Like last year, Heather Nova stopped on her fall tour 2011 in hospitals, mostly in departements of psychiatry and psychotherapy, by giving free acoustic concerts (with Arnulf Lindner on cello) for the patients. These concerts weren't available for public.

In an "OpenMag" interview in 2007, Heather stated: "i have always had the idea to bring music into hospitals. they are supposedly places of healing, but i don't feel the energy of healing when i go into a hospital, in fact i feel small and fearful. healing takes place on many levels, physical yes, but also emotional and spiritual. i think music could help with the latter two."

Together with Thomas Hahn from the "Agency for social artists", who has already organized the hospital concerts last year, this idea could be fulfilled again.

Here you can see a short documentation made by German TV station "SWR" about Heather Nova doing a concert in the "Robert Bosch Hospital" in Stuttgart. Also Thomas Hahn is being interviewed.

ARD Mediathek (in German language)


Edit by Gerd (1/1/2012): Here is a clarification on hospital gigs by Heather:

"this is a project i have been thinking about for some time. i call it "living music" and my idea was to bring live music to those who are too ill to go to a concert. i feel that hospitals are places where people go to get well, but that often some of the elements needed to FEEL well on all levels are missing in hospitals. it is my feeling that music can relax and stimulate the senses and emotions in a way that is beneficial to the whole being and therefore it can play a part in the overall healing and wellbeing of a patient, even if it is in a small way.
but even if all it does is give pleasure to someone and allow them half an hour of enjoyment and a break from the stress of their situation, that is enough too.
so when i am on tour i stop in at hospitals in some of the cities i am playing, and give informal acoustic gigs to those who want to listen. it is all done on a volunteer basis, no fees involved, in the spirit of a simple sharing of music. "

Heather Nova's appearance at the French show "Taratara" will be aired on January 13, 2012 on tv station "France 2" and on mytaratata.com.

The recording took place on November 7, 2011 in Paris. She performed "Higher Ground" and a duet (cover from Bruce Springsteen's song "No Surrender") with Belgian singer Milow.

Thanks to Low!

Edited 02-Jan-2012 with new date: Thanks to Rero!

We have more dates for the Heather Nova Spring Tour 2012! It seems she will do support for Bryan Adams, but also do own concerts!

Note: all concerts are not confirmed so far. It isn't official yet that she actually is support for Bryan Adams on all his concert days, but she said so.

For her own concerts, tickets are sometimes already on sale (look at livenation.be, livenation.nl or the venues websites).

For Bryan Adams concerts, tickets are on sale.

The timelime so far:

Sat, March 17, 2012, The Zenith, Paris, France (support for Bryan Adams)
Sun, March 18, 2012, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium (own concert)
Mon, March 19, 2012, The Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands (support for Bryan Adams)
Tue, March 20, 2012, Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium (support for Bryan Adams)
Wed, March 21, 2012, Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany (support for Bryan Adams)
Thu, March 22, 2012 ?
Fri, March 23, 2012, Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland (support for Bryan Adams)
Sat, March 24, 2012, Arena Nürnberger, Nuremberg, Germany (support for Bryan Adams)
Sun, March 25, 2012 ?
Mon, March 26, 2012, Metropool, Hengelo, Netherlands (own concert)
Tue, March 27, 2012 ?
Wed, March 28, 2012, Schleyerhalle, Stuttgart, Germany (support for Bryan Adams)
Thu, March 29, 2012, SAP Arena, Mannheim, Germany (support for Bryan Adams)
Fri, March 30, 2012, Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany (support for Bryan Adams)
Sat, March 31, 2012, Snowpen Air, Grindelwald, Switzerland (support for Bryan Adams) (edit: deleted on Jan-10-2012)
Sun, April 1, 2012 ?
Mon, April 2, 2012, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands (own concert)

Of course, she needs rest days / promo days between, so the days without concerts so far, may or may not be filled with other concerts. Also it is possible that there may added dates before March 17 or after April 2.

Heather Nova's concert at the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague (November 18, 2011) was professionally filmed by Dutch station VPRO and can be watched for free at

VPRO.nl

Due to the fact this was a festival concert, Heather Nova played a reduced set of 12 songs.

Heather was in Paris on November 7, 2011, to record the "Taratata" tv show there. She performed "Higher Ground" and a duet (cover from Bruce Springsteen's song "No Surrender") with Belgian singer Milow.

