This is a message from Heather Nova from her myspace website www.myspace.com/heathernova about the availability of the new album:


Hi Friends

just to let you know I put a track from my new album, "The Jasmine Flower" up on myspace for you to hear. It's called "Ride". Enjoy..... more to come!

The album will be in shops in Germany, Austria, Switzerland on the 10th of October. In France shortly afterwards, in the UK from Amazon and Worldwide on iTunes and other download sites. CDs will also be available at the shows in October, and directly from www.heathernova.com.

See you there!

Heather

The new Heather Nova album The Jasmine Flower will finally be released in germany as a twelve track album. The song "Always Christmas" was added to the original tracklist.

The first track of the "The Jasmine Flower" album - "Ride" - and track number 12 "Always Christmas" were made available online to radio stations as electronical promotion single.

You can listen to the complete first song "Ride" of the new album on Heather Nova's myspace website:
http://www.myspace.com/heathernova

The german physical album release of The Jasmine Flower will not contain a bonus CD as mentioned in one of the previous news. This bonus CD will be released as separat album in spring 2009 and will be a live recording of the concert Groningen, from March 19th 2006, which was part of the Intimate Evening Tour with Heather Nova.

Some online stores, like iTunes and musicload.de will provide additional songs to "The Jasmine Flower" from this concert to promote the album. iTunes will have "All I need" and musicload.de will have "fool for you" added to their online distribution. The songs "you left me a song" and "this body" will be available as well on most online stores.

The CD booklet of the new album will include the lyrics of the songs.


many thanks to SonyBMG Germany for this information

As Heather Nova is releasing a new album, The Jasmine Flower, we want to give away some Heather Nova Tour Posters 2008 and some Heather Nova concert tickets. This competition is a cowork of the German Heather Nova Portal (www.heathernova.de) and the Heather Nova Network (www.heathernova.net).

Prizes to give away:

4x One ticket for the concert in Vienna, Gasometer on October 19th,2008

25x One german Heather Nova Tourposter (sent folded or rolled).

For details how to participate in this competition please visit our forums:

Heather Nova 2008 Competition

Hello Friends

I have some good news – on October 10th I will be releasing an album of all new material, called “The Jasmine Flower” .

I played around a lot over the last 2 years with different sounds and ideas, but in the end I decided I wanted to make my most stark record to date, so I recorded the songs just me and my guitar. Afterwards we added a string quartet to a few tracks.

I have a home studio here in Bermuda, but when I was ready to put down the tracks, the whole thing started breaking down – first the mixing desk then the computer itself died. I was very “in the zone” to record and didn’t want to wait what could be weeks for all new gear to arrive, so I decided it was a lesson in simplicity– I realized I could still record and mix the album on my solar powered laptop. So there you have it – that’s all you need to make a great sounding album. Sun and songs.

I think the songs must be good, because most of them make me feel pretty uncomfortable, which is a sign that I have plumbed the depths and dug for truth, no matter how unsettling.
I will also be including a bonus cd - a concert recording from my last tour.

I hope you enjoy the album, and I hope to see you on tour.

Here is the track listing

RIDE
BEAUTIFUL STORM
MAYBE TOMORROW
OUT ON A LIMB
EVERY SOLDIER IS A MOTHER’S SON
OUT IN NEW MEXICO
LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT
HOLLOW
IF I SHOULD DIE
SAY SOMETHING
FOLLOW ME IN GRACE


Here are my tour dates..

Oct 13 - Sheperd’s Bush Empire - London, United Kingdom 

Oct 14 - Ancienne Belgique - Bruxelles, Belgium 

Oct 15 - Grosse Freiheit - Hamburg, Germany 

Oct 16 - Columbiahalle - Berlin, Germany 

Oct 18 - Den Atelier - Luxembourg, Luxembourg 

Oct 19 - Gasometer - Vienna, Austria 

Oct 20 - Volkshaus - Zurich, Switzerland 

Oct 21 - Muffathalle - Munich, Germany 

Oct 22 - Theaterhaus - Stuttgart, Germany 

Oct 24 - E-Werk - Koln, Germany 

Oct 25 - Oosterport - Groningen, Netherlands 

Oct 26 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands 

Oct 27 - Effenaar - Eindhoven, Netherlands
Oct 28 - Elysee-Montmartre - Paris, France

Heather




(This is an original message from Heather Nova to be released on HNN. Thanks so much Heather!)

