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NEWS 2010 ARCHIVE31/12 2010: HAPPY NEW YEAR!23/12 2010: ACTIVITIES IN 2011/HAPPY CHRISTMAS!LOTS OF GIGS FOR CHRIS THOMPSON/MADS ERIKSEN BAND, GERMAN TOUR AND NEW LIVE DVD, MORE N3 GIGS AND MAD&HUNGRY BACK IN BUSINESS!A lot of gigs are already confirmed for next year: Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band will be reharsing for the January 18 gig at the Colozahl-Bar in Aschaffenburg, Germany, this is going to be filmed for DVD-production. They will play Madam Felle's in Bergen prior to that, on Friday January 14. There are several other gigs happening in January, then a tour of Germany in March/April and the annual Madam Felle's shows last weekend of April. There will also be at least four shows with N3 (the project with Terje Rypdal, Ronni Le Tekro and Mads) this spring - 2010 was rather quiet for that project with only one gig (at the Beiarn Jazz Camp), in sharp contrast to the 17-date tour that took place in 2009 (see reviews in the archives). This is what's happening the first couple of months: JANUARY January 14: Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band at Madam Felle's, Bergen, Norway FEBRUARY February 4/5: Mad&Hungry at Madam Felle's, Bergen, Norway MARCH March 23: N3 at Gjøvik Kulturhus, Gjøvik Norway APRIL April 29/30: Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band + special guest (TBA) at Madam Felle's Bergen Norway There is also quite a few confirmed and not-so-confirmed gigs right up until November 2011, we'll keep you informed when we have all the facts. HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND KEEP SHREDDING! Happy holidays to all of you out there who keeps an eye at us. 08/12 2010: NOT WORTHYSince 2010 is coming to an end, we bring a picture from a private gig that Chris Thompson and Mads Eriksen Band did on October 16 where two partcipants have dropped to their knees in classic (and we dare say, suitable) " We are not worthy" fashion during Mads' solo. We hope to see similar incidents happening a lot in the year to come..We will bring details about next years gigs very soon - a lot of gigs throughout the year are already confirmed. 
PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE Mads is interviewed in the Christmas edition of the popular The Good Times magazine in Germany- The free CD that comes with the magazine has a special Christmas edit of the track Praying For A Miracle from Mads' latest CD, complete with bells and all. The original idea was that Chris Thompson and Mads should write a Christmas song together for the CD, but this proved impractical, so they have contributed one song each. In the article you can read about the origin of the track as far as Mads' Christmas tradition. Time to brush up your German! The full track of Praying For A Miracle is now out on Mads' MySpace profile. 29/11 2010: NEW WORKSHOP - MARCH 2011The great Stefan Grossman will visit Bergen once again and give a workshop in cooperation with Mads Eriksen Gitarskole - this time alone. Stefan Grossman delivered a highly succesful workshop in May last year together with another legendary guitar player, John Renbourn. They also gave a concert at Madam Felle's in which Mads was invited on stage for a humorous jam.The workshop will take place on Friday March 18 and Saturday March 19 next year. Stefan Grossman will also give a solo concert at Madam Felle's on Thursday March 17. Stefan Grossman is one of the greatest exponents of the acoustic guitar an has remained so for more than four decades. He has worked an recorded with some of rock's greatest artists like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Paul Simon to name but a few - he has also released and produced numerous tutorial tapes, books and CDs/DVDs. For more info, contact Mads at mads@madseriksen.com 11/11 2010: PICTURESVidar Grønland sent us some photos from the Chris Thompson and Mads Eriksen Band concert at Gjøvik Kulturhus, October 14. Thanks Vidar!You can see more photos here.
