Dear everyone,

Well I´m afraid it´s That Time of the Year again… yes, time to pay the vast and extortionate subscription fee to remain on our mailing list! At the back of this newsletter you´ll find all the details of what to pay, how to pay, etc etc etc. The price for some areas has gone up a bit, but then so has everything else, and it´s still wonderful value for money!!!

FANS IN THE UK AND EUROPE SHOULD READ THE “SPECIAL NOTICE” VERY CAREFULLY –IT RELATES TO PRIORITY TICKTET FOR NEXT SUMMER´S SHOWS, AND THE NEED TO GET YOUR SUBS IN FAST ORDER TO GET THE BEST TICKETS.

At time of typing, it is just a week to go till the first show on the World Tour! I haven´t even had time to go to rehearsals, and I will be seeing the show for the first time on August 23rd in Dublin, so I´m afraid I can´t give you any clues about what to expect. I do know what songs are in the set, but you´ll probably enjoy it more if it´s a complete surprise… Fans in all countries being visited on the first European section should by now have received their tickets. I can tell you that I nearly went round the twist doing the UK tickets –we were absolutely deluged with applications and it seemed to take forever to send them all out! Most of you have excellent seats, but obviously some nights were much more popular than others. I am primarily talking about the Friday night at Wembley Arena, for which the Info. Service took practically ALL the tickets in the building (the absence of a Saturday night show in London meant that nearly EVERYONE from outside London went for Friday 20th –and before you ask –no, we couldn´t add a Saturday night because the equipment has to get to Dortmund!!). Some members attending that particular night will therefore find their seats are way back in the hall, but short of re-designing Wembley Arena, there wasn´t a lot I could do about it!

Still at least you will be there! When the rest of the Wembley tickets (i.e. those not reserved by the Info. Service) went on sale to the public, they sold out within 3 hours! It was a similar story all over Europe!

I´d like to say thanks to all those of you who ordered through us for being so efficient -99 per cent of all the orders we had went through with no problem at all. I think nearly EVERY Info. Service member in the UK applied!

One thing I´d like to mention here is the subject of backstage passes/meeting the band. We have been absolutely inundated with request, and obviously we just can´t arrange it for so many. So –rather than say yes to some people and no to others, we decided we had to be fair and say no to everyone. At many of the shows on this world tour, the band will be “doing a runner” immediately after the last song. In other words, they will leave the venue straight away in an effort to a/avoid the traffic, and b/avoid the hanging around, which as you can imagine, gets very tiring when it happens night after night on a tour this long.

There will be a few occasions, however, when the band will stay around after the show, as they may have family or guests attending. Within the next week, I will find out WHICH nights the band are going to have guests backstage, and then I will take the ticket application forms for those nights, and a “lucky dip”. So, four Info. Service members will each receive a pair of passes. Names of winners in next newsletter!!!

Fans in Australia and New Zealand should by now have received their special newsletter from me concerning priority tickets, and also the priority booking form from the relevant promoters (Garry van Egmond –Australia, and Ian Magan –New Zealand). Hope you all get all the tickets you want! Sorry there is no date in Tasmania this time, or in Mackay/Cairns, but obviously it´s impossible to play every single town in the entire world (although from reading through my itinerary for the next two years it seems we´re having a pretty good try!!). We missed Canberra last time round, so we´ve got that in the schedule this time to keep you lot in ACT happy!

For those of you in others countries who want to know the Oz/NZ dates, the list is later on in this newsletter. If you are likely to be in either of those countries while the band are there, I´m sure we could sort you out with a couple of tickets –but let me know as soon as possible.

Now, onto the other news:

SINGLE: you will probably have heard it by the time you get this. The 7” vinyl version and the cassette single both have two tracks “Calling Elvis” b/w “Iron Hand” (both tracks from the forthcoming album and the cd single and 12” vinyl single have an extra track “Millionaire Blues” (not on the album). Pre-release orders suggest that it will do very well in many countries, and in fact a fax has just arrived on my desk from our Dutch record company as follows:

“It is with great pleasure to inform you that the SP “Calling Elvis” charted number 2 in Dutch Hit parade and is Monday August 19 power play on Dutch radio. We have pre-sold 15.000 singles which is an absolute Dutch record. The reactions on the video which was shown on Veronica last night are phenomenal”.

VIDEO: a bit of video was previewed in the UK on “The Chart Show” last weekend, and hopefully if the single does well it should be widely shown on TV stations. As has now been widely publicised, the band do not actually appear in the video! Instead you will see puppets of the band members –this idea was masterminded by Gerry Anderson who created The Thunderbirds TV series (quite a cult series in the late 60´s and early 70´s, and being re-launched in the UK in September, so I´m told!). I have to confess that because I´d never watched The Thunderbirds (poor deprived childhood, no TV, etc!!!), I didn´t have much of a clue what was going on in the video, but I thought it was great nonetheless!!!

ALBUM: “On Every Street” is being released worldwide on Monday September 9th in all three formats (cd/cassette/LP). The full track listing is as follows: Calling Elvis, On Every Street, When it comes to you, Fade to Black, The Bug, You and your friend, Heavy Fuel, Iron Hand, Ticket to Heaven, My parties, Planet of New Orleans, How long. I´m not going to attempt to describe it to you –all I will say is that I have already picked my two favourites tracks –Fade to black and Planet of New Orleans. Once you have heard it, we´d appreciate your comments!!!

