JULY 2003

THE LIVE BOXSET
29/07/2003
The Live BoxSet, containing 4 CDs & 1 DVD, is scheduled next month. The 4 discs will feature live recordings from each album era : Debut live, Post live, Homogenic live & Vespertine live. A bonus DVD will be included in the box with live performances.
The Live BoxSet is expected in August in the USA & in Europe. Check your local store for the exact date, most of the online sellers start their pre-orders :
USA : 12/08/2003
UK : 18/08/2003
Europe : 26/08/2003
More info here

TORONTO CONCERT DATE CHANGED
28/07/03
The Toronto Concert scheduled for the 26th of August has been moved back one week or to the 3rd of September. This is done due to scheduling and logistic issues. All tickets will be valid for the new set date.

JANUARY 2003

22ND JANUARY
2003 TOUR DATES CONFIRMED
Click here for more information on Bjork tours for 2003

22ND JANUARY
BJORK INTERVIEW FROM DECEMBER
Click here for the Bjork interview

22ND JANUARY
VESSEL DVD RELEASE
This month Bjork fans will be happy to know that the Vessel DVD is due for release! More info here

22ND JANUARY
VOLUMEN 2 DVD RELEASE
The Volumen 2 DVD was released in December 2002.
Click here for more information

OCTOBER 2002

COVERING UNRAVEL
27/10/02
Portuguese singer Maria João & the pianist Mário Laginha have covered Bjork's 'Unravel' on their new covers album set for release November 4th

VOLUMEN EXTRA RELEASE
15/10/02
On December 2nd, there will be not one, but two releases for Volumen - the video collection.
One is the new version of Volumen, the Complete Video Collection covering 1993-2002, a DVD with 21 videos all in all.  A package that will retail at £18.99.
The second release is for those who already have the previous version of Volumen, and it has the working title of Volumen+, featuring the 7 videos missing from the first version. The 7 videos are, in no particular order: Alarm Call, All Is Full Of Love, Hidden Place, Pagan Poetry, Cocoon, It's In Our Hands and Nature Is Ancient. This DVD will retail at the low price of £9.99.
The original, and currently available Volumen, will also have a price reduction to £9.99. That way, people who already have the previously released Volumen can simply add Volumen+ to their current collection at a fair price, as well as offering new fans the opportunity to  have the complete set on one disc.

JOOLS HOLLAND DVD
08/10/02
Warner Music Vision celebrates ten years of BBC2's flagship music show by releasing Ten Years Later… with Jools Holland on 18th November 2002 as a stunning new DVD featuring the best live performances by an eclectic array of artists throughout the past decade.
Ten Years Later… with Jools Holland is rich in diversity and includes 30 tracks from some of the most influential and famous musicians in the world including Oasis, Robbie Williams, Mary J Blige, Björk and Blur, The Hives, David Gray, Orbital, Radiohead, REM, Diana Krall, Pulp and Jools Holland himself. One of the most memorable of these highlights is Coldplay's performance of their smash hit Yellow.

BABY BLISS FOR
BJÖRK & BARNEY
07/10/02
Björk and Matthew Barney are now the proud parents of little baby daughter who Björk gave birth to in London at 3:10 AM on Friday 4th October.
©CONGRATULATIONS©

BJÖRK ARTIST OF THE DAY
04/10/02
Billboard.com have named Björk their artist of day.
Also go there now to read their feature story
"Björk Cleans Out The Attic",
an interview with Bjork about the release of Greatest Hits and Family Tree.

VOLUMEN 2 DVD
02/10/02
December 2nd, is the scheduled
release date for Volumen 2 DVD, containing all of Björk's music videos to date, including the new recently recorded video for upcoming single
'It's In Our Hands'
and also a new animated video for the 1997 'Bachelorette' single b-side 'My Snare'.

SEPTEMBER 2002

BJORK NEXT CUT
23/09/02
Bjork will be the  cover girl of next issue of the Japanese magazine CUT. More info here.

SEPTEMBER SURPRISES
ABOUT TO HAPPEN
20/09/02
Sometime this month Bjork and Matthew Barney are expecting the birth of their child who's sex they are still unsure of
and for whom they are still thinking of names. If their baby is born between the 23rd of August - 22nd of September it's sun sign will be Virgo, but if it is born between 23rd September - 22 October it will be a Libra.

BJORK..
SHORTLIST PRIZE FINALIST
13/02/03
The Shortlist Organization announced today ten finalists, one of which is of course Miss Bjork, for the second annual Shortlist Prize for Artistic Achievement in Music. The Shortlist Music Prize will be presented on October 29th at a public awards concert at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles. 

LATEST BJORK INTERVIEW
13/09/02
Björk is known for her eccentric behaviour - but, these days, she'd rather be doing the housework, she tells Bryony Gordon here.

