Blondie’s Panic of Girls “Fan Pack” is now available for pre-order internationally, and is scheduled for release in the U.K. on June 1.

The Blondie Fan Pack includes Panic Of Girls, the band’s brilliant new studio album, plus a 132-page magazine.

Fans who buy the Blondie Fan Pack will be able to hear Panic Of Girls weeks before it goes on sale in the U.K. record stores, and the Fan Pack version of Panic Of Girls comes with two bonus tracks that will not be on the record store version of the album.

The Fan Pack magazine is 100% Blondie-approved and contains major, all-new interviews with Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke and all the other members of Blondie, as they talk us through the making of the album and look back over a history that has seen them sell 40 million albums and break new ground in the worlds of pop and fashion.

The magazine is packed with a wealth of exclusive, never-before-seen pictures of Blondie  including rare treasures from Chris Stein’s own archive. A must for all Blondie fans!

Track list:
   D-Day      
   What I Heard
   Mother
   The End The End
   Girlie Girlie    
   Love Doesn’t Frighten Me      
   Words In My Mouth      
   Sunday Smile      
   Wipe Off My Sweat      
   Le Bleu
   China Shoes  
   +2 bonus tracks

Pre-order your copy of the Blondie Panic of Girls Fan Pack now.  Free U.K. delivery.

Guitarist Tommy Kessler’s newly updated official website is now up and running.  Visit www.tommykessler.com for new photos and the latest news.

i have been neglectful here of posting duties… one problem has been every time i mentioned something about the record release it would turn out to not happen… that made me somewhat reluctant to say anything lest i be disseminating false info… that said it looks like the release is actually established and we will soon enough have a date etc

apart from that just biz as usual… i have devoted a lot of time to working on material for the next album which will be the 10th… i am hopeful that now that we have deals in place for Panic that the lag time will be much less in future

thank you all as usual for your continued support

Matt Katz-Bohen would like to invite everyone to visit his new website, www.mattkatzbohen.com. Listen to new music Matt is producing, see fun new pictures, and learn factoids-of-the-day.

Tommy Kessler would like to invite his fans to follow him on Twitter.  Find his page at http://twitter.com/TheRealTommyK

The official tour schedule has been updated to include newly-announced performances at the Kendal Calling festival (in Hackthorpe, near Kendal, Cumbria, U.K.; available now) and the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland (on sale March 4).  Additional shows will be announced later this month.

Additional shows have been added to Blondie’s summer tour schedule, and more will be announced in the coming weeks.

Blondie is pleased to announce that they will perform on July 11 at Kew Gardens in London. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the Kew Gardens Kew The Music details page.  Tickets go on sale March 7. Additional shows in the summer tour schedule will be announced soon!

Media release: Debbie Harry to perform with the Jazz Passengers and Northern Sinfonia on the opening day of the Gateshead International Jazz Festival, 25-27 March 2011 in northeast England.

The Sage Gateshead are very excited to be introducing downtown New York to their jazz festival when the iconic voice of Blondie meets the anarchic wit of one of the definitive alt-jazz bands of recent years, the Jazz Passengers, along with Northern Sinfonia, orchestra of The Sage Gateshead. The combination of hard bop, off-beat comedy and improvisation of the very highest order is the Jazz Passengerss hallmark and the dynamic between this team of jazz heavyweights and punk rocks answer to Marilyn Monroe (The Spectator) is fired by a quintessential New York attitude. Robert Ziegler conducts Northern Sinfonia in only the third performance of a tremendous orchestral version of this collaboration, scored by the bands brilliant vibist Bill Ware in a song-cycle that brings out the wit and edge of lyrics superbly delivered by Debbie Harry, complemented by the solo strengths of the Jazz Passengerss founding fathers, saxophonist Roy Nathanson and trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, as well as the fluent violin lines of Sam Barfield. For further details or to purchase tickets, visit The Sage Gateshead official site and the Gateshead International Jazz Festival 2011 details page.

Once again in March, Clem will be going back out on tour in the U.S. and Canada with Hugh Cornwell, the original guitarist, singer, and main songwriter in the UK-based band The Stranglers.  For full details and the latest information including the complete list of the tour dates, visit the Official Hugh Cornwell site’s tour dates page.  Except as noted, the shows feature two sets; the first is a collection of Stranglers hits and classic solo material, with the second featuring The Stranglers seminal debut album Rattus Norvegicus IV performed in its entirety.

March 3 – Las Vegas Country Saloon – Las Vegas, NV (This is a ‘one off’ special show, with first half being an acoustic storytelling and the second half a full band show.) (tix)
March 4 – Viper Room – Los Angeles, CA (regular and VIP tickets available) (tix)
March 5 – Red Devil Lounge – San Francisco, CA (early show) (tix)
March 6 – Blue Lamp – Sacramento, CA (tix)
March 10 – East End – Portland, OR
March 11 – The Funhouse – Seattle, WA (tix)
March 12 – Venue – Vancouver, BC (early show) (tix)
March 15 – The Haven Social Club – Edmonton, AB (tix)
March 17 – Pyramid Cabaret – Winnipeg, MB (tix)
March 18 – 400 Bar – Minneapolis, MN (tix)
March 19 – Off Broadway – St. Louis, MO (tix)
March 21 – Republic – New Orleans, LA (tix)
March 22 – Numbers – Houston, TX (tix)
March 23 – Lovejoys – Austin, TX (free show)
March 26 – George & Dragon – Phoenix, AZ (tix)
March 27 – Alex’s Bar – Long Beach, CA (tix)