Canary news!

One of the world's leading astronomers, Dr. Garik Israelian, is also a leader for the group who tries to finance Jarre's and Brian May's concert in the Canary Islands. He has now announced following news upon the project:

"Sadly we still have no information about the funding for the concert. I
have a meeting with JMJ three weeks ago in Moscow and we talked a lot about
the project in Canary Islands. For him this is the project of his life (and,
of course, for me and for Brian May too). We are very very excited about
this project. We've got plans and ideas that will make this project thousand
times bigger than the concerts at the Pyramids, Houston or Moscow. I already
said to you this, but this concert will be the biggest ever staged in the
history of this planet. I have united all the scientific community around
this project and we are to record the concert in HD (from an international
station, making then a direct broadcast from space using different devices).
We are fighting with the limits of our imagination and this is what is so
exciting for us.

Sadly, the politicians on Canary Islands said to us that there is a crisis
and that they have not enough money (although this concert's budget will be
two times lower than the concerts in the Pyramids or in Moscow in 1997, for
instance). Let me please say again that this event will be an historical
one. Steven Spielberg and James Cameron are intending to be there too. For
the first time, astronomy and music will have a real union via this project
in which I have been working for seven years. And now, a "crisis". But, what
is a "crisis"? I think that they are creating a lot of hysteria about this
issue, but this "crisis" doesn't affect soccer or comunications. We have to
look for other solutions if the politicians do not endorse the project".

There are no news on this subject confirmed by Jarre yet.

The best pictures from the 2009 tour are now gathered here
http://aerojarre.blogspot.com/2008/12/photos-from-tour.html