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Lou Reed "BERLIN" European Tour 2008

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01/04/2008
Lou Reed Berlin US Tour 2008

April 20 - Northamptom, Calvin Theatre
April 25 - Norfolk, The NorVa
April 26 - Richmond, The National
April 28 - Durham, Carolina Theatre
April 29 - Asheville, Orange Peel
April 30 - Knoxville, Tennessee Theatre

UK and European release: September 3, 2007
North American release: September 4, 2007

10/06/2007
Lou Reed Berlin European Tour 2007
Lou Reed will be touring Europe with the Berlin album played live. The Tour dates are the following:

Lou Reed "BERLIN" European Tour 2007

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Master Ren GuangYi has worked tirelessly to bring Chen style Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) to the West since 1991. In this DVD, he beautifully demonstrates two fundamental Chen-style Taiji forms: the 75-movement long form, Lao Jia Yi Lu (Old Frame 1st Road), and the 49-movement Straight Sword form.

Captured in high-definition (HD) in New York's Central Park, each form is presented in a multiple-angle format, and showing the name of each movement. Each form is also shown in FlipperVision™, a slideshow comprised of nearly 2,000 photos by famed photographer Martin von Haselberg, so you may carefully study each of Master Ren's postures in detail.

A martial artist since the 1980's and a private student of Master Ren, artist/musician Lou Reed has experienced first-hand the health benefits and power of Master Ren's teaching, and he has done a great deal to help raise awareness of Chen Taiji worldwide, bringing Master Ren on tour to perform onstage in hundreds of shows across Europe and the US.

This program features an ambient electronic soundtrack and onscreen narration by Lou Reed.

"The music gives you energy." - Lou Reed

LIVE DEBUT OF REED’S CONTROVERSIAL 1973 LANDMARK SONG CYCLE TO FEATURE MUSICAL DIRECTION BY BOB EZRIN AND HAL WILLNER, DIRECTION AND DESIGN BY JULIAN SCHNABEL, LIGHTING BY JENNIFER TIPTON AND PERFORMERS INCLUDING REED, ANTONY, SHARON JONES, RUPERT CHRISTIE, STEVE HUNTER, FERNANDO SAUNDERS, TONY SMITH, ROB WASSERMAN AND OTHERS

When Lou Reed’s Berlinwas released in 1973, it was a shock to critics and fans that had just seen Reed reaffirmed as a rock visionary with the runaway success of Transformer, which included the Top 20 hit “Walk on the Wild Side,” among other now-classic Reed compositions. Instead of delivering another, similar album that would further cement his reputation as glam-rock innovator, Reed betrayed the pigeonhole and all expectations and immersed himself in a highly ambitious, emotionally and psychologically exhausting, and ultimately, utterly surprising work: a dark concept album about drifting, tormented addicts in love, broken hearted and willfully disabled ex-pats, formalizing their own downfalls in the outskirts of a divided city. Though set it Berlin, this was a narrative so many of Reed’s peers had lived and felt firsthand.

The depth and impact of the album is evident in the critical response it received upon release: It provoked hyperbolic reactions, both positive and negative. The New York Times called the album “one of the strongest, most original rock records in years.” Rolling Stone raved, “It is not an overstatement to say that Berlinwill be the Sgt. Pepper of the Seventies.” But then the same magazine—among many others—attacked Reed for the work: “There are certain records that are so patently offensive that one wishes to take some kind of physical vengeance on the artists that perpetrate them. Reed’s only excuse for this performance…can only be that this was his last shot at a once-promising career.”

Over time, Berlin has come to be known not just as a cult favorite, but as an influential masterwork and an essential album in a career that—over 30 years later—has included countless surprises and landmark artistic endeavors. But Reed never performed Berlin live. Until now.

Arts at St. Ann’s and the Sydney Festival have joined forces with Reed to present a theatricalized concert version of the work, which makes its world premiere at St. Ann’s Warehouse for four nights only: December 14, 15, 16 and 17 at 8:00 P.M. The entire Berlin recording will be performed live, incorporating five additional songs by Reed that enhance the song cycle. Tickets are $65.

As in the making of the album, Reed is collaborating on the concert with an all-star creative team including musical direction by the original producer, Bob Ezrin—who produced the Berlin album as well as Pink Floyd’s The Wall and hit albums by Alice Cooper, Kiss and others—and record producer, Hal Willner, who has music-directed numerous multi-artist concerts at St. Ann’s original home at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights. Willner’s most recent works include the Leonard Cohen tribute concert I’m Your Man (now a theatrically released documentary film and an album on Verve Forecast) and the compilation album Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys. Reed’s friend, painter Julian Schnabel is directing and designing, and Jennifer Tipton, who is beloved for her innovative work with The Wooster Group and many others, is designing lighting for the concert.

