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On February 29th, Astralwerks and will Hob.com present "The Virgin Suicides" Live in Los Angeles. This very special one time performance of the entire album live was recorded on January 22, 2000 at the American Legion Hall. The webcast starts at:
at the Hob.com Air webcast page. A late night for all European Air Fans! Astralwerks also have a little Virgin Suicides shockwave postcard that you can send to friends by clicking here... spread the word! There is also a VS competition running on the Astralwerks site from the 22nd Feb. offering tons of Air goodies.
Playground Love is due to be released on the 14th Feb. The new video directed by Sophia [director of the Virgin Suicides] and Roman Coppola can be seen here.
There is a new Air FAQ being compiled by Orde Saunders of 36 15 Air and submissions are currently being accepted. It makes a very interesting read so have a look and point your browser here.
Air's second (and last) scheduled show in which they perform selections from the score of "THE VIRGIN SUICIDES" : Thursday, January 27, 2000 Sundance Film Festival Riverhorse Cafe, Park City, Utah For more information, either check Ticketron or contact the venue. Thanks go out to itszero for this info! To read his review of the LA concert click here
Air will be contributing a track (Planet Vega') to 'At Home with Groovebox' in March of 2000 Grand Royal, in conjunction with Tannis Root, will release At Home with the Groovebox. Also contributing are Beck, Pavement, Bis and Sean Lennon amongst others. According to Grand Royal it's... "A fabulous comp. of all new recordings by our favorite artists of today as well as some of the pioneers of Electronic music" More information is available at Grand Royal
Lots of news on the Air front :) Their lush new single 'Playground Love' will be relased on Valentines Day, 14th February. For a preview click go to the sounds section. Its also worth noting that Air's label's site - Astralwerks has been given a make over, take a look at astralwerks.com.
Air recently popped in for a lunchtime chat with Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley to promote their new single. To see a transcript of the interview click here! To listen to it in real audio click here
According to the offical Virgin Suicides movie site - the movie to which Air are contributing a score, the album will be released by Astralwerks on the 29th February 2000. The tracklisting will be as follows; "PlaygroundLove"
( single released 14/2/00) The movie, which is directed by Sophia Coppola is described in Upcomingmovies.com : Following the suicide death of their youngest sister, the surviving daughters of the Lisbons descend into a deep state of mourning and a near obsession with death. Meanwhile, a group of neighborhood boys becomes obsessed with watching the girls as they go through this dificult time.
This site recently appeared in Whats Online to represent Air in the A-Z of music .. the review was as follows... ''A beautiful site for a beautiful band. Pretty fitting eh? It features all the usual fan site features; picture galleries, audio clips, links, release news, and a message board. Its major innovative feature is a downloadable air desktop theme. Small and perfectly formed''
A NEW release date of 14TH SEPTEMBER has finally been set for the european re-release of Air's deleted "Premiers Symptomes". An enhanced limited edition CD will also be available including video footage of the band shot by Mike Mills and an ehanced track for "Le Soleil est Pres de Moi". The tracklisting is as follows: 1.Modular
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Despite the fact that Sophia Coppola starred in the worst Godfather film :-P Air will be contributing to her directorial debut, 'The Virgin Suicides' in the form of a soundtrack. The likely release date is to be during the Summer and it is rumoured to include completely new material from the band...
Air appeared on 8th March as guest DJs on Radio Ones 'The Essential Mix'. The electic playlist is as follows....
Moon Safari was named (amongst others): #1
Album of the Year in Select magazine And Air named these albums as the best of 1998;
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