This is the list:
01 Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
02 Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles
03 Life On Mars? - David Bowie
04 Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
05 Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
06 Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
07 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
08 God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
09 Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan
10 Perfect Day - Lou Reed
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music by Zeitkratzer get's a 3 star review in the Sunday Times This is what they say about the cd/dvd:
When Lou Reed subtitled his 1975 double album of noise guitar “an electronic instrumental composition”, hardly anybody believed him. It’s doubtful whether many more will now, but this fully scored version by the German contemporary-music ensemble Zeitkratzer, recorded in a Berlin opera house in 2002, is still a revelation of sorts. It can’t have been easy transcribing an hour of howling guitar feedback for an 11-piece group of wind and strings, but the result is more interesting and listenable than Reed’s original. It’s not as pretty as Bang on a Can’s version of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, and will appeal only to lovers of modern esoterica – but few records investigate the concept of “noise” more intelligently than this one.
9 September 2007
Yet an other good review for Metal Machine Music by Zeitkratzer. This one is from the website of the BBC!
Below you can see a picture of Lou Reed, taken from the "Home & Away" magazine. The story that goes with it does not really have anything to do with Lou Reed, but I like the picture.
Thank you Patrick for the scan!
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8 September 2007
Great little interview with Julian Schnabel from bloomberg.com
7 September 2007
A little more info about the 'Berlin Movie' made by Julian Schnabel. From Cinema.nl
The article is in Dutch, and it is accompanied by a picture of Lou Reed
Schnabel says in the interview that Lou Reed songs like 'Sad Song' are an echo of his life.
One more great review of the new Metal Machine music by Zeitkratzer, from Blog Critics
An interresting review of Metal Machine Music by Zeitkratzer can be found on the website of the Guardian.
It is called An Impossible noise
I found this below picture of Lou Reed by Mark Seliger yesterday and wanted to share it with you!
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6 September 2007
Luciano Pavarotti died at the age of 71, he lost the battle to cancer.
The link is to a videoclip of Pavarotti and Lou Reed doing Perfect Day together.
The concert film 'Berlin' made by Julian Schnabel will be shown at the Toronto Film festival
The film will also been shown at the Venice Film Festival and San Sebastian Film Festival. It's making the International Film Festival Circuit at the moment. It will be released theatrically (in the cinema) later this year or early 2008.
5 September 2007
A good review of Metal Machine Music by Zeitkratzer can be found on Get Ready to Rock
A second review from Punk News
An interview with Ulrich Krieger from Zeitkratzer can be found in the New York Sun
4 September 2007
Het Nieuwsblad a Belgium newspaper, has a nice story About Lou Reed's and Laurie Anderson visit to Gent. Laurie Anderson got a hip surgeon there. From what the article says Laurie Anderson is doing fine, and they left the city after a stay for 3 weeks.
On the right you can see a picture of Lou and Laurie during their stay.
3 September 2007
A new review of Metal Machine Music from the OMH website. Wel worth reading
30 August 2007
Der Rocker als Komponist Is a good German review of the forthcoming new Metal Machine Music album!
Thank you Ralph
28 August 2007
The release date for Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music is pushed back one week the release date for the UK is now Monday September 10th. Lou Reed to record a new song with the Killers? Read full report here
24 August 2007
The film Berlin by Julian Schnabel will be shown on the film festival in San Sebastian Read more about it here
The new Metal Machine Music cd/dvd get's a 4 star review on music news.com
21 August 2007
A interesting review of Coney Island baby can be read here
15 August 2007
On september the first a rough guide to the velvet underground will be released. You can read a review here It looks like the book was released in the uk on August 1 this month.
10 August 2007
In the Belgium newspaper het Nieuwsblad you can read that Lou Reed did a guest performance yesterday at a concert van Garland Jeffreys in Lokeren
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3 August 2007
More news about Metal Machine Music, from Undercover.com
1 August 2007
On the website of Billboard you can read more about the release of the Live cd/dvd of Metal Machine Music by Zeitkratzer and Lou Reed.
31 July 2007
From Loureed.com:
Lou Reed and master Ren Guangyi’s are on the cover of Kung fu magazine below you can see the cover
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Lou Reed and Zeitkratzer will release a dvd/cd of Metal Machine Music!
Lou Reed and German contemporary classical avant-garde chamber music ensemble Zeitkratzer are to release a live CD/DVD entitled "Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music - Performed by Zeitkratzer Live". The CD/DVD will be released by Asphodel Records in the UK on Monday 3rd September and in North America on Tuesday 4th September.
Avant-Garde German saxophone player, Ulrich Krieger, transcribed Lou Reed's original 1975 studio album Metal Machine Music to create an acoustic music score for the ensemble to play live. Zeitkratzer premiered Metal Machine Music 'Live' at MaerMusic Haus Der Berliner, Festspiele, March 17, 2002. Lou Reed plays guitar on on track 3. The DVD includes the entire concert mixed in 5.1 Surround and includes an exclusive 25-minute interview with Reed.
28 July 2007
A little background about the childern choir that went on tour with Lou Reed for performing Berlin. From Ham&high
27 July 2007
A little rumour about Lou Reed I gues, but would be funny!
