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Tue, 15 Mar 2005
Am off to see Tull in Sydney on 5th of May with Dave, missed them last tour rather to my annoyance so quite looking forward to this. May need to hunt down a few of their more recent albums, Crest Of A Knave (1987) being the most up to date I have.
A very roundabout train of thought had me wondering what Queensryche were up to - my possibly rather cynical view is that nothing they've done since Empire (1990) is really up to much. Working title of next album is apparently Operation Mindcrime II, this being a followup to Operation Mindcrime (1988). The latter remains, in my view, one of their better works. I still remember rushing home and sitting there listening to it in its entirety for the first time in the group house I shared with Sir Billy and Mr Blackmore, aged 21 or so. Spine tingling stuff. Overall favourite remains Rage For Order (1986). If you have occassion to see this album, my advice is to look past the hairdos - it was the '80s remember...
At a different end of the musical spectrum, pleased to read on the Jamiroquai mailing list that the new album "Dynamite" is due in May with a single a few weeks prior to that. Hopefully a tour will follow, will not make the mistake of missing the Australian shows again. I suspect this may be a bit of a make or break album for JK and the band as there have been a couple of personell changes. Will be interesting to see how the new lineup goes.