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*Eddi appeared on a BBC Radio 3 program, Commonwealth Connections 18 with Boo Hewerdine and Alan Kelly. She answered interviews and played 5 songs live. She was on the show for more than 1 hour 20 minutes. In the interviews, she talked about various topics such as how she became a musician, her family, why she left and returned to Glasgow, why she named the latest album as Vagabond.
The songs they played are:
It's a Beautiful Night
Baby's Boat *About 22m50s
Vagabond
Back the Dogs *About 1h4m10s
In My Ain Country
This program is archived, and it is possible to listen for a week.

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*According to the official site, Eddi will tour Ireland with Alan Kelly's band in September. Dates for England tour from October to November are also announced.
Sept. 14 (Wed) Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre (Naul, Co. Dublin, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader *Tickets can be purchased here.
Sept. 15 (Thur) The White Horse (Ballincollig, Co. Cork, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader
Sept. 16 (Fri) INEC Acoustic Club (Killarney, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader *Tickets can be purchased here.
Sept. 17 (Sat) The Set Theatre (Kilkenny, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader
Sept. 19 (Mon) Clifden Arts Festival (Clifden, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader
Sept. 21 (Wed) Linenhall Arts Centre (Castlebar, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader
Sept. 22 (Thur) Ionad Cois Locha (Dunlewey, Co. Donegal, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader
Sept. 23 (Fri) McGrory's Backroom (Culdaff, Co, Donegal, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader
Sept. 24 (Sat) An Droichead (Belfast, Ireland) - Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader

Oct. 25 (Tue) Sheffield Memorial Hall (Sheffield, England) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
Oct. 26 (Wed) Waterside Arts Centre (Manchester, England) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
Oct. 27 (Thur) The Platform (Morecambe, England) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
Oct. 29 (Sat) St Mary's Church (Ashford, England) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
Oct. 31 (Mon) The Bloomsbury Theatre (London, England) *Tickets can be purchased here, here or here.
Nov. 1 (Tue) The Assembly (Leamington Spa, England) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
Nov. 3 (Thur)The Brook (Southampton, England) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
Nov. 4 (Fri) St. George's Church (Brighton, England) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
Nov. 6 (Sun) Playhouse Whitley Bay (Whitley Bay, England) *Tickets can be purchased here, here or here.
Nov. 7 (Mon) City Varieties Music Hall (Leeds, England) *Tickets can be purchased here.
Nov. 8 (Tue) The Palace Theatre (Newark, England)

*According to Eddi's Twitter and Twitter of Meltdown, Eddi joined the concert by Alan Price Set on June 14 as part of Meltdown, which took place from June 10 to 19 under the supervision of Ray Davies. She performed "Wonderboy" and "Days."

*In "The Hour", a TV program on Scottish TV station STV, an interview with Eddi who visited Barbados for an appearance at Barbados Celtic Festival as well as her performance of "Love Is the Way" with John Douglas was broadcast on June 3. The video is available to watch here.

*According to Eddi's facebook, Eddi contributed her story about Bob Dylan to the blog by BBC Radio Scotland as one of the artists who performed at the Bob Dylan tribute concert in this year's Celtic Connections . A part of the concert is also available to listen for a week as broadcast on Mary Ann Kennedy's Global Gathering on May 24.

*Thomas Dolby's new single, "Oceanea" was officially released on March 28. You can download it at iTunes Store (e.g. UK) or buy a CD at CD Baby.

*According to the official site, a portrait of Eddi by "broad daylight" is exhibited at the National Gallery in London from April 7.

*Scotland tour dates in November as well as festival appearances from June to April were announced at the official site.
June 5 (sun) Wychwood Festival (Witney, England) - Eddi's page is here. *Tickets can be purchased here.
June 19 (sun) Finsbury Park (London, England) - London Feis 2011 *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
July 15 (fri) Hebridean Celtic Festival 2011 (Stornoway, Isle of Lewis) - Eddi's page is here
July 29 (fri) Speyfest 2011 (Fochabers, Scotland) - Eddi's page is here
August 10 (wed) Fringr by the Sea (North Berwick, Scotland)
August 20 (sat) Escot Park (Devon, England) - Beautiful Days Festival
November 11 (fri) Townhouse (Hamilton, Scotland) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
November 12 (sat) The Queens Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
November 13 (sun) Concert Hall (Troon, Scotland) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
November 15 (tue) Concert Hall (Perth, Scotland) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
November 16 (wed) Corran Halls (Oban, Scotland) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
November 18 (fri) Eden Court Theatre (Inverness, Scotland) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.
November 19 (sat) Music Hall (Aberdeen, Scotland) *Tickets can be purchased here, here or here.
November 20 (sun) Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Glasgow, Scotland) *Tickets can be purchased here or here.

*Eddi will perform in some festivals from May to August:
May 23 - 30 Barbados Celtic Festival (Barbados) *The date of Eddi's appearance is not yet announced.
June 12 Southwell Folk Festival (Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England)
August 7 Wickham Festival (Wickham, Hampshire, England) - Tickets can be purchased here.

*Eddi appeared in a telephone interview on BBC Radio Kent program "Roger Day", which was broadcast on Jan. 31. It is available to listen on BBC iPlayer (from 38 minutes into the show and for 15 minutes). Eddi talked about: a Cork festival appearance after Fairground Attraction break-up, Susan Boyle and the current music scene, jingle for Tesco, how she got the job as a backing singer for Eurythmics, her idea on making albums, and so on. It is available until 10:02pm, Feb. 7.

*Eddi appeared as a suprise guest at Forever Young - A 70th Birthday Tribute to Bob Dylan," which was held on Jan. 24 in Celtic Connections. She sang "Buckets of Rain."

*Eddi did concerts dubbed as "Burns, Candlelight & Eddi Reader" on Jan. 23 and 24 in Alloway, Ayshire. The second date was an additional show. There's a report of the concerts in this blog.

*The new official YouTube channel was announced at the official site. Currently, there is only one video of "Shepherds Song", which was filmed at "Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook" held on Dec. 20.

*The new tour dates were announced at the official site. Appearance at the Celtic Connections, the tribute concerts for Sandy Wright, and Altan's anniversary concert.
Jan. 19 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Glasgow, Scotland) - Celtic Connections (tickets can be purchased here or here）
Jan. 26 Christ Church Cathedral (Dublin, Ireland) - Altan's 25th Anniversary Concert (tickets can be purchased here)
Jan. 29 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Glasgow, Scotland) - Sandy Wright & Guests
Feb. 26 The Queens Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Sandy Wright & Guests

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*According to the official site, "Songs for Autism" concert, which was originally scheduled on Nov. 30 in Glasgow but cancelled due to bad weather, is now rescheduled to Feb.28. Eddi will also appear on this new date. Tickets can be purchased at ticketweb.co.uk (*original tickets are valid).

*According to Eddi's Facebook, Eddi appeared on BBC Radio 2's The Great British Faith that was hosted by Hardeep Singh Kohli and broadcast on Dec. 15. This program was a three part series, and Eddi appeared on the third episode about Glasgow. Eddi was interviewed at the Glasgow Barrowlands and sang a part of the song of the same name.

*"Live in Japan" is now on sale at the official site. You can hear the full versions of "The Moon Is Mine" and "Usagi" at Facebook.

*According to the official site, Eddi is featured on the new single "Oceanea" by Thomas Dolby. At present, registration to the message board or the mailing list is required.

*According to MySpace and Facebook, a live album "Live in Japan" from last year's Japan tour will be released. The tracklist as well as the artworks are uploaded too. More details will be announced at the official site later.

*The museum celebrating the works of Robert Burns was opened on Dec. 1 in Alloway, Scotland, and Eddi was featured in Channel 4 News because she is the first celebrity Burns Ambassador. Eddi appears 2:20 into the clip. She answers an interview and sings a part of "Auld Lang Syne."

*According to the official site, Eddi and John Douglas were engaged! Congrats to Eddi and John. The wedding will be held on April 29, the same day as Prince Williams'.

*Ireland tour was announced at the official site and MySpace. 13 dates will be held in next February:
Feb.10, '11 Backstage Theatre (Longford, Ireland)
Feb.11, '11 Hawkswell Theatre (Sligo, Ireland)
Feb.12, '11 Solstice Arts Centre (Navan, Ireland)
Feb.13, '11 An Griarnan Theatre (Letterkenny, Ireland) - click here for Eddi's page
Feb.15, '11 The Dock (Carrick on Shannon, Ireland)
Feb.16, '11 Glor Irish Music Centre (Ennis, Ireland) - click here for Eddi's page
Feb.17, '11 Siamsa Tire Theatre (Tralee, Ireland)
Feb.18, '11 Carnegie Arts Centre (Kenmare, Ireland)
Feb.20, '11 Greystones Theatre (Greystones, Ireland) - click here for tickets
Feb.21, '11 The Grand Social (Dublin, Ireland)
Feb.23, '11 The Forum (Waterford, Ireland) - click here for tickets
Feb.24, '11 Riverbank Arts Centre (Kildare, Ireland)
Feb.25, '11 Dunamaise Arts Centre (Portlaoise, Ireland)

*UK tour was announced at the official site .
Apr.4, '11 (Mon) The Glee Club (Cardiff, Wales) - click here for tickets
Apr.5, '11 (Tue) O2 Academy Bournemouth (Bournemouth, England) - click here or here for tickets
Apr.6, '11 (Wed) Wedgewood Rooms (Portsmouth, England) - click here or here for tickets
Apr.8, '11 (Fri) Ely Cathedral (Ely, England) - click here for tickets
Apr.9, '11 (Sat) Union Chapel (London, England)- click here or here for tickets
Apr.10, '11 (Sun) The Glee Club (Birmingham, England)
Apr.12, '11 (Tue) The Stables (Milton Keynes, England) - click here for tickets
Apr.13, '11 (Wed) The Glee Club (Nottingham, England)- click here for tickets
Apr.15, '11 (Fri) Lawrence Batley Theatre (Huddersfield, England)
Apr.16, '11 (Sat) Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) (Manchester, England) - click here or here for tickets
Apr.17, '11 (Sun) Pocklington Arts Centre (Pocklington, England)
Apr.22, '11 (Fri) Gala Theatre & Cinema (Durham, England)

*According to the official site, Eddi performed in Mary's Meals Music, which was held on Oct. 29 at Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow. It was co-hosted by Celtic Connections and Mary's Meals. Other performers included: Jon Fratelli, Colin MacIntyre, Tommy Reilly, and Roddy Hart.

*Eddi's MySpace was renewed and a new track is available to listen: "Lullaby of Birdland" featuring Bobby McFerrin from this year's Celtic Connections.

*According to the official site, Eddi will be one of the singers to appear in this year's "Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook". Eddi will be on shows held on Dec. 20, 22, and 23. Other artists to appear include: Karen Mathieson, John McCusker, Kris Drever, and Kevin McGuire.
Dec.20 (Mon) Perth Concert Hall (Perth, Scotland) - Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook (Click here or here for tickets)
Dec.22 (Wed) The Queens Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook
Dec.23 (Thur) The Queens Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook

*Eddi will appear in the Episode 3 of "If I Knew Then...", which will be broadcast at 11:30am on Aug.17 on BBC Radio Scotland. The program's host is Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue. There will be a rerun at 16:31 on Aug.22. It is supposed to be archived for a week after the broadcast.

*According to ents24.com, Eddi will be one of the performers to appear in "A Tribute to Kirsty MacColl" concert to be held on Oct.10 at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London. Other performers include: Alison Moyet, Amy Macdonald, Andrea Corr (Corrs), Billy Bragg, David Gray, Ellie Goulding, Johnny Marr, Kim Wilde, and Shane MacGowan. Tickets are already sold out.

*According to the official site, Eddi will perform for two dates in Ireland on Aug. 6 and 7.
Aug. 6 St Mary's Church (Feakle, County Clare, Ireland) - Feakle Traditional Music Festival
Aug. 7 Glebe Gardens Amphitheatre (Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland) - click here for tickets

*Eddi's concert was broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster's Folk Club that was aired from 8:03pm on July 17. It is available to listen for approximately a week. Eddi's concert starts from 1:01:00 and lasts until the end of the program. Eddi performed with Boo, John Douglas, and Alan Kelly: My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose, Dragonflies, Green Grows the Rashes O, Wild Mountainside, Patience of Angels, Perfect, Allelujah, Aye Waukin-O, Bell, Book and Candle, Dandelion, and Willie Stewart/Molly Rankin.

*Eddi will be one of the artists who perform in Kilmarnock Edition Festival, which will be held from Sept. 3 through 5 in Kilmarnock, Scotland. Eddi's performance will be on the second day, Sept. 4. Other artists who will perform in the festival include: Roddy Woomble (Idlewild), Wooden Box with A Fistful of Fivers , and Claire Tierney. Tickets are already on sale at ticketweb.co.uk.

*Eddi was one of the artists who appeard in the benefit concert "The RAF Squadronaires Big Band plus Todd Gordon & special guests in aid of Help for Heroes", which was held at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow as part of Glasgow Jazz Festival. Other artists who performed at the event include: Claire Martin, Ian Shaw, The Swing Cats, and Stephen Duffy.

*Trashcan Sinatras's latest album "In the Music" was released in the US on April 27, nearly a year later from the first release (in Japan), which contains a live track "Send for Henny". Eddi is featured as a back vocal on the track.

*Tour dates were announced at the official site and MySpace.
June 3 (Thur) Bath International Music Festival (Bath, England) - Eddi's page is here
June 4 (Fri) Culross Festival (Fife, Scotland) - click here for tickets
June 18　Beverly Folk Festival (Beverly, England) - Eddi's page is here
June 22 (Tue) Oran Mor (Glasgow, Scotland) - West End Festival (click here or here for tickets）
June 23 (Wed) Oran Mor (Glasgow, Scotland) - West End Festival（click here or here for tickets）
July 10 (Sat) Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre (Fingal, Co Dublin, Ireland) - Eddi's page is here
July 11 (Sun) The Glens Centre (County Leitrim, Ireland)
July 12 (Mon) Dunlewey Lakeside Centre (County Donegal, Ireland)
July 14 (Wed) Bronte Music Club (Rathfriland, Co Down, Northern Ireland)
July 15 (Thur) Celtic Fusion (Castlewellan, Northern Ireland)
July 16 An Droichead (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - Eddi's page is here (click here for tickets)
July 31 (Sat) Crail Community Hall (Crail, Fife, Scotland) - Crail Festival (tickets on sale from May 9 online, from May 4 at the venue's box office ）
Aug. 9 (Mon) Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Snape, Suffolk, England) - Eddi's page is here (tickets on sale from June 4)
Aug. 10 Fringe by the Sea (North Berwick, Scotland)
Aug. 28 (Sat) Tonder Festival (Tonder, Denmark)
Aug. 29 (Sun) Tonder Festival (Tonder, Denmark)
Sept. 14 St Ives September Festival (St Ives, England) - Eddi's page is here
Also, while it's not announced at the official site, Eddi will be participate "Home Festival - An Acoustic Festival of Music, Voice, Language & Roots" according to ents24.com. Tickets are already on sale.
June 26 (Sat) Dartington Hall (Totnes, Devon, England)

*Eddi will perform in KA - BAAM, which will be held on May 3 at Fruitmarket in Glasgow. This event is a showcase of the talent featured on the BA Applied Music Course at Strathclyde University to help boost the "Save the BA Applie Music course" campaign.

