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Chesney Hawkes
The intervening years saw Chesney go back to his roots, namely song writing, and to date not a week goes by without a new song, or at least part of a song, seeing the light of day. In 2001 Chesney embarked on a ‘mini’ tour with his four piece band. Initially intended to take in five dates, it continued to be extended due to the overwhelming response being generated by the performances. The tour of universities, colleges and clubs continues unabated . Add to this Chesney’s performances at a number of high profile open air summer ILR roadshows together with working abroad and the combined ‘live’ audience to which he has performed during the period is now approaching 1 million. Chesney has combined touring with appearing on Channel 4’s ‘Top Ten Teen Idols’, CD:UK, London Tonight, VH1, Popworld, Question of Pop, Banzai, Loose Women, Matthew Wright Show, This Morning, BBC’s The Cinema Show, Big Brother’s Big Mouth and Jonathan Ross on Radio 2. He has presented two shows for VH1/MTV and has taken part in a celebrity edition of The Weakest Link. Chesney has also taken part in Channel 4’s ‘The Games’ emerging a medal winner and has appeared on the Granada/LWT show ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time.’ He has also appeared on a Champion of Champions edition of ‘The Games’. The Album. Entitled ‘Another Fine Mess’ this is Chesney’s first album for many years and is released on the Sargent Poppy label, his own imprint. The culmination of three years’ work it is a collection of 16 songs, all co-written by Chesney Brimming with talented collaborators, producers on the album include Charlton Pettus, acclaimed for his work with Tears for Fears, Nik Kershaw who also co wrote the title song and some other song that Chesney had a bit of a hit with some years ago!! and Chris Nicolaides, fresh from his work on Mika’s Platinum selling album, Life in Cartoon Motion. For more information contact: Brian Wade on artistrec@aol.com or (44) 7944 640426 | ||||||||