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Well, here we are. Another year
has past - 2005 was full of surprises for me. In
many ways, it was retrospective, with the
re-release of BOO, and all the attendant
interest, as well as my finally nailing the
material from the 70’s and 80’s on to digital
format, so that I can now offer some previously
unheard material for potential covers.
It’s astonishing tome that a lot
of it sounds undated to me, possibly because the
original versions tended to be of the unplugged
variety, no fancy trimmings, and therefore fresh
and timeless. My newly launched record label
Ravishing Rhymes will be up and running in early
January, and I am planning to issue
unreleased material, as well as new stuff, on
that from now on.
But of course, we cannot live in
the past so here’s what’s happening next.
In January, you iTunes
specialists will be able to download my songs
directly to your iPod, and at the end of April BOO will be
released in an exclusive paper-jacket version in
Japan.
Perhaps most importantly, I am
planning to record a new CD next summer: it
feels long overdue, I have a myriad of new and
unrecorded songs that I want to commit to
posterity and am even now considering musicians
and producers.
I am also keen to arrange more
gigs and so Sian Evans, from On The Fly
Promotions, has joined my team for 2006 to make
this happen. Watch this space for some exciting
news.
I'd like to thank all of you who
have written to me via this site
and shown so much interest in what I'm doing. It is absolutely
wonderful to have all that worldwide contact. I
welcome comments, enthusiasts and dare I say
critics alike, feedback is all, and I do read
every message.
Bye the bye, I am selling an
acoustic guitar. A Jean
Larrivée parlour
guitar,
one careful owner. Beautiful thing, needs a more
proficient virtuoso than my mainly strummy self.
They'll be a picture on the website soon.
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