According to SonyBMG, Heather Nova will release on October 10, 2008, a new studio album with 12 songs!

The album title is "The Jasmine Flower". The working title for the album was "Dark Horse Heart". In some German online stores, you can already pre-order the new album, but you may search after the working title to find the album.

The track listing:
1. Ride
2. Beautiful Storm
3. Maybe Tomorrow
4. Out On A Limb
5. Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son
6. Out In New Mexico
7. Looking For The Light
8. Hollow
9. If I Should Die
10. Say Something
11. Follow Me In Grace
12. Always Christmas

There is no information yet what happened with the "best-of" release that was planned to release this fall.

Three days after the release of "The Jasmine Flower", Heather Nova starts her European tour, with playing in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in October 2008 (see "Tour Dates").

(Thanks to Heinz from heathernova.de!)

The upcoming Heather Nova concert in Amsterdam on October 26th 2008 is already sold out! Hurry up to get your tickets for the two remaining shows in the Netherlands. Tickets for the concerts in Eindhoven and Groningen are still available.

A brand new Heather Nova concert tour date is announced on heathernova.com!

Tuesday, October 28, Elysee-Montmartre, Paris, France

www.elyseemontmartre.com


edit by Gerd (July 16th):

This concert starts at 19:30.
Tickets for this concert are now available (www.fnacspectacles.com,www.digitick.com)!

There is a new Heather Nova concert date! Tickets are already available (www.oeticket.com,www.ticketonline.at,www.musicticket.at)!

Sunday, October 19, Gasometer, Vienna, Austria - 20:00

Our fan-based website heathernova.net, created to support the extraordinary Bermudian artist Heather Nova is now hosted on a new server!

Along with this transfer to a new server, the website has been upgraded to the most recent software in terms of MySQL, PHP, Xoops and additional modules. Most of the Website content, especially the forums are preserved. The layout is not the same anymore, but that can be changed later.

Most important, HNN is back!

So please find out the new features, try to get most comfortable with the new environment.

Not everything is perfect yet, but anyway beeing on a new server with up-to-date software is very much good news for the future, gives us the possibily for further improvement and development!

Thank you all for being patient the recent weeks with all up and downs of the old server!

Enjoy the new one!

Gerd

There have been some questions about the start time of the concerts. So here are the start times taken from the tickets:

Monday, October 13, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK - 19:30
Tuesday, October 14, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium - 20:00
Wednesday, October 15, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany - 21:00
Thursday, October 16, Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany -20:00
Saturday, October 18, Den Atelier, Luxembourg-City, Luxembourg 20:30
Monday, October 20, Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland - 20:00
Tuesday, October 21, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany - 21:00
Wednesday, October 22, Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany - 20:00
Friday, October 24, E-Werk, Cologne, Germany - 20:00
Saturday, October 25, Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands - 20:30
Sunday, October 26, Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 20:30
Monday, October 27, Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands - 19:30

Some of Heather Nova's recent activities:

On May 3rd, the Elliot Gallery in Devonshire, Bermuda, featured "Divart '08", an auction of original art donated by 28 female Bermudian artists, including Heather Nova. This event was a fundraiser for the "Women's Resource Centre" (wrcbermuda.com).

On May 15th, the International Day of the family, Heather Nova participated in a "Picnic in the Park" event in Victoria Park, Bermuda. The event was held by "The Family Centre" (tfc.bm) and included a tree planting, a magic show, and a cameo appearance by Heather Nova and other artists.

Sources: theroyalgazette.com and bermudasun.bm

Also, it's time to give you an overview about all known Heather Nova tour dates in 2008. Tickets are already on sale for all concerts.

