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2008 |
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December 31st 2008 |
New gigs in Holland just announced, click here to check them! |
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December 22nd 2008 |
Ken Hensley informs that the Esperanza Street Charity Foundation has received recently an anonymous bid of 2,000.00 Euros for the bass guitar, signed by so many great names, that is up for auction on their web site (click on "The Shop"). The auction for this instrument will end on February 28th, so if you're interested please place your bids soon! |
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December 16th 2008 |
Check here Ken's own report about the recent Belarus solo gigs... with photos! |
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December 9th 2008 |
And yet another update note from Ken Hensley: "Hi
again! I am off to Belarus this week for two solo shows and we'll
get back to recording as soon as we can around or immediately after
the holidays but so far things are going so well and I am really
happy with the four tracks we have done. The CD will be very
different from B.O.T.H but just as powerful. There will be at least
one duet and one song that is being sung in four different languages
so we will have bonus tracks galore. I hope to have it completed by
the end of February and then I will sit with the record company and
plan for its release and promotion stuff. The video for the first
duet is being shot in Bulgaria by Igor Burloff, a fantastic Russian
director so there's all kinds of new stuff happening. I am expecting
to make a couple of major announcements soon on other things so stay
tuned and I'll keep you posted!! |
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December 3rd 2008 |
A new note by Ken Hensley about the recordings of his new studio album: "Hi Everyone,
well, the new CD is under way. We started yesterday (December
2nd) and will work on it until the holidays and then again starting
January 7th. I am using the same team I used for Blood On The
Highway, even though this CD will be VERY different. I'll do
my best to keep you updated here with pictures etc. and maybe a
couple of little audio clips as a teaser! |
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December 2nd 2008 |
A brand new interview with Ken Hensley, made by Kevin Julie, was posted today on Universal Wheels, click here to read it. |
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December 1st 2008 |
ProgArchives, one of the main progressive rock databases on the Internet, has just debuted a section dedicated to Ken Hensley. Check it out here and review/rank Ken's albums! Also on ProgFreak a KH entry was added. Thanks to Jose Alberto Muñoz Flores for the info. |
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November 30th 2008 |
The third and last part of Ken's tour report about the recent gigs is now available here! Photos from the last gig of the tour (Switzerland) can be seen here. |
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November 28th 2008 |
New live dates in Belarus just announced! Click here for details. |
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November 27th 2008 |
The second part of Ken's tour report about the Russian and Swiss gigs is now available here! |
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November 27th 2008 |
Some extra clips from the recent Ken Hensley gig in Helsinki, Finland: -
Getting ready
for Ken Hensley's arrival to Helsinki Find here a link to the Helsingin Sanomat group. |
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November 9th 2008 |
Click here to read a new report written by Ken Hensley about his recent tour in Finland, Russia and Switzerland. Some photos are also available! |
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November 2nd 2008 |
A message from Ken Hensley about the recent gig in Helsinki, Finland: "I have to
say a big, big thank you to all of my friends and fans in Helsinki
for making the evening at On The Rocks so great and so special!
To Tapio, Jyrki, Martti (who never got lost... well, once only!) for
organising everything, to Kirsi and Timo for making the song
booklets and for organising the webcast of the fan meeting, not to
mention the great dinner and even greater desert. Everything
was super, from the moment I arrived and it was a trip I will long
remember.
Please find below some direct links to videoclips made during Ken's
visit (thanks to Tapio Minkkinen): Photos from the event available here. |
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October 28th 2008 |
Getting ready for Ken Hensley's gig in Helsinki
on October 30th, the Finnish Heep Army have prepared
something special for the pre-show party on Thursday. It
will be broadcast live at
http://www.floobs.com . Starting ca. 8 pm on Thursday, this
was done in co-operation with Radio Kontula and Floobs.
