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Lou Reed To Grace Manchester

Velvet Underground legend Lou Reed will be playing Manchester International Festival on Friday 29th June. The festival is an immense international cultural festival of original new work and will feature well known performers and artists. The festival will run between June 28 and July 15, 2007 across various venues. The showpiece of the event will be Monkey: Journey To The West which is a re-working of the ancient Chinese legend Journey to the West, by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, who are collaborating on their first major project since Gorillaz.

Amongst many top names appearing at the festival Manchetester are proud to bring Lou Reed who will be touring Europe in June performing his classic 1973 'Berlin' album with a 30-piece ensemble including a string section, horn section, a children's choir and his core rock band. To coincide with this ultra rare tour, SonyBMG will release a limited edition digitally remastered tour edition of ‘Berlin’ in special digipack packaging. The “Berlin Tour Edition” will include original artwork and liner notes, and will be a one-off manufacturing run only. The album will be released on 18th June 2007

The Tracklisting is as follows:

1. Berlin

2. Lady Day

3. Men Of Good Fortune

4. Caroline Says

5. How Do You Think It Feels

6. Oh Jim

7. Caroline Says

8. Kids

9. Bed

10. Sad Song

Lou will be performing three 'Berlin' concerts in the UK – Manchester International Festival on Friday 29th June, London Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July.

For more information on the fantastic culture event in Manchester go to:
www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com

Picture by Mick Rock

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