News & Rumors
(you decide which is which)
| Tuesday, 18th November, 2008 | |
| 3:58 pm - | At the fan club meeting at the Boston Arms on Sunday, a Come Dancing programme signed by the entire cast will be auctioned off to benefit the Leukemia Fund. If anyone wants to place a bid by e-mail, contact Bill Orton directly. If the winning bid is by e-mail, the winner will have to provide credit card details for payment afterwards. |
| 3:53 pm - | There's a blurb on page 24 of the Nov. 27th issue of Rolling Stone that mentions the reunion rumor. |
| 9:08 am - | Ray will be at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Monday. |
| Monday, 17th November, 2008 | |
| 10:35 am - | Ray was on the Later... With Jools Holland show on Friday: a different and longer interview than what was shown on the Later Live... show last Tuesday. UK fans can watch again on the BBC web site. |
| 10:31 am - | The Village Green Preservation Society album will be performed in its entirety by the band Grand Prix, featuring Phil Angotti, Geoff Benge, Brandon Rios, Kriss Battaille and Ellis Clark, with special guest appearances by Nick Tremulis and Kevin Junior. It takes place November 22nd at 10PM at the ViaDuct Theatre in Chicago. More information is on Phil Angotti's web site. |
| 10:28 am - | There's an article about Geoff Edgers' Kinks film on the Musos Guide web site. |
| 10:27 am - | If you missed Ray on the Late Late Show last week, you can watch it on YouTube. |
| Thursday, 13th November, 2008 | |
| 10:16 am - | UK residents can watch the short interview with Ray on Jools Holland from earlier this week. The part with Ray starts about 9 minutes in. |
| Tuesday, 11th November, 2008 | |
| 1:41 pm - | Ray will be interviewed (no performance) on Later Live... With Jools Holland tonight on BBC TV. |
| 9:03 am - | Ray's web site has been updated with info about the upcoming box set. You'll be able to order the box set via Ray's web site, and there'll be a contest of some sort. |
| Monday, 10th November, 2008 | |
| 1:17 pm - | Dave Davies weighs in on the reunion rumors on his message forum. |
| 10:47 am - | Maryann Price has some Kinks memorabilia from her collection for sale on eBay.com. |
| Wednesday, 5th November, 2008 | |
| 11:19 am - | In this BBC article, Ray talks about doing a collaboration album with other artists and about Kinks reunion possibilities. |
| 11:15 am - | Ray is scheduled to be on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Friday, November 14th. |
| 11:14 am - | There's an article on Geoff Edger's documentary on the Boston Globe web site. |
| 11:13 am - | You can vote for Come Dancing as Best Musical in this year's What's On Stage Theatregoers' Choice Awards. You can also vote for best actor and actress. |
| Tuesday, 4th November, 2008 | |
| 1:50 pm - | Vote for the Minks as the "Best Tribute Band" on San Jose radio station 98.5 KFOX's web site (registration required). You can listen to the Minks' covers of "Set Me Free" and "All Day And All Of The Night" on that web page. |
| 12:11 pm - | Ray was at the Music Industry Trust's Award ceremony in London last night, according to this Billboard article. WireImage.com has a photo of Ray arriving at the event. |
| Monday, 3rd November, 2008 | |
| 4:09 pm - | Tickets are still available for the Official Kinks Fan Club konvention on Nov. 23rd (which will include a performance by Mick Avory, Jim Rodford, Ian Gibbons, Dave Clarke and Debi Doss). All Kinks fans are welcome. Contact Bill Orton for ticket info. |
| 11:16 am - | You can watch a trailer for Geoff Edgers' documentary on YouTube.com. |
| 11:15 am - | The evening before the fan club konvention in London, fans will be gathering at the Alexandria pub (98 Fortis Green) for a sing-along. There will also be a charity auction/raffle/sale to benefit the Haringey Young Musicians charity. There's a Facebook page (Facebook registration required) for this event. |
| 11:11 am - | You can listen again to Ray's interview with Claudia Winkleman on BBC Radio 2. The interview starts about 01:34 into the show. |
| 9:26 am - | There's a cover of "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" (possibly by Gast Waltzing?) in the Jean Claud Van Damme movie JCVD. |
| Friday, 31st October, 2008 | |
