Arrived home safely from our latest tour to Canada and America. We started off in Montreal and the wintery cities of Canada before making our way down to the Southern States Of America spending 3 days at The South By South West (SXSW) Festival in Austen Texas, and then cruising the Caribbean with The Moody Blues, visiting Jamaica and The Cayman Islands on the 92,000 ton liner M.S.C. Poesia.

We all had an absolutely brilliant time and will be going back to the States twice more this year. First to the north east in June and then to California at the end of August, all the details that I have are on the "gigs page" of this website.
Next up for us though is a U.K. tour in May coupled with the release of our new C.D. "Live In The U.K." which you can now pre-order at www.Amazon.co.uk .

It has been really exciting to see how The Zombies profile is continuing to grow through out the world as we tour to more and more places. The next 12 months seems like it will be a particularly busy schedule especially when you remember that we will also be writing and recording for future albums in any moments that we are not actually touring! It's strange how things work out, when Rod and I first got together in 1999 we were only going to perform 6 concerts and now here we are 14 years later busier than we have ever been and hopefully looking forward to many more years of touring and recording. Many thanks to all those who have supported us through the years....hope we can see you all again during 2013!

cheers,
Colin.

MOJO

NEW ALBUM "ON THE AIR TONIGHT" REVIEWED IN OCTOBER ISSUE 228

Re-energised, newly respected the ex (?) -Zombie is back with his 11th. solo album. Of late there's been a new appreciation of Blunstone and the voice that gave us everything from She's Not There to I Don't Believe In Miracles. This outing doesn't detract. Opener Turn Your Heart Around is classic, anthemic soft rock given meaning by Blunstone's nuanced edge; the guitar break alone (Tom Toomey) is so soaringly perfect, you know you're in the hands of genius. The title track, a deft soulful ballad, is classy, too. The big surprise is a number of sparer numbers. Though You Are Far Away channels Scott Walker's late-period haiku; Not Our Time is a tender, Carpenters style lament.

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I'm proud to announce that I have been invited to become a patron of Megan Baker House, which does such wonderful work providing free Conductive Education Service for children, teenagers and adults with special educational needs and physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, head injury, stroke, dyspraxia and early on-set Parkinson's disease. I'll keep you up to date as I find out more about their methods and their successes and in the meantime why not check out their website?

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UNVEILING OF THE BLUE PLAQUE TO COMMEMORATE THE FIRST MEETING
OF THE ZOMBIES AT THE BLACKSMITH'S ARMS, ST.ALBANS, IN APRIL 1961.