00:00Hello everybody, I hope you had a great Christmas. We have, we've had a great time.
00:072025 for me started off really well and we had the Tony Martin release of Eternal Idol come out
00:17and shortly after that I was asked by Robbie Williams' drummer Cole Bazille if I'd play on a track with
00:24Robbie
00:24which of course I said yes that would be great and as far as I was concerned it was going
00:30to be an album track
00:31but then Robbie released it as a singer which is even better and we did a video for it and
00:39the track was called Rocket
00:41and I really enjoyed it, it was really different for me to do that.
00:45We also had the launch of my new website which I was very pleased with.
00:49We did the Sabbath got together, the original Sabbath and we did, we were presented with the Freedom of the
00:57City from Birmingham
00:58which was absolutely amazing, I mean I never thought we'd ever get that, which is a great honour.
01:04And also around Birmingham they'd done Summer of Sabbath which meant that they had a lot of paintings around of
01:10Sabbath on the walls
01:12and it was really good and all Birmingham became sort of a Sabbath city.
01:17It was really great seeing Aussie Bill and Giza for Freedom of the City
01:21and at that point of course we were into rehearsals for the Back to the Beginning show at the Villa
01:26Grounds in Birmingham
01:28and the amount of bands that turned up to support Sabbath on that was just fantastic.
01:37What a great event and of course it raised a lot of money for charity.
01:42It's just unfortunate and sad that Aussie passed away a couple of weeks after that which, you know, may rest
01:50in peace.
01:54And on a brighter note, I had the release of the Laney TI-100 limited edition amplifier
02:03and I also used those on the Back to the Beginning tour which are really great amps, I really like
02:10them
02:11and Laney have done a great job on that. And also in August I had the release of the Gibson
02:17Tony Iami pickup.
02:20Then in September we had the second run of the Black Sabbath The Ballet which went amazingly well.
02:29It completely sold out in England and Carlos Acosta and all the team done just a fantastic job.
02:36And I did play on the London shows, a couple of the shows with them in Birmingham.
02:45So it went really good. They are so amazing those dancers and choreographers and all that.
02:53And I take my hat off to them. Really good.
02:58Then in November, December, we had a guitar raffle for Heartlands Hospital for their cancer unit.
03:06The new cancer unit which they have done.
03:09So we tried to raise money to buy beds and all the equipment that they need.
03:14And I'm glad to say we raised £53,000 which is amazing thanks to you guys.
03:21Also, there's a Gibson documentary coming out very, very soon.
03:26And then of course in 2026, I shall have definitely, definitely my solo album out.
03:34And I'm really looking forward to that. I'm enjoying doing it.
03:37And it's been great fun and I really hope you enjoy it.
03:41But I'll keep you more up to date as we go on.
03:45And what's happening with that and when it's going to be released.
03:49In the meantime, very Happy New Year and take care.
03:55All the best.
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