His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

Thom Yorke applied a similar method in Radiohead's Kid A ( 2000 ) album, writing single lines, putting them into a hat, and drawing them out at random while the band rehearsed the songs.

No replacement had been named, which sent the band into a hiatus following a 2000 tour in support of their studio release, New Tattoo.

Curt formed a new band in Austin, TX called the Royal Neanderthal Orchestra, but they changed their name to Meat Puppets for legal reasons and released a promotional EP entitled You Love Me in 1999, Golden Lies in 2000 and Live in 2002.

In August 2000 he won the first prize at the contest for bands of the 25th " Plinn festival " in Bourbriac ( Brittany ) with the band " Le Bûcheron Mélomane et les Nains de la Forêt " ( The Music-loving Lumberjack and the Dwarfs of the Forest ).

* Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving the Mars colony berift of supplies.

The band toured various corners of the world throughout from 1998 to 2000.

* Mother Superior ( band ), a rock band who became ¾ of Rollins Band circa 2000

Pope Clement VIII appears as one of dramatis personae in the album The Metal Opera ( 2000 ) by German heavy metal band Avantasia, where he plays vital role in the fantasy-styled plot.

From 2000 to 2007, he was a member of the platinum-record-winning Polish progressive rock band SBB.

The band broke up in 2000, after years of feuding over songwriting credits and publishing money.

The proposed band plan reflects IMT 2000 recommendation.

In 2000, Ellis left the band and a new guitarist, Baz Warne, was recruited.

Vernon Green ( May 1, 1937 – December 24, 2000 ) was leader of the rhythm and blues band The Medallions.

Financial constraints forced the band to abandon the double album plan and finish and release the first volume ( released 1999 ) before completing the second ( 2000 ).

* On January 26, 2000, the band Rage Against The Machine filmed the music video for " Sleep Now in the Fire " on Wall Street, which was directed by Michael Moore.

* 2003: English soprano Sarah Brightman sampled " Un bel dì vedremo " in her song " It's a beautiful day ", included in her album Harem ; that song in turn was a cover of the 2000 song "" Ein schöner Tag " on the album Weltreise by the German band Schiller.

In 2000, Bill Viola collaborated with the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and its lead singer Trent Reznor to create a video suite for the band's tour.

* Particle ( band ), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California

Rickman was one of the many artists who recited Shakespearian sonnets on the 2002 album When Love Speaks, and is also featured prominently in a music video by the band Texas entitled " In Demand ", which premiered on Europe MTV in August 2000.

This would be the band's last work with Sherwood, who left the band after at the tour's conclusion in early 2000.

In 2000 he started another band, Johnny Marr and the Healers, which enjoyed moderate success, and later worked as a guest musician on the Oasis album Heathen Chemistry ( 2002 ).

* Circus 2000, Italian band in the 1970s

Phase II began in 2000, and affects most of the power plants in the country.

Oil exploitation in the southern Doba region began in June 2000, with World Bank Board approval to finance a small portion of a project, the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development Project, aimed at transport of Chadian crude through a 1000-km.

One of these systems, which is operated by Cornell University and began operation in 2000, was controversial during the planning and building states for potential negative environmental impact.

Tramlink ( originally and sometimes still called Croydon Tramlink ) is a tramway system in south London in the United Kingdom which began operation in May 2000.

The DFLP has been largely unable to make its presence felt during the al-Aqsa Intifada, which began in 2000.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers began work on standards for digital cinema in 2000.

In 2000, Walt Disney, Texas Instruments and Technicolor with the cooperation of several U. S. and international exhibitors, began to deploy prototype Digital Cinema systems in commercial theatres.

Over 1999 and early 2000, the U. S. Federal Reserve increased interest rates six times, and the economy began to lose speed.

Recovery began in the 1990s, but growth has been constrained by the lack of suitable hotels and other infrastructure, despite a boom in construction of small and medium-sized hotels and restaurants, and by the impact of drought, the 1998 – 2000 war with Eritrea, and the specter of terrorism.

The Edge Festival ( formerly known as T on the Fringe ), a popular music offshoot of the Fringe, began in 2000, replacing the smaller Flux and Planet Pop series of shows.

This contract will add more than $ 100 million to HP ’ s existing Coca-Cola FEMSA relationship, which began in 2000.

Between 2000 – 1200 BC, a branch of Indo-European-speaking tribes known as the Aryans began migrating into the region.

Lynne's comeback with ELO began in 2000 with the release of a retrospective box set, Flashback, containing three CDs of remastered tracks and a handful of out-takes and unfinished works, most notably a new version of ELO's only UK number one hit " Xanadu ".

In 2000, the FBI began the Trilogy project to upgrade its outdated information technology ( IT ) infrastructure.

Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and the West Bank had begun in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but have been derailed by the al-Aqsa Intifada that began in September 2000.

The largest site is Geocaching. com, owned by Groundspeak Inc., which began operating on September 2, 2000.

The GÉANT project began in November 2000, entered full production operation in December 2001 ( fully replacing TEN-155 ).

Their culture flourished until the region began to dry out after 2000 BC.

The systematic production and use of iron implements in Anatolia began around 2000 BC.

The 2000 and 2001 Colts teams were considerably less successful compared to the 1999 team and pressure began to mount on team administration and the coaching staff following a 6 – 10 season in 2001.

* Second Intifada, a period of intensified Palestinian – Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005

In January 2000, Jamaica began serving a 2-year term on the United Nations Security Council.

Originally from West-Central Africa, Bantus began a millennium-long series of migrations referred to as the Bantu expansion that first brought them to East Africa about 2000 years ago.

These standards began to have more relevance in 2000 and 2001 after FATF began a process to publicly identify countries that were deficient in their anti-money laundering laws and international cooperation, a process colloquially known as " name and shame ".