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GREEN SHOW - Tour 2011

The time has come for this important announcement: 2011 will be the year of the "Green show" where The Watch will play the whole Selling England album and much more... and of course some songs from the band own repertoire...

so we hope you all will enjoy listening to this great Genesis music played live by The Watch in their unique performing style supported by the Hammond organ, the mellotron and 12 strings guitars... close your eyes and get back to 1973 !!!

Tour dates 2011 - Green show: please keep an eye on this as there are some more incoming gigs to be announced soon

Back to Europe

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Here we are, back from USA and Canada where we had such a great time !

Thanks to all who showed up and we are looking forward to be back there again.. it seems next year same period.. al the gigs were fantastic and we enjoyed our performances so much.

Now we will play in Europe some gigs 'till first days of december, take a look at our schedule. BTW, the gig in Norwich at Brickmakers is at B2 venue www.b2venue.com . Brickmakers has two venues and we will play at B2. Like for all the other UK gigs, John Hackett and Nick Magnus will join us, so we hope to get a warm welcome, it's the first time we play in these venues and we're very excited..

Tomorrow we will play at small and cozy Club Giardino that is sold out so far and we probably come back there in december, we'll keep you updated on it.

Soon we will post all the gigs of the "Green show" - Selling England by the Pound whole album and much more, on the portal, so please visit us frequently..

CIAO !!

The Watch

September news

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Hi !

Back from summer days, the band is hardly working on the new album. There
will be 11 track on it, 4 of them will be covers taken from "From Genesis
to Revelation" period and 'though the whole album is inspered by those very
nice and delicate days, you will find The Watch typical sound in all
original compositions and all the tracks will sound very powerful or
sometimes soft, with the usual care for melodies the band is famous for..
we really hope to let you hear a few excerpts soon, hopefully before the
US-Canada tour.

Days are passing very fast and october is approaching, this means the band
to come back on stage for two great festivals in belgium and UK, Prog
Resiste and Summer's end. Moreover we all are looking forward to get to the
US and Canada for the first extensive tour for the band in those countries,
we're all very excited !

Cheers,
The Watch

July News

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Hi there,

here we go with some news from The Watch camp.. the band is fully working on the new album, due for January 2011, more infos and perhaps an audio snippet in the future.. the album will be a rivisiting of Genesis '69 "From genesis to revelation" album, with a lot of new parts and brand new arrangements in a pure The Watch style. Guys are very proud of what is coming out but as usual, very into the project and fully working on it when not away for live performances.

Here you can see The Watch live in Rome, a week ago, @ Parco degli acquedotti, after the gig the guys are toasting Giorgio's birthday.

The biggest new is about USA and CANADA tour 2010 with the "BLUE SHOW", here it is the complete schedule with the confirmed gigs:

Fri 22 October - Hamilton, Ontario - Canada
The Studio at Hamilton Place - tel: 905-546-3100
http://www.hecfi.ca/

Sat 23 October - Quebec - Canada
Le Centre d'art la Chapelle - tel: 418-686-5032
http://www.centredartlachapelle.com/

Sun 24 October - Philadelphia, PA - USA
North Star Bar - tel: (215)-787-0488
http://www.northstarbar.com/

Tue 26 October - Montreal - Canada
Cafe' Chaos - tel: 514-844-0738
http://www.cafechaos.qc.ca/

Wed 27 October - New York, NY - USA
B.B. King Blues Club - tel: 212-997-4144
http://www.bbkingblues.com/

Fri 29 October - Niagara Falls, NY - USA
The Rapids Theatre - tel: 716-205-8925
http://www.rapidstheatre.com/

Sat 30 October - Baltimore, MD - USA
Orion Sound Studios
info on http://www.dc-soar.org/

Sun 31 October - Brighton, MA - USA
The Magic Room Gallery - tel: 617-775-4009
http://www.magicroomgallery.com/

Unfortunately the gig in Atlanta scheduled for saturday 30th October has been cancelled and the one in Washington will take its place, so the gig in Washington @ Orion Studios has been moved to saturday 30th October. We're very sorry for all those who were waiting for our show in Atlanta but it's due to circumstances beyond our control and we hope we'll be able to play there next time. Thanks to all at Eyedrum and Allen for their help.

At this link you can have infos about these USA and Canadian shows, so please check it out..

