NEWS 2009
/Thank you for 2009
Karakter Worldwide wants to say thanks to their artists and their business partners for an exciting, intense and great year 2009. We are looking forward to a great year in 2010 and great steps together with our artists.
The Life Between - Welcome to Radio
We are very pleased, that our Band The Life Between had lots of airplay on different german radio stations over the
last couple of months (Radio Hamburg, Radio Fritz, SWR3 etc....). Thanks also to over 30.000 people, which took part
on the competition "Take A Photograph".
Wallis Tour GSA
thank you all for a very successful Wallis Bird Tour through Germany and Austria. 6 Shows, nearly 2400 people, sold out 3 times, great vybes, great audiance, can you ask for more?
NEW BOOTS OUT IN THE UK
We are very proud to announce that the new Wallis Bird album "new boots" is NOW available in the UK!
TO MY BONES VIDEO
We're all very proud and happy about the brand new Wallis Bird video "To My Bones"
Check out the song, taken from the album "new boots" already released in Ireland, to be released in the UK in Germany soon, on YouTube.
Wallis hits irish charts at 14!
We're very proud to announce that Wallis Bird's new album, first released now in Ireland hit the irish charts at No. 14 on it's first release week!!!! That makes the album the highest new entry this week! Thanks to everybody in the whole team and to ireland in general :-)
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA SUPPORT
We're very happy to announce that Wallis will support fab Rodrigo Y Gabriela all over UKs nicest venues. Don't miss the concert in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol in November.
GET WELL SOON FESTIVAL SEASON
Get Well Soon was looking at a very good Festival Summer this year. Altough the weather was not that nice for some of the feativals, the people, organisation, the slots, the feedback and reviews really were. A big hug and thank you to everybody, who was involved at the Southside, Hurricane, Tolwood, Billa, St. Gallen, Festival En Stock, R(h)einkultur, Roskilde, Les Ardentes. We're looking forward to the Highfield and the club shows in Wiesbaden and get well soon's first concert on a boat in Regensburg!
WIN ON TAKEAPHOTOGRAPH.DE
We've put together a competition around the single release of The Life Between's "Take A Photograph"
click on www.takeaphotograph.de and win iPods and Lomography cameras and other prices by uploading and voting your picture of the summer! Enjoy! We would like to thank our partners in this: Kober GMBH, Lomography, pixum.de and Yahoo Music!
GET WELL SOON ALBUM NO.2
The second album of Konstantin Groppers Get Well Soon will be released in january 2010. The recordings are in progress at the moment and the litte information we can give you at the moment is : It will be epic and amazing.
COLUMBIA - A NEW LABEL PARTNER FOR WALLIS BIRD
We are happy to announce, that Wallis Bird has signed a record deal with COLUMBIA Records, based in Berlin, for Continental Europe. This is an addition to our already existing great relationship with the label RUBY WORKS for the UK and Ireland.
We are very excited to be working with such a well respected and successful label with a long history of working with influential artists. We are looking forward to a long and successful relationship with the whole Columbia team.
The Life Betweens - Take a Photograph
The Life Betweens first single "Take A Photograph" will be released on 11th of September. Everybody is very excited.
Wallis Bird - NEW BOOTS FOR IRELAND
OUT NOW IN IRELAND
the new Wallis Bird Album "new boots" get your beautiful 6 panel digipack at your CD dealer or buy it online.
Wallis on RTE
Wallis performes at Saturday Night with Miriam. Wallis just finished her performance at one of Irelands biggest TV show: Saturday Night with Miriam on RTE.
"Take A Photograph"
After spending some time in the studio to work on recordings TLB will release their debut single "Take A Photograph" at the 11th September in Germany. The campaign will kick in and be worked in August and September. We have some great features planned.
NEW PUBLISHING PARTNER FOR MICHAEL ZLANABITNIC
We are very happy to announce, that NAPA SONGS (Golden Gate) will be the new publishing partner for Michael Zlanabitnig. Michael is very happy to join a team which believes in his abilities. Carol von Rautenkranz and Oli Kolb have a long history in the
international Indie- and Mainstream Music Scene.
WALLIS HITS THE SUMMER FESTIVALS
Wallis will play a number of the biggest european festivals over the summer time, which we are very happy about. Oxegen (Ireland) - T in the Park (Scotland) - V Festivals (UK) -Frequency (Austria).
GET WELL SOON ALL OVER EUROPEAN FESTIVALS
Get Well Soon played their first festivals at the end of may including Luxemburg, the Art Rock Festival, the Europavox Festival in Clermont Ferrand (with Bloc Party) and headlinig the Glitterhouse's lovely Orange Blossom Special 13 in Beverungen. Thank you all for the support. Get Well Soon are looking now forward to a great summer all over Europe with nameable Festivals like Hurricane, Southside, Tolwood (all GER), Spilla (IT), Roskilde (DK), R(h)einkultur & Highfield (GER), Les Ardentes (BL), Musiques En Stock (FR) etc.
