Frontiers Records has announced the release of BRIAN HOWE’s forthcoming solo album entitled Circus Bar on February 26th in Europe and March 9th in the USA.

Long regarded as one of rock's legendary voices, Brian Howe started his career in 1983 as lead vocalist for TED NUGENT on the Penetrator album and fronting its band on the subsequent world tour. In 1984, drummer Simon Kirke and guitarist Mick Ralphs asked Brian to replace Paul Rodgers as the lead singer in BAD COMPANY. Brian decided to accept the offer and continue the legend of the band. This was not an easy task, but along with Kirke and Ralphs, Howe created, wrote, recorded and toured for the following 10 years, headlining every major venue around the globe.

Along with Bad Company's highly acclaimed 1993 live CD What You Hear Is What You Get - The Best of Bad Company - Live, Brian wrote and sold with Bad Company something like 19 million of records, highlighted by such radio and video hits as 'Holy Water', 'If You Needed Somebody', 'No Smoke Without A Fire', and 'How About That', - not to mention a few of the group's previous hits as recorded on the live CD.

Thirteen years after the release of his debut solo album Tangled In Blue (later renamed Touch in Europe), Howe is back and ready to unleash his awesome new solo album entitled Circus Bar. “When I decided I wanted to make a new CD” tells Brian, ”I wanted to try to make everything memorable and enjoyable. Therefore I set aside a week for writing with my new producer Brooks Paschal and I decided we would go down to my favourite place in the entire world: Lake Atitlan , Guatemala, an incredibly inspirational place for me to be. We realized after three days that we had written enough songs for the CD and that took any pressure I had been feeling away and it soon became obvious that the CD should be named after that wonderful little bar where we spent our evenings eating, drinking and listening to the local music. The bar was started by circus performers and still has posters and pictures of all the great circus acts from throughout the years”.

Some friends helped Howe in shaping up Circus Bar, an album, which promises to be a career landmark for this amazing singer: Wayne Nelson of LITTLE RIVER BAND dropped by the studio for a few days and also PAT TRAVERS popped in and played guitar on 'My Town'. “I didn't want to have too many "established" musicians on the record because I wanted to keep the feel somewhat fresh and spontaneous”, explains Howe.

The album includes also two stunning – newly recorded - remakes of the Bad Company hits 'How ‘Bout That' and 'Holy Water'.

Produced by Brooks Paschal and mixed by Rafe McKenna (GIANT, Bad Company, TESLA, TEN) Circus Bar tracklisting includes:

'I’m Back' here

'Life’s Mystery'

'There’s This Girl' here

'Could Have Been You'

'Surrounded'

'Flying'

'How It Could Have Been'

'My Town'

'How ‘Bout That'

'Feels Like I’m Coming Home'

'If You Want Trouble'

'Feelings' here

'Holy Water'

'Little George Street'

“I like to think that this CD is representative of an established artist with a modern outlook on what happening in today’s music scene” concludes Bryan. “It's been 13 years since my last record and on this CD I have given them everything I have: music that appeals to anyone that likes big melodies with an edge”.