WIN TODD RUNDGREN TICKETS

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Win Todd Rundgren Tickets!
11:17 AM GMT 31/10/2008

Todd Rundgren, legendary purveyor of deft pop gems and cosmic prog-fusion is returning to the UK next month for a four date tour in support of his latest album, Arena (out now). You can hear tracks by heading over to his official MySpace page HERE.

He'll play:

Manchester Academy 2 (November 6)
Edinburgh The Picture House (7)
Norwich Waterfront (22)
London Kentish Town Forum (23)

MOJO is delighted to announce that we have one pair of tickets for each show up for grabs. Each winner will also receive a signed copy of Arena. All prizes are courtesy of Mean Fiddler.

So, to be in with a chance of winning one of these excellent prizes, please email your answer to the below question to Editor@mojo4music.com before Tuesday, November 4. Winners with the correct answer will be chosen at random.

And remember to include your venue of choice!

Correctly complete the following Todd Rundgren album title?

A Wizard, a ....

a) True Star
b) Capella
c) Mink Hollow

Photo: © 2008 Jean Lannen

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Terms & Conditions

• No prizes can be traded or exchanged for a cash alternative
• Closing date for this competition is November 4, 2008
• All entrants are responsible for including correct contact details
• The judges decision is final and no negotiation or debate will be entered into.
• All winners will be notified by email.
• This competition is open to all UK readers, except employees, associates and their families of Bauer Media.

INTERVIEW Scottish magazine

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An interview with Todd will be published on the Scottish magazine website www.list.co.uk on Monday November 3. The interview was conducted by Paul Dale a few weeks ago by phone to the US. Apparently it’s amazing.

The interview dovetails a lead concert listing in the magazine this week (attached).

The publicity surrounding this is for Todd’s Edinburgh Picture House gig on Friday November 7th.

tr for prez

REVIEW:princeton record exchange blog

http://www.prex.com/blog/arena-todd-rundgren-guitars-guitars-guitars/

 this is a great review article but is to long to reprint the full test  click on link to read.

A SURPRISING THING HAPPENED AT THE POLL

TAKE A LOOK AT THE POLL I PUT UP THIS WEEK. I ASKED TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE SONG.

I AM SURPRISED THAT THE SINGLE FOR THE ARENA ALBUM (STRIKE) DIDNT GET ONE VOTE. AND THE FAVORITE SONG AMONG THOSE WHO VOTED IS A BALLAD.

I JUST THOUGHT THIS INTERESTING..

LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS BELOW..

RUNDGREN RADIO 10/31 halloween special

TRi-ck Or TReat ToddCast Special! Replay from a TRconnection.com 2005 Toddcast. Author: EJ Haas. 'Tis the season to be spooky! If you like those classic Midnight Monster Chiller Horror Movies, you're gonna LOVE this! EJ proudly presents the ToddCast Halloween Special, a Macabre Masterpiece of Toddish Terror, LIVE (sort of) from Toddsylvania

Rundgren Radio announces New Years Eve show

RUNDGRENRADIO.COM PRESENTS:
TODD RUNDGREN IN PHILLY ON NEW YEARS EVE!!!!!!!!!

This may be the first Todd gig on NYE since 1996!?
Price will be $125 per ticket and will include a custom imprinted champagne glass and an optional champagne fill around midnight.

We hope to have all the info online soon so people can start buying tickets. The spots available will be limited to less than 300! The info will be available on http://www.toddnye.info/ soon and we'll let you know when it's ready.
T-shirts will be available for sale and they will be custom made for this gig! Prairie Prince might do the artwork! He wants to do it, but it all depends on how much free time he can get to work on it. Buyers will have the option of a short sleeve T, long sleeve T, or sweatshirt! Pricing TBD soon.
Toddtini shakers will be available for sale for the first time ever! These are gonna be cool. Stainless steel 16oz. martini shaker with something on both sides! One side will be a pic of Todd (comic book face because it's a one color deal, black, so you can't do a real photo) and the other side will be Todd's martini recipe!
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON RUNDGRENRADIO

TUNE IN TONIGHT FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WILL BE MADE ABOUT A SPECIAL EVENT .