25 July 2007
Today I greated a new Lou Reed group on MySpace It's dedicated to Lou Reed of cource. Feel free to join if your a member on myspace too!! Would love to meet you there. You can find the group here
24 July 2007
Found an interview with Lou Reed about 'Berlin' from last month. It's from the Dutch newspaper Het Algemeen Dagblad The interview is in Dutch, but it comes with a great photo, see below.
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The Mojo website posted some photo's of Lou Reed's concert in the HMH last month.
23 July 2007
The times online has a review about Hudson river and wind meditation the piece comes with a great picture. Posted below!
You can read a review from the Doc Pomus tribute on Harpmagazine.com
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22 July 2007
A good review of Hudson river wind meditation can be found at Jazz News!
18 July 2007
Ian sent me a review of the First Berlin concert in Amsterdam from a Danish newspaper. He translated it too!
Thanks Ian.
You can read the review here
Also added two pictures to the Amsterdam page with photo's by Corine, two more Panorama's
16 July 2007
I added a page with photo's from the first night in Amsterdam of the Berlin tour. All pictures are taken by Corine, make sure you take a look. They are great!
Take also a look at this lovely video of Lou Reed and Laurie anderson at Joe's pub lost art of converstation live!
7 July 2007
American Photo as a big article about Rock mucisian who take photo's. Lou Reed is also mentioned
6 July 2007
Some cool news from the Uncut website Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and Antony are working on a re-recording of Big science (the song) The album 'Big science' was re released last month as a special edition. The big science EP will be released on 16 July. It also contains a new version of 'O superman!
Below two pictures of the rehearsel of Berlin in Lyon. Serge sent me this pictures, thanks!
Click on the images for a bigger version!
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5 July 2007
A very good review of the Apollo concert in London can be found at ents24 site
2 July 2007
The German Paper Die Zeit Has a very interesting article about Lou Reed's Berlin performance in Amsterdam two weeks ago
Some great photo's of the concert in London of Lou Reed can be found on flickr.com. They where taken by Turn to the light
Two reviews from the London concerts:
The first is from The Herald
The second one is from This is London This one comes with a cool picture!
30 June 2007
Richt a picture taken of Lou Reed in Amsterdam by Corine. More follow later today!
The Concert Lou Reed gave yesterday in Manchester gets a great review in Manchester Evening news! Four stars out of five!
A recent review of the Berlin album can be found on the website of All gigs 5 stars!!!
29 June 2007
Even more pictures from Berlin, I added 5 more pictures taken by Petra!
Bianca sent me pictures of the concert in Berlin on 26-06-2006 you can see them here
Thank you Bianca for the pictures!
In August on the Venice film festival, the film of the Berlin performance in New York will be shown to the public. It might get some shown in theaters around europe as well. And it will also get a DVD release.
They are also filming the European shows or parts of it. This might be made into a film later aswel.
28 June 2007
More news!
Next Saturday, there will be a Lou Reed special on the Culture show of half an hour it start's at 23.30!
Just got back from the lovely Berlin show in Berlin!
Here are five reviews of the concert some with a photo
the first one is from the Maerkische Allgemeine
The second one is from the Berliner Morgenpost
The third one is from the Die Seit
The fourth is from Der Tagesspiegel You can see the picture that comes with the story below a bit big, but I love it!
Last and good review comes from the Frankfurter Allgemeine This also comes with a great photo!
Thank you Ralph for the info!
Also found a review of the Paris concert, it a very good review!
16 June 2007
Tonight Lou Reed will be on tv bbc 2 in the culture show 20:10 central european time. So in the UK it is one hour earlier.15 June 2007
OT: A nice interview with John Cale from today's GuardianIn the Dutch music Magazine Oor there is a feature on Lou Reed. Called Lou Reed for starters. If you know nothing about Lou Reed this piece tells you where to start. Metel Machine Music is also mentioned.
14 June 2007
The first Lou Reed concert in Amsterdam is sold out. The second show has still some tickets let.In the Dutch newspaper 'Volkskrant' had an interview with Lou Reed. Lou Reed said in the interview that he wanted to play in Carre the famous venue in Amsterdam. But that was booked all of June so Lou had to look for an other venue! Lou Aslo said that Carre is is favorite venue anywhere.
12 June 2007
Update: I added 8 pictures of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at the Ken Nordine show during the Highline festival a few weeeks ago.The pictures are taken by Bianca.
Below the two pictures of Lou Reed that can be found in the Telegraph magazine from 26 of May. Really good photo's of Lou Reed!!!
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Klick on the images to get a bigger version! Thank you Fred for the scans!
More Pictures of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at Ken Nordine show at the highline festival Later today!
11 June 2007
Neil Gaiman, pointed to a Lou Reed interview in La Yoga magazine in his blog from june 10 He also mentioned an article in the times about Metal Machine music by ZeitkreizerOn a site note you might like to know that Neil Gaimen called his daughter Holly afer the song "walk on the wild side"
9 June 2007
More Lou Reed on Brittisch radio.
