26th June 2010

Sydney Sydney Sydney

No, this is not a homesick cry to my homeland but an update of where I am in the world, Sydney…Nebraska?! Yes its true, actually we are pretty much stopped at a truckstop en route to Salt Lake City but there is not much between Omaha and SLC and this is it. Shows have been going well with the One Eskimo crowd, busily working on new tracks while trying to get more guitar tracks finished for Headspace album. Never enough hours in the day it would seem. Have managed to sneak into our dayroom motel to use some interweb to download the OS4 software for iphone, look forward to that…how sad.

Unfortunately miss Adam in LA by a few days, he has been busy rehearsing with Ozzy for the last few weeks before heading back to the UK for some shows. As for the other Headspace crew, we are once again scattered around the globe. Brooky I think is still in Scotland, Damian in Cornwall and Lee on the road somewhere? The album moving slowly as ever but most of which emailed back and forth as parts are coming together. Stay tuned.

Head to LA in a few days to play more shows and cram in some studio time, flying back to the UK 2^nd week of July, looking forward to some time at home. See you on the road somewhere in the States soon.

pete

Well, it’s been a busy time with rehearsals in Los Angeles wrapping up with a one off intimate show we played Sunday 20th June at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in LA . Tickets were being given to the first 800 people who queued up and bought the new Ozzy Osbourne album “Scream” at the Omoeba record store.

The album is released around the world today, on June 22nd.

An error in the liner notes means the first pressing will have only 4 of the 5 tracks cowritten by myself, Ozzy and Kevin Churko being credited. The 5th track “I want it more” was incorrectly labeled just “Osbourne / Churko” due to a title change at the last minute, meaning the absense of my name. This will be corrected in later pressings.

Inbetween the rehearsal schedule, we played a few Tv shows - the Jimmy Kimmel show which can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaC3b8XIPPg and today the George Lopez show, which I’m sure will be on you tube within a few hours!

We head back to the UK tomorrow for a few shows:

OZZY OSBOURNE
26th June - Birmingham town hall, UK
29th  June Folkestone, UK - Leas Cliff Hall
1st July Oxford, UK - Academy
3rd July - Camden, London - Itunes festival - Roundhouse
5th July Padova, Italy - Villa Contarini
9th July - Turku, Finland - Ruisrock Festival

I will be with Will Young on the following dates of his summer tour, before the Ozzy tour starts up early August.

WILL YOUNG
15th July - Rochester Castle - Kent
16th July - Leicester / Leicester Tigers Rugby Club
17th July - Kenwood House Hampstead
23rd July - Howard Davis park, Jersey
24th July -  Newton Abbot Racecourse - (South Devon festival)
25th July - Billericay / Essex Lake Meadows
31st July - Osborne Houes (Isle of Wight
1st August - Tatton Park (Cheshire)

More news soon!  AW

Morning all….I’ve been out of the loop for a little while dealing with some family stuff but am now back in the land of the living.Recently, I’ve been in Croatia with Martin Fry (ABC). A real hidden gem of a country. Lovely people and beautiful scenery. The gig was on Brijuni island in some roman ruins.Now I’m back, it’s straight into the Headspace machine.  The drum parts are coming along but self producing means you become more anal about parts. I send of the takes to the guys (wherever they are in the world) and they come back with any comments they may have (good or bad). Our schedules are pretty manic so this is time consuming but worth it to get the best possible sounding album we can.Now looking forward to the festival season and am pretty much booked until end of August. Thankfully some time at home to finish Headspace stuff in the week then 3 festivals at weekends. Busy time but thats the way uhuh uhuh we like it.