FAMILY TREE REVEALED
01/09/02
The full track listing for
Björk's "Family Tree" box set
has been revealed!
Click here to see listing.

VOLUMEN RUMOUR
01/09/02
Les Inrockuptibles reported that a new version of Volumen would be on the drawing book soon, including all the videos from debut, post, Homogenic and Vespertine plus an unpublished clip and the video of 'It's In Our Hands' directed by Spike Jonze.

BJORK AS COVER GIRL
01/09/02
Coming this month will be the second issue of Filter Magazine, which features Bjork as the cover girl. The magazine also contains articles on Brian Wilson, Robert Evans, Queens of the Stone Age, Sparta, and more. Filter will available for free at Urban Outfitters nationwide, select independent music retailers, and at any great concert running through your town. www.filter-mag.com.

AUGUST 2002

Another Cover
17/08/02
The highly regarded American saxophonist Greg Osby covers Björk's "All Neon Like" on his new album, Inner Circle.
Click here to see a list of artists who have covered Bjork.

JUNE

Family Tree Release
02/06/02
To compliment the release of the Greatest Hits album, Björk has also decided to release a ‘Family Tree’ box set. This will include a small selection of her own favourite, roots, strings and beats tracks, some of which have never been previously released, nor were they necessarily chart hits.

MAY

Greatest Hits Release In September
15/05/02
BJORK is to release a 'GREATEST HITS'
album later this year.
The currently untitled record is due for release in September, and will include the highlights of her career on One Little Indian records. The Icelandic star has released all her solo albums for the label, from 1993's 'Debut', through to last year's 'Vespertine'. In addition to the singles and favourite album tracks, the album is likely to feature a brand new song.

Mother Heroic
10/05/02
Bjork is Five Months pregnant!
More Info Here.

APRIL 2002

Björk's Performance At Coachella
30/04/02
Björk performed live this weekend at the 'Coachella Music Festival'.
More info here.

Björk's Beat Manifesto
13/04/04
In an article from wired.com, Bjork shares with us some of her favourite software used to aid in the making of Vespertine. More info here.

Another To Cover Björk
10/04/04
Now to add to the list of people covering Bjork is Susanna Baca who covers Björk's "The Anchor Song" on her latest album. More info here.

All Is Full Of Love At 
Great Expectations Exhibition
01/04/02
Björk's "All Is Full Of Love" will be featured at the Great Expectations Exhibition. More info here

ARTICLE FROM
onedotzero 6 - New Media Extensions
New Media:
21/04/02
Dates between Fri 17 May - Sun 26 May 2002. 
The best graphic design and motion graphics work from websites to DVD. Running alongside the onedotzero 6 festival will be the very best international DVD work which includes onedotzero_select, GasBook, Flips, Creative Review, Wavetwisters, Shots and the latest DVD releases from Björk, Orbital and Japan's teetee graphics. There will also be a selection of global websites looking at themes of breaking the web, architecture and moving image curated by guest selectors.

MARCH 2002

Juniper Tree on DVD
29/03/02
Björk's very first debut movie, The Juniper Tree, is going to be released on DVD on April 23 in the US.

Going Down
26/03/02
Björk new single goes down in the UK chart. Cocoon is currently at number 65 in the UK singles chart after being in 35th place last week. And cocoon chart ratings have also gone down on the indie chart currently being at position 11, after being being in position 3 last week.

Prestigious Art Award
22/03/02
Björk is to present a prestigious art award in London in May.
The Icelandic singer will announce the winner of the 'Beck's Futures Prize 2002' at the London ICA on May 7.
The winner of the prize will be awarded £24,000, while the nine remaining short-listed artists will pick up £4,000. The prize will be judged by a panel that includes Marianne Faithfull, Julian Opie, Saskia Bos and Harland Miller. An exhibition of the ten short listed artists runs at the ICA between March 29 and May 12.

Cool Comps
21/03/02
Currently there are some some really good Bjork competitions being held, if you want more info on them and of course to win them click here.

Royal Opera House DVD
18/03/02
Plans are underway to release a fourth and final DVD from the Live DVD Series, Björk’s Royal Opera House performance, from this past December, the DVD is tentatively scheduled to hit stores in the summer of 2002.

Charting Cocoon
17/03/02
Björk's latest single "Cocoon" debuts at number 35 in the UK chart this week. Björk with "cocoon" is currently at position #3 in the Indie chart.

Cocoon Banned
15/03/02
The new music video “Cocoon” from our ever controversial BJÖRK has been banned from MTV... apparently for showing too much naked skin.

Cocoon Released
11/03/02
Björk's 3rd single from her latest album Vespertine was released today in the UK. For all other New Björk fans like myself we unfortunately have to wait until mid April to get our hands on this much anticipated new Björk masterpiece.

