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To celebrate 40 years of activity as a successful singer, songwriter, arranger, conductor and producer, Mike Batt is releasing a comprehensive collection of his work as an artist, in the form of "The Mike Batt Music Cube". The cube contains a total of 16 discs, presented as eight double albums, and is intended as a collector's edition with contents ranging from the recently successful chart album "A Songwriter's Tale" right back through the six solo albums he made for Sony between the 70s and 90s. With the exception of a few, these double albums, at present, are exclusive to The Mike Batt Music Cube.

Mike Batt - "After 40 years in the industry, this could either be seen as a service to fans or the biggest ego trip on Earth. In fact it is a combination of the two. There is some vanity in the release of any record by any artist at any level, but as we all grow a little older, it is sometimes nice to collect our work into an accessible archive, and this really is the purpose of the exercise. It's been a lot of fun putting it together. I have added new sleeve notes to accompany each album and I've been totally honest about how artistically successful or otherwise I consider each album or track to have been. I have even included "Summertime City" which at the time of making I found completely cringe worthy, but which I now look back upon as a kitch signpost along the road of my career."

A highlight of the collection is a new compilation, "The Orinoco Kid", containing Batt's own selection of early singles and Wombles curios. Other rare items featured in “The Cube” are "Rapid Eye Movements", originally a double album made by Batt for Chrysalis in the early 80s under the pseudonym “Autopilot”. This adventurous electronic project disappeared off the radar fairly soon after its release but has been much requested by fans ever since.

Release date - December 7th 2009. Click here for full details and read Music Week's announcement of the release here.

Pre-order now for the special price of £56.79 at

Australian songstress Sarah Blasko's critical and commercial hit album "As Day Follows Night" is slated for a pan-European release in partnership with Dramatico next March. Read more here.

Sarah Blasko just won Best Female Artist at The ARIA Awards for her album 'As Day Follows Night'. The album has also won Australian album of the year at Triple J's J Awards - read more here.

For more information on Sarah Blasko visit her website.

Click here to visit the official merchandise outlet for Dramatico Entertainment artists.

Dramatico Entertainment is a management company and record label dedicated to the projects created and/or managed by songwriter, conductor and general all-round impressario sort of bloke, Mike Batt.

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Katie Melua announces today an extensive European tour to follow the release of her fourth studio album, which will be released in May 2010. The tour, which will start in France on October 16th, will include 13 shows in Britain in December and conclude in Bristol on December 21st.

OCTOBER 2010
16th Bordeaux La Patinoire
18th Marseille Le Dome
19th Lyon Amphitheatre
21st Lille Zenith
22nd Rouen Zenith
24th Paris Olympia
28th Braunschweig VW Halle
29th Munchen Philharmonie

NOVEMBER 2010
1st Hamburg Color Line Arena
2nd Koln Lanxess Arena
3rd Nurnberg Arena
5th Dresden Messe
6th Berlin O2 Arena
7th Mannheim SAP Arena
9th Strasbourg Zenith
10th Geneva Arena
11th Zurich Hallenstadion

DECEMBER 2010
1st Amsterdam HMH
2nd Brussels Forest National
4th Manchester Apollo
5th Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
6th Gateshead Sage
8th Leicester De Montfort Hall
9th Ipswich Regent
10th Sheffield City Hall
12th Cardiff Arena
13th Birmingham NIA
14th Liverpool Philharmonic
16th Brighton Dome
17th London Hammersmith Apollo
20th Bournemouth BIC
21st Bristol Colston Hall

Having spent 2009 writing songs for the album, including teaming up with songwriting partners Guy Chambers and Rick Nowels amongst others, Katie is currently in the studio finishing the as-yet-untitled record with producer William Orbit. Orbit has been running a commentary of the studio sessions on Twitter and Facebook including “this is shaping up to be one of the finest things I’ve ever been involved with. I am hearing what can only be described as magic”

UK box office details:

Tickets on sale from January 22nd 2010

All tickets for UK venues available from 0844 5765483 (24 hours) and www.livenation.co.uk

Ticket prices: £30 / £32.50. Plus £50 (gold circle)
Except London: £32.50 / £37.50. Plus £50 (gold circle)

Mike Batt has confirmed a UK concert performance on Monday 24th May at London's Cadogan Hall, performing songs from throughout his career.

Tickets go on general sale on Friday 29th January (box office 0844 576 5483) but are available from O2 Presale on Wednesday 27th January and Live Narion Presale on Thursday 28th January.

Gurrumul had the audience of French TV's Taratata in raptures this week with his show-stopping duet with Sting on the classic 'Every Breath You Take'. Immediately after the performance Gurrumul's album entered the French iTunes chart at number nine, a place above Sting's! Watch the amazing performance here:

Dramatico has secured the UK and European release of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's album 'Gurrumul', a top 3 platinum release in Audtralia. The deal, a partnership with Skinnyfish Music, is set to spread the success of the album to an international audience.

It is now official that Gurrumul is the NUMBER 1 best selling World Music album in the UK for 2009.
Source: Official UK Charts Company

"Yunupingu possesses one of the world's sweetest voices, a pure natural instrument...Gurrumul is a gentle masterpiece of remarkable beauty...Quite simply it's the most impressive Aussie indigenous album in quite a while." Seth Jordan, Songlines Magazine UK

Order now:

Check out Geoffrey's official website and MySpace.

Gurrumul plays two exclusive shows at the Cafe de la Danse in Paris on April 9th/10th 2010 - get your tickets here and witness the amazing spectacle of Gurrumul in the flesh.