The last birthday show sold out within weeks – and for good reason. This is a one of a kind show.

Tickets available now from Ticketweb

The next day in a welcome diversion from the unexpected rain, Ginger and 8 other acoustic guitar wielders set about rousing the crowd with a succession of Wildhearts classics in a format dubbed ‘guitarmageddeon’. The crowd was in fine voice and Ginger commented afterwards on Twitter: “Back from Download. Had WAAYYY too much fun. Acoustic set was an AMAZING experience. Thank you for being so wonderful”

The full line up was as follows:

• Adam (No Americana)
• Dave Kerr
• Rich Jones
• Billy Morrison
• Ginger
• Jase Edwards
• Chris Catalyst
• Dav (No Americana)
• Tom Spencer
• Denzil (drums)

See the following YouTube links for a few samplers of the mayhem.

• TV Tan
• Geordie In Wonderland
• I Wanna Go Where The People Go
• Sick of Drugs
• Suckerpunch

There are also photos by Mark Lathem

The setlist included:

I Wanna Go Where The People Go
Suckerpunch
Someone That Won’t Let Me Go
Red Light Green Light
Nita Nitro
Sick Of Drugs
TV Tan
29 times the pain
Geordie In Wonderland

As well as the already scheduled appearance with Michael Monroe on Saturday 12th, Ginger is to headline the Jägermeister acoustic stage on Sunday 13th June.

Ginger will be hitting the stage at 7.20pm – accompanied by Billy Morrison, Chris Catalyst, Jase Edwards and Rich Jones (so far…) – for a half hour set of Wildhearts songs that he’s determined will be “the loudest, most OTT acoustic gig ever, or we will have failed. And we don’t fail. Right?”

So you’ve heard the man: bring your best singing voices and expect mayhem and surprises!

Tickets and more information are available from the Download website.

You can watch the guys discussing tour plans and Rock’n'Roll lifestyles here.

Ginger recently joined up with Michael Monroe (Hanoi Rocks), to play with with him in his new project, along with Sami Yaffa (Hanoi Rocks, New York Dolls), Steve Conte (New York Dolls, Willy DeVille) and Karl Rockfist (Chelsea Smiles, Danzig).

They have already played a successful first tour covering the US, Scandinavia and UK, and now have more dates announced for the summer, including Download Festival at Donington Park:

• 09/05/10 Highline Ballroom, New York, USA
• 05/06/10 Helsinki Live 2010, Helsinki, Finland
• 09/06/10 Sweden Rock, Sölvesborg, Sweden
• 12/06/10 Download Festival, Donington Park, UK
• 03/07/10 Peace & Love Festival, Borlänge, Sweden
• 10/07/10 Ruisrock, Turku, Finland
• 16/07/10 Pakkahuone, Tampere, Finland
• 17/07/10 Simerock, Rovaniemi, Finland
• 07/08/10 Summersonic Festival, Osaka, Japan
• 08/08/10 Summersonic Festival, Tokyo, Japan
• 15/08/10 Ankkarock, Vantaa, Finland

Says Ginger of his current work activities:

“Myself and Steve Conte will be heavily involved in writing the new Michael Monroe album (along with Messrs Monroe and Yaffa – as well as some special guest writers). We definitely don’t want to make a generic Rock ‘n Roll album so expect something great.

Me? I’m just loving my little guitar/side man vacation after 20 years of front man/vocal duties. Everyone deserves a holiday, right?”

As well as Ginger’s appearance with Michael and friends at Download, there is also a petition to get Ginger on the bill with his own band line-up. You can see this and add your support at: http://www.petitiononline.com/gdload10/petition.html – let’s make this happen!

Scott is also still on the road with Sorry And The Sinatras (now featuring Rich Jones on guitar as well), and you can still catch them at:

• 21/04/10 Le Pub, Newport
• 22/04/10 Satan’s Hollow, Manchester
• 23/04/10 Zuu, Bradford
• 24/04/10 Marrs Bar, Worcester
• 25/04/10 Asylum 2, Birmingham

The guys have a Single, Hated Heart, out at the moment, available as a Limited Edition 7″ Picture Disc and a Digital Download. See the band’s Myspace for full details, and check out the video on YouTube right now!