WWW.RUNDGRENRADIO.COM


Special guest Kenny Emerson!
In between his love of traditional Hawaiian music, Ken has played and/or toured with many luminaries in the musical world beyond Hawaii including Todd Rundgren, Taj Mahal, Boz Scaggs, Jackson Browne, Donald Fagen, Dave Mason, Charlie Musselwhite, Elvin Bishop, Graham Nash, San Francisco's Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann, Pablo Cruise Band and The Rowan Brothers.
Kenny contributed on Todd's albums "One Long Year" and "Liars". www.myspace.com/kenemersonguitarist

Huge announcement during the show tonight too! Don't miss it Todd fans!www.RundgrenRadio.com

Review: Arena receives 12 out of 13

http://www.roomthirteen.com/cgi-bin/cd_view.cgi?CDID=9305
by Avril Simister
ARENA rate 12 out of possible 13

Waiting for a new Todd Rundgren album is a strange experience, because you’re never sure what you’re going to get. Rundgren only makes an album when he’s got something to say, and he’s one hundred percent sure of how to say it. But that doesn’t mean he ever sticks to one genre. 'Arena' does exactly what it says on the cover, contains thirteen arena-rock songs. “Old-school guitar-rock” in Rundgren’s own words.

‘Mad’ and ‘Afraid’ are slow-burn rockers with thoughtful lyrics and decent riffs. The heavy rock kicks off with ‘Mercenary’ and its screamed “How do you like me now?” which is guaranteed to stick in your head. ‘Gun’ is interesting, because it sounds like it could have easily been written by Alice Cooper: “I’m young, dumb, and I’ve got a gun”. By this point you’re pretty sure Rundgren has a few issues with modern life. But the thrill of this track comes from the guitar work, particularly the solo, which could have come off a Wishbone Ash song.

What makes this record stand out from the average heavy rock offerings is that Rundgren will always include swirling harmonies and keyboards that offer a solid background for the riffs. So it sounds like him. Especially on slower tracks like ‘Courage’, where he ponders his worth as a man, and ‘Weakness’, a heart-wrenching love song. Suddenly gone is the anger at society, hangers-on, and the NRA. It’s like listening to a massive mood swing, without ever hitting a depressive low.

There’s a heavier reliance on blues than you’d expect, in the guitar work. The Zeppelin-meets-AC/DC stomp of ‘Strike’ showcases fantastic guitar work, as does the echoed haze of ‘Bardo’ and fuzzy chug of ‘Mountaintop’. But somewhere in the back of your mind you’re very aware that Rundgren is the pioneer of solo working, rather than having the back-up dynamic of a band playing together.

All of the songs here have a sharpness of perception and sense of humour in the lyrics that mean Rundgren can swing from being totally serious to riff-heavy gonzo rock without ever compromising the intelligence or value of his work. There’s a lot more studio wizardry here than you’d find on your average rock album, but what did you expect?
At an age where most artists would consider moving into crooner territory, it’s fantastic to find an album full of heavy-rock gems. Quick, someone do something to piss him off again…

Review Ratings
Here at Room Thirteen we've decided to do things slightly differently when it comes to rating CDs and live sets. It may seem normal to rate out of 5, 10 or 100 - but we've decided to rate out of 13. Every live review and CD review has a rating at the top of the page - detailing the marks out of 13. We feel that this gives more versatility than rating out of 5 and it fits in with our love of 13. If you've got any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

VIDEO: RUNGREN OVERVIEW

SOME GREAT RARE FOOTAGE OF RA TOUR AT APPROX 2:46 MIN MARK

REVIEW: Oct 18 The Herald newspaper (Scotland) 2008

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TV APPEARANCE : LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN

THIS FROM TODDS MYSPACE VIA LYNN

Late Night with David Letterman

Finally the we have a bit of action on the publicity front. Todd will be playing on the Letterman show. I think the date is Dec 22nd. Will confirm.

VIDEO: SET ME FREE // STUDIO VIDEO AND LIVE 1982

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ITS BREAK TIME: a short break in the tour

Todd and the band have a short break and will start a new leg of the tour shortly.. its off to europe to give his fans a killer show.. enjoy you guys and gals deserve this..

Rundgrenradio :UPCOMING SHOW: 10/28/2008 8:30 PM

Special guest Kenny Emerson. In between his love of traditional Hawaiian music, Ken has played and/or toured with many luminaries in the musical world beyond Hawaii including Todd Rundgren, Taj Mahal, Boz Scaggs, Jackson Browne, Donald Fagen, Dave Mason, Charlie Musselwhite, Elvin Bishop, Graham Nash, San Francisco’s Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann, Pablo Cruise Band and The Rowan Brothers.
www.rundgrenradio.com

VIDEO:"Just One Victory" Seattle, Oct. 1, 2008 BY MRTRIPS99

upped on youtube by mrtrips99

Arena" tour opening show in Seattle. Set closer, final song "Just One Victory". Kasim Sulton back in the band and playing guitar and keyboards, 1st night of the 2nd Mortgage Club package, better lighting and tight band.

