Things have been busy in the Newman camp for the last few months and we can now reveal what we've been up to. If you remember a while back, we said that we were working on something to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the band, well, here it is, in the form of a double CD entitled "Decade". Check out the official press release below...

NEWMAN CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY WITH DOUBLE CD PACKAGE

One of the UK's top Melodic Rock bands is to mark it's 10th anniversary with a double CD release entitled "Decade"

Featuring a total of 34 songs and over 150 mins of music, the album is set for release on 1st September 2008

DISC 1 FEATURES 17 SONGS FROM THE FIRST 5 ALBUMS, FROM THE SELF TITLED 1998 DEBUT,
THROUGH "ONE STEP CLOSER", DANCE IN THE FIRE",
"SIGN OF THE MODERN TIMES", AND FINALLY "HEAVEN KNOWS".

DISC 2 FEATURES ANOTHER 17 SONGS, SOME THAT WERE WRITTEN AND EVEN RECORDED,
BUT NOT INCLUDED IN THE FINAL TRACK LISTING FOR THE VARIOUS RELEASES.
THIS DISC ALSO FEATURES SOME SONGS WHICH WERE "WORKS IN PROGRESS" BUT
WERE NEVER COMPLETED, AND FINALLY CLOSING OUT THE DISC,
A FEW ALTERNATIVE AND ACOUSTIC ARRANGEMENTS.

The concept of "Decade" was to bring to you re-performed and re-recorded songs, both released, and unreleased, from the
first 10 years of Newman. I hope that we have captured some of the essence of the original recordings
whilst at the same time breathing new life into them.
This is our way of saying thank you, we know it's been said before, a thousand times, but it really is your support and belief that has
kept Newman alive and kicking. So here's to the next "Decade" ..... Steve Newman

So, there it is, the official press release, we've got some addtional details below for you including the full track listing. Click on the highlighted songs for 1 min sound samples, and click here, to go to the shop to pre-order.

DISC ONE

1. ONE STEP CLOSER
2. HEAVEN KNOWS
3. EVERY MOMENT
4. LAST KNOWN SURVIVORS
5. IF IT'S LOVE
6. AIN’T GONNA CRY FOREVER
7. YOU SHOULD BE GONE
8. PRAY FOR THE DAY
9. TABOO
10. SAVE ME TONIGHT
11. THE CALL
12. DANGEROUS
13. THE WAY YOU LOVE ME
14. JUDGEMENT DAY
15. BURNED
16. I KNOW YOU
17. WATCHING YOU

DISC TWO

1. COMING HOME TONIGHT
2. LIFE AFTER LOVE
3. TELL IT TO MY HEART
4. CHANGE
5. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW
6. HANDS AROUND MY HEART
7. ALL SHE WANTS
8. DON’T EVER SAY FOREVER
9. LOVE NEVER DIES
10. CAN’T STOP FALLING
11. ALL OF ME
12. EMOTIONS INTO MOTION
13. WORLD COMES DOWN
14. WHEN I LOOK IN YOUR EYES
15. 15 MINUTE REVOLUTION (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
16. PRIMITIVE SOUL (ACOUSTIC VERSION)
17. ONE STEP CLOSER (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER "DECADE" NOW

EDEN : OBLIVION

At the tail end of last year Steve was approached by Nick Workman with a view to mixing the second Eden album. You may well remember Nick for not only his involvement on the recordings for "One Step Closer" but also fronting the awesome band "Kick" with two other names that appear quite frequently in Newman's history, brothers Mickey, and Chris Jones.

This is an album that Steve has had great pleasure in being involved with, not only is the musicianship on this album top notch, but it's a release full of killer songs such as "Oblivion", "New Tattoo", "As Good As It Gets", and "Nothing" the latter of which Steve appears on bass.

Check out the title track OBLIVION

Here's the press release for the album :

"Z Records has announced the signing of EDEN to a worldwide deal. The UK outfit, which features Nick Workman (KICK) and Vince O’Regan (BOB CATLEY), has produced a solid melodic hard rock album which bears no resemblance to band’s previous outing, “Open Minds”. According to a press release, EDEN has progressed and produced an album, entitled “Oblivion”, which features influences from WHITESNAKE, LED ZEPPELIN and QUEENSRŸCHE, to name but a few.

Vocalist Nick Workman commented: “EDEN are very happy to forge a partnership with Z Rock Records. With EDEN being a gigging band and not just studio-based, it made perfect sense to sign to a label that supports its bands on the live front. This album is very different from our first album, ‘Open Minds’, in that it has a more melodic approach but still maintains the grooves and edge. When we wrote that first album, me and Vince had only just hooked up so it was all new. This time round we had more time to work on the songs.”

Vince O’Regan, EDEN’s guitarist, had this to say: “Having had negative comments regarding albums that I had recently recorded, me and Nick decided to hand over mixing duties to someone else. Nick is good friends with Steve Newman and Steve was more than happy to take it on and he has done a fantastic job and given us a huge-sounding album.”

“Oblivion” will be released April 28.

For more information on the band, check out their website links myspace page and www.edentheband.co.uk

FROZEN RAIN : S/T

This is the brainchild of Kurt Vereecke, Kurt originally approaced Steve to record some guitars for the track "Red Light Zone" early last year which is now set to appear on the album. The aforementioned track was also mixed by Steve. We think this is going to be one of the highlights of 2008, great West Coast AOR with some even greater musicians joining the talented Kurt including Daniel Flores and the one and only Mr "Tommy Denander".

