The Wildhearts have been confirmed as special guests supporting Buckcherry in Germany on the 4th and 5th of August

Tue 04 Aug - Köln - Underground
Wed 05 Aug - Berlin - Magnet

Tickets are 20 Euros in advance per show.

Cologne Tickets: Koelnticket
Berlin Tickets: TrinityConcerts

The Wildhearts announce details of new album 'Chutzpah!' plus a full UK September/ October Tour

The Wildhearts will return with their 9th studio album, Chutzpah!, on 31st August and head out on a full UK tour in September and October.

Recorded in Denmark with producer Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, The Bronx, The Storm) the band are adamant that the new album will be no ordinary Wildhearts record and is described by lead singer Ginger as "unlike any that we've made so far". Bassist Scott Sorry added "This album is not only my favourite Wildhearts record, but it's one of my favourite records to have ever been a part of".

The track listing will run as follows:

1. The Jackson Whites
2. Plastic Jebus
3. The Only One
4. John Of Violence
5. You Are Proof That Not All Women Are Insane
6. Tim Smith
7. Low Energy Vortex
8. You Took The Sunshine From New York
9. Mazel Tov Cocktail
10. Chutzpah

The band has also been busy booking a UK headline tour which will include an appearance at Sonisphere festival on August 1st as well as a headline show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.

17/09/09: Concorde 2, Brighton
18/09/09: O2 Academy, Bristol
19/09/09: Rock City , Nottingham
20/09/09: Waterfront, Norwich
21/09/09: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
22/09/09: Phoenix, Exeter
24/09/09: O2 Academy 2, Birmingham
25/09/09: The Sugarmill, Stoke-On-Trent
26/09/09: Cockpit, Leeds
27/09/09: Garage, Glasgow
28/09/09: O2 Academy, Newcastle
30/09/09: Club Academy, Manchester
01/10/09: Shepherds Bush Empire, London

Lead singer Ginger said:

"It's always great to play to Wildhearts crowds, they really are the best crowd in the world. We are a very lucky band in that respect, and we never take it for granted. This time we'll be promoting the new album which has Scott and CJ singing lead vocals too, so I'll be in heaven being able to take a break from f***ing singing all the time. I can't wait to see people’s reaction to the new material".

The Wildhearts' album 'Chutzpah!' is released on 31st August on Backstage Alliance and is distributed through Cargo.

The Wildhearts have been confirmed to play the Sonisphere festival on Saturday 1st August. The festival is at Knebworth and features many other great rock and metal bands including headliners Metallica and Linken Park.

Tickets and line-up information are available at the Sonisphere website.

Ginger and a very special band will be performing a Wildhearts set along with a few solo gems in Los Angeles at the Viper Room on 16th July, and then as special guests to the Toadies at El Rey on the 17th July

Playing in the band will Billy Morrison, Michael Butler & Scott Lipps

For more info visit The El Rey
Tickets for the Viper room
For tickets for the El Rey (Toadies)

Ginger says.. (from his Facebook)
I'm playing LA, Viper room July 16th, El Rey Theater July 17th... Solo shows playing tons of Wildhearts songs with Billy Morrison, Scott Lipps and Michael Butler. Expect guests, expect surprises.

The Ginger live acoustic album - 'The Great White Monkey' Special Edition - is out on Monday (1st June) from all good record stores, and also online through the usual suspects - including HMV, Play, Amazon & Cargo. There are official signed copies on ebay through the official Round Records page to celebrate the release.

The tracklisting is as follows
CD1 –
1. (Intro)
2. 29 x The Pain
3. (Superskunk)
4. She’s So Taboo
5. (Buy A CD Player)
6. One Love, One Life, One Girl
7. Inside Out
8. Hocus Pocus
9. The Daftness
10. Re-Inventing The Wheel

CD2 -
1. (Song Writing Tips)
2. Geordie In Wonderland
3. Skychaser High
4. Nita Nitro
5. (Duran Duran)
6. I’m A Lover Not a Fighter
7. (Self Harm)
8. There’s Only One Hell
9. LTD
10. Spike Milligan 1
11. Pissjoy/Suckerpunch/Nurse Maxim
12. Spike Milligan
13. Dangerlust
14. Cheers
15. Does Your Mother Know/Sky Babies/Space Oddity,
16. I Wanna Go Where The People Go

It was recorded back in September 2003 at The Rugeley Rose Theatre.

Ginger has been confirmed to appear on the main-stage at the Guilfest Festival.

Ginger will be appearing on the main-stage on Friday 10th July, alongside Motorhead and The Stranglers.

For more info check out www.guilfest.co.uk

CJ has been writing a guest blog for Rock Radio. Check out the first installments at the links below, including discussion of the new Wildhearts album and also CJ's culinary skills.

• CJ Rock Radio Blog 1
• CJ Rock Radio Blog 2

Ginger is looking for either a piano/keyboard player who also plays pedal steel or a great female piano/keyboard player.