26/10 2010: NEW GIGSNEW GIGSChris Thompson and Mads Eriksen Band will play at the Marshall F. center in Varel (near Oldenburg) in Germany on Saturday October 30. This will probably be the last show in Germany this year, exept for a private gig in Leipzig on New Years Eve. Plans for next year include concerts and dvd filming in January as well as a German tour from late March until mid-April. There will probably be a new N3 tour in 2011, look out for further details. ROLLING CLONES will "tour" Bergen before Christmas: 05/08 2010: VIDEO FROM ESCHWEILER GIGHere is a video from the Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band gig in Eschweiler, July 30:02/08 2010: REVIEW AND PHOTOSCHRIS THOMPSON/MADS ERIKSEN BAND PLAYED TO 4500 ECSTATIC FANS I ESCHWEILERSee review and pictures from the memorable gig in Eschweiler in Germany on Friday July 30 29/07 2010: MORE GIGS AND REVIEWSNEW DATES FOR CHRIS THOMPSON/MADS ERIKSEN BANDJULY 30: Markplatz, Eschweiler (near Düsseldorf), Germany GOOD REVIEWS FROM GERMAN GIGS WITH LEO SAYER AND FISH The gigs in in Germany with Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band and special guests Fish and Leo Sayer went down really well, as this review (German, pdf) will show you. Here you can read about "Saitenhexer" Mads Eriksen and Chris Thompson's "gewaltiges Stimmorgan" (no, it's not naughty, it is in fact very, very good..) Review and pictures from the July 9. gig 31/05 2010: MORE GIGS FOR CHRIS AND MADSCHRIS THOMPSON/MADS ERIKSEN BANDThu 23 September: Elverum Culturehouse, Norway 05/05 2010: TONS OF GIGSTONS AND TONS OF GIGS - GUEST PERFORMANCES BY FISH AND LEOWe have a lot of new gigs to announce: Most of them with Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band who just finished a highly succesful tour of Germany and two sold-out nights at Bergen's Madam Felle last weekend. Leo Sayer was special guest on those nights as he was in 2005. CT/MEB have quite a few gigs lined up for them in Norway, Spain and in Germany, where Leo Sayer will once again be featured guest along with ex-Marillion frontman Fish, who participated int the annual gigs at Madam Felle in 2008. NEW DATE FOR NØTTERØY KULTURHUS, NORWAY A new date has been set for Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band at Nøtterøy Kulturhus. The show scheduled for April 8 had to be cancelled due to a severe throat problem for Mr Thompson, who has not cancelled a show for 40 years. The new date is October 15. CT/MEB AT GRESSVIK ROCKWEEKEND - AGAIN For the third year in a row CT/MEB will perform at the Gressvik Rock Weekend.The show last year drew 750 people and became the most succesful Friday in the festival's history. Here are the gigs so far (more TBA soon): June 5: Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band, Braunschweig (near Hannover), Germany June 11.-12: The Rolling Clones, Rick's, Bergen, Norway June 18: Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band, Valencia, Spain July 3: Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band, Open Air Sportgelände Allmed, Rathshausen, Germany August 6: Chris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band, Gressvik Rock Weekend (near Fredrikstad), Norway 04/05 2010: TV LINKSThese links are from the program "Førkveld" on NRK1 on Thursday April 29 at 18.00:http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/211535 http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/211553 27/04 2010: CONCERT AND TELEVISIONChris Thompson and Mads Eriksen Band plays at Madam Felle on Thursday April 29 (Friday April 30 and Saturday May 1 with Leo Sayer as special guest, as announced earlier).MADS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION THURSDAY APRIL 29 Mads will be profiled in the program "Førkveld" on NRK1 on Thursday April 29 at 18.00. Mads and the band will play music from Mads' new album and will be joined by Chris Thompson for one song. 12/04 2010: GREAT REVIEWS OF MADS' ALBUM!See musikkavisen.no and heavymetal.no11/04 2010: CONCERT OF THE YEARAnother great review (Norwegian), from the Friday April 9 show.01/04 2010: GREAT REVIEWGreat review (Norwegian) of Friday March 26 show19/03 2010: MINICONCERT/AUTOGRAPH SIGNINGMINI CONCERT AND AUTOGRAPH SIGNING AT 4SOUND BERGEN On Tuesday March 23 Mads and band will give a free miniconcert at the 4SOUND music store (Hagstrøm Musikk) in Strandtg. 197. Mads' new album Just what the world needs will be on sale, as well as his debut album Journey, which was released exactly 20 years earlier, in February 1990. It starts at 16.30. 15/03 2010: ACOUSTIC GUITAR WORKSHOPMADS ERIKSEN'S GUITAR SCHOOL ORGANISE WORKSHOP WITH TWO LIVING GUITAR LEGENDS We are proud to announce that Mads, together with friend and guitar afficionado Egil Kjerstad organise a 2-day workshop with two of worlds foremost acoustic guitar players on May 12 and 13 in Bergen. Stefan Grossman (from whose GUITAR PLAYER- columns in the 70's Mads learned the alternate thumb style as explored in songs like "Memphis-Elvis-Travis" and "Hopeless Romantic" on the Redhanded album) and John Renbourn will in addition give a concert in the evening of Thursday May 13 at Madam Felle in Bergen. 18/02 2010: NEW WEBSITE!After 9 years with the old website we have decided to brush things up a bit. The old site has served its purpose well, but frankly it was getting a bit long in the tooth. There is still some work to do, so if things seems to be missing, they will probably show up eventually.. 15/02 2010: 3 NEW SONGSfrom Mads' upcoming album on MySpace!!! One hard ("Destroyer"), one sweet ("In the streets and alleys of the town") and one strange ("Yukon River") for your listening pleasure. 10/02 2010: MORE GIGS MADS ERIKSEN ON ELM STREET 29/01 2010: RELEASE AND CONCERTSNEW RELEASE DATE - RELEASE PARTY AND PROMO GIGS! 08/01 2010: STARTING OFFChris Thompson/Mads Eriksen Band start off the new year with a show at a festival in Augsburg, Germany, Saturday January 9. Also playing that night are Slade, Sweet and Suzi Quatro. Back to news |
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