October 2011 Strawberry Surprise

Kimberley Rew's latest solo album Strawberry Fair is now available on CDBaby and iTunes

October 2011 Abbey Road, Halifax

The Halifax Building Society Choir have covered Walking on Sunshine for their current TV campaign - Alex and Kim met the choir recording at London's legendary Abbey Road Studio Two.

February 2011 K+W EP

An online EP of Katrina and the Waves covers is available from Brooklyn Vegan including I really taught me to Watusi by the tUnE-yarDs, a 2010 top ten cover in Wears the Trousers magazine.

November 2010 Rew Stew

The Best of Kimberley Rew (songs from all the solo albums) available now on iTunes

July 2010 Double Solo Whammy

Katrina's first ever live album, plus Kimberley Rew's latest solo album The Safest Place are available.

June 2010 Walking on Sunshine is 25!

Walking on Sunshine 25th anniversary edition now available including a version by the Soweto Gospel Choir. Also the Best of Katrina and the Waves, a new compilation album

May 2010 Reissues now available

The first ever two Katrina and the Waves albums, Katrina and the Waves and Katrina and the Waves 2, together with the Waves' Shock Horror and Kimberley Rew's Bible of Bop, all with previously unreleased extra tracks, are now available around the world, digitally and on CD.

Walking on the BBC

Katrina can be heard on Weekend Wogan, BBC Radio 2 11am Sunday 21st March. The play Walking on Sunshine featuring the song as theme and all incidental music, from BBC Radio 4, Wednesday 17th March, can be heard on BBCi.

Walking on Glee

Walking on Sunshine returns to the UK top ten in its 25th anniversary year in the mashup version with Beyonce's Halo by the cast of the musical comedy drama tv series Glee.

Celine and the Waves

Following the success of her latest album Taking Chances which featured the Kimberley Rew penned That's just the woman in me (also the title of Celine's TV special Made in Las Vegas) Kimberley and fellow Wave Alex Cooper recently met up with the multi-award winning songstress in her native Canada.
“I remember the very first time I heard one of Kimberley’s great songs…..’That’s Just the Woman In Me’. For more than 10 years I couldn’t get the song out of my mind, and I finally had the chance to record it a few years ago. Now, that’s what I call a memorable songwriter!” – Celine Dion

Walking on Sunshine gallops past the post

Kimberley Rew receives an award from BMI's Brandon Bakshi to mark 2,000,000 US broadcast plays of the evergreen favourite.

Walking on Sunshine still rocking the airwaves!

According to a survey by the UK Performing Right Society, Walking on Sunshine was the second most played summer song on radio in 2008

1. I Can See Clearly Now (Warner/Chappell) JOHNNY NASH
2. Walking On Sunshine (Screen Gems – EMI) KATRINA AND THE WAVES
3. Summer Of ’69 (Universal) BRYAN ADAMS
4. Sunny Afternoon (Carlin) THE KINKS
5. The Boys Of Summer (Warner/Chappell) DON HENLEY
6. In The Summertime (Sony/ATV) MUNGO JERRY
7. Cruel Summer (Associated/Reverb/Sony) BANANARAMA
8. Summer Breeze (The International Music Network/Universal MCA) ISLEY BROTHERS
9. Here Comes The Sun (Harrisongs) THE BEATLES
10. Summer Holiday (Elstree Music) CLIFF RICHARD AND THE SHADOWS

Live in 85

Wolfgangs Vault (Wolfgang was the nickname of the late legendary music promoter Bill Graham) have made available on the internet a live recording of Katrina and the Waves in 1985 at the 9.30 Club in Washington DC, originally taped for the also-legendary long-running radio show the King Biscuit Flour Hour .