*Eddi was a guest on RTE's "The Late Late Show" while she was touring Ireland in February, and you can watch this episode here. She sang "Perfect" in Irish, i.e. "Foirfe" as featured on "Ceol '09", which can be purchased at iTunes Stores.

*According to Eddi's entry at MySpace, while she was touring Australia and New Zealand, she visited the radio programme "Mornings with Deborah Cameron" on ABC Sydney on March 23 and performed live.

*According to the official site, Eddi will perform in the tribute concert for John Martyn, which will be held on May 14 in Birmingham. Curated by Danny Thompson, performers other than Eddi include: Badly Drawn Boy, Scott Matthews, Beverley Martyn, Beth Orton, and Ralph McTell.
May 14 Symphony Hall (Birmingham, England) - The Songs of John Martyn

*Tour dates in Australia was changed according to the official site. The following date was cancelled:
March 19 Hepburn Springs Palais (Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Australia)
while the following dates were addeed:
March 18 Otago Settlers Museum (Dunedin, New Zealand)
March 21 Castlemaine Theatre Royal (Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia) - Eddi's page is here
March 31 Caravan Music (Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia) - Eddi's page is here

*Eddi performed at BBC Radio Scotland Pacific Quay on Jan.28 as a guest of Alan Kelly Quartet who was a one of the performer at Archie Fisher's Travelling Folk in Celtic Connections. Eddi appeared with John Douglas and performed two songs, "Wild Mountainside" and "I Hung My Harp Upon The Willows" (a song from Alan Kelly's latest album, the song once called "Robert's Story"). The show was broadcast live and could be heard at the program's website (Eddi's part starts from1:42:40 into the show). Also, BBC's Celtic Connections 2010 site carries a video of "I Hung My Harp Upon The Willows"(here, unable to watch outside UK and Ireland).

*BBC Radio Scotland broadcast a program titled "Eddi Reader on Burns", which is probably the repeat of the program that was broadcast in last July . In this program, it seems that Eddi was the hostess and spoked about every track from her "Songs of Robert Burns" album.

*According to MySpace, Eddi appeared as a special guest at Bobby McFerrin's concert , which was held on Jan. 18 as part of the Celtic Connections. They performed "Lullaby of Birdland" together. The song will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2's program "Celtic Connections" on Jan. 30 from 10:00pm..
Update (Feb.6)
Eddi's part starts from 32:50 into the show with her interview (about two minutes) and then came her performance with Bobby McFerrin.

*Eddi appeard on "A Burns Night Celebration", broadcast by BBC1 Scotland (TV) on Jan.25. Songs performed on the program include: Ae Fond Kiss, Auld Lang Syne, and A Red, Red Rose. It can ve watched at the program's page if you're in UK or Ireland.

・Additional tour dates in Ireland, England and Australia were announced at MySpace:
2/8 An Grianan Theatre (Letterkenny, Ireland) - Eddi's page is here
2/9 Glor (Ennis, Ireland) - Eddi's page is here
2/11 Cork School of Music (Cork, Ireland) - click here for tickets
2/13 Wexford Arts Centre (Wexford, Ireland) - Eddi's page is here
2/14 Spirit Store (Dundalk , Ireland) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
2/16 The Maltings (Ely, Cambridgeshire, England) - click here for tickets
3/19 Hepburn Springs Palais (Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Australia)
3/25 Spensers Live (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) - Introduction of Eddi is here
4/5 National Folk Festival (Canberra, Australia) *Note that she will also appear April 2 to 4 as well at this festival
4/8 Fly By Night (Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia) - Eddi's page is here

*The interview with Eddi by The Australian Arts Portal on her forthcoming Australian Tour was uploaded to the official site.

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*According to ticketmaster.co.uk, Eddi will perform in Dublin, Ireland in next February:
Feb.12, '10 The Button Factory (Dublin, Ireland) - Eddi's page is here (with a new interview)

*According to MySpace, Eddi will appear as a guest on Stark Talk, Christmas Special broadcast on Dec.25 on BBC Radio Scotland at 9:05am. It will be webcast, but it does not seem to be archived.
Update (Dec.29)
Eddi talked about various things such as her real name and stage name, childhood memories and her family, ”Me and Orson Welles", how she got to perform on streets, her backing vocal era with Gangs of Four or Eurythmics, and of course her Fairground Attraction days and Mark Nevin. You can hear the archive for about three days (by next Friday?).

*Eddi will perform at East Wintergarden in Canary Wharf on Feb.17. It is titled "Acoustic After Hours with...Eddi Reader". It seems to be a duo performance with Boo:
Feb.17, '10 East Wintergarden (Canary Wharf, England) - click here for tickets.

*There's an interview with Eddi on DailyRecord.co.uk. She talks about how she got her back injured, and appearance on the film "Me and Orson Welles".

*The soundtrack to the film "Me and Orson Welles" in which Eddi appeared was released at iTunes Store UK on Nov.30. And there is a bonus content exclusive to iTunes Store, the video of "I Surrender Dear" in which Eddi sings. It can be purchased by itself. You can watch the preview for 25 seconds.

*According to Eddi's entry at her Twitter, Eddi will perform at Christmas Celebration Concert to be held on Dec. 3 at Holy Trinity Brompton in London, which is hosted by Child Bereavement Charity. Other celebrities to appear in this event include: Jeremy Irons, and Vanessa Redgrave.

*According to the official site, Eddi will tour the UK as a member of Transatlantic Sessions after two performances at Celtic Connections:
Feb. 2 The Bridgewater Hall (Manchester, England) - click here for tickets
Feb. 3 The Sage (Gateshead, England) - click here for tickets
Feb. 4 Belfast Waterfront Auditorium (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - click here for tickets
Feb. 5 Symphony Hall (Birmingham, England) - click here for tickets
Feb. 6 Royal Festival Hall (London, England) - click here for tickets

*According to the official site, Eddi will join the concerts by Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra at S.E.C.C. Clyde Auditorium on Dec. 4 and 5. Considering that Eddi and Jools are appearing together in the movie "Me and Orson Welles" , which will be released on Dec.4, it is likely that they perform some songs from that movie. Tickets are sold at ticketmaster.co.uk (here or here)and other ticket retailers.

*According to the official site, Eddi's performance at the opening concert of Perthshire Amber Festival on Oct. 30 is available to watch at Perthshire Amber Live (note: you need to pay for subscription). All perfomances at the festival are available with subscription fee of GBP 18 for a month after purchase.

*According to the official site, Eddi appears with Jools Holland in the movie "Me And Orson Welles" in the scene that Zac Efron and Claire Danes dances in the ballroom, and the soundtrack album for the movie contains three songs from the movie: "Let's Pretend That There's a Moon", "I Surrender Dear", and "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)". The album will be released on Nov. 23 in the UK.

*According to the official site, "Dragonflies" will be released as a digital single at iTunes Store on Nov. 30 with B-sides, two songs - "Juxtaposed"と "Love is a Losing Game" (an Amy Winehouse cover). Both songs are available to listen at MySpace.

*According to the official site, Eddi appeared on "The Greatest Scot" broadcast on Nov. 9 on STV. This program aims at deciding the greatest Scot in the history and it seems that Eddi spoke for Robert Burns who is nominated in the shortlist of 35 nominees. A portion of the program is available to watch on the program's web site, though it's only available in the UK...

*According to Amazon.co.uk, Eddi is on the new album by Julie Fowlis, "Uam". The track Eddi performs in is "Wing and Rain". The whole track can be heard at Julie Fowlis' MySpace.

*According to the official site, Eddi will perform in Burns Night Live that is held on Jan. 22at Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Scotland. Tickets can be purchased at Ticket Scotland.

*According to MySpace, Eddi will tour Australia and New Zealand from March to April. Most of the dates are appearances at festivals, but there is one solo date in Sydney.
March 12 to 14, '10 Womad Festival (Taranaki, New Zealand)
March 20, '10 Brunswick Music Festival (Melbourne, Australia)
March 23, '10 The Basement (Sydney, Australia)
March 26 to 28, '10 Apollo Bay Music Festival (Victoria, Australia)
April 2 to 4, '10 National Folk Festival (Canberra, Australia)
April 9 to 11, '10 Fairbridge Festival (Pinjarra, Western Australia)

*According to the official site and MySpace, Eddi will appear as a guest at Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook concerts held at The Queen's Hall on Dec. 21 and 22. Other artists include: Karen Mathieson, John McCusker, Kris Drever, and Kevin McGuire. Tickets can be purchased here and here.

*Eddi will perform in the next year's Celtic Connections, which will be held from Jan. 14 to 31 in Glasgow. Eddi will perform on Jan. 29, 30 and 31. Jan. 29 and Jan. 31 are concerts by Transatlantic Sessions, and Jan. 30 is "Connected - Danny Thompson and Friends". The same artists will perform at both dates of Transatlantic Sessions, which include: Karen Matheson, Cara Dillon, Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), Tim & Mollie O'Brien, Danny Thompson, Michael McGoldrick, Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas, and James Mackintosh. Tickets can be purchased at each page for those dates.

*The official site for the movie "Me and Orson Welles" that Eddi appears is now open. It will be released on Nov. 25 in the US, and Dec. 4 in the UK.

*Eddi will perform as one of the guest in the concert on Nov.29 at Usher Hall in Edinburgh where BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays music from the TV program "A History of Scotland." Other guests for this show are Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross & Lorraine McIntosh and God Help The Girl (a project by members of Belle & Sebastian). Tickets can be purchased here.

*Eddi will perfom in Perthshire Amber Festival, which will be held from Oct. 30 to Nov. 8 in Dunkeld, Perthshire of Scotland. Eddi will be on the opening concert on Oct. 30 and will perform with Dougie MacLean. Tickets are already sold out for this show. Other artists to appear in this festival include: Julie Fowlis, Frances Black, Michael McGoldrick Trio, and Heidi Talbot.

*Eddi will perform in Homecoming Live: The Final Fling, which will be held on Nov. 28 in Glasgow. The venue for Eddi's show is Clyde Auditorium. Other artists to appear at the same venue include: Mike Scott (Waterboys), Dougie MacLean, and Everyn Glennie. Artists to appear at the other venues include: Deacon Blue, Hue & Cry, Lloyd Cole, Midge Ure, The View, Teenage Fanclub, Idlewild, and The Pastels. Tickets are now on sale at ticketmaster.co.uk, and ticketweb.co.uk.

*According to MySpace, Eddi was on Later...with Jools Holland broadcast on Sept. 22 as a member of Gang of Four.

*The video of "Dragonflies" was uploaded to John Douglas' YouTube channel (here).

*According to the entry by Eddi herself on her MySpace, Eddi was invited by and will perform with Gang of Four on their four date tour:
Sept. 18 HMV Picture House (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Sept. 19 ABC1 (Glasgow, Scotland)
Sept. 25 The Assembly (Leamington Spa)
Sept. 26 HMV Forum (London, England)

*The page for the TV broadcast of Eddi's show at Billboard Live Tokyo is here. It will be aired on Sept. 11 from 7:00pm to 8;30pm (live broadcast) and there is a rerun on the following day (Sept. 12) from 4:25pm to 5:55pm.

*You can read the interview with Eddi by Billboard Live (only in Japanese...) here.

*Eddi's performance at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival was aired on Mike Harding Show broadcast on Aug. 5, which presented highlights from the festival. About 30 minutes into the show came the interview with Eddi, then her performance of Charlie Is My Darling at the festival. In the interview, Eddi talked about her memories from Fairground Attraction days. You can hear the archive for about a week.

*Eddi appeared at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival, for a show as well as Scottish Showcase. In the minisite of the festival by BBC Radio 2, there is a page dedicated for Eddi, which has the video of Willie Stewart (not accessible from outside the UK), the photos, and the setlist. Also, there are pictures from Scottis Showcase as well as the one from "The Best of Sunday".

*At the page for "Love Is the Way" by Victor Entertainment, you can hear snippets of all the songs from the album including the two bonus tracks for Japan.

*According to Billboard Live Tokyo, the first stage of the second day in Tokyo will be broadcast in HD on Fuji TV Next, which is available on SkyPerfecTV or cable TVs. Probably there will be two reruns too.*Victor Entertainment, Eddi's record label in Japan, officially announced the release of "Love Is the Way" in Japan. It will contain two bonus tracks: "Smile" (a cover of Charlie Chaplin song?) and "Tommorow Night" (a cover of Louis Armstrong song?). It will be released on Aug.19 as reported previously.

*Eddi's musical tribute to Michael Jackson was uploaded on MySpace. Filmed on the west coast of the Mull of Kintyre by John Douglas, Eddi sings "We Are the World".

*According to Billboard Live, the tour members for this Japan tour DOES NOT include John McCusker. They are: Boo Hewerdine, Kevin McGuire, Roy Dodds, and Alan Kelly.

*According to the official site and MySpace, Eddi was nominated for Best Female Vocalist in this year's Ireland's Music Awards. The ceremony will be held on Aug.1 as part of The World Fleadh Festival.

*According to Billboard Live, the Japanese version of "Love Is the Way" will be released on Aug.19 from Victor Entertainment. It is stated that it will contain two bonus tracks (perhaps these songs?).

*Beggers USA now has the page for "Love Is the Way"(here), and it is officially announced that it was released in the US. Although it does have a different catalog number, it seems the album is available only directly via that site (no retail). FYI, Eddi's page is here.

*Japan tour dates were announced. The venues are Billboard Live Tokyo (two days) and Billboard Live Osaka (one day). Two shows will be held on each day.
Osaka
Sept. 8 (Tue)
1st Stage - Venue opens at 17:30. Show starts at 18:30
2nd Stage - Venue opens at 20:30. Show starts at 21:30
Tokyo
Sept. 10 (Thur) - 11 (Fri)
1st Stage - Venue opens at 17:30. Show starts at 18:30
2nd Stage - Venue opens at 20:45. Show starts at 21:30
Reservation will start at 11:00am on July 1st for Club BBL members, 11:00am on July 8th for Web members.

*Eddi appeared on BBC Radio 2's Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch on May 31. You can hear the archive here for about a week. Her appearance is about one hour and twenty three minutes into the show right after "Roses" was aired and she was on for 25 minutes. Eddi was with Boo Hewerdine, John Douglas, and Alan Kelly and performed two songs, "My Shining Star" and "It's Magic." In the interview, she talked about such as the current tour, her family, the new album and Mark Freggard, why she chose to be a singer and her early career, acting career, her current position.