So now summer looks like it’s about to turn up, get out there and enjoy it while it’s around!

Hit Band HQ and win an engraved iPod touch.

Do it. You deserve it.

Gx

The song, called Patience And Gratitude, will only be available as part of this video clip, and you can check it out here.

Subscribe to Ginger’s YouTube channel to ensure you don’t miss what will undoubtedly follow this first foray into film-making.

Upon arriving back in the UK a few weeks ago at Heathrow (and being a little too wrapped up in seemingly important things like whether the plane would land in the snow or if my train would be running) I was immediately greeted and numbed by the horrific and shocking news reports that followed after the Haiti Earthquake. As the magnitude of the disaster continues to grow by the day, I was very keen (like most people) to do ’something’.

Thus The Haiti Project – a charity download album – was born. Within a few days of sending emails and calls to my nearest and dearest friends an album quite literally ‘came together’.

The album is spearheaded by the anthemic debut track from The Sonic Graffiti, a new band from LA put together by Ginger, Billy Morrison, Michael Butler & Scott Lipps. The track entitled Mystery Number was recorded at Matt Sorum’s studio in August 2009 & was produced by the legendary Mike Clink.

I’d like to personally say a big thankyou to Ginger, Billy, Michael, Scott & Mike for donating this exclusive track, and allowing The Haiti Project to (hopefully) raise even more money.

http://www.facebook.com/thehaitiproject

The Haiti Project Tracklist:

1) The Sonic Graffiti – Mystery Number (Exclusive)
2) Eureka Machines – Being Good Is Ok, But Being Better’s Better
3) Electric Six – Newark Airport Boogie
4) Jackdaw 4 – Jesus Wants My Soul Back
5) The Loyalties – Sofa Surfin’ UK (Acoustic)
6) Antiproduct – When We Find Love
7) The Organ Beats – Happy Birthday/Come On Home
8) The Wildhearts – Unbroken
9) Tragedy: All Metal Tribute To The Bee Gees – Nights On Broadway
10) Radio Dead Ones – Take It On Trust
11) Ricky Warwick – Love Owes
12) Brijitte West (Feat. Jesse Malin) – How To Be Good
13) Moi? – This Is All That I Wanted
14) Laika Dog – Piano Song
15) Sorry & The Sinatras – Riverside
16) Children of The Unicorn – Nightshark

The album costs just £5 and can be downloaded from MusicGlue.

16 songs for £5!? Oh yes!

All of the money will be donated directly to the ongoing relief efforts and you’ll end up with 16 great tracks. Good deal.

http://www.facebook.com/thehaitiproject

From today ¡Chutzpah! Jnr, previously only available from the Xmess gigs, will be available from our webstore.

The mini-album, recorded during the same sessions as ¡Chutzpah!, features the following tracklist:

• Chutzpah! Jnr.
• The Snake, The Lion, The Monkey And The Spider
• All That Zen
• Vernix
• Under The Waves
• Some Days Just Fucking Suck
• People Who Died
• Zeen Requiem

The CD will cost £10 and there’ll be plenty of stock to satisfy the demand from those who weren’t able to attend the Xmess shows.

We apologise but, due to a rights issue with Vinyl Junkie, we are unable to ship this item to our Japanese fans – or indeed Asia at all. Sorry.

In related news, we’ll shortly be releasing a limited edition coloured vinyl of the ¡Chutzpah! album. No release details as yet, but we’ll keep you informed!

The Sonic Circus forum has been given a well-needed overhaul and brought under the Wildhearts umbrella so we’ve got a thriving community already but new faces are always welcome.

We’ve incorporated a chatroom too, which you’ll be able to access once you sign up for the main messageboard.

The original link will still operate for a while yet, but your new bookmark is http://www.thewildhearts.com/board/, or click the link in the menu banner.