After extensive touring throughout the UK and Europe – from two appearances at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival to a former asylum in Dorset; and London’s South Bank Centre to Dublin, Cannes and Barcelona – TG Collective recorded the long-awaited follow up to Who Ate All The Tapas? in 2011, with their new album, Release The Penguins, due to be released in early 2012.

Over the past few years, the band have ventured far and wide, building a strong following in the UK. Towards the end of 2007, the group sold out Birmingham’s Glee Club for their first performance collaboration with Ana Garcia, and followed with a spring sell-out at the 2008 Cheltenham Jazz Festival. After performances in Cannes and Barcelona, TG Collective toured back home to a series of wonderful audience reactions, taking in venues from Devon to Yorkshire, including Belfast’s Open House Festival, the South Bank Centre, London, and festivals at Shambala, Tewkesbury and Wirksworth.

2009 featured performances at The Stables, Bristol St Georges, a return to the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and a second mini-tour of Ireland, alongside a number of smaller, intimate performances in rural villages around the UK.

Early 2010 found TG Collective popping up live on BBC1′s ‘Politics Show’, with the band finally heading into the studio in 2011 to record their first release since Trio Gitano’s Who Ate All The Tapas? in 2005, touring throughout the summer at major venues from The Stables, Milton Keynes, and The National Centre for Early Music, York, to another sell-out in a factory in Birmingham and the Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho.