Europe: more tour dates announced
Swedish hard rockers Europe have scheduled the following dates:Mar. 28 - Sport Palace - Minsk, Belarus
Apr. 19 - Extremusika 2008 en Recinto Hipico de Caceres - Caceres, Spain
May 31 - Kopervik Festival - Karmoy, Norway
Jun. 06 - Rocksound Festival - Huttwil, Switzerland
Jun. 27 - Stadsfesten - Skellefte�, Sweden
Jul. 23 - Villa Pisani - Venice, Italy
Jul. 26 - Piazza del Popolo - Ascoli Piceno, Italy
Aug. 08 - Cloetta Center - Link�ping, Sweden (w/ Deep Purple)
Aug. 09 - Oja Slottsruin - Ystad, Sweden (w/ Deep Purple)
Europe played a semi-acoustic concert on January 26 at Nalen in Stockholm. The band performed songs from its latest CD, "Secret Society", along with some of its classic hits. The show was broadcast live over the Internet on the official Europe web site.
Watch footage from the concert on YouTube.
"Secret Society" was released in the U.S. on November 7, 2006 via Sanctuary Records. Although the band members chose to produce the album themselves, they relied on the support of highly experienced studio professionals. Lennart �stlund, longtime engineer at the legendary Polar Studios in Stockholm, recorded the sessions in his new Stockholm studio, Kingside. Lennart has worked with countless international artists over the years, including Led Zeppelin, Scorpions, just to name a few. Mixing duties were handled by Stefan Glaumann while the mastering was taken care of by George Marino at Sterling Sound in New York. The band didn't want to leave anything to chance, so they enlisted the legendary Storm Thorgerson to design the album's artwork.
Europe singer Joey Tempest (real name: Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson) and his wife Lisa welcomed their first child, a boy named James Joakim, on October 12, 2007 at a hospital in London, England.