On june 12 or 13 Lou Reed will be on the Mark Riley show on BBC radio 6
Lou Reed will be on BBC Radio London on Tuesday June 12th at 2:30pm in the afternoon via the Robert Elms show
You can playback Tuesday's interview with Lou Reed via the following link (Go to Robert Elms and click Tuesday, however, you can only do this after the show ends at 3pm on Tuesday) - . If the show is not on Tuesday, they will run the Lou Reed interview on Wednesday.
On the June 18 Lou Reed will be on "Nightwaves" on BBC radio 3
On June 24 Lou Reed will be on the Johnny Walker show on BBC 2
Comming up on June 12 You can listen to an Interview with Lou Reed by Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie. They host a radio show on BBC2 from 20:00 till 22:00 hours
8 June 2007
Great interview with Lou Reed can be found on whole lifetime.com and you can read an interview with Lou Reed about his Photo exhibit in the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburg hereIt comes with some nice photo's
7 June 2007
Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson both are guest narrators "Brand upon the brain" The live show. For more information you can go to the offical website5 June 2007
Lou Reed was interviewd about Berlin for the Today show on BBC 4. You can listen to the show on their website When you are on the page you have to click listen againLou's interview is about 7.40
The Belgium magazine Humo has a four page interview with Lou Reed this week.
1 June 2007
Lou Reed's album Berlin wil get a new release for the Berlin tour in Europe. The songs are the same as on the older cd releases. But this one will contain full artwork and it is a digipack. You can read more about it here29 May 2007
I just got an email of Valerie Reiss about an interview she did with Lou Reed. You can listen and read the interview hereYou can still buy tickets for the second Lou Reed show in Amsterdam on 21 of June in the Heineken Music Hall at Ticketmaster.nl
28 May 2007
A long interview with Lou Reed in the UK Telegraph It is a nice interview, and Lou really talks about stuff!And it has a very cool picture to go with it. See below:
25 May 2007
You can read an interview with Lou Reed about Berlin and a new photo of him in the times online03 May 2007
A nice review about Lou Reed's concert at the High line Balroom last Monday can be found hereThe website of Rolling Stone has a review too, and a nice picture of the concert
27 April 2007
Yesterday night, a dinner was held in honnor of Lou Reed.During the dinner Lou Reed was presented with the George Arents Pioneer Medal, Syracuse University's highest alumni honour. Past winners of the award include Aaron Sorkin, Ted Koppel, Albert Maysles and Steve Kroft.
The dinner also marked the establishment of the Lou Reed/Delmore Schwartz Scholarship to benefit English majors attending Syracuse University.
Guests included: Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Bono, and Timoty Greenfield Saunders. At wireimage.com you can see some pictures of this event
Below a picture:
20 April 2007
The new album of Patti Smith 'Twelve' contains telve covers done by Patti Smith if you are lucky you might find the promo 7" single of the new album which is called 'two more' The a side of the single is the well know song 'Perfect day' by Lou Reed covered by Patti.Below you can see the cover.
You can find copies of the single on ebay!
10 April 2007
The Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant listed an ad for the second Berlin show in Amsterdam. You can see a scan below!
18 March 2007
See here the lovely poster for the London Shows of Berlin
15 March 2007
The Dutch Newspaper 'De Volkskrant', has a small add in their paper today for the Berlin Concert in Amsterdam. You can see a scan of it below.It was acompanied with a few lines about the Berlin concert.
14 March 2007
The Dutch Lou Reed concert of 20 June is no mentioned on th website of ticketmaster.nl as well.13 March 2007
The news about the concerts in Europe is spreading. You can read about the Dutch concert on the website of nu.nlThe concert promoter mojo also has a page dedicated to the Dutch Lou Reed concert you can find the site here
They have tickets in prices ranging from 56.50 euro's to 69.50. This is a seated event so no tickets for standing! I think this is great news. I do not really like to stand through a concert.
12 March 2007
The NME also has announced Lou Reed's European tour of Berlin. You can read about it on Their websiteYou can read an interview with Lou Reed about Berlin in this month Uncut magazine It has a small picture of Lou Reed on the cover too!
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Official press release about the Europeen Lou Reed tour for this summer!
The dates so far:
Monday June 18 Brussels Forest National
Ticket On-Sale Date: Saturday March 17th
Wednesday June 20 Amsterdam – Heineken Music Hall
Ticket On-Sale Date: Saturday March 17th
Saturday June 23 Paris - Palais de Congress
Ticket On-Sale Date: Saturday March 17th
Tuesday June 26 Berlin Tempodrom
Ticket On-Sale Date: Saturday March 17th
Saturday June 30& Sunday July 1 London Hammersmith Apollo
Ticket On-Sale Date: Friday March 16th
Friday July 6 Rome - Il Parco della Musica – “Santa Cecilia” Hall
Ticket On-Sale Date: Monday March 26th
Sunday July 8 Arezzo – Arezzo Art Festival, Piazza Grande
Ticket On-Sale Date: Monday March 26th
For more info you can visit the English press agent site
If you have more news about the concert Lou Reed is doing of Berin in Europe let me know! I will post all the info here!
From Lou Reed's official site.
