English speaking readers read this first !
The latest news or updates...
*12 mai 2010 : news from Simon Bonney... wants to tour in 2011. For the moment, only in USA !
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* Dear All,
I am writing to everyone on my friends list to let you know that I am going to
close this page on June 5. If you want to follow my musical meanderings you can
find me on Facebook. The page is: Simon Bonney Musician/band and has the same
photo as this page.
Best Wishes.
Simon
*
* 12 décembre 2009 : site officiel sur myspace pour Simon Bonney /
Simon Bonney on myspace; yes ! it's true and with four new songs ! http://www.myspace.com/simonbonney four new
pics *9 mai 2009 : four new
pics on the flickr stream of the australian gal, Miles Standish, close friend of
Simon Bonney and his wife, Bronwyn ! Enjoy ! ** quatre nouvelles images dans la galerie Flickr de notre
ami Miles Standish, proche de Simon Bonney et de sa femme, Bronwyn ! S.B. in 1986 S.B. and Rowland in 1896 S.B. in 1986 All the band, The crime and the City Solution, same
date ! *8 mai 2009 : Bruno
Adams, born in 1963, brother of the wife of Simon Bonney and leader of the
band Fatal Shore is passed away in Berlin, 18th april 2009 ** Bruno
Adams, né en 1963, frère de la femme de Simon Bonney et leader du groupe
Fatal Shore, est mort le 18 avril 2009, à Berlin Bruno Adams, in 1986 (from the flickr stream of Miles
Standish, see above) *23 novembre 2008 : ajouté
deux images; rares clichés du groupe Crime and the City solution, first
line up et deux autres photos de 1986, avec la permission du photographe Miles
Standish, australien et qui a connu S.B. dès le début. Apparemment, S.B. est
occupé à étudier le droit à Sydney *** ; 23 November 2008 : I add two pics on the gallery 11,
two rare pics of the band Crime and The City Solution, first line up + two
new pics (from 1989) with the permission of the australian Miles Standish, who
knew S.B. from the beginning and was with her future wife at School. Following
him, S.B. is studying law in Sydney ! *mi-novembre 2008 : ajouté
deux images; rares clichés du groupe Crime and the City solution, first
line up; Novembre 2008 : I add two pics on the gallery 11,
two rare pics of the band Crime and The City Solution, first line up ! *janvier
2004 : j'ai ajouté des galeries
d'images, on en est à 10
galeries d'images maintenant. La dernière image se
trouve à la galerie
10, cette une image tiré
d'un journal français "les inrockuptibles". Une chouette image de Kid
Congo Powers. Quand je l'ai rencontré à Paris, en 2001 (je pense), il
m'a dit
qu'il avait joué brièvement avec les "Crime", sans doute pour
remplacer un des membres du groupe pour quelques concerts, mais quand
?. L'autre
image est une pub pour le LP : "The bride ship"/ le journal date de
juin 1989. // I add some pictures. We have now 10 galleries of pictures
of The Crime or of
Simon Bonny solo. If you click here,
you will find the
last one : it's a pic from a french journal "les
Inrockuptibles"
[july 1989]: one pub for the LP : "the bride ship" and a nice pic of
Kid Congo
Powers. Yes, you have to know that he played briefly in the band to
replace I
don't remember who :-) [ I spoke with him in 2001, in Paris and he said
that he
played briefly with the Crime, certainly for a few concerts,
but he didn't
say when ?. *novembre 2003 : j'ai ajouté des galeries
d'images, on en est à 9 galleries d'images maintenant. La dernière
image se
trouve à la gallery 9,
cette une image tiré d'un
bouquin sur le film de Wim Wenders "Himmel uber Berlin", on y voit le
groupe Crime and the city solution live circa 1987. J'ai ajouté des
lyrics, du
moins, ceux qui sont sur les pochettes, allez voir à la section discographie
// I add some pictures. We have now 9 galleries of pictures of The
Crime or of
Simon Bonny solo. If you click here,
you will find the
last one : it's a pic from a book about the movie of Wim Wenders :
"Wings
of desire". You will see the Crime live circa 1987. If you click here,
you will find that I updated the section of lyrics. At least, what I
found on
the cover, which doesn't contain all the lyrics of the band or of the
singer,
I'm sorry for that :-( *octobre
2003 : j'ai trouvé
une intéressante review
d'un disque solo de S.B. Vous la trouverez ici.
