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Robert Plant & The Band of Joy - EPK Promo video 2010

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‘Angel Dance’, the first single from Robert Plant’s brand new studio album Band Of Joy, will be given its first airing on the Planet Rock UK station tonight.  The song is the album opener from the new record and will be given it’s first spin on the station in Nicky’s show after 6pm.

Band Of Joy is released on 13 September and is the follow up to 2007’s Alison Krauss collaboration album, Raising Sand.

OCTOBER:
THU 14 - SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM - ANNEXT
SAT 16 - NORWAY,  OSLO - SENTRUM SCENE
SUN 17 - DENMARK,  COPENHAGEN - FALKONER
TUE 19 - GERMANY, BERLIN - TEMPODROM
THU 21 - FRANCE, PARIS - PALAIS DE SPORTS
SUN 24 - BELGIUM, BRUSSELS - CIRQUE ROYAL

NOVEMBER:
MON 1  -  IRELAND, DUBLIN - OLYMPIA

VIDEO:  July 12, 2010: Afternoon press conference and interview at Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre honoring Robert Plant, who was given a spot on the Orpheum theater’s Sidewalk of Stars.

Robert Plant will be playing the following UK dates:

• HMV Forum, London - Thursday 2nd September 2010
• St David’s Hall, Cardiff - Tuesday 26th October 2010
• Symphony Hall, Birmingham - Wednesday 27th October 2010
• Palace Theatre, Manchester - Sunday 31st October 2010 (more…)

All-star group mixes hard-driving rock, spirituals, roots on covers disc

Last night, Robert Plant dropped in at a dimly lit bar in the East Village near the end of a listening session for his newest album, Band of Joy, and for a few brief moments, admitted he didn’t know what to talk about. “Should I tell you about the Butter Queen and the Plaster Casters in Chicago?” he said, referencing some of the most famous groupies in rock history. “That’s not quite as relevant now as back then — and penicillin is easily available now.”

Holding a microphone in front of a small crowd at New York’s Back Room, the Led Zeppelin frontman quickly changed the subject to the new disc, due September 14th on Rounder Records. Band of Joy follows the intimate, moody vibe of his Grammy-winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, but the songs are more powerful, like the blazing spiritual classic “Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down” and a hard-driving take on “Harm’s Swift Way,” a rare Townes Van Zandt track. (more…)

Pre-order the new Robert Plant album “Band Of Joy” before 8am on Monday 5th July to be given access to an exclusive pre-sale on tickets for an upcoming UK date.

Good Luck!

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(Press Release) Robert Plant is back with his first album since 2007’s six time Grammy Award winning “Raising Sand”.

Picking up where the critically acclaimed roots rock of “Raising Sand” – which sold 700,000 in the UK and 3 million worldwide, scooping the Grammy for Album of the Year – left off, “Band Of Joy” was recorded in Nashville with a stellar cast of musicians.

A timeless plunge into authentic Americana, the album was co-produced by Plant and Nashville legend and guitarist Buddy Miller. “Buddy’s integral to this album, you can hear his taste all over the instrumentation,” enthuses Plant. “Buddy’s zone is beautiful, with a lot of reflections going back into mid-Fifties rockabilly, the singing fishermen and all the great country stuff, along with the soul and R&B from Memphis.” (more…)

Veteran rocker Robert Plant unveiled his new album project “Band of Joy” in London earlier today (June 1).

Speaking at a reception in events venue Il Bottaccio, Belgravia, which had been specially decorated as a rundown farm for the occasion, Plant introduced himself by saying: “I was in a psychedelic band and there’s never been a more surreal point than this one.”

Prior to the singer’s brief appearance, for which he claimed to have coincidently been passing, guests were treated to the first playback of Plant’s new record — the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2007’s “Raising Sand,” the artist’s multiple Grammy-winning album with Alison Krauss. (more…)