17th Victoires de la Musique
10/03/02
Björk, wearing a marvellous white dress by Viktor & Rolf sang "It's Not Up To You" at the 17th Victoires de la Musique, (the French music awards)
although unfortunately, contrary to what was previously announced,  she did not receive any awards.

Best Of Bjork??
05/03/02
SPIN magazine's new issue spills some interesting beans suggesting Björk is to release a "best of" album by the end of this year, SPIN goes even further than that saying it will hit the shelves in September. But don't worry, confirmation details (if any) will be announced in the Biosphere.

Vespertine Misses Out On Grammy
01/03/02
Sadly Vespertine didn't score the Grammy this year, 
the lucky winners were... 
Coldplay for their album Parachutes

The nominees for Best Alternative Music Album at the 
44th Annual Grammy Awards were:

Coldplay: Parachutes
Björk: Vespertine
Tori Amos: Strange Little Girls
Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Radiohead: Amnesiac

FEBRUARY 2002

Björk At The Baftas
28/02/02
Björk got to present the Bafta award to people she knew, Craig Armstrong and Marius DeVries who won the award for the music of Moulin Rouge. She apparently was very happy when she announced the names.
Read More Here

Happy Go Kylie But No Brit For Björk
23/02/02
Sadly Bjork did not take away the 'Best International Female Artist' award at "The Brits" award ceremony (Feb 20th)
The Best International Female Nominees Were
1 Alicia Keys 
2 Anastacia
3 Björk 
4 Kylie Minogue 
5  Nelly Furtado
And The Lucky Winner Was...
 Kylie Minogue.
But we mustn't complain, after all Björk was nominated for and won this same award 3 times before, 
in 1994, 1996 & 1998 :)

Björk at French Music Awards
23/02/02
Björk will be appearing and performing live at the French Music Awards Ceremony "Les Victoires de la Musique" as special guest at Le Zénith on March 9.

Lars Von Weird
23/02/02

Danish director Lars Von Trier has reportedly demonstrated his unconventional personality to Nicole Kidman who is starring in his latest project. The two are working together in Sweden on the low-budget film Dogville, about a mysterious woman who arrives at a woodland village. Kidman, Von Trier and co-stars Lauren Bacall, Chloë Sevigny, Paul Bettany, Katrin Cartlidge and Stellan Skarsgard are staying in a remote guest house and British newspaper the Daily Mail said the director took advantage of the isolation."He took Nicole into the woods on one of her first nights out there - alone," an insider told the paper. Von Trier then proceeded to tell her: "I don't like you. The reason I don't like you is that you are richer than me and I want to fuck you. 
So the solution is that you should give me all your money and sleep with me. Then we will be even." 
Kidman's response was not recorded. Before agreeing to join Von Trier on Dogville, Kidman was reported as saying she was a big fan of the Danish filmmaker: "I loved Breaking the Waves and thought Dancer in the Dark was magnificent, and there are certain directors in your lifetime that you know you are a good match with. This is a good match," she was quoted as saying in May last year. 

JANUARY 2002

Björk To Present Film Awards
31/01/02
Björk has been announced as a presenter at this year's 
British Academy Film Awards
BBC news: "The show will be hosted by Stephen Fry and other presenters will include Jamie Bell, Halle Berry, Monica Bellucci, Björk, Saffron Burrows and Rhys Ifans." The awards ceremony will be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday 24 February. 

First Tour Date For 2002
28/01/02
Here comes the first festival tour date: Björk is scheduled to perform at the Coachella Valley Festival in Indio at the Empire Polo Field, California, on April 27.

Royal Opera House Release
20/01/02
At present Björk is focusing on putting together a Royal Opera House release.  Her sensational ground-breaking show at London's Royal Opera House at Christmas was filmed and recorded.  Sometime later this year the show should hopefully be available on both DVD and CD so everyone can witness what was truly a remarkable occasion.
The show is also to be broadcasted on BBC's new digital TV channel, BBC FOUR, when it launches this year.

2 New DVD's To Be released
20/01/02
2 new DVD's featuring Björk are scheduled for release in late January, more about the releases here

Bjork nominated For Best 
International Female Artist Award
20/01/02

Björk is nominated for 'Best International Female Artist' at the British music industry's most influential awards, The Brits. 

The Best International Female Nominees Are...

1 Alicia Keys 
2 Anastacia
3 Björk 
4 Kylie Minogue 
5  Nelly Furtado

Björk was nominated for and won this same award 3 times before, 
in 1994, 1996 & 1998.
The awards ceremony will be on 
20th Feb.

Vespertine Nominated For Grammy
05/01/02
The nominees for Best Alternative Music Album at the 
44th Annual Grammy Awards are:

Tori Amos: Strange Little Girls
Björk: Vespertine
Coldplay: Parachutes
Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Radiohead: Amnesiac

 The results will be revealed on the Grammy Awards telecast on Feb. 27.