News '11

Photos of gig in Stuhr / GER

We updated the photo-gallery, and there you can find a view photos of the gig in Stuhr on 30th of September, 2011, the concert which has been recorded for the new live-CD.

New dates

At the Tour-Dates you can find new dates for concerts in Norway in November / December!

Concert-Reviews

There were some press-reviews about the last concerts, but these are all in german only. For all who are interested in reading (perhaps with google-translator) - just have a look at german press-section to find the links.

Live-CD 2011 - pre-order now!

The concert in Stuhr on 30th of September, 2011 is getting closer and herewith the recording of the concert for a new live-CD, too.

You can pre-order this Live-CD with immediate effect - Click her to go to shop.
Price: 18 Euro
Release-Date about 05.12.2011
Limited Edition with only 500 CDs!

more Information about concert in Stuhr (external link, german site)

CD-Live-Recording in Stuhr (GER) on 30.09.2011

If you're a friend of Live-CDs you have to notice the tourdate on 30.09.2011 in Stuhr! This gig will be recorded and released as Live-CD!

Benefiz-Concert with Tony & Martin in Dorfen (GER, Bavaria)

On 17.09.2011 there will be a benefiz-concert in Dorfen (Bavaria) in aid of the organisation "Hand in Hand" with Tony & Martin Hämmerle

More information about all gigs you can find at Tourdates

TOUR DATES

We will add more and more tourdates, some more dates will follow! A new tourdate is a gig as guest from Anne Haigis in Stuhr (GER), on 27th of August 2011. Just have a look at the tour-details. Furthermore there will be a benefiz-concert with Tony & Martin Haemmerle in Dorfen, more information coming soon!

HEAVEN & EXPLORER - now available as download!

With immediate effect, we can offer you the download files for Heaven & Explorer ! 

And here are the notes for the albums:

'heaven' and 'explorer' – early adventures in analog

hi friends and neighbors.

After I left rainbow, I was looking for something to do, of course – and landed in germany, of all places. I liked it here – still do – and everybody's got to be somplace, don't they?

The tracks on these two records are strongly influenced by euro-electronica, or whatever drawer people put this style into these days.

Basically, this is nigel jopson and me in the studio, trying things out... a lot of great cocktail recipes came out of these sessions, with and without those little paper umbrellas.

By and by we tried other things out, like me singing and writing lyrics. We all know how THAT turned out. I wrote a lot of songs, for myself and a lot of other people, and had some sucess with some of them. More than some, less than others, but once again – everybody's got to do something, don't they?

The sessions that produced 'heaven', 'explorer', 'no human','TCP', and 'yellow power' were me learning-by-doing in a recording studio, and I got into the habit of playing nearly everything myself. This was a great hands-on way to learn arranging, composition, engineering, and drinking to excess. Almost nobody gets that grace period anymore – now you have to be shithot-out-of-the-box; but back in the day we had some time to learn and make mistakes.

Enter peter hauke, whose studio I was practically living in. He had produced some successful german records, and a couple of huge hits. He needed – understandably – to see some return, and he got it. Under a swiss shell-corporation, he could deduct a whole pile o' cash for each record he 'released'. And did. So there's me, the tax write-off, still having fun, writing hundreds of little snipppets – and peter, releasing them to no acclaim, with no promotion/reviews/touring, and of course no money for me. Ever. But a LOT of tax breaks for peter hauke. I wasn't even aware of 'no human' until years later, and 'explorer' consists of demos for 'yellow power', one of two records I'd planned to release, the other being 'TCP'.

Okay, I was young, dumb, fulla cum, whatever. And peter hauke was an outrageous crook. He never saw the inside of a recording studio if a musician could do it himself, and couldn't produce a fart after a bowl of chili con carne. But he was good at making money -for himself – so I have to give him credit for SOME talent. (I never developed that particular talent myself.)

My name was never on these records – they still aren't. (my choice). Not 'TC's yellow power' or anything like that.

But times change, and I'm releasing all of those old records on cd, for whatever they're worth. If you collect my stuff, you'll want 'em. If this cd fell into your hands and you don't have a clue about me or my music, and are interested, set it aside for awhile and listen to my vocal records first – work your way backwards, so to speak – cause everything that's in the vocal records is here, give or take a few guitars.

So, True Believers, that's the story on these records. As for me, I'm fine, busy, and planning a lot of new stuff. Thanks, as always, for listening.

TC germany, july 2011

Instrumental albums HEAVEN & EXPLORER

With release date about 20th of August 2011, Tony will offer the rare instrumental albums Heaven & Explorer. The CDs will be available as limited (200 pcs.) and signed CDs and also als mp3-download. Pre-Order for CD are possible with immediate effect, download will start as soon as we have the artwork.

Interview at GoodTimes Magazine

- only available in german - click here to got to interview

THANKS to GoodTimes for permission!

new Tour-Date in GER/Hainichen

more information at dates

In The Absence Of The Cat ('the lost albums' I) 

Your question to Tony!

With immediate effect you have the possibility to ask TC questions - please use this form for your question!

Stanislaus County Kid - Vol.2 

The new album is now available as download, too - at our mp3-shop!

Audio samples / Notes to Stanislaus County Kid - Vol.2 

With immediate effect there are two audio samples and new notes about CD Stanislaus County Kid - Vol. 2 (Crossin' the tracks).

.... click here to go to audio samples / notes ...

.... click here to read the new notes ...