Here's the press release:

AVENUE OF ALLIES MUSIC PRESS RELEASE:
Avenue Of Allies Music is a young German record label which will be specializing in AOR, Melodic Rock and Westcoast. The CD release schedule will be featuring brand new releases as well as re-issues of rare stuff and CDs of never before released vinyl LPs. All albums will be available as physical CDs and as Digital Downloads. The company originated from the longtime friendship of Gregor Klee and Robert Pancur who also worked together on some releases of Target Records. The first act which signed to Avenue Of Allies Music was Frozen Rain, a band celebrating the pure AOR and Melodic Rock of classic bands like The Storm, Giant, Harlan Cage, Fair Warning, Drive She Said, Skagarack and Bad Habit. The main man behind this promising project is Kurt Vereecke from Belgium who assembled a great cast of well known musicians like Tommy Denander (Radioactive, Prisoner), Steve Newman (Newman), Jim Santos (Norway), Daniel Flores (Mind's Eye), Ollie Oldenburg (ex-Zinatra) and many more. Frozen Rain's first album will be released in early April.
Avenue Of Allies is already successful with the distribution of the debut CD of Los Angeles-based singer Daniel Nelson. Daniel's collection of Westcoast tunes in the vein of Michael McDonald, Sneaker, Maxus, Ambrosia and the David Foster productions of the early 80s can be found at number 6 on the CD Baby charts (cdbaby.com/top/760). Michael Carey Schneider of Sneaker fame was impressed and said: “...This CD has great songs, production, arrangements, chord progressions, instrumentation everything that we loved from groups like Pages, Airplay, Toto, Doobies, Steely and much more. We were also inspired by groups such as these and Daniel Nelson's CD has that feel and will bring you back to the 'real thing'.” Beside CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com/cd/dnelson), the CD is also in stock at Target Records (www.targetrecords.de) and AOR Heaven (www.aorheaven.com). While the label's website is under construction, the Frozen Rain presence on the net with sound bytes for all 12 songs is welcoming visitors under www.frozenrain.be.

OVERLAND : BREAK AWAY

You may remember a while back Steve travelled over to Sweden to write with the multi talented Anders Rydholm, during the week that Steve spent with Anders the pair wrote around 7 songs, one of which, appears on the new Steve Overland album. The song is entitled "Heartache Calling" and features Steve on guitar. We think that this is going to be another cracking album, anything that Anders is involved with is always a cut above the rest. This album features Anders not only as the main songwriter, producer but playing keys, bass, and guitar, Gregg Bissonette on drums, and the amazing lead guitar talents of Ola af Trampe.

Here's the Escape press release:

INTRODUCING STEVE OVERLAND'S BREAK AWAY:
Escape Music is pleased to announce the release date for the much anticipated solo album from Steve Overland on May 21 in Europe and Japan! This has been a long time coming! Steve Overland is a legend in his own lifetime. Is there anyone out there who is not familiar with his name? He has a history that goes way back into the late seventies, his first major recording was with the band Wildlife in 1980, their first album "Burning" was a fine introduction to his vocal prowess. The second album "Wildlife" in 1983 extended his popularity, the album also featured Simon Kirke (Bad Company) on drums. After the demise of "Wildlife" Steve went on to form the cult British melodic rock band FM, a band that released many great albums throughout the eighties and nineties. The recent one-off performance at the Firefest in Nottingham last year had an enthusiastic crowd bursting at the seams. Their popularity has always been at the forefront of British Hard Rock. Steve originally teamed up with Escape Music to provide lead vocals for the Boston Tribute album (ESM 081), singing 'Amanda', one of the album highlights. With Steve working alongside Escape Music, the 'FM' radio came out of the closet once more, a fine triple album "Long Time No See" (ESM 086) featuring the three albums "Paraphernalia", "Aphrodisiac" and Live at the Astoria. And the double disc Long Lost Friends ESM121 (Dead Man's Shoes and Takin' it to the Streets) More recently Steve teamed up with Steve Morris of Heartland fame to record the much acclaimed Shadowman albums Land of the Living (ESM 099) and Different Angles (ESM127). A third recording is in the pipeline.

Track Listing: This Time / Alive And Kicking / Break Away / Like A River / Look Into Your Eyes / After The Fire / Evangeline / Heartache Calling / Mad Mad World / Lost In Paradise / Rescue Me / Until Forever Comes.

Line-Up: Steve Overland - Lead Vocals; Anders Rydholm - Guitars, Keyboards, Bass; Ola af Trampe – Lead Guitars; Gregg Bissonette – Drums; Tony Morra - Drums on "Evangeline" &" Lost In Paradise"; Per Svensson - All Background Vocals; Matt Bissonette - Fretless Bass on "Until Forever Comes"; Steve Newman - Guitar on "Heartache Calling".
All music written by Anders Rydholm / Except "Heartache Calling" by Anders Rydholm and Steve Newman / All lyrics by Steve Overland / Produced, recorded and arranged by Anders RYDHOLM at GodisPaScen Studio, Vaxjo, Sweden.

Steve recently recorded music for the new Guitarstoreuk ad, which can be heard on ARFM.

Many thanks to Steve Price(ARFM) and Kozzy (Guitarstoreuk) in enlisting Steve's help on this !!

You will be hearing more of this song entitled "Can You Hear Me Now"at a later date as this will be part of the next major site update.

We're not giving anything away at present, but if you recall, at the beginning of the year, we remarked that this was the 10th Anniversary of Newman. We'll let you think about that for the time being. There will be an update on all things Newman hopefully in the latter part of next month.