Todd interview and review scotland on sunday

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INTERVIEW: IN TODD WE TRUST / SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

Published Date: 19 October 2008
By Aidan Smith

IT'S 10am, Hawaiian time, and Todd Rundgren has checked his mail, fed
the fish, poured himself a coffee, and now he's telling me why he's
chosen the most feted period in his long and fascinating career to
release an album of heads-down, no-nonsense, mindless boogie.
"I guess I've never been afraid of change," he says. "It's the fear
of the next step, and of that potentially painful transition, which
stops many people doing anything new. I'm 60 now but my attitude is
the same as when I started in this business ex actly 40 years ago:
there's always more to know, more to learn and more to create."

Contrary, wilful, maddening, downright perverse – Rundgren has
delighted in being all those things, often on the same record,
sometimes in the space of one song. Just when it seemed like he'd
settled back into the blue-eyed soul of his Philly roots – the Todd
most of us love – he promptly turned himself into a computer, changed
his name to TR-i and went all techno on us. Then he reverted back to
Todd Rundgren for a re-recording of all his old classics – in a
dreadful bossa nova style. But for wrong-footing moves, he's really
excelled himself with the new album Arena.

This is Todd the mad axeman, the heavy metal clodhopper. It's not a
new Todd – way back in 1974 he sang of how "everyone inside is a
heavy metal kid" – but neither is it the Todd that over the past year
has won him the admiration of the hottest electronic acts.

Rundgren songs have popped up as theme music for Daft Punk films, on
mix albums by Klaxons and in DJ sets by Simian Mobile Disco.
Lindstrom, the Norwegian pioneer of prog-disco, can probably claim to
have begun the trend when he featured Todd on his Late Night Tales
compilation, though it was Hot Chip who took him back into the charts
via a sample on their single 'Shake A Fist'. These acts were inspired
by studio-whizz Todd, LSD-indulging Todd, or the Todd who, back in
the day, could knock out three sweet pop ditties before fish-feeding
time, and anyone buying Arena off the back of their lionising of the
man will be mightily confused.

"I was kicking my heels recently so I took a guitar band out on the
road and the audiences seem to enjoy it so this album comes from
that," he says.

"The heavy guitar sound isn't a reaction against something I don't
like in music, but it does seem to be an unworked part of the field
that's grown fallow."

Rundgren is one of the few in his profession who'll permit his
publicity department use of the word "bombastic". "That's cool," he
confirms.

The album is loud and also angry. So, living in paradise, and having
recently invited 200 fans to Hawaii to help him celebrate his 60th,
what's he got to be angry about? "Well, we Americans have been living
under a government which has been cowardly and hypocritical and lied
with impunity; there's a danger that men will believe this is the
correct way to resolve issues in their own lives." Women, he adds,
wouldn't be so dumb.

Rundgren is flattered to find himself a hero to so many. "It's
recognition of the fact I'm still around, that's the most important
thing. I'm very fortunate to have had a 40-year career because some
people don't get 10."

Always a nerd about new technology, does he share in the gloomy
prognosis about pop music's future? "No, I don't. The digital age has
made it easier for acts on the fringes to gain some parity with those
whom the record companies decide we're going to like, and I actually
think we're about to enter another golden age. People were making
music for years before Thomas Edison discovered how to record it and
they'll still be making it long after we're forgotten."

If we go back to Rundgren's beginnings, Arena makes some sense. "Aged
20, I wanted to become the world's best guitar player and I'd get
suicidal when I wasn't making any progress." He became a pop star "by
accident and with reluctance" and from that moment on, was damned if
he was going to perform to type.

In the prog era, with Utopia, Rundgren jousted with fire-breathing
dragons in the shadow of papier-mâché pyramids – the last time he
played arenas. "Imagine if this record became a self-fulfilling
prophesy and I got back into the big halls," he laughs. It would be
predictably unpredictable and typically Todd if it did. v

• Todd Rundgren plays Edinburgh's Picture House, November 7. Arena
(Cooking Vinyl) is out now www.tr-i.com

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Last Updated: 17 October 2008 4:01 PM
Source: Scotland On Sunday
Location: Scotland
Related Topics: Interviews

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Video: lord chancellors nightmare w/ Ethel

recorded in liverpool 2005,and featuring "ethel"



another version by
The Lord Chancellor (David Rayner) in Southampton Operatic Society's production of Iolanthe (2005). Reduced orchestra arrangement courtesy of www.pattersong.co.uk