Only a few days left in 2008. Time to reflect this year. We've got a perfect new Heather Nova Album, "The Jasmine Flower", a three weeks European tour through eight countries, a new video (Always Christmas) and well two live concerts at the internet (Berlin and Amsterdam). I think there are not that many wishes left unaccomplished. So a very big thank you to Heather for doing this to the fans!

As usual I am looking back as well to how our website here developed. After a huge amount of work, we got the website moved to a new server, completely updated in terms of the software (Xoops, MySQL,PHP) and we finally got it secure in terms of attacks. We are still working on some content, like the picture section, which is not completely yet online. Anyway we are making big progress as the website is more popular than ever. We had 1.900.000 visits this year, which is even 50% more than in all the last three years together! That is quite a big step. And more than 100 new members joined our forums in 2008! Thank you and welcome! Again, HNN is a joined effort, so thank you to all admins and members contributing!

Love and Merry Christmas!
Gerd

The new Heather Nova video Always Christmas is now available at the Internet. The song is taken from Heather Nova's recent album The Jasmine Flower. You can watch the video in two different resolutions, even in High Definition video quality. The video is made by Scott Jaeger in Amsterdam. The concert parts of this video were recorded at the gig in Amsterdam's Paradiso on October 26th 2008.


Always Christmas Video (HD-Quality)

Always Christmas Video (Normal Quality)

We had some sweets for the Heather Nova fans up on this website in 2005, 2006 and 2007. We call it HNN Advent Calendar, presenting 24 pieces of Heather Nova related collectibles before Christmas, one new goody each day.

We continue this HNN tradition this year with our Always Christmas Calendar 2008!

You need to be a forums member to have access. It is free to register. The links to the days of the HNN Always Christmas Calendar 2008 can be found in the Heaven Sent forums.

Enjoy!

On fabchannel.com you can watch now the complete Heather Nova concert from October 26th 2008, filmed in the Paradiso in Amsterdam.


http://www.fabchannel.com/heather_nova_concert/2008-10-26

Tickets for the upcoming Heather Nova concerts on January 30 and January 31, 2009 at the Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre, Fairmont Southampton Hotel, Southampton on Bermuda are available now! Hurry up to get your tickets. It is a very small venue and already half of the tickets are sold! Don't be too late!

Here is the link to the tickets. You can print them on your printer at home!

BDATIX

In the last two and a half weeks, Heather Nova has toured many Central European states. She gave fourteen concerts in United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The European Tour 2008 started in London on October 13 and ended in Paris on October 28.

Heather Nova presented many songs from her brand-new album The Jasmine Flower, which was released a few days before the tour in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In other countries, the fans could buy the album before and after the concerts at the merchandising stand. Also, the "Sorrowjoy CD" and tour shirts were available there.

As Heather stated, the songs from "The Jasmine Flower" were played the very first time ever live before people, only her dog had the possibility yet to listen to the new songs before.

She has sung Ride, Beautiful Storm, Maybe Tomorrow, and Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son at all or almost all concerts. Also, Out in New Mexico, Hollow and Always Christmas were presented at some concerts. In Amsterdam, there was a video shooting for Always Christmas, and the complete show was filmed with many professional cameras. Heather has played the new songs alone on her acoustic guitar, sometimes accompanied only by some backing vocals.

As a surprise, Heather has "covered" her own song Renegade this time. The song was released last year together with German artist ATB, but Heather presented it in her "own version" now, with full band. In the song Winterblue, Heather has added some lyrics from Don Henley's song "Boys of Summer". The songs Not Only Human and Heal have been played without a break between. All other songs on this tour were well-known songs from Heather, ranging from classic Walk This World over emotionally Like Lovers Do to lively Motherland and played with full band as well.

The tour band consisted this year of the following people: Heather Nova at guitar and keyboards (Fool For You), Berit Fridahl at guitar, Bastian Juel at bass, and for the first time Geoff Dugmore on drums, percussions, and cajón (Paper Cup).

Heather Nova played three new guitars, an acoustic sunburned Takamine, a black half acoustic Taylor and a bright acoustic Taylor.

In London, Heather has dedicated the song Paper Cup to her parents, as they have been in the audience.

The Heather Nova Network was on tour as well: many members have been at one, two or three concerts, some members even went to all 14 gigs! Without them, it wouldn't have been possible to do our traditional live coverage of the gigs again. We want to thank all HNN members who have visited the gigs, gave additional background information, setlists, reports, shared photos, or told us what they have felt or thought while visiting the concerts, and we hope you all enjoyed the concerts and the HNN fan meetings before and after the concerts as much as we did. See you next time again! About the gigs, you can still visit our tour discussion board. You need to register before posting messages there.