The velvet underground are named #1 ON TIME OUT NY'S "50 MOST IMPORTANT MUSICIANS"
This is what time Out says about The Velvet underground:
Forget, for a moment, the surly genius of Lou Reed and his songs. Forget John Cale’s experimental background. Forget that the classic Velvet Underground lineup lasted just three years. Forget that Cale and Reed were living and recording on Ludlow Street three decades before it seemed like a good idea. Forget Warhol and the Factory, forget Mo Tucker’s stand-up drumming, forget the shades and the heroin. Just play any of the first three albums. They still sound impossibly cool. The Velvets were born in the space after the Beats and before the hippies, and represented a stern, aloof rejoinder to everything California was spewing at the time. They midwifed the love child of rock and the avant-garde. They remain the ultimate NYC band.
Must-own album: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
You can see the complete list of Artists on the website of Time-out magazine
26 Oktober 2006
New Lou Reed related DVDLou has just released a new DVD with his Tai Chi master.
The dvd has the following subtitles and menu laguages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, & Italian.
You can find all info here
You can watch a preview by clicking on the LINK
09 july 2006
Yes believe it or not but I edit the site. And there is news!
Sergio sent me some photo's of Lou Reed live in Barcelona last month, and also from Prague earlier this year.
You can see them here
Lou will do a special live appearence in At Dublin's Point Theatre for:
Hal Willner's
'Came So Far For Beauty: An Evening of Leonard Cohen songs'
Featuring:
Antony, Laurie Anderson, Perla Batalla, Steven Bernstein, Rob Burger, Charlie Burnham, Nick Cave, Julie Christensen, Jarvis Cocker, David Coulter, Don Falzone, Gavin Friday, The Handsome Family, Robin Holcomb, Briggan Krauss, Maxim Moston, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Beth Orton, Lou Reed, Chris Spedding, Kate St. John Teddy Thompson, Kenny Wollesen.
Street Hassle and Coney Island baby will finally get a remastered release on August 15. The new releases also contain some bonus tracks! I'm really looking forward to the release myself.
11 January 2006
Lou Reed talks about his new Photo-book in the Artnewspaper. This is what they have to say About Lou ReedLou Reed has been busy in Tribeca. Not only has he been playing live along with partner Laurie Anderson before a small local audience to mark the opening of the new Canal Park, a verdant triangle which both artists lobbied to get planted, but also snapping surrounding views. This month Reed reveals for the first time his photographic art, mostly images of the Hudson River from the Tribeca corner where he now resides. Two concurrent exhibitions at Hermès and Steven Kasher Gallery coincide with the publication of Lou Reed’s New York (Steidl) and reveal his lyric gift extends to the humble press release. As Lou puts it: “These images are the result of a small attempt to share the beauty that has bedazzled the consciousness of this viewer standing on the edge of the river with a box in hand trying to catch the lightning bolt of time.”
You can view some of the photo's on the website of the Steven Kasher Gallery
We also have a new forum. This new one we will use only for a short while, and soon we will get a new one without add's!!
21 December 2005
Hello fellow Lou Reed fans the messageboard has been hacked again. I talked about with the person who is hosting this site.So I hope that things will be normal again soon.
On a more happier note, let me all wish you a very happy Christmas and a wonderful 2006, hopfully with some Lou Reed shows!
Take care all and seen you soon on the message board again!
Bettina
October 29
Lou Reed performed Baton Rouge yesterday, and Dirty boulavard at the concert for the Canal park. Laurie Anderson also did 2 songs. I found a small review in the the Villager
Words posted two more news items on the messageboard
Left Lou Reed on stage at this concert.
September 13
If you wonder where the message board went, look at the
guestbook
Sorry guys I'm a little upset...
Not sure if I can fix it, but I will try....
:-(
Bettina
August 31
Lou Reed and David Bowie both worked on the new Grand Kashmir album ‘No Balance Palace’
Lou Reed sings on the track Black Building”. You might wonder how did happened,
This is what it says on the Dutch Grand Kashmir site about the collaboration
"During the mixing session in New York, Kashmir and Visconti played around with an instrumental track, and then decided it would be intriguing to add a spoken role to complete it. Kasper had written a poem, “Black Building”, but the dark, atmospheric track asked for a special kind of voice. They came up with the idea of asking Lou Reed if he would do the part, and he soon returned having decided to join in. His voice truly completes the track “Black Building”, which is found on the new album."
The new album will be released on October 10.
August 27
More info about the new Lou Reed dvd live in Montreux can be found here.
Below you can see the cover.
The songlist looks great, I can't wait to see this one!
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August 19
The Velvet underground videoRedux live 1993 Will finaly be released on DVD, so far the date is said to be December 2005.
August 15
From Lou Reed's official site. Lou Reed is a Fashion Model Sister Ray Enterprises | 8/17/2005 Following in the footsteps of his mentor Andy Warhol, Lou strikes a pose in his very own clothes in the August edition of ID magazine. Photos to come. You can see one photo by going to the website of ID
August 14
You can find some Lou Reed in the new uncut magazine. He comments about Naked lunch.