| 1:22 pm - | Ray will be on the Claudia Winkleman show on BBC Radio 2 tonight at 10pm. |
| 8:48 am - | The Kinks' "20th Century Man" was played during the TV show Life On Mars last night. |
| 8:45 am - | In Boston tonight is The Pill's 6th Annual Halloween Show at Great Scott. Among the acts featured are the Wonderful Spells as the Kinks. |
| Thursday, 30th October, 2008 | |
| 8:39 am - | There's an article about Ray on the LA Times web site. |
| Tuesday, 28th October, 2008 | |
| 9:58 am - | Saturday Night at the Movieum in London will feature a member of the Kinks (possibly Mick Avory). |
| 9:40 am - | There's a full-page article on the Kinks in the latest issue of Mojo (with Leonard Cohen on the cover), discussing the box set among other things. |
| Wednesday, 22nd October, 2008 | |
| 3:11 pm - | Kinks tribute band The Kinx are playing at the Maze in Nottingham on Nov. 18th and the Talbot in Mansfield on Nov. 20th. |
| 11:00 am - | There's a new video blog on Ray's web site, which has video from the Come Dancing musical. |
| Monday, 20th October, 2008 | |
| 3:41 pm - | This article on Oasis mentions that the Crouch End Festival Chorus will be on an album of "reworked Kinks classics" with Ray. |
| Friday, 17th October, 2008 | |
| 1:55 pm - | Some articles about Ray's upcoming tour: |
| Tuesday, 14th October, 2008 | |
| 9:06 am - | The band Locksley will open for Ray on his upcoming tour, and also back him on some Kinks hits. |
| Monday, 13th October, 2008 | |
| 2:47 pm - | "Come Dancing" has been extended two weeks to November 8th. |
| 9:01 am - | Someone has posted the segment of Never Mind the Buzzcocks with Mick Avory on YouTube. |
| Tuesday, 7th October, 2008 | |
| 12:18 pm - | There's a new interview with Ray Davies on the This Is London web site. |
| Monday, 6th October, 2008 | |
| 9:39 am - | Mick Avory's new band (which evolved from his former band, The Class Of '64) has a web site: The Hitmen. |
| Sunday, 5th October, 2008 | |
| 2:49 pm - | The Official Kinks Fan Club now has a band confirmed for the konvention on Sunday, Nov. 23rd.: Dave Clarke, Mick Avory, Jim Rodford and Ian Gibbons will be performing, along with Debi Doss. Support will be Pete Watkins. Non Fan Club members are welcome. Tickets are £ and can be purchased from the fan club. |
| Friday, 3rd October, 2008 | |
| 10:03 am - | Mick Avory was one of the identity parade guests on Never Mind The Buzzcocks last night. UK residents can watch the show on the BBC web site. For the rest of us, there are some screen captures on the grey Ray Davies forum. |
| 8:51 am - | There's a review of Come Dancing on the Time Out London web site (and three more reviews in the comment section below it). |
| Thursday, 2nd October, 2008 | |
| 12:58 pm - | Only slightly Kinks-related: Kinks fan Nila needs votes in order to win $10,000 for her German Shepherd rescue organization K-9 Services. (And, in an effort to make this slightly more Kinks-related, Pete Quaife has/had German Shepherd Dogs, as evidenced by this 1998 photo by Martin Kalin.) |
| 12:40 pm - | The Kinks have a mention in the latest issue of Record Collector, in an article about the "200 Rarest Albums of All Time". The Kinks' entry is the 2 known copies of the UK test pressings of the 12-track version of VGPS. |
| 12:08 pm - | Ray was interviewed on the Simon Mayo programme on BBC 5 Live Monday. You should be able to listen to it online for the few days. |
| 12:05 pm - | Some reviews of Come Dancing:
The Daily Mail |
| 11:02 am - | According to this story on the BBC web site, the Kooks will record "Victoria" for a charity album. |
| Monday, 29th September, 2008 | |
| 2:25 pm - | There's a teaser trailer for Dave Davies' "Mystical Journey" film on YouTube. |
| Wednesday, 24th September, 2008 | |
| 12:53 pm - | The Kinks reunion rumor is making another round in the press:
The BBC |
| Tuesday, 23rd September, 2008 | |
| 6:58 pm - | The track listing for the upcoming Kinks box set has be posted on SpinCDs.com |
| Monday, 22nd September, 2008 | |
| 10:04 am - | Ray will be on Front Row on BBC Radio 2 tomorrow at 7:15pm. |
| 10:02 am - | This blurb on the WhatsOnStage.com web site hints at a "possible West End outing". |
| 9:59 am - | There's a review of Come Dancing posted at the UsefulWiki.com web site. |
