In 2008, The Egyptian Lover continues to tour the world and is making a brand new album for 2008.

April 6, 2008, p. 4 ; excerpt, "... a skyscraper that Nouvel ( adapting a term from the artist Brâncuşi ) called the “ tour sans fins ,” or endless tower.

In June and July 2008, Hart led the Mickey Hart Band on a U. S. concert tour.

The 2008 portion of the tour started on April 11, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico at José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum and culminated on July 24, 2008 in Noblesville, Indiana at the Verizon Wireless Music Center.

The video also includes footage from the 2008 portion of the tour, recorded at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Atlanta.

Robyn completed a short US tour to promote Robyn, and was the supporting act for Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour at select European dates in 2008.

Crow also stated that $ 1 of each ticket purchased for her 2008 tour would be donated to the United Nations World Food Programme.

Measures of their success include international record sales, a 2007 – 2008 reunion tour, merchandising, record-breaking achievements, iconic symbolism such as Halliwell's Union Jack dress, representing " Girl Power ", a box-office film, Spice World, and their internationally recognised nicknames.

The band has also been supporting Nickelback on their 2008 European tour.

The nickname and the garden are among the details about the former Iraqi leader that emerged during a 27 March 2008 tour of prison of the Baghdad cell where Saddam slept, bathed, and kept a journal in the final days before his execution.

In 2008, Jean-Jacques Burnel has made comments in interviews which indicate that the band could be heading into semi-retirement after the completion of their European tour in 2009.

They once again played on the 2008 edition of the tour, August 14 – 16, on the Vans Old School Stage.

Nicks on the 2008 leg of her " Crystal Visions " tour.

A twelve-city U. S. tour of Rockwell's works took place in 2008.

A 40th anniversary Close to the Edge and Back tour was scheduled to begin in 2008 that was to feature Oliver Wakeman on keyboards, as his father was advised by his doctors not to tour.

Anderson claimed that the band rehearsed four new " lengthy, multi-movement compositions " for the tour that was suddenly cancelled in May 2008 after he suffered an asthma attack and diagnosed with acute respiratory failure.

" tour ( 2008 ), features the 50-minute retrospective and Q & A held on January 26, 2008.

He sold out a fifteen-date UK tour in Spring 2008 during which he performed his 1979 number one album Replicas in full, and all the Replicas-era music including B-sides.

The tour was also notable for the Manchester gig on 8 March 2008 which also happened to fall on his 50th birthday.

* British — David Bowie dressed as Pierrot for the video of Ashes to Ashes ( 1980 ) and for the sleeve of his album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ) ( 1980 ); Leo Sayer dressed as Pierrot on tour following the release of his first album, Silverbird ( 1973 ); Robots in Disguise: The Tears ( 2008 ), a video directed by Graeme Pearce, features black-suited Pierrots involved in love triangle.

* James Barrier, or Buffalo Jim ( 1953 – 2008 ), an American wrestling promoter

Kristol was an ardent promoter of Sarah Palin, advocating for her selection as the running mate of John McCain in the 2008 U. S. Presidential Election months before McCain chose her.

On 29 March 2007 it was announced by the FFSA, the race promoter, that the 2008 French Grand Prix was put on an indefinite " pause ".

* Verne Byers ( 1918 – 2008 ), bandleader, bassist, concert promoter

A planned Tennessee Three concert in January 2008 commemorating the 40th anniversary of Cash's Folsom Prison performance was scrapped after disputes between prison managers and the concert promoter.

Love Muscle returned to the Fridge on 31 December 2008 with the original promoter Andrew Czezowski and the exhilarating pyrotechnics and production effects the night was renowned for.

A documentary about Adams, The Gentleman's Choice, was released on December 16, 2008 by former WCCW promoter Mickey Grant, and featured interviews from many of Adams ' friends and family, including his brother Neil, Bill Mercer, referee David Manning, Kevin Von Erich, Jean Clarke ( billed as Jeanie Adams in the documentary ), his widow Karen, and Gary Hart.

In 2008, Bruce took over as joint promoter, along with Jeffrey Immediato, of speedway racing events at ' The Grand at Industry Hills ' race track in City of Industry, California.

In April 2008, booker and promoter Gabriel Ramirez left the company to start his own promotion, Pro Wrestling Revolution.

A literature review by Michael McCullough and Camile Farah, published in the Australian Dental Journal in 2008, focused on a possible connection between mouthwashes that contain alcohol, and an increased risk of oral cancer.

* 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* The Australian composer Nigel Butterley set the verse in his 2008 choral work " Beni Avshalom ", commissioned by the Sydney Chamber Choir

In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

* Lucy Chesser, Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

* 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.

* 1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby footballer and coach ( d. 2008 )

* 1975 – Clinton Grybas, Australian football commentator ( d. 2008 )

These are contained in the report, " Opportunity not Opportunism: Improving conduct in Australian Franchising " tabled by a Parliamentary inquiry into franchising on 4 December 2008.

* Des Hasler – Former Rugby league player, NSW & Australian representative player, 1987 & 1996 Manly Sea Eagles premiership player, 2008 & 2011 Manly Sea Eagles premiership coach

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

* John Young ( jurist ) ( 1919 – 2008 ), Australian jurist

* 1952 – Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer ( b. 1912 )

* 2008 – Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer ( b. 1928 )

* 2008 – Peter Leonard, Australian journalist ( b. 1942 )

* Background note: " Sorry ": the unfinished business of the Bringing Them Home report, Australian Parliamentary Library, 4 February 2008

On 14 February 2008, the Federal Labor Government appointed Bracks to head an inquiry into the ongoing viability of the Australian car industry.

In 2008, Australian telco Telstra replaced its existing CDMA network with a national 3G network, branded as NextG, operating in the 850 MHz band.

Since 2008, Vanuatu ( along with Tonga, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea ) has sent seasonal workers to Australia through the Australian government-funded Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme ( PSWPS ).

The Australian Medical Services Advisory Committee ( MSAC ) in 2008 has determined that endovenous laser treatment / ablation ( ELA ) for varicose veins " appears to be more effective in the short term, and at least as effective overall, as the comparative procedure of junction ligation and vein stripping for the treatment of varicose veins.

** Smoky Dawson, Australian singer ( d. 2008 )

** Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* April 4 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )