ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN (ex-The GATHERING, AGUA DE ANNIQUE) has issued the following update:

"Yes, my live album is finished and it will be released on October 15th! It is titled Live In Europe and the vast majority of the 12 songs were recorded during our spring 2010 tour in France and Spain.

The touring band consisted of: Ruud Jolie (guitar), Jacques de Haard (bass) and Rob Snijders (drums). Yours truly sang, shook her booty and played piano and guitar. My front-of-house engineer Erik-Jan Dodd recorded and mixed the album. I'm really excited that the energy of a live show is captured well on this release!

There will be three brand new up-tempo songs on it: 'Fury', 'Laugh It Out' and a song called 'Who I Am'. I wrote that one together with DEVIN TOWNSEND while we were working on his Addicted album.

I've also re-recorded an old favorite of mine: 'Shrink'. I wrote this song when I was 19 years old and I first recorded it for a demo I made in 1992. It ended up on the Gathering's album Nighttime Birds (1997) and now it's revived on Live In Europe. It's a song dear to my heart and I'm proud to share it with you in a new arrangement.

I had already chosen a picture for the album cover when Mehmet Turgut sent me a photo from a shoot I did with him in Turkey earlier this year. I fell in love with that shot instantly! Arda Aktas made a beautiful cover design.

Here's the tracklist for Live In Europe:

'Intro'

'The World'

'My Girl'

'Who I Am'

'Day After Yesterday'

'Hey Okay!'

'Fury'

'Beautiful One'

'Adore'

'I Want'

'Laugh It Out'

'Witnesses'

'Shrink'

I will be touring in celebration of this new release. First there's a Dutch club tour starting October 15th, the album release date. Please check my Events page for more details.

Stay tuned!"