November 28, 2004
Just to clarify, Venice's new CD, "Pacific Standard Time" is not yet available in America, and Venice Store does not currently have any copies on sale.  We hope to start selling it in early 2005, so watch this page, and Venice Store itself, for that announcement!


November 27, 2004
I've got bad news to report.  As you might have noticed on www.brabanthallen.nl, tomorrow night's show at Brabanthallen in Hertogenbosch has been cancelled.  I'm sorry this confirmation comes at such a late hour, but we waited to hear from the venue, because even though they'd informed us earlier this week that they'd cancelled this show, Venice has been trying to make things work so as not to cancel another show on the tour.  Finally the venue decided to stick with their original cancellation request.  Please call the venue if you have any questions, because we're still a bit in the dark about why they did this.

But here's some good news:  Venice's new CD, "Pacific Standard Time," has entered the midweek of Holland's Mega Album Charts' Top 100 at # 34!

Finally, I've added a couple of recent radio broadcasts, one of which contains full acoustic versions of three of the new songs.  If you haven't gotten the CD yet, you should definitely check this out!  And if you do have the CD, check it out anyway, because the performances and the sound quality are great!  Those are here.  Thanks to John Bruil and Mattijs Loor for helping me out with these.


November 24, 2004
Great news!  Venice's new CD, "Pacific Standard Time," is the Album of the Week at Radio 1 in the Netherlands!  Congrats, guys!!!


November 23, 2004
Here's Venice's new bio.  If the PDF file won't open for you, you'll need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader.  You can download it for free over here.

Lyrics to all the new songs are posted here.

Now that "Pacific Standard Time" has been officially released in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, please share your opinions about it over here on the Venice Talk forum.  And if you catch any of the shows on Venice's current tour, please tell us all about it over here.  Don't be shy, we're all friends here.


November 12, 2004
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present for your listening pleasure, audio clips.

Coming soon, lyrics and the new bio!


November 11, 2004
Michael Lennon just posted a very nice note on Venice Talk, that I thought I would reprint here for all to read:

Hello everybody,

Finally we are here in Holland!  So excited to blow your minds with NEW MUSIC.

First of all I want to thank Rene (Steenbergen) and the rest of the Venice radio friends who are playing the single.  Wow!  It's getting better everyday.

It's a bit cold here, but I like it.  It's such a nice change from that boring sunny, clear sky Venice beach that I'm so sick of.......  :)

I want to thank all of you for being so patient and understanding with the different ups and downs regarding the release date and also the shifting concert dates.  Please know that some things are out of our control.

I would also like to thank Peter Valenzuela for getting us out of LAX so smoothly.  Unfortunately, we could not work it out to bring Peter this time, although I tried.  I promise he will return soon.  He is a hard working, good man, that has always been there for the band and myself personally.  He even looks after my wife and kids when I'm out of town.  Love you Pete.

So here I sit, in my room, overlooking the canal in beautiful Amsterdam, practicing my guitar and vocal parts on the new songs which I'm so excited about.  Although I'm not really tired, I should go to bed soon in order to slide into the Dutch time zone.

I would also like to hugely thank Matt Levitz who has recently helped us put together what I feel is our best biography yet.  He puts so much of his spare time into helping us take those next steps that are so important to building our career.  Thank you Matt.  We owe you for the past the present and the future.

Anyway, Mikey has to say goodnight, but I hope to check in periodically to listen to all you good people around the world.  What a lucky man I am.

Oh yeah, lastly, I have to say thank you to my wife and kids, who put up with my never ending days, weeks and months of recording and mixing this record right into leaving them alone for 6 weeks.  They are the reason I pick up my guitar, they are the reason I love to sing and they are what I write most of my songs about.  I love them sooooooooooooooo much.

Love to you all and let's have a blast these next two months,

Michael

Want to reply to Michael personally?  You can do that here.

In other news, all you Dutch fans should keep an eye out for the following promotional appearances:

November 13 - Tros Muziekcafé.  Interview + 3 tot 4 nummers live (radio)
November 22 - Vara Televisie Pa Paul live-optreden:  Everybody’s Opium + Interview
November 26 - TV Gelderland


November 7, 2004
Bad news from management:

Dear friends and fans of Venice,

Unfortunately, I have to announce to you that there has been a delay in the factory that is printing the new album, "Pacific Standard Time."  This, to our regret, means that the official release date for the Benelux will be moved ahead one week.

The release date will be November 22nd, 2004.

Starting next week, more short audio samples will be available through www.venicecentral.com.

The tracklisting will be:

01. I'll Keep My Fingers Crossed
02. Cotton Candy
03. Alive Again
04. Everybody's Opium
05. Back to the Well
06. You and Me Doing Nothing
07. When Your Ship Comes In
08. Right Where We Left Off
09. Two Places at One Time
10. Blue Ocean Park Waltz
11. Don't Worry Worry
12. All or Nothing at All
13. Fifteen Presents
14. Pebble in a Pond
15. Happiness is the Best Revenge

Marcel Albers
Manager, Venice


November 2, 2004
To celebrate the fact that Venice's new CD, "Pacific Standard Time," will be released in the Benelux two weeks from today, I thought you might like another little taste of the album.  So I've put a teaser together.  Check this out!  (Left-click to listen, right-click to download.)