News from my Noble UK friends sez...."Don't miss The Zombies perform 'Odessey & Oracle' for the very last time in the UK! Following the success of last year's sold-out 40th Anniversary Odessey and Oracle concerts at the London Shepherd’s Bush Empire, the original Zombies line-up will reunite for the final time to perform the entirety of the milestone 1968 album one last time. Dates include: G.
The Zombies have confirmed the April 20th UK and European DVD release of "Odessey and Oracle Revisited: The 40TH Anniversary Concert".Mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound, and boasting an exclusive 2008 filmed interview, the DVD was originally filmed during March 2008 when the band performed three sold out nights at the London Shepherd's Bush Empire. The gigs were attended by Paul Weller, Robert Plant, ...
60’s psychedelic baroque-meisters, The Zombies, have announced that a live DVD of their excellent 1968 album, Odessey and Oracle will be released next month (April). Recorded in March of last year at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire, the DVD will see them perform the classic and much lauded album in its entirity.With the surviving original line-up [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Zombies to
Legendary 60's rockers The Zombies are headlining a benefit gig for ChildLine in London in March. The bill also features UK rock gods Thunder, Deep Purple vocalist Glenn "The Voice of Rock" Hughes and DP drummer Ian Paice. Singer Russ Ballard - performing for the first time in 30 years(!) - will join The Zombies for this one night only. The event, which takes place on Thursday March 13th at ...
Kind of a disappointment, this record. It documents the Zombies’ very late comeback of 2005, and proves once and for all, that no one in the band ever equalled their 1960s output. The big hits are good “She’s Not There”, “Tell Her No”, “Time of the Season”...but the solo songs, specially Argent’s, are pretty awful.Here’s a little from the PM review, up today:Hits Sound Great.
This Will Be Our Year...by the ZombiesWe've all read a lot about the "politicization" of the Justice Department in recent years, and that political pounding is having an ironic effect. The prosecutors who are supposed to guard against voter fraud don't seem very interested in running the political risk of doing their job. If voter fraud would ever be ripe for investigation, this would seem...
(Above, left to right: Hugh Wright (drums), Colin Blunstone, Chris White (bass), Sebastian Santa Maria (keyboards, guitar)How many Zombies does it take to make a reunion? The latest incarnation includes only two - Rod Argent (keyboards) and Colin Blunstone (vocals). But in this case these two are the CRUCIAL members that make up the unique sound of the Zombies.Ace Records, a UK company, issued...
Legendary 60's rockers The Zombies are headlining a benefit gig for ChildLine in London in March. The bill also features UK rock gods Thunder, Deep Purple vocalist Glenn "The Voice of Rock" Hughes and DP drummer Ian Paice. Singer Russ Ballard - performing for the first time in 30 years(!) - will join The Zombies for this one night only. The event, which takes place on Thursday March 13th at ...
This is the "B" side to what may be the Zombies greatest single, released in the summer of 1965.Not sure why it wasn't a hit? Well, there IS no good reason, because it was re-recorded by some group called The People, who were a one-hit wonder - with an inferior version of THIS SONG!