Pas mal car il y a quelques commentaires du chanteur lui-même // I
found on my
hard disk, a really intersting review
of one of the solo album of Simon Bonney. Why intersting, because it
contains
some words of the singer himself ! *février 2002
: Matthew Smith (from Vollebeats, Outrageous Cherry) qui
a joué avec S. B.
durant la tournée "Forever" et à joué sur le 3e album solo
(toujours pas sorti pour le moment, EYES OF BLUE) nous parle (in
english !) de
Simon Bonney, de sa
participation au disque, de rock, etc. Merci Matthew ! //
Matthew Smith
(form Vollebeats, Outrageous Cherry) was playing with Simon Bonney
during the
tour "Forever" et also, has played on the third solo album of S.B.
which is not released. He says some words for us, thanks, Matthew
(click
here) *fin décembre 2001 : S. B. a enfin fini ses
examens à son école de cinéma, quelques news... (click
here) //
at the end of december
2001, S.B. finished his exams in movies studies (don't know the exact
words) and
I don't know if there are more years of studies ?!) *8 décembre 2001: 'ancien
saxophoniste de C & CS, 1979 m'a écrit quelques
lignes... (click
here) // 8
december 2001 : one of the musician
(a saxophonist) of the very very early line up of the Crime in 1979
wrote us
somes words; one again, thanks a lot ! *avril 2001 : S.B.
écrit pour annonce qu'il va peut-être jouer jouer au mois d'oct. en
Australie;
un contact qui aurait pu être fructueux pour la sortie du 3e album solo
[avec
Glitter House rec.] tombe à l'eau, S.B. est en Australie et étudie le
cinéma
/ S.B.
is still in Australia studying cinema; no chance with Glitter House
Rec. for the
release of the 3d album solo (pity, isn't!) and maybe one participation
at an
australian musical festival in Australia in october... (click
here) *début janvier 2001, S.B. écrit brièvement
pour annoncer qu'il a enfin rejoint sa famille en Australie // just to
say that
S.B. wrote briefly to say that he will join his family in Australia (he
was in
L.A. during years) *6 decembre 2000 ,
ajouté un email
(in english) datant du
6 decembre 2000 où SB répond
a une interview de Rowland S. Howard donnant, en quelque sorte, "sa"
vision des choses et son point de vue sur Crime and the city solution
version
Roland S. Howard et le crime avec le nouveau line up ! // 6
decembre, in a
mail, S.B. answered briefly about a reaction of his "ancient"
guitarist Roland S. Howard, especially about their difference of
musical
conception. *22 novembre 2000 , ajouté un email (in
english) datant de mi novembre 2000 où SB annonce que son départ pour
l'Australie est quelque peu reporté et qu'il a fini son court-métrage
"Sadness".
// 22 november 2000, a little mail of S.B. to say that he was on
departure to
Australia but it's a bit delayed cause he wanted to finish his short
movie
"Sadness". *20 juillet 2000 , ajouté un interview (in english) datant de 1989 quand SB and BA
étaient encore dans Crime and the city solution and ajouté aussi un email (in
english) datant de mi juillet 2000 où SB annonce qu'il repart en
Australie pour deux ans pour étudier le cinéma.
// 20 july, i add an interview of S.B. in 1989, so, when he was still
in the
crime and the city solution. There is also a little mail mid-july where
S.B.
announced that he wants to return to Australia to study to be movie
maker and
all things connected about movies (sorry, i don't the words
:-( *26 juin : j'ai ajouté une section image. Il
y a en 8 en tout. / I added a new section of pictures. There are a
total of 8 sections with pictures pour
les nouvelles images / for the new pictures go direct here ! * 13 mai : ai bossé comme un âne sur la
partie S.B. de mon site. Ai changé le layout complètment, ai ajouté
deux sections d'images, ai ajouté des links, des interviews. Je pense
que cette fois-ci, le site tient enfin la route question contenu et
forme. *
11 mai : reçoit la même
K7 (avec les titres cette fois) de S.B. lui-même. L'album est très bon
et inaugure un bel et beau opus. Me semble fort proche de 'Forever'.
