STEWART COPELAND

I'm going to Düsseldorf again in 2 hours to watch that final Ben Hur Live rehearsal. Looking forward to it although Stewart is only there with his voice and music.

I will be in Paris on August 26 and 27. The plan is to visit Jean Roussel together with French journalist Gert Bruch and to squeeze information for the wiki out of him - and compliments about Stewart for Gert's project.

Don't know if there will be a chance to meet Henry as well. Will stay at Raphael's place for the night and have some free time on August 27 (train leaves 5:25pm in the afternoon).
So to all the Frenchmen and -women who live nearby and don't have to work - we could meet somewhere and you could buy me a petit dejeuner There's a small chance that the MSG shirt will be travelling with me as Gert might want to film stuff like this.

Dietmar

Oh I hope you see Henry!!! then you can give him a kiss from me I'm sooo looking forward to his book coming out and the Movie

Bump for the German and the Shirt in Paris.

possible Ben Hur SPOILER - nothing about the book here ...

so I went to Düsseldorf with Sabine
at the VIP entrance to the ISS Dome we were welcomed like VIPS
there was a guest list and I was on top (possibly because it was alphabetically) and had "guest of Stewart Copeland" written behind my name, which is fair

we were given a promotional folder with a German booklet about the production, some flyers and a CD-Rom with a Ben Hur Trailer, 4 Stewart tracks for Ben Hur Live, plus lots of pictures, production sketches, etc...

our path led is into the VIP area where we could eat tasty salads and stuff and drink something

at 5pm we were shown the backstage part of the production with stables, ships, costumes and props

some time after 6pm we were led into the arena and could choose a seat
Franz Abraham and the director held a short speech as to the circumstances of this semi-public rehearsal

then we saw Act 1 of Ben Hur Live, which lasted about an hour
this was basically the version I saw last week - with Stewart music and Stewart narration

this was still a rehearsal without costumes, sometimes a bicycle would replace a horse - no falcons yet
but everything went much more smoothly, no breaks for technical reasons

and the Ben Hur guy took a lot of his clothes off for the slave part - ladies, get a good look at him !

the sea battle had some added effects with dry ice, although that didn't really work
if it does it'll look great, though!

there was a dinner for partners after the rehearsal with more warm food (which we didn't attend, because it was a long day for both of us already), so we went home with our collected stuff

I'll upload some pictures on my flickr.com page soon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18838092@N00/

will send scans of the promotion CD-R to Raphael for his website and add the link here, too.

Dietmar

photos are on flickr now

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18838092@N00/

Dietmar

Thanks, Dietmar!!

Any clue about if the CD will have narration and on when it will be available?

I don't know anything about the actual CD which might or might not be available at those events or separately.
These 4 tracks are Stewart's home made music only.

Great photos * * * you are lucky!