*Accoring to MySpace, Eddi will perform during Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which will be held from Aug.7 through 31. Her concert will be held on Aug. 30 at the Queen's Hall.
Aug. 30 The Queen's Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Eddi's page is here)

*Eddi provided the Irish version of Perfect called "Foirfe" to Ceol '09, which is a compilation album of songs sung in Irish. You can listen to the song in its entire length on the albums' MySpace. The album was released on March 27 and available through various download sites such as iTunes Store. The physical CD version is also available through here or here.

*Roses was released as single at iTunes Store UK according to the official site and MySpace. It's a one track single, but it does have an artwork.

*According to MySpace, Eddi appeared on BBC Radio Scotland's Tom Morton Show on May 28. You can hear the archive here for about a week. Eddi's appearance is into 27 minutes and half and it lasts for 17 minutes. In the interview, she talked about such as memorabilia related to music, the production process of the new album, Songs of Robert Burns, acting career, musical background, collaboration with Boo. No live performance, but two songs from the CD, "Roses" and "Sweet Mountain of Love" were aired.

*Eddi will perform at this year's Guilfest, which will be held from July 10 to 12. Eddi will be on the second day, July 11. Tickets can be purchased here or here.
July 11 Guilfest (Stoke Park, Guildford, England)
Other performers on the same day as Eddi includes Brian Wilson, The Charlatans, Linda Lewis, and The Lightening Seeds.

*The video clip for Roses were uploaded at Rough Trade's official YouTube channel (click here).

*Two newly recorded songs were uploaded at MySpace. One is a cover of Amy Winehouse's "Love is a Losing Game". The other is a cover of Super Furry Animals' "Juxtaposed With U". According to the administrator's entry of the official guestbook, they were recorded for Roses, which were released as a radio-only single.

*Southern Reporter has an interview article with Eddi.

*There's a review of Love Is the Way at musicOMH.

*A new video clip for Love Is the Way was uploaded at the official site. There is the higher quality version of the same video at Eddi's official YouTube channel.

*An entry from Eddi to coincide with the release of the new album (and Easter Monday) is on MySpace.

*As introduced at the official site, reviews of the new album, "Love Is the Way" are out at Times Online and BBC. Also an interview with Eddi is at Times Online.

*According to the official site and MySpace, Eddi will be one of the performers to take part in Isle of Wight Festival, which will be held from June 12 to 14. Eddi will be on the first day, June 12. Other performers to be on the same stage "Big Top" will be female artists such as Bananarama , Ladyhawke, Alesha Dixon, Beverley Knight. Tickets are already on sale.
June 12 Seaclose Park (Newport, Isle of Wight) - Eddi's page is here.

*Trash Can Sinatras' new album, "In the Music", which will be released first in Japan on April 22, will contain "Should I Pray?". It is reported that Carly Simon is on this version.

*New tour dates were added in the official site and MySpace:
July 10 Eastleigh Music Festival (Eastleigh, Hampshire)
July 12 Cornbury Park (Charlbury, Oxfordshire, England) - Cornbury Festival (click here for tickets）
August 2 Cambridge Folk Festival (Cambridge, England) - tickets on sale from May 17
August 14 Innerleithen Music Festival (Innerleithen, Scotland) - click here for tickets

*Eddi will be a guest at the concert by Luka Bloom, which is scheduled on August 22 in Dublin, Ireland. It seems to be a part of ESB BEO Celtic Music Festival.

*An audio interview with Eddi is available at Clare People Interactive. It seems to be done by telephone and it's 21 minutes long. Snippets from the new album can be heard.

*Eddi made an appearance on "The Late Late Show" on Irish TV "RTE One" on Feb. 13 and performed "Love Is the Way." The band members were: Alan Kelly, Kevin McGuire, John Douglas, and Declan O'Rourke, the songwriter of this song. Click "PLAY CLIP" below the introduction for Eddi on this page.

*MySpace is now back to the design for the new album, and samplers and live versions of the songs from new album were added. Four entries from Eddi were also added.

*The videos of three songs from Celetic Connections were uploaded to MySpace. They are: Leezie Lindsay, Ae Fond Kiss, and Willie Stewart. You can watch the higher quality versions of them here. BBC's Celtic Connections page has videos of Eddi's performance though they are not available unless the access is made from within the UK. However, the pictures of Eddi can be seen here and here.

*The video of the interview for Eddi is available on stv.tv. She talks varisous things about Celtic Connections.

*More UK tour dates were announced at the official site and MySpace:
June 3 De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, England) - Eddi's page is here, and click here for tickets
August 31 Castle Park Festival (Leicester, England)

*UK tour dates for the new album "Love Is the Way" were announced at the official site and MySpace:
April 25 Buccleuch Centre (Langholm, Scotland)
April 27 Woodend Barn (Banchory, Scotland) - click here for tickets
April 28 Woodend Barn (Banchory, Scotland)
April 29 Carnegie Hall (Dunfermline, Scotland) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
May 1 Darvel Town Hall (Darvel, Scotland) - Darvel Homecoming Music Festival
May 2 Town House (Hamilton, Scotland)
May 3 Easterbrook Hall (Dumfries, Scotland)
May 5 Adam Smith Theatre (Kirkcaldy, Scotland)
May 6 Albert Halls (Stirling, Scotland) - Eddi's page is here
May 7 Corran Halls (Oban, Scotland)
May 9 The Arc (Stockton-on-Tees, England) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
May 12 Princess Pavilion (Falmouth, England) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
May 13 Cheese & Grain (Frome, England) - Eddi's page is here, click here or here for tickets
May 15 Victoria Theatre (Halifax, England)
May 16 Pavilion Theatre (Rhyl, Wales)
May 17 Artrix Centre (Bromsgrove, England) - Eddi's page is here
May 19 Nottingham Playhouse (Nottingham, England) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
May 20 Parr Hall (Warrington, England) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
May 22 "Burns in the Barn" (Skateraw, Dunbar, Scotland)
May 24 City Halls (Glasgow, Scotland) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
May 26 Queen Elizabeth Hall (London, England) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
May 27 The Assembly (Leamington Spa, England) - click here for tickets
May 30 Brecon Theatre (Brecon, Wales)
May 31 Buxton Opera House (Buxton, England) - Eddi's page is here, click here for tickets
June 2 Corn Exchange (King's Lynn, England)

*"The Songs of Robert Burns Deluxe Edition" contains a leaflet with the artwork of Eddi's upcoming album "Love Is the Way", which says the album will be released on April 13.

*There's an interview of Eddi at DailyRecord.com. She talks on various topics starting from the memory of Celtic Connections.

*thelondonpaper.com has the review of The Songs of Robert Burns Deluxe Edition."

'08

*A new date by Eddi was added at Celtic Connections. It will be held on Jan. 19, which is also dubbed as "Eddi Reader sings the songs of Robert Burns and Robby Hecht" .

・New tour dates are listed at ents24.com. It seems that the dates are part of the May/June tour for the new album "Love Is the Way" . Here are the dates listed:
May 25 (Mon) Buxton Opera House (Buxton, England) - Eddi's page is here
May 27 (Wed) The Assembly (Leamington Spa, England) - Eddi's page is here (Note that the date is listed as May 17 in this page)
May 31 (Sun) Victoria Theatre (Halifax, England)
The support act for the tour seems to be Heidi Talbot.

*Rough Trade officially announced the release of Sings the Songs of Robert Burns Deluxed Edition. Amazon.co.uk already has the album in stock since Jan.9.

*According to MySpace, Eddi appears in the ad for the "Homecoming Scotland 2009" campaign in Scotland celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. Other celbrities who appear in this ad include Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, Sean Connely, Sandi Thom, Dougie MacLean, Lulu, Brian Cox, and Amy MacDonald. All stars sing Dougie MacLean's "Caledonia." Eddi sings the song before the statue of Robert Burns in Dumfries. Click here for the ad.

*Eddi's MySpace was redesigned and it was announced that the deluxe version of "Sings the Songs of Robert Burns" would be released on Jan. 12, '09. It is released celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. It contains bonus tracks: seven tracks from the sessions for the recent two albums, six of which are unreleased versions or unreleased song; and the newly recorded "Comin' Into The Rye/Dram Behind the Curtain." To focus on the release of this deluxe version, descriptions on the new album were all dropped. However, it will be redesigned again after Celtic Connections.

*New '09 tour dates were announced at the official site:
May 23 (Sat) Ireby Festival (Wigton, Cumbria, England) - click here for tickets
Aug.22 (Sat) Dublin National Concert Hall (Dublin, Ireland) - appearance as the special guest for Luka Bloom

*Eddi is featured on the Boo Hewedine's new mini album, "Toy Box No.2", which was released on Oct.20 in the UK. The track Eddi is on is the last song of the album, "Amen". Alan Kelly is also featured in three songs.

*According to MySpace, Eddi will perform on four dates in the next year's Celtic Connections, which will be held from Jan.15 to Feb.1. Eddi will perform on Jan.18, Jan.24, Jan.30 and Feb.1. All of these dates are held as the events in the series of "Homecoming Scotland 2009", a programme of events to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth. Jan.18 show is dubbed as "Eddi Reader sings the songs of Robert Burns and Robby Hecht". Eddi will perform with Orchestra of Scottish Opera and folk music friends in the arrangement originally done by Kevin McRae in '03 Celtic Connections. Jan.24 show is dubbed as "Auld Lang Syne". Eddi and other Scottish musicians such as Dick Gaughan, Karen Matheson, Michael Marra, John McCusker, Phil Cunningham, and Odetta will perform songs by Robert Burns. Jan.30 show and Feb.1 show are Transatlantic Sessions, and this year, they are called "Bringing It All Back Home" in honor of the famous Bob Dyaln album. Tickets can be bought via each event's page.

*On MySpace, "Galileo" and "The Moon Is Mine", which are probably recorded in this fall's UK tour are available for streaming.

*Reviews of the shows in this fall's UK tour are on metro.co.uk and NEWS.scotman.com.

*Irish tour dates in next January was announced at MySpace:
'09/2/18 Cork School of Music (Cork, Ireland) - click here for tickets
'09/2/20 Greystones Theatre (County Wicklow, Ireland)
'09/2/21 The Academy (Dublin, Ireland) - click here for tickets (Eddi's page is here)
'09/2/22 Spring & Airbrake (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - click here or here for tickets (Eddi's page is here)
'09/2/23 Town Hall Theatre (Galway, Ireland) - click here for tickets
'09/2/25 The Forum (Waterford, Ireland) - click here for tickets (Eddi's page is here)
'09/2/26 Glor Theatre (Ennis, Ireland)
'09/2/27 Droichead Arts Centre (Drogheda, Ireland) - click here for tickets
'09/2/28 Royal Theatre and Event Centre (Castlebar, Ireland) - click here for tickets

*MySpace was re-designed and there are a preview of the track "New York City" as well as the jacket artwork (which has been used in the ad for this UK tour). There are also Eddi's comments on how the recording for the best of album turned out into the new album, and the introduction to "New York City". It is predicted the demo versions of the five songs from the album will be featured on the site.

*According to MySpace, Eddi will perform some of the new songs from the new album "Love Is the Way" in the upcoming tour from October. At the concert venues, the album will be available with minimal packaging. It won't be a sampler but a "real record" according to Eddi. It will be sold until March when the album will be officially released (official release date is March 2). This time, Eddi produced the album on her own, and she says "it's the best record EVER!!". The support act of this tour will be Lucy Wainwright Roche.

*According to MySpace, Eddi performs standard numbers from '30s such as "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" with Jools Holland in the movie "Me and Orson Welles". The movie is directed by Richard Linklater and stars Zac Efron and Claire Danes. It will be released in 2009.

*A new tour date was announced at the official site and MySpace. It's a performance at the City of Song Festival (click here or here for the info), which will be held from Sept.25 through 28. Eddi will appear on the last day, Sept.28.
Sept.28 TBC (Derry, Northern Ireland) - City of Song Festival (with support and Festival Chorus)

*Two songs from Eddi's past live performance was broadcast on BBC 6 Music's Gideon Coe on Sept.2. They were taken from "Hub Sessions" (probably from this show) broadcast on Feb.6 of last year. You can hear the archive here for about a week. Hummingbird is on 40:42 into the show and Safe As Houses is on 2:00:53 into the show (the track list is here).

*Cubismo Grafico Five's new album "Pleasures", which contains "Sweet Blindness" featuring Eddi (here) as the lead vocal went, on sale on Aug.8. As it was originally released as 7'' EP, this is the first release of the track on CD. You can purchase the album at HMV.co.jp or Amazon.co.jp.

*More tour dates are listed on ent24.com.
Nov.3 The Trinity Centre (Bristol, England)
Nov.6 The Waterfront (Norwich, England)
Dec.19 Cardiff International Arena (Cardiff, Wales)
Tickets can be purchased through the pages for each date. Dec.19 show is a Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra concert, in which Eddi will be a guest. According to the official site of Jools Holland, Eddi will join on two more dates:
Dec.12 SECC (Glasgow, Scotland) - click here for tickets
Dec.13 SECC (Glasgow, Scotland) - click here for tickets

*Eddi will perorm in Southern Fried - Festival of American Roots Music, which will be held in Perth, Scotland from Aug.1 through Aug.3. She will perfom on Aug.2 as one of the performers for "Lost Highway: The Songs of Hank Williams". Other artists include Rachel Harrington, Monica Queen, and Tam White. Tickets can be purchased here.

*A tour date was announced at the official site.
Aug.16 (sat) Magnum Theatre (Irvine, Scotland) - click here or here for tickets.

*According to the official site, Eddi was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Stirling at their graduation ceremony on June 26. Their news page (here) has descriptions of the ceremony and Eddi's comments. According to the page, Eddi sang "Wild Mountainside" backed by John Douglas after her acceptance speech.

*The fall tour dates were announce at the official site.
Oct.10 (Fri) The Sage (Gateshead, England)
Oct.12 (Sun) Music Hall (Aberdeen, Scotland) - click here for tickets
Oct.13 (Mon) Eden Court Theatre (Inverness, Scotland) - click here for tickets
Oct.14 (Tue) Perth Concert Hall (Aberdeen, Scotland) - click here for tickets
Oct.16 (Thur) Festival Theatre (Edinburgh, Scotland) - click here for tickets
Oct.17 (Fri) Royal Concert Hall (Glasgow, Scotland) - click here for tickets
Oct.19 (Sun)Shepherd's Bush Empire (London, England) - click here or here for tickets
Oct.20 (Mon) Oakengates Theatre (Telford, England)
Oct.22 (Wed) Birmingham Town Hall (Birmingham, England)
Oct.23 (Thur) Grand Opera House (York, England) - click here for tickets
Oct.24 (Fri) The Picturedrome (Holmfirth, England)
Oct.26 (Sun)The Lowry (Salford Quays, England) - Eddi's page is here
Oct.27 (Mon) The Stables (Milton Keynes, England)
Oct.28 (Tue) The Stables (Milton Keynes, England)
Oct.30 (Thur) Palace Theatre (Newark on Trent, England)
Oct.31 (Fri) The Coliseum Theatre (Aberdare, Wales)
Nov.2 (Sun)Assembly Rooms (Derby, England)
Nov.4 (Tue) Pacific Road Arts Centre (Birkenhead, Wales)
The official site also lists another date in August:
Aug.16 (Sat) Magnum Theatre (Irvine, Scotland) - click here or here for tickets

*Eddi participated as the background vocal in the recording of "Strange Boat", the cover of a Waterboys song with Eleanor Shanley, Mike Scott (The Waterboys), Sharon Shannon, Alec Finn, and Paul O'Driscoll. It was released as a single on April 4 on iTunes Stores around the world. It is a part of Strange Boat project. Elanor Shanley performed this song on The Late Late Show on RTE in Ireland with Mike Scott, Sharon Shannon, and Alec Finn.

