In addition to Mike recently announcing he is working on the "project of a lifetime" (more on this here, but more still to come), Platinum and QE2 Deluxe editions and a self compiled career restrospective are to be released on 30th July.
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Terry Oldfield has finished work on the recording of his new album Journey Into Space featuring Mike on guitars. It includes a track called Flight of the Eagle, which is an arrangement of a piece that Mike and Terry used to play live in Barefoot, their pre Tubular Bells band. This track also features Mike on guitars. Further details are available at Terry's website.
Phoning in from the Bahamas, Mike was guest on Radcliffe & Maconie on BBC's 6 Music today. As well as talking about Incantations, key extracts were that he has done a remote recording session with drummer John Robinson via Skype and has been working on club remixes of old material. He said there "may be something next year, with the possibility of a live show, although it's very early days". We will share any updates here as soon as we get them. He also confirmed that preliminary work on the Telecaster album has not progressed, although the ideas are stored and may develop one day. Most importantly, he announced he is still working and producing whilst also spending plenty of time playing with the kids!
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To continue the relaunch of Mike's back catalogue, remastered editions of Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn will be released on 7th June. Full details are available in this press release and Universal website.
Now that Mercury have taken over Mike's back catalogue, they are relaunching Tubular Bells with a totalof six different releases on June 8th. See a Universal interview with Mike here. The new TV advertised stereo mix and compilation will be available as a 2CD set and a deluxe edition will contain these CD's plus a DVD. Read the full Universal press release here
A limited edition 2CD including live version from Bilbao will be released on 24th November. Order now from Amazon. An impressive TV advert was been produced for the UK market. It went to number one in the UK classical chart, which Mike comments on at www.mikeoldfield.com