The complete program (with other artists, too) will probably be aired in January 2012 and streamed on mytaratata.com.

Heather Nova will play at Vooruit in Ghent, Belgium, on Sunday, March 18, 2012. This will be a full band show. Tickets can already be bought at Livenation.be.

Don't forget, the Heather Nova fall tour 2011 is starting tomorrow! The concerts will be with full band.

02.11.2011 - Rockefeller - Oslo, NOR
03.11.2011 - Göta Källare - Stockholm, SWE
04.11.2011 - Trädgår´n - Gothenburg, SWE
05.11.2011 - Kulturbolaget - Malmo, SWE
06.11.2011 - Vega - Copenhagen, DEN
08.11.2011 - Hard Rock Cafe - Warsaw, PL
09.11.2011 - Astra - Berlin, DE
11.11.2011 - Haus Auensee - Leipzig, DE
12.11.2011 - Rolling Stone Weekender - Weissenhauser Strand, DE
13.11.2011 - Ringlokschuppen - Bielefeld, DE
14.11.2011 - E-Werk - Cologne, DE
16.11.2011 - Frankfurter Hof - Mainz, DE
17.11.2011 - Effenaar - Eindhoven, NL
18.11.2011 - Crossing Borders festival - The Hague, NL
19.11.2011 - Crossing Borders festival - Antwerp, BE
20.11.2011 - Bataclan - Paris, FR
22.11.2011 - Theaterhaus - Stuttgart, DE
23.11.2011 - Theaterfabrik - Munich, DE
24.11.2011 - WUK - Vienna, AUS
25.11.2011 - Kaufleuten - Zurich, CH
27.11.2011 - Atelier - Luxemburg, LUX
28.11.2011 - Le Grand Mix - Tourcoing, FR
29.11.2011 - The Scala - London, UK

On heathernova.com, you will be able to download mp3's from the concerts for 10 Euros each. Paypal or credit card.

Heather Nova will be supporting act for Bryan Adams during his European tour in March 2012.

It is not fully clear at which concerts she will be supporting act yet (many? all?), but here is a list of all Bryan Adams concerts:

Bryan Adams European Tour 2012

On some online music stores, you can buy a mp3-download of the new single "Beautiful Ride" now:

For example:
Amazon.de
Amazon.fr
Musicload.de
iTunes Germany
iTunes Austria
iTunes Switzerland
iTunes France

If you know any music stores that sells the single to people especially in UK or US, please tell us!

The tracklist:
1. Beautiful Ride (Radio Edit, 3:44)
2. Drive Away (3:55)
3. Maybe Tomorrow (Acoustic live version, 3:42)
4. Ride (Acoustic live Version, 3:26)
5. Beautiful Ride (Album version, 4:26)

The song "Drive Away" was only available on Pledgemusic so far, it seems to be the same version.
"Maybe Tomorrow" is likely from Leiden, October 15, 2010.
"Ride" is likely from Breda, October 11, 2010.

For some fall tour concerts, there will be exclusive "VIP upgrades" available.

Please note that this time, the concept is different to the previous tour:

- only VIP upgrades are sold, they include NO ticket for the show. You have to buy a ticket for the show separately. Therefore the VIP upgrades do not include "premium seating" or such anymore.

- the VIP upgrades are limited to 15 per show

- the VIP upgrades cost 30 Euros (plus 3 Euros fee) and include:
1) A Meet and Greet with Heather
2) One Commemorative VIP laminate with keychain or caribiner.
3) One MP3 live recording of a Heather Nova show from the tour

- the website where you can order the VIP upgrades is still the same, please check them for details:

https://www.artistarena.eu.com/heathernova/

- the website for VIP upgrades in London is different, please check here:

https://www.artistarena.uk.com/heathernova/

- VIP upgrades are available for: Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bielefeld, Cologne, Eindhoven, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, Luxembourg, and London.

On Amazon.de and Amazon.fr, you can buy a mp3-download of the new single "Beautiful Ride" from September 30 on:

http://www.amazon.de/Beautiful-Ride/dp/B005MY8UT2
http://www.amazon.fr/Beautiful-Ride/dp/B005N7I2XW

1. Beautiful Ride (Radio Edit, 3:44)
2. Drive Away (3:55)
3. Maybe Tomorrow (3:42)
4. Ride (3:26)
5. Beautiful Ride (4:26)

According to "Guerilla Music Promotion", there will be a new single "Beautiful Ride" on September 30!