Those who can't be there can at least see how the Finnish fans are
having a party! You can check out
http://www.floobs.com and
http://www.heepfiles.net for more info. There is already a
short promo clip running at this address: |
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October 27th 2008 |
A message from Ken Hensley about the recent shipping delay referring to the Blood On The Highway/When Too Many Dreams Come True book: "Due to heavier than expected demand we are temporarily out of the Blood On The Highway book but don't worry, more are on their way and, if you have a pending order, please be patient with us for a little while longer.... it will arrive!" |
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October 26th 2008 |
A message from Ken Hensley in regards to the recently cancelled live gigs in Minsk, Belarus (they were scheduled to happen on October 26th-27th):
"To all of my friends and fans in Belarus, especially in Minsk… |
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October 17th 2008 |
New live dates in Russia just announced! Check them out here. |
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October 10th 2008 |
Due to frequent mentions of classic Uriah Heep songs including "Satanic messages" and related nonsense crap, Ken Hensley has just stated the following: "Ladies
& Gentlemen, The message allegedly released by US Vice-President candidate Sarah Palin, to which Ken refers himself, can be read here. |
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October 6th 2008 |
A correction: the upcoming concert in Berlin, Germany will happen on October 18th, and not on November 17th as previously announced! |
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September 27th 2008 |
Breaking News! Read here the official press release announcing the new Ken Hensley International Academy Of Contemporary Songwriting! |
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September 26th 2008 |
A new live date in Berlin, Germany has been just announced! Details here, and there's more to come... |
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September 15th 2008 |
New live dates announced for Russia and Switzerland! Click here for details. More dates in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus will be added soon! |
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September 10th 2008 |
Read here Ken's report on his recent trip to Germany and Bulgaria, including some photos from the beauty contest that happened while he was there... |
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September 2nd 2008 |
Tickets for Ken's solo gig in Helsinki (Finland) on October 30th are now on sale through this link. Concert t-shirts are already available for pre-ordering. These are collectors items and limited edition prints only for this concert so order now to ensure you'll get your copy. If you order and pay beforehand the price is lower than if bought at the concert. The shirt picture with ordering form for Finnish buyers can bee seen at this page. Buyers from outside of Finland please send e-mail to tapio@uriah-heep.fi and you'll get instructions on pricing and how to pay. |
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August 18th 2008 |
The auction/sale to help raising funds for the Esperanza Street foundation is still going on! Check here a photo of Heikki Kyllästinen (Joensuu, Finland), the proud owner of Ken Hensley's original racing helmet from the 70s! For other cool items please go to Esperanza Street and click on The Shop. |
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August 17th 2008 |
A new live date in Bulgaria just announced, click here for details! |
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August 12th 2008 |
Ken Hensley's own report about this year's Summer Party in Gressvik, Norway can be read here! Other reports and photos can be found here. |
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August 10th 2008 |
A new live date just announced, a solo show to happen at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland, on October 30th. Check all live dates here. |
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July 28th 2008 |
Some people have been asking if there are NTSC copies available of the new Ken Hensley double DVD set, "Blood On The Highway - The Exclusive Release Concert". The answer is yes! So, when you order it from your favourite store, please make sure to ask for the appropriate colour system, PAL or NTSC. |
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July 18th 2008 |
New live dates in Belarus just announced, click here for details. More concert dates will be added soon! |
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July 17th 2008 |
"(...) by 2pm big chunks of hail were pounding down and the sky looked very threatening (...)". Click here to read the latest trip diary written by Ken Hensley, covering his Germany/Bulgaria adventures! |
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July 13th 2008 |
Last Friday July 11th Ken Hensley & Live Fire played an explosive gig in Calw, Germany. The crowd went nuts and totally forgot about the rain. Check here a photo taken at the soundcheck with the Hammond organ covered due to the rain, and also a short videoclip showing Ken facing some problems with the Leslie speaker. |
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July 12th 2008 |
Read here the complete Bulgaria Trip Diary! Ken tells all the details about the gigs with John Lawton, including the amazing July Morning early hours concert in front of the Black Sea! |
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July 11th 2008 |
This is the list of musicians who will be playing with Ken Hensley at the SWR 1 Sommerfest concert on August 31st in Mainz, Germany:
Adax Dörsam - guitar The complete list of Live Dates is available here. |
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July 7th 2008 |
An update from Ken Hensley on the Esperanza Street Foundation: "Please visit (or re-visit) the Esperanza Street site! We have lowered the reserve price on two key items in the auction because we really want to move them and because we know financial things are not that easy right now. A truly great opportunity to own a 'piece of rock & roll history' and help a lot of good causes at the same time." |
