Dates from Velvet Belly gigs in Europe.

(I'm gathering dates from the Official Velvet Belly site andit's guestbook there and some other sites, however, I can't undertsand Norwegian very well, and I'm praying that one day they'll play at the Union Chapel in London, or failing that, the Royal Opera House)

2001

april 23rd. The release of the album "Going Nine Ways From Wednesday" by Anne Marie Almedal, Jan Bang, Erik Honori and Nils Christian Moe-Repstad

January 28th Concert at Kristiansand Museum of Art for Going Nine Ways From Wednesday" featuring Anne Marie Almedal, Jan Bang and Erik Honori

Velvet Belly are doing things that we don't know about between their day jobs and are presently on the road to completing their next album

2000

july 1st Ruisrock festival , Turku, Finland

(also, in connection with the Ruisrock festival, there was an interview with Anne-Marie in both the Helsingin Sanomat (the weekend before) and Rumba magazine. However The Unofficial Velvet Belly Page has no access to this)

april 25th  London - Camden - The Monarch (up stairs in the Barfly Club) The gig at the Camden Monarch was recorded for broadcasting at two later dates over the internet, firstly on the Student Broadcast Network (www.sbn.co.uk) and then on ChannelFly (www.channelfly.com) , however these dates never seemed to come to the surface.
april 24th  La Botanique, Bruxelles (supporting Gomez)
april 23rd  Schjindel Paaspop Festival
april 21st  AMSTERDAM - PARADISO (London Calling)
april 20th  TILBURG - 013 ( overdag RADIO 3 FM live bij HENK WESTBROEK )
april 19th   GRONINGEN - VERA

march 31st Vidar Ersfjord is playing keyboards for "Claudia Scott", at the Kafe Kurth
march 20th Lucia(international import version) releasedin the UK, only one copy appears to hit the shelf in the central London record shops in Virgin Picadilly, the rest have all mysteriously dissappeared presumed lost or stolen, maybe the pixies had taken them away, could this have been a sign of divine intervention pointing towards good fortune. (Lucia soon makes it's way onto the shelves of the other central London shops soon and sells out at Tower Records pretty soon.)
february 28th <<Lucia>>(featuring the boilerhouse remix of 'easy', and the Kate Bush cover, the man with the child in his eyes) was released on sale in Scandinavia and several other countries, also available in the US at Virgin Megastores and Tower Records on import from Norway (via. Lightning Export)
january 7th Troubadour Groningen, Netherlands Eurosonic & Noordeslag Music Festivals

 

1999

december 11th Paradiso in Amsterdam , Netherlands
december 10th Stairway To Heaven in Utrecht ,Netherlands
june, Dazed and Confused publish an article on Velvet Belly 'Belly Up"
may 20th John Dee

1998

november 12th VELVET BELLY & BIOSPHERE Det Akademiske Kvarter, Bergen

1997

october 9th Union Rockeklub
october 22nd Wednesday Subsirkus in Tromsø

This year saw the release of the original version of Lucia, released in Norway.

1996

June 29 - 30 Kalvöya,(Sandvika outside Oslo)
June 15th Kloppstockfestivalen Viubråtan, by Harestua (about 40km north of Oslo)
may 15th Sentrum Scene
march 1st. Ås, Halvors Hybel, Studentersamfundet
march 2nd.Trondheim, Storsalen, Studentersamfundet
march 5th.Amsterdam, Paradiso
march 7th.Bergen, Det Akademiske Kvarter
march 8th.Stavanger, Folken
march 11th.Bø i Telemark, Studenterkroa, "Viko 96, 8-17 march
march 12th.Tønsberg, Studentene (tbc)
march 13th.Kongsvinger (tbc)
march 15th.Molde, DH-kroa (tbc)
march 16th.Volda, Brygga, Studentersamfundet
march 18th.Oslo, Høyskolen på Bislet (lukket konsert) (VIP only)
march 20th.Haugesund, Flytten (tbc)
march 22th.Kristiansand, Vaskeriet
march 23th.Oslo, Rockefeller
march 27th.Stockholm, Studion, Trastokfestivalen 96
march 28th.Vaxsjø, STV
march 29th.Gøteborg, Underground
(tbc)= listed when the listwas released as 'to be confirmed' on Anders haavies Hompage

february 12th Release of the album "The Landing"

1995

october 12th,Thursday,Åpne Dager
august 12th Hultsfred Festival 95, Sweden
juli 05. - 09. Quart-festivalen 95. Kristiansand
june 29-30 & July 1-2 (On one of these days played at) ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 95

The Polar Music Festival in Tromsø (date??)

1994

july 21nd -24th QUART FESTIVAL KRISTIANSAND-NORWAY
june 22nd TAMPERE

1992

march 20th-24th The album colours is recorded in Oslo

1991

february, Tracks 1,2,7 and 8 of the album Colours are recorded

(More dates of note will be added later)