But even if you couldn't make it to one concert this time, don't worry, there is another chance to see Heather presenting the Jasmine Flower songs! The people from livedome.com have broadcasted in cooperation with HNN and German fansite heathernova.de the Berlin concert live on the internet. You can now watch the full concert in the archives of livedome.com.

We want to thank Heather Nova and her band, her management, and all other people who helped her with this tour. Thank you very much for these unforgettable days!

The last concert of Heather Nova during her European Tour 2008 was held in Paris at Élysée Montmartre on October 28th, 2008. Supporting act was Larkspur Falls.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova with partly Bastian)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Someone New
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
Hollow (Heather Nova with Bastian and Geoff)
I Wanna Be Your Light
This Body
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

The second-to-last concert of Heather Nova during her European Tour 2008 was held in Eindhoven at De Effenaar on October 27th, 2008. Supporting act was Larkspur Falls again.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova with partly Bastian)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
Out In New Mexico (Heather Nova with Bastian)
I Wanna Be Your Light
This Body
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

Today, the last concert of the European Tour 2008 will be held in Paris.

Heather Nova played during her European Tour 2008 in Amsterdam at Paradiso on October 26th, 2008. Supporting act was Larkspur Falls again.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova with partly Bastian)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Always Christmas (Video shooting!)
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
Out In New Mexico (Heather Nova with Bastian)
I Wanna Be Your Light
This Body
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

There were a lot of video cameras filming the complete show. After "Fool For You", Heather announced that the next song "Always Christmas" will be recorded as next video.

The next concert of Heather Nova during her European Tour 2008 was held in Groningen at De Oosterpoort on October 25th, 2008. Supporting act was alternative rock artist "Larkspur Falls" (= Claire Toomey) from London for the first time.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova with partly Bastian)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
Out In New Mexico (Heather Nova with Bastian)
I Wanna Be Your Light
This Body
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

The setlist was quite similar to the Cologne gig, just "Out In New Mexico" was played instead of "Hollow". Bastian did backing vocals on Ride as well.

Heather Nova continued her European Tour 2008 with a concert in Cologne at E-Werk on October 24th, 2008. Supporting band was Swiss indie band Mañana for the last time.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
Hollow (Heather Nova with Bastian and Geoff doing backing vocals)
I Wanna Be Your Light
This Body
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

This Body premiered today. Hollow was the first song from "The Jasmine Flower" with backing vocals.

Heather Nova played during her European Tour 2008 in Stuttgart at Theaterhaus on October 22nd, 2008. Supporting band was Swiss indie band Mañana again.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
---
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
---
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

The setlist was exactly the same as in Munich. Heather played the acoustic Taylor guitar when performing Ride. Usually she plays the Takamine when playing Jasmine Flower songs.

According to the webpages of the Bermudian newspaper The Royal Gazette and of the Bermuda Festival, Heather Nova plays two concerts on Friday, January 30th, 2009 and Saturday, January 31st, 2009. Both concerts start at 8pm local time at Fairmont, Southampton, Bermuda and will be a full "90-minute-set".

The concerts will be part of the "Bermuda Festival" with lots of music and perfoming arts, ranging from music over dance, theatre, to mime artists, from Bermuda and international, taking place in January and February 2009. Also, in 2009, Bermuda will celebrate the 400th anniversary of its settlement. Tickets for the Bermuda Festival (adults $60, students $25, for most performances) will go on sale Monday, November 10 on the organisation's website: Bermuda Festival.

Heather Nova played during her European Tour 2008 in Munich at Muffathalle on October 21st, 2008. Supporting band was Swiss indie band Mañana.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
---
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
---
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

The seventh concert of Heather Nova during her European Tour 2008 was held in Zurich at Volkshaus on October 20th, 2008. There was no supporting act.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
---
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
Hollow (Heather Nova only)
---
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Light Years
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

The song "Hollow" was presented for the very first time, also Heather Nova played five songs from the new album "The Jasmine Flower", instead of three or four.

Heather Nova continued her European Tour 2008 with a concert in Vienna at Gasometer on October 19th, 2008. Supporting band was local indie act "Esteban's".

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Light Years
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

So "Beautiful Storm" returned to the setlist this time, like "Light Years" as well. "Someone New" wasn't played.

The fifth concert during Heather Nova's European Tour 2008 took place at Den Atelier in Luxembourg on October 18th, 2008. Supporting act was French indie artist Cascadeur.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Out in New Mexico (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
Someone New
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

The song "Out in New Mexico" was played for the first time ever live at this concert. "Beautiful Storm" wasn't played. Although three acoustic songs in the middle had been promised on the setlist, Heather played only two, like on each concert so far. "Someone New" was also included.

