Zucchero at Radio Monte Carlo and Video Italia /"Everybody's got to learn sometime" single August 28, 2004
Zucchero will be a guest on Radio Monte Carlo next week! He'll be interviewed on tuesday from a studio in Milan between 11:30 and 12:00 CET. If you can't receive Radio Monte Carlo on your radio you can listen online on their website (click RCM live, completely to the right). (Thanks Stefano Bragatto!)
Zucchero will also be interviewed on Video and Radio Italia on monday. Besides being interviewed clips will be shown of the upcomming Royal Albert Hall dvd and a mini concert will be held plus members of the audience will have a chance to talk with Zucchero. Tickets are still available, one way to get them is through Zucchero's official fanclub, send them an e-mail at fanclub@zucchero.it (the first 70 get a free ticket). The show will be live on Radio and Video Italia which can also be seen live online (video).
It seems that the new Everybody's got to learn sometime single (see below) has been released throughout France and apparently is doing very well in the airplay charts too! Zu & Co has also gone up to the 7th place in the album charts in Wallony (the French part of Belgium)! (Thanks to Francesco (from Paris) !).
New "Everybody's got to learn sometime" single / Articles / Charts August 26, 2004
It looks like a new version of the "Everybody's got to learn sometime" single will be released, but god knows where. Both the French and UK version of Amazon have the single listed for release on september 6th but it's not clear in what country it's actually being released. The tracklists includes both the English and Italian version of the song (featuring Vanessa Carlton and Haylie Ecker), the live version performed at the 46664 concert last year (featuring Queen and Sharon Corr) and a video of that performance.
We've been adding some articles and interviews about ZU & Co to our articles section, including an interesting interview with Playboy Magazine (....yes), check it out!
And this weeks charts positions: not that many changes this week, up a little in Italy, France and the Netherlands, down a little in Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany and Austria. In Belgium the album has gone from 40 to 31 in the charts.
Zucchero: "RAH dvd in october" / Charts August 17, 2004
Zucchero has said in an interview with Il Giornale that the dvd of his performance in the Royal Albert Hall last may will be released in october. During the gig Zucchero performed ZU & Co songs with his band and loads of guests like Mousse T, Dolores O'Riordan, Solomon Burke, Tina Arena, Brian May, Luciano Pavarotti and Eric Clapton. You can read the entire article on Zucchero's website.
This weeks charts, not a lot of changes: the cd is clearly losing ground in Germany but is sticking around in the top 20 in the Netherlands and in the top 10 in Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia. In France the album goes down a little but stays in the top 20 and in Belgium after re-entering the chart last week the album rises a bit to number 40.
ZU & Co in the charts/ Beachsongs/ Francesca's beach August 11, 2004
Slow newsweek so let's just start with this weeks positions of ZU & Co throughout the European album charts: in most charts ZU & co is going down a bit this week (Italy, Austria, France and Germany), in Belgium (after doing a show there on august 1st) the album has re-entered the charts, in the Netherlands after going down a bit ZU & Co is now back in the top 20, positions in Slovenia and Switzerland have remained the same.
It's obviously still summer so the weirdest news stories are coming up: according to a survey Zucchero is one of the top "Beach Artists" this summer in Italy. 200 Italians between the age of 15 and 22 have been asked their favourite beach songs and 61% mentioned Zucch with Il Grande Baboomba (even more went for Vasco Rossi, Luca Dirisio and Max Pezzali however.)
And in the same summer-news category: English newspaper The Independant has a story on Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich who seems to want to buy the Italian beach resort Eco del Mare, currently owned by the parents of Francesca Mozer, Zucchero's girlfriendm, who doesn't want the resort sold. Check this website for the entire article.
ZU & Co hits 1 million / 46664 Latino postponed / ZU & Co in the charts August 4, 2004
With high chart positions throughout Europe since it's release in late may ZU & Co, Zucchero's latest release, has now been sold over 1.000.000 times! The cd's has gone multi platinum in Italy, platinum in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, gold in France and almost-gold in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Bad news on the 46664 front: the scheduled concertdate in Benidorm, Spain for this august has been postponed but no new date has been scheduled yet. Rumours were already going around that there was some trouble with the show, espacially with Benidorm's local government.
ZU & Co tour / CNN - the music room August 2, 2004
Zucchero and band finished their European summer tour yesterday in Belgium when they performed at the Suikerrock festival in Tienen. In the past week Zucchero also performed in France and Austria. At the Nice Jazz Festival he was joined on stage by Solomon Burke and the following setlist was played: Dune Mosse, Dindondio, Rossa Mela Della Sera, Il Grande Baboomba, Baila, Ali D'Oro, Madre Dolcissima, Overdose d'amore, Il Mare..., Everybody's got to learn sometime, Il Volo, Cosi Celeste, Sento le campane, Music in me, Porca L'Oca, Diavolo in me (with Solomon Burke) and Shake (with Solomon Burke). Senza una Donna and X colpa di chi? were played as encores.
In this weeks episode of CNN's The Music Room Zucchero is featured as part of a docu on Festivalbar, it includes a short clip of Il Grande Baboomba, a short interview segment and a clip of Zucchero and Dolores O'Riordan perforing Puro Amore.
