Uriah Heep

- The Magician's Birthday Party Update!! Well the "Magician's Birthday
Party" for 2003 looks like being quite a celebration! This year's event
will be held at the Astoria Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, on Saturday
November 8th. Doors open at 6pm. Special guest stars this year will be
John Lawton and John Wetton! Other mystery guests are promised... The
capacity is strictly limited to 2000 and tickets are selling fast! So if
you haven't already booked your place you should to order your tickets now.
Tickets are priced at Ł20 and are available from http://www.uriah-heep.com
and http://www.classicrockproductions.com or by calling 01789 207152 in the
UK or 44 1789 207152 from outside the UK. Direct subscription link:
http://www.classicrockproductions.com/storen/mbp2003.html

- Upcoming Uriah Heep gigs:
July 31st - Dickies Woodstock Festijn, Witte Paarden, The Netherlands
(http://www.dicky-woodstock.com/breed.html)
August 1st - Helmond, The Netherlands
(http://www.geocities.com/poppodiumplato/)
August 2nd - Rock Festival, Brienz/Bern, Switzerland
(http://www.brienzerseerockfestival.ch/)
August 15th - World Nature Festival, Munich, Germany
(http://www.worldnaturefestival.com/)
August 16th - Freilichtbuehne (open air stage) Waldstadt, Wuensdorf, Germany
(http://round.eventim.de/cgi-bin/tinfo.dll?doc=Ţtailafun==tdetaila&affiliate
==EVE&aid==eventimkey=8554)
August 17th - Festival, Lorca/Murcia, Spain

- Uriah Heep's "Live in the USA" DVD - available from Classic Rock
Productions! Performed the day after Heepvention 2002, this DVD and CD
features Uriah Heep headlining two nights live at the 2002 US Classic Rock
Festival in Trenton, New Jersey last October performing both acoustic and
electric sets. The CD and DVD are both available at Classic Rock also as a
set. Containing short interviews with fans, glimpses of different tour
dates from 2001, a great ending with 25 Heepsters on stage with Uriah Heep
performing "Lady In Black", and lots of goodies, it's really something to
behold... a weekend of Heep captured on stage in top form! See
http://www.classicrockproductions.com for all details!
We are now posting fans's reviews of this DVD, so please send yours
directly to webmaster@uriah-heep.com !

- Heepvention 2003 update! This year's event will happen at the Anaheim
Plaza Hotel, 1700 S Harbor Blvd, Anaheim, CA, USA, phone number: (714)
782-0203, http://www.anaheimplazahotel.com . Date: Friday, October 10th,
2003 & Saturday, October 11th, 2003. Schedule: Friday, from 7:00 PM to ???
- Welcome Get Together in the Hotel Bar; Saturday, from 6:00 PM to Midnight
- A gathering of Heepsters from around the globe for an evening of fun,
socializing, Heep, Hensley and Lawton music, and videos! Includes a light
buffet of hot and cold hors d'oeuvres. A Cash Bar will be set-up for
drinks (Please note: due to low sign up of musicians, there will be no
HeepJam this year. Although, musicians attending, are free to perform
acoustic songs). Price: US$ 35.00 per person/ US$ 30.00 for one guest
registering at the same time. Payment can be made through
http://www.paypal.com (preferred) to dalhel@earthlink.net or by cashiers
check or money order, payable to Dale Fredericks (contact him at
dalhel@earthlink.net for address) and is due by September 19th (payments
must be received on or before such date). Late registrations will be on a
space available basis only. Please note: this is a gathering of Heep fans
and there will be NO appearances by any current or past members of Uriah
Heep. There are NO Uriah Heep concerts scheduled. The Anaheim Plaza Hotel
has a block of rooms set aside if you wish to stay there. Mention
"Heepvention", the rate is US$ 52.00 a night plus taxes. Also, it is
located in the Anaheim/Disney Resort. For any tourism info, log onto
http://www.anaheimoc.org (thanks to the HV2003 Committee for all the
info!). Direct subscription link: http://www.uriah-heep.com/hv03.html

- Some good news from Norway! The compilation album "The Essential Uriah
Heep", have been heavily promoted on Norwegian television for the past 14
days and it pays off! This album climbed to number 15 on the norwegian
charts and hopefully next week will be even better:
http://lista.vg.no/show_list_spes.jsp?listType=+yweek==vis. Heep is
currently outselling the latest Metallica album, "St. Anger", and is only a
handful of places behind Destiny's Child diva Beyonce's new album. The
prime time TV ads are continuing on the major networks (thanks to Egil
"Heepaholic" Bokn and Knut Svendsen for the info).