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June 22nd 2008 |
We have now available on the site a lot of really nice photos from concerts that happened in December 2007, featuring Ken Hensley & Live Fire. Check here some from the Prague (Czech Republic) and Munich (Germany) gigs and here some from the Zlin (Czech Republic) gig. |
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June 18th 2008 |
New gigs in Bulgaria featuring Ken Hensley & John Lawton performing together with the Bulgarian band BTR are now announced on the Live Dates page. |
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June 15th 2008 |
More (great) photos of Ken Hensley, John Lawton & Live Fire playing together live at the Sweden Rock Festival are now available here. Thanks to Lennart Samuelsson for the info. |
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June 11th 2008 |
Reports and photos from the Sweden Rock Festival 2008 can be found on the Live Reports page now. Included is Ken Hensley's own report about the event, at which a brand new song was debuted, Fill Your Head (With Rock). |
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June 3rd 2008 |
Classic Rock Revisited is organising a new auction where they're offering some really cool classic rock items. Amongst them, a framed "Look At Yourself" album together with the "July Morning" lyrics, handwritten by Ken Hensley! Click here to check this and all the other items out. |
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June 3rd 2008 |
Exciting news: the Blood on the Highway: The Exclusive Release Concert DVD is #10 in the hard rock section of Amazon.de! Click here to order it there and make it go up in the charts! |
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June 2nd 2008 |
Ken & Monica are now auctioning/selling a series of really cool items in order to raise funds for the Esperanza Street foundation. Details:
*** For Auction ***
*** For Sale *** If you want to buy any or all of these things go to Esperanza Street (click on The Shop) and you will find two secure ways to pay. The PayPal page is once again in English! |
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June 2nd 2008 |
Check on the link below a press release announcing all the events that will happen at the Sweden Rock Festival next weekend, that are related to Ken Hensley & Live Fire. featuring also special guest John Lawton! |
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May 28th 2008 |
The recent Ken Hensley & Live Fire concert at the Lillehammer Rock Festival in Norway was a big success, highly praised by the local press the following day. A brief glimpse on what happened can now be seen through some short (bootleg) videos available on YouTube (thanks to Ranja Eyvindsdatter for the info): |
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May 21st 2008 |
SWR1 will broadcast the radio concert on May 22nd (tomorrow!) at 10pm! Details of the concert, the "band" and a major interview can be found here. |
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May 19th 2008 |
Ken has just completed his diary about the trip to Iceland and Germany. Read the last installment here, or from the beginning by clicking here. Also a photo from the Iceland gigs can be seen here. |
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May 9th 2008 |
A new live date just announced! Ken will play with names like Clem Clempson (Colosseum, Humble Pie), Micky Moody (Whitesnake), Chris Farlowe (Colosseum, Atomic Rooster) and Adrian Askew (Lucifer's Friend) at the Burg Herzberg Festival 2008! More details here. |
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May 6th 2008 |
Ken Hensley has completed the Icelandic diaries (plus Germany), check it out here! Videoclips recorded during Ken's presentation at the "Fernsehgarten" outdoors show on ZDF in Germany can be watched through the following links: |
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April 29th 2008 |
Some new reports by Ken Hensley on the recent trips to Germany and Iceland, read them by following the links below: |
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April 21st 2008 |
Everyone wanting a little more detail about the upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray can go to SPV's website. Just look for Ken Hensley on the main page! |
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April 14th 2008 |
Attention Germany!! Coming soon to a radio station near you: The Ken Hensley, "Blood On The Highway" German public radio tour!! Click here for details of concert broadcast and competitions! |
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April 13th 2008 |
Check the artwork, tracklisting and full credits of Toni Rowland's Unfolding CD, produced by Ken Hensley, by clicking here. |
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April 11th 2008 |
Ken Hensley will start work on the new studio CD next Wednesday. It will have 12 new songs, at least four different voices and it won't all be in English!! Release schedule is late Fall 2008 or Spring 2009. |
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April 10th 2008 |
Click here to check some really cool pictures from the Pinkpop Festival 1976, headlined by Ken Hensley & Uriah Heep. Thanks to Kees Baars of Arrow Rock Radio. Also worth checking out is this video of Ken playing Easy Livin' with Zemlyane at the Kremlin in Russia in December 2006. |
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April 6th 2008 |
The Blood On The Highway - The Exclusive Release Concert DVD/BluRay can be ordered at Amazon Germany from April 10th. Of course it will be also available through other sources later. Available in both PAL and NTSC. Tracklisting: |
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April 6th 2008 |
Ken Hensley produced Toni Rowland's new CD called Unfolding, and also played Hammond organ and slide guitar on it. On her website it is possible to watch a "making of" video (where she talks about working with Ken), listen to samples of the songs from the album, and much more, check it out here. |
