Tour

We're had a brilliant time on the road the last couple of weeks and want to say a massive thank you to those who have been down to see us, we've been really enjoying getting to play our new material and the crowds every night have been fantastic.


Crisis Hidden Gig

We're going to be playing on Tues 2nd June as part of the Crisis Hidden Gigs series. The show takes places in London but the venue will remain a secret until 24 hours before to highlight the fact that most homeless people don't know where they'll end up sleeping each night. For tickets please visit crisis.org.uk and seetickets.com


Festival announcements

We're really pleased to confirm that we'll be playing at T in The Park, and the Indie Guitar Music Festival this summer – we're hoping to have even more festivals confirmed over the next couple of weeks. As soon as any get added to our schedule we'll put them on the starsailor.net


Phil Spector

As many of you will have seen in the news this week, Phil Spector, who produced two of the tracks on Silence is Easy has been convicted of murder.

'Recording with Phil Spector was an amazing experience at the time. I had grown up with 'Imagine' and was just getting into the brilliant 'Born To Be With You'( the album Spector produced for Dion) when we got the call. The two tracks 'Silence Is Easy' and 'White Dove' were recorded in the first week of working with him. He then returned to LA and came back to England some weeks later a different character. The out going charismatic producer we had met previously had become withdrawn and hard to communicate with. We persevered as long as we could out of respect for the man and his reputation but eventually we had to call it a day. Some weeks later while the album was being mixed we heard he had been arrested for murder. It is hard for me to pass judgement on whether he is guilty or innocent. We certainly never saw an aggresive side to him while we worked with him but like everybody else we do not know exactly what went on inside that house.'


Twitter Song

James recently posted a new acoustic song via his twitter page twitter.com/jamesstarsailor (please make this clickable) which is called Evermore. To hear the track just scroll back through James' enteries until you get to April 10.


US Release

All being well, our record will be available via itunes in the US in time for our appearance on the Jay Leno show – April 30th . We're playing at The Troubadour in LA on May 1st and there are a few tickets left. Watch this space as we're hoping to add more dates in the coming days


All The Plans

Our next single will be the album's title track 'All The Plans.' It will be available by download from June 15.



Speak soon,

Baz, James, Stel and Ben

A Big Thank You:

Thanks to everybody who bought the album. We hope you're enjoying it. We've had some positive feedback and good reviews which are really pleasing.

Win Gig Tickets!

We're really looking forward to our UK tour. It's just about sold out but we have a few pairs of tickets to give away on the web site. Click here for more - http://www.starsailor.net/gigticketcomp/

Artwork Answers:

We've had quite a lot of enquiries regarding the origin of the artwork for the single and album. They're pictures from the archives of Daniel Meadows. An amazing photographer in our opinion. Check out his site at: http://www.photobus.co.uk/

Xfm Acoustic Show:

Xfm are airing James's acoustic performance from The Deaf Institute earlier this month, this Sunday between 8-9pm. Be sure to tune in 104.9 or log on to the Xfm web site and text in some positive comments.

Extra Live Dates:

We're hoping to announce some UK and European festivals in the coming weeks. Watch this space.

Cheers,

James, Baz, Ben and Stel
 

All The Plans - OUT NOW

Our new album 'All The Plans' is out now. Pick it up from your local record shop or buy it from any number of online retailers either physically or digitally. For full details of where to buy and prices use this link http://www.starsailor.net/buyalltheplans/

Tell Me It's Not Over

Thanks to everyone who bought our single last week, we're really grateful for your support and hope you're enjoying the b-sides. Unfortunately it didn't trouble the high end of the charts, but great to see it in the Top 75.


Live Webchat with James

James will be doing a live webchat on Gigwise.com at 4pm this Weds 11th March. If you want to join in and ask James any questions you may have, please visit http://www.gigwise.com to log on.

The Met Bar

James is playing an acoustic show at The Met Bar in London on 17th March. Unfortunately the gig is for Met Bar members, however we've managed to grab 10 pairs of tickets for you. Click here for details and an entry form. http://www.goodsouls.org.uk/metbarcomp.html

Speak soon,

Stel, James, Baz and Ben

Tell Me It's Not Over:

Just wanted to remind you all that our new single Tell Me It's Not Over is out NOW. There are some great digital deals on the 4 track bundle at Amazon, iTunes and 7digital. You can also order it via our site £3 for 7", CD and Mp3.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tell-Me-Its-Not-Over/dp/B001TO3OJU/ref%3Dsr_f3_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1236005468&sr=103-1

7 Digital link: http://www.7digital.com/artists/starsailor/tell-me-its-not-over-2/

For those of you who bought the bundle via recordstore, the mp3 element is now available for download. Please download it this week to count towards our chart placing.

Janice Long BBC Radio2 TONIGHT:

James will be in the studio with Janice Long at Radio 2 tonight, as well as performing a couple of Starsailor tracks he'll be picking some records that are important to him.

Visit the message board for details on other upcoming appearances - http://forums.starsailor.net/viewtopic.php?t=8306

Acoustic XFM Manchester Show:

James will be playing an acoustic show at The Deaf Institute in Manchester on Thursday 12th March in association with XFM.

To find out more about the show, and how to win tickets click this link - http://forums.starsailor.net/viewtopic.php?t=8309

Listening Parties:

Our London Hard Rock Cafe listening party will now be on Weds 4th March now, not Thurs 5th!