Monday, October 13, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK
Tuesday, October 14, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Wednesday, October 15, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany
Thursday, October 16, Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
Saturday, October 18, Den Atelier, Luxembourg-City, Luxembourg
Monday, October 20, Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Tuesday, October 21, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
Wednesday, October 22, Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Friday, October 24, E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
Saturday, October 25, Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands
Sunday, October 26, Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Monday, October 27, Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Heather Nova will play in Switzerland at the Heather Nova Tour 2008.

Monday, October 20th 2008, Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland

Tickets are already available on ticketcorner.com.

According to the Ancienne Belgique website, Heather Nova will play in Brussels at the Heather Nova Tour 2008.

Tuesday, October 14th 2008, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

Tickets are already available. Guests will be Scarce, same as in London, Hamburg and Berlin.


Thanks to moerie for the information

According to the Shepherds Bush website (http://www.shepherds-bush-empire.co.uk/), Heather Nova will play in London at the Heather Nova Tour 2008.

Monday, October 13, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK

The tickets go on sale on April 17, 9am, at ticketweb.co.uk. Supporting band: Scarce

According to "Mojo Concerts" (mojo.nl), Heather Nova will also play in The Netherlands at the Heather Nova Tour 2008.

Saturday, October 25, Oosterpoort , Groningen, The Netherlands
Sunday, October 26, Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Monday, October 27, Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

The pre-sale for Eindhoven starts April 16th, for Groningen at April 19th and for Amsterdam at April 26th. Tickets can be ordered online at ticketmaster.nl .

Thanks to Rero!

The first Heather Nova tour dates 2008 are announced!

Heather Nova will play:
Wednesday, October 15, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany
Thursday, October 16, Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
Saturday, October 18, Den Atelier, Luxembourg-City, Luxembourg
Tuesday, October 21, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
Wednesday, October 22, Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Friday, October 24, E-Werk, Cologne, Germany

Likely, this is no complete list, and more tour dates will follow. Tickets for all venues mentioned above are already on sale! Online ticket sellers are for example eventim.de, kartenhaus.de, or getgo.de. The supporting act for Heather Nova in Hamburg and Berlin is "Scarce".

Also, there are plans to release a Heather Nova Best-of album.

Many thanks to Heinz from heathernova.de and to Target Concerts for this information!

According to Heinz, the webmaster of heathernova.de, Heather will be touring in Germany in October 2008.

source: heathernova.de (click on "news").

We are happy to present you an Interview with Heather Nova from the swiss Open Magazine which happened in autumn 2007. The interview is part of the recent Open magazine, available in french and german version, released in November 2007. You can read the Interview here in the original english version:

Interview from the swiss Open magazine





Thanks so much to Sanja Vidackovic for making it possible!

Since two and a half years, Heather Nova is an ambassador for the "Bring The Elephant HOME" (http://www.bring-the-elephant-home.nl/en) project, a Dutch foundation which tries to help the elephants of Thailand, to get them from the streets and back to jungle again. Antoinette van de Water is the founder of this project. There is now a documentation about Antoinette and her project on Dutch TV:

"Aanpakken & wegwezen"
Saturday, February 2, 21:36, Nederland 3 (first broadcast)
Saturday, February 16, 14:50, Nederland 2 (re-broadcast)

You can also watch this documentation here: http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/id/LLiNK/serie/POW_00160111/POW_00160114/bb.20080202.asf or http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6441173

Thanks to Isle and Dunsinane for this information!

Happy New Years 2008!

(for Heather Nova's own New Years Message, scroll down or click here.)

New Years Day marks the third anniversary of this website in its current form and this is the third time we'll be looking back. This year, however, has been very different from the first two. There was no new album released and no new tour. But we have found a few new songs and even a new poem. There have been some hints about things to come. So as we look back, we'll also be looking forward to what's ahead.

January
The "questions to" threads that took HNN by storm in 2006 continued on in 2007, starting with Ben and Arne, followed soon after by the guy who brought the "questions to" idea to HNN, Chessimprov. Next, Sabine, Jelger, Chris91275, Perry, and Jadamur have all gotten their own threads, not to mention all of the questions piling up in existing threads, including a few "Crazy Question" contests. The threads were so active that a new sub-forum had to be created to hold them. So far, over 7000 posts have been made in the “questions to” threads alone!

February
Our special new Tabs section went live on Heather Nova Net, adding guitar transcriptions by Estellem for virtually every Heather Nova song! This added a whole new dimension to our discography and lyrics.

March
We learned about the release of the Heather Nova's latest Wonderfully Whiffy candle, featuring the “scent of fresh coconut combined with vanilla orchid.” Portions of each sale went to a charity of Heather Nova's choice.

Also in March, Andre Tanneberger (ATB) released a vinyl single of the song Renegade, which he wrote and performed with Heather Nova.

April
A CD single for Renegade was released which included three mixes of the song as well as a video they shot in Buenos Aires. ATB’s latest CD, Trilogy, was also released, and it featured two more songs written and performed with Heather Nova: Stars Come Out and Made of Glass.

We also had a new poem, of sorts, come out this month. Spunki noticed a poem included in Verona as performed in Berlin in 2001 that began with the line "while the city slept", a poem not found in "the sorrowjoy" collection of poems. When Bernd let us know about this new find, we transcribed the poem and even included it in the first round of the sorrowjoy tournament.

May
We learned that Greenrock, an environmental awareness organization in Bermuda, was planning a festival called “Heather Nova and Friends - Festival of Music” in June. Scheduled guests included Fiona Pears and ATB, among others.

Here on the boards, we finally finished the first round of the sorrowjoy tournament that we had started in November 2006, pitting 46 poems against each other to select 23 for the second round. Although turnout in this tournament was generally low, the passion was strong and so we kept the tournament going in our quest to explore Heather Nova's poems in our own way.

Additionally, with prices on eBay rising, Gerd acquired a big lot of "Mermaid" booklets and made them available for sale at cost in the latest “Fan Service”. The booklet was produced by a Heather Nova fan using photos captured by fans and excerpts from reviews and Heather Nova song lyrics.

June
Heather’s first and biggest concert of the year at the "Heather Nova and Friends - Festival of Music" went off as a great success. Since ATB was ill and could not come, US DJ Andy Schnerg took his place. But in addition to Fiona Pears, pianist Ian Tilley also performed at the concert. They both accompanied Heather Nova on a full set of her songs, just as they had done in 2006 on the Intimate Evening concert series.

Two Heather Nova Net forums members made the trip to Bermuda to see the concert and explore Heather’s own backyard, Gerd from Germany and Paris from the United States. They both reported having a wonderful time at this very family-oriented event. Gerd managed to conduct an interview with Heather Nova at the concert which he worked hard at transcribing once he got back home from his trip.

July
In addition to wishing Heather Nova well on her 40th birthday, Heather Nova Net also presented the full interview that Gerd had done at the concert in June. She not only discussed Bermuda and the songwriting process, but also gave some indications about what’s to come. She said she had written “40 bits of songs” for a new album and had been doing a lot of painting as well as some poems. She hinted that some poems and paintings would be on her official site soon and that a live album would be coming soon, but nothing yet has appeared. She also expressed a desire to do a tour of the east coast of the United States, so we’ll be watching eagerly to see if that comes to pass.

August
Although we only found out in October, Heather Nova was a last-minute addition as a performer to the "Picnic in the Park" free family event in Bermuda held to support sustainable development and the preservation of open spaces.

The second round of the sorrowjoy tournament also came to a close with twelve poems still alive.

September
In addition to learning about the band Margaret's Daughter covering Heather Nova's "Like Lovers Do", we also reached a new milestone here at Heather Nova Net of 100,000 total posts since this website's inception in 2005. The previous forums, NovaForums, had over 200,000 postings in total, so we still have a little ways to go before we catch up!

October
We finished up the third round of the sorrowjoy tournament, heading into the final exciting rounds. Only six poems remained: "cracking the code", "the poison", "soon alaska", "though i am not known here", "the girl", and "six years behind".

November
A new Heather Nova song, “Higher Ground”, was released on the website of Swiss magazine 7Sky as part of their November issue. The song accompanied and was inspired by a poem written by a surfer who has gotten involved with disaster relief following the 2004 Asian tsumami and the 2005 hurricane Katrina.

