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Music of the Spheres 2 CD Limited Edition

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:54:52 -0600

A 2 CD limited edition of Music of the Spheres will be released on November 24, containing the studio version and the live version live from the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. Preorder it at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk.

Grazie mile, mikeoldfield.it and tubular_trekkie.

Song For Survival

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:46:22 -0600

Song For Survival, Mike Oldfield's track for Bruce Parry's Survival International charity project, has been digitally released on iTunes UK and Play.com as part of the Amazon album. You can also preorder it on Amazon.co.uk. The Amazon TV show starts on September 15 on BBC2.

Thanks, Molly!

Update: now available on international iTunes stores as well.

Update Oct 9: out in the shops on Oct 13. Molly also informs us that the Amazon TV show is pretty popular with an audience of 3 million people a week.

More Mike Oldfield's equipment for sale

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:41:34 -0600

Mike is selling more equipment via Chandler Guitars: Digidesign Pro Tools slave driver, Digidesign 888/24 8-track to 24-bit digital converter, Roland Fantom-XR synth module, Trace Elliot GP11 bass head, Yamaha OIV96 digital mixer, Yamaha Tyros 1 workstation keyboard.

Mike Oldfield song in BBC2 Amazon series

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:49:10 -0600

The Songs For Survival album accompanying BBC2 new TV series Bruce Parry's Amazon will feature an exclusive song by Mike Oldfield. The theme of the series is performed by Apparatjik composed of Guy Berryman (Coldplay), Magne Furuholmen (a-ha) and Jonas Bjerre (Mew). It starts on september 22.

Via mikeoldfieldblog.com under Tati The Sentinel's watch

Update Aug 25: according to the Kensaltown Records' tracklisting, Mike's track is : Mike Oldfield feat. the Anuta tribe - Song For Survival

Update Sep 14: Song For Survival is available at iTunes UK and Play.com which provides a sample.

Moonlight Shadow covered by Laurent Voulzy

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:48:09 -0600

30 years after his hit Rockollection, French pop star Laurent Voulzy covers a part of Moonlight Shadow in his last album Recollection, among other covers from The Police, Bananarama, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Bee Gees, REM, Michel Polnareff, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, Supertramp, Talk Talk, etc. Moonlight Shadow appears the in track Jukebox and is sung by a female voice. Order at Amazon.fr, .co.uk, .com, .ca.

Merchi, Olier!

Mike Oldfield Night to be Held in Second Life

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:54:49 -0600

The Subterranea Progressive Rock Club of Second Life will feature an evening with Mike Oldfield's music on Friday, 27 June at 12:00PM SLT (Pacific Time; 8PM GMT). You can find the venue using the search feature once you're in SL (search "subterranea") ; or, ask Moog McMahon for a teleport. The last Mike Oldfield Night was very well attended!

Art in Heaven CD + DVD set

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:25:37 -0600

Warner is set to release a new 'sight & sound' CD + DVD set of Mike's Art in Heaven concert from 1999/2000.

The CD contains audio-only versions of all the tracks on the DVD, with the exception of the 'Art in Heaven' track, which isn't included. Some sources claim that the tracks on the CD will be in 5.1, though this would seem a strange choice as it would render it unplayable on systems without a Dolby/DTS decoder (i.e. most stereo systems).

The release is set for June 30th and you can pre order it from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, and Amazon.co.uk.

Dank je wel, Burning Fish.

Tubular Bells cover by the California Guitar Trio

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:05:06 -0600

The California Guitar Trio has a cover of Tubular Bells on its latest album entitled Echoes. You can buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk. Other acoustic covers include Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird, Queen's Bohemian Rapshody, and Beethoven's Pastorale.

Thanks, Jordi.

BBC Radio Wiltshire interview

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:13:06 -0600

BBC broadcast journalist Daniel Garrett has informed us that BBC Radio Wiltshire has posted a 9 minute audio interview of Mike about his early success with Tubular Bells and the pressure from Richard Branson, inspiration, Music of the Spheres, spirituality, working with other people and then alone putting parts together, and lastly about taking a few years of rest and perhaps retiring.

Mike's birthday

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:07:25 -0600

While we're sure that all of Mike's fans will remember what's special about today, we want to keep in mind how Mike likes to use this site to remember what's going on in his life. So Mike, in case you're wondering what that big cake is for: it's your birthday today!

Many happy returns, Mike!

All You Need Is Love DVD box set released

Thu, 8 May 2008 13:51:04 -0600

Tony Palmer's All You Need Is Love documentary covering the history of popular music has been released as a DVD box set. Episode 17 tells the story of Ommadawn. Buy it at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, or Amazon.ca! In its review, The Guardian says that "the series ends with a century of music flashing before our eyes to the soundtrack of Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn".

Thanks, Chris Simmons.

Music of the Spheres Live Now At iTunes-USA

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:19:51 -0600

The double album of Music of the Spheres, which contains the live recording from Bilbao, is now downloadable through iTunes-USA.

Thank you, Chris Hopkins and Bruce Bell, for the update!

Music of the Cubes

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 02:50:46 -0600

April Fool's Special We're thrilled to announce that Universal has confirmed the release of Music of the Cubes on April 16 as an electronic download and a physical USB flash drive designed by Hans Claesson in the shape of a cube, sold for a limited time exclusively on Tubular.net!

Mike said that "Music of the Cubes is like the Spheres single to the power 3, it's how Music of the Spheres initially took shape, before Karl [Jenkins] smoothed down the rough edges". We'll randomly sell 100 copies of the USB drive containing an exclusive wallpaper signed and numbered by Hans Claesson, each slightly different.

Mike also said he might "do a rock version, something between Cubes and Spheres, before some fool who doesn't understand the deep deep meaning of the spheres ruins it" and would love to make "a round of concerts in a few famous squares in Europe".

'Killing Fields' Pran dies of cancer

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:45:55 -0600

Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist for the New York Times who was the subject of Roland Joffe's movie 'The Killing Fields', has died of cancer.

The story of his struggle under the Khmer Rouge touched millions through the articles of fellow New York Times journalist Sydney H. Schanberg, and of course through Joffe's film, which featured Mike Oldfield's first and only feature film soundtrack.

Music of the Spheres tops the UK classical chart!

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:58:35 -0600

It's official - Music of the Spheres has entered at number 1 in the UK classical charts, as published by Music Week!

It also entered the general album chart at a very respectable number 9.

Update March 26: the album entered the Spanish charts at number 7.

Thanks, Dave L of the Hayley Westenra International forum, simmo2005 and David of mikeoldfieldblog.com