*An additional tour date was announced at Eddi's MySpace:
Aug.14 Marymass Folk Festival (Irvine, Scotland)

*According to the official site, Eddi appeared in one of the episodes of a new TV series by 1 Giant Leap, with whom Eddi has collaborated before, called "What about Me?" broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. Eddi was in the episode No.4, "Love and Need". This TV series is now released on DVD on June 9.

*Japanese group Cubismo Grafico Five's latest single "Sweet Blindness" features Eddi as the lead vocal. The song is a cover of Laura Nyro, which also was a hit for the Fifth Dimension. It is only on 7'' EP. It seems that the recording was made while Eddi was in Japan during last year's Japan tour. There are descriptions on the recording (only in Japanese) and a few pitures in their blog. You can hear a part of the song at online stores (1, 2, 3). You can order it from overseas at @Tower or Amazon.co.jp.

*The DVD and CDs that contain performances of Transatlantic Sessions 3 are out. The DVD version is a two DVD set and contains all of the six episodes as well as extra numbers that were not broadcast, 30-minute documentary of behind-the-scenes footage, and a photo slideshow (see here for the contents). It's in PAL format but region all (region 0). The CD version is composed of two separate volumes, each of which contains a single CD. The volume one contains 19 tracks while the volume two contains 20 tracks. They do not have all of the peformances from the show, but they do have all of Eddi's performances when they are combined. All of these can be purchased at MusicScotland.com or Amazon.co.uk (DVD, CD1, CD2).

*Additional tour dates were announced at the official site and MySpace. Appearance at Bedgebury National Pinetum is a guest to Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. At Hard Rock Calling, Eddi will be the support act for Charlatans, the headliner of the second stage. At Glastonbury, she will perform at Acoustic Stage.
May 16 (fri) Fintry Sports Club (Fintry, Scotland)
June 7 (sat) Bedgebury National Pinetum (Goudhurst, Kent, England)
June 21 (sat) Galway Sessions Festival (Galway, Ireland)
June 27 (fri) Glastonbury Festival (Pilton, England) - Eddi's page is here)
June 28 (sat) Hyde Park (London, England) - Hard Rock Calling (Eddi's page is here)
July 31 (thur) Speyfest (Fochabers, Scotland) - Eddi's pages are here and here. For tickets, click here.
Aug. 9 (sat) Pickering Folk Festival (North Yorkshire, England)
Sept. 7 (sun) Auditoriom (Ilfracombe, England) - North Devon Folk Festival

*Live recording of Eddi's performance at Port Fairy Folk Festival on March 10 is now available at Liveband.com.au. It consists of 16 songs and is priced at AU$15 with artworks. It's relatively high quality MP3 (192kbps) and DRM free.

*Eddi's performance at Port Fairy Folk Festival on March 9 was broadcast on Australia's ABC Radio National on March 14, and you can listen to it online here. It contains 10 songs. The setlist is also on the page.

*Eddi made an entry at MySpace, and she writes about how she got injured, the current condition and the "miracles". Live recording of "Medicine" from the Australian tour was added to coincide with this entry.

*According to the official site and MySpace, Eddi hurt her back during her Australian tour, which forces her to cancel Irish tour dates scheduled in early April. It looks like she needs surgery and she needs to rest for a good length of recovery time. Let's hope she will get well soon.

*There's a review of Transatlantic Sessions held on Feb.3 during the Celtic Connections at hi-arts.co.uk.

*Tour dates were announced on Eddi's MySpace.
Apr. 4 Whelan's (Dublin, Ireland) - Eddi's page can be reached from here.
May 24 Holy Fair (Mauchline, Scotland)
July 10 Stonehaven Folk Festival (Stonehaven, Scotland) - Tickets will be on sale from Apr. 5.
July 27 Aberdour Festival (Fife, Scotland)
Aug. 29 Tonder Festival (Tonder, Denmark)
Eddi also visited India to participate in Kolkata Book Fair on Feb. 9 and 10. She was a representative of Scotland and introduced the works of Robert Burns.

*According to Eddi's MySpace, Eddi will tour Australia for approximately three weeks from the end of February to late March. She will tour as a trio with Boo Hewerdine and Alan Kelly.
Feb.29, '08 Brunswick Music Festival (Brunswick, Victoria, Australia)
Mar.1, '08 Milano's (Brighton Beach, Victoria, Australia)
Mar.2, '08 Anglesea Memorial Hall (Anglesea, Victoria, Australia)
Mar.5, '08 Wrest Point (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)
Mar.7, '08 Port Fairy Folk Festival (Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia)
Mar.8, '08 Port Fairy Folk Festival (Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia)
Mar.9, '08 Port Fairy Folk Festival (Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia)
Mar.10, '08 Port Fairy Folk Festival (Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia)
Mar.12, '08 The Basement (Sydney, Australia) - Eddi's page is here
Mar.14, '08 The Twin Towns Showroom (Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia)
Mar.15, '08 Blue Mountains Music Festival (Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia) - Eddi's page is here
Mar.16, '08 Blue Mountains Music Festival (Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia)
Mar.19, '08 Heritage Hotel (Bulli, New South Wales, Australia)
Mar.21, '08 National Folk Festival (Exhibition Park, Canberra, Australia)
Mar.22, '08 National Folk Festival (Exhibition Park, Canberra, Australia)
Mar.23, '08 National Folk Festival (Exhibition Park, Canberra, Australia)

'07

*According to Evening Times and other sources, Eddi received honorary doctorate and Doctor of Letters Award from Glasgow Caledonian University on Nov.27 for her outstanding contributions to music and to the education and encouragement of young musicians, along with Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham. Her picture can be seen here.

*Eddiはwill perform at "Songs of Glasgow and the Clyde - Live from Pacific Quay", which will be broadcast live on Radio Scotland on Dec.13 from 8:05pm to 10:00pm. It's a finale to "Scotland's Music 07". Other performers include Maeve MacKinnon, Mick Wes, James Graham, and Kathleen MacInnes. You can hear via web here.
Update (Jan.7, '08)
Eddi played three songs - Mother Glasgow , I'm Leavin Old Glasgow Forever, Glasgow Barrowland. People living in the UK (only!!) seems to see the video of the show here.

*New concert dates were announced at Eddi's MySpace. The dates in December are guest appearance at Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook, in which Karen Mathieson, John McCusker, Kris Drever, Kevin Mcguire will also appear.
Dec.21 Queen's Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook
Dec.23 Queen's Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook
Mar.7, '08 Port Fairy Folk Festival (Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia)

*Eddi will perform at Celtic Connections 2008, which will be held from Jan.16 through Feb.3 in Glasgow. The dates Eddi will appear are Jan.19, which Eddi will be a member of "Celtic Connections Festival Orchestra with Special Guests", and Feb.1 and Feb.3, in both of which Eddi will be part of Transatlantic Sessions. Tickets are already on sale.

*Eddi appeared as a guest at the concert by Phil Cunningham, Aly Bain and Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) on Nov.29. It was held at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in Glassgow, Scotland.

*The official online shop started selling songs by download. "Official bootleg" albums ("Live" and "Driftwood") and "St.Clare's Nitght Out" are now available to download on song or album baiss. The price per track is GBP 0.79 while it costs GBP7.99 for "Live" and "Driftwood", GBP 10.99 for "St.Clare's Night Out". All tracks can be previewed. Tracks are encoded in Lame MP3 (155kbps VBR) without DRM. Any songs purchased are re-downloadable within 24 hours after the first download.

*A tour date was announced at the official site. Eddi will appear as a guest at a concert by Phil Cunningham, Aly Bain and Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO):
Nov.19 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Glassgow, Scotland) - Phil and Aly's RSNO Ceilidh
Tickets can be purchased here.

*Eddi will be featured on the episode 2 of "Scotland's Music With Phil Cunningham", which will be broadcast on BBC Two Scotland (TV) at 8:05pm( ~ 9:05pm) on Nov.10. It will be rerun on Nov.13 at 7:00pm. You can watch the short preview of the show (possibly on PCs...), which features Eddi's performance. Here's what the program is about:
"Eddi Reader, John Martyn, Karine Polwart and Justin Currie are amongst those who reveal how Scots use music to express their most personal feelings. Emotions run high as Phil Cunningham finds out how Scotland kickstarted a romantic revolution in classical music and traces our rich history of passionate songwriting from Burns to Gaelic lament to the present day."

*According to Eddi's MySpace, Eddi will tour Turkey for two days. She will perform in Istanbul on Nov.24 and 25.:
Nov.24 (Sat) Bronx (Istanbul, Turkey)
Nov.25 (Sun) Bronx (Istanbul, Turkey)
Tickets can be reserved here. (not for Mac users...)

*The new compilation CD (?) & DVD from Australian music quiz show "RocKwiz," "RocKwiz Duet Vol.2" is out on Oct.19 in Australia. Eddi's performance with Liam O'maonlai (Hothouse Flowers), "Across the Universe" is contained. The introduction page for Eddi is here. The CD & DVD can be bought at the official onlin shop or satiny.com.au (CD and DVD).

* According to the official site, Eddi will appear on BBC Four's Transatlantic Sessions 3, which will air starting from Sept.14. Eddi will appear on the programme 1(first-run: 20:30 - 21:00 on Sept.14, second-run: 2:50am - 3:20am on Sept.15), programme 2 and programme 5. You can check the on-air schedule here.
Update (Sep.17)
The second programme will be aired at 20:30 (to 21:00) on Sep.21 and at 3:50am (to 4:20am) on Sep.22. Eddi will perform with Tim O'Brien.
Update (Sep.25)
Eddi will appear again on the third programme, which will be aired at 20:30 (to 21:00) on Sep.28 and at 3:10am (to 3:40am) on Sep.29. Eddi will perform with Paul Brady and Karen Matheson as announced. Other performers include Joan Osborne and Sharon Shannon.

*According to BBC Radio 2 and HMV.co.uk, Eddi is featured on Kate Rusby's new album, "Awkward Annie". Other musicians include Ian Carr, John McKusker, Michael McGoldrick, Kris Drever, John Doyle, and Chris Thile.

*Eddi will perform at The London Gathering, which will be held on Sept. 8 and 9 at Inner Temple Gardens in London. Eddi will appear on Sept.9. Other artists to appear include: Dougie Maclean, Sandi Thom, Laura McGhee, Beecake, Goldie & Grant, Journey Box, and Clan Wallace. This festival is an exhibition of Scotland and a part of the ticket sales will go to charity for parties in Scotland and London. Tickets are already on sale at ticketmaster.co.uk.

*Thank You for the Music featuring Eddi & Boo was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland on Aug. 30. The following songs are featured:
Patience of Angels *
Wings on My Heels
Prodigal Daughter
I Felt A Soul Move Through Me * (snippet)
Ae Fond Kiss (snippet)
Leezie Lindsay
　* means the songs that Boo provides the lead vocal in.
You can hear the program for a week and the videos for four of them are provided too (though it fails on Mac).

*Eddi appeared on Mark Radcliffe & Stewart Maconie Show, which was aired on August 22 on BBC Radio 2. Her appearance was a part of Edinburgh Festival special week. She played two songs, Orange in Nevada (a cover of new Trash Can Sinatras' song?) and Green Grows the Rashes - O, with Boo Hewerdine and John McCusker. In the brief interview, she talked about US tour and Peacetime among others. You can hear the archive of the show here for a week. Here is also a picture of them.

*According to Eddi's MySpace, she contributed to the article for the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death on Scotsman.com.

*Eddi played a show at Joe's Pub in NY on Aug.9 and the venue's page for Eddi has her audio interview. She talks about such topics as Gang of Four, backup singer days, Peacetime, the band members, the next project and so on.

*Levellers' five original albums including "Mouth to Mouth" that features Eddi as a background vocal was reissued with bonus tracks/disc on July 16.

*Eddi appeared on Jools Holland Show which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on June 11. She was on the show for more than 30 minutes and performed four songs: Back to Earth (a cover of Willie Nelson), You Send Me, Galileo, Aye Waukin-O. In the interview, she and Jools talked about various topics starting with the tour with Willie Nelson.

*According to the official site, Eddi & Boo will perform for BBC Radio Scotland's Thank You For the Music on June 25.

*More tour dates were announced at the official site:
Aug.14 (Tue) Martyrs' (Chicago, IL, USA)
Aug.23 (Thur) Queens Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Aug.24 (Fri) Queens Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Sept.13 (Thur) St. Ives Guildhall (Cornwall, England) - St. Ives September Festival (Eddi's page is here)
Oct.6 (Sat) Plough Arts Centre (Great Torrington, Devon, England)

*According to Eddi's entry at the official guestbook and MySpace, Eddi is scheduled to perform at the Fruitmarket in Glasgow on May 6 from 13:00. She will perform with Boo Hewerdine for about 40 minutes.

*Eddi was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of the University) from the University of Strathclyde. The press release from the university, pipex and The Herald have her pictures and comments.

*Eddi will appear on BBC Radio 2's Jools Holland Show on June 11 (Monday). The show will air from 22:30 to 23:30.

*Tour dates were announced at the official site.
May 17 (thu) Festival Marquee (Fowey, Cornwall, England) - Du Maurier Festival (Eddi's page is here)
June 28 (thu) Exeter Summer Festival (Exeter, England) - Exeter Summer Festival
June 24 (sun) Rothiemurchus Forest, Cairngorm National Park (Rothiemurchus, Scotland) - Outsider Festival
July 20 (fri) William Howard Centre (Brampton, Carlisle, England) - Brampton Live Festival
Aug.11 (sat) The Irish Cultural Centre of New England (Canton, MA, USA) - Irish Connections Festival
Aug.16 (thu) William Howard Centre (Milwaukee, WI, USA) - Milwaukee Irish Festival

*According to the official site, Eddi participated in the Broken Family Band's new single "Alone In The Makeout Room" as the guest vocal. It is a re-recorded version and different from the one featured in their latest album "Balls". This single is sold in 7 inch EP and download. You can buy the EP at the Track & Field Organisation or HMV.co.uk.

*According to the official site, Eddi has done a doodle for National Doodle Day. It was sold on eBay (already finished by March 5), but you can see it here.