Canadian singer/songwriter Sara Johnston will be the support act for Heather on the fall 2011 tour. Sara Johnston is a member of Bran Van 3000, and she is Heather Nova's cousin!

www.sarajohnston.com

www.myspace.com/sarajohnston

Today finally the tickets for the Crossing Border festival in Antwerp went on sale. Heather Nova plays there on November 19, 2011!

Tickets: Crossing Border Antwerp

The Heather Nova unplugged concert with Arnulf Lindner from May 26, 2011 in Saarbrücken was originally aired on German radio station SR1 on July 7, 2011. The show will be aired again on German radio station WDR2 on August 14, 2011, at 23:05h. So in case you missed it, you get have another opportunity to listen to it:

http://www.wdr2.de/musik/heathernova106.html

Heather Nova will play in Zurich, Switzerland, at club Kaufleuten on November 25, 2011.

Tickets are already on sale!

Thanks to rhope!

Don't forget that Heather Nova will play this week three times with full band in Europe!

Here are the dates again:
27.07.2011 - Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, SWI
29.07.2011 - Garage - Saarbrücken, DE
30.07.2011 - Suikerrock - Tienen, BE

The second part of the TV Noir show with Heather Nova and Jonas David, recorded June 5 at "Heimathafen Neukölln" in Berlin, was shown on July 8 on the German TV channel "zdf.kultur".

Heather performed (with Arnulf Lindner):
- Everything Changes
- Tainted Love (by Ed Cobb, Gloria Jones and Soft Cell cover)
- Higher Ground

The second part is 43:18 minutes long and can now be viewed here:
http://tvnoir.de/tv-noir-mit-heather-nova-und-jonas-david-teil-2/
(unfortunately only with German IP addresses)

It is the same version as shown on television.

Please note that "TV Noir" intentionally airs its program in black/white format, so this is no mistake.

Today, the Heather Nova unplugged concert with Arnulf Lindner from May 26, 2011 in Saarbrücken was aired on German radio station SR1. The setlist: Walk This World / Beautiful Ride / Heart And Shoulder / Save A Little Piece Of Tomorrow / Everything Changes / Like Lovers Do / Someone New / Turn The Compass Round / London Rain / Burning To Love / Stop The Fire / Island / Higher Ground (faded out).

Don't forget: tomorrow (July 8) the second part of the television show "TV Noir" will be aired on German television channel zdf.kultur and on tvnoir.de.

UPDATE:

The unplugged Heather Nova concert from May 26, 2011 in Saarbrücken will be broadcast on German radio station SR1 already on Thursday, July 7 (not July 14!), from 9pm till 10pm.

You can listen to SR1 via webradio here: http://www.sr-online.de/sr1/349/

And here is some SR radio recorder that might be useful: http://www.sr-online.de/sr1/2918/1065629.html

Thanks to schwinn!

This is not an April Fools joke! Heather Nova has really made Drive Away part of her final PledgeMusic update.

As someone who has asked for this song for years now, I just want to personally thank Heather Nova for releasing this song. It's wonderful!

And in her own words:

final gift of thanks:

hi

i want to give you a final gift to thank you for your ongoing support and patience during my pledge campaign. i loved making all the exclusive items for you, and i hope you're enjoying the new album.

here are three previously unreleased recordings:

"flowers and blood" is a song i wrote during the "jasmine flower" period that never made it onto the album.
"drive away" is a song i wrote during the "south" period that never made it onto the album.
and i have also included my original demo of "motherland".

i hope you enjoy them, and thank you again for helping me get this record out.

hope to see you on the road!

love, peace and music

heather xx

These tracks are available only to Pledgers.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/heathernova/updates/5307

Second statement from Heather Nova about the fake signatures, dated from today (June 30):

a personal note from heather about your signed cd

dear friends and fans of my music

by now you will have received a personal letter of apology from my manager, but i would like to again address this very ugly situation of the false signatures that went out on some of the cd/dvds that were ordered on pledge. i cant tell you how sad and sick and angry i feel over the whole thing. my fans are so important to me and integrity has always been my priority both in my personal and professional life, so this has really hit me hard. you and i have both been very let down by this.

what really makes me sad is that i literally spent weeks working on the pledge items - making all the hand painted tshirts, lyric sheets, hand painted cd covers etc, and taking the time to make them all special because it's important to me to give something of high quality. now that this has happened with the cds it has made some people wonder about the authenticity of all of it. let me assure you that every pledge item that was sent out was authentic aside from the group of special edition cds that went out with fake signatures.

