Special tour guests are announced for the gigs in Braunschweig and Leipzig. The band is called

The National

The press info describes their music as a fusion of Wilco, the Tindersticks and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Their latest record, Alligator, is among this year's best so far, says Ben.

Click here for their website.
Click here for various reviews.

Redbird is expected to be released in France on Tuesday, September 6th, 4 weeks later than in Germany.

A new interview with Heather Nova is released. It's called:

Heather Nova - The redbird has flown
Heather Nova on her new record, motherhood and creative freedom

Read and discuss the full interview in the forums Interview - The redbird has flown


(Thanks to Saltwater Ltd. and www.heathernova.com )

Redbird will be released on the 8th of August 2005 . It's official.

The German ticket seller ticketonline.de already sells tickets for a Heather Nova concert on
Mon, October 10th in Offenbach, Germany.
Venue: Capitol. Offenbach is located very close to Frankfurt/Main.

New Heather Nova tour dates in Europe in October 2005:


Mon, October 3rd: Paris, France (Le Bataclan)
Tue, October 4th: Utrecht, Netherlands (Vredenburg)
Wed, October 5th: Lucerne, Switzerland (Luzernsaal)
Mon, October 17th: Stockholm, Sweden
Tue, October 18th: Gothenburg, Sweden (Trädgår´n)
Wed, October 19th: Oslo, Norway (Rockefeller Music Hall)
Fri, October 21st: Copenhagen, Denmark (Amager Bio)
Tue, October 25th: Groningen, Netherlands


The actual venues are not yet all announced.

These gigs were included in the press information about Redbird.
Click on this text to see the complete press release information .

Many thanks to Heinz from heathernova.de !

Edit by Gerd 2005-06-13: venues added for Luzern, Utrecht and Oslo.
Edit by Gerd 2005-06-14: venue for Copenhagen added.
Edit by Bernd 2005-06-17: venue for Gothenburg added.

"Redbird", Heather's sixth studio album, is quite different to her previous album "Storm",which had been a return to acoustic basics. The positive experience of recording "Storm" in one place, unlike her previous albums that had mostly been recorded in gaps between her heavy touring schedule, was also the basis for recording "Redbird", but Heather felt a more "rockier" feel to the music best suited the collection of songs that she had written.....

for the full article, see here: http://www.heathernova.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1516

(thanks to Heinz from heathernova.de)

A new interview with Heather Nova will be published on June 20th on heathernova.com, where she talks about Redbird, being a rockin'mom, the worldwide release of her album, the upcoming tour, and what are the best 10 songs she wrote in her career. a series of new pictures will illustrate the interview.

(thanks to Massimo from heathernova.com)

The cover art for Heather Nova's new album Redbird has been confirmed. The official cover can be found in the Redbird album of our Pictures section.

Redbird Album

The possible release date for Redbird is August 8th, 2005.

Heather Nova will be releasing a separate CD and possibly DVD in the late fall to benefit the 'Spirit of Bermuda'.

Heather sang four songs at the Dockyard on saturday 14th , including her 'Bermuda Sloop Song' and 'Redemption Song' (Marley)

(thanks to the Execute Director/Project Manager of the Bermuda Sloop Foundation Malcolm Kirkland for this information)

The poem "She", which was written by Pauline O’Connor, can be found in the forums : "She" by Pauline O'Connor

Tickets are already sold for a Heather Nova gig in Brussels, October 1, at the Ancienne Belgique.
The gig is not yet confirmed.

http://www.abconcerts.be/home/index.html?l=1

(thanks to Geert)

New Heather Nova album is called "Redbird".
(source: heathernova.de)

Redbird cover see here: http://www.abconcerts.be/media/c-101070.jpg

For the tracklist, click on "Read more..."

More Heather Nova tour dates to follow album release

Work on the new and as yet-untitled Heather Nova album is done, and more gigs will be announced soon as part of the promotional tour for the record. In the meantime, tickets are already on sale for the August shows.

(Posted May 24th, 2005 on heathernova.com)

Heather Nova performed last Saturday in Dockyard, Bermuda, her new song "Bermuda Sloop Song", which is dedicated to young Bermudian sail trainees, for the first time. She was accompanied by David Roache. http://www.heathernova.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1280 here for more details. Thanks to MiniCooper!

