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Hey All You Carnies,
I just revamped my Website "JAZAN WILD Official Site" and my Myspace Account"JAZAN WILD MySpace"

I also would like to announce that I have decided to start my own
comic book and music company. "Carnival Comics" and "Carnival Music!"
I have been contacted by several people asking about the Diamond Ads that have my books coming out through Simmons Comics Group (Gene Simmons new comic book
company). I still can't really comment about it yet. All I can say, is that I worked with Gene Simmons for 4 months or so and I was writing a series to be called House Of Horrors. To my knowledge these titles will not be coming out, this Halloween with Simmons Comics Group. I hope I'm wrong  and they do, but it's not my call. Now The Show Must Go On!

Where are you, Lauryn Hill? Ace Frehley, do you want your money or not?

Hill and Frehley both appear on a list just published onto the Internet by SoundExchange, which collects and distributes royalties from digital music providers. The list consists of about nine-thousand artists who SoundExchange can't find to pay them digital performance royalties collected between 1996 and 2000. Some are names we haven't heard in some time, such as Strawberry Alarm Clock, Iron Butterfly, Mr. Mister, Cannibal and the Headhunters and The Trashmen. Others seem like they shouldn't be that hard to find, including Foxy Brown, Patrick Swayze and 'N Sync.

Please note due to a fault with our server NO email sent via the 'contact us' link and no forum registrations have been sent to me since 25th August - if you have sent anything or registered since then please email me @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (with your user code for registrations).

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PARASITE return to the public domain this Friday, (22nd Sept), with their official reunion show at The Spiders Web, Grimsby.
Doors open at 8pm & the first bombs go off at 8.45pm
Door charge is a measly £4.00

Anyone travelling & needing directions to the venue from the A180 contact Danny at
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There's a review of Paul's new album up on the UnRated site. Click here to read it.

Good People of Gene Simmons and Kiss,

The Gene piece is now up on Blender.com, and is featured on the homepage and newsletter. We're very happy with how it came out.
 
Gene Simmons: Interview
The fire-breathing Kiss bassist and entrepreneur gives us valuable life lessons and a peek at the Family Jewels.
http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2040
 

PAUL STANLEY, BRET MICHAELS, SCOTT IAN To Take Part In Next ROCK 'N ROLL
FANTASY CAMP - Sep. 9, 2006

The next Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp (RRFC) will take place in Los Angeles (Feb. 15-19, Presidents Day weekend) and will feature Paul Stanley (KISS), Mickey Hart (GRATEFUL DEAD), Bret Michaels (POISON), Steve Vai, Jane Wiedlin (GO GOS), Scott Ian (ANTHRAX) and many more.

I'm a big fan of Canon stuff, but not too sure I want one of their latest cameras after watching this. Check out the KISS camera advert here.

So what's the future for the site? Well I'm struggling to keep the news page up to date as much as I would like so I am on the lookout for some news editors to help out.

What would you need to do? Well whenever any KISS news crops up you can submit it to the site where it will automatically be added to the news page. I will still be working hard on the site too, as well as maintaining the news pages I have a few new competitions and features lined up for the future.

Unbelievably this site has been running for 10 years!!!! Back on the 29th August 1996 I launched a couple of pages on some free webspace as there was no other source of UK KISS news. 10 years later the site is still running strong - mainly thanks to the many people that have submitted news & reviews over the years.

10 years is a long time to run any website, I just can't believe that in that time KISS have only been here a handful of times, the most recent being in 1999! 

So what's the future for the site? Well I'm struggling to keep the news page up to date as much as I would like so I am on the lookout for some news reporters to help out. See the post below for more info. I am also hoping to have a new competition running shortly and a review of the album we've all been waiting for - Paul Stanleys Live To Win.

Here's a bit of trivia from the past 10 years about the site:-

• The site was started after being blown away by KISS at Donington '96.
• The first article to appear was a review of Bruce's guitar clinic in Birmingham, closely followed by a Donington review.
• Literally hundreds of pounds worth of prizes have been given away for free. The best of which were several sets of 4 remasters Lick It Up -> Crazy Nights.
• The original text under the site logo read:
  "While KISS remain the 'Hottest Band In The World' you sometimes wonder why the hell they get so little coverage over here in the UK. This site tries to document anything about KISS that is UK related, you can be sure that any book, video or TV program that appears on these pages is easily available over here in Britain. I'll also be covering the new projects of my god - Bruce Kulick, including reviews of his European tour last Summer."
• This site costs a fair bit of money (and time!) to run. Some of this is recouped by us hosting some other sites, these include Rentacar3000 (this one is also designed by us), Equine Sport Massage & Small and Ginger(!).
• We've had mentions in both the press (full page article on the Mirror in '97, quoted by Iain Lee in the Guardian, plus reviews of the site in a few computer mags) as well as getting a mention on Radio 1 once.
• We also own ericcarr.co.uk an Eric Carr tribute site in desperate need on an update!
• I put in a bid for kiss.co.uk earlier this year but someone else beat me to it... If I was to get it then I was planning to rebrand the site.
• What next? Paul & Gene interviews would be great, if I get those then maybe, just maybe my work here is done....

Anyway, thanks a million to everyone who has visited the site over the past 10 years, now all we need is for KISS TO GET THEIR ARSES BACK OVER HERE!!

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