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Tomorrow I’m gonna get a look to the live Fabchannel.Comwebcast of the Simple Minds playing in Paradiso, Amsterdam.

Fabchannel.com is great! It’s one of the best broadband streaming video concert services that I know of. Good quality live concert webcasts of great bands and artists from the Paradiso and the Melkweg in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

It reminded me of the pioneering webcasting days in the Cybertheatre in Brussels at the end of the 90s (offline now). In 1998 we organised the first live online concert of the Simple Minds to promote their album Neapolis and due to the succes a 2nd gig to launch their World Tour some months later.

For some pictures of that concert I will have to take the time and find them in my archived boxes of that period but meanwhile I could find back some traces still of those gigs.

Some pictures and apparently there is a bootleg of that night!

A pressrelease mentioning: “On the 25th February this year Simple Minds launched their website with a live gig broadcast live over the internet from the CyberTheatre in Brussels. With only a limited number of streams available 10,000 people watched live, while 500,000 queued around the virtual block waiting for an available stream. For the Q & A session that followed the band were swamped by over 4000 emailed questions, and 1.5 million people visited the site directly after the webcast.”

If any of the team CBT members reading this and still has pics from that period, please contact me. I’m still looking for my picture with Dennis Hopper =:-)