Ideally needed as soon as possible.

If interested, please drop a mail to website@thewildhearts.com with contact details, and details of instruments played etc and we'll pass them along to Ginger

Ginger will be appearing at the DOLLAR$ FOR DEADBEAT$ one-off gig of Sorry & The Sinatras songs and other punk rock classics in London on Sunday (24th May)

DOLLAR$ FOR DEADBEAT$ - a benefit gig for Roger 'Rags' Segal of Sorry & The Sinatras. Roger got stuck in the UK when the Sorry & the Sinatras tour got cancelled and he is currently broke and homeless in London until he can get his flight back which was scheduled for the end of the tour. So we've gotten together a group of Roger's friends to play a one-off gig doing Sorry & The Sinatras songs and punk & rock'n'roll classics to help raise money for Roger's living expenses while he is in London.

Appearing on the night alongside Roger will be Ginger (The Wildhearts), Acey Slade (Murderdolls/Amen/Trashlight Vision), Dave Kerr (Sorry & The Sinatras, The Cherrykicks), Tom Spencer(The Yo-Yo's, The Loyalties), Rich Jones (The Black Halos, Amen, The Loyalties), Eureka Machines (also playing a short set), Pat Lynch (Junkstar), Rich Rags (Madison Strays, Role Models) and some surprise guests. There will be drink specials and a late bar and this is a bank holiday Sunday so no work the next day!

Sorry & The Sinatras (featuring Scott Sorry from The Wildhearts) debut album 'Highball Roller' is out now on Undergroove! More info at http://www.myspace.com/sorryandthesinatras

Ginger is still introducing the world to some of the hidden musical gems out there over at Classic Rock as part of his 'Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll' series. The albums so far to make the grade are as follows:

• Jason and the Scorchers - 'Lost And Found'
• The Long Ryders - 'State Of Our Union'
• The Good Rats - 'Ratcity In Blue'
• Maria McKee - 'Maria McKee'
• Angel - 'Sinful'
• And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - 'So Divided'
• Cardiacs - 'On Land And In The Sea'
• Imani Coppola - 'The Black & White Album'

The Wildhearts will hit the road in the Autumn in support of their forthcoming album. The following dates are currently confirmed:

17/09/09: Concorde 2, Brighton
18/09/09: O2 Academy, Bristol
19/09/09: Rock City , Nottingham
20/09/09: Waterfront, Norwich
21/09/09: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
22/09/09: Phoenix, Exeter
24/09/09: O2 Academy 2, Birmingham
25/09/09: The Sugarmill, Stoke-On-Trent
26/09/09: Cockpit, Leeds
27/09/09: Garage, Glasgow
28/09/09: O2 Academy, Newcastle
30/09/09: Club Academy, Manchester
01/10/09: Shepherds Bush Empire, London

Ginger appears at a new one day festival in London on June 6 - Camden Rocks. Held in association with the Teenage Cancer Trust, 'Camden Rocks' promises to feature the very best of British talent.

In addition to Ginger, confirmed acts include - Carl Barat, Tyla & The Dogs, The Padingtons, The Black Spiders, EMF & Glamour Of The Kill

The one day event takes place at The Prince Of Wales, The Monarch, The Barfly and The Underworld, and will run from 12pm to 12 midnight (with an aftershow party running until the early hours).

35 ground breaking artists are slated to appear, and a number of DJs will appear including Lost Prophet Ian Watkin's DJ alter-ego L'Amour La Morgue.

Tickets are £20 and are available from SeeTickets. For further information please visit CamdenRocks

The Wildhearts are blogging the recording of their new album. Read the updates on the myspace site or in the feature on this site.

Ginger has a brand new column at Classic Rock Magazine

Let's show our support and send a ton of comments to the site.

Who knows, maybe they'll get him to do this a regular slot if we get enough comments up there?

The Ginger solo tour in May has had the following new dates announced:

MAY
9th, The Railway, Winchester
13th, Glasgow, Ivory Blacks
14th, Belfast, Spring & Airbrake

The full tour dates are:
1 May, TJ's Newport
2 May, Fibbers, York
3 May, JB's, Dudley
4 May, Ruby Lounge, Manchester
5 May, Corporation, Sheffield
6 May, Seven, Nottingham
7 May, O2 Academy (Islington), London
9 May, The Railway, Winchester
10 May, Rios, Leeds
11 May, Academy 2, Newcastle
13 May, Ivory Blacks, Glasgow
14 May, Spring & Airbrake, Belfast

The poster to promote the Ginger Tour is now available for download Please note this is a large download (approx 4MB as it is high resolution).

