What is davidsylvian.net? Written by Administrator Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:12 - Last revised Sunday, 14 June 2009 This website is dedicated to the work of David Sylvian, former lead singer of the band Japan, during his solo-career starting in 1982. This is the fifth version of the website. Started as trophies.org, it has grown and grown and was a well consulted David Sylvian resource on the internet. After the launch of this fifth version it will continue as davidsylvian.net, a reference-resource to be used besides David's official website . There are too many people I'd like to thank, but a few I have to mention. First of all I thank for their friendship Craig Peacock, Clive Maidment and Pietrolungo Renzo. Furthermore people like Jeremy Cole, Eduardo Vale, Alicia Skibinski, Lina di Lorio and many more for their never ending interest and supporting email or post. A special thanks goes out to Richard Chadwick of Opium (Arts) Ltd. for his always friendly, fast and helpful information and of course David Sylvian for his help, cooperation and being the reason for this site to exist. Still, many, many more people have helped me with lots of information, scans and items but please understand that I can't thank you all on this page. Disclaimer This is a non-commerce site! The creator/maintainer of this site does not intend to encroach on the rights of any copyright holder or licensee of material pertaining to David Sylvian and other people referred to. All artwork used on this website is copyright by the appropriate owner of the material. davidsylvian.net is a semi-official site and is operated with the co-operation of Opium (Arts) Ltd. Still, I'd like to make it very clear that the contents of the davidsylvian.net site are purely my own personal opinions and are in no way endorsed by David, Opium (Arts) Ltd, Samadhi Sound and Virgin Records. Support davidsylvian.net is a purely privately financed web site. If you enjoy visiting davidsylvian.net and if this web site gave you the information you wanted, you might consider to give a small donation to keep this site alive! Thank you very much in advance! Happy reading. Gerrit. August 2003. 1/4 What is davidsylvian.net? Written by Administrator Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:12 - Last revised Sunday, 14 June 2009 davidsylvian.net, .NET magazine Reader's Site Of The Month(April 2004) I'm very proud.net to share Magazine with you , voted the news davidsylvian.net that Readers UK's leading Site. Of internet The Month magazine April 2004 Besides all the extra attention and extra exposure, I also was promised a little portable mp3 player, so in Thanks .net magazine! The Cup Of Wonder Award for Trophies.Org (8.12.2000) "Cup Of Wonder - The Annotated Jethro Tull Lyrics Page" was created to host valuable informa This award is only granted to web sites of an outstanding informational quality and is meant to Here are the criteria by which the sites were judged: 2/4 What is davidsylvian.net? Written by Administrator Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:12 - Last revised Sunday, 14 June 2009 1. The site deals with a band, artist or specific 2. The site has a lot of information to offer 3. The site is written in the English language, aspect(s) of rock music in the broad sense of high quality, which is the result of personal loads relatively fast, has a user-friendly des 4. The site is maintained and updated regularly. 5. The site is non-commercial. The Cup Of Wonder www.cupofwonder.com website can be found at And the old trophies site was Site Of The Month in Februari 2002 on http://www.lofi-lab.de Trophies.org ist schon bemerkenswert! Die englischsprachige Sylvian-Site ist eine stets aktuelle Informationsquelle für Liebhaber seiner Projekte und gleichzeitig ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden für Sammler - denn die Site ist in erster Linie ein überzeugend vollständiges, scheinbar unerschöpfliches Archiv rund um den ehemaligen Japan-Frontmann. Bemerkenswert ist auch die übersichtliche Gruppierung der Themen. So gibt es z.B. eine separate News-Sektion, allein für die zahlreichen Updates mit Sylvian-relevantem Material. Es lassen sich zudem alle Updates bis 1998 zurückverfolgen, welche somit das vielleicht interessanteste, zumindest aber spannendste Archiv darstellen. Die unter dem Menüpunkt "David Sylvian" liegende Diskografie ist zwar gut, wirklich interessant aber wird es in den Rubriken "Releases", "Specials", "Promos", "Printed matters" und "Unofficial", wo alles erdenkliche Material - reich bebildert und mit Infos versehen zusammengetragen wurde. Da lassen sich teils höchst rare Sammlerstücke betrachten! Nicht zu verachten sind auch der beinahe vollständige (!) "Lyrics"-Bereich, in dem sogar sechs nicht vertonte Texte Syvians abgedruckt sind, sowie die Rubrik "More...". Dort gibt es u.a. eine 3/4 What is davidsylvian.net? Written by Administrator Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:12 - Last revised Sunday, 14 June 2009 Seite, die über Kunst-Projekte informiert, an denen Sylvian beteiligt war. Außerdem sind die Fotogallerie und ein Interview-Archiv untergebracht. Trophies ist eine erfreulich umfangreiche Site. Hinzu kommt, daß ihre Seiten durch ein schlichtes Artwork selbst mit analogem Modem recht schnell geladen sind. Trophies macht Spaß! bf 4/4