| Saturday, 20th September, 2008 | |
| 6:54 am - | Several of the Come Dancing performances have sold out, and the theatre has now released tickets for sale for an additional week, Oct. 7 - 11. |
| 6:52 am - | There's another interview with a Come Dancing cast member on the Hertfordshire Mercury web site. |
| Wednesday, 17th September, 2008 | |
| 10:36 am - | On Carlo Little's web site there's a link (near the bottom) where you can sign a petition to get Nicky Hopkins into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame. |
| 10:28 am - | There's some feedback about Come Dancing on the ReviewCentre.com web site. |
| Tuesday, 16th September, 2008 | |
| 3:57 pm - | Last week's rumor of Come Dancing being extended into November might have been a bit premature, as the web page cited has been changed from "into November" to "towards November". |
| 3:55 pm - | There are 6 photos from the Come Dancing show on the Theatre Royal web site. |
| 9:13 am - | There's an interview with one of the cast of Come Dancing on the Guardian web site. |
| Monday, 15th September, 2008 | |
| 12:38 pm - | There will be a Kinks special on the Pat's Power Pop and Punk Hours show on Columbia, Missouri community radio station KOPN this Friday, from 6:00-8:00 PM Central time. You can listen online at www.kopn.org. The show will feature songs from Working Man's Café and other Kinks songs relating to the themes of WMC. Co-host Kevin says, "You can call the station during the show and let me know how I'm doing. 1 573 874 5676 for the U.S. and 00 1 573 874 5676 for England." |
| 9:13 am - | The annual Konvention of the Official Kinks Fan Club will be on Sunday, 23rd November 2008 at the Boston Arms. Tickets are £12 and can be purchased from the fan club. |
| Sunday, 14th September, 2008 | |
| 2:35 pm - | The run of the Come Dancing musical appears to be extended into November, according to this page on the Stratford East web site (at the very bottom). |
| Thursday, 11th September, 2008 | |
| 9:06 am - | Ray's web site has been updated with some news about Come Dancing and a new video blog from Ray. |
| Friday, 5th September, 2008 | |
| 1:39 pm - | The Stratford East web site has some photos of Come Dancing rehearsals. |
| Wednesday, 3rd September, 2008 | |
| 8:52 am - | There's an interview with Ray in The Times. |
| Tuesday, 2nd September, 2008 | |
| 9:03 am - | The song "Father Christmas" (the Kinks' original recording) is used in the new movie "Step Brothers". |
| Monday, 1st September, 2008 | |
| 8:49 am - | A special on Nicky Hopkins will be aired on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday at 19:00. |
| Friday, 29th August, 2008 | |
| 1:35 pm - | There's an open rehearsal workshop at the Statford East on 27th September, "inspired by" the Come Dancing musical. |
| 10:31 am - | There's a 1 1/2 page article on Larry Page and the Kinks in the October issue of Mojo magazine. |
| Thursday, 28th August, 2008 | |
| 4:24 pm - | This article on the Guardian web site suggests Ray should open the London 2012 Olympics. |
| 4:22 pm - | There's an articled entitled Matt Costa channels the Kinks on the Edmonton Journal web site. |
| 4:15 pm - | The video introducing Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention earlier this week included a cover of "You Really Got Me". |
| 8:59 am - | Here's some video of Ray onstage with the Kooks. |
| 8:59 am - | There's an article about Ray's "Come Dancing" musical on the Ilford Recorder web site. |
| Wednesday, 27th August, 2008 | |
| 4:53 pm - | There's an interview with Ray Davies in the current issue of Stop Smiling magazine (you can read an excerpt on their web site). |
| Monday, 18th August, 2008 | |
| 9:21 am - | Ray joined the Kooks onstage at V Festival this past weekend, according to this NME article. |
| Friday, 15th August, 2008 | |
| 8:43 am - | Mentioned last month but worth mentioning again: Ray is on the cover of the summer issue of Magnet magazine, with an 11-page article/interview covering his Kinks/solo career. |
| Thursday, 14th August, 2008 | |
| 3:22 pm - | The Theatre Royal Stratford East is seeking donations to support the "Come Dancing" production. See the letter from Ray and donation form (PDF files). Major credit cards accepted. Also, a limited number of VIP table seats are available for each performance -- call the box office for tickets: 020 8534 0310. |