August 13
Admire sent me 3 great Lou Reed pictures. Below is one of them, the rest will follow later today and a bigger version of this one too.
Here they are click on the photo below to see them all. Also one of Lou Reed with Sylvia in Amsterdam 1989.
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August 12
The newspaper pulse has a nice quote of the week:
“Never listen to your old stuff. If you do that, then you're not a musician anymore, you're just a self-satisfied nostalgic idiot who's not interested in inventing anything.” — Lou Reed
August 11
The top 10 Lou Reed songs voted by the radio 2 listeners is as follows:
10 Sally can dance
09Dirty BLVD
08 Who am I
07 Sweet jane
06 Satelite of Love
05 coney island baby
04 caroline says II
03 vicous
02 walk on the wildside
01 Perfect day
I can't believe who am I made it in there! But I agree.
The concert they will be playing between 22:00 and 23:00 is the concert from 1992 in Carre, part of his Magic and loss performance there.
August 10
Tomorrow Radio 2 (a Dutch radio station) will Have a Lou Reed day. This means they will play a lot of Lou Reed songs. You can vote for your favorite Lou Reed song, and between 10 and 11 they will air a concert of Lou Reed.
So far I do not know which concert this is, but I will try and find out.
You can only vote on the day itself.
Maybe we should all vote for a piece of Metal machine music?
August 9
Lou Reed wrote the introduction to the photo book of MARK SELIGER called "IN MY STAIRWELL"
The book will be published on October 25.
More info on the book can be found at amazon or by clicking on the link.
August 8
The new photo book by Lou Reed "Lou Reed's New York"now has a cover on Amazon. The book will have 192 pages and the release date is set for 19 january 2006. To late for christmas.
The sale price at the moment is 50$
The cover of the new photo book: 
August 7
On the official website of Dranouter you can see 4 photo's of Lou Reed's performance on Friday.
left one of them
Eagle will put out a new DVD of Lou Reed, the titel is Live In Montreux 2000, I'm really looking forward to this one!
August 6
The setlist from Dranouter
Dorita -Turn To Me -Caroline Says -Dreaming -Street Hassle -Rock Minuet -Romeo Had Julliette -Slipaway -How Do You Think It Feels -Guardian Angel -The Raven -The Blue Mask
On the right you can see a scan of the setlist given to me by one of Lou Reed's staff members.
On the message board you can read my little review of the concert.
July 29
On August 11 Radio 2 (Dutch radio) will have a Lou Reed day, this means a lot of lou reed music on the radio, and a live performance. I guess this will be between 22:00 and 23:00 And on the day itself you can vote for your favorite Lou Reed song!. For more info you can visit their website.
June 24
Lou Reed will perform in Belgium on 5 August for the Folk Dranouter festival for more info you can go to their website. Looks like it will be a concert with Lou Reed and Mike Rathke only it says special Duo concert. Lou Reed will start at 22.45 to view the whole programm go here Tickets are 40 Euro to 47. Does this mean Lou Reed will do a small tour again?
June 15
On Lou Reed's official site you can see photo's of the recent tour taken by Pricilla Polley, they also added photo's of the lighting for the 2005 tour by Bill Berger.
May 27
I added 4 Photo's of Lou Reed from the Burns Festival to the site. The photo's where taken by G.Marks.
More photo's of the 2005 shows to follow soon.
On the right a photo of Lou Reed with the Ivor Novelle award. On the site of Getty Images you can see many more photo's of Lou Reed and this event. Also one with Laurie Anderson.
On the messageboard you can read two newspaper stories about the Ivor Novello award which Lou Reed recieved yesterday.
May 25
In October a new photobook by Lou Reed will be in the shops. It's called Lou Reed's New York and you can pre order it by Amazon.com the sale price is 80$
May 24
LOU REED’s FAVORITE 100 SINGLES
Picked by Lou Reed for the Curated Juke Box at the Helsinki Music Club in Zurich, Switzerland.
May 2005.
Because it is a lot of text I made this a topic onthe message board
Paste magazine has a nice review of the book all yesterdays parties. It seems an interesting book, anyone read it?
May 23
The Scotsman has a small review about Lou Reed's performance at the Burns festival.
May 21
Lou Reed played for songs yesterday at the Burns festival, Vanishing act, Perfect day, walk on the wild side, and who am I. You can read a small review about it on the messageboard
May 19
You can read an interview with Lou Reed from the Sunday Herald online.
Do read it, it is a very strange interview. And you see a different side of Lou Reed. And again I'm glad I'm not the interviewer ;-)
I will also add the scan of the cover to the site tomorrow Here is the cover photo. A bigger one will be on the sit tomorrow.
May 18
The Herald has a nice review of Lou's reading in Schotland.
Found a second review of the reading from the Schotsman
May 17
Yesterday Lou Reed did a reading is Schotland, I read a short review about on bowiewonderworld. And posted it on the messageboard, so there you can read a few thoughts about the evening by Bowiewalker.
May 16
In the new movie It/ll be better tomorrow. about Hubert Shelby, In the movie you can also see Lou Reed being interviewed.
For more info you can go to the website about the movie, you can see two photo's of Lou Reed there.
