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Date: September 30th, 2009 11:55:35 p.m.

RETURN TO EDEN TOUR UPDATE

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

More exciting news for 2010 - Ultravox's Return to Eden reunion tour has been extended by two further dates, in Switzerland (15th) and the Netherlands (26th). Tickets for all dates are on sale now, except Amsterdam which is on sale from October 3rd.

April 2010 - Europe

15  Zurich - The Volkshaus - tickets here
17  Munich - TonHalle - tickets here
18  Offenbach - CAPITOL - tickets here
19  Cologne - Musical Dome - tickets here
21  Hannover - CAPITOL - tickets here
23  Hamburg - Grosse Freiheit 36 - tickets here
24  Berlin - Admiralspalast - tickets here
26  Amsterdam - The Paradiso - tickets here (from 3rd October)

No further dates have been announced as yet, but we will let you know as and when more are added.

ELECTRIC DREAMS?

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Ultravox will be making an appearance in the second episode of Electric Dreams, a BBC4 social experiment where a family and their home are stripped of all their modern technology to live a life of decades past. According to our TV mag and the link above, when they hit the 80s, Ultravox demonstrate the synth technology from that era. We're not sure if this means one, two or all of the band members (if it was filmed in April it could feasibly be all of them), so you'll just have to watch to find out!

The first episode aired yesterday, Tuesday 29th September and will be repeated multiple times. The second episode, featuring Ultravox, airs on Tuesday 6th October at 9pm on BBC4.

LAMENT & U-VOX PDFs

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Our apologies for the delay - the Lament and U-VOX expanded booklet PDFs are now available to download from our Media Archive. These versions (laid out as booklet spreads) are exclusive to EV and contain lyrics and larger photos.

ONE-OFF 99p EBAY AUCTIONS

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

We are having some one-off Ultravox auctions starting at 99p this week, ending Sunday night, 4th October - most notably three fully signed Return to Eden items: a SIGNED TOUR PROGRAMME, A2 SCREEN PRINT and A5 LEAFLET. They feature the iconic 'Rage in Eden' face and are fully signed in black, permanent marker by the band: Midge Ure, Warren Cann, Billy Currie and Chris Cross. All three items were signed on the second date of the tour, at the Glasgow SECC.

We purchased some A2 screen prints (£20 apiece unsigned) and a couple of tour programmes, along with a small handful of promotional leaflets to get signed, mostly for giveaways and competition prizes. Two screen prints, items from the band, CDs, signed postcards etc were given away at a free Voxgate event we ran in London during the tour; another screen print and one tour programme were given away in a subsequent draw; a further screen print is currently being given away in a draw for those submitting scans of tour press clippings, ticket stubs, photos etc to the site; and several more screen prints will be given away, one a year, for our annual Ultravox Covers Competition.

Only ONE signed screen print, ONE signed tour programme and ONE signed leaflet are being auctioned, starting at 99p, to give everyone else - who can't take part in our draws or competitions for whatever reason - a chance to own one. The photos you see here are of the actual items.

Cerise is also having a bit of a clearout - see the eBay Store for more Ultravox auctions, which include an extremely rare Monument tie pin / badge, sheet music books, 2 signed CDs and 4 signed tour programmes, plus a John Foxx leaflet signed by Gary Numan, a Peter Gabriel autographed photo and other unrelated autographs such as Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman.

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MIDGE URE LIVE

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