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Christmas Show at Middleton Hall confirmed for
Sat 10th December 2011
Phil Bates & Tina McBain

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' Achtung!!! Phil and Mik are touring Germany in January and February with their Blue Violin tour. Please check my gig page for details. We would love to see as many of our German friends and fans as possible'.

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A message from Phil 7th December 2011

I would like to tell you all about my new project - The Abbey Road Experience - which will seek to reproduce The Beatles Abbey Road album note for note, or as near as possible, on stage in a 'live' sitaution.

Involved in this project are Chris and Steve from Eagles tribute 'Desperado', and Derek Holt from Climax Blues Band. In fact, the whole thing was Chris's idea ...it came to him in a moment of madness, I think :-),

As yet we haven't decided on a keyboard player, but this will happen soon. Rehearsals are underway, and first gigs will be in March 2012. Our main focus will be October 2012 for a tour ..the March dates will be largely to assess whether we have an audience for this, and to make sure it all works musically. Look at my gig page for details

Suffice to say, I am very excited about this project. It is a BIG challenge, but one I am very excited about. I hope you will come and support us.

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My German projects are also taking priority at the moment. There seems to be a little confusion over the titles these projects are working under, so let me elucidate. The main project is called ‘ELO Klassik – The Music of ELO performed by Phil Bates and the Berlin String Ensemble’ ....this is a 6-piece band, plus a string quartet. The secondary version of this is ‘The Music of ELO – performed by Phil Bates and band’ .... this is a 6-piece band, featuring two keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and violin.

Jo is a part of both of these projects taking care of string keyboards and vocals.

Beatles, Blues and Blue Violin, featuring Mik Kaminski and Tina McBain is still active and working.

I am also doing duo gigs in Germany with Mik. We have a tour planned in January 2012.

I would like to think that I will be able to play some blues at some point during 2012 ... I am thinking of putting a project together, but not sure what form it will take at the moment.

OK, hope to see everyone soon. Love and best wishes. Phil

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