// 11 may : i received the tape with the third solo album "eyes of
blues" of Simon Bonney, minus one song and with one song which are not
completely mixed. * 10 mai : reçoit une 1er
K7 sans titres de chansons de Joe de Third gear records. Reçu aussi un
plantureux 'Press kit information' dont je tirerai moult interviews...
quan j'aurai le temps. *
5 mai : S.B. m'envoie
en deux parties, les réponses à quelques unes de mes questions. J'ai
mis cet interview à la section 'interview', voir le bas de la page !
// S.B. sended me by e-mail a sort of Interview. I put that in the
section
"interview" of course. * 4 mai : Fred Alpi (ex-Sprung aus den
Wolken) me répond très gentiment. Il me donne en quelques lignes ses
impressions sur S.B. qu'il a connu durant sa période berlinois. Merci
encore à toi Fred J
d // Fred Alpi (ex-Sprung aus den Wolken) answered me very kindly. He
gave us
some impressions about S.B. He knew him when the singer was in Berlin,
so in the
very early stage of the Crime. Thanks Fred :-) * 3 mai : premier e-mail de S.B. qui me
demande de l'aide pour trouver un label européen. Il me précise le
titre du nouvel album : 'eyes
of blue' qu'il espère
sortir bientôt! * novembre 99 : sandra, ma femme, me presse
d'envoyer une interview à Joe. En espérant que celui-ci le transmettra
à S.B. * octobre 99 : j'apprends que Joe, de
thirdgear records espère sortir le nouvel album de Simon Bonney, son 3e
lp solo. Maybe you expected a website
full of english words and you are kind of dissapointed cause it's not
:-(
I decided that in the first time, this website was entirely in french.
I try and will try in the future ! to translate more parts in english
and to make from this site a site which will mix the two languages. But
I am not really good in english and it will take time. BUT anyway you
can find now a summarize of the musical life of S.B. on 'history', you
don't need english to understand the discography = discographie, no
need words for the pictures and the musical family will show you the
'musical' environement of S.B. and his
ex-band The crime and the city solution'. On the section 'Interview',
you are able to find an exclusive interview in english from may 2000
that S.B. sended me by e-mail, an interview from 1989 and an email with
fresh news from july 2000 !. And the interview of may 2000, he will
told you what's happened to him and to his family etween 1995 (his
second lp solo [everyman] and now! Hope you will enjoy it J. You can start from the bottom also, if you
want :-) * plan
du site / map site * history * interview * discographie * images / gallery * famille
musicale / musical family * ..
Hear All,
A number of people have written back to say they don't have (or don't like)
Facebook. Perhaps I was being a bit impulsive (something I am prone to) in
deciding to close this page - I'm happy not close it, that said I hope you
will join me on Facebook.
My preference for Facebook is driven by a desire to tour in 2011. At a time
when the muisc industry resembles the fall of Rome I am trying to work out the
cities where there is enough interest to play. If all my friends are on one
site I thought it might be easier to answer that question.
I'm open to playing anywhere but I need to cover the costs. As the heart of my
band (Mathew Smith and Troy Gregory) are based in Detroit, Ann Arbor and
Detroit are the only cities I know I'm going to play - the rest is up for
grabs.
As for the rest of the band, I've asked two people (and there's another I need
to contact) who I think would be perfect but I'm still waiting to hear back
from them.
As Crime don't seem inclined to reform, it's my intention to play both Crime
and solo material.
Anyway, I hope you'll join me on Facebook, but if not I'll keep this page open
as well.
Best Wishes,
Simon
Dead radio by R.S.H.
*mars 2008 :)
: j'ai ajouté quelques liens de clip vidéo de Simon bonney et des Crime
and The city Solution !
On youtube : simonbonney at
Don't
Walk away from love
On you tube : Crime and the city solution
I
have a gun
The
shadow of no man
The
dolphins and the sharks
Angel
On every
train (Grain will bear again)
