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Hello!! Every time I get a new interesting Mike Oldfield item, I will put it first in this page. I hope they will be vinyl becuase it's the material I prefer.

So if you have seen my entire collection, you don't have to go to the main index to see my new arrivals.

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YEAR 2005

Year 2005 I added some very interesting gems to my collection as 7'' Two Ships promo copy, a couple of singles from Zimbabawe, Platinum spanish testpressing lp, Ommmadawn USA acetate lp, the megarare Platinum Metal Master Plates from Germany, my first award (Crises from Greece), etc:

10 December 2005: Three interesting promotional greek lps: The Killing Fields, Islands and Earth Moving. Here you can see one of them. Check the link below to see the greek promo printing on the label !!

LP Earth Moving PROMO GREECELP Earth Moving PROMO GREECE

Scan: label

25 November 2005: Some beautiful new items for my own collection: a) 7'' italian Moonlight Shadow jukebox single, b) 7'' italian Islands jukebox single, c) very rare korean Tubular Bells pirate LP in very rare green cover, d) very rare australian Tubular Bells promo LP, e) very rare australian Discovery promo LP, f) Heaven's Open LP from Poland in beautiful Muza label and g) very interesting The Killing Fields press kit with 12 black&white photos and a lot of information about the movie. Here you can see some of the photos !!

JUKE BOX Moonlight Shadow PROMO ITALYJUKE BOX Moonlight Shadow PROMO ITALY

Scan: sticker

LP Tubular Bells PIRATE KOREA (Green Cover)LP Tubular Bells PIRATE KOREA (Green Cover)

Scan: label

LP Tubular Bells PROMO AUSTRALIALP Tubular Bells PROMO AUSTRALIA

Scan: label stamp

LP Heaven's Open POLANDLP Heaven's Open POLAND

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The Killing Fields Press Kit

9 November 2005: Long time trying to find some Mike Oldfield postcards from Poland. I received a couple of them today. Titles are Blue Peter and Shine. They are bootleg items and don't play very well, but it is an interesting addition to my collection. Here you can see them !!

POSTCARD Blue Peter BOOTLEG POLANDPOSTCARD Blue Peter BOOTLEG POLAND

Scan: cover backcover

POSTCARD Shine BOOTLEG POLANDPOSTCARD Shine BOOTLEG POLAND

5 November 2005: Barcelona record fair. With my big Oldfield collection is difficult to find interesting items to buy. This time only one vinyl maxi: Tricks of the Light from Italy and a couple of promotional cd-singles, one of them is Surfing from the last album Light+Shade !!

MAXI Tricks of the Light ITALYMAXI Tricks of the Light ITALY

CD-SINGLE Surfing PROMO

21 October 2005: Interesting Incantations 2LP from New Zealand. It includes a free EP Take Four inside !!

2LP Incantations NEW ZEALAND + free 7'' EP Take Four2LP Incantations NEW ZEALAND + free 7'' EP Take Four

Scan: sticker

19 October 2005: Mike Oldfield released a new double album, Light + Shade weeks ago. Here you can see promotional double cd with 5 pages info sheet !!

2CD Light + Shade + 5 PAGES INFO SHEET PROMO ENGLAND

17 October 2005: Today I received a very rare and old single: 1969 Two Ships / Colours of the World by The SallyAngie (Sally and Mike Oldfield). This single is very hard to find and usually as a normal stock copy. But this copy is a PROMO ADVANCED COPY. Check the A label to see the big "A" in the left side. First time I see a copy like this (and it is an item not included in Rainer's lists) !!

7'' Two Ships UK PROMO ADVANCED COPY7'' Two Ships UK PROMO ADVANCED COPY

Scan: label

22 August 2005: One of my big dreams as a Mike Oldfield collector was to have an original award and here it is. I'm very proud to present official gold disc awarded by Virgin Records Greece to Mike Oldfield for 25.000 sales of Crises in 1985 !!