*Eddi will appear on BBC Radio 2's Janice Long Show on Feb.27 and play some songs. It will be aired from 0:00am to 3:00am of Feb.27.
Update (Mar.3)
Eddi appeared for about 20 minutes. In the interview, she talked about John McCusker, Aye Waukin-O, current band members, the tour with Willie Nelson, and the upcoming Japan tour. She performed two songs - "Peacetime" and "I Guess My Heart Just Settled Back To Earth" (a cover of Willie Nelson song) - with John McCusker, Alan Kelly, Boo, Kevin McGuire, Roy Dodds, Roddy Hart, and Kris Drever. She also did harmony vocal on Kris Drever's "Green Grows The Laurel."

*Eddi appeared on BBC Radio 2's Good Morning Sunday on Feb.18. You can hear the archive here for about a week.
Update (Mar.3)
Eddi appeared with John Douglas and Ian Karr and played "Prisons." In the interview, she talked about Should I Pray?, her spiritual belief, her real name "Sadenia," the album title, and Prisons among others.

*Eddi appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 2's Mike Harding Show on Feb.14. You can hear the archive here for about a week.
Update (Feb.21)
Eddi appered for 14 minutes from 25 minutes into the show. In the interview, she talked about Muddy Water, why she came to love folk music, the tour with Willie Nelson, and Mary and the Soldier. Muddy Water, Aye Waukin-O, and Mary and the Soldier was aired inbetween the interview.

*According to the official site, the venue for Feb.27 concert in Northampton went out of business... so the concert was cancelled. Because the tickets will not be refunded unfortunatelly, Eddi generously will give a free CD of your choice with her autograph to those ticket holders. Check the official site for details.

*According to the official site, Eddi will join Wickam Festival, which will be held from August 2 through 5 in Wickam. She will perform on August 4. Other artists include: Jethro Tull, The Saw Doctors, and Eliza Carthy & The Ratcatchers. Boo Hewerdine will also perform as himself on the last day. You can buy tickets here though it looks like they won't send tickets overseas...

*Eddi appeared on BBC Radio 2's Album Chart Show on Feb.13. She talked about the following things in the interview: the current thought with the completion of the new album, John McCusker, Robert Burns and the reason why she thought she would sing his songs, the reason for the title of the new album, her thought about the current band members, and the introduction for Muddy Water. Muddy Water was broadcast after her appearance. You can hear the archive here for about a week. Her appearance is about 25 minutes into the show.

*Eddi appeared on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends on Feb.10 and played Muddy Water in the studio.

*Eddi appeared on Radio Wales's Celtic Heartbeat on Feb.10. She was interviewed for about 10 minutes.

*According to Eddi's MySpace, Eddi will perform in Glenrothes, Scotland on Mar.23. It seems that it is a performance for Lang Spoon Festival.

* According to Eddi's entry at the official guestbook, Peacetime entered the UK chart at 93.

*BBC Scotland's BBC Two will broadcast a 1-hour special of this year's Celtic Connections, which may contain Eddi's performance.

*Eddi will appear at Tom Robinson Show on BBC 6 Music on Feb.6. According to the BBC schedule, it looks like she will play in the studio. The show will air from 19:00 to 21:30 GMT.
Update (Feb.12)
Eddi appered three times in the program and played three songs with Boo Hewedine, John McCusker, Roy Dodds, and Heidi Talbot (guest vocal). She played Hummingbird, Safe As Houses, and Muddy Water. In the interview, she talked about her encounter with Boo, the tour, the meaning of the title "Peacetime," the interaction with fans on the internet. You will be possibly able to hear the archive here before the new broadcast that starts from 19:00 of Feb.13.

*According to the official site, Liverpool show was added at the end of the UK tour.
　Mar.1, '07 Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool, England)

*Eddi's performance was broadcast on two TV shows. BBC Scotland's program "Burns Night," which was broadcast on Jan.25, had Eddi's performance of "Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon." Also, Eddi appered at "Heaven and Earth" on BBC One on Jan.28 and sang "Should I Pray?."

*Eddi appeared via phone on BBC Radio 2's Stuart Maconie Saturday Show on Jan.13. She was the guest for Personal Shopper and received interview on her early career, upcoming tour, the new album and her favorite CD, DVD and book. After her appearance, "Muddy Water" from the new album was featured. The program is archived and available for streaming for a week (by Jan.19?). She comes in 35 mins into the show.

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*HMV.co.jp now lists Japanese version of "Peacetime", which includes a bonus track "Calton Weaver" and will be released on Jan.24. Also, according to Compass Records, the album will be released in the US on Feb.20 containing 15 tracks with one more additional track "Ontario".

・The official site annouced that "Peacetime" is ready for order on Dec.21 and now it's available at the official shop and iTunes Store UK. The official shop states that it's "In Stock", so It seems you don't have to wait until the UK release date. The album contains 13 tracks and its artwork uses the same picture as "St.Clare's Night Out: Live at the Basement". Eddi's MySpace has her comments on each track.

*Eddi made a new entry at the official site, describing about the recent concert held in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Nov.25 and the upcoming concerts: Dec.8 in Glasgow and J0 Mango's Hootenanny. For the latter event, other artists include Vashti Bunyan and members of Trashcan Sinatras. She will also play two Christmas shows to be held in Edinburgh on Dec.22 to 23 with Phil Cunningham and John McCusker.

*According to e-mails from the official mailing list, the new album "Peacetime", which is probably taken from the title of the Boo's song from his album "Anon", will be out in the UK on January 29 from Rough Trade. It will be released from JVC in Japan and Compass Records in the US, respectively, though the release dates are unknown.

*The performances on BBC Radio 2's Mike Harding Show on Dec.7 last year, dubbed as "Rubber Folk" celebrating the 40th anniversary of Beatles' Rubber Soul is released on CD on Aug.14 and it contains Eddi & Boo's "What Goes On." In the program, 14 folk/trad artists such as Waterson:Carthy, Paul Brady, Ralph McTell, June Tabor, Cara Dillon, Show Of Hands, performed the songs from Rubber Soul in the original track order.

*According to HMV.co.jp, Mirmama will be reissued on December 6 with 24-bit remastering. It is unknown if it contains "Sunday Morning", which was the bonus track for the last reissue three years ago. On the same day, Fairground Attraction's two albums will be also reissued..
Update (Dec.13)
Accoriding to BMG Japan, it is confirmed that "Sunday Morning" is included as the bonus track.

*The details of next year's Celtic Connections is now announced at the festival's official site. Eddi will perform on January 30 as expected (click here for the Eddi's page). Other performers include: ary Chapin Carpenter, Richie Havens, Phil Cunningham, Clannad, Bruce Cockburn, Maura O'Connell, Mindy Smith, Solas, Justin Currie, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Kate Rusby, Lloyd Cole, Dervish, Karine Polwart, Chumbawamba, John Martyn, Cowboy Junkies, Rosanne Cash, Lunasa.

*Australian TV station, ABC will air last year's Eddi's performance at the Basement in Sydney, which was released as a double live album, from 11:35pm on Nov.2.
Update (Nov.7)
According to Eddi's entry at the official guestbook, the release of DVD with longer duration seems to be planned.

*BBC Four (TV) will broadcast a programme of performances from this year's Cambridge Folk Festival from 23:55 - 00:55 on Oct. 21, and Eddi's performance will be included. Other performers include: Tift Merritt, Cara Dillon, Emmylou Harris, and Richard Thompson.

*The tour dates next year are officially announced at the official site. There are some new dates. Glasgow date is now "cancelled."
Feb.7, '07 The Stables (Milton Keynes, England)
Feb.8, '07 The Stables (Milton Keynes, England)
Feb.10, '07 Shepherds Bush Empire (London, England)
Feb.11, '07 Wedgewood Rooms (Portsmouth, England)
Feb.12, '07 Town Hall (Cheltenham, England)
Feb.15, '07 Music Hall (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Feb.17, '07 Usher Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Feb.18, '07 Perth Concert Hall (Perth, Scotland)
Feb.20, '07 Opera House (Buxton, England)
Feb.22, '07 The Sage (Gateshead, England)
Feb.23, '07 Opera House (York, England)
Feb.24, '07 Warwick Arts Center (Coventry, England)
Feb.25, '07 The Lowry (Manchester, England)
Feb.27, '07 The Deco (Northampton, England) - Tickets can be purchased here.
Feb.28, '07 The Coliseum Theatre (Aberdare, Wales)

*According to the official site, Eddi will perform on January 30 of the next year at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. It seems to be a performance for Celtic Connections , which will be held from January 17 through February 4. The details of the event is not yet announced though.

*Eddi made an entry at the official guestbook about her myspace page. According to the page, the upcoming tour next year will have following dates:
Feb.10, '07 Shepherds Bush Empire (London, England)
Feb.11, '07 Wedgewood Rooms (Portsmouth, England)
Feb.15, '07 Aberdeen Music Hall (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Feb.17, '07 ABC (Glasgow, Scotland)
Feb.18, '07 Perth Concert Hall (Perth, Scotland)
Feb.20, '07 Buxton Opera House (Buxton, England)
Feb.25, '07 The Lowry (Manchester, England)
Tickets for Perth concert is now available at ticketmaster.co.uk.
Update (Oct.7):
The tickets for Edinburgh is on sale at ticketmaster.co.uk, ticketweb.co.uk. Accordingly, the date for Glasgow is modified and now it is Feb.15.
Feb.15, '07 ABC (Glasgow, Scotland)
Feb.17, '07 Usher Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland)

*Tickets of the upcoming UK tour dates are on sale now at ticketmaster.co.uk:
Feb.10, '07 Shepherds Bush Empire (London, England)
Feb.15, 07 Aberdeen Music Hall (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Feb.17, '07 ABC (Glasgow, Scotland)
London show tickets can be also purchased at Ticketweb.

*Eddi will join The Fleadh Tour 2007, which will tour Ireland and UK in the latter part of January '07. It will feature Willie Nelson as the main performer as well as Sharon Shannon Big Band, Damian Dempsey and Ronnie Drew. Tickets are already on sale at ticketmaster.co.uk and Ticketweb:
Jan.19, '07 The Point (Dublin, Ireland)
Jan.21, '07 Odyssey Arena (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Jan.25, '07 International Arena (Cardiff, Wales)
Jan.26, '07 Wembley Arena (London, England)
Jan.27, '07 MEN Arena (Manchester, England)
Jan.28, '07 SECC (Glasgow, Scotland)

*It's not announced at the official site, but Eddi will perform at The Lowry on Feb.25, '06. Tickets are already on sale at the venue's site, ticketmaster.co.uk, ticketline.co.uk. According to the venue's site, the concert will feature songs from the new album "Tinderheart." More dates to be expected.

*The online shop of the official site now has the double live CD "St Clare's Night Out: Live at The Basement." Also, the compact cassette version of "Sings the Songs of Robert Burns" is now on sale too.

*A new message from Eddi was posted at the official site. It tells that the new album is nearly complete and Eddi asks fans to pray for peace and people in the middle east.

*BBC Radio 2 will broadcast a special program featuring this year's Cambridge Folk Festival on Aug. 2 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Eddi performed on July 30 at the festival.
Update (Aug.14):
Eddi appeared with Boo and received interview, after which the performance of Perfect from the festival was broadcast. Also, BBC Radio 2 has Folk Festival Player, with which 13 performances from the festival, including Eddi's Willie Stewart can be watched. Other performers include Seth Lakeman, Marcia Ball, Richard Thompson, Cara Dillon, Nickel Creek, Cerys Matthews, and Chieftains.

*Additional tour dates were announce at the official site:
　July 23 (sun) TBA (Rostrevor, Northern Ireland)
　Aug. 14 (mon) Queens Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Tickets can be purchased here.
　Nov. 4 (sat) Whites of Wexford (Wexford, Eire, Ireland) - Wexford Festival Opera (Eddi's page is here.）
Wexford Opera Festival will be held in Wexford, Ireland from Oct. 25 through Nov. 5.

*According to Eddi's entry at the official site, Eddi joined the recording of the new album of 1 Giant Leap. Eddi was featured in their first album too, singing two songs.

*The message from Eddi was posted at the official site. It tells about Eddi's recent activities that include the status of the new album, which is likely to be released later this year or early next year, and Eddi's guest apperance at Aly Bain's birthday live. Also, Eddi posted at the official guestbook, telling she's planning to sell the recently released double live album "St Clare's Night Out (Live at the Basement)" at the official site.

*The additional tour dates from May through August were announced at the official site:
　May 28 (sun) Turnberry Hotel grounds (Ayrshire, Scotland)
　June 3 (sat) Prestonpans Meadowmill Sports Arena (Prestonpans, Scotland)
　June 22(thur) Oran Mor (Glasgow, Scotland) - West End Festival
　June 23 (fri) Oran Mor (Glasgow, Scotland) - West End Festival
　June 24 (sat) Oran Mor (Glasgow, Scotland) - West End Festival
　July 15 (sat) Earagail Arts Festival (Eire, Ireland)
　Aug. 8 (tue) West Belfast Community Festival (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
　Aug. 19 (sat) Mull of Kintyre Music Festival (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

*According to Cambridge Folk Festival's official site, Eddi will appear at this year's festival on the last day, July 30. The festival will be held from July 27 to 30. Other performers include: Emmylou Harris, The Chieftains, Richard Thompson, Cerys Matthews, Capercaillie, Nickel Creek, Chumbawamba, Cara Dillon, Tift Merritt, Ezio, Swap (Ian Carr's band). The tickets will go on sale from April 30 at 10:00am.

*As Eddi wrote on the official guestbook (see below), the 2-CD live album recorded during the last year's Australian tour will be released on April 5 in Australia. It is listed on HMV.com.au and JB Hifi, which has the cover artwork and the track listing.

*Eddi will perform at "The Studio" of "Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay" in Marina Bay, Singapore. It is a part of Mosaic Music Festival, which is held from March 10 to 18. The tickets are already sold out. Other performers include Pat Metheny Trio, Bob James, Hiromi Uehara & Maceo Parker and Jason Mraz.

*According to an entry from Eddi at the official guestbook, the new "official bootleg" DVD is in the works. It is taken from a last year's show in Sydney, Australia. It is planned to go on sale around this year's Australia tour in April.

*According to the official site of With Strings Attached (see here), they will perform at Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow on March 19. The tickets are sold at the venue's web site.

*A London show was announced by the official site:
　Feb.8 (wed) Dingwalls (London, England)
Update:
This was Boo Hewerdine's Album Launch show and Eddi was a guest.

*According to music plant, Boo Hewerdine will tour Japan in April for a show, following dates with Eddi and his solo tour in Australia:
　Apr.27 Minamiaoyama Mandala (Tokyo, Japan)
Advance reservation fot tickets will be available at music plant from the midnight of Feb.11. See informaion at music plant for details.
Update (Feb. 13):
According to the official site, the dates in Australia are not Boo's solo tour. Five of them are Eddi's headlining dates and Eddi will support Bob Geldof at two other dates.
4/18 Clarendon Guest House (Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia)
4/20 The Forum (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) - support to Bob Geldof
4/21 The Enmore Theatre (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) - support to Bob Geldof
4/22 Cornish Arms (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
4/23 The Hepburn Palais (Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Australia)
4/24 Cornish Arms (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
4/25 Basement (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

*According to BBC news, it was announced that Eddi will receive MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire). Eddi herself signed in to the official guestbook and wrote about her story about it (read it here).