Newsweek article / Zu & Co tour / Big in Slovenia July 26, 2004
In this weeks issue of the international edition of Newsweek there's an article on Zucchero and the "new" way of promoting musicians by releasing albums in different international versions (using Zu & Co and it's 494843938490420920 different versions as an example). For the entire article see this website. (Thanks to Alex and Iruben on the forum).
The Zu & Co tour is still going on meanwhile (with just 4 concerts, 1 in France, 2 in Austria and 1 in Belgium, left). Last friday and saturday Zucchero performed at the Luzern Blue Balls Festival playing Dune Mosse, Dindondio, Rossa mela della sera, Il Grande Baboomba, Baila, Hey Man, Madre Dolcissima, Overdose (d'Amore), Il mare..., Everybodys got to learn sometime, Il Volo, Diamante, Cosi Celeste, Sento le campane, Music in me, Porca L'Oca, Diavolo in me and Shake with Senza una Donna and X colpa di chi? as encores.
And finally: Zu & Co is nr. 1 in Slovenia! (thanks Iruben again!) Which brings us to the following charts list this week:
We Are The Future Starbucks cd / 46664 Latino in trouble? / Bonn pictures July 21, 2004
A special cd of the We Are The Future concert is on sale in the US at shops of the Starbucks chain. In may a bunch of big music stars (including Santana, Alicia Keyes, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock and of course the man behind everything Quincy Jones) performed in Rome to help children in Africa. The Starbucks cd (of which all proceeds will go to We Are The Future includes Everybody's Got To Learn one of the songs Zucchero performed during the concert (he also performed Wonderful World and Baila with the leadsinger of Maná, Fher). You can only buy the cd at Starbucks till the end of this month but later this summer (unless the schedule gets screwed up which it usually does) a dvd and a 2-cd of the concert should be released throughout the world.
46664 Latino (which has Zucchero in the line up), which is scheduled to take place in Benidorm on august 21st, may be replaced according to Brian May's website (Queen is also scheduled to perform, as is Dave Stewart and a bunch of Latin artists). No official news yet but when it does come in we'll post it here.
And finally 2 pictures from the Bonn concert on july 18th from our friends Dimmy and Loek Zopfi from the Netherlands! Not only did they have a great concert, after the show they walked into Zucchero and all the band members. Good for you guys!
Zucchero and band
Adriano and Mario in the tourbus after the show
Thanks again for the shots!
Tour / Australian version released / ZU & Co in the charts July 19, 2004
Zucchero and band are still touring through Europe with their ZU & Co tour. Yesterday evening they performed in the Stadtpark in Hamburg, Germany playing Dune Mosse, Dindondio, Rossa mela della sera, Mama get real, Baila, Madre Dolcissima, Overdose (d'amore), Il Mare..., Everybody's got to learn sometime, The Flight (Il Volo), Cosi Celeste, Sento le campane, Music in me, Porca L'Oca, Diavolo in me, Shake and Senza una Donna and X colpa di chi? as encores. Tomorrow Zucchero will perform in Singen at the Hohentwiel Festival and on thursday he will perform with Macy Gray in Modena.
The Australian version of Zu & Co has been released! The cd includes all the normal tracks (except for Cosi Celeste with Cheb Mami) and the amazing Tina Arena duet "I'm in trouble" (the English version of Ahum). You can buy the cd online on this website.
And finally this weeks Zu & Co in the European charts (so far; Germany isn't in yet):
The European Zu & Co tour is rolling on: last friday Zucchero performed with Solomon Burke at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland singing Diavolo in me and Georgia on my mind as a tribute to Ray Charles and on saturday Zucchero performed at the Bospop festival in Weert, the Netherlands as the closing act of the festival. The Weert setlist was the following: Dunne Mosse, Rossa mela della sera, Il grande baboomba, Baila (sexy thing), Ali D'Oro, Like the sun, Overdose (d'amore), Il mare..., Everybody's got to learn sometime, Il Volo, Cosi Celeste, Sento le campane, Music in me, Porca L'oca, Diavolo in me, Shake. Encores: Senza una Donna and X colpa di chi?
ZU & Co tour starts July 08, 2004
Zucchero's ZU & Co tour started yesterday in Salamanca, Spain and will take him in the next month through Europe. The band consists of Mario Schiliro on guitars, Polo Jones on bass, Matteo Saggese on keyboards, Adriano Molinari on drums, Lisa Hunt doing vocals and James Thompson on sax, blues harp and vocals. Yesterdays setlist was the following: Dunne Mosse, Dindondio, Rossa Mela Della Sera, El Gran Baboomba, Baila Morena, Ali D'Oro, Like the Sun, Overdose (d'amore), Il mare.., Everybody's got to learn sometime, Il Volo, Cosi Celeste, Sento le Campane, Music in me, Porca L'Oca, Diavolo in me, Shake. Encores: Senza una Donna and X colpa di chi?. Tonight Zucchero will perform in Madrid and tomorrow Zucchero will perform with Solomon Burke and Van Morrison at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. For more info on the tour visit our Tour site or visit www.zucchero.it
