Hi all, Funniest thing is if you send messages through Facebook, they say they answer as soon as possible. (Chat/Messenger), so I thought, that is great let's try...never answered me back. And that is just the promotion team, whoever that may be. And in the past I tried to contact them through Chri...

Dear Andrew, if I understand you right, than you are in contact with important people of Chris´music-business. And you hve a kind of a concept, how a revival of the old music (in new style) could have been realized soon. So please DO IT! It is still more than 3 month till the tour starts. Maybe thi...

Again, speaking of new album indirectly, I listen to Sarah Randle's 2003 The Sparrow album and find it a good combination for a 'commercial' Chris Rea release as the new album is assumed to be. I really wonder why it had no success definitely having the best commerce potential of all 2003 Jazzee Blu...

And I admit, the "Kelly-albums" are well done and more Rocking and more successful. but the technical side is one thing, the emotional side for me even more important. what I will ever remember are the "heart-crying" ballads like midnight blue or steel river, which were perhaps ...

The old albums until 1986 still lack something - a certain kind of roundness and the tracks don't seem to be connected in a way they are on later records. I think the old albums before 1986 just lack the recording technology facilities, and had Dave Richard given those facilities and/or produced Ch...

Hi Andrew,any chance of uploading the old fanclub stuff from pre-internet times somewhere? These bits of information are very hard to find nowadays! Cheers Tobi Hello Tobias, I have mailed you a digitized copy of CR fan club newsletters from 1989 and 1995-99. Please do not put them to public since ...

Just have checked old fan club newletter and paper articles from 1997 and in several texts the forthcoming Blue Cafe album was told to be a jazz/blues album and what we got instead? Not bad at all, I love that effort by Chris to "give [the label] what [they] f***ing know", as he quoted in ...

And even so Chris recorded the new album in a studio with a real band - it still sounds very much like a home made song. Joking again, maybe Chris wanted us and the label see there is no actual difference if he makes records at home or in the studio so he could continue on his own and do not bother...

Just another thought: as Neil Drinkwater is told to stay within the band, and Max Middleton most likely will not join in, even though the other members of "The Fireflies" (Chris's/Max's instrumental band) - Robert and Martin - do join in, it is quite likely there is no real turning back to...

andrew fischer liked jokes, here is another one, maybe that is the old Rea to record company that release is simple album without earbook :) Maybe it is not the release format that makes difference but the fact that Chris is not doing another soundtrack at his home studio, but "normal" so...

Maybe the marketing specialists and executives of the record company thought that many fans would love a return to the old days and therefore promoted this back to the roots talk in order to make more money with the new album - and win back old fans that had turned their back because the last album...

I'd like to come back to the thoughts about the first single we heard: I was confused about the choice. Normally the record company chooses the strongest track - if the other eleven songs are on a par with this song or even inferior than I already regret my pre-order... A wise record label manager ...

All of that, what the press information by BMG or the announcement by Athenamats (on Youtube) did promise -- was not to hear. Hi! BMG press-release seems to be written by a person in charge of marketing (John Knowles the manager?) and thus may barly represent the actual contents of the album truthf...

It's like the old mini LP or Maxi Single. Give it a fancy name. I rather like to listen to vinyl, so I bought that package. And the quality is mostly great if you keep your vinyl in good condition. :) Dear Anneke, 12" Maxi-Singles (so called mini-LPs) play at 45 rpm speed as 7" singles wh...

Morning guys, If you check the site ChrisRea.Com out, you can see what is on the vinyls. It's the 12 songs from the CD, both 6 songs. Seems a little bit for two vinyls....see link: https://chrisrea.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=33086 Hi Anneke, this is exactly what I was talking of. But 3 songs per...