PRETTY MAIDS To Enter Studio In The Fall

Veteran Danish hard rockers PRETTY MAIDS have posted the following message on their official web site:

"As we promised recently, here is a little update on what the band is up to these days.

"First of all we would like to state that, we the band do fully understand that our fans and visitors of our homepage complain about the lack of communication and information of what's going on.

"For that there is no excuse and then again it's no secret that since our management went bankrupt back in Aug. 2002 a lot of things concerning this band has been a little unstructured since we still haven't found the right management for the band. That means that we are sort of managing ourselves so to speak for the time being and are unfortunately forced to deal with a lot of legal stuff, copyrights, etc. that we by all means rather would have been without.

"It's needless to say that naturally it would have been quite a lot easier if we just had to concentrate on writing new material as well as playing a few gigs now and then.

"But when it all comes down, we are still working on material for the next studio album and what we've written so far is very promising but the material has also been floating in various directions.

"However we are very determined to come up with a good melodic hard rock/heavy metal album that stands up to our own and our fans' expectations and also lives up to our normal standards, if not better. In other words we're aiming for a killer!!!

"Since there's still a few things around the general organisation of the band that has to be sorted out at first, we don't find ourselves in no particular hurry to release a new album but we'll keep up the work for it.

"That means that the promise we made earlier this year about a new album followed by a tour in the fall is no longer possible. The new album and a full-scale tour is now postponed until the spring 2005, with recordings taking place during the fall and early winter this year. This has partly to do with the above mentioned but also by request from our record companies.

"Anyway we, the band, are more than anxious to get this album done and get out on the road and face all our fans as soon as possible, cause that is what this band is all about.

"Regarding the festival that we we're announced to play in the Borek football stadium in Trinec, Czech Republic on the 25th of June, PRETTY MAIDS are NOT playing on the festival.

"For reasons unknown to the band, the promoter pulled out just recently with some poor excuses even though the gig was confirmed a long time ago.

"Besides that we just played two gigs in Denmark some week ago and it was great to be out there kicking a little ass again as well as seeing a lot of familiar faces and fans.

"At the gig we also checked out a new keyboard player (Jacob Troutner). Jacob stood in when we suddenly a few weeks before the gigs found out that our normal keyboardist (Jan Møller) couldn't do the job."