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Thursday December 30th- Mike Turner has spoken today
about the cancellation of the Millennium House Party. If you have real audio then you can listen to Mike
talk here. Modern Drummer Article In this months Modern Drummer magazine their is an article on Jeremy and "Happiness...". Thanks to BarryWhite from the CC for this news.
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Tuesday December 29th- Hi there I'm really sorry to
post this news for all of you fans attending the MHP:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MILLENNIUM HOUSE PARTY CANCELLED �Unfortunately, across the world, the popularity of spending New Year�s Eve at a major event has been overestimated. This trend has effected the Millennium House Party,� said Pop 2000 Inc. Tickets purchased at Ticketmaster outlets or the Corel Centre box office are refundable at the point of purchase. Phone and internet sales will be refunded automatically. Suite and Club Seat holder purchases will also be refunded automatically. Please address all media inquiries to Pop 2000 Inc. Look for something official from the OLP camp real soon.
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Tuesday December 28th- I was surfing around and I
found a new site for those of you interested in the industry side of things. The site provides nifty
things that are supposed to be for radio programmers only. I came across the "Is Anybody Home?" US
single release date (January 11). In addition to that I found a section called Industry Snaps where I
learned that former wrestling sensation Sable introduced OLP on stage in New Orleans recently. Only she
goofed on the name. I bet all you New Orleans OLP fans were surprised when "Our Lady Soul" took the
stage! Below is a picture of the blonde bombshell backstage at the show:
For more information about this cool industry site click to: http://www.allaccess.com.
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Tuesday December 28th- In the upcoming months we want
to make a series of improvements to the site. This includes updating older sections of the site and
perhaps adding new sections as well. This is your
chance to help us to improve the site, if you have any ideas for new sections you would like to see or
anything you would like to see improved on the current layout. We're going to be updating two sections of the site very soon - Links - The vast majority of the links in our section are now broken or outdated. We want to update this section and we want you to help by telling us what your favourite fan sites are. We want to compile a top 10 section voted by you. Please help us by sending us your top 10 favourite OLP fan sites. If you don't have 10 favourites then mail us however many you do have, it doesn't matter whether it be 2 or 10. Please do not include this site in your submission or any of the official sony related si tes. Fan sites only please. If You Own A OLP Site - Please mail us the URL and a brief description of what is on your site. Guitar Tab - We want to update are tablature section with guitar and bass tabs for "Happiness...". If you have had a go at tabbing a song yourself or found a good tab on the Internet then please mail it to us. If you tabbed it yourself then remembe r to include your name and e-mail address on the tablature itself. Please help us out and e-mail us soon. Thank you.
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Tuesday December 28th- In the December 9-16 issue of
Vancouver BC's "The Georgia Straight," there is a full page OLP concert ad. The ad tells us that OLP will
be showing 4 independent films during their u
pcoming live shows. The names of the films listed are:
The Metronome Thanks to Galaxychild from the CC for this news.
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Sunday December 26th- It would appear that there are a
couple of promotional copies of "Is Anybody Home?" floating around. It is not known if and when
this single will be released to the general public. In the mean time however we have found a cover shot of the 1 track promotional copy. Click here to view it.
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Friday December 24th- Hi Everyone - We would like to thank all of you for making 1999 a great year for the site. It's just amazing that so many of you spend time visiting our site everyday and contribute to it. We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2000. We hope that all your wishes come true and that you continue to support our site. TourWatch - We have finally managed to catch up on tourwatch, today I have added 14 reviews and 4 setlists. Remember that we need reporters for OLP dates in the new year. So if your going to an OLP show in the new year drop us an e-mail and tell us your name and the show date / venue which you would like to write a report on. Thank you.
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Wednesday December 22nd-
Well I'm pleased to say that its another U.K. update to the page. In todays Kerrang! Magazine there is a review of the show at "Manchester Evening News Arena" which took place on December 9th 1999. I have added the review to the page and you can go straight to it here.
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Sunday December 19th-
This news was taken from Sony Music U.K.. On 3rd January, Our Lady Peace release their debut UK single. Entitled "One Man Army", it's taken from their acclaimed third album, Happiness... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch. The single is available on the following formats...
