[Heeplist] Uriah Heep Assistants Request

Mon Jun 30 10:03:45 EDT 2025

As I’ve Been A Major Uriah Heep Fan for Years, But I Don’t Know Who To Ask, Concerning A Idea Suggestion,. Ca Anyone Here Pinpoint Me To The Correct Person Who Is In Charge Of The Uriah Heep Merchandise if Possible.

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> On Jun 29, 2025, at 10:02 PM, Filip Björner <filip.bjorner at live.se> wrote:
> 
> I agree with what Mick says about new bands. Not many new bands has distinct sounds.
> 
> My family will attend the gig in Linz in October. That will actually be easier for us then attending some of the gigs in Scandinavia.
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> Skickat: den 4 februari 2025 05:04
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> Ämne: [Heeplist] New Mick and Bernie interview in Classic Rock
> 
> I just got the new issue of Classic Rock Magazine digitally (Maiden's
> Eddie on the cover), and it
> 
> had a Dave Ling interview with Bernie and Mick. It's similar to the Rock
> Candy one, but not much going on here so enjoy.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> “We don’t travel the world in private jets. For bands like
> ours it’s become a really hard slog. Now we can get the
> best of both worlds.”
> 
> Last September, Uriah Heep announced a final series of world tour dates
> billed as The Magician's Farewell. As the trek begins with seven UK
> dates, ever-present guitarist Mick Box and Bernie Shaw, the band’s
> singer since 1986, explain that even after 55 years we haven't seen the
> last of the Heep just yet.
> 
> Mick, as Heep’s elder statesman can we assume that saying farewell
> was your decision? And how did you break it to the rest of the
> band?
> 
> Mick Box: Having been there from day one you can kind of say that it
> came from me, but actually it was a joint decision. None of us are getting
> any younger, and since Brexit and covid the touring side of the business
> is becoming tougher and tougher, making it almost impossible to do the
> really long tours that we like to do. Tour bus prices have tripled. The
> Government only allows us ninety days outside of the country. It’s more
> and more difficult, on every front.
> 
> It’s the end of the road, but it’s a long road.
> 
> Box: This is only the end of long, arduous touring, and that process
> will take two to three years.
> Bernie Shaw: A normal year of touring for us was two hundred days
> away from home, but Brexit has really kicked all of that in the pants. The
> only countries that used to require a carnet [a full list of a group's
> equipment and merchandise] were Russia and Switzerland. Now it’s
> everywhere.
> 
> Does the door remain open for playing live? Shaw: Yeah. We'll stick
> to the local stuff - things like festivals and weekend gigs. Those are still
> fair game.
> 
> If the Download Festival was to offer Heep a slot, you'd be there?
> Box: [Enthusiastically] Oh, a hundred per cent.
> 
> What about the possibility of Heep releasing new music?
> 
> Box: We're not ruling anything out.
> 
> Shaw: With Davey [Rimmer, bassist] and Russ [Gilbrook, drums]
> contributing a lot to the last album [2023's Chaos & Colour] as well as
> Mick and Phil [Lanzon, keyboards], recording won't be affected. But
> touring, no. That's a young man’s game. I mean, look... we've been doing
> this for fifty-five years.
> 
> How does the finality of it all affect you on an emotional level?
> 
> Box: In a way it makes me sad. But we don't travel the world in private
> jets. For bands like ours it's become a really hard slog. Now we can get
> the best of both worlds.
> 
> Shaw: It's like before, just with a smaller suitcase. Box: I take two
> suitcases: one for stage clothes, the other for my sense of humour.
> 
> What should we expect of the set-list for The Magician’s Farewell
> Tour?
> 
> Box: We haven't really sat down and discussed it yet. I'll suggest some
> songs and we'll talk, see how they work out in the rehearsal room.
> 
> Presumably it won’t be a massively long show, in the style of the
> fiftieth-anniversary tour.
> 
> Shaw: No! Definitely not!
> 
> Box: We've got Tyketto and April Wine out with us, so that's impossible.
> Most venues have a restriction on how long you can play.
> 
> Those are two rather fine special-guest bands. Tyketto have a great
> current line-up, and April Wine haven't played the UK since, I think,
> 1981.
> 
> Box: We've played with April Wine before, so in some ways it'll feel
> like a bit of a reunion.
> 
> Shaw: As a proud Canadian I grew up listening to
> that band. I'm looking forward to seeing them again.
> 
> It could still be a long way off, but in an ideal world where would
> you like the very last scheduled Uriah Heep gig to take place?
> 
> Box: We don't try to put those goals in front of us, they become a
> burden. As
> long as we're healthy and happy, I don't really mind where it happens.
> 
> How do you expect to feel once the final notes have faded away?
> 
> Box: [grinning] I won't feel anything. They'll be nailing the lid down on
> me. I've already requested that my coffin be a big wah-wah pedal... so itll
> be the final ‘wah’.
> 
> Heep are gradually closing the door on performing live. What is your
> view on the long-term future of rock music?
> 
> Box: The [perilous] state of the business is dictating things,
> unfortunately. Everything's being done through Pro Tools [recording
> software] and bands no longer seem to make it into the studio to record
> as a band.
> 
> Shaw: Its all become way too sterile. In my own experience, there are a
> lot of ‘okay’ bands around, but nothing too special.
> 
> Box: We can play in sixty-four countries, so [rock music] is still alive and
> well. But, for me, the business has changed so much, and not for the
> better. A lot of the individuality has gone. Too many bands look and
> sound the same. Guitarists go to college and spend two years learning
> how to play, but you can't tell them apart. Back in the seventies, Tony
> Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore and myself all had strong individual sounds. It
> was the sum of each musician that gave the bands their different
> flavours. Unfortunately I don’t really see and hear that any more.
> 
> DL
> Uriah Heep’s UK tour ends on February 27 in Bexhill-on-Sea.
> 
> 
> 
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