| Charlestown
progress report and other news...
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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.
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8th
March 2010
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| Number
Ten on itunes, Amazon, Napster
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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.
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13th
February 2010
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| Website
updates
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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.
  
  
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6th
February 2010
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| RoSfest
2010 and other Charlestown news
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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! |
1st
February 2010
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| RoSfest
2010 and other Charlestown news
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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
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24th
December 2009
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| Number
11 is now called "Charlestown"
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 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! |
18th
December 2009
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