This Little Bird - UK 2006 Tour
October 20 - London, Lauderdale House
October 21 - London, Halo
October 26 - Glasgow, Ramshorn Theatre
October 29 - Liverpool, Heart and Soul
November 1 - Dublin, Bewley's Café Theatre
November 3 - Aberdeen, Cowdray Hall
November 4 - Dundee, Chaplaincy Centre
Live at Wood Hall is a 2 CD recording covering some old favorites from "6 Songs" and "Secrets", a few that were on the Live @ Lucky bootleg and some new previously unreleased songs and covers. In all there are 23 songs, of which 15 are not on Ally's previous studio releases. The track listing is as follows:
(Ani DiFranco)
(Jerome Kern, P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Hammerstein II)
(Jerome Kern, Leo Robin)
(Adam Duritz, David Bryson, Charles Gillingham, Matt Malley, Ben Mize, Dan Vickrey)
(Traditional Aire ~ Words by Sir Thomas Moore)
(Tori Amos)
(Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg)
(John Lennon)
(Fred Foster & Kris Kristofferson)
Adrian has told men that the UK touring dates are likly to mid-November. A likly venue has been found for the London gig at the Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road.
Adrian is also looking for other venues and would be glad to hear of any in your area of the UK. The venue should have a grand piano and of a relatively small size.
Adrian mentioned in a newsgroup post to me the Allison is planning to tour in UK and Europe. Here is a snippet from Adrian's post:
"FYI, Allison is planning to tour the U.K. and Europe next Fall/Winter. The dates will fall into place early in the coming New Year. It's looking, though, like we will have an opportunity to meet next November/December (if not sooner)!
Thank you so much for helping introduce people in the UK to Alley and her music ( :
cheers, Ad"
The extended version of tidings has been released. A full review and streaming audio tracks are available in the music section.
Here is the official track listing of the new Tidings album as given to me by Adrian Allison's manager. He also indicated that the new Tidings will probably be released in November.
(Leonard Cohen)
(Joni Mitchell)
(Leonard Cohen)
(Traditional)
(Traditional)
(Traditional)
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
(Traditional)
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
(Traditional)
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
(Sarah McLachlan)
In the tradition of Allison's albums Tidings it to get a re-release. However unlike 6 Songs various flavours it is going to be upgraded to a full length release. Allison will be returning to the studio that she recorded the last version to ensure the same ambience. The only details about tracks so far is that it will include all the songs from last time around and a cover of Joni Mitchell's River.
Further to the excellent song "Unstable" which will be appearing on the album (a live version is in the live @ lucky section on the music page), many of the following tracks are expected to also be appearing:
(Matthew Good)
(Melanie)
This was the track listing album as conceived at the start of this year. However since then Allison has been rather prolific meaning that there are now enough songs to fill three albums! This has Ally thinking about what to do about! It is possible that a 2CD album may be released or just a re-pick of tracks. I'll let you know when I know!