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"... being Americans, they just felt that no rest of the world existed..."
Gavin Rossdale, New Music interview, Edenfest, June '96.
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Info on Bush from around the globe. Got something that belongs here? Email me (click that annoying flashing envelope at the bottom of this page). To check how they're doing on the international charts, go to Hitsworld.

UK:"We are England's biggest slacker export" Gavin Rossdale (Reuters/March/97)

Week of Oct 20/97: Music paper The Melody Maker carried an interview in which Gavin was quoted: "My plan is to make a couple more records with the band, and then I just want to do film music. I know that dignity is not a word that has been heavily associated with me in the English press, but I would like to be on stage for only as long as it's relevant. Maybe I've got a couple more moments in me, and then like any other old f***er who used to be in a band, I'll cash in on my previous success. Probably my only ambition is to write a record like Nick Cave's album about Polly Harvey. A great record to f*** to." (thanks to La-La-Lucinda for this).

Bush played the Reading Festival, 24 August, and did more gigs in October. Complete listings at amBUSH Tour Dates which is also worth checking for it's preferred tickets for fan club members programme.

They were one of many bands playing at Glasgow, Scotland's "T in The Park" Festival, July 11th-12th. (call 011-44-541-500-044 if you want to find out more about this festival).

For info & clips of the BBC2 documentary about Bush, 'Coming From Nowhere', check out BBC Online.

Bush showed up in several UK magazines, including the May/97 issues of Vox and Select and the June/97 issues of Q and Minx.

Click here for thoughts from Nigel & manager Dave Dorrell on the UK.

There's a Gavin interview from Feb/97, complete with sound bytes, at PA Press in which he talks about Bush's US vs.UK success, what the onstage experience is like and more.

On February 5th./97 Bush taped an appearance on that country's perennially cheesy TV chart show "Top of the Pops" and played to sold out venues in several cities in Spring/97. The last stop on their European tour was a sold out gig, March 1st in Shepherd's Bush, London. RBSC, released in the UK in January, reached #2 within a month of its release, while Swallowed entered the charts at #7 ;complete charts atNME Online.

Capital Radio's site will give you a taste of the UK music scene, if your digestion can take it.
Indie World is another cool UK site.

Ireland:Bush played a couple of dates in the Fall/97: Belfast Ulster Hall, Oct 12 & Dublin SFX, Oct 13.
The video for Personal Holloway was shot in Dublin in the Spring (97). Gavin also spent a couple of weeks in a "small" white Irish castle and is rumoured to have bought a place in Dalkey (an upscale area of Dublin), for 200,000 pounds. He's reportedly spending early '98 writing material for the fourth album in Ireland, variously rumoured to be County Cork/County Galway/Dublin.
Kerrang! April/98 gavinterview.
Kerrang!April/97 has an article/interview on Bush with lots of biographical info.
Kerrang!May/97 has long feature/interview on Bush's RBSC US tour.
Last 2 articles nicked from Bush-The Distant Voices Site a cool page run by Damian Penston.

Europe: Gavin will be one of the presenters at the European Music Awards (aka the MTV Europe Awards), November 12 at the Filaforum in Milan, Italy. Check out the MTV Europe site to vote & win tickets. You can also buy tix by phoning the hotline @ +39024077823. Bush were nominated for Best Rock Act in the '97 MTV Europe Music Awards but lost to the Wonderbrow Brothers. Also nominated were Aerosmith, Jon Bon Jovi & Skunk Anansi.

Italy: There's a bunch of news articles at Rock Online Italia or go straight to:Gavin article; ;Bush article; Gavin fashion article

Belgium: 9 live shots from the '96 Pukkelpop Fest here

Germany: Here's a link to the first German Bush site: Distant Voices. Bush were back in Germany May 17-18/97.

Sweden: Check out 2 reviews from Bush's Feb./97 tour-
Sweden, Feb.13/97 Set-list/gig review (performed 'Synapse' live for the first time).Support act: now defunct Swedish quartet The Souls.

Holland:Groningen, Feb.28/97 Set-list/Bush encounter. Bush returned to The Netherlands May 19/97 for the Pink Pop Festivalwhich was cybercast live.Click Pink Pop reviewfor info on the event.
For live shots in Amsterdam 10/10/95, go to Rock Shots1 2 3 4

There were more '97 European dates, with SilverChair providing support on some of them: August 15, Musikfestwochen, Winterthur, Switzerland; August 16, Bizarre Festival, Cologne, Germany; August 18, Stadtpark Freilichtbunn, Hamburg, Germany; August 19, Tempodrome, Berlin, Germany; August 20, Arena, Vienna, Austria; 22 August, Pukkelpop, Leopoldsburg, Belgium; 23 August, Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Germany; October 29, Luxembourg Den Atelier, Luxembourg; October 30, Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

European dates for Feb/97 were:
Germany
16-Metropol, Berlin.
17-Music Hall, Cologne
18-Longhorn, Stuttgart
19-Babylon, Munich
Austria
20-Messepalast, Vienna
Switzerland
22-Dynamo, Zurich
Italy
23-Rolling Stone, Milan
France
25-Le Divan du Monde, Paris
Belgium
26-Vooruit, Ghent
Netherlands
27-M.C.V., Utrecht
28-Martinhal Groningen, Groningen
UK
March 1-Shepherd's Bush Empire, London.

Japan: Swallowed reportedly did OK in Japan. Bush played some club dates there in May/June 96: 30/5-Liquid Room, Tokyo; 31/5, Club Quattro, Nagoya; 2/6, IMP Hall, Osaka; 3&4/6, Liquid Room, Tokyo (there's a review of the last gig in one of the Little Things Zine back issues). They returned in late '97: October 7, Osaka Quattro, Osaka & October 8, Liquid Room, Tokyo.

Australia/Pacific Rim:Bush toured there in September/97: 25th, Monash University - Melbourne; 27th, Grunge Fest - Sydney; Also: 29th, Suntec - Singapore, Singapore. October 1st, Oscars - Bangkok, Thailand; 3rd, Ultra - Manilla, Philippines; 5th, Munwha Gym - Seoul, South Korea. Nigel had mentioned perhaps visiting New Zealand in the Spring "when it's warm"-tho that's obviously not going to happen (complete transcripthere). For an interview with Gavin & Robin when Bush were in Sydney in '96, click here . There's a couple of pix at this site, as well as some from Grudgefest . An October issue of the UK's Melody Maker mag ran an interview with Bush (mainly Gavin) in Thailand (see above). Also check out this interview in The Sydney Herald from Sept 19/97.

South/Central America:Check out these South American Bush Sites:What You Find, features a MTV Latino interview with Robin & Gavin.Pure Glycerine has a few exclusive fan photos (text is Portuguese). Gavin injured his hand Nov 13 in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, during a mosh-pit tug-of-war with his wallet chain. Guitar tech Dale Meekins had to take over the playing for the rest of that show but not, as expected, the subsequent gigs: (Nov. 16, Mexico City, Nov. 19, Honolulu, and Nov. 20, Maui). More info here:all star.

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