Happy new year...

after a really successful evening in Hermersberg there ist nothing left than wishing You all a happy new year. Keep the fingers crossed for us for Portugal and come also in 2008 with much good mood to our concerts.
Hi, Tin Pan Alley-friends,

If you don´t know what to do at 29th Dec.07, you better come to our party at 21:00, in: 66919 Hermersberg, Hauptstr. The location is called "Gasthaus zur Post"...(You won´t miss it if you look for the big church in this little town...!!!)
We wanna celebrate Blues-Rock and Boogie again and rock the house down !
Albert Koch, our virtuous harp-player is coming back from munic to meet the band only for this night!

Some other news : Our CD-Production is on the way, but not ready yet!
So, we had to get a "Rough-Mix" for the application of the portugal-festival in summer (17th - 26th July 2008) before the deadline on 31st of dec. If someone likes more info about that, go to:

http://www.fmm.com.pt/english/index.htm

"Michael" did it with excelence and Franz Schreiber burned some Promo-CDs for working with...
Naturely you can´t buy this promotion-CD, because of some laws and anyway: We try to offer you this time a very high-quality product, and so we have to take time to do everything quite right!
Maybe it will be available around Easter-time in 2008...

Be sure you will get informed!

Have a nice Christmas-Party and forget the blues on this evening!
beer drinking & hell raising:

holy Fetze !

Next and last date in 2007 - 30. 12. 2007 - Hermersberg - "zur Post"

Once again, our end-of-the-year-ceremony – hopefully with many more to succeed – is going to take place in Hermergsberg in Fetzes favorite barroom "Zur Post". Like last year, it will be pretty crowdie – so if you want to join us, better turn up early...

Hallo dear friends on Freitag, the 23nd november 2007 we are playing on the "Enkenbach-Alsenborner Kulturtage" at 08.00 PM in "Seegers Scheune". We start playing on the dot because the event has no open end...

Time to Play !
...once more it is time to play...!
That's what we all thought when we arranged a gig at once at "Barry's" at Vogelwoog in KL! Given the unreliable summer weather, Barry´s canopied beer garden turns out a reasonable opportunity. (...see the Vogelwoog website)
The date on Sunday, 26.08.07, (16:00 h) is acceptable even for those who want to assist at the "Hermersberger Schnappsgassenfest ", as until 16:00 h anybody really should have had "breakfast"...
So we want to brush away this, yon weekend with a cosy Sunday afternoon and get mentally and morally prepared for the Stormy Monday!

Further news: Tin Pan Alley is going to record a new CD in September. All sorts of songs have already been assembled, which until this date had not been available on any Tin Pan Alley CD!
This gotta be changed!
We hope to get this recording done until Christmas! ...wouldn't it make a cute little present beneath the Christmas tree? ...or maybe a substitute for the ornamenting baubles?
However, we had a creative time and made use of it - now it's "Up on the stage" again!

Besides, we are just preparing for one of the greatest Jazz festivals on the Iberian Peninsula: Festival Músicas do Mundo - in Sines, Portugal (greetings from Roger M,)!
Any success will immediately be forwarded to you, so you may charter a Jumbo in order to make a frenetic audience for us!

So far:
Good luck & Trouble
Yours Fetze and the TIN PAN ALLEY BLUES-BAND


31.03.2007 Baden Baden - Blues Club
Too bad for those who missed it...



Now, here's your Webmaster personally. I'm still swept off my feet! After just 4 hour's sleep I have to deliver the message at once: this was the most beautiful, awesome and what-else-should-I-say concert I ever enjoyed with you guys - and that's saying something, because I've been to a lot!
What? Each time I say that? But this time it's right - honestly!

I wish all of you, and those who've been there, to enjoy what's left of the weekend. From tomorrow on you can have a look at the photos right here..

Greetings from your webmaster up on his cloud.


Dear fans,
finally, in one week the bluesless time comes to an end. On Saturday 03.03.07 the Benderhof (Kaiserslautern, Richard-Wagner-Str. 74) wants to become deeply melancholic.
We plan to strike back and want to introduce some variations in our program playing predominantly "acoustic" instruments, and whoop it all up.
Of course the feeling must become a different one, and many themes will be beyond any comparison to their ordinary performance, but surely get a totally new "touch".
Anyway, we feel confident and look straight forward to the "challenge" of playing a "natural sound".

The production of our new DVD is going to be delayed for another few days, but I promise you will be among the first ones to be informed of its release!!!
Hope to see you there!!!
bye

Yours Fetze!
Hi Fans,
in my last News-Letter I announced for 3rd February 07 a real hot "Unplugged-Concert" at the Bender-Hof in Kaiserslautern. Sadly, we had to delay the concert until 3rd march, otherwise we would have to renounce on our drummer... (...and we don't want to see just one half of the band...!!!)
So get your date book and substitute the appointment in February by 3rd March 07. Hope you can get this arranged?
Hopefully, in the meanwhile we might surprise you with the release of our recent DVD production... What I can already tell you: the recordings from the last "home match" at the Sickinger-Höhe turned out to be excellent... praised be our "Axel" !!!
But the best dishes are stewed slowly - so we don't want to precipitate anything, but take our time in order to produce a nice video...

So don't forget: not 3rd February, but 3rd March !!!
Bye Yours Fetze!


Also:

First of all a big big ""Thank you"to everybody! - yeah!

At the "home matches" on last 23. and 30.12. we reached full score, last not least thanks to our loyal audience!

No doubt the mood in the Hard-Rock-Cafe the day before Christmas Eve had already been cheerful, but on 30th it was absolutely boiling at Alfred's! Each of the attendees can confirm this. A special sign for any musician that a real nice evening had been spent, is that nobody wants to go home after the show. Like that evening. After dismantling the sound equipment, Albert, Blacky, Fetze, Helmut and Franz spontaneously opened an acoustic session that made the strings break... ending with the sacrifice of the new year's cake in Fetze´s living room, washed down with coffee, wine and beer!

All the musicians agreed (...and that's no flattering!!!) that in Hermersberg we had the best audience a band like us could dream of.

If the imminent revision of the video material should turn out in acceptable stereo recordings, then surely nothing shall impede their release on DVD in the next future. But until then, we will still have to organize a lot of technical details (e.g. the royalties), as you may suppose.

So just have a little more patience and be glad that you have been there! - Just like we do!

If you are interested in some pictures from the Hard-rock-Cafe, you can download the Dia-shows of Axel Gleiche. Very nice photos, and the Dia-show offers a comfortable view. They are absolutely virus free and totally gratis!
Here's the Web address: http://www.lr-marketing-gleiche.de/Band02/Diashow.html

As we already advised, for the gig in Hermersberg there is still no material available... but we must get it soon!

It is still a while until the next acoustic gig at the Benderhof on 03.02.07... So just lean back, relax and let the Blues pour out of your walls of sound...

On this note: Happy New Year!

Yours Fetze!