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MORE ”TRAVELIN’ ”NEXT YEAR Spurred on by the success with their debut album ”Travelin’ ”, Mad&Hungry have already booked several gigs next year: January 18/19 – “Madam Felle”, Bergen Other gigs are “rumoured”, and will be announced once they are definite. MAD&HUNGRY ON SKÅNEVIK BLUESFESTIVAL Mad&Hungry will appear on Skånevik Bluesfestival on either July 4 or 5 2008 (definite details will follow later). The Skånevik festival is one of the most prestigious music festivals in Norway, and have the last few years seen artists like Whitesnake, Johnny Winter, Gary Moore and Paul Rodgers perform there. MAD&HUNGRY NOMINATED FOR SCANDINAVIAN BLUES PRICE “Travelin’ “ has been nominated for Best Scandinavian Blues Album 2007 , arranged by www.blueswebben.se. You can vote from December 15 until January 15 and the results will be presented 3 weeks after that. Votes for “Travelin’ “ will be highly appreciated!!. THE ROLLING CLONES Will have their annual Christmas shows at “Rick’s”, Bergen on Friday December 14 and Sat Dec 15. 02/11 2007 | More Mad&Hungry gigs November 2: "Cafe Opus", Os 05/09 2007 | Hitting the charts ”TRAVELIN” HITS THE CHARTS ”Travelin” had a very promising start at the chart list in Bergens Tidende, starting at no. 16 in the first week on sale. MAD&HUNGRY ON THE RADIO Hungry John and Mads will be featured in Saturday October 6 edition of ”ELDORADO” on NRK P1. The program is hosted by legendary blues guru Geir Hovig. Mad&Hungry will do a series of radio appearences next week , including playing live-on-radio in ”Kveldsåpent” on NRK P1, Wednesday October 10, the same day they’re playing ”Muddy Waters” in Oslo. 25/09 2007 | Rave reviews 5 STAR REVIEWS FOR ”TRAVELIN' ” IN BOTH BERGEN NEWSPAPERS ”Travelin' ” by Mad&Hungry got 5 stars out of six in the two main Bergen newspapers Bergens Tidende and Bergensavisen today. 23/09 2007 | Mad&Hungry download teasers TEASERS FROM TRAVELIN' We have put out some teasers (mp3) from Mad&Hungry's debut album "Travelin". You'll find them under "albums" section. The tracks represent a large variety of styles, from the juicy bluesrock of "Street Bum" to Mads' unusual approach to bottleneck guitar playing in the brand new intrumental "Blue Spider". "When she tells you" features a trademark Mads guitar solo, and "This is not a Tango" - written by Frank Hovland - brings a "film noir" flavour to the table. 21/09 2007 | Mad&Hungry debut album ”TRAVELIN`” – DEBUT ALBUM FROM MAD&HUNGRY ON SALE MONDAY SEP 24! The long-awaited debut album from Mad&Hungry will be in stores from Monday September 24. Mad&Hungry had a mini-concert and press conference yesterday, see the stories today in ”Bergens Tidende” and ”Bergensavisen”. The album was recorded earlier this year and will contain 14 original songs. Look out for further details and soundclips soon! RELEASE CONCERTS AND CD SIGNING AT MADAM FELLE SEPTEMBER 21 AND 22 Mad&Hungry will celebrate the release of their first album with two gigs at their ”home ground” Madam Felle in Bergen on Sep 21 and 22. They will perform songs from ”Travelin`” along with old favourites. The new CD will be on sale at the gigs. MAD&HUNGRY AT MUDDY WATERS, OSLO Mad&Hungry will perform for the first time in the Norwegian capitol on Wednesday October 10 at the legendary ”Muddy Waters” club. The gig is organised by Oslo Blues club. 12/09 2007 | Solo concert SOLO CONCERT AT MADAM FELLE THURSDAY SEP 13 Mads will do a follow-up to his highly succesful solo acoustic gig at Madam Felle in November last year, which was surprisingly well attended considering the fact that Iron Maiden played just down the road the same evening. Mads will mix his diverse acoustic compositions from his near-20 year recording carreer with blues, country and ragtime classics. To bury any speculations as to whether Mads has ”gone soft”, he will probably whip out the ol’ electric towards the end of the set. MAD&HUNGRY’S DEBUT ALBUM OUT