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Congratulations to Ray and The Kinks! 

Euterpe Statuette and Ivors Logo

  THE IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2005 
PRESENTED THURSDAY 25 MAY 2006 
PRS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH MUSIC

Ray Davies

"I couldn`t accept this award without mentioning my band the Kinks because they are so important in my life."

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Without them I wouldn`t be here today. They are fabulous guys."   

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 Link to Norwegian Kinks blog on Kinks-Links/langua                              here
Today 41 years ago, Dave Davies of the Kinks knocked himself unconscious when he fell into Mick Avory's cymbal during a London concert. The band was forced to cancel the rest of a British tour.
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 The Kast Off  Kinks - Music at the Crossroads - Hook Norton           More
"It seems Ray Davies may have been closer to the truth than we thought"
Scientists suggest humans and apes interbred earlier than suspected
The World Today - Thursday, 18 May , 2006 link  link(windows media) 
THE KINKS frontman RAY DAVIES 
has hinted the legendary rock band may reform to record 
a final studio album says
contactmusic. 
Can anybody confirm if this is right or wrong?
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Pictures from Ray Davies Concert in Hamburg - Out Now!
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Other People's Lives
Now: 111 Reviews from 16 Countries
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US = 44  Norway =18 =10  GERMANY =8  UK =7 Netherlands = 4  Swiss = 4 Canada = 4 ITALY =2    BELGIUM =2    JAPAN =2    FRANCE =2  POLEN =1  South Korea =1  SPAIN =1  Flag of Serbia and Montenegro = 1
Do you have a favorite review that we have missed, please let us know. 
Tomas Hjelm from Sweden is in the lead, he have send us links to 8 reviews.
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SVT2 - Swedish television: 14/5-06 14:05-14:55
Ray Davies - The World Through My Window
Ray Davies - världen från mitt fönster  
Documentary with performance clips and interviews, including David Bowiw and Elvis Costello.
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Ray Davies in The Times May 06, 2006 
Lazy, sunny afternoons at Highbury
Today The Arsenal Football Club will leave Highbury for a bright new future at Ashburton Grove. Yesterday Ray Davies comments on this in The Times. Follow the link to the article.

Highbury - The Final Salute
Link
to Arsenal's Farwell-site

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nr. 1: Ray and Other People's Lives 

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Out Now!
Pictures from Ray Davies concert in Oslo     link
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Event Name: The Kinks - A Rock 'n Roll Fantasy ( Performances )
Event Date: April 21, 2006
Venue: Philadelphia Arts Bank
Event Summary: Music and lyrics by, and in tribute to, Ray Davies and The Kinks. Adapted for stage by Gene Terruso. 
Dates: Sunday, April 23, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
Friday, April 28, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
brings you more: link

Gene Terruso
Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?!Dinner is over
Ray in Trondheim

Pictures from Ray's concert in Trondheim, taken by Bjørn-Inge Haugan is out now!                                                   Look here
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Yes, we were there in 1996 (and in 2006)
Four of the audience on The Kinks Last concert in Oslo in 1996 was present at Ray Davies concert in Trondheim on thursday. (31-34) They tells us that Ray was great.                                             link
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Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?!First picture from Trondheim here
Is There More Pictures After Dinner? - Yes There Is!
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Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?! coming soon: Pictures of Ray from Oslo:
Ray back in Oslo, the town where 
The Kinks played their last concert !
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Yes, we were there in 1996, link coming soon
coming soon: Pictures of Ray from Trondheim 
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Review - Toronto StarReview - Toronto SunReview of TorontoToronto: 3 reviews of the last night concert   
Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?!Gunnar Frick
"After changing the name to the Psychotic Youth and recording a flexi disc for Jörgen's fanzite Straight from the grooveyard, multi-instrumentalist Gunnar Frick from Örnsköldsvik (yet another small town in the area) is brought in as an organ-player in the autumn of 1985
." From The "Psychotic Youth" web-page.
(If you wonder why Gunnar Frick - he is from Sweden and is playing in Ray's band)
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Psychotic Youth link   Örnsköldsvik link

YouTube New: 19 Videos in the "hi'story"-section hi'story - albums, cast and timelines
With help of the You Tube system we present 19 videos, from different parts of The Kinks era.
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Ray Davies really gets Orpheum crowd going
"There were only five people on stage during Ray Davies’ show at the Orpheum Tuesday night, but there were dozens of characters. 