- Our fried Egil adds: "Well we now have the chance of pushing Uriah Heep
to the top by voting, like we have done before. I urge all the E-Heep
subscribers to log into the following link and give a single vote for Uriah
Heep as the best band ever. Just type in Uriah Heep in the field which
says " Dette er verdens beste band" ("This is the world's best band") and
click on "Send Inn" and that's it. I'll keep you guys posted on the chart
position". The link:
http://fredag.dagbladet.no/fredag/2003/07/25/374214.html (thanks Egil!)

- Thanks to Tina Reinders, we have now available reviews on two Dutch Heep
gigs in 1977 and 1978:
http://www.moreheep.com/turfschip77/turfschip1977.htm and
http://www.moreheep.com/denhaag78/heepdenhaag78.htm

- We have some more contributions for the Heep tickets page. We still need
tickets from several years though. Nevertheless it's a nice ticket archive
already: http://www.moreheep.com/ticket2.htm . Please send your
contributions to louis@uriah-heep.com !

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- Jeff Perkins finally presents his David Byron book, entitled "Born To
Perform"!! It is due to be released in early October 2003. All details
can be found at http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/davidbyron/ . This book is
a labor of love and self financed, so he needs to do it through pre orders
(to make sure he doesn't end up with a house full of unwanted books). You
can order it now!!

- The long awaited "Lost and Found" CD featuring the Byron Band w/ Robin
George on guitars and "our" David Byron on vocals is nearly ready! The
release date is August 1st AKA tomorrow! For orders and details:
http://www.robingeorge.co.uk

- John Lawton & Steve Dunning with Steerforth - 2VCDs "Steppin' It Up in
Japan 2002": http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~cam83420/event/jlsd2002/video.htm .
These VCDs include the sightseeing video of John and Steve in Japan and
their concert video at Ebisu Guilty, Tokyo, July 21st, 2002. Also the
Japanese Heep cover band "Steerforth" joined in the first half of their
concert. John & Steve played on "Still Payin' My Dues..", " Feelings",
"Firefly/Come Back To Me", "Wise Man", "Tonight", "Shoulder To Cry On",
etc. Price: 2VCDs/NTSC (worldwide), US$12 plus shipping & handling (for
USA: US$ 3; rest of the world: US$ 5). Please notice: VCD in NTSC format
ONLY! If you want to order this, please email Hiro Matsushita at
sweetfreedom2000@yahoo.co.jp .

- A new update on Ken's new album, "The Last Dance", can be found at his
website at http://www.ken-hensley.com . Go to "News" and follow the link...

- This year Ken Hensley completes his 40th Career Anniversary! August 24th
is his birthday, so any cards and/or presents can be sent to P.O. Box 3119,
03080, Alicante, Spain. The website's guestbook is open for messages too:
http://www.ken-hensley.com

- Our collaborator Tapio Minkkinen informs us that his website's URL
(containing all Heep lyrics and discography info) has changed to
HeepFiles.Net (with or without the "www" before). In fact, the old URL is
still working, but this new one is surely easier to memorize.

- David Bowie's "Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" CD has been released in a
special 30th Anniversary Editon, including an extra bonus CD. Featuring
"our" Trevor Bolder on bass guitar, this is a must for fans! Also
available is the "Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" DVD. They can
be ordered from the major CD stores...

- Trivia time again... look for the Heep content:
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V121/N57/chorallaries_re.57a.html (thanks to Kevin
Julie).

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