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April 4th 2008 |
The Blood On The Highway - The Exclusive Release Concert will be released soon on both DVD and BluRay formats by Membran. The cover art work can be seen here (DVD) and here (BluRay). Meanwhile you can watch some fragments from the concert through the following links: -
We're On Our Way - featuring Jorn Lande |
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April 3rd 2008 |
More and more live dates added, check them out here! Included are the Heepvention 2008 - Uriah Heep Fan Convention that will happen on September 19th & 20th in Granada, Spain! |
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March 28th 2008 |
STOP PRESS......... Number 0001 of the Blood On The Highway boxed set is available to the highest bidder at Esperanza Street!!!! It's unique, still in the original packaging and has to be a very high-value collector's item! Just write your bid in an e-mail to esperanzastreet@yahoo.com and we will post the highest bid in the news section on Friday of each week until the auction ends on April 30th. Ken & Monica speak: "The money raised from this will go
to our efforts to buy the land we have been offered so that we can
build the shelter homes and all of the other things detailed in our
fund-raising news item. |
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March 27th 2008 |
Some links to radio interviews with Ken Hensley, recorded in Norway, can be found below (thanks to Runar Wadseth): |
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March 25th 2008 |
Interesting images from Ken Hensley's past
can be found through the links below. Thanks to Árpád for them. |
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March 17th 2008 |
Some new live dates just announced, including one with Maks & The Minors during their DVD recording. Click here for details. |
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March 14th 2008 |
We are sold out of the first supply of boxed sets and now awaiting re-supply. Other items are still available at the Online Store. |
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March 11th 2008 |
An old article about the Ken Hensley
Racing Team can be seen through this
link. Since the vaults are being opened, also
available are very old Uriah Heep tour books from the
Hensley-era, click
here to see them. |
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March 6th 2008 |
Another live date just announced... This time in Germany! Check it out here. |
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March 4th 2008 |
Another festival concert just announced: The Stange Music Festival in Stange. Norway on June 14th! More details (tickets, etc.) on this date and others are available here. |
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February 27th 2008 |
Another message from Ken, now about the Esperanza Street charity foundation: "Hi Everyone... Please take a minute to visit the Esperanza Street web site for some important news and updates! We have a great opportunity to do special things for special people but we need your help. Somehow I know we can count on you"!! Thanks much, Ken & Monica". |
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February 26th 2008 |
A message from Ken about the shipping of merchandise from the site: "I must apologise for some delays in shipping orders placed in the last 3 weeks. We had to re-order packing and shipping materials and our labelling software totally crashed. It has now been replaced and we should be back to normal by the beginning of next week. Sorry about this and thanks for your patience". |
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February 25th 2008 |
The DVD "Blood On The Highway - Live at Fabrik" is due for release on May 2nd. It will contain both sets: the complete "Blood On The Highway" album performed live with Jorn Lande, John Lawton and Eve Gallagher and the normal Live Fire live set also with John, Eve and Jorn guesting on certain songs. It will also be available in the Blu-Ray format. More details and ordering info soon! |
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February 25th 2008 |
We have been able to make a deal with the publisher of the "Blood On The Highway - When Too Many Dreams Come True" book so that we can offer it to you for € 8.99 plus shipping, for a limited time. To those of you who have already bought the book at the original price, we offer you a second copy free... you pay only the shipping cost! But hurry... we can only do this for a short time!! Click here to order it! |
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February 18th 2008 |
Click on this link to watch Ken's appearance at the Family TV show he did recently in Karlsruhe, Germany. |
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February 17th 2008 |
The 5th edition of the annual Ken Hensley Summer Party has been just announced! All details (tickets info, etc.) will be posted here. |
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February 15th 2008 |
A new German TV appearance just announced, details here. |
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January 31st 2008 |
Another festival date just announced: Lillehammer Festival in Norway! Also, the tickets for the upcoming Sweden Rock Festival are now on sale (also in the bill are Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Saxon, Def Leppard, Triumph and many more). More details here. |
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January 21st 2008 |
Ken Hensley's duet with Kandlbauer for Lady In Black entered the Swiss charts today at #13! |
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January 20th 2008 |
New live dates just announced, click here! |
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January 19th 2008 |
Only the last 21 limited edition boxsets are still available at the Ken Hensley Online Store, so if you have not yet ordered yours please do so now! Click here... |
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January 12th 2008 |
Ken Hensley and Daniel Kandlbauer will be performing tonight at the Swiss Awards party! Check it out here! |
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