Tina Arena - ' Songs Of Love and Loss ' - New Album and Tour !

Australian Pop Diva Tina Arena is Back in the Summer of 2007 with a brand new album - " Songs Of Love and Loss " and a brand new Australian Tour ! The new album - " Songs Of Love and Loss ", Tina briefly describes as a ' Covers ' album. Tina Arena's Official Web Site slates the following description of the new album " Tina’s new album ' Songs of Love and Loss ' is a select album of handpicked covers, all of which centre on the fragile human emotions of love and heartache ". The album was officially released a couple of days ago on 1st December. The album is available for purchase now at all good music / CD stores around Australia. I bought the album from my local JB Hi-Fi store on the first day of its release.

Although I'm not focusing too much on mainstream pop these days, Tina Arena is one of my old-time Australian favourites. I have been following Tina Arena's music since my days of youth, I can even remember the days when Tina Arena started out on that classic Australian weekly TV entertainment program ' Young Talent Time ' headed by old Johnny Young himself. I've got and followed most of Tina's albums since the early days of her Solo career. I may not have listened to Tina too often recently, but she's always had a place in the memories of my youth, and I've never forgotten her. I've seen her perform Live in Melbourne once too ! Today, It's really nice to see she's recorded a refreshing new album, and at the same time, retaining the unique essence of her voice that IS ' Tina Arena ' - the Tina we've all come to know and love over the years.; Her voice is sounding as good as ever !

Here is the Track-Listing for the new album ' Songs Of Love and Loss ' :

.1. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
.2. The Look Of Love
.3. So Far Away
.4. I Only Want To Be With You
.5. To Sir, With Love
.6. Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)
.7. Love Hangover
.8. The Windmills Of Your Mind
.9. The Man With The Child In His Eyes
10. Everybody Hurts
11. Until
12. Woman

No Singles from the album have been released as yet. I don't as yet have any information on whether Tina will release a song from the album as a single, though I presume there's a possibility it's likely to happen sometime in the near future. Though it's not really the singles title tracks I'm interested in, it's more whether she'll include any un-released non-LP bonus tracks on the singles that I'm interested in. I wait patiently, and in anticipation.

Having recently noticed that there are interested readers from locations outside of Australia, international fans outside of 'Australia' will have to wait until just after Christmas Day ( December 26th ) before the Album is available for purchase, at which time the album will be available for order/purchase on Amazon.com. International fans can pre-order the album from Amazon.com Click Here.

Ok, Now about the new Australian Tour :
According to Ticketmaster Australia, Tina is scheduled to Tour Melbourne in late December 2007, and Sydney in January 2008.

Scheduled Tour Details are as follows ( so far ) :

Tina Arena - The ' Songs of Love and Loss ' Australian Tour 2007 / 2008 :

Melbourne ( Victoria ) ( 2 Nights ) :

* Friday 28th December, 2007, 8:00 PM : Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne.; and
* Saturday 29th December, 2007, 8:00 PM : Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne.

Sydney ( New South Wales ) ( 3 Nights ) :

* Wednesday 2nd January, 2008, 8:00 PM : Sydney Opera House.
* Thursday 3rd January, 2008, 8:00 PM : Sydney Opera House.
* Saturday 5th January, 2008, 8:00 PM : Sydney Opera House.

Initially, there was only one night scheduled for Melbourne, the Friday night. If the second show ( Saturday night ) had not become available, I would not be able to go, as I am working on Friday night, as I usually do. The second Melbourne show ( Saturday night ) only became available sometime just earlier Today. Lucky I've been keeping track, waiting and checking to see if another show would become available. ( Usually, the first show must be really close to sell-out, or even totally sold-out, before a decision is made to make the second show available. ) Anyway, I booked myself in and bought myself a ticket from Ticketmaster-Australia just earlier this afternoon, to the second show scheduled for the Saturday night, 29th December. I was allocated a seat 3rd row from the front of the actual Stage ! 3rd Row !!!!!! How good is that ??! My ticket cost me AUD $ 120.00 plus approximately AUD $ 7.00 handling/delivery Fee for Ticketmaster-Australia to send my ticket out to me in the mail ( Totalling approximately AUD $ 127.00 ). Ticketmaster claims it will take approximately one week to deliver the ticket in the mail.; I was REALLY hoping that second show would be made public, and now that it is, I think I'm happy now. LOL :)

Related Articles :
* Tina Arena Live In Concert in Melbourne, Australia ( 2007 ). ( Concert Review )

Related Links :
* ' Songs Of Love and Loss ' Album Track-Listing
__Track-By-Track Description ( On Tina Arena's Official Web Site ).

* Listen to Sample Audio Clips On Tina Arena's Official Web Site.

* Purchase Concert Tickets at Ticketmaster Australia.

* Tina Arena's Official Web Site.