We had a fantastic tour - thanks to all of you who were able to join us. We're now planning another tour in the Spring 2010, hopefully making it to the US this time. In the meantime we'll try and write a new song or two! We've completed the European leg of our tour and had a great time in London, Poland and Italy. Thanks to everyone for the warm receptions we received. Whilst in Poland 'It's that Girl again" went Platinum (another 1st for us). It has just been released there as a 15 track CD with a DVD of many of our videos. We're now in Japan looking forward to starting a 5 day run in Tokyo. Leading up to the London shows I did an interview for a UK radio station-you can listen to it now by following this link; http://markwatkinsblog.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html Unfortunately we won’t be making it to the US this year for any shows, but we’re hoping for an American tour in the spring of 2010. We’ll keep you informed. New Tour Dates page Just added! Tour Dates at last! The first part of our tour is finally confirmed. Details of how and when to book later, but for a start here are the dates. We’re hoping to tour America after Japan, but no dates for that yet. Unlike the shows we’ve done before, there will be six of us onstage (keyboards, guitar, trumpet, 2 backing vocalists and Basia) so it will be very much an ‘accoustic evening with...’ type of show. England London: Pizza on the Park 28th Sep - 2 Oct 2009 Poland Katowice/Zabrze: Dom Muzyki 5 Oct 2009 Warsaw: Sala Kongresowa 6 Oct 2009 Poznan: Aula UAM 7 Oct 2009   Italy Milan: Blue Note 9 Oct 2009 Japan Nagoya: Blue Note 13 Oct 2009 Tokyo: Blue Note 15-19 Oct 2009 ‘It’s That Girl Again’ has just become available by mail order. It features 15 tracks, including two bonus tracks, ‘Oh Mama’ and a new version of ‘Clear Horizon’. It costs £9.99 +P&P and the first 50 CD’s ordered will be signed by Basia. Follow the link below to order. http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=Basia We are just back from our travels in Poland and America and are having a few days of well-earned rest. Thanks to Leslie and the fans for keeping everyone posted and up to date on BasiaWeb. And Eva, a special thanks for the wonderful walnut muffins in Warsaw! We now have a release date in Thailand for 23rd June and a release for Indonesia is in the pipeline. We now have details of our promo trip to America New York (Tue/Wed May 12/13):Interviews for ABC News Now (Live 1pm May 12), Reuters TV and XM/Sirius Radio. LA (Thu May 14): Interview at The WAVE and at Broadcast Architecture/SmoothJazz.com San Diego (Fri May 15):Interviews for KIFM and NBC News (to be shown on the 4.30 Newscast) and at 7.30pm an instore appearance at Borders, 668 6th Avenue San Diego. San Francisco (Sat May 16): Interview with KKSF and an instore appearance at Borders, 588 Francisco Blvd, West San Rafael 4pm. Dear All! Things are moving along nicely in America. ‘Blame It On The Summer’ is creeping up the smooth jazz charts and ‘It’s That Girl Again’ (the CD) is number 5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart. In Poland, the CD has just gone Gold (a first for us!) and ‘A Gift’ is getting plenty of airplay. We’re leaving for America on Monday for a week’s promo. Watch this space for details. New Release Dates Singapore 24th April and Malaysia 1st May. ‘Smooth Operator’ A couple of years ago I was asked to sing on a Nissan commercial in Japan. They supplied the music and I supplied the vocals. Some of you have expressed an interest in hearing the full length recording, so we have added it to our MySpace songs. http://www.myspace.com/basiasongs Basia Live on Radio ORLA This Wednesday 8th April from 9-10pm, Basia and Danny will be doing a live interview, and accepting callers’ questions. See the below link for more info. http://www.orla.fm/polecamy/5-polecamy/4060-its-that-girl-again-basia-and-danny-in-studio The show will be repeated on Saturday 11th on Hayes FM 91.8 and will also be available from Thursday 9th on www.orla.fm/replay as a "Special Broadcast". 17th April will be the Polish release date. It’s That Girl Again will be available in Europe on iTunes from March 30th. And we’re in the process of signing a deal for it’s release in Poland, but no date yet. The first single in America will now be ‘Blame It On The Summer’ and will go to radio at the beginning of March Just received! We have just today heard that the Japanese release date will be the 11th March. We are happy to announce a release date of 24th March for our album 'It's That Girl Again' in the US with Koch Records. A Japanese deal with WHD has just been completed and the CD will be released there a week or two ahead of America. We are still working on securing a release in other territories and will let you know as soon as we do. Meanwhile, to our myspace songs we have just added a version of 'An Olive Tree' which was recorded live at the Neil Simon Theatre NY in '94. but never made it to our Broadway album. We are getting very excited as the time is getting near! Almost there! With a sigh of satisfaction, we pronounce the new CD finished at last. There will be 13 tracks on it. The first single, which happened to be the last one recorded, is called 'A Gift'. It's a song about not taking your loved one for granted, a reminder for us all perhaps! We're also happy to have secured a Japanese release, to add to our American one. And to those of you who have joined our mailing list, thank you, and we hope to be sending the first mail out in the New Year just as soon as we have confirmed dates. Contract signed at last! Our deal with Koch Records has at last been finalized for the release of our CD in North America. We're still working on the rest of the world! The schedule at the moment is for a single release in late January and then the album will follow in late February. We would then, all going well, tour some time around April/May/June time. Where exactly, we just don't know yet. To celebrate we have added a new taster 'There's a Tear'. Myspace news! Finally we have gotten around to having a page on Myspace! On there so far we have a new version of ‘Clear Horizon’ (without vocals). You can find it on our links page. Mixing. We have just finished mixing another song called ‘Oh Mama’ which is a duet with a young relative of mine (also called Basia). It’s not the first time we’ve kept it in the family, Eva, my sister, sang with us on the Matt Bianco tour in 2005. And of course Peter, Danny’s brother, has played guitar on many of our songs. Happy days! Danny and I are nearing completion of our new album at last. We’re looking forward to sharing it with you. We are back to working as a duo after a re-union with our friend Mark Reilly, as Matt Bianco, when we recorded ‘Matt’s Mood’ (2004). Latest news on our new recording contract is that we are just about to sign a North American deal with Koch Records, an exciting new company to us, that has, in it’s nine years existence, quickly grown to become America’s largest independently-distributed record company and is the fastest-growing independent record label in the US. We are aiming to release our album with them in early Spring 2009 and as for it's title, that’s going to be rather fittingly, ‘It’s that Girl Again’. http://markwatkinsblog.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.htmlhttp://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=Basiahttp://www.myspace.com/basiasongshttp://www.orla.fm/polecamy/5-polecamy/4060-its-that-girl-again-basia-and-danny-in-studiohttp://www.orla.fm/polecamy/5-polecamy/4060-its-that-girl-again-basia-and-danny-in-studiohttp://www.orla.fm/replayhttp://livepage.apple.com/shapeimage_22_link_0shapeimage_22_link_1shapeimage_22_link_2shapeimage_22_link_3shapeimage_22_link_4shapeimage_22_link_5

“When I look around

it makes me wonder,

am I worthy of the most amazing life that I’ve been given?”


from ‘The Prayer of a Happy Housewife’

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Just for Fun

Thanks to all of you who voted. We’ve found it really interesting to see what most grabs you so far.

Your top four songs were:

  1. 1.If Not Now Then When

  2. 2.Blame It On The Summer

  3. 3.I Must

  4. 4.A Gift

This mini-poll has been a snapshot of first impressions, perhaps later on we might run another more extensive one, when more of you have had a chance to hear the songs.

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