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Hi brothers and sister

Nazareth are playing at Alhgambra Hall in Dunfermline april 29

It's time for The Gathering again, fans from all around the world, please come to Dunfermline.

We will have a lot of fun and a great show

We stay at City Hotel as always

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Our singer has to have an emergency operation for a hernia and will be unable to perform for at least 2 months. I have had to cancel all Nazareth shows for June and July so unfortunately we can’t play Odalfest. I hope we can arrange to play for you sometime in the future. Kind regards, Pete Agnew

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Where did it go? ………… 2021?

If someone had told us it was going to be worse for business than 2020, except for Amazon and Covid test operators (extortionists), would we have believed them?

Well, as it turned out, they would have been right, and we even set a new record for the least amount of concerts performed by Nazareth in the space of a calendar year since the band started over fifty years ago.

Only 6 …. yes SIX …. Not the kind of record we want to be breaking again any time soon, but my oh my, they were fun to play.

We made another kind of record too, but that was one to celebrate because it was the completion of our new record album!

Using too much ‘record’ here?

Well, just for the record, I’d like to announce that we finished the final mix of our 25th studio album on 12th November 2021 which was exactly 50 years to the day (12th November 1971) that our very first album was released.

Might even have set some kind of record there … d’you think?

I can’t give you any details about the album yet as it’s still ‘under wraps’ at our record company who will make the announcements regarding title, release date etc. in due course but I can tell you it contains 13 songs and was fun to make …. and it did help to pass some happy time in an otherwise mainly frustrating year.

I’m not going to give you any predictions or details of our plans for next year because you’ve all seen how far off the mark I’ve been with my last couple of Christmas letters.

For example, due to the latest plague scare, in the space of the last 3 days I’ve received notice of 28 cancelled shows between January and April next year so you can see why I’m kinda shy about making promises in these unpredictable times.

So … I can only say, I hope ( I think ‘I hope’ is probably the most uttered pronouncement of the 2020s) things improve enough that we can perform, meet and talk to as many of you as possible in this coming year and that all of you have a great Christmas with family and friends.

Wishing you a very happy restful Christmas and a very healthy and peaceful New Year.

Pete

THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES.

We’re very sorry having to announce the cancellation of all the Germany shows and the show in Netherlands 2021.

The situation is just another Covid casualty where the promoters of the shows have decided they can’t hope to put on a successful event while trying to work within the current restrictions and other uncertainties regarding audience capacity and possible vaccine passports etc.

The Denmark and Switzerland shows will still happen as they aren’t affected in the same way as Germany and Netherlands.

We will announce a new 2022 tour tomorrow but meanwhile can only apologise for the inconvenience and financial loss this will have caused for some of you.

We're hoping for a brighter 2022.

Pete

Check out the first single from Jimmy’s new solo album titled ‘A Pocketful Of Rye’.

Digital release 1st November 2021. CD/Vinyl release 1st December 2021.

See the video here

Pete says, we started recording the new album this week and will work on it through August and September.

Great to be back working with the guys again.

Pete, has stated that Nazareth will not tour until everyone in the band and crew has been vaccinated.

On another note .... Lee wrote a song called ‘Titanic’ which he’s recorded with his brothers, Stevie and Chris.

They’re filming a video of it today and should be available soon.

Great track

All fans must tune in to Stevie’s Sunday Sesh.

See details on Stevie Agnew Facebook.

It’s really cool and this week Stevie has his good mat, Dave Bernthal. guesting on guitar.

Well we’ve booked studio time for August/September to record the new album.

Obviously it won’t come out until early next year now.

We originally booked studio time for April/May but had to cancel because of the difficulties involved due to the plague!!