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Date: November 27th, 2009 3:20:01 p.m.

LIVE 1981 DIGITAL RE-RELEASE

Friday, 27 November 2009

Ultravox - BBC In Concert (14th January 1981), Recorded at the Paris Theatre, London.

This popular live recording is being re-released by EMI in digital format only, with new cover art by Extreme Voice. It will be available from iTunes and Amazon etc from 7th December.

This has been mastered at Abbey Road studios from the original BBC source tapes, so we believe that this will be the best sounding version of this concert.

Track Listing:

01. New Europeans
02. Passing Strangers
03. Mr X
04. All Stood Still
05. Sleepwalk
06. Vienna
07. Astradyne

ICPN: 50999-456011-5-6

COVERS COMP WINNERS

Friday, 27 November 2009

The judging of the Ultravox Covers Competition 2009 is now complete and the winners have been announced!

Best Cover: Christopher Watson with Moon Over Moscow
Best Re-Cover: Glenn Kennedy with The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned
Best Re-Mix: Ultima Bleep with Serenade
Best Original: Adam Leonard with The Implausible Man
Most Unexpected Style: Neil Dube with Love's Great Cocktail Adventure

OVERALL WINNER: Adam Leonard with The Implausible Man

Adam Leonard has been chosen as the Overall Winner, for an original track so amazingly early Ultravox!-like in both music, recording style and vocals that I had to remind myself it wasn't a cover! Adam receives a fully-signed Return to Eden screen print. Congratulations!!

Go to the link below for the announcement PDF (including the runners-up) and to hear the winning tracks:

Media Archive -> Covers Competition

Our sincere thanks to everyone that entered, for your time, talent and passion. We consider ourselves lucky to know so many people that love this band so much. :o)

From December, we will take entries for the next Covers Competition, which will run for 16 months. The closing date is midnight GMT on 1st April 2011 (Billy's birthday).

Thanks again, everyone - and very well done to all of you!

All the very best,
Cerise, Rob & Paul.

NEW TICKET LINKS

Friday, 27 November 2009

We now have ticket links on the Tour Dates page for both Bochum, Germany (including Meet & Greet VIP tickets) and Stockholm, Sweden.

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