A year after beginning the sorrowjoy tournament, we completed the quarterfinals and semifinals and began the finals, in which "the girl" would score a narrow victory over "soon alaska". Thanks to everyone who participated. It was a fun game.

December
We got a second group covering a Heather Nova song, this time the girls of All Angels put their take on "Singing You Through".

And for the third year in a row, we presented a Heather Nova Advent Calendar of recordings, photos, videos, and contests put together by Gerd. For this year, all days were available for the entire rest of the month of December after they appeared each day.

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I'm sorry for being a few days late on this New Years message. Luckily, Heather Nova has filled the void with her own greeting that hints at a possible new album in 2008. I look forward to seeing what this new year has to offer and hope to enjoy it with all of you here at Heather Nova Net. I would like to give thanks to Gerd, who continues to do a wonderful job running this site, and to Heather Nova, who continues to inspire us. I would also like to thank all of the fans here at Heather Nova Net who make these forums a community of friends.

So let's join together in wishing Heather Nova Net a Happy Third Birthday and each other a Happy New Year.

Cheers,
Cassander

There is a New Years message from Heather Nova on her myspace website www.myspace.com/heathernova:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

this morning i went out and built a teepee in the dirt for my son's playmobil toys. the sun was shining. i have a stinking cough and feel awful, but the light coming through the trees spoke of good things in store. for all of us. oh, and i have a bag full of songs waiting to be let out. it's gonna happen this year.
love to you all
heather


(source: www.myspace.com/heathernova )

2007 was a year without a Heather Nova tour and an album. But it wasn't a really quiet year for the fans i think! There were songs released in collaboration with Heather Nova and a new song of Heather Nova finally in November. There was a festival with her musical friends. Heather is working on songs for the new album having already lots of ideas and is creative with paintings as well. She considers touring the US east coast, releasing a live album from the Intimitate Evening Tour as well as a new studio album. So 2008 and 2009 is going to be very promising!

At this time of the year I also like to look back how our nice HNN community developed this year. A lot of new members joined again this year, having more than 440 members now, which is a good sign that you all love to be here and like our fan community. Thank you all for your participation in the forums, the riddles, the polls and whatever we had here. We hit already the 100000 postings mark after less then 3 years from the restart as HNN and more then 1.400.000 reads.
Thanks so much to all admins for helping, running the tournaments, helping with the Advent Calendar, caring about the forums, contributing to the different sections, correcting typos and whatever. It's a great teamwork!

This year has been very special to me and I cannot really express in words how much happy and thankful I am that Heather Nova and Felix gave me such a warm welcome to Bermuda and that Heather agreed to have an interview we could post on HNN! Thank you so much! Thanks as well to Fiona and Ian for the welcome and to Erin Moran and her crew from Greenrock, who is doing a great job to improve environmental awareness at Bermuda!

Thank you all for joining us at HNN, Merry Christmas to all of you and let's look forward to an upcoming great Heather Nova year 2008!

Love you all!
Gerd

There is a new Heather Nova song now available, called Higher Ground. You can even download it as mp3! What a very nice present from Heather at the end of the year to all her fans! Please go to the website of the swiss 7Sky magazine:

http://www.seventhsky.ch/index.php?lang_pref=en

For the direct link go here:

http://www.seventhsky.ch/2007/11/04/matt-george/

[edit Bernd, December 10: Contrary to earlier news, please note that with the 7Sky magazine no. 69 there is no CD with the song "Higher Ground" included! Included is only a cover for the CD, but not the CD itself! For "getting" the CD, you have to download the mp3 songs from the 7Sky website and to burn the CD yourself! ]


Thanks so much to Heather Nova for the information!

Heather Nova performed at the "Picnic in the Park" free family event on August 25, 2007 at Astwood Park, Bermuda, in support of sustainable development and the preservation of open spaces, especially to reject hotel building plans at the South Shore on Bermuda. This concert was first planned without Heather, but she had been added shortly before to the list of performers lined up. (best.org.bm)