7" Coloured Vinyl Single
CD extra
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Wednesday December 18th -
The following was taken from Daily Dish - Our Lady Peace Scaled Our Lady Peace have finished their December 1999 U.K. arena tour with the Stereophonics and will embark on an arena tour of Canada in February 2000. With no time to mount a major U.S. tour until March, the group has decided to fill the gap between their two big tours with "Scaled," a series of intimate small venue gigs beginning January 9 in West Palm, Florida (see itinerary attached). For the group�s January "Scaled" gigs, OLP has planned an innovative small scale show incorporating acoustic arrangements of the band�s repertoire with set-lists selected by fans via the group�s online website. Each of the four members of OLP Raine Maida (vocals), Mike Turner (guitar), Jeremy Taggart (drums), Duncan Coutts (bass) ? is creating a short film that will run during the band�s performances. During the "Scaled" shows, OLP will take questions from the audience. "We wanted to interact with our real fans and allow them to see us in a new light," said Raine Maida. "At the same time, these shows will give us the opportunity to be more up-close, intimate, and personal." Songs from the recently-released Happiness... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch (which debuted at #1 on the group�s native Canadian sales c harts, ahead of Nine Inch Nails, Chris Cornell, Tori Amos and other first week debuts), as well as the band�s biggest hits and some surprising cover songs, will be featured on the OLP small club tour. Happiness... is the second Our Lady Peace album to debut at the top of the Canadian sales charts; the band�s second album, Clumsy, which contained the U.S. Top 5 Modern Rock tracks "Superman�s Dead" and "Clum sy," is rapidly approaching the RIAA platinum mark in the U.S. "One Man Army," the first single from Happiness... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch, has continued OLP�s success on alternative radio and went Top 10 on Billboard�s Modern Rock Tracks. "Is A nybody Home"," the new single from Happiness..., will be released to radio in early January. Our Lady Peace has won critical acclaim for both the group�s recordings and their dynamic live performances. Patrick Foster, writing in the Washington Post (September 30, 1999), found that "OLP�s eclecticism made its set superior. And on the crowded flo or of the general admission event, (the) audience howled its approval." Ann Powers, in a three-star lead review in Rolling Stone (October 28, 1999), wrote: "Happiness... turns earnest questions into diverting mind-games. Raine Maida�s lyrics can be virt uously doomy...but he swirls them around on his tongue and spits them out like tasty venom, while his band careens about like it�s been dipping into that old sacramental wine. Producer Arnold Lanni makes Our Lady Peace�s bright sound even more acidic wit h the help of a few well-deployed synthesizers... it�s nice to hear a band that�s willing to flirt a little with the big questions before settling down."
Our Lady Peace
Jan. 9 West Palm Beach, FL The Radisson Hotel Ballroom
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Wednesday December 18th -
If you havn't seen any of the "Is Anybody Home" video yet then you can see a streaming real audio clip at MuchMusic's New Spins. Thanks to Kelsy from the CC for this news.
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Wednesday December 15th -
"One Man Army" will be released as a single in the United Kingdom on January 3rd. I urge anyone living here to buy a copy or ten copies even, lets get OLP some airplay. This news has been confimed by Sony Music U.K. No news of the b-sides as of yet. Also while I have the attention of people living in the "United Kingdom" I would like to inform you that I have set up a onelist mailing list for fans living in the U.K. The purpose behind it is to put fans in contact with each other, so that we can share news, reviews, stories etc. If you would like to join then please e-mail me. Please note that this has nothing to do with this website but is a side project set up by myself (Rick Moore).
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Wednesday December 15th -
Heres a new article / interview from Canoe.
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"One Man Army" has reached the number 1 spot on the Muchmusic Countdown.
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Sunday December 7th- Just a few quick notes for
PPU'ers and all of those who plan to buy tickets for the tour:
PPU TICKET INFO
It basically will tell you this: Also rumour has it these seats are GA floor for fan-club only. Which means fan club members are as close as they desire and chances are there will be no surfing or pushing! This means great pictures, and a great show :)
Dec 13th Halifax, NS, Canada
OLP.COM TICKET INFO
IS ANYBODY HOME? VIDEO
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Sunday December 5th-
Just a quick note to let you guys know that Q&A; Magazine has a interview up on there page with Mike Turner. Q&A; Magazine is an online music magazine which is composed of comprehensive interviews and r
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views. You can go directly to there page and read the article here. I would like to thank (RSmith) from the Clumsy Congress for this news.
