Hi, Just a bit of news you may have missed. Road to Hell is to be re issued on a remaster Vinyl 22nd June 2018. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Hell-VINYL-Chris-Rea/dp/B079PF13M3/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1528783165&sr=1-1&keywords=chris+rea&refinements=p_n_binding_browse-bin%...
Hi, loving the new Album, the support for the UK leg of the tour is a Scottish singer/songwriter C Macleod. Several videos on You Tube. Sounds a little like Chris Issak IMO. I get to see Chris at Harrogate this time, really looking forward to it.
Some of you are debating Chris's health. Don't forget he says in an interview linked here earlier that he suffered a stroke. On top of his other health issues we are lucky he still wants to tour. With all this going on he maybe hasn't been as prolific in his song writing as usual.?
Hardly whole album if you hear 10 second samples and one full single before album release :) Also things are changed for good in this matter as well as in with many other things in general, no going back. I like to hear samples and I would listen full album too if it will be possible before release...
I'm a bit old fashioned. I Want the album to be a whole surprise other than the one released song. It use to be great to put an album on and have 10 or 11 brand new songs, never heard, to be excited about and give a thrill. That way you could turn off from the world for 45/50 minutes and discover wh...
Personally I like the song on first listen, sits somewhere between Gods Great Banana skin album and Stony Road. Yes it is 'typical' Chris Rea which is what I actually like about it. There is no pleasing some people when asking for a new release, yearning for a more traditional CR sound. He does that...
I am hoping the album is of new songs, commercially easy on the ear is fine by me. My other thought was a compilation of songs to the 'love' theme from the catalogue which wouldn't be so exciting. Will be hoping to get tickets to either Harrogate or Sheffield. gREAt news all the same, it's what we h...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079d67r Chris Rea Simon Mayo Drivetime Chris Rea joins Simon to talk about his new old project 'La Passione'. Originally released in 1996, La Passione is a drama film about the racing driver Wolfgang von Trips, written and produced by Chris Rea himself, directed by J...