04 March 2010

Japanese fans will be delighted to hear that the album Ordinary Heroes will be released in Japan on 21st April 2010. The album will feature 3 bonus tracks - Everlasting Love, New Song and What Is Love? recorded in the style of the album.


03 March 2010
After may years of campaigning by fans, and championed by non other than the one and only DJ HoJo Hits, we are delighted to announce that Howard will be performing at this years Bestival on the Isle Of Wight in September. As yet which date Howard will be performing has not been set.

The new single, Straight Ahead has been added to the BBC Wales radio playlist.

3 new dates have been announced in Ireland this coming April and May:

The Irish dates are as follows. China Crisis will open followed by Carol Decker followed by Belinda Carlisle followed by Howard.

Friday April 30th INEC Killarney
Saturday May 1st Royal Theatre Castle Bar
Sunday May 2nd Lyrath Hotel Kilkenny

It will be the Howard Jones electric 5 piece band with Robbie Bronnimann, Robin Boult, Jonathan Atkinson and Kevan Frost.

27 February 2010

Howard was interviewed for the Geoff & Andy Radio show, which went out last night. But fear not, you can listen again here
http://www.geoffandandy.co.uk

Howard will be performing in Germany on 28th August 2010 at the Hit Radio Antenne 80er Open Air, Soltau, Germany


24 February 2010

Respected music publication MOJO gave a 4 star review of Howard's Ordinary Heroes album in their March 2010 (issue 196) edition.

Reviewer Johnny Black writes:

"80's sytnth-pop icon re-emerges as mature singer-songwriter.

Jones The Synth, thankfully, has outlasted the barmy barnet that made him hard to take as seriously as he deserved in the 80's.
Eschewing the expectations of his original fanbase, he has allowed himself to age with grace. The overwhelmig sound here is piano accompanying voices and string quartet, while Jones's lyrics focus unerringly on the trials and triumphs of daily life.
The Celtic fiddles on poignant opener Straight Ahead might set Van The Man alerts flashing, but fear not, Jones still sounds like he give a damn, and his use of teh string section throughout Ordinary Heroes is exemplary.
The soul whoop of Collective Heartbeat and the bittersweet heartache of Soon You'll Go provide just two of several high points on an album that's not just his most consistantly fulfilling but also his most promising.


21 February 2010
Straight Ahead will be the new single from the album Ordinary Heroes.
It will be released in the UK on March 22nd 2010.

The single is already getting played on Radio 2 by several DJ's.
Please contact the station or your local stations and request the single to be played.

Internationally we are planning releases in mainland Europe, North America and Japan. Exact release dates to follow shortly.

Howard and Robbie have been working flat out recording 3 bonus tracks for the Japanese release of Ordinary Heroes. The 3 tracks, New Song, What Is Love and Everlasting Love will be in the style of the Ordinary Heores album.


18 February 2010
Hello!
We are pleased to announce the return of Glenn Kelly to the HoJo camp. Many of you will know Glenn from his work running Howard's websites and mailing lists etc for the past 10 years, and he returns after taking a sabbatical year.
Glenn says: " I'm so pleased to be back working with Howard and everyone at FML, and to work again for the fans, who love Howard's much as musch as I do. I'm looking forward to bringing the HoJo Community together again by re introducing the Official Howard Jones Email Discussion List - HoJo Talk, which will run in parallell with the online forum. It's also great to be back working with my friend Howard, and we will be working on bringing you the remasters projects later this year. There is a lot of work to do, and I can't wait to get started..."

We would like to thank Steve Cripps for looking after things, and Steve will still be involved in other design projects for us.

To subscribe to the Official Howard Jones Email Discussion List - HoJo Talk -simply click here or email hojo-talk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
If you were previously subscribed to HoJo - Talk before 2010, you will need to resubscribe.

Howard will be headlining this years Lets Rock The Moor fesitval in Cookham, Berkshire on Saturday 22nd May 2010
Howard Jones
Haircut 100

Plus Support Acts:
High School Musical - (High energy, fully choreographed dance show based on the hugely successful Disney films)
Girls Alouder - (The UK’s premier Girls Aloud tribute act)
Soul’d Out
The Mean Red Spiders
Burdock
The Quotes
RedRoots
More to follow soon – check website for more details

Cookham Moor - Saturday 22nd May 2010
Gates Open: 11:45am – Concert Starts: 12.30 – Tickets on Sale Monday 22nd Feb

Tickets are only £18 for Adults, £10 for Children (3-12) and £49 for a family ticket (2+2) for the whole day and evening.
Available from www.letsrockthemoor.co.uk or from the following retailers: Cookham: Stationery Depot, Marlow: D&J News, Maidenhead: Sheargold’s, Bourne End: Martins, Reading: Total Sounds & Henley: Hot Gossip.

Proceeds to Wooden Spoon (www.woodenspoon.com) and Cookham charities.


Howard was asked towards the end of 2009 to work a remix of "Devastated" by Space Cowboy
The track features on their EP Electro Pioneers , which also features remixes by Thomas Dolby and Vince Clark.
It is now available to download in the USA - as yet we do not have news of a UK release.

Click here to view at Amazon.com

The EP also includes remixes by Thomas Dolby and Vince Clarke.


30 December 2009
Breaking News to the Japanese fans!
At last, we're ready to announce Howard's latest release in Japan.
'Soon You'll Go' will be available on ringtones and iTunes Japan from January 1st 2010.

Japanese exclusive 'Ordinary Heroes' is planned to be released from Sony Music Japan International in the Spring.

'Soon You'll Go' is the image song of the program 'Ghost' Season 3 on FOX channel (Japan only).

For more details, check the updates on www.howardjones.jp
http://www.howardjones.jp

13 November
Howard Jones interview.
Read the on-line version of yesterday's interview in the Daily Telegraph here>>


11 November
Howard Jones interview in The Daily Telegraph.
Look out for an in-depth interview with Howard in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph...


04 November
Howard on BBC News Somerset.
Watch the extended Points West interview here>>