'05
*Trash Can Sinatras, whose members include Eddi's brother Frank, released Wild Mountainside as a single and you can purchase it by download at picnic records. It is noted that it will be released on CD too. The songwriter of the song, John Douglas is also a member of this band.

*Boo Hewerdine's new album "Harmonograph" went on sale in Japan on January 25. In UK, it was originally scheduled to be released two days earlier than Japan, but it was delayed a week to January 30. You can listen to all songs on MVine. Japanese edition has two bonus tracks, "Bell, Book and Candle" and "Humming Bird. It is released on Oak Tree Records (the new label by Music Plant).

*According to the official site, Eddi appeared in "Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook", which was held at The Queens Hall in Edinburgh. Kate Rusby & John McCusker also joined in.

*According to the official site of Bluesfest 2006, Eddi will perform at the festival, which will be held from April 13 through 17 of next year at Red Devil Park in Byron Bay, Australia. The date when Eddi will appear is not announced yet. Other performers include: Bob Geldof, Hothouse Flowers, Sigur Ros, Jamie Cullum, Donavon. Tickets can be purchased at the festival's site.

*The tour dates from December through January were announced at the official site. According to Eddi's post at the guestbook, most of the shows in January are actually not Eddi's own shows, but they are Robert Burns related project that Eddi was invited to join in.
　Dec.2 (fri) Usher Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland)
　Dec.3 (sat) Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Glasgow, Scotland)
　Dec.31 (sat) Stirling Castle (Stirling, Scotland) - Hogmanay 2005
'06
　Jan.14 (sat) Warwick Arts Center (Coventry, England)
　Jan.15 (sun)The Anvil (Basingstoke, England)
　Jan.16 (mon) Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Glasgow, Scotland) - Celtic Connections
　Jan.18 (wed) The Sage (Gateshead, England)
　Jan.22 (sun) The Fruitmarket (Glasgow, Scotland)
　Jan.24 (tue) The Dome (Brighton, England)

*According to Stirling Council, Eddi will perform at this year's Hogmanay 2005 in Stirling, Scotland. Justine Currie and Blazin' Fiddles will also join, which might mean another With Strings Attached performance. Tickets are already on sale from Oct.24 at discounted price until Nov.26 (to purchase tickets, click here).

*Boo Hewerdine's new single "Ontario EP" is now on sale at Boo's official site. It contains White Lies, Hummingbird, Sleeping Beauty as well as the title track, which is frequently played in Eddi's recent concerts. The single will also go on sale on Nov.7 at online stores such as Amazon.co.uk. The new album is also on the way. "Harmonograph," a covers album that contains the songs that Boo provided to other artists as the songwriter will be released in January, '06. The track list is as follows:
　The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon *
　Weatherman
　Ontario
　Butterfly (on A Pin)
　Sugar On The Pill *
　Slow Learner
　Sing To Me
　Patience Of Angels *
　Submarines
　Nameless *
　Mountains
　I Felt Her Soul Move Through Me *
（* indicates the songs Eddi recorded for her album or single before）

*According to the official site of Fuji Rock Festival, Eddi will appear on the second day of the festival(July 30) at Gypsy Avalon stage in addition to the first day. Gypsy Avalon stage is the smallest in the festival. Also, the timetables were announced. Eddi will perform from 13:50 (1 hour) on the first day before Lisa Loeb, 12:30 (50 minutes) on the second day. FYI, Gang of Four was added to the lineup for the second day. The will perform from 18:50 at the White Stage.

*Eddi will tour down under according to the official site. Here are the dates for New Zealand and Australia:
Aug. 3 TSB Theatre - Taranaki Festival (New Plymouth, New Zealand)
Aug. 4 The Front Room (ex-James Cabaret) (Wellington, New Zealand)
Aug. 5 Isaac Theatre Royal - Christchurch Arts Festival (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Aug.10 The Clarendon Guest House (Katoomba, NSW, Australia)
Aug.12 The Basement (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Aug.13 The Cornish Arms (Brunswick, Victoria, Australia)
Aug.14 The Hepburn Palais (Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Australia)

*On the DVD of "Tube: Volume 1", which was released on May 30 in the UK, Eddi is featured on the performance of Eurythmics as a backup singer. Other artists included on this collection are: Paul Young, U2, Culture Club, Heaven 17, Jam, Yazoo, Go-Go's, Depeche Mode, Mari Wilson, Simple Minds, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Pat Benatar. It is a 2-disc set and in PAL format.

*There is an message from Eddi on the top page of the official site. She writes about the prospect of the new album, the future tour, and news.

*According to the official site, Eddi will appear at Beamish Cork Folk Festival on Sept.10. The festival will be held from Sept.2 to 11 in Cork, Ireland. Other artists to appear include: Carlos Nunez, Liam O Flynn, Altan, and Dick Gaughan.

*According to the official site, another date is added:
　June 16　Coliseum Theatre (Aberdare, England)
Eddi will also apear at the following festivals:
　May 20　Gala Concert (Culzean Castle, Scotland) - Burns An' A' That Festival
　May 28　With String Attached (Culzean Castle, Scotland) - Burns An' A' That Festival *Free concert
　June 17　De Montfort Hall & Gardens (Leicester, England) - The Big Session Festival
　June 18　 Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival
　June 26　 Avalon Stage (Glastonbury, England) - Glastonbury Festival

*Eddi appeared on Janice Long Show on BBC Radio 2 on April 18. She appeared with Boo Hewerdine and they played three songs: Wild Mountainside, Quarantine (Boo's solo), Ontario (a new song). She anwered various questions as well, such as first meeting with Boo, current tour, and the new album.

*Eddi will appear at the following event:
　May 14　Oran Mor (Glasgow, Scotland) - The Space You're Not In
Tickets for this event can be purchased from the event's web site or TicketWeb.co.uk.

*Eddi appeared and played on "Other Voices", broadcast by Irish TV RTE on April 3. She played four songs with Boo Hewerdine and Alan Kelly: Kiteflyer's Hill, My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Dolphins, and Moon River. You can watch the video at the program's web site (click here).

*Eddi will be one of the artists who will perform in Fuji Rock Festival, which will be held from July 29 through 31 in Naeba, not around Mt.Fuji, which is a famous ski resort in Japan. Eddi will appear on the first day, July 29 at Orange Court. Other artists to appear on the same day as Eddi include: Lisa Loeb(same stage, before or after Eddi), Foo Fighters, The Music, Pogues, and Cake. Artists to appear on other dates include: The Beach Boys, Beck, Dinosaur Jr., Fatboy Slim, Los Lobos, Mercury Rev, Sigur Ros, Moby, Adrian Belew, Soulive, and Feeder. Tickets are already on sale and can be bought from overseas too. 1-day tickets are limited to only 10000 per day and cost JPY17000(oh yes, extremely expensive). FYI, a through ticket costs JPY39000.

*According to an entry on the official guestbook by Eddi herself, she was invited by Queen Elizabeth to the Buckingham Palace on March 1. Kate Bush, Petula Clark, and Roger Daltrey were also among the invited guests, as Eddi says.

*Eddi joined in Tsunami Relief Scotland Concert, which was held on Feb.19 in Glasgow and sang Wild Mountainside, Willie Stewart, and Perfect. Other artists who appeared in the concert include: Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, Mogwai, Deacon Blue, Teenage Fanclub, Texas, Trashcan Sinatras, and Travis. The concert was live broadcast on Scottish TV.

*Not necessarily an Eddi related news, but Kirst MacColl's album "Titanic Days" was digitally remastered and released on Feb.22 with a bonus CD, which includes the demo version of "Dear John". It can be purchased from ZTT site.

*Eddi appeared at BBC One Scotland's "Hogmanay Live" broadcast in the midnight of Dec.31 and played two songs, Patience of Angels and Willie Stuart/Molly Rankin. Eddi was backed by Phil Cunningham, Aly Bain, Boo Hewerdine, John McKusker and other artists.

*Eddi was one of the guests on "Great Lives - Hogmany special" broadcast on Dec.31 on BBC Radio 4 along with a university professor. This episode was focused on Robert Burns and Eddi and the professor talked about him. You can hear the program via streaming at the program's site.

'04
*Tickets for the two shows of the Scotland Tour with "With Strings Attached" are now on sale at the venues' web sites. For Aberdeen tickets, click here. For Inverness tickets, click here.

*There was an entry at the official guestbook from Eddi's office staff and now the following shows are official:
Jan.8 Dundee University (Dundee, Scotland) - with John McCusker and Boo Hewerdine
For tickets, click here.
Apr.16 (Sat) Mick Jagger Centre (Dartford, England)
For tickets, click here.
Apr.19 (Tue) Wedgewood Rooms (Portsmouth, England)
For tickets, click here.
Apr.25 & 26 The Stables (Milton Keynes, England)
For tickets, click here.
Apr.30 & May 1 Shetland Folk Festival (Shetland Island, Scotland)
Jun.17 TBA (Leicester, England)
Jun.18 TBA (Middlewich, England)

*Accorfing to ents24.com, the following shows are scheduled:
Jan.18 The Piping Centre (Glasgow, Scotland) - "Master And Apprentice"
Feb.23 Opera House (Buxton) - "Four-Four Time 2005"
"Master And Apprentice" concert is part of the Celtic Connections and Eddi will join Phil Cunningham, Harriet Bartlett and Jenn Butterworth. Tickets for the Buxton show is now on sale at the venue's web site (click here).

*Eddi will tour Scotland in early February as a member of "With Strings Attached" project. This project is a brainchild of Bruce MacGregor, a member of Blazin' Fiddles and the members comprise of Justin Currie (Del Amitri), Colin MacIntyre (Mull Historical Society) other than Eddi and Blazin' Fiddles. The tour dates are as follows:
　2/3 (Thur) The Usher Hall (Edinburgh)
　2/4 (Fri) The Music Hall (Aberdeen)
　2/5 (Sat) Eden Court Theatre (Inverness)
They will also perform in Celtic Connections on Jan.20, '05. In the festival, which will be held from Jan.12 to 30, John McCusker will perform with Kate Rusby at Transatlantic Sessions on 29th, which Eddi might join too. Trash Can Sinatras will also perform in the festival on 21th.

*ticketmaster.co.uk lists another two dates:
　4/23 (Sat) Tyne Theatre Newcastle (Newcastle-upon-tyne)
　4/27 (Wed) The Lowery (Salford Quays)
Also ticketweb.co.uk lists the London show on April 17 and the tickets are already on sale:
　4/17 (Sun) Shepherds Bush Empire (London)

*Eddi was nominated for Folk Singer of the Year for Radio 2 Folk Awards 2005. Other nominees are Martin Carthy, Dick Gaughan and Karine Polwart. The awards will be presented on February 14, 2005 in London. You can vote for the most deserving singer for the Award at the page .

*It seems there's going to be UK tour next April and ticketmaster.co.uk lists the following two concerts. Tickets for Birmingham is already on sale.
　4/18 Alexandra Theatre Birmingham (Birmingham)
　4/22 Grand Opera House York (York)
Eddi herself did confirm she's planning a tour in April on the guestbook.

*According to the official site, Eddi will perform at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield on Nov.10.

*Eddi appeared and performed two songs at the opening ceremony of the new Scottish Parliament building on Oct.9 in Edinburgh. She sang Wild Mountainside and Auld Lang Syne with John McCusker, Phil Cunnigham and Royal Scottish National Orchestra before Queen Elizabeth and MSPs. In Auld Lang Syne, Eddi led everyone else to sing the song with her. Radio Scotland broadcast the ceremony (the program of the ceremony can be viewed here) and you can hear the whole of it here. The web site of Scottish Parliament has the picture gallery as well as the video archive, which contains the videos of both of Eddi's performaces. In case playback doesn't go well (thanks to Microsoft...), you can watch Wild Mountainside here, and Auld Lang Syne here.

*Eddi will appear at BBC Radio 2's Mike Harding Show on Oct.27. The show airs from 20:00 - 21:00 GMT.

*BBC 6 Music's Dream Ticket will feature Eddi's live performance from '96 on Aug.12. The show will air from 22:00 to 25:00 GMT. It is probably the repeat of Shepherds Bush show.

*Tour dates from August to September were announced at the official site:
　8/1 Regent's Park (London) - Appearance as a guest to Kate Rusby
　9/9 Queens Hall (Edinburgh)
　9/10 Carnegie Hall (Dunfermline)
　9/11 Town Hall (Blairgowrie)
　9/13 Universal Hall (Findhorn)
　9/14 Carnegie Hall (Clashmore, Dornoch)
　9/15 McVale Centre (Ullapool)
　9/17 Town Hall (Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis)
　9/18 Aros Centre (Portree, Isle Of Skye)
　9/19 Eden Court Theatre (Inverness)

*Eddi will apear at Sidmouth International Festival on July 31 as a guest to Kate Rusby & John McCusker. The festival will be held from July 30 to August 6 in Sidmouth, southwest England.

*Eddi will appear at Brampton Live 2004, which will be held from July 16 to 18 in Brampton near Carlisle, north England. She's scheduled to appear with Boo Hewerdine and John McCusker (and possibly with other band members). Other artsist to appear at this festival are: Steeleye Span, June Tabor, and Hot Club of Cowtown.

'03

*According to the official site, Eddi will tour Spain with Boo and Colin in late March. The dates are as follows:
3/27 Cafe Cantante Kandela (San Sebastian, Spain)
3/28 Teatro El Albeitar (Leon, Spain)
3/29 Sala Suristan (Madrid, Spain)
3/30 Palacio Euskalduna (Bilbao, Spain)

*According to Eddi herself who left a message at the guestbook of the official site, Eddi was in US to join TED(Technology. Entertainment. Design.) Conference, which was held in Monterey, California from Feb.25 to Mar.1. She was invited by Thomas Dolby and took part in Session 7 'Emotion.' From what she wrote, Eddi performed "Footsteps Fall" with Natalie MacMaster and Boo..

*According to the official site, the new album will be released in May!! This album will be Robert Burns collection, as already announced, and now in the process of mixing by notable producer Jon Kelly. Along with Boo and Colin, artsists such as Phil Cunningham, John McCusker, Ewen Vernal, Christine Hanson, Ian Carr and Royal Scottish National Orchestra guests in the album. It will be released from Rough Trade, which means it will be sold at regular CD stores.