what seems to have happened is that although i signed all the cds, by mistake my management had given me too many of the regular cds and not enough of the special edition ones to sign but didnt realize this until they started packing them up to send, after i had left germany. what they should have done at this point of course was to call me and tell me of the problem so that we could have worked out how to get those cds to me to sign. but instead they were worried about missing the deadline and took it upon themselves to sign my name on the extra ones. obviously a very bad choice as it is essentially forgery. they knew i would never have allowed this so they didnt tell me. the first i knew of it was when a fan from the forum sent me a photo of the forged signature. (my management have told me that although they dont know the exact figure, there were in the region of 15-20 of them)

although i had no part in what went on and essentially i was as betrayed as you were, i still feel that because it is so closely attached to my music and my name and it happened under my pledge campaign, i would like to offer all of my fans a gift; i will put together a collection of unreleased demos and send them as an mp3 download to everyone who participated in the pledge campaign. (of course, in addition, my management will be making sure that anyone who received a cd with a fake signature will get a genuinely signed one asap)

i hope this will reset the atmosphere back to one of trust between us. i value your support and your loyalty and i hope that we can leave this incident in the past and focus on the positive - namely, the music.

i would like to add that although this was totally unethical behaviour on the part of my management, they are doing their best to rectify the situation and are very sorry indeed. many of you have asked if i will be firing my management but i will not. i had to look at the big picture and take all things into consideration. sometimes things like this are a wake-up call, and i believe that my management has learned from this and won't ever do anything like it again. at least not on my watch! in this case i felt that to forgive and move on (and make sure the damage was taken care of) was the best action. i hope you will too. in all other areas they are doing a great job.

once again, thank you so very much for your support, and I am deeply sorry for this unfortunate situation.

in good faith

heather nova

ps. if anyone is in any doubt as to the validity of their signed copy please see below. the image above is a fake and the one in silver is my genuine signature. although of course each of mine is not totally identical, you can clearly see there is a huge difference in style. i signed some of the cds in black and some in silver; some on the front cover and some on the back of the booklet. if you received a cd with a fake signature please contact my manager, ulysses, and he will send you a new one that has been genuinely signed by me. ulysses@halbemiete.com

Examples:
1) FAKE signature
2) GENUINE signature

Statement from Ulysses Hüppauff (Halbe Miete Management) about the fake signatures:

Hello,

Here is an update on various Pledge topics:

During her European promo trip, Heather worked hard for several days signing all the cds and cd/dvds.

When the album was released and Heather flew back to Bermuda, we started to fulfill all pledges and send out the packages.

However – due to some internal chaos, we ran out of Heather's signed cds, and consequently some items went out with the wrong signature. This only affects a few of the Special Edition CDs (nothing else) and the amount of items involved was minimal.

Of course this is still totally unacceptable and I, as the owner of the management company, must take full responsibility for this. Also I want to make it clear that Heather was in no way involved in the problem with the wrong signatures, and knew nothing about it until now. She is understandably very upset as she spent a lot of time making all her pledge items, and wanted them all to be special for her fans.

Therefore, if you think you received one of the CDs with a wrong signature, please contact me directly on: ulysses@halbemiete.com.

We have now ordered more CDs and Heather will sign them as soon as she is back in Europe in July. We will be sure to get these out to you as soon as possible so that you receive the original CD in its intended condition.

Apart from the above, all pledges have now been sent out except for the framed artwork and framed poster orders - this is due to some problems with the company providing the frames.

We know that the correct frames will be in very soon, so we can send out these orders ASAP.

In the event that you pledged for extra pieces besides the framed artwork or picture, and you would like to have the smaller items sent separately, again, please contact me directly so I can take care of the shipment.

Alternatively, if you would rather not wait any longer and wish to cancel the pledge for the framed picture we can obviously also arrange this.

Thanks so much for supporting Heather on her new album.

Again, please accept my sincere apologies for the the embarrassing situation with the signed Ltd. Edition CDs.

Best regards, Ulysses

Some people recently ordered a signed Heather Nova CD or CD/DVD via Pledgemusic, but got an item with a fake signature.

