Just to clear up some possible confusion as to the 'exact' title of the concerts in Athens. Back in May 2001 we were told the concerts were called 'Acropolis' (with a 'c'), but now all international press releases refer to the show as 'Akropolis'. So we will be calling the show Akropolis... :-) All this talk of 'c' and 'k' reminds me of the Travel Agents sketch by Monty Python - anyone wish t .... [MORE]

May/June 2001 JEAN MICHEL JARRE TO PERFORM SPECTACULAR CONCERT AT THE AKROPOLIS When it comes to spectacular live music events around the globe, Jean Michel Jarre is the man who wrote the book. Now he's preparing to write a new chapter and you could call it the eighth wonder of the world. After defying all the laws of conventional performance with awe inspiring concerts in Houston; Texas, .... [MORE]

Jean Michel Jarre's concert in the Roman theatre of Herod Atticus (where Greek opera diva Maria Callas held her first public performance) will be a tribute to Melina Mercouri, the Greek actress and minister of culture who always promoted her country and the festival. In an interview with the Herald Tribune, Jean Michel Jarre announced the concert would be inspired by Greek mythology in a contem .... [MORE]

Jean Michel Jarre will be featured on the French TV show Célébrités on Monday 18th June at 22:40 (CET) on TF1. The article to be broadcast concerns the recent 'Sport Awards de Monaco', dubbed as the sporting equivalent of the oscars. More information about the show can be found on TF1's website. [MORE]

Jean Michel Jarre will be using the new Clavia Nord Lead 3 synth during his Akropolis shows next week. A small news item can be found on the Clavia site. Thanks to ClementDSP for the info. [MORE]

If you are already a lounge member of Revolution on the Web you will have been sent a test email this morning to check the validity of your email address. If you have not received an email, then this means that the email address you entered while registering was not correct. Any bounced emails returned to us stating the email address does not exist, will have the member account associated with .... [MORE]

Creative Labs have announced a special online auction, Money for Something, of unique and very limited DAP (Digitial Audio Player) Jukeboxes with proceeds donated to charity. Of the three artists already announced to date, Jean Michel Jarre is one who is assisting with the auction, with proceeds going to UNESCO (who he has been a Goodwill Ambassador since May 1993). Other artists announced are M .... [MORE]

The M6 TV-broadcast of the concert in Athens will simultaneously be broadcast (in stereo) on Radio FG (France). For more information of the frequencies the station broadcasts on can be found on the Radio FG official website. Radio FG also offers a live webcast on it's website offering an excellent 128Kbps 44.1KHz stereo MP3 stream! [MORE]

Ekathimerin (Greek Newspaper who prints an English edition) website has posted an article on the forthcoming concerts, Click here to read the article. [MORE]

A video report from Greek TV news of the press conference that Jean Michel Jarre hosted on Tuesday 5th June can be downloaded here. The file is in DivX;-) format and you may need to upgrade your player to support DivX;-) (without DivX;-) you will only hear sound). Many thanks to Vangelis Karastergios for encoding and hosting the file! Please note that a lot more news from the press conferen .... [MORE]