Daily Echo, 2nd March 2009

[Colin]

Hi everyone

The Daily Echo here in Southampton had an interview between Lorelei Reddin and Hayley. While most of it is the normal fare that most people here will know, there are two or three things that were new to me and I think will be of interest generally.

The first is that Hayley mentions she has a cold Those of us at the Bournemouth concert on Wednesday can confirm this as we were told and she only had time for some brief "hello's" before heading off.

The second is, and I'll quote from the paper:

I'll be doing an all new album next year, which I'm really looking forward to.

So it would seem that the new international album is still some way off.

At this point I was beginning to think that the interview must have been from the end of last year, until at the end Hayley is asked, "What's next for you?", to which she replies:

After the tour I'm going to Japan and Canada. There should be more touring around the new album release. That's enough to keep me going for now!

(Italics mine). I mentioned Canada to Roger at Bournemouth and it was news to him too. Of course, the paper may have got it wrong (though it seems difficult to mistake Canada with New Zealand!)

I will try to get the interview scanned in - it comes with the picture of Hayley from the original UK Treasure CD - but I haven't had time to do so yet.

Kind regards

Colin

[Dave]

Hi Colin, thanks for that, it's very late but I thought I should intervene briefly here to quash any speculation about a Canadian tour for Hayley.

Roger asked Hayley about that and if I recall correctly, she would be involved in something that may involve a visit to Canada but not a tour, just a visit.

Roger will I am sure fill in any details and correct me if I'm wrong, later today when he gets home.

Regarding the next album, I heard no dates except that Hayley said she has some recording to do [presumably in the not too distant future] which I'd hoped would be for a new album this year but of course, Hayley does tend to release her International albums in February/March these days.

Cheers, Dave

[roger]

Hi Colin and Dave,

Having asked Hayley for any further information concerning a possible visit to Canada, she confirmed that it is being considered and that she would like to do it when time permits. Unfortunately, there are no serious plans being made and it isn't likely to happen in the near future. So yes, it looks as though the paper slightly misinterpreted what Hayley had told them but it isn't entirely wrong.

Roger

[gra7890]

Mar 5, 2009 15:47:07 GMT @roger said:

Hi Colin and Dave,

Having asked Hayley for any further information concerning a possible visit to Canada, she confirmed that it is being considered and that she would like to do it when time permits. Unfortunately, there are no serious plans being made and it isn't likely to happen in the near future. So yes, it looks as though the paper slightly misinterpreted what Hayley had told them but it isn't entirely wrong.

Roger

Hi Roger,
Hayley has still got the Radio interview to do HERE
It would be just like her to do it in person rather than the phone !

Graham

[Colin]

Hi Roger

Thanks for finding out about that.

I've not been able to scan a readable copy of this article at forum sizes, so for those interested I've got a 1MB download version of it here:

public.me.com/crhumphrey/Hayley

It's the file called Hayley_20090302.jpg and can be downloaded the same way as the music files.

Kind regards

Colin

[Dave]

Hi Colin,

Thanks very much for scanning the Echo interview for us, as you have already mentioned it has some very interesting comments in there!

I've resized and compressed it to fit the forum guidelines (800 pixels wide, 100 KB) and I think it looks OK, so I hope you don't mind if I post it here for posterity? Anyway, if that's OK, here it is

Daily Echo Interview with Hayley Westenra - scanned by Colin

Cheers, Dave

[gra7890]

Thanks Colin and Dave,
An interesting read

Best Wishes,

Graham