Hi!

I am pleased to announce that my debut album Resonance is currently number 10 in the Euro Americana Chart for December 2006. What a lovely way to see out the year!

The chart is voted on by DJs, journalists, retailers, promoters and people involved with Americana music from all over Europe. It is published in Country Gazette and Le Cri Du Coyote.

I would like to say a special thanks to anyone who has bought the album and anyone who voted me into this chart. I am thrilled! Also, many thanks to all the wonderful people in the Netherlands, Germany, USA and so on who have written to tell me that they are playing the record in their radio shows and podcasts etc.

You are all FANTASTIC for supporting new music like this!

Wishing you all happy holidays

Nick
nick@nicksaunders.co.uk
www.nicksaunders.co.uk

Resonance (Digital Wings), Cat No: IEGDWCD1.

"A treasure to hold on to" 10/10 – Americana UK
"Saunders craves our - entirely justified - indulgence" - The Word
"Delightful" – Maverick
"The album is an absolute must-have" - Acoustic Magazine
"Songs of rare insight" - Music Connection, Los Angeles
"Sublime!" - Hanx.net, Netherlands

BUY!

My debut album Resonance (Digital Wings) is on shelves NOW at all good stores such as HMV and FOPP. Order it online at Play.com, Amazon.co.uk, Tesco and Woolworths.

DOWNLOAD!

The album is available to download from iTunes, HMV Digital, Virgin Digital, 7 Digital, Tune Tribe and Woolworths.

SMS!

The album is available to buy with SMS from your mobile, just visit 7 Digital (bottom left of page). 

Having a great post-release week! The show at the Electroacoustic Club in London was a stormer and the album has now hit shops all over the country.

I have to admit, it was a special moment walking into HMV in Oxford St and seeing it there on the rack with a card that had my name on! I was there for ages like a loon!

The other good news is that there is a lovely review of 'Resonance' in this month's issue of The Word. Click the link below to see what they thought of it:

click to read the review

We have also just confirmed another London show for early next year. I will be performing a double header on Feb 15th 2007 at the Green Note in Camden with the wonderful Kamila Thompson (daughter of Linda and Richard). 

I'm really looking forward to it, so if you can be in the area, mark it in your diary and we'll have a terrific night together.

Shows in Brighton, Cambridge and Birmingham are next.

Signing off,

Nick
nick@nicksaunders.co.uk
www.nicksaunders.co.uk

"A treasure to hold on to" 10/10 - Americana UK

My debut album Resonance (Digital Wings) is available NOW at all good stores such as HMV and FOPP. Order it online at Play.com, Amazon.co.uk, Tesco etc.

It is also exclusively available to download on iTunes until Nov 13th. After that, it will be in all the digital stores.

I wonder what they see as they look at me? Resplendent in my troubadourean trousers, furrowed brow, nursing a headache so big it threatens to erupt out of my head like a pair of horns.

My fellow passengers can be only be described as the bits they're referring to when people talk about 'life's rich tapestry'. And so I find myself sitting opposite Mrs Barrage Balloon and her Tortoise-Headed Husband.

Behind me I can only guess of the shape and scale of the creature that emits the low bellowing noise every 30 seconds or so. To my right sits a tangerine-hued man who, frighteningly, also appears to be some kind of cyclops and spends the entire journey talking into his mobile phone in a voice reminiscent of Larry The Lamb..presumably to someone in Toy Town?

I'd always wondered what it's like in first class..

The guitar is safely stowed in its gig bag and extra padding added in the form of clean undies, socks and the shirt I will perform in. The wrong colour or collar size and an entire performance is on the verge of crisis. A troubadour's vines say so much about him.

My shirt of choice is a charity shop bargain - it says "beat", it says "devil may care", it says "I don't have an iron".

My trousers, designed and constructed for a rangy 6-foot-plus "man of action" give me (5 foot 8) a slight Charlie Chaplin-esque appearance, but have a vast amount of room for a man to spread out in - particularly useful on long train journeys.

The pockets are, as a consequence, deep beyond belief. I draw admiring glances from passing strangers as I root around inside, somewhere close to my ankles, feeling for loose change.

The ensemble is completed by a pair of handmade Spanish shoes that curl up at the ends to an alarming degree and have unusually begun to wear out from the inside. Folded pieces of The Guardian fill the holes that have appeared in the innersole.

Heads turn as these clothes move through the train, the man inside, just a passenger, but how can he possibly fail with threads like these? His family wave him off at the station with loving cries of "You're not wearing that are you?!"

Ah yes, a troubadour's vines say so much about him.

Nick
nick@nicksaunders.co.uk
www.nicksaunders.co.uk