The track listing for the new Manning album Charlestown (in no particular running order for now) is as follows:

1. T.I.C.
2. Caliban & Ariel
3. The Man in the Mirror
4. Clocks
5. Charlestown
6. Finale

Progress on the acoustic & electric guitar parts is now at full steam ahead...

At the end of March, we will start the drums recording process at Orion Studios in Kilnhurst - this will really add the final jigsaw pieces!!

The new collection has quite an ensemble feel to it with more orchestration and layering of flutes, cellos, fiddles, violin, mandolins, guitars, keyboards, percussion and vocals. It is sounding very strong indeed to our ears and we hope you will really enjoy it when it is finally completed.

On other news, please don't forget our headline CRS date in Maltby,UK on the 20th March. Tickets are going fast so please get yours booked!

Work has also now started on a 10th Anniversary re-issue program for some of the older MANNING albums.
The new slim jacket and remastered editions will also feature bonus tracks.

These should hopefully be ready for our our ROSFEST appearance on 1st May.

We are pleased to announce that the latest Manning album, the Prog Awards nominated Number Ten is now available to download from most of your favourite download sites.

Manning's growing recognition and reputation as a live band has been recognised in the Classic Rock Society's 2009 BOTY awards as the band gained recognition in two of the top tens - 6th best album of the year for Number Ten and 10th best gig of the year for our performance at the Wesley Centre in April 2009.

Meanwhile work continues on the new album , now confirmed as being called Charlestown. After some serious sessions from various band and guest musicians, Chris has started recording guitars at Burnside, Leeds - photos of him recording have been posted in our Gallery, and Kris is well under way recording bass in his home studio for insertion into the album.

A few website updates.

The Gallery has now been amended to utilise collages. This is to reduce the amount of off-site content which is hosted by sites such as flickr (which may be blocked in some workplaces).

The site has also been fully reviewed and is now, as far as we can tell, Google Chrome compatible after an issue with column widths cropped up in the latest version of Chrome.

You can now also download some of wallpapers created by Ed Unitsky for the One Small Step... album.

The final line-up for this years ROSFEST has just been announced.

It is being held at the fabulous colonial MAJESTIC theatre in Gettysburg, PA.



Friday : PENDRAGON & MYSTERY
Saturday: RENAISSANCE, GAZPACHO, MANNING, AJALON
Sunday: MAGIC PIE, VON HERTZEN BROTHERS, UNITOPIA, DEE EXPUS

We are all very excited about this and we hope you will be too! - See you all there...

Meanwhile, Alison Diamond dropped in to add colour to the new album, "Charlestown" with her Soprano and Tenor Saxes and Steve Dundon commenced his flute session work.

We think the end results sound splendid!

Rosie Manning is again involved with the album artwork and after her fantastic "Songs From The Bilston House" visualisations, we are really waiting with baited breath to see how this new one will look!

2009 has been a very important year for us.
The new band line-ups have finally got MANNING music out to new audiences and we are gaining more momentum and going form strength to strength happilly.

So a big thank you to all the people who have bought the music or turned out to see us...we look forward to even bigger challenges that 2010 is going to bring to our door and we hope to see you down the road somewhere soon.

A big personal thank you to the MANNING line-ups (recording, live, past and present) for making 2009 such a milestone time!!

Have a great Xmas and really fab New Year - See you soon!
Guy

The revised date for the ELEKTRIK MANNING performance for the Classic Rock Society is now on Sat. March 20th 2010 at the Wesley Arts Centre, Maltby.
The guests for this event will announced shortly.

This is likely to be the debut for the newly assembled
eight piece ELEKTRIK MANNING line-up!

Please come along and support the band.

Meanwhile, work on the brand new MANNING album, "Charlestown", is ramping up with recent sessions by both Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn on Fiddle once more and Kathy Hampson on the Cello!

More dates are currently being arranged for our "2010 - The Year We Make Contact" tour.

Also, we have added a new Special Guests page to the bottom of our Biography Section - check it out!