Heather Nova played during her European Tour 2008 in Berlin at Columbiahalle on October 16th, 2008. Supporting band was for the last time Scarce.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Light Years
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

Today, Heather surprised us with adding "Light Years" to the setlist, a song from the album Oyster.

The concert was broadcasted via livedome.com (see news below). Before the broadcast, they presented a short interview with Heather. Probably the concert will be in their archive in the next days as well.

Friday is no concert. The tour continues on Saturday, October 18th, 2008 in Luxembourg.

Reminder:

There will be a Live Broadcast at the Internet of the Heather Nova concert in the Columbia Hall in Berlin TONIGHT. You can watch this complete concert here on heathernova.net and on heathernova.de! The concert will start at about 9 p.m. CET. The live stream will start half an hour earlier with an interview with Heather Nova.

Here is the link to the concert:

Heather Nova live in Berlin - October 16th, 2008

Please check out the "Hilfe" page there for requirements for your webbrowser to watch the live stream.

Many thanks to Nicole Denzler and the whole team from the Livedome Company in Munich for making it possible.

The third concert of Heather Nova during her European Tour 2008 was held in Hamburg at Grosse Freiheit on October 15th, 2008. Supporting band was Scarce again.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son (Heather Nova only)

So it was the same setlist as in London.

Heather Nova continued her European Tour 2008 with a concert in Brussels at Ancienne Belgique on October 14th, 2008. Supporting band was Scarce. The concert was sold-out.

The setlist:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
Someone New
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup
Renegade

Two changes to the London setlist: she added "Someone New", likely because this song is very popular in Belgium, but didn't play "Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son" this time.

Tonight, October 13th 2008, Heather Nova started her European Tour 2008 with a concert in the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. The trio Scarce played for half an hour as support act. Heather Nova started her about 90 minutes concert at 8.45 p.m. with the following band:

Heather Nova: vocals, guitar, keyboards
Berit Fridahl: guitar, backing vocals
Bastian Juel: bass, backing vocals
Geoff Dugmore: drums, percussions, Cajón

Most of the concert was played with full band. The opening song Ride, a two song midle part and the second encore were played by Heather acoustically and solo.

Here is the setlist of the concert in London:

Ride (Heather Nova only)
Heart And Shoulder
Blood Of Me
Motherland
All I Need
Not Only Human
Heal
Walk this World
Fool For You
Redbird
Beautiful Storm (Heather Nova only)
Maybe Tomorrow (Heather Nova only)
I Wanna Be Your Light
London Rain
Island
Like Lovers Do
Winterblue (with lyrics from Don Henley - Boys of summer)
---------
Paper Cup (dedicated to Heather's parents)
Renegade
---------
Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son


Heather Nova's parents were in the audience and Heather dedicated Paper Cup the first song of the first encore to them.

Quite unexpected was the song Renegade, which was played quite rocky.

The second encore was not mentioned on the original setlist, but the audience asked for a second encore. So she decided to perform Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son.

On the setlist the two acoustic parts in the middle appears with just the name "acoustic". So Heather Nova might choose different songs form concert to concert from her new album The Jasmine Flower.

Heather Nova played keyboards when performing Fool For You.

Heather Nova played two new guitars, a new acoustic sunburned Takamine guitar and a black half acoustic Taylor guitar.

There will be a Live Broadcast at the Internet of the Heather Nova concert in the Columbia Hall in Berlin on October 16th, 2008. You can watch this complete concert here on heathernova.net and on heathernova.de! The concert will start at about 9 p.m. CET. The live stream will start half an hour earlier with an interview with Heather Nova.

Here is the link to the concert:

Heather Nova live in Berlin - October 16th, 2008

Please check out the "Hilfe" page there for requirements for your webbrowser to watch the live stream.

Many thanks to Nicole Denzler and the whole team from the Livedome Company in Munich for making it possible.

Today, October 10th 2008 is the release date of Heather Nova's new album The Jasmine Flower. The new album is available in stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
According to a note on Heather's myspace website, it will be available in France shortly afterwards and in the UK from Amazon.

The album is as well available as high-quality MP3 (192kBit/s) download on the newly designed official artist page www.heathernova.com. It comes with a 12 page booklet as PDF format.

The german ITunes store offers along with the album the additional live track "All I Need" from the Intimate Evening with Heather Nova concert in Groningen 2006.

Here is a brand new exclusive interview with Heather Nova about the new album 'The Jasmine Flower'. Enjoy!

19 minutes with you - heather talks about 'The Jasmine Flower'

On Monday the 6th of October 2008 there will be another song available from The Jasmine Flower to listen to on Heather Nova's myspace website

www.myspace.com/heathernova

A big thank you to Felix for providing this interview and the information.