If the signature you got looks like this, it is a genuine Heather Nova signature and it is ok:
http://www.heathernova.net//uploads/newbb/605_4e05134fde9e9.jpg

If it looks totally different, for example like this (with or without dedication), it is a fake signature:
http://www.heathernova.net//uploads/newbb/500_4e04face4601e.jpg

This is Heather's response about it:

thank you for letting me know about this. i am as horrified as you are to see this, and i cannot understand what has happened. i spent several hours signing all the cds and cd/dvds for the pledge campaign when i was in germany last month. i then handed them over to my management who were organizing the fulfillment. (packaging up and sending)

i agree with you - it is totally unethical, and i promise you i will get to the bottom of how/why this happened and make sure you receive one that has been genuinely signed by myself. i am just wondering where all my signed ones went. it is totally bizarre.

i think you are aware of how much respect and appreciation i have for my fans. i would never jeopardize the loyalty of my fans by authorizing something like this and i'm deeply upset that this has happened in association with my name and my music.

i have put in a call to my manager and am awaiting his reply. hopefully he will be able to shed some light on what has happened and why.

my sincere apologies, on behalf of whomever is responsible, that you were treated in this way.

kind regards

heather nova

The locations for the three Swedish dates are now set:

03.11.2011 - Göta Källare - Stockholm, SWE
04.11.2011 - Trädgår´n - Gothenburg, SWE
05.11.2011 - Kulturbolaget - Malmo, SWE

Tickets can already be bought at eventim.se.

The first part of the TV Noir show with Heather Nova and Jonas David, recorded June 5 at "Heimathafen Neukölln" in Berlin, was shown today on the German TV channel "zdf.kultur".

Heather performed (with Arnulf Lindner):
- Beautiful Ride
- Natural Woman (by Carole King, on request of the audience)
- Island (not shown on TV, only on tvnoir.de)
- Like Lovers Do

The full part one (56:28 minutes) can be watched on tvnoir.de, the shorted TV version of part one (43:47 minutes) can be watched until June 24 in the "ZDF mediathek" on zdf.de.

The second part will be shown on July 8 on "zdf.kultur" and uploaded on tvnoir.de.

Please note that "TV Noir" intentionally airs its program in black/white format, so this is no mistake. As a special surprise, Heather played the song "Tainted Love" (hopefully to be shown in part two).

There are even more Heather Nova tour dates!

03.11.2011 - Stockholm, SWE
04.11.2011 - Gothenburg, SWE
05.11.2011 - Malmo, SWE

http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur-och-nojen/article1495243/Heather-Nova-till-Malmo.html

Thanks to Tomas!

Here are the Heather Nova tourdates for 2011! The concerts are with full band. Please note that it is the first time that Heather comes to Poland!

27.07.2011 - Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, SWI
29.07.2011 - Garage - Saarbrücken, DE
30.07.2011 - Suikerrock - Tienen, BE
02.11.2011 - Rockefeller - Oslo, NOR
06.11.2011 - Vega - Copenhagen, DEN
08.11.2011 - Hard Rock Cafe - Warsaw, PL
09.11.2011 - Astra - Berlin, DE
11.11.2011 - Haus Auensee - Leipzig, DE
12.11.2011 - Rolling Stone Weekender - Weissenhauser Strand, DE
13.11.2011 - Ringlokschuppen - Bielefeld, DE
14.11.2011 - E-Werk - Cologne, DE
16.11.2011 - Frankfurter Hof - Mainz, DE
17.11.2011 - Effenaar - Eindhoven, NL
18.11.2011 - Crossing Borders festival - The Hague, NL
19.11.2011 - Crossing Borders festival - Antwerp, BE
20.11.2011 - Bataclan - Paris, FR
22.11.2011 - Theaterhaus - Stuttgart, DE
23.11.2011 - Theaterfabrik - Munich, DE
24.11.2011 - WUK - Vienna, AUS
27.11.2011 - Atelier - Luxemburg, LUX
28.11.2011 - Le Grand Mix - Tourcoing, FR
29.11.2011 - The Scala - London, UK

For most concerts, tickets can already be bought. Please check heathernova.com for details.

Please check out the relaunched website heathernova.com, Heather Nova's offical website! It contains news, a bio, a discography, tour info, media files, images, and has a shop.

A very interesting and personal interview with Heather Nova (21 minutes), made by Faceculture, about the new album and her biography, can be watched here:

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJaG_cR2FnA

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbCL41MfjlU

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flB22u2F9XU

Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8-e5h0PEcE

Thanks to schwinn!