Crises Gold Award Greece 1985

Photo: label plaque

27 July 2005: A couple of very interesting items. Promotional Tubular Bells II from Brazil and Testpressing Amarok from Greece !!

LP Tubular Bells II PROMO BrazilLP Tubular Bells II PROMO Brazil

Scan: label stamp

LP Amarok TESTPRESSING GreeceLP Amarok TESTPRESSING Greece

Scan: label

29 June 2005: Very rare blinking lamp. Thanks a lot to my german friend Ralf. Touch the lamp with your mouse and you will see the effect !!   ;-)

Discovery Lamp... Please wait some seconds and you will see its effect  ;-)

24 June 2005: Beautiful poster and very rare Tubular Bells quadraphonic vinyl LP from Taiwan !!

2LP Exposed HONG KONG

2LP Exposed HONG KONG2LP Exposed HONG KONG

Scan: label

12 May 2005: Ultra rare The Songs of Distant Earth promotional CD in a tin box !!

CD The Songs of Distant Earth PROMO USA (TIN BOX)CD The Songs of Distant Earth PROMO USA (TIN BOX)

10 May 2005: Interesting Exposed Quadraphonic double lp from Hong Kong and rare promotional Voyager CD from USA !!

2LP Exposed HONG KONG2LP Exposed HONG KONG

CD Voyager PROMO USACD Voyager PROMO USA

21 April 2005: Ultra mega rare double Metal Master Plates Platinum LP from Germany (matrix number 201206-320) !!

METAL MASTER PLATES Platinum GERMANYMETAL MASTER PLATES Platinum GERMANY

18 April 2005: Interesting Amarok vinyl lp from Greece !!

LP Amarok GREECELP Amarok GREECE

14 April 2005: Three LP's from South Africa: Tubular Bells, Islands and Earth Moving !!

LP Tubular Bells SOUTH AFRICALP Tubular Bells SOUTH AFRICA

LP Islands SOUTH AFRICALP Islands SOUTH AFRICA

LP Earth Moving SOUTH AFRICALP Earth Moving SOUTH AFRICA

2 April 2005: This weekend I visited Barcelona record fair. I bought some normal items for my own collection and a big jewel. The normal items are 3 vinyl lps: Five Miles Out from Canada, The Complete from Canada and The Complete from Yugoslavia. The big jewel is... and incredible Ommadawn USA ACETATE by Columbia !!

LP Ommadawn ACETATE USALP Ommadawn ACETATE USA

Scan: label-A label-B

26 March 2005: I received four packets during this week, but I had no time to update my website. Now, thanks to Easter holidays, I found some time to listen my new items and to update my website. They are five new vinyl lps: very rare promotional and unreleased quadraphonic Ommadawn from UK, Platinum from Israel, two Discovery from Venezuela (one of them with a mispressed B label by Culture Club!) and Amarok from Germany (thanks Pedro!)  !!

2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA

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2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA

2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA

Scan: label-A label-B

2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA

26 February 2005: Very happy day in my life as a vinyl collector. I received a double Exposed lp from Australia which was offered as a PROMO item. But I had an incredible surprise when I opened the packet and I discovered that the item was a TESTPRESSING !!

2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA2LP Exposed TESTPRESSING AUSTRALIA

Scan: sticker label

9 February 2005: I'm very happy today because I received two very rare singles from Zimbabwe that I paid 3 months ago. They were sent SURFACE, that was the problem. Fortunately, they finally arrived: Moonlight Shadow and Pictures in the Dark, both singles from Zimbabwe !!

7'' Moonlight Shadow Zimbabwe7'' Moonlight Shadow Zimbabwe

Scan: label

7'' Pictures in the Dark Zimbabwe7'' Pictures in the Dark Zimbabwe

5 January 2005: Four interesting vinyl lps: Tubular Bells from Israel, Ommadawn from Argentina, Five Miles Out from Mexico and promotional Islands from Japan. Here you have a couple of them !!

LP Tubular Bells ISRAELLP Tubular Bells ISRAEL

LP Islands PROMO JAPANLP Islands PROMO JAPAN

 

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