*Hard Rock Cafe, London*
Wednesday 4th March - from 7pm
150 Old Park Lane • London W1K 1QZ
020 7514 1700
*Please note, this is a change of date since originally published.*

*Hard Rock Cafe, Manchester*
Thursday 5th March - from 9pm
Exchange Square • Manchester M4 2BS
0161 831 6700

*Hard Rock Cafe, Cardiff*
Thursday 5th March - from 8pm
49 St Mary Street • Cardiff CF10 1AD
02920 373403

*Hard Rock Cafe, Edinburgh*
Wednesday 4th March - from 7pm
18 George Street • Edinburgh EH2 2PF
0131 260 3000

New Gadget:

The technical people at our label have come up with a new gadget previewing the album and linking to our videos, news and shop. Check it out below and grab it for your Social networks!

http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/49a540d1a042640e

Pre-Order All The Plans:

If you like what you hear on the new gadget, please go ahead and pre-order the album through our website. The bonus version comes with a free digital EP that is immediately available. It also features a 7 song acoustic CD which has 6 album tracks (as they were written) and one brand new song.

Happy Listening,

James, Ben, Stel and Baz

Listening Parties & More:

Our friends at Hard Rock are holding some 'All The Plans' listening parties. There'll be posters, and other goodies as well as their usual hospitality. See the link below for more details...

http://forums.starsailor.net/viewtopic.php?t=8300

Pop along and give the album a listen.

Luminaire Footage:

The wonderful people at Flyposter captured some footage at the Luminaire gig. You can view it by clicking here - http://www.mevio.com/shows/?sId=14773&mId=6178723

This Feeling:

A reminder that James will be playing an acoustic set at This Feeling. Visit the message board for details.

Instores:

James will be playing acoustically at the following record shops in the next few weeks.

Monday 2nd March at 6pm
Banquet, Kingston

Tuesday 3rd March at 5pm
Rapture, Witney

Monday 9th March at 7pm
Sound Knowledge, Marlborough

Tuesday 10th March at 5pm
Action, Preston

Pre-orders:

Finally, don't forget that you can pre-order our single through our shop at http://www.starsailor.net

It's only £3 for 3 formats. There are limited pieces of signed artwork available so make sure you get your orders in now! Even Barry thinks it's a good deal.

You can also pre-order 'All The Plans' while you're in there. The bonus album comes with an exclusive 4 song digital EP which is made instantly available.

More next week,

James, Ben, Stel and Baz

Hello Again,

New Album Release Date:

Fair bit of news for you today. We were on Radio 2 with Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie the other night. They highlighted the fact that we're releasing All The Plans on the same day as U2 are putting out their new record. They suggested we call Bono and toss a coin for who moves their release date. He called heads and it was. Our album is now out on 9th March and Tell Me It's Not Over will be out on 2nd March. Sorry to make you wait a week longer. We hope it's worth it.

On The Radio:

Staying with radio, James went into Absolute to record some tracks and have a chat last week. This will be aired in two parts on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show the first session on Monday the 19th January and the second part on Wednesday 21st January. You can listen and watch via their website.

UK Tour Support:

We're pleased to announce that support for the UK dates will be Pete Greenwood - and The Parlotones . Pete will also be playing guitar with us in our set – you may have caught a glimpse of him in the Hard Rock London footage. The Parlotones are the South African band that looked after us so well on our recent visit there. You can check out both their myspace pages via our top friends.

Vote for 'Tell Me It's Not Over':

Our new video will be a 'Hot New One' on the MTV2/MySpace chart as of Monday 19th January. Please vote for it by clicking http://www.mtv.co.uk/myspacechart

Album Pre-Order:

You can buy the deluxe version of the album via our website (http://www.starsailor.net) and receive a free download EP instantly. This includes the album version of Boy In Waiting and three exclusive non-album tracks. The deluxe version now has a confirmed tracklisting, including the brand new acoustic song, Merry Go Round.

New Website:

Last but not least, we've launched our new website. There are bound to be a few teething problems but we hope you're happy with it.

There'll be more news next week, but for now we hope you all have a brilliant weekend,

Stel, Ben, Baz and James

Hi All,

Happy New Year, we hope you had a brilliant festive period.

First things first - a radio edit of our new single has been uploaded to our myspace page. Hope you like it, especially after hearing the numerous live versions on YouTube.

Our technical people are close to finishing a new site for us which we're hoping to launch later this week. We'll let you know when it goes live.

Click here to see the video for Tell Me It's Not Over...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/bizarre_multimedia/music_videos/article300866.ece

For those of you who haven't seen it - you can also watch a behind the scenes 'making of' by clicking http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=48512128 

We're delighted to announce that we've added two new dates to our tour. Belfast and Dublin.

As we get closer to releasing 'Tell Me It's Not Over' (23rd February) we're obviously hoping you'll hear us on the radio. Absolute, BBC Radio 2 and XFM have so far played the record. Next week we'll be live on BBC Radio 2 with Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie (Tuesday 13th January). The show starts at 8pm and we'll be playing 3 songs live to air. Please tune in.

That's all for now.

We'll be in touch shortly,

Ben, Baz, James and Stel

Hello All,

First of all I would like to thank everyone who came to the recent shows in London,New York, LA and Manchester. The show for Versus Cancer was a fitting end to a highly enjoyable 2008.

When I think of highlights, finishing the album was obviously a big one and of course hearing peoples reaction to the new songs when we first started playing them.

When it comes to gigs I think Hard Rock Calling, Isle Of Wight festival and Hard Rock Cafe London were all belters.

Our recent trip to South Africa was also a very fulfilling and enjoyable excursion. In fact I can't really think of a show where we didn't have a good time.

On a personal note the birth of Cillian was the obvious highlight for me and if he could talk he would tell you he's looking forward to his first Christmas!

Thanks to everyone who helped make this a cracking year and have a very Merry Christmas!

See You In 2009!

James

p.s. There is a version of the popular Christmas song 'The Bells Of St Marys' on the Myspace player now which you can listen to and download.