| 3:19 pm - | "The World From My Window" will be re-aired on Australia's ABC network tomorrow (Aug. 15th). |
| Tuesday, 5th August, 2008 | |
| 12:35 pm - | There's a page on the Fender web site on Ray Davies. Not much there at the moment, except for two nice photos in the Image Gallery section. |
| Friday, 1st August, 2008 | |
| 3:44 pm - | The Marketing Assistant for the Theatre Royal Stratford East says that tickets for the Come Dancing musical are "going pretty fast." |
| Tuesday, 29th July, 2008 | |
| 2:31 pm - | Here's another article about the Come Dancing musical, on the What's On Stage web site. |
| 12:10 pm - | This article on the This Is London web site says that Ray will "star" in the Come Dancing musical. |
| 9:57 am - | The Kinks top the list of Best Sibling Bands in a Rolling Stone reader poll. |
| Thursday, 24th July, 2008 | |
| 4:15 pm - | There's a review of Ray's Anaheim concert on the OC Register web site. |
| 4:04 pm - | Tickets for the "Come Dancing" musical are now on sale. |
| 4:03 pm - | The current word is that Ray taped his appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Monday, and it will air in a couple weeks. |
| 8:51 am - | Dave Davies' web site has a page for Belly Up with the track list and some sound samples. |
| Tuesday, 22nd July, 2008 | |
| 1:24 pm - | For whatever reason, Ray was not on the Late Late Show last night as previously rumored. |
| Friday, 18th July, 2008 | |
| 10:25 am - | Ray will be on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Monday, July 21st at 12:35AM Eastern & Pacific time. |
| 10:15 am - | There are two articles about Ray on the Edmonton Journal web site: a preview article and a review of Tuesday's performance. |
| 10:11 am - | There's an article on Ray (a preview of tonight's performance) on the Portland Mercury web site. |
| 9:55 am - | The Official Kinks Fan Club will have copies of Dave Davies' "Belly Up" CD for £12 inc. postage, with a limited number of signed copies for fan club members. |
| 9:43 am - | There are three articles about Ray on the Calgary Herald web site: a review of Ray's Calgary show, an article about Ray and an article on Kinks cover songs. |
| 9:07 am - | There's a review of Ray's Ottawa show on the Ottawa Citizen web site. |
| Wednesday, 16th July, 2008 | |
| 4:49 pm - | Ray's "Come Dancing" musical will run at the Theatre Royal Stratford East from September 13th to October 25th, according to this article. |
| Tuesday, 15th July, 2008 | |
| 8:47 am - | Dave Davies has a new live CD due out on August 1st: Belly Up!, which was recorded at the Belly Up Club in San Diego in 1997. |
| Monday, 14th July, 2008 | |
| 9:31 am - | Ray is on the cover of Magnet magazine this month. |
| 9:23 am - | There's an article on Year Long Disaster on Boston's Metro web site. |
| Thursday, 10th July, 2008 | |
| 1:37 pm - | UK Kinks tribute band Kinda Kinks has several gigs scheduled this summer. |
| 1:13 pm - | The current issue of Record Collector magazine has a small piece from Dave Davies on the influence of Bo Diddley on the Kinks' early music. |
| Tuesday, 8th July, 2008 | |
| 11:11 am - | John Dalton is coming out of retirement briefly for a KOK gig in Sweden in September, according to his web site. |
| Friday, 4th July, 2008 | |
| 6:42 pm - | Ray's new web site, www.raydavies.info, is now online. |
| 8:07 am - | There's an article on Ray in the Calgary Herald. |
| Thursday, 3rd July, 2008 | |
| 9:10 am - | According to this article on the Winnipeg Fold Festival web site, Ray will play a longer set there than originally planned. |
| Wednesday, 2nd July, 2008 | |
| 3:56 pm - | I have the gig listed as "unconfirmed" on the Tour Dates page, but this article says Ray will be playing at the Azkena Rock Festival in Spain. |
| 3:46 pm - | Ray is one of the judges for the 2008 International Songwriting Competition. |
| 3:37 pm - | Portland, Oregon band Blue Skies For Black Hearts played "Stop Your Sobbing" at a live in-studio performance for Oregon Public Broadcasting, which you can listen to on opbmusic.org. |
| 3:16 pm - | Culturespill.com has an article about the State of Confusion album. |
