Phil Harding- new book out

Renowned mixer Phil Harding, who mixed Time and Tide, London Warsaw New York, parts of Whose Side are You On and several remixes of that era during his tenure at PWL, has just penned a book. Called PWL from the Factory Floor, it's about his years at the UK pop powerhouse which was best known for the loads of hits from Kylie, Dead or Alive, and buckets more from the Stock Aiken Waterman stable. It's unknown if there's any Basia content (he's said that his work with her were among his favorites, even though she may have had other engineers pulling their hair out from time to time!), but it sounds like a win for any 80s junkie.

It's available at his site, and while nearly sold out there should be another print run early next year.

Dee Anthony, 1926-2009

Dee Anthony (second from left) was Basia's manager briefly in the 90s during The Sweetest Illusion era. He passed away this weekend of pneumonia at age 83. Mr. Anthony was best known for managing Peter Frampton at his peak.

Obituary from the New York Times.

(thanks to Piotr for the photo, from a 1994 presser in Warsaw)

Gig reports coming in; band lineups since forever

both these things now on BasiaWeb. I'll post in Comments when new ones come in, so keep watching. Link.
A few years ago I compiled the bands of each tour and album, but forgot about it until today, so that is up too with links to more info about each. If ever you wanted to know more about the band do so now!

Annick Clarisse talking about meeting Basia and gearing up for the tour

via smoe.org Basia list The Clarisse sisters have long been a fan favorite having backed Basia on the last two tours, and about to go out again for the next one. In this interview (in French) she talks about meeting Basia and gearing up to go back out. Link to an English translation by Babelfish, i.e., "Basia, high-speed motorboat of pop jazz of the Eighties." Hee!

For the audio geeks: "an arsenal of sonic weapons"

The sound engineer on the Matt Bianco tour talked to ProSound News about the mike setup for the shows. I'll just nod and smile along, being a mere layperson.