Clem, Matt, and Tommy visiting with U2 after their Melbourne show:

“Mother”, Blondie’s first studio track from their forthcoming album Panic of Girls is now available for free to all of the fans worldwide from our new Download page.  Simply enter a valid email address then check your inbox for the download link to this high-quality MP3.

Fans in the U.K. can also enjoy two more brand new tracks from Panic of Girls today.  The Mail on Sunday is including with the paper, a free CD of Blondie’s 1978 multiplatinum album Parallel Lines with the bonus tracks “What I Heard” and “Girlie Girlie” straight off their latest and soon-to-be-released album.  Sign up for your free account right here on blondie.net and join our community and share your thoughts and experiences with other fans all over the world who share your enthusiam and love for the rock icons of Blondie!

Don’t forget to check out the new stuff in the newly reopened U.K. Blondie Merchandise store.  More new designs are in the works and the U.S. store will reopen soon.

Blondie’s new U.K.-based merchandise store is once again open for business.  Stay tuned for more exciting news about the band’s major promotion in The Mail on Sunday, coming tomorrow!

We are excited to announce that the first new material from our upcoming release Panic of Girls will be available along with the entire Parallel Lines album in the Mail on Sunday next week on Sunday, December 5th! An extra bonus track will be available for a FREE download right here on Blondie.net. Pick up your copy and enjoy!!

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Blondie will be performing at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida on February 13, 2011.  The show is free with a park admission.
Note: Effective Jan. 7, 2011, this event has been cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

A new interview with Clem Burke and Hugh Cornwell is now available online at the Exclusive Magazine website.  They were interviewed in Detroit on November 3 by Russell A. Trunk.

The transcript of Tommy Kessler’s November 1 live online chat with fans is now available on  Raúl Sevillano’s Panic of Girls Facebook fan page here.

Preceding Blondie’s tour of Australia and New Zealand, Clem Burke will be out on the road in the U.S. and Canada with former Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell, today through November 5.  The show features two sets; the first is a collection of Stranglers hits and classic solo material, with the second featuring The Stranglers seminal debut album Rattus Norvegicus IV being performed in its entirety for the first time in North America.  The three-piece band on this tour features Hugh Cornwell on guitar/vocals, Fish on bass/vocals and Clem drumming at the following performances:

Oct 20 – El Cid – Los Angeles, CA (warmup date)
Oct 22 – Record Collector – Bordentown, NJ
Oct 23 – The Brighton Bar – Long Branch, NJ
Oct 24 – World Cafe Live Upstairs – Philadelphia, PA
Oct 26 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
Oct 27 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
Oct 28 – The Church – Boston, MA
Oct 29 – Lovin Cup – Rochester, NY
Oct 30 – Thunderbird Cafe – Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 31 – Beachland Tavern – Cleveland, OH
Nov 2  – The Abbey – Chicago, IL
Nov 3  – Corktown Tavern – Detroit, MI
Nov 4  – This Aint Hollywood – Hamilton, ON
Nov 5  – Zaphod Beeblebrox – Ottawa, ON

For more information, visit the official Hugh Cornwell website.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity see drummer Clem Burke performing between major Blondie tours with Hugh Cornwell, the original guitarist, singer, and main songwriter in the UK-based band The Stranglers.  For details and a complete list of the tour dates, visit the Official Hugh Cornwell site’s tour dates page.  Clem will be joining his tour only during the last two weeks of October and the first week of November, hitting major markets in the northeastern U.S. and selected other locations just before Blondie departs for their tour of Australia and New Zealand in November and December.

Matt will be doing a live online chat at the unofficial Panic of Girls facebook page today at 4pm (NYC / Eastern US time).  Join in to ask your own question live.  Click on the link and choose the Chat tab and press “start chatting now”.

[If you missed it, a transcript is available here.]