| 3:14 pm - | Kurt Ackerman writes about Ray on his blog. |
| Wednesday, 25th June, 2008 | |
| 3:00 pm - | The song "Lola" was featured on the TV show "In Plain Sight" on the USA Network on Sunday. It will be rebroadcast this Saturday, June 28 at 11a.m. EDT. |
| Monday, 23rd June, 2008 | |
| 9:53 am - | There are photos from Ray's Hampton Court gigs on John Rahim's web site and on the Crouch End Festival Chorus facebook group (facebook account required). |
| Tuesday, 17th June, 2008 | |
| 11:33 am - | There's an article on Dave Davies opening the summer fete in Devon on the This Is North Devon web site. |
| 8:43 am - | There's a new Sony Ericsson ad running in the UK and Australia which uses the song "People Take Pictures Of Each Other". |
| Friday, 13th June, 2008 | |
| 2:16 pm - | According to a note on Dave Davies' message board, you can win a chance to chat with Dave via telephone. |
| 1:17 pm - | There's a new interview with John Dalton on the Hertfordshire Mercury web site. |
| Wednesday, 11th June, 2008 | |
| 2:16 pm - | Ray has been made a patron of the Crouch End Festival Chorus, according to this article on the Hornsey & Crouch End Journal web site. |
| 9:07 am - | Loser's Lounge will be having a tribute to the Kinks at Joe's Pub in NYC this weekend. Show times are: Thursday, June 12th at 9:30PM; Friday, June 13 at 7PM and 9:30PM; Saturday, June 1th at 7PM and 9:30PM. |
| 9:04 am - | John Dalton has some photos of his May 31st "garden party" on his web site. |
| Monday, 9th June, 2008 | |
| 3:30 pm - | Various bands will be playing songs from the VGPS album at Bourne & Hollingsworth in London tomorrow at 8PM. Check out the flyer. |
| 3:26 pm - | There's an interview with Lana Davies (Dave Davies' daughter) on the PunkNews.org web site. |
| 3:20 pm - | There's another article on the Kooks and recording their album at Konk Studios, on the Boston Globe web site. |
| 3:16 pm - | There's a story about Ray's upcoming Hampton Court concerts on the Hornsey Journal web site. |
| 9:27 am - | A DVD of the Kinks' performance on Beat Beat Beat (a German TV show) from 1966 is due for release in July. [The web site got some song titles wrong: "Oh Please" is really "Milk Cow Blues" and "I Feel Good" is "Till The End Of The Day".] |
| Wednesday, 4th June, 2008 | |
| 1:07 pm - | Radio station WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut is airing their annual Kinks special on Saturday, June 21st from 18:00 to 22:00 EDT. Listen online at www.wpkn.org. |
| Monday, 2nd June, 2008 | |
| 1:12 pm - | Ray attended John Dalton's 65th birthday party on Saturday (not the farewell gig the previous weekend) and sang You Really Got Me/All Day And All Of The Night with the Kast Off Kinks. |
| 8:54 am - | In the June 12th issue of Rolling Stone, the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" is number 4 in their list of Top 100 Guitar Songs. |
| 8:48 am - | There's an article on the Kooks and Konk Studios on the Toronto Sun web site. |
| Wednesday, 28th May, 2008 | |
| 3:14 pm - | There's a restaurant review of the Clissold Arms on the ThisIsLondon.co.uk web site. |
| Tuesday, 27th May, 2008 | |
| 1:10 pm - | There's a new interview with Karin Forsman (in Swedish) on the GT.se web site. |
| 12:48 pm - | There's a review of the Kast Off Kinks farewell concert for John Dalton on Michael K. Bourdaghs' blog. |
| Saturday, 24th May, 2008 | |
| 10:33 am - | Ray will be on the Jonnie Walker show on BBC Radio 2 tomorrow at 16:30, "to talk about his forthcoming concerts." |
| Friday, 23rd May, 2008 | |
| 3:52 pm - | There will be a Kinks special on the Revolution Rock show on college radio station CJAM 91.5FM (Windsor/Detroit) next Wednesday, May 28th, 9-10:30 p.m. It will be posted as an MP3 file on the web site after it airs. |
| Thursday, 22nd May, 2008 | |
| 10:25 am - | There's an interview with Ray Davies on the Relix Magazine web site. |
| Wednesday, 21st May, 2008 | |
| 3:45 pm - | There will be a Kinks tribute concert in the south of France, near Cannes, on Saturday, July 5th, as a charity benefit. Check out the flyer. |
| 3:30 pm - | Ray Davies is #13 in the list of top 50 British songwriters, according to the Telegraph. |
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