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-----------------------------------------------------2008 SUMMER WORKSHOP Feb. 22nd 2008 Another long-overdue update! Jan. 25th 2008 I'm sorry for having to cancel/move the Knitting Factory and Verity Room gigs in Los Angeles but I had to fly to Austria on short notice. This is the first time I've cancelled a show so this is important. I'm sure you'll understand. I'll be back in California on February fifth and all concerts will go ahead as planned. Jan. 4th 2008 2007 was fantastic - and I have high hopes for 2008 as well! The concerts in Croatia, the UK and Ireland went down really well and I think I've found a good way of keeping myself fresh on tour by simply avoiding 3 1/2 months of gigs everyday but about a month maximum. Am at home at the moment, writing some new stuff, arranging more. A Lowden baritone guitar will join the famly in a few weeks and I'm REALLY looking forward to what I'll come up with on that thing. What else is there to look forward to? A quick jump to Belgium for the Verviers Guitar Festival (should brush up on my French for that one) and the Austria tour this spring which I'm in the process of setting up. Nov. 3rd 2007 ...and a whole bunch of videos are online now as well - feel free to send these to everybody you know :-) will start packing tomorrow - almost 30 gigs in as many days in Croatia, the UK and Ireland. Can't wait.... hugs, Thomas Oct. 24th 2007 just finished a two-week bout of manic tablature writing....some of it with flames closing in on the house and some of it in a car because we were evacuated and had to spend the night in a parking lot. I'm not joking. The digital tab book will be done tomorrow and I've updated the shop area for that and the NEW ALBUM which should be here just in time before I leave for Croatia, the UK and Ireland! Sample tracks to 'Desert Pirate' can be found on my MySpace page. And we've done some photo and video shoots which you'll see soon too. The website is also about to receive an update. Sept. 5th, 2007 It's been a fantastic summer - My yearly residential guitar workshop "boot camp" was brilliant due to a magic constellation of students, teachers and great weather on the mountain. I'm already excited about next year! 2007 guitar boot camp pictures here The music festivals in Aflenz (A), the IGF Bath (UK), Lewes (UK), Limerick (IRE), Hersbruck (GER) and Bregenz (A) as well as all the concerts in between also were a lot of fun and on the top of it all I recorded the new album 'Desert Pirate' in two days at the Hitbox Altenburg where 'riddle' and 'Upside Down' were also done. For those two albums we've tried to achieve a 'larger-than-life' type of sound but this time we are aiming at RFB (really f***ing big). We must have hit the target because a manic grin keeps spreading across my face while listening to the near-final mixes. Am very excited about this one - it should be out in October. Featuring new original tunes as well as a cover of Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" and Bjork's "Isobel". The only bad news: I have to write quite a bit of tablature in the next month, which is not much fun at all! June 18th, 2007 Spring Tour picture diary online It's been a while - after this round-the-world tour, trying to play live and reach as many of you as possible, I urgently needed a few weeks off. April 4th, 2007 We're both happy and sad that the summer workshop is completely full. Please e-mail me anyway so you can be the first to know about next year's workshop. I'm in Austria at the moment, enjoying a couple of days 'break' in the middle of a spring tour which spans six countries and three continents... I also just spent a day and a half answering left-over e-mails. February 2007 Hello everybody - December 23rd 2006 You can find the look back on the tour of Taiwan and Korea here - and pictures are here I am enjoying a few weeks 'off' at the moment before the road will eat me again -the spring tour will start off with a few dates in the US with my friend Andy McKee, the on to Japan, on to Germany, Austria, UK, Ireland and then back to California... So I am using this rare occasion to write, organize and prepare for 2007. I have so many ideas rushing around in my head at the moment - I haven't felt like this since 1998 when I wrote the material for 'riddle'. 2007 will be a good year :-) November 22nd 2006 If I get sick before I go to Korea this kid can play my shows for me... video November 15th 2006 Sam is a good friend of mine and his daughter Niamh is probably my youngest (definitely the cutest) fan and is playing the opening bar of 'riddle' for you in this video. If she keeps practicing like that I'll have to look for a new job! |
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