The movie will be released this summer
May 15
Oor one of Holland's best music magazines has a review on their site of the concert Lou Reed gave in Amsterdam last week. It is intresting to read, but it is in Dutch
May 14
Setlist from the last European concert.
Helsinki 13-05-2005
Adventurer - The Proposition - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad -
Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley's Girl - Burning Embers - Vanishing
Act - Guardian Angel
Encores: Perfect Day - Walk On The Wild Side
Here is the setlist from Tampere gig in Finland:
Adventurer - The Proposition - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad - Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley's Girl - Burning Embers - Vanishing Act - Guardian Angel Encores: Perfect Day - Walk On The Wild Side
Below right a picture from Lou Reed in Berlin (I hope)I was wrong it is from Prague this year...
May 12
Setlist in Lahti 11.05.2005. Thank you, Hannu for the info!
Adventurer - The Proposition - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad - Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley's Girl - Burning Embers - Vanishing Act - Guardian Angel - encore: Walk on the Wild Side
Here the setlist from Stockholm!
Adventurer - The Proposition - White Light/White Heat - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad - Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley's Girl - Burning Embers - Vanishing Act - Guardian Angel encore: Perfect Day
Blue mask again replaced by White light white heat
May 10
Andreas Titlestad sent me his review of the three concerts Lou Reed gave in Norway two weeks ago, it is a funny story, about the concerts planes and meeting Lou Reed, the story is called "flying high with Lou Reed"
this is one of the pictures I took in Copenhagen the first night, not great but you might like it.
May 9
The Setlist from Goteborg in Sweden, which was diffferent from the once last weekWhite light white heat was again part of the set, but no Blue mask:
1. The Adventurer 2. White Light/White Heat 3. The Proposition 4. My House 5. Ecstasy 6. Guilty 7. Mad 8. Talking Book 9. Slip Away 10. Charley's Girl 11. Burning Embers 12. Vanishing Act 13. Guardian Angel 14. Encore: Perfect Day
The Setlist from Malmoe in Sweden,
1. Adventurer 2. The Proposition 3. My House 4. Ecstasy 5. Guilty 6. Mad 7. Talking Book 8. Slip Away 9. Charley’s Girl 10. Burning Embers 11. Vanishing Act 12. Why Do You Talk 13. Encore:The Blue Mask 14. Perfect Day
More news to follow soon, I'm still tired from the trip to three Lou Reed concerts in Denmark.
May 6
The Aarhus setlist was the same as the first Copenhagen concert:
- 1. Adventurer
- 2. The Proposition
- 3. My House
- 4. Ecstasy
- 5. Guilty
- 6. Mad
- 7. Talking Book
- 8. Slip Away
- 9. Charley’s Girl
- 10. Burning Embers
- 11. Vanishing Act
- 12. Guardian Angel
- 13. The Blue Mask
- Encore: Perfect Day
May 5
Here is the setlist of the second night in Copenhagen. It was an amazing show, one of the best Lou Reed concerts I saw so far. And he played Street Hassle today, I still can’t believe it.
- 1. Adventurer
- 2. The Proposition
- 3. My House
- 4. Ecstasy
- 5. Guilty
- 6. Mad
- 7. Talking Book
- 8. Slip Away
- 9. Charley’s Girl
- 10. Burning Embers
- 11. Vanishing Act
- 12. Guardian Angel
- 13. Street Hassle
- 14. Guardian Angel
- Encore: 15. The Blue Mask
- 16. Perfect Day
May 4
From Loureed.com
Sister Ray Enterprises | 5/3/2005
Lou Reed will be presented with the International Ivor Novello Award on May 26th in London by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters
Here is the setlist from the first concert in Copenhagen. 14 songs only but it was a good concert. Jane and Tony Thunder were amazing!! Thank you Lou Reed for the concert and for being you!
- 1. Adventurer
- 2. The Proposition
- 3. My House
- 4. Ecstasy
- 5. Guilty
- 6. Mad
- 7. Talking Book
- 8. Slip Away
- 9. Charley’s Girl
- 10. Burning Embers
- 11. Vanishing Act
- 12. Guardian Angel
- 13. The Blue Mask
- Encore: Perfect Day
May 2
Here's the set list from the concert in Oslo:
- 1. Adventurer
- 2. The Proposition
- 3. My House
- 4. Ecstasy
- 5. Guilty
- 6. Mad
- 7. Talking Book
- 8. Slip Away
- 9. Charley’s Girl
- 10. Burning Embers
- 11. Vanishing Act
- 12. Guardian Angel
- 13. The Blue Mask
- Encore: Perfect Day
- Encore: Sweet Jane (!!)
Here's the Stavanger set list:
- 1. Adventurer
- 2. The Proposition
- 3. My House
- 4. Ecstasy
- 5. Guilty
- 6. Mad
- 7. Talking Book
- 8. Slip Away
- 9. Charley’s Girl
- 10. Burning Embers
- 11. Vanishing Act
- 12. Guardian Angel
- 13. The Blue Mask
- Encore: Perfect Day
- 15. Walk On The Wild Side
April 30
Setlist from Bergen
1. Adventurer 2. The Proposition 3. My House 4. Ecstasy 5. Guilty 6. Mad 7. Talking Book 8. Slip Away 9. Charley’s Girl 10. Burning Embers 11. Vanishing Act 12. Why Do You Talk 13. The Blue Mask 14. Encore: Perfect Day 15. Walk On The Wild Side
Thank you Bobby for the info!