Producing the Berlinrecording, Ezrin met Reed’s ambition of vision with grand execution, assembling an all-star band for the recording in London: Steve Winwood, Jack Bruce, Michael and Randy Brecker and others. For the live performances at St. Ann’s and in Sydney, Reed will be joined onstage by friends and favorite collaborators such as singers Antony and Sharon Jones, Rupert Christie ( keyboards), Steve Hunter (guitar), Fernando Saunders (bass), Rob Wasserman (bass), Tony Smith (drums), brass and strings contracted by Hal Willner with Steve Bernstein and Jane Scarpantoni.

Lou Reed has collaborated with Arts at St. Ann’s since 1990, when ASA co-commissioned and premiered the Lou Reed/John Cale work Songs for ‘Drella, which also became an acclaimed album and concert video. In 2003, Reed performed The Raven at St. Ann’s Warehous, and, last year, he performed as a guest in Arts at St. Ann’s 25th anniversary benefit concert, Fire at Keaton’s Bar and Grill.

Artistic Director Susan Feldman expressed her enthusiasm at welcoming Reed back for the world premiere of Berlin: [quote from Susan].
“I have been wanting to produce Berlin ever since a cousin of mine first handed it to me on a cassette about ten years ago! And, last year, I was very fortunate to meet up the adventurous director of the Sydney Festival, Fergus Linehan, who shared the passion. It’s been gratifying to engage Lou and some of his closest collaborators – Bob Ezrin, Julian Schnabel, Hal Willner – in what’s sure to be a labor of love and an important part of rock history. Berlin is a sad song about people on the edge, that, at its highest moments, achieves a shimmering elegance.”
Berlinepitomizes the sensibility strengths of Arts at St. Ann’s, which is perhaps best known for its signature multi-artist concerts and ground breaking music and theater collaborations. Among the many highly acclaimed productions at St. Ann’s Warehouse are Charlie Kaufman and the Coen Brothers’ Theater of the New Ear, The Royal Court Theater’s 4:48 Psychosis, The Wooster Group’s The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill, To You, the Birdie and House/Lights,and Mabou Mines Dollhouse, which continues to tour the world. St. Ann’s Warehouse has featured special New York concerts by David Bowie, Beth Gibbons, Joe Strummer, Antony and the Johnsons, Aimee Mann, The Tiger Lillies and Music from the Mississippi Hill Country, featuring Othar Turner and Lucinda Williams.
Berlinis funded in part by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and The New York State Music Fund.

Sanctuary Visual Entertainment today announced the worldwide DVD release of a live greatest hits collection, capturing the legendary Lou Reed on stage in Spain during Summer 2004. The DVD is released in the UK and Europe on Monday June 6th, followed by North America on Tuesday June 7th. Aptly titled Spanish Fly: Live In Spain, the DVD features a magnificent set of eleven of Reed's finest songs, including re-worked takes of his Velvet Underground classics 'Sweet Jane' and 'Venus In Furs,' as well as his acclaimed solo work including the undeniable classic 'Walk On The Wild Side.'

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Filmed and recorded on August 7th 2004 at the Benicassim Festival in Spain, Reed is joined by long-time collaborators Mike Rathke on guitar, bassist Fernando Saunders, drummer Tony "Thunder" Smith and Jane Scarpantoni on the cello. The DVD includes a Photo Gallery featuring 14 exclusive photographs taken by Lou Reed.

Tickets for this year's Burns an' a' that! Gala Concert at Culzean Castle will go on sale from Monday March 14th. Ticket outlet details will be listed on the following web link (see below). The open-air concert will be staged on Friday May 20th and is set to be one of the major highlights of this year's Burns an' a' that! festival which runs from May 20th until May 29th. Lou Reed will be performing songs at the Gala Concert on Friday May 20th, 2005.

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The winner of the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award will be announced at the
Gala Concert. Former Liberal leader Sir David Steel will chair this year's
committee. Past winners include Sir Clive Stafford Smith who has
represented clients in capital trials in the southern states of the US
including Scottish-born Kenny Ritchie; Yitzhak Frankenthal co-founder of
The Parent Circle which represents bereaved families campaigning for peace
in the Israeli-Palestine conflict and Sir John Sulston for his work on the
human genome project.

For further information about Lou Reed's participation in the Burns
An'A'That! 2005 Festival, please contact:

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