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1. KEYBOARD PLAYER GONZALO CARRERA JOINS LANDMARQ
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Landmarq are pleased to announce the arrival of Gonzalo Carrera as the band's new keyboard player. For the last three years, Gonzalo has been the keyboard player for 'Yes' tribute band, 'Fragile'.
(See below for a brief biography on Gonzalo).

Tracy Hitchings: "...As much as we will miss Steve, we knew it was important to find a replacement as soon as possible but didn't think we would be fortunate in finding a suitable player so quickly. We have a great deal to do in bringing Gonzalo 'up to speed' with both old and new material, but he is raring to go and we're looking forward to continuing our plans for world domination (haha!)..."

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2. SO WHO DOES GONZALO CARRERA THINK HE IS? (apologies to 'Q' magazine)
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(Señor) Gonzalo Carrera is from the north-western area of Spain and has studied jazz and modern harmony. An admirer of classic progressive band's such as Jethro Tull, Genesis and Yes, he formed his first band, the award winning 'Madeleine Green'. In 1992, Gonzalo moved to Madrid and joined established prog band 'Galadriel', with whom he recorded two albums (Musea).

On his return to the UK in 1999, Gonzalo met up with ex-Quasar bassist Keith Turner. Keith had teamed up with ex-Enid band member, Nick May, and they invited Gonzalo to join them. However, at the same time he also learned that a 'Yes' tribute band (Fragile') were looking for a new keyboard player and as a life-long 'Yes fan', Gonzalo joined 'Fragile' for some extensive touring both in the UK and Europe.

In December 1999, Gonzalo also recorded a CD with drummer Les Binks (Roger Glover, Judas Priest, Ray Gomez and Steve Lukather). In fact, Les saw Gonzalo's first gig with 'Fragile' at the Bull's head in Barnes, west London, and was suitably impressed! Then in April 2000, Gonzalo was working with Tony Ciniglio (ex-bass player for 'Cafe Racers', Mark Knopfler). Through Tony, Gonzalo met Huw Lloyd-Langton, guitarist for Hawkwind, Leo Sayer, Ginger Baker.
Huw invited Gonzalo to join him for his regular Sunday night residency slot in West Kensington, London.
Further details and a full Gonzalo discography will be added to the Landmarq website in the very near future.

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3. WEBSITE UPDATE
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The website has undergone some minor tweaking and there will also be the addition of pages for Gonzalo (discography, etc.) over the next week or so. While we're on the subject, we're always pleased to hear from anyone with comments, suggestions (polite ones, please!) or requests relating to the website or Landmarq in general.

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4. POLL UPDATE
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Thanks to all those who have so far taken part in the Landmarq Poll ('Do you play an instrument?'...) currently running on the home page. Results have been rather interesting (though not too unexpected) in that many of you out there are players in one way or another.
Naturally, guitarists seem to be 'hogging the limelight'!
Now there's a surprise! ;)