TOUR: This looks like going on forever!! We are now looking at booking further dates right up to the middle of 1993 although nothing´s confirmed yet. We are changing dates around constantly –I think i´m on to Version 165 in the date sheet!!! Whether or not we will actually continue the tour that long isn´t definite –a major factor will be how exhausted everyone is getting! Also, for the band members who have small children (quite a few), it means they will be apart from their families for very large chunks of time.

PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION: As I said in the last newsletter, the band are not intending doing that much in the way of interviews/radio/TV.

UK: on August 31st and September 7th, the band are featured on Richard Skinner´s Saturday Sequence afternoon programme on Radio 1. There is also a “Q” magazine supplement in the October issue (which comes out on September 12th for some reason!), plus “You” magazine (comes with the “Mail on Sunday”) are running an article on September 8th. You will find in this newsletter a copy of the article which appeared in The Sunday Times at the weekend, plus an article from last week´s “Mail on Sunday”

Worldwide: a special feature radio programme will be going out on radio stations all over the world within the next month. It will feature tracks from the new album, plus an interview with Mark. I think the programme will run for about 50 minutes.

Below is a list of the radio stations who have confirmed in writing that they will transmit this programme:

Europe: Italy (RETE 105), Greece (Antenna FM), France (NRJ), Hungary (Danubius), Yugoslavia (OP101), Poland (RMF), Portugal (Radio RFM), Denmark (CD1 and Private Network), Switzerland (DRS), Israel (Voice of Israel), Finland (Radiomafia), Belgium (Studio Brussel and Radio 21), Norway (NRK), Austria (ORF), Holland (AVRO), Czechoslovakia (CSSR). All of the above are scheduled to transmit it on September 5th. The following broadcasters have verbally agreed to transmit the programme (we are awaiting written confirmation): Spain (SER), Sweden (SR) and Germany (SWF3). They will probably also transmit on September 5th.

UK: (Brandland, Devonair, Essex, Halam, Invicta, Norhtsound, Pennine, Metro, Manx, TFM, Viking, Downtown, Isle of Wight, Orchard FM, West Sound, Swansea, Fox FM). These are scheduled to transmit on September 8th.

USSR: obviously things in that country are in a complete state of chaos at time of writing, but Radio Roks have been approached and may schedule the programme, hopefully September 5th.

South America: Brazil (Radio Trans American Network), Venezuela (Radio Caracas), Uruguay (Concierto FM), Peru (Tele Stereo 8, Paraguay (Venus). All have confirmed in writing, scheduled transmission date: September 5th. The following have not confirmed yet: Mexico (WFM), Argentina (rock and pop), Bolivia (Radio Fides), Guatemala (FM95).

Australia and New Zealand: Sydney (2MMM), Melbourne (3MMM), Brisbane (B105), Canberra (FM104.7), Adelaide (SAFM), Perth (96FM), Auckland (99 Hauraki FM), Christchurch (C93FM), Wellington (Radio Windy). None confirmed yet, but probable transmission date: September 5th.

USA & Canada: too many radio stations to list in newsletter. Fans in those countries will find a separate sheet in their envelope with the complete list. Scheduled transmission date: September 14th.

Merchandise: enclosed you will find a mail-order form, which should be fairly straightforward to understand. I may do a special t-shirt (exclusive to Info. Service members) at a later date (early 1992 hopefully), but I honestly can´t cope with it right now!!! I hope also to be able to offer you various other items that are not generally available to the public.

Photos: the new band line-up have recently done two photo sessions. I have only had time to glance through the pictures so far, but I will be choosing the best of the selection, and will be doing a photo offer in the next newsletter.

Here is the list of dates in Australia/New Zealand as promised:

Oct 29-Nov 5	Entertainment Centre Sydney (8 shows x 10.234)
Nov 7-11	Entertainment Centre Brisbane (5 shows x 12.000)
Nov 13-18	National Tennis Centre Melbourne (6 shows x 10.900)
Nov 22-23	Subico Oval Perth (2 shows x 40.000)
Nov 26-27	Westlake Oval Adelaide (2 shows x 50.000)
Nov 29-30	Olympic Park Melbourne (2 shows x 35.000)
Dec 2-5	Entertainment Centre Sydney (4 shows x 10.234)
Dec 6-7	Football Stadium Sydney (2 shows x 40.000)
Dec 10	Bruce Stadium Canberra (1 show x 30.000)
Dec 14	Lancaster Park Christchurch (1 show x 60.000)
Dec 17	Athletic Park Wellington (1 show x 50.000)
Dec 20-21	Mt. Smart Stadium Auckland (2 shows x 40.000)

Fans in the USA and Canada will get a special interim newsletter within the next couple of months with details of the Spring 1992 dates in their countries.

OK, that´s all for this time. Hope to see some of you at the Irish and UK concerts. I know that some of you are travelling miles and miles to see the shows (we have quite a number of DSIS members coming from overseas, including a couple of fans from as far away as Japan!!!)

Best wishes for now,