Berit Fridahl is in the band on Heather Nova's next tour, because Heather's gigs are also in Berit's tour calendar.

http://www.beritfridahl.dk/gigs.asp

Berit was already Heather's lead guitarist from 1998-2002 and summer festivals 2003, also she played keyboard and sung backing vocals. Additionally, she plays guitar on at least one track on the new Heather Nova album, see older news.

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The following Heather Nova shows are confirmed for 2005:

August 20th - Pukkelpop - Hassalt, Belgium
August 21st - Lowlands Festival - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
August 23rd - Feldschlößchen Bühne - Braunschweig, Germany
August 24th - Parkbühne Auensee - Leipzig, Germany
August 25th - Amphitheater - Hanau, Germany
August 27th - Soleil Festival - St Imier, Switzerland
August 28th - Museumsinsel - Berlin, Germany
September 30th - Shepherds Bush Empire - London, UK

Thanks to Massimo for letting us know about these confirmed dates!

From the ticketmaster.com webpage: "Heather Nova's management has postponed the album release and also the Lucerne gig on July 26th, KKL Konzertsaal. The new gig takes place on October 5th, 20h, KKL Luzernersaal. Tickets are still valid for the seated Luzernersaal balcony on October 5th."

Update: In contrast to what ticketmaster.com writes, tickets are definitely returnable ! as the Blue Balls organizers confirmed once again on the phone. The ticket seller got informed in the meantime ! (edited by Chris91275)

Note: There are now two ticket categories sold:
1) seated category on the balcony, 69 CHF
2) standing category, 59 CHF

Berit wrote on her website: Guitars for Heather Nova... Heather will put out a new album soon, and I did some guitars on a track, last week. Always a joy... April 12 2005

http://www.beritfridahl.dk/Diary.asp

Berit was member of Heather Nova's live band from 1998 till 2002 and summer festivals 2003 (mostly guitar, lead guitar). She also played guitar on "Talk To Me" on the album "South".

Laurie wrote:

Wednesday, April 06, 2005
... just been back into the studio today to do drums on a little track for Heather Nova ...


http://lauriejenkins.blogspot.com/

Goodbye Tiffanie, we will miss having you around every day.

Good luck with everything.

Be sure to come and see us whenever you can!

If you want to read our two april's fool messages again, click here for the stories.

#1 New Tour Dates Out Now ! (posted by Chris91275) and
#2 Details about Bermuda Sloop single (posted by Gerd, Bernd, and Ben)

Heather took part in a march for dolphins' rights and the preservation of natural environment in Bermuda

UPDATED

According to newspaper articles, Heather took part in a march in Hamilton, Bermuda, demonstrating against the plan to build a new dolphin park there.

Here is a message from Heather posted on february 28th (seen at the www.heathernova.com forums)

i am now putting the finishing touches on my new album and am hoping to have it out in september. it is quite different to the last one - a bigger sound, more experimental.

thanks as always to all of you out there for tuning in, and for those who have been around for ten years with me and the website, the journey isn't over yet!

Laurie Jenkins mentioned in his blog that he and Bastian Juel took part in Heather's recording sessions.

Laurie's blog entry from Friday, February 18, 2005:
[...] and then managed to fit in a session for Heather Nova's new record in the evening which was nice as teamed up with Bastian Juel again who I haven't seen or played with for years - his bass sound and feel is such a pleasure to play with! Since then we have been rehearsing solidly and all is going great and sounding really cool - now I find myself back in NYC again [...]

The authors of the forums module all use the Firefox web browser exclusively, and apparently never, ever fire up Internet Explorer.

Those of you who are using IE probably notice ridiculous slowness and freezes when using the forums here. I have talked to the development team about this, but as I said they are totally clueless about it since they only use Firefox, and the forums are fast in Firefox. So to them, there is no problem.

If you are using IE and the slowness of the forums bothers you, switching to Firefox is going to be the quickest solution. The speed of the forums when browsed through Firefox is just as fast as IE was with the old forums.

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