European autumn "Blue Show" update:

here is the update list of gigs this autumn, it will the last time The Watch will perform the blue show, as they will be on the road from January 2011 on, with a brand and completely new show, called "Green show" dedicated to the COMPLETE Selling England by the pound album 1973... more news the next months.

fri 8 Oct - Espace Tatry - Bordeaux - F
MOVED to 2011 due to venue's problems

sat 9 Oct - Prog resiste convention - Spirit of 66 - Verviers - B
The Watch will perform a lot of their own material

sun 10 Oct - Summer's End Festival - Lydney, Gloucestershire - UK

THE WATCH Blue show - USA and Canada shows 22 - 31 Oct

sat 6 Nov - Club il giardino - Lugagnano di Sona
http://www.clubilgiardino.org/

fri 12 Nov - Brickmakers - Norwich - UK
http://www.thebrickmakers.com/

sat 13 Nov - The Luminaire - London - UK
http://www.theluminaire.co.uk/

sun 14 Nov - The Musician - Leicester - UK
http://www.themusicianpub.co.uk/ - tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/82978

fri 19 Nov - Das Rind - Russelheim - D
http://www.dasrind.de/

sat 20 Nov - Het Kasteel - Alphen aan den Rijn - NL
http://www.hetkasteel.nl/

sun 21 Nov - Lotto Mons Club - Mons - B
info: thewatch@scarlet.be - tickets: http://www.ticketnet.be/shop/en/manif.asp?idmanif=3819&idtier=14

fri 26 Nov - Universum - Bunde - D
tickets: http://www.widuticket.de/index.php?show=EventDetail&N_V_ID=913; hotline 0 52 23 17 88 88

sat 27 Nov - Bluescafe' - Apeldoorn - NL
tickets: http://www.bluescafe.nl/

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Christmas Shows:

fri 3 Dec - Belafonte - Mira - I

sat 4 Dec - Sala Granziol - Preganziol (TV)
info e prenotazioni: tickets@thewatch.it - tel. 347-4261013

E' previsto anche uno spettacolo di Natale a Milano in dicembre in cui i the Watch proveranno anche parte del nuovo show di Selling England, una festa particolare per tutti gli amanti dei genesis e dei the watch, info prossimamente...

Not all the venues have already put tickets on sale, so please check the venues' websites regularely.

Do not esitate to come in touch for other infos.
Thanks for your support and hope to meet you all at the shows...

The Watch

AFTER THE BIG SUCCESS OF "PLANET EARH?" : NEW STUDIO ALBUM DUE FOR JANUARY 2011

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Hi everybody,
another short update. First of all, our best summer whishes to everyone.

Then a big thank you to all who showed up in Bilston, UK... we've had a great time !

The Watch are still very busy, on the live side before the summer break, the band will play at the ex-prog festival, headlining sunday playing after Tony Levin. But the big announcement is about a new studio album, that will be released in January 2011, we are all very excited !!

It will be a new experiment: The Watch have taken some very old GENESIS songs from '69 and '70, tracks From Genesis to Revelation period and turned them into some The Watch unique style tunes, riarranging and adding brand new parts, giving these wonderful very early days compositions a new life..!!

This is the new challange for the band and these days some drums recording sessions have already taken place at TW studio in Milan.

Big news about this project still have to be revealed, so please stay tuned, it's an honour that after the big success of Planet Earth ? that's still growing, we are able to give you another studio album in a reasonable time...

cheers!

The Watch

THE WATCH at Genesis France event with STEVE HACKETT

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Giorgio Gabriel, Steve Hackett e John Hackett

We had a great time at Genesis France two days concert, we enjoyed a lot being there all together with our friends, Jean Marie, Paul, Danny, Jean Francois, Steve, John and Nick...

A present for all our portal subscribers: interview with Simone Rossetti and The Watch playing Soaring on 2010 version at national estonian TV , ETV

Interview

Soaring on

now looking forward to the next gigs, Arlon B, and Wolverhampton UK and then Exprog with Tony Levin !

News

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Hi everybody,
we would like to thank all the people who showed up at these last gigs...
it's been great once again and a pleasure to spend a night together with the music we all love.

We proudly will perform at the Genesis event France this coming week end, we'll meet our friends John and Nick and it'll be a great pleasure to meet Steve as well... John will join us on stage on some songs!

We are also proud to be in Bavaria for the first time, after the beauty of Provence last week, another wonderful area like Bavaria on our gig list... !!

Then we'll get to the north, Finland and Estonia... really looking forward to it !!

After a gig in Stuttgard, where we were forced to cancel a previous show, we'll get to the UK but before we'll play in Arlon, Belgium, where we hope to give the chance to all who were forced to stay out of the venue in Mons, due to a quick sold out after tickets were put on sale, to attend the show... we'll wait for you there !!

So, hope to meet you all soon !!!
thanks,
The Watch