*According to ・Boo Hewerdine's official site, Eddi will appear at festivals in August.
8/23 Oldbury Wells School (Bridgnorth, England ) - Bridgnorth Folk Festival
8/24 Leicester Cathedral (Leicester, England)

*Tour dates in Scotland was announced at the official site.
5/12 Tolbooth (Stirling, Scotland)
5/13 Adam Smith (Kircaldy, Scotland)
5/14 Dunkeld Bay Arts Centre (Dunkeld, Scotland)
5/16 Aros (Isle of Skye, Scotland) - ２回公演
5/17 Eden Court (Inverness, Scotland)
5/18 Lemon Tree (Aberdeen, Scotland)
5/20 Bridge Center (Haddington, Scotland)
5/21 Pavilion (Glasgow, Scotland)
5/22 Queens Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland)
There seems to be more dates according to Boo Hewerdine's official site.
5/9 Culzena Castle (Ayr, Scotland)
5/16 Portree Community Centre (Isle of Skye, Scotland)

*There is a review of Eddi's concert for Celtic Connections in Sunday Mail. There is also an interview with Eddi about Robert Burns too.

*According to Eddi's official site, Eddi will be one of the headliners at Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival, which will be held from April 17 to 21 at Fareham, Hampshire in England, and do a concert on April 17 at Ferneham Hall with Jackie Leven as a support act. They are the sole performers on that day at the site. Tickets are sold at GBP15 (seated/standing) and the box office is on +44 (0) 1329 231942.

*According to the official site, an additional concert by Eddi and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra will be held at Celtic Connections on the last day of the festival, February 2 at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Eddi will sing Robert Burns songs at this one too. Tickets are sold through the festival's official site.

'02

*According to the official site, Eddi will do a show on Jan.24, as part of Celtic Connections which will be held from Jan.15 till Feb.2 in Glasgow at Royal Concert Hall. In this concert, Eddi will sing Robert Burns songs with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and some "special guests." According to Celtic Connections' official site, some of the guests will be Colin Reid, Christine Hanson and John McCusker. After this concert, Eddi will go to a studio to do recording of Robert Burns songs with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra for the new album which will be released in May or June.
To support the new album, Eddi will tour across UK with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The dates are announced at CMP Entertainment:
'03/5/24 Opera House (New Castle)
'03/5/25 Lowry (Manchester)
'03/5/26 City Varieties Theatre (Leeds)
'03/5/28 Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool)
'03/5/29 City Hall (Sheffield)
'03/5/31 Warwick Arts Centre (Coventry)
'03/6/2 Huntingdon Hall (Worcester)
'03/6/4 Martlets Hall (Burgess Hill)
'03/6/5 Union Chapel (London)
'03/6/7 Stables (Milton Keynes)
'03/6/8 Colston Hall (Bristol)
'03/6/9 Palace Theatre (Newark)
'03/6/11 Corn Exchange (King's Lynn)
'03/6/12 Corn Exchange (Cambridge)
'03/6/13 Marlowe Theatre (Canterbury)
'03/6/15 Concert Hall (Reading)
'03/6/16 Theatre Royal (Winchester)
'03/6/17 Ashcroft Theatre (Croydon)
The official site has some comment of Eddi on why she was inclinded to do this project.

*According to the official site, the webcast of the concert at Cabot Hall is still available at VirtueTV.

*The official site's Merchandise was renewed as "Sadenia's Salon" and now it is possible to buy items with credit cards from overseas. Number of items are also increased with addition of earlier albums.

*According to the official site, Eddi will join BBC Radio2's Mike Harding Show(broadcast on Sept 25, from 8:00pm to 9:00pm) to be taped in Belfast as part of the station's Belfast week. She will play for about 20 minutes with Boo Hewerdine and Colin Reid. Cara Dillon and Dervish will also play for the show. The tickets are free and you can get one by calling 08700 100 150).
BBC Radio 2 will do an interview with Eddi and they want questions from Eddi fans. Click here to submit your questions for Eddi.

*According to the official site, Eddi will tour in summer on the following dates:
7/22 Whelan's (Dublin, Ireland)
7/23 Radisson SAS Hotel (Dublin, Ireland) - Galway Arts festival
*Tickets can be purchased here.
7/24 The Forum (Waterford, Ireland)
7/25 Talbot Hotel (Wexford, Ireland)
7/27 Stowford Manor Farm (Wingfield, England) - Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
8/10 Cropredy (Banbury, England) - Cropredy festival

Boo Hewerdine will also go on tour in Ireland himself with Clive Gregson in late July:
7/20-21 William Howard Centre (Carslisle, England) - Brampton Live festival
7/26 The Ram Folk Club (Esher, England)
7/28 The Greys (Brighton, England)

*Music Plant(Boo's record label in Japan) has the tour report of Boo, Gary Clark and Ricky Ross, who did three shows in Japan from May 19 - 21(it's only in Japanese).

'01
*According to Boo Hewerdine's official site, Japanese edition of Driftwood, which will be released at the end of January(according to Universal International, Japan), will have the following bonus live tracks from this year's concert in Tokyo: Joke, The Wanting Kind, La Vie En Rose, Candyfloss, Kiteflyer's Hill and Find My Love
Update (Nov.18):
The bonus tracks will be indeed above listed, which was confirmed by Universal International, Japan. The Curragh of Kildare and Good Girl will be omitted in Japanese edition because they were included in Japanese edition of Simple Soul.
Update (Nov.22):
Japanese edition of Driftwood will be released on January 23, 2002. According to the source, while Simple Soul is portrayed as "Freshness of the Morning", Driftwood is "Beauty of the Sunset."

*According to ImportCD, Driftwood will go on sale at their site from October 26. The first 25 person who purchased it there will receive an autographed copy of the album.
1. Old Soul
2. Sarasota
3. Meantime
4. Curragh Of Kildare
5. Good Girl
6. Wasting Time
7. Paper Wings
8. Holiday
9. Small Soul Sailing
10. New Pretender
11. Forgive The Boy
12. Everything
ImportCD also started selling Extras EP, which includes four of Boo Hewerdine's new songs from October 9. The first 10 will also receive an autographed copy of the album.

*Eddi will appear at Richard Allinson Show broadcast on Oct.11 from 22:30 to 24:00 on BBC Radio2 and will perform some songs live.
Update (Nov.10):
Heard the live webcast.
After advetising the coming(at that time) London gig of Trash Can Sinatras on October 18 and 19, which includes Eddi's brother Frank, she sung Wild Mountainside, which was composed by a member of Trash Can Sinatras, backed up only by Colin Reid. After that, She talked about antidotes about her first guitar, how she decide the concert venues, how she writes songs with Boo Hewerdine. She talked about Driftwood too. And she played Footsteps Fall before she left.

*According to the official site, Eddi will join Colin Reid as one of his "friends" at Belfast Festival, which will be held Oct.26 to Nov.11. Colin's show will be on Nov.9.

*According to Boo Hewerdine's official site, Driftwood, which Eddi refers to as the twin to Simple Soul will be sold at October tour venues as well as on internet.

*Here are the fall tour dates according to the official site:
10/7 HQ Club (Dublin, Ireland)
10/9 Fleece and Firkin (Bristol)
10/10 Wedgewood Rooms (Portsmouth)
10/12 Robin 2 (Wolverhampton)
10/13 Corn Exchange (Brighton)
10/14 Arts Centre (Colchester)
10/17 Neptune Theatre (Liverpool)
10/19 Opera House (Newcastle)
10/20 Liquid Room (Edinburgh)
10/21 His Majesty's Theatre (Aberdeen)
10/23 Club Arta (Glasgow)
10/24 Club Arta (Glasgow)
10/25 Carnegie Hall (Dunfermline)
10/26 Eden Court Theatre (Inverness)
10/28 Roadmender (Northampton)
10/29 Opera House (York)
10/30 Shepherds Bush Empire (London)

*Eddi will appear and sing some songs at Robert Elms on London Live 94.9FM on July 12. The program will be aired 9:00am〜12:00pm. It will be live webcast here.

*Boo Hewerdine's official site is now open.

*Eddi is the featured artist in the week from June 29 at Thistle & Shamrock on various Public Radio stations in US, and the full program carries her interview and songs such as Glasgow Barrowlands and Hummingbird (from Transatlantic Sessions). There are still a few stations to broadcast the show via web:
Colorado
KSUT-FM/91.3, 7/4 at 9 PM (US Mountain Time Zone)
Texas
KAMU-FM/90.9, 7/4 7:00PM (US Central Time Zone)

*According to Colin Reid's Official Site, Eddi sings on one song on his latest album Tilt, Never Going Back Again from Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

*There's an interview on Scotland on Sunday Online.

*Eddi will be one of the performers at this year's Guildford Live Festival which will be held August 3 to 5. Eddi will appear the last day, 5th. Other performers include: Catatonia, Roland Gift (ex-Fine Young Cannibals), James, Cast, Pulp, Bert Jansch & Bernard Butler, Chunba Wamba, Kiki Dee.

*Summer tour dates in UK are announced at the official site:
June 21~22 West End Festival - Cottier Theatre(Glasgow)
July 11 Cabot Square (London)- Lunchtime frree show **
July 14 Lloyd Park (Croydon) **
August 25 International Festival (Ross on Wye) **
August 26 Greenbelt Festival - Cheltenham Racecourse(Cheltenham) **
** indicates Eddi will perform in trio with Boo Hewerdine and Colin Leid.

*Boston FM station WGBH have the transcript and the real audio version of the interview with Eddi, which was broadcast in the early morning of May 24 on their morning show, The World.

*Eddi will be one of the performers at Edmonton Folk Festival, which will be held August 9 to12 at Edmonton, Canada. Though the date of her appearance is not announced yet, the ticket will go on sale from June 1. Limited quantities will be available through Ticketmaster.ca too. Other performers include: Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Stacey Earle, Jennifer Warnes, Natalie MacMaster , The Cowboy Junkies, Eliza Carthy. A note for anyone who is concerned: the hotels there will be full because of World Championship in Athletics which is held August 3 to 12. So you'd better make up your mind early.

*Not an news about Eddi, but now touring Boo Hewerdine & Clive Gregson will be the guest for Radio Scotland's Celtic Connections on May 15 and will play some songs live. The program starts from 19:05 and lasts until 21:00.

*According to Kate Rusby's official site, Eddi is one of the guest artists on Kate's upcoming album, Little Lights.

*According to Compass Records, Eddi will receive an interview of about 30 minutes(looks like it inclueds live performance...) in a program called "F.M. On Toast" on WWUH in Hartford, CT on May 16. She is supposed to appear around 7:30am(EST) while the program starts at 6:00am. It will be webcast too.

*Eddi will appear at a program on May 4, 3:00pm(EST) on WBRS FM in Waltham, MA near Boston and do a live performance. It will be live webcast too.

*English magazine, Uncut carries a bonus CD which contains Eddi's Footsteps Fall. It has a nice comment too.

*The last tour date in UK to support Simple Soul was a part of Gosport and Fareham Easter Festival which was held from April 12 to 16. There's a special page for the festival at BBC website, where you can hear Eddi's interview(divided in three parts) and a live performance of Footsteps Fall. There are in MP3 format (though not spectacular quality).

*Eddi finally has the official site!! It has a detailed description of the album and biography. The official bootleg CD is supposed to be sold online there too.

*Eddi will tour US again opening for Hothouse Flowers. Compass Records has the complete dates:
5/3 Paradise(Boston)
5/5 Pearl Street(Northampton, MA)
5/6 Toad's Place(New Haven, CT)
5/10 Theater Of Living Arts(Philadelphia)
5/11 Irving Plaza(New York)
5/12 Birchmere(Alexandria, VA)
5/14 Royal Oak Theater(Royal Oak, MI)
5/15 Park West(Chicago)
5/17 Fox Theater(Boulder, CO)
5/19 Knitting Factory(Los Angeles)
5/20 Great American Music Hall(San Francisco)

*The "official bootleg" live CD went on sale at concert venues in UK tour from 3/23. It's recorded at Cabot Hall on Feb. 1 which is also show online at VirtueTV. You can buy it online at ImportCD. Here's the tracklist:
Wolves
Candyfloss
Simple Soul
Please Don't Ask Me to Dance
Adam
Hummingbird
Lucky Penny
Clare
Patience of Angels
The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon

*Eddi appeared at a show called VIVA! ACCESS on Japanese FM station J-Wave and sang Simple Soul backed only by Boo Hewerdine. The site has the archive from the showin Guest Room, three part interview and the performance, all in real video.

*Billboard.com has quite a nice review of Simple Soul.

*According to an American fan who heard from Compass Records, Eddi is scheduled to appear some radio shows from February 24 to 28. Among them;
9am EST, February 26 - Live on air with WUMB in Boston
4:30 pm EST, February 26 - Live on air with WKZE in Sharon, CT
12:00 noon EST, February 27 - Live on air on Vin Scelsa's "Live at Lunch" in NYC from J&R Records(it will be webcast too)
February 27 - Live on WFUV, 90.7 in NYC with Rita Houston
February 28 - Taping of the World Cafe with David Dye
Update (Mar. 3):
Heard the live webcast of Live at Lunch. Before Eddi & Boo came in, Fairground Attraction's A Smile in A Whisper(studio version) was aired. Eddi & Boo did 11 songs in total with interviews inbetween, in the relaxing setting from J&R cd store:
Prayer Wheel *
Please Don't Ask Me to Dance
Bell, Book and Candle *
Wolves *
Dolphins

Last Cigarette (Boo version from the cd)
(Break)

Kiteflyer's Hill
A Slow Divorce (Boo)
The World's End (Boo with Eddi)
I Felt A Soul Move Through Me
Simple Soul *
Lucky Penny *

The Wanting Kind (from the CD)
(Tracks with * were harmonized by Boo)

The complete show is now stored in the archive, but hurry, as the program may end at the end of March.

*Virtue TV will webcast Eddi's new performance from 17::00 GMT, March 1 at the URL once Eddi and Boo's acoustic live at Spitz Club could be seen.
Update (Mar. 3):
The source of the webcast is February 1 show at Cabot Hall in London. It's the same as advertised at ImportCD, and it must be available for a year.

*According to Mojo4Music.com, BBC Two(TV channel) will air "A Tribute To Kirsty MacColl" on March 3, 7:55pm. Eddi will be one of the friends to appear in that program. Other artists to be included are Steve Lillywhite, Billy Bragg, Johnny Marr, Jim Kerr.

*According to ImportCD, a live cd, sort of "Official Live Bootleg" is considered to be released around May or June. The sources of the cd are from January concerts in Scotland. Because of this, the release of Driftwood will be delayed...

*CDNow Japan has the track listing of the coming "best of" cd to be released on March 7 in Japan(only):
Title: Seventeen Stories: The Best of Eddi Reader
1. What You Do with What You've Got
2. Honeychild
3. All or Nothing
4. The Right Place
5. Patience of Angels
6. Joke (I'm Laughing)
7. Wonderful Lie
8. Glasgow Star
9. Town Without Pity
10. Medicine
11. Rebel Angel
12. Kiteflyer's Hill
13. Prayer Wheel
14. On A Whim
15. California
16. Wonder Boy
17. Earlies
Update (Mar. 3):
It seems that the release date is delayed to March 22.

*Compass Records announced the US tour dates:
Feb. 23 Bottomline - opening for Jimmy Webb (New York)
Feb. 24 Bottomline - opening for Jimmy Webb (New York)
Feb. 28 The Point (Philadelphia)

*Dotmusic has a review of Simple Soul. It praises Eddi cmparing to Corrs.