April 29
Just recieved a review from Peter on the concert Lou Reed did in Leicester. It's a image file about 300 kb!
Ralph sent me two reviews from German newspapers of the concert in Hamburg! Here they are:
Lou did it again, both reviews are very good!
Setlist from Hamburg: (unconfirmed):
1. Adventurer 2. The Proposition 3. My House 4. Ecstasy 5. Guilty 6. Mad 7. Talking Book 8. Slip Away 9. Charley’s Girl 10. Burning Embers 11. Vanishing Act 12. Why Do You Talk 13. The Blue Mask 14. Encore: Perfect Day
site is back up! so we change server again. It means we can use the messageboard again today!
Bettina
A very good story about Lou Reed from the spin magazine. Below the picture that goes with it.
Sorry the message board is still down. I hope it will be fixed today -Bettina
April 28
Frankfurt and Berlin can be downloaded from the web. Mail me if you want more info.
you have to use bitorrent for it!
Bobby sent me a very good and funny interview with Lou Reed from a Norway newspaper. You can read it here! Thank you Bobby for the translation.
Setlist from Berlin:
1. Adventurer 2. The Proposition 3. My House 4. Ecstasy 5. Guilty 6. Mad 7. Talking Book 8. Slip Away 9. Charley’s Girl 10. Burning Embers 11. Vanishing Act 12. Why Do You Talk 13. Guardian Angel 14. The Blue Mask 15. Encore: Perfect Day
Thank you Serge!The UK release date for 'Spanish fly' the new dvd will be June 6. For more information click on the banner
Here is some news over the past few day. Mostly reviews. All good ones from Germany from both Frankfurt and Berlin.
Here two pictures from Frankfurt taken from German newspapers
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April 27
Well since two days the site has been down. I have no idea what happened, and when it will be back. I have redirected the site to a different server for now, but this means there will be no messageboard until the real server is back up. Please bear with me until everything is back to normal.
Setlist from Frankfurt:
Adventurer - The Proposition - White light white heat - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad - Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley’s Girl - Burning Embers - Vanishing Act - Why Do You Talk? - Guardian Angel - The Blue Mask encore: Perfect Day
This concert got very good reviews in the papers, I will post the reviews soon.
April 23
Setlist from Liverpool!:
Adventurer - The Proposition - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad - Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley’s Girl - Burning Embers - Vanishing Act - Why Do You Talk? - Guardian Angel - The Blue Mask encore: Perfect Day
Thank you Elephantman and doctor bob!
April 21
Added many more photo's from the Amsterdam concert, taken by Edwin de Graaf and Ardent.!
Lou Reed will one of the acts of the 'Music midtown' Festival in Georgia in USA the festival is from June 10-12 info from Weekly planet
April 20
Back form a great concert yesterday! Thank you Lou Reed!
Setlit same as Spain and NY.
Adventurer - The Proposition - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad - Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley’s Girl - Burning Embers - Halloween Parade - Change - Vanishing Act - Why Do You Talk? - Guardian Angel - The Blue Mask encore: Perfect Day
I added a few pictures from last night, taken by Edwin. Click on the image on the right for more!
Or go to the message board for even more pictures taken by Ardent!
The Dutch Newspaper Parool has a review of yesterdays show. Not bad not good either.
The title is 'on Adventure with Lou Reed'
With all the news on Lou Reed I forgot to mention that Antony will do a concert in Amsterdam on June 12 in Paradiso. The Pop Temple of Holland!
April 18
Sergio sent some pictures of the concert in Spain!
Here are two of them, the rest will follow soon.
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The setlist in Spain San Sebastian is the same as the one form NY and Portugal.
Adventurer - The Proposition - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad - Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley’s Girl - Burning Embers - Halloween Parade - Change - Vanishing Act - Why Do You Talk? - Guardian Angel - The Blue Mask ... encore: Perfect Day
Romeo had Juliet and Sweet Jane where alternative encores but not played. More info to follow soon!
Thank you Sergio and Travis for the info!
Tomorrow there will be an interview with Lou Reed in the Dutch newspaper Parool. Don't get all happy now. Cause it was an interview with an difficult Lou Reed.
April 16
Here an short interview with Lou Reed from the Liverpool Echo The photo they use is a selfportret of Lou.
April 15
Below on the right the spanish fly DVD and more info about it. You now also can order it at Amazon.com!
Last night Lou Reed played his first European concert of the 2005 tour in Portugal. So An here is the setlist!
Adventurer - The Proposition - My House - Ecstasy - Guilty - Mad - Talking Book - Slip Away - Charley’s Girl - Burning Embers - Halloween Parade - Change - Vanishing Act - Why Do You Talk? - Guardian Angel - The Blue Mask ... encore: Perfect Day
Thank you Bobby for the Setlist!
The picture on the left is from last night found it on this French Lou Reed site.
The new Mojo magazine Has an interview with Lou Reed. The interview is O.K. nothing special. But the pictures that come with it are fun. Two selfportrait foto's by Lou himself. Will post one of them soon. The magazine has also a good review of the new Velvet Underground 'All tomorrows Parties'
April 13
Some more info on the new Lou Reed DVD 'Spanish Fly' It contains bonus material :-)
And it is the concert from Benicassim!
April 12
The Crobar show from last week can be downloaded on the web. One way to do it is with bit torrent. You need to install that program first and then download this file If you click on it after you download it, you will download a file which contains two cd images. The file format is 'flac'.
Hope this works!
April 11
Tony Thunder smith will be joining Lou Reed for his Concerts in Europe.
More info on the website of Tony 'Thunder' Smith
I added new photo's to the site from Lou Reed live 1979 in London. The pictures where taken by Paul!
April 7
Here is the setlist from April 5th at the Crobar in New York.
The order might be wrong, but this is about it! Great list I think!
adventurer
my house
the proposition
guilty
vanishing act
why do you talk
mad
change
talking book
guardian angel
ecstasy
halloween parade
burning embers
slip away
charleys girl
blue mask
perfect day
Thanks TL for the info!
April 6
At his last concert of the Hotel promo tour Moby plays the song 'walk on the wildside'. You can read an interview with moby, and watch Moby do 'Walk on the wildside on the website of MTV. To watch the clip you have to install some Microsoft component.
April 1
I Found this site about Nico today and thought it might be interesting to a link to it from here.
It's a great site with lot's of information about Nico.
March 26
The 7th of May Sanctuary will release a new DVD of Lou Reed called 'Spanish Fly'. It will contain a concert filmed last year in spain.
Setlist is as follows:
Modern Day",
"Why Do You Talk?"
"Venus in Furs"
"Sweet Jane"
"Jesus"
"Romeo Had Juliet"
"Satellite of Love"
"Ecstasy"
"The Blue Mask"
"Perfect Day"
"Walk on the Wild Side".
I think modern day must be a spelling mistake.
Could this be the Bennicasim concert which was filmed for TV? For more info click on the image.
March 22
In the new Heaven ( a Dutch music magazine) you can find a nice article on Lou Reed's discograpy. It also contains a review of the new Antony Album I'm a bird now. It's a very good review and the cd get's four stars out of five.
First one is on April 5th in New York. More info about it can be found on Lou Reeds official site
The second one is on May 20 th in Schotland Lou will perform for the Burns festival, for more info go here
And on June 10th Lou Reed will play in Atlanta on the midtown festival, more info about this event and other groups that perfrom can be found on their website
February 27
A bit off topic, but still,
Antony will give a concert in Holland on the 15th of April, the concert will be held in Motel Mozaique in Rotterdam. More info when I get it.
Also you can see an interview with Antony on Dutch tv next Saturday the 5th of March at 13.30
February 22
Recieved this new picture of Lou Reed today. Doesn't he look cool?
Lou Reed (c) 2005 Mark Seliger 
February 21
Ooh take a look on Lou Reed's official website for photo's of the making of an official 'Walk on the wildside' video 33 years after it's release ;-)
Here is a direct link to the photo's. After taken a closer look at the photo's it looks like a very cool video. I want to see it!!!
Look at the two men kissing!
February 18
Soon two new books about the Velvet Underground will be released.
The first one is called: ALL YESTERDAY'S PARTIESThe Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1970
You can
pre-order the book at amazon.com
The second one is called: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND by Rob Jovanovic. You can also pre-order this book at amazon.com
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For Lou Reed's official press release about his 2005 european tour, click on the image
January 25
Magic and Loss
22-12-1922 - 25-01-2005
January 16
Some Dutch news about Lou Reed and Václav Havel
Lou Reed wil muziek theaterstuk Havel schrijven
PRAAG (ANP) - De Amerikaanse rockmuzikant Lou Reed heeft de Tsjechische ex-president en toneelschrijver Vaclav Havel verzocht om een toneelstuk over zijn eigen leven te schrijven. Reed wil graag de muziek voor dat werk componeren.
Dat heeft de 61-jarige Reed maandag gezegd in een gesprek met de zeven jaar oudere Havel in de Tsjechische hoofdstad Praag. Havel liet weten dat hij op dit moment geen plannen heeft een nieuw toneelstuk te schrijven.
bron: http://www.clubmetro.nl/index.php?actie=nieuws&c=15&id=9974
I will translate it later today in Englisch
January 13
Added 3 more covers to the cover-page. Real nice onces, Thanks Ralph for the scans!!
January 12
Added a new review to the site.
Ralp sent in his thoughts about the concert of Lou Reed in Colmar on 12 August 2004 together with a photo.
Lou Reed was in Prague for two days. On the first day he visited the concert for Asia with former president Václav Havel.
On the second day he did a small press conference. During the evening he and Havel where guests of 'Stage talks'.
For pictures of the event click here Below a picture taken from the link.