Also, please note that the Southampton date has been removed from the tour listings and is currently being rescheduled

Ginger would like your help to get involved in street-teaming and helping however you can to promote the forthcoming solo tour - please post your thoughts, ideas and offers of help in this thread on the forum

I'd like to establish some groups of people who can help us promote the forthcoming May solo tour by using their imagination. I know our supporters are largely a smart bunch, so it would be a lot of fun to see what cool ideas you could come up with to get the tour promoted and advertised.

We will provide a link where people can download a poster to give to record/music stores and venues in their area, with the nice big space on the design in which to write the nearest venue details.

If there are any other cool ideas that anyone has about how to spread the word about this tour then I would LOVE to hear them all.

People can digitally help from the comfort of their living room, bringing great new ways to promote the shows on the web. While others can take advantage of their crazed social lives by getting the poster stuck in as many shops, bars and clubs as they can.

All help is greatly needed and massively appreciated.

We'll find a super cool way of making it worth your while, whoever you are.

Thanks, in advance, to everyone who will lend a hand in making this tour a success.

Gx


Also the all important dates - this is what is currently confirmed, but may be subject to change. Tickets should be on-sale from tomorrow.

May

1st - TJ's Newport
2nd - Fibbers, York
3rd - JB's, Dudley
4th - Ruby Lounge, Manchester
5th - Corporation, Sheffield
6th - Seven, Nottingham
7th - O2 Academy, London
10th - Rios, Leeds
11th - Academy 2, Newcastle

The tour also features special guest Tony Wright of Terrorvision, playing in his solo band Laika Dog.

It's the first time that Ginger and Tony have ever toured together so be sure not to miss it.

Ginger also has a few words about what to expect on the night:

My band will feature Jase Edwards on guitar and vocals, Denzel on drums, Eddie Eyeball (2 Skinny Js) bass and vocals, Dick Decent on piano/keyboards and vocals.
I'll be playing a selection of solo material from SG5 onwards.

PLEASE don't come expecting Wildhearts songs, I'm afraid we aren't learning any as there is just WAY too much solo stuff to learn

The Wildhearts have added extra European festival dates this Summer. The following new shows have been confirmed:

12th June 2009 - Rabarock, Järvakandi, Estonia - Tickets
3rd July 2009 - Ruis Rock, Finland - Tickets

Hey there, Ginger here. Just wanted to let you know that the demos for the new album are all complete.

It's great to be back in NYC again with the family but we had a blast in Finland recording at Seawolf studios. We even managed to drag our new manager, Virpi, out of engineering retirement to record these songs for us.

The styles are very mixed up but this time we've tried to keep the lengths of the songs to 3:30 each. And overall we've succeeded. I think only one song exceeds the 3:30 mark, and that's the last track, complete with run-off riff/melody.

The album is very melodic and very riffy. Ritch described some of the songs as Sky Babies only short. There are some very bizarre arrangements on this album, something I really wanted to happen.

The album was written (and sang) together, however, so there was no guarantee that it would sound anything like the album I wanted to make. I'm delighted to say that it does. I still play a very large part in the writing so it really isn't any huge departure from our style, but I hope to include the use of samples and loops to make the typical Ramones meets Cheap Trick approach brought a little more up to date.

We will be recording proper in April, in Denmark with Jacob Hansen producing. Jacob did the Volbeat album which is currently exploding all over Europe. He gets great, huge sounds. He won't have done anything like this album before, but then no-one has, not even us.

The album title looks set to be 'Chutzpah'.

As well as the song we aired at our show in Helsinki recently, 'The Jackson Whites', some other song titles are 'Some Days Just Fucking Suck', 'You Took The Sunshine Out Of NYC', 'Vernix', 'Plastic Jesus' and 'You Are Proof That Not All Women Are Insane'.

The band are in great spirits and really thrilled to be so personally involved this time around. Expect the album around the end of August.

Gx

Wildhearts fans should check out brand new independent online rock tee shirt store Saltyrockz.com, which features designs from Ginger's mate & Wildhearts T-shirt designer Andy Hunns, including the classic 'Shitsville (NW3)' street name tee and the Rick Nielsen shirt being sported by Ginger.

Saltyrockz.com - the brainchild of former Kerrang!, Metal Hammer and Raw editor Howard Johnson - features all-original band shots from top rock snappers, rock slogans and cool designs, with everything created exclusively for the site by Wildhearts T-shirt designer Andy Hunns.

"I've known Ginger for a long, long time,' explains Johnson. 'We once went to retrogression therapy together years ago. I can't remember what I was in a previous life, but I think Ginger reckoned he was a highwayman! Anyway, when I told him I was launching Saltyrockz with his old Geordie pal Hunnsy he really wanted to support us. And he loves what we're doing! He looks good in his Rick Nielsen shirt, too - topped off with some very fetching deeley boppers!"

"Because we're all rock fans at Saltyrockz every shirt has to be something we'd wear ourselves," explains designer Hunnsy. "That's the acid test for every design."

You can check out the full range of original Saltyrockz tee shirts at the SaltyRockz website

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