During an upbeat performance, the 61-year-old leader of the Kinks gave voice to cads, curmudgeons, crass tourists, clueless romantics, cocky rock stars and numerous others with stories to tell..............."
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Arkansas Times, Thursday 30,2006:
Def Leppard plans tribute album to band's heroes
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Def Leppard's 12th release is a tribute to their favorite acts of the 1960s and 1970s, the performances that influenced them, such as the Kinks (notice that Ray Davies is EVERYWHERE these days), Badfinger, ELO, T. Rex, David Bowie, David Essex ("Rock On"), Sweet, Roxy Music, Mott the Hoople, Free, Faces ("Stay With Me") and Thin Lizzy."
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Go to the tour-site Washington Times: Review Ray's concert March 20, at "9:30 Club" link Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?!
One particularly funny aside: Martin seemed in awe that Ray Davies would be playing the same stage on Monday. One would have been hard-pressed to find anyone in the crowd old enough to know who Ray Davies is, much less be a fan of The Kinks. DCist Contributor Matt Sedlar in a Matt Pond- review     Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?!
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-"It's unbelievably irritating" 
"For example, Ray Davies from The Kinks is coming soon, and we have no chance of getting inside", four music students complains to Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten - three of them are sixteen years old. You have to be18 years or more to get inside Rockefeller concerthall on Ray's concert, due to alcohol legislation. 
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NORWEGIAN TV WITH KINKS TRIBUTE:

Wednesday 22nd at 11.10 pm, The Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., NRK 1, will send a Kinks tribute program, featuring several norwegian artists who are all highly influenced by The Kinks:
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to the essica fletchersTHE JESSICA FLETCHERS

to hanne.hukkelberg.netHANNE HUKKELBERG

THOM HELL to www.kingmidas.no




KING MIDAS
(W/FRANK HAMMERSLAND AND JOHNNY HIDE)
They will perform Waterloo Sunset

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See the program here: push on Lydverket 23.03.06
A The Kinks Reunion? - This Button leeds you to "what are they saying now" -part under "on the track"-sectionNew York Post 1:

FIRST SOLO FLIGHT
- Had you flirted with the idea of a solo album before? 

"It never really crossed my mind, because it's hard for me to think of myself as a solo artist."
                                                                        
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New York Post 2:
"I still find it difficult to come to terms with it. I liked being in the Kinks because my A The Kinks Reunion? - This Button leeds you to "what are they saying now" -part under "on the track"-section brother did most of the work, and I could stand on one side and talk to girls."
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Rays site says: 
plenty of info and reviews 
 
http://www.raydavies.info/newsframe.html:
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More reviews:
 
Rolling Stone, Journalnow, Amazon, Capital Times, CNN,
 
WhyKinks website has plenty of info and reviews,
  Don`t forget to check out the
Forum
which has been very busy
  recently"

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Ray: "if the music feels right, I will."
MercuryNews.com reports from SXSW:
 - "Davies said he will be touring with a full and hard rocking band, playing his newly released album "Other People's Lives." He has also been writing an album for a New Orleans high school marching band that he met when living in a house near the school."-
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Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?!Denmark
was not forgotten

On April. 22 there will be a Ray Davies concert in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Good news also for Breda and Paris, and in the
autumn there will  be conserts in UK too.
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This is a picture of Ray from his
 Concert in Denmark 18/05-05

Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?!March 13, 2006 Barrymore Theatre Madison WI:
"It looked like another snowy Monday night on Madison's east side. But inside the Barrymore Theatre, a small piece of rock 'n' roll history was being written."
The first review published on By Rob Thomas
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Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him in the air?!Ray Plays in Nashville tonight:
“I live about a mile and a half from a place called Camden which has several markets,” Davies said. “There’s a great store in there that has lots of country music, the old country music. I love that stuff.” From an interview with The CityPaper, Nashville.
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Ray is on the Road, WhyKinks is on the track and we all hear him on the air?!Ray Plays in Nashville tonight:
"inspired by characters who live probably 100 yards near me."
From local newspaper in Nashville, Tennessean.com, Ray comments on his local view. - "Whatever sonic disconnect folks might see there can be shored up by Davies' lyrical approach; much like those country greats, his lyrical focus is on storytelling, with a particular eye on the lives of regular folks.

Davies said all of his songs are "inspired by characters who live probably 100 yards near me."

"It's very localized. But it also picks up on that kind of wistful and ironic sort of facets of English culture. You know, English people are a little bit wistful and mundane, and I like the people that have little quirks in their lives and lower-achieving people. I think they're worth writing about."
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  "We gotta advertise, we gotta merchandise, ooh, oh, yeh"
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 The Kast Off Kinks site has a concert list and more photoes
Click and you get the biggest fabclubkonvent-site ever!Do you remember the sing along with "Kast Off  Kinks" from the last years Fan Club Convention?  Here is one of them and the rest is here.
Golden Smog with Dave Davies cover
chartattack: Golden Smog's fourth album, the first in eight years from the roots rock supergroup, will finally hit stores on July 18. Their new release, Another Fine Day, includes 14 originals written separately by Tweedy, Murphy, Louris, Perlman and Johnson. The album is rounded out by a cover of The Kinks' Dave Davies' "Strangers."        
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Ray Davies Returns to SXSW!

Ray Davies

Ray Davies invites you to "Other People's Lives". Some personal video footage plus a few acoustic songs and discussion.

SXSW Special Presentation: Ray Davies
Friday March 17
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Room 12, Austin Convention Center                                                link
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  Mojo bringes you two Wonderful hours with The Kinks.

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  40 Reviews  from 10 Countries (OPL) 

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Click on the picture, and you will learn more about Ray's new album