HALL RECEIVES RECESSION AWARD 2010 [02-02-2010 16:21:32 CET]

On the 1st of February Martin Hall received the Recession festival award “best Danish concert” for his 2009 performance at the Sankt Paul’s Kirken in Århus, Denmark. You can read more about the appointment at the festival’s site: Recession awards 2010. The concert will hopefully be available as a DVD-release in the autumn (2010). Until then you can check out a trailer here.

FANTASTIC REVIEWS OF HALL'S CONCERT IN GERMANY [27-10-2009 21:00:09 CET]

Although our English readers probably won’t understand a word of the following Danish reviews, we bring a few links to some extraordinary articles that followed Martin Hall’s premiere-concert in Flensborg, Germany, this Saturday. The tour will bring Hall and his band to both Århus on Friday the 30th of October and in Copenhagen on Sunday the 8th of November. You can find further details down this page. The summary of one of the German reviews went like this: “A touching and impressive evening! Totally overwhelming.” Medienkonverter-review: “Für mich das bewegendste und emotionalste Konzert seit langer Zeit. Ganz, ganz groß!.” If you want to test your Danish, please visit the following sites: Geiger-review: “Phenomenal: Martin Hall and his group weren’t just good; there were moments that can only be desribed as sublime.” Transmission-review: “I’m about to give the event the “concert of the year”-sticker."

UPCOMING MARTIN HALL CONCERTS: NOT TO BE MISSED ... [16-10-2009 21:31:56 CET]

As you can read more explicitly about further down this page, Martin Hall performs three major concerts as a singer during this autumn, The concerts will be his first in three years and will feature current material as well as songs all the way back from the early days of his career. Hall's live ensemble features Johnny Stage (guitar), Mikkel Meyer (electronics), Henriette Groth (piano, würlitzer), Ida Bach Jensen (double-bass), Karoliina Koivisto (violin), Carla Kuotila (cello) as well as Sisse Selina Larsen (drums, percussion). Time and place of the concerts as follows: Saturday the 24th of October: Hotel des Nordens (Flensborg). Friday the 30th of October: Sankt Pauls Kirken (Århus). Sunday the 8th of November: DR-byen (Copenhagen). You can buy tickets here: Flensborg – Århus – Copenhagen.

RECENT NEWS FLASHES ON THE HALL WEBSITE (FREE MP3) [16-10-2009 21:28:16 CET]

In the following list you can read about some of the events leading up to the first Martin Hall concerts for three years. Hall is currently enjoying a minor club hit in London, ‘Rewriting The Scene’, a remix of the 'Mirrorball' single being released by English label Beat Monkey on October 26. A new video for the track has also been released on YouTube (after only a few days of availability the video has already seen by thousands of users wordwide). 1. Download ‘Rewriting The Scene’ as free mp3 : Up until Hall’s concert at The National Danish Radio on November 8 you can download a free version of the new London remix. 2. New video available on YouTube: Watch the ‘Rewriting The Scene’ video here. 3. The 'Mirrorball’ single: If you want to listen to the original ‘Mirrorball’ single you can do so here. 4. 'Relief/Cutting Through' re-released on one cd: After years of unavailability Hall’s two mid-80’s albums are finally available on a remastered special edition cd.

DOWNLOAD NEW HALL-SINGLE FOR FREE [12-10-2009 12:50:06 CET]

As a prelude to Martin Hall’s three already nearly sold-out concerts in Germany, Århus and Copenhagen (his first concerts in three years), MH has achieved getting a club-hit in London with the new Giorgio Moroder-inspired H&H SoulSurvivors-mix ”Rewriting The Scene”. ”Rewriting The Scene” is track 1 on a forthcoming download-single released by the English label Beat Monkey Records on October 26. The single will also feature LPG’s electro-version of the same song as well as two other remixes. As a special bonus to all users of www.martinhall.com we’re giving away the edited version of ”Rewriting The Scene” away for free, without any email-demands or other restrictions. This means that you can download the track as mp3 from Monday the 12th of October up until November 8, where Hall plays his final concert this time around at the new concert house in The National Danish Radio . DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE VERSION OF 'REWRITING THE SCENE' HERE (use your right button to “Download linked file”).

HEAR THE NEW HALL-SINGLE ON MYSPACE OR FACEBOOK [08-09-2009 10:36:08 CET]

Finally you can hear the new Martin Hall single Mirrorball (as well as two fantastic other versions of the A-track) on MH’s MySpace and Facebook profiles. Click here: Martin Hall MySpace or Martin Hall Facebook. The preparations for Hall’s first concerts as a singer in three years are also on the go (please see other news). According to the rumour several surprises can be expected as far as the live-set is concerned.

HALL COLLABORATES WITH DANISH PERFORMANCE ACT ‘TONE’ [07-09-2009 10:49:22 CET]

Before the three Hall live-concerts with full backing band during October and November, MH collaborates with Danish electronica and video artist Tone in relation to the opening of two multimedia festivals, Robodays at Kulturmaskinen in Odense and Apart at Platfoirm4 in Ålborg: 1. Friday the 11th of September: Robodays (Odense). 2. Thursday the 17th of September: Apart (Ålborg). Please note that these concerts will be instrumental performances, audio-montages blended with video and spoken word-recitations. Tickets for the Robodays-performance is available at www.danbillet.dk or at telephone +45 6614 0110. Tickets for the Apart-performance is available at Billetlugen or at Platform4.

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