2005

- March 22, 2005 - "Akasha" (a previously unreleased Wang Chung track) appeared on a Tsunami relief charity 2CD set featuring donated tracks from many artists around the world: Of Hands And Hearts: Music For The Tsunami Disaster Fund.

- June 16, 2005 - Wang Chung appeared on week #3 of Hit Me Baby One More Time, an American show on NBC Television.

- October 6, 2005 - An interview with Jack Hues is published online at Music Pleasuredome.

2006

Dateline 2006: Following up their March 2005 release of the previously unreleased track Akasha, it appears that Wang Chung has completed a brand new album of new material! Of particular note, 'Abducted by the 80s' and 'Like A Movie' will appear on the new record. Here's what Jack had to say during a recent interview posted at Music Pleasuredome:

"I am busy working on two projects right now. During the 90's I did a lot of work as a producer and during that time I developed a real love for the music of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. I think the spontaneity of their recordings was a marvellous antidote to the long hours working with computers in the studio. In 2003 I started jamming with some jazz musicians in my home town of Canterbury and from that I started writing my own version of "Jazz"! In 2004 I persuaded Chris Hughes to record an album with me - Chris produced "Points on the Curve" and many great records by Tears for Fears, Adam & the Ants, Electric Soft Parade, Robert Plant, Paul McCartney. We made the recordings at his studio in Bath and did an extra track in January of this year (2005). The album (entitled "Illuminated") contains 6 all new compositions by me, it is now mixed and mastered and we are looking for distribution. The band is called "The Quartet" and it is an ongoing project... still writing new pieces, rehearsing. It's a project I love and feel very proud of."

"The other project is a new Wang Chung album. Nick & I decided to do a new record about 18 months ago and we've been working on and off since then. In June of this year (2005) we were invited to perform on NBC's "Hit Me Baby One More Time" in Los Angeles. The great response we got from doing that cemented our intention to get the album finished so I have spent the last couple of months working intensively and we are in a good place with it, plenty of songs and some great, characterful Wang Chung stuff. The style is very recognizably Wang Chung but it also sounds modern, contemporary. Fans will get into it but we hope to attract a new young audience as well. We are aiming for a release in Summer 2006."

2007

February 2007: While Wang Chung are on the verge of signing a new publishing deal, and in turn also working to finish the new record, Jack Hues releases the details of his upcoming jazz album:

The-Quartet is the remarkably free, natural and unbounded collaboration of four very different, but like-minded musicians. These contrasts and connections are explored in their new album 'Illuminated', a vivid and expansive expression of their many musical horizons. Citing an exhilarating mixture of influences including Thelonius Monk, Brad Mehldau, Radiohead, Charles Mingus, Pink Floyd and Miles Davies, The-Quartet's creative heart is Jack Hues and Sam Bailey. Despite radically different musical backgrounds, they have become an intuitive and prolific creative partnership. A gifted songwriter and composer, Jack has a string of top 20 hits, film soundtracks and production credits to his name, including Wang Chung and Definition of Sound. Sam is a classically trained pianist, a former pupil of the late Ronald Smith, who brings enormous talent as a composer and improviser to the process. Their skills and ideas are given greater breadth and depth by seasoned session player Rutledge Turnlund and drummer Michael Porter. They are joined on four of the six tracks by saxophonist Paul Booth, one of the brightest rising stars of the British Jazz scene, and by classical violinist Charlie Brown. With the input of producer Chris Hughes, best known for his work with Tears for Fears and Adam and The Ants, the band have inspired and developed some of Jack Hues' most innovative compositions. In 'Illuminated' The-Quartet has escaped from the narrowcast and formulaic, expanding their creative perspective into something distinctive, vibrant and particular. From the hauntingly beautiful 'Fallujah' to the irreverent energy of 'Brahms Blues', 'Illuminated' is a glorious and real journey of adventure and possibility. 'Illuminated' is the latest release from Helium Records.