ON SEPTEMBER 24! More details in a few days.. 27/06 2007 | More concerts and new album A MESSAGE FROM MADS Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing OK...the last couple of months have been really busy for me, I haven’t even got the time to keep you updated about my activities! It has been a lot of fun and very diverse challenges – it was great to do the gigs with Chris Thompson and ”Special guest” Katrina Leskanich (Ex-Katrina and the waves) for two nights at totally packed ”Madam Felle” in Bergen on May 4-5. This was the third year in a row that we played Madam Felle the first weekend of May, and we want to keep up the tradition of bringing on a ”celebrity” guest every year (we had Leo Sayer in 2005). Then I went to Seattle for 10 days with the Hordaland theater group, performing the Singel&Sand cabaret – quite surreal! Then I have had some gigs of my own, some with The Rolling Clones and with singer/songwriter Joanne Vaardal-Lunde, whose debut album, due to be out this fall, I’m playing on. My band had a really enjoyable gig playing Edvard Griegs music in rock arrangement a a conference in KP1 in the Bergen cinema on earlier this month, and then we put up ”Singel&Sand” again in Bergen (6shows). In between everything, Mad&Hungry are putting the finishing touch to our album, that we started recording in January. We will mix late June/early August and the record will be out in September. We’ll throw a release party at madam Felle on Sept. 21 and 22 and tour in November. On Saturday June 30 I’m going to Leirvik a couple of hours south of Bergen and do a music version of the Henrik Ibsen poem ”Terje Vigen” with a group of musicians and actor/singer Helge Jordal. After that I plan to have some sort of a holiday before starting pre-production on my next soloalbum, which I’m really looking forward to. I’m going to work with frank Hovland – my ”right hand man” – as usual, just him and me at the beginning, then we’ll bring in the other guys (Gunnar Bjelland and Zsolt Mescaros) later. Hope y’all will have a great summer. M CONRATULATIONS TO CHRIS AND GIRLFRIEND INGE whose daughter Millie was born on June 21! Mads has been given the honorable task of being godfather to the couple’s first child. CONCERT LIST Scroll down to the end of this page for a list of concerts this year. This list will be updated as more gigs are confirmed. 13/04 2007 | Gigs ANOTHER WALK ON SUNSHINE On the annual Chris Thompson/ Mads Eriksen gigs at Madam Felle this year (May 4 and 5), Katrina Leskanich, formerly of ”Katrina and the Waves”, will appear as special guest. Katrina also performed with Chris and Mads on their event gig for Hewlett&Packard in Oslo in November last year. The May gig has been an annual tradition (as everything in Bergen that is being done more than once). In May 2005, they were joined by Leo Sayer on two days, an event that marked the all-time ticket sale record at Madam Felle – although threatened ever so slightly by The Rolling Clones’ gig there at June 4 last year. The gigs in 2006 were also totally sold-out. THE ROLLING CLONES Are booked in for tonight and tomorrow night (April 13 and 14) at Madam Felle and and Rick’s on May 25 and 26 ”SINGEL&SAND” EN ROUTE TO THE U.S The cabaret play ”Singel&Sand”, where Mads plays guitars, mandolin and banjo, will be set up for 4 or 5 shows in Seattle, Washington, between May 9 and 19 this year, celebrating the bonds between the two cities Bergen and Washington. Seattle have a large number of citizens of Norwegian heritage, Seattle has the fourth largest Norwegian Constitution day parade (on May 17) on which Mads and the whole Norwegian contingent will part-take in. NEW SOLO ALBUM FROM MADS Mads will start the recording of a new solo album on July 9. The album, with the working title ”Just what the world needs”, will be Mads first since 2001’s ”Redhanded”. CONCERT LIST 2007 April 28: Chris Thompson/ Mads Eriksen Band at ”Eventhallen”, Oslo » Back to news 2008 |