*Evening Times has an interview article. Eddi talks about the feelings about her hometown.

*ImportCD has reports for Eddi's performance at Celtic Connetions. One is of Jan.24 show as a guest for Colin Reid. Eddi appeared with Boo and did four songs. She sang Fleetwood Mac's Never Going Back Again and Nina Simone's Feelin' Good. The other is her headlining show on Jan. 25. She did The Glasgow Barrowlands.
Update (Jan. 29):
Many photos from January 24 show are uploaded. There are some nice pictures with Boo Hewedine too.
Update (Feb. 7):
The reports for January 26, 27, 28 shows as well as many photos from those date are uploaded to the site. On January 26 show, Eddi did Everything from the forthcoming Driftwood, which was originally written for US drama Dawson's Creek though it's not used yet. Her current band is called "Eddi Reader And Her Imiginary Friends."

*I know it's late, but anyway. Eddi will be a part of Celtic Connections which has been held from Jan.10 to Jan.28 and her performance will be LIVE WEBCAST TODAY(that's Jan.27) from 3:30pm to 6:30pm at BBC Radio2. The appearance order is on the site too. She will perform twice at the first, and the last. It may be broadcast at BBC Scotland too.
Update (Jan. 29):
Eddi performed twice, at the first and the last. She appeared in pink outfit before the crowd outside Borders Bookstore in Glasgow with the full band, and did two songs each. In the first set, she did:
*Patience of Angels
*Wolves
She appeared with Brian Kennedy for the second set and did:
*Find My Love
*The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Brian Kennedy did backing chorus for both songs and Eddi's sister, Rochelle joined for The Girl...
Eddi played the guitar herself in Find My Love and she looked very cheerful though her voice was somewhat raspy. Nonetheless, she sounded fabulous.
The band members were: Boo Hewerdine (who sat in front but played the acoustic guitar and sang as a backing vocal humbly), Roy Dodds, Colin Reid, Graham Henderson,(played the accordion, yay) Johnny Scott, Tim Harries

*There are two other interviews here and here.

*The web site for British Newspaper Independent has an interview with Eddi. She talks about the new album and why she doesn't feel like playing FA songs...

*Eddi's page at Compass Records was updated and now it has Eddi's comment about Simple Soul. She talks about how the recording went about and Driftwood as well.

*Wall of Sound has a review of Simple Soul.

*British version of Simple Soul will be released from Rough Trade and it will go on sale from January 29. You can now preorder at online cd shops such as Amazon.co.uk.

*The release date for Japanese version of the new album, Simple Soul was delayed two weeks to January 25 along with the single, The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon.
Update (Jan. 27):
Simple Soul was released, but the single was delayed again and it's not clear that if it's rescheduled or not.
Update (Jan. 29):
According to Virgin Mega Store in Tokyo, it will be released on Jan.31.

*Here are UK tour dates:
'01/Jan/24 Suite (Strathclyde)
'01/Jan/25 Old Fruit Market (Glasgow)
'01/Jan/26 Lemon Tree (Aberdeen)
'01/Jan/28 Queens Hall (Edinburgh)
'01/Jan/29 Albert Halls (Stirling)
'01/Feb/1 Cabot Hall (London)
above dates are listed at Fair Warning
'01/Mar/31 Stables Club (Milton Keynes)
'01/Apr/1 Lowry Art Centre (Salford)

*ImportCD.com has the track list for Japanese release of Simple Soul. According to them, Japan-only bonus tracks will be The Curragh of Kildare and Good Girl, both of which will be included in the forthcoming Driftwood that should be available in spring of 2001. And the bonus track for the single, The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon will NOT be in Driftwood, though Stars in Your Eyes and No Time were recorded in the same recording session at Driftwood Studio. They also indicate that Eddi will tour US though the locations are not confirmed yet.
Update (Jan. 27):
The tracklist for Driftwood was announced.
1. Old Soul
2. Sarasota
3. Meantime
4. The Curragh Of Kildare
5. Good Girl
6. Wasting Time
7. Paper Wings
8. Holiday
9. Small Soul Sailing
10. New Pretender
11. Forgive The Boy
12. Everything
Eddi seems to regard this album as an addendum to Simple Soul.
Update (Jan. 29):
Surprisingly, they added the full version of two songs from Driftwood. One is Holiday and the other, Saratosa. You need to register (for free) to listen to the sample and Windows Media Player is needed. Both are VERY GOOD SONGS. A must hear, I'd say.
Update (Feb. 7)
It says "Watch for a UK delayed / archived video broadcast of the Feb. 1 London show!". So I guess we'd have to wait for some time.
Update (Feb.17)
It's going to be after her April dates are finished...
Update (Mar.3)
The webcast they refer is the same as the webcast at VirtueTV .

*You can now preorder the new album at CDNow and Amazon.com(though mistakenly titled as "Roadside Songs"). The American release will go on sale on January 9.

*Eddi will appear at Mean Fiddler, London on Dec.9 along with Boo Hewerdine, Kirsty MacColl & The Men They Couldn't Hang. It is the last gig at the venue as it will move to the new location.

*According to Music Plant, the dates for Eddi's Japan Tour 2001 are fixed! They are:
March 10(Sat) Shinsaibashi Club Quattro (Osaka)
March 11(Sun) Club Quattro (Nagoya)
March 13(Tue) Club Quattro (Tokyo)
March 14(Wed) Club Quattro (Tokyo)
Tickets are scheduled to be on sale around the end of January. Also the date for Boo Hewerdine's solo concert is set:
March 15(Thur) Minami Aoyama Mandara (Tokyo)
This is the same venue as the last year's Boo & Clive concert. Tickets will go on sale at the end of this year. (Thanks to Ms.Nozaki)
Update (Dec. 31):
Tickets for all dates (Eddi) will be on sale from January 13. The shows are to start fromm 7:00pm. Tickets for Boo's show will be on sale from January 16.
Update (Jan. 11):
On-sale date for tickets for Boo's concert was changed to January 22, according to Music Plant.

*There's an ad for Eddi's new album in Japanese music magazine "Rockin' On." It says that the title of the album will be "Simple Soul" and will be released in the middle of January(no actual date given) along with single "Tsuki-ni-koishite"(in Japanese...it must be "The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon").
Update (Dec. 15):
Accoding to Boo Hewerdine, the Japanese single will be The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon and it will include three other new tracks - No Time, You Don't Know Me, Stars in Your Eyes. You Don't Know Me is a Ray Charles cover and Stars in Your Eyes, according to Boo's words, is "one of my favourite songs I've ever made up for Eddi."

*Eddi will perform at Stanwix Arts Theatre in Carlisle, England on Dec.2 with Boo Hewerdine and Colin Reid(members at Cambridge Folk Festival again).

*Eddi will Join John Dankworth at Stables Club near Milton Keynes on Nov.7. It is free admission and will be recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 2 next year.

*According to Boo Hewerdine himself, production of Eddi's new album, "Roadside Songs" is now finished, and it will include the following 12 songs:
Lucky Penny
Wolves
New Pretender
Simple Soul
Adam
Footsteps Fall
Blues run the game
Paper Wings
Soul
Prodigal Daughter
Eden
The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Note: The first two and Footsteps Fall (originally included on Boo's Thanksgiving) was played at Cambridge Folk Festival. Paper Wings (a cover of Gillian Welch) and The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon have been played occasionally live in the UK.
Update (Nov. 5):
Accoding to the update from Boo, the album will be called "Simple Soul," and the following songs will be included:
Wolves
Wanting Kind
Lucky Penny
Simple Soul
Adam
Footsteps
Blues Run the Game
I Felt a Soul Move Through Me
Prodigal Daughter
Eden
The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon
So one song fewer and two of them are changed. In Japan, it will be released on January 11 according to Music Plant.
There seems to be another material recorded with Boo and companies called "Driftwood," whose release is still uncertain.

*Honeychild is included in the soundtrack to US film, "Love & Sex." It can be heard in MPEG here.

*According to a fan who went to Eddi, Boo Hewerdine & Clive Gregson concert on Aug.28 in Bolton, UK, they played for more than two hours including two songs by Clive, four songs(Ontario, Butterfly, Joke and 59 Yards) by Boo, and the rest sung by Eddi. According to Boo's own words, he will go to US for two weeks to make new songs with Clive and work with a US rock band. AND he hopes to put out his new album around February/March, along with Eddi's new album(yes!). He plans to do a tour with Eddi when Eddi's album comes out, and do another tour with Clive to support his album.

*Mr.Adrian, the listleader of Eddi Reader mailing list and the webmaster of the world's first Eddi site, is now hosting "Honeychildren Eddi Reader song poll 2000." The poll is open until November 30. After voting, point your browser at his personal site and/or Eddi Reader site.

*Cambridge Folk Festival 1998-99, which is sold now only at the festival's site, contains Eddi's live version of Hummingbird from '98. The album also includes tracks from Kate Rusby and Eliza Carthy Band among others.

*May 14 issue of Sunday Herald carries an article about the memories of punk music, and there's a short comment from Eddi too(click here).

*Eddi will be featured along with Liam O'maonlai of Hothouse Flowers and Sharon Shannon, on Sult, the new song from Donal Lunny, which will be included on his double CD best album scheduled to be released in May in Japan. The song is a recorded live version from a BBC show.
Update (May. 5):
The track list went open at Music Plant's web site(in Japanese only). Eddi will be featured on the live version of The Blacksmith, recorded in February '97 for Sult2. Roy Dodds and Graham Henderson(Fairground Attraction's tour member) also play for this track. The CD will go on sale on June 4.

*Eddi sings on the tltle track from Savourna Stevenson's latest album, Touch Me Like the Sun, which is released from Cooking Vinyl. You can hear a snippet of the song here.

*Eddi will appear with Boo Hewerdine at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival which will be held July 27 - 30. Actual date is not given yet, but other performers include; Dr. John, Billy Bragg, Paul Heaton & David Rotheray(of The Beautiful South), Ani Difranco, Joan Baez and Glenn Tilbrook(of Squeeze).
Update (May. 4):
The full list of artists are announced at the web site and Eddi and Boo will play on 27th, the first day or "Best of the Cambridge" Thursday.

*Current issue(April) of Mojo carries the review of Cambridge Two Benefit which Eddi and Boo Hewerdine took part in. It has short comments on Eddi & Boo with a picture of the two.

*According to Adrian Dover and his web site, Eddi will be heading to Elvis Costello's Country Barn Studio to record songs for ten days, based on her demos which she made with Roy Dodds. The musicians will include Roy Dodds, Boo Hewedine, Teddy Borowiecki, Tim Harries and Johnny Scott. Eddi intends to begin touring before the summer ends.

*According to Boo Hewerdine himself, Boo and Eddi will perform in Winter Comfort Gala dinner on April 3. It is a charity show, held by the supporters of Ruth Wyner and John Brock, who were jailed for unjust(it seems) reasons. (related to the benefit gig on Feb.21 too)

*Eddi appeared as the presenter for Live Music Award in BBC Folk Awards 2000 held on Feb.9. Kate Rusby won Folk Album of the Year and Best Folk Artist.

*Eddi will appear with Boo Hewerdine at the benefit gig on Feb.21 at The Junction in Cambridge, UK. Other performers include Dr.Robert and Eliza Carthy.

*Boo Hewerdine's past band, The Bible's unreleased reunion album Dodo was released on Nov.7 in Japan (and now in UK too).

*You can see Eddi's unplugged-style live performance with Boo Hewerdine for Virtue TV webcast on Oct.9 in real video here. It is 74 minutes set and they played 15 songs:
1. The World's End (Boo & Eddi)
2. Child Star
3. The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon
4. California
5. The Birds are Leaving (Boo & Eddi)
6. New Pretender
7. Darkhouse
8. Please Don't Ask Me To Dance
9. Blacksmith
10. Hummingbird
11. Dolphins
12. Candyfloss
13. Paper Wings
14. Love Me Tender
15. Footsteps Fall (Boo & Eddi)

Eddi and Boo played sitting on the stools. Boo took lead on three tracks with Eddi singing together or doing backup. Eddi sung other tracks with or without Boo's backup. Eddi did play the guitar herself on about half of the songs.

Tracks 1, 5, 6 and 15 are from Boo's Thanksgiving and Baptist Hospital while track 3 is a new song by Boo. Track 2 is from Ron Sexsmith's Other Songs. Track 13 is a Gillian Welch song from Revival.

New Pretender is a Boo song and on his album Thanksgiving, but Eddi sang it on her own. On California, Eddi played the harmonica at the beginning. Blacksmith was a kind of surprise, sung a cappella by Eddi while Boo was tuning his guitar to play Hummingbird. Overall it's a very intimate and fascinating show.
Update (Apr. 3):
Updated the URL for the show.

*Eddi did three shows at Ronnie Scotts in Birmingham backed by Boo, Clive, Roy, Teddy and Tim Harries. Boo & Clive performed before Eddi for about 40 minutes. Eddi did some songs she had never performed publicly. On Oct.25 show, these songs were done:
She's a Good Girl
Glory of Love (jazz standard)
Child Star (Ron Sexsmith number)

She also performed Boo's Footsteps Fall this day. The next day, she did Gillian Welch's Paper Wings and Annie Briggs' Go Your Way.

Oct.28 show was cancelled due to her illness, but Boo & Clive filled in for a free concert. She did do the following dates on Oct.29 and 30, when she performed Randy Newman's Guilty.

*In a UK TV program "Real Women", a new song by Eddi, She's A Good Girl was aired at the end credit.

*Eddi did a show on Sept.22 at St.Ives. Eddi performed for more than 2 hours with the opener, Elephant talk. Here's the setlist:
1. Lazy Heart
2. Paper Wings
3. Prayer Wheels
4. Birds Are Leaving (Boo Hewerdine sang)
5. The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon
6. Follow My Tears
7. Hummingbird
8. Clare - Swimming Song
9. Footsteps Fall (Boo Hewerdine's song)
10. Please Don't Ask Me to Dance
11. Honeychild
12. What You Do With What You've Got
13. Wings on My Heels
(Encore)
14. California
15. Wasting Time
16. Dolphins

Tracks 2 and 5 are new songs. Paper Wings is a Gillian Welch cover and The Girl... is by Boo Hewerdine and is going to be recorded for the new album. Track 15 is a Ron Sexsmith cover and in her words, she prefers it to On A Whim.
(The setlist was kindly provided by Mr. Andrew Rockey)

*Eddi's live version of Please Don't Ask Me to Dance was included on Playpen - An Album of New Acoustic Music released on Sept.13 in the UK.

*Eddi took part in '99 Fleadh as Boo Hewerdine & Clive Gregson, Brian Kennedy. You can read her interview (and even sound snippets) at the official site (click here). There's also a report from Music Plant, but it's in Japanese.

*Eddi worked with Big Country on their latest album, Driving to Damascus. The first single Fragile is credited as Big Country featuring Eddi Reader and Eddi appears in the video for it too.

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