Okay, hope y'all had a good year. Here's what's up our sleeves for 2009: In January Hank and Michel will play a few shows with Christine Lauterburg & AEROPE. Hank will continue playing solo shows in February, mostly in Switzerland and in Germany. Towards the end of February the new live 2-CD+DVD-Set "Live In Motown" will be available in stores and at various online retailers. Of course you can also buy this CD at our label's website: Blue Rose Records

In April and May we will play a couple of shows with the Directors. In summer we will make the odd festival appearance.

Work has begun on the next as yet untitled studio album. Hank is writing songs. There is also a chance that our former label CrossCut Records will release a compilation CD (yes, with one or two unreleased songs) in autumn. Hank might work on a film score this year. We'll see how this turns out. Also to be released in spring is the debut album from Mudphish: Pink Pedrazzi and Claudia Bettinaglio with Hank Shizzoe, Sam Baur, Patrick Sommer and Olivier Truand. This band will play concerts in May and November 2009.More here: Mudphish Website

Hank and Christoph will also play shows with Toni Vescoli.

Find a complete tour schedule here: hankshizzoe.com