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Saturday December 4th-
The Contest Is Finally Over!!!!
Yes I thought it was going to be a permanent fixture on OLP.net as well but hey, give us some slack...we've got to conform to our educational institutions!!! :) We would like to thank all of you who participated in the contest, we received tons of entries and I personally was amazed at the creativity of some of the entries. It has made choosing the winner a very difficult task for all three of us. So it's going to go like this: there is one winner and one runner up! The prizes are going towards the purchase of a fish, to be named after their contest entries...and if we're lucky, we'll get pictures of all the fish for our website!! The winner is getting a $20.00 gift certificate to a pet store (Note: We originally said PetSmart, but we're going to check out the area that the winner lives in so it may be a different one, a closer location) and a few other goodies (like maybe a flourcesent plant)to decorate the fishies home! The runner up gets a $10.00 gift certificate (same applies as above)!! So now the moment we've all been waiting for....
Can I get a drumroll here?
Or maybe "Waited" would be better.....
The Winner IS......
Oskar The Eleventh Transparent Rubberfish The Runner Up IS..... Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC , or Poly for short:)..) PVC is a type of plastic, and there are "plastic people" in One Man Army, so this would be my little plastic fish:) -Danielle Anderson Once again thank you to all the participants, and to the winners, you will be contacted by e-mail (by Sara) within a day or so (when I can get near my computer) so we can get all your details!!! Remember...Happiness IS a Fish!!!
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Friday December 3rd-
The official Our Lady Peace page has just released the dates for the forthcoming Canadian tour which will take place late January / February 2000. The latest "Cracks In The Pavement" report has also been added to the site. Raine talks about the tour and states that members of the bands fan club "The Pied Pipers Union" will get the chance to reserve seats. The Dates -
Jan. 29, 2000 Metro Centre Halifax, NS, Canada This below was posted in the "HOTW" topic from the Clumsy Congress by Stacy earlier today. Stereophonics Head For The Great White North 'Phonics Phans, your holiday wishes came true just a bit early this year! Stereophonics have just confirmed a full-on tour of Canada with Our Lady Peace. While we can't divulge all the details just yet, you can expect a more-than-12-city Canadian journey over the first two weeks of February. Tickets go on sale Saturday, December 11 for all shows except for the Toronto show, which go on sale Friday, December 10th.
You will be able to purchase tickets on-line at: Ticketmaster.
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Thursday December 2nd-
OLP will appear on Muchmusic's spotlight on December 13th and 14th! Set up your VCR's its
a two parter! Much will air every video OLP has ever released (likely including the ever-elusive Out of
Here!). Spotlight can be seen at 7 and 11:30 on Much
:)
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Thursday December 2nd-
"Happiness..." has been released in the United Kingdom and has gone straight into HMV's, 2 CD's for �22 offer. Also if you are attending a Stereophonics / Our Lady Peace show this month, the first 1000 to arrive at the doors on each date with receive a free "OLP Sampler Cassette".
Message To U.K. Fans...
Please have a look at the first UK/European fan page that I (Rick) have setup, Drown In A Starseed. Both this site and "Drown In A Starseed" would love to add your reviews, see pictures you might have ta
ken at the shows.
Anything you submit will be given full credit. Thank you and enjoy seeing the band this month :)
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Wednesday December 1st- For those folks with an HMV
superstore nearby you may want to run out and grab the latest copy of Access magazine. I believe it is
also available at Sunrise as well, but in any case OLP is on the cover with a really decent article
inside the mag to boot! The price is certainly right, it's absolutely free :)
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Tuesday November 30th- Well I think that tops the list
as most bizarre headline on OLP.NET However you'll see in this update that it is unusually accurate!
CANOE.CA the most premier Canadian news site is holding a millenium poll to decide the most important
Canadian artist of the Millenium. OLP is in the running, and have received 3% of the vote already. Just
to give you an idea of how vast the field is, you should know that OLP are competing against artists such
as: The Tragically Hip, Rush, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, The Gues Who, Neil Young, Sloan, Moist, Anne
Murray, Alanis Morisette, Sara McLachlan and many others! Rush is currently in the lead with 18% but there is no reason why OLP can't at least get an awesome showing from their fans, if not a victory :) You can cast your vote as many times as you want here: http://www.canoe.ca/CANOE2000/polls_jam.html#4
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