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Last Updated: 27th Jan

FreeState of the Web (27th Jan)

Britlinks has been busy putting up some new pages about the excitingnew FreeState festival. FreeState is a festival primarily aimed at 15-24year olds. It is the child of SpringHarvest and Greenbelt and will run from the 27th-30th August. The music lineup is as yet very sketchy, but for more information visit: http://www.britlinks.co.uk/freestate/
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Iona Down To Five (27th Jan)

Yeah, we're late again with Iona news, but it is now official that Mike Haughton has left Iona and will not be replaced. Mike wrote a letter to the fans which can be seen at the Iona website in which he expressed his enjoyment in working with the band but said that the sabbatical year had been a time for reflection for him and he felt the time had come to leave. The space left in the sound will make room for drmmer Frank Van Essen's violin. Iona have been laying down tracks for Joanne Hogg's solo album and for their next studio album, and plans are now well under way for the Festival Hall concert in May.
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Badger Managing Well (27th Jan)

Exciting times for Badger Management, the Northern Ireland basedmanagement company for HalcyonDays and Booley House.They're promoting a delirious? gigin March and then sending Booley House (April) and Halcyon Days (June)into the studio to work on new material. In the last few months BooleyHouse have played support for Duran Duran, Brian Kennedy, Steve Earle andAll Star United and they are hoping to make it to the USA later in theyear. Contact BadgerManagement if you can help them.
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IndigoEcho With Delirious? (27th Jan)

Scottish outfit IndigoEcho are hoping to get a support slot with delirious? when they play in Edinburgh next month. If you'd like to see them support delirious? they'd like you to let Furious? Records know about it. IndigoEcho also now have t-shirts available. See the band index for a link to their website.
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Vocalists Wanted For Freezing (27th Jan)

Ambitious new rock act Freeze are looking for a male vocalist who's based in the midlands and is looking to join an evangelistic band influenced by All Star United, delirious?, Bride, Guardian, Johnny Q Public and Fono. The band are becoming involved with the Meltdown label and would like anyone interested to contact them at the address in the band index.
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Iain Archer Website Reborn (27th Jan)

The unofficial Iain Archer website has been updated and installed at a new location. This site is the most complete Iain Archer resource on the web. The webmaster is promising details of a collaboration between Archer and another singer/songwriter in the very near future. For more information, see the band index.
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Juliet Turner Website on the Move (27th Jan)

The Juliet Turner website run by Ian James has had to move due to service provider hassles. The new page is linked to from the band index.
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Julie Lord and New Dawn (27th Jan)

New Dawn Music is pleased to announce it is now working with the talented North-East based singer/songwriter Julie Lord. Julie's music is in theblues/jazz/funk vein. Her solo debut album Lifetime will now be released on the New Dawn label later this year. Brian Taylor of New Dawn Music commented 'I am delighted that Julie has agreed to join the New Dawn stable. She is a very gifted performer and songwriter and her musical style is very different to anyone else we work with but her quality music maintains the high standard that people expect from us'. See the New Dawn website for more details.
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Delirious? for V2 (10th Feb)

Littlehampton based chunky-pop-rockers delirious? announced recently that they have signed a distribution deal with Richard Branson's V2 label for all non-UK territories. The band are extremely excited by the prospect of working with the label, who have been looking for some time for a flagship UK act. Delirious? will continue to distribute products through their own Furious? Records label inside the UK.
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Pope Riding High (10th Feb)

Welsh singer-songwriter Mal Pope is continuing to enjoy success, with a track he sung on from the City Of Gold album sitting at number 18 in the US Adult Contemporary charts, and with an appearance on Songs of Praise scheduled for 21st February. Pope continues to enjoy good press and album sales in the UK after Simon Mayo praised him incessantly one morning on his Radio One show.
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Another Baby For Emmaus (10th Feb)

Congratulations to Greg Fromholz of Emmaus and his wife Alex who recently had their first child (a girl). Emmaus have recently started work on their next studio album which they hope to finish soon. 3 songs have been recorded and about 20 more are to be recorded before they narrow down the choice for inclusion. Emmaus are also talking about reissuing some of their early work, which was praise and worship based, on CD later this year to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
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Bell Jar (10th Feb)

Paul Northup and Charlotte Ayrton, former Eden Burning folks, have a name for their new group, Bell Jar. Look out for more information very soon.
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Nervous Passenger Announce MP3s (10th Feb)

Britlinks Design is pleased to announce that there are now two MP3 excerpts from the recent Nervous Passenger album available through their website. Visit the site at http://www.nervouspassenger.org and go to the discography section to download.
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Small delirious? Talk (10th Feb)

The latest issue of the delirious? newsletter, Small Talk, arrived in fans' letterboxes recently. The buzz is building for the forthcoming touring and release dates. The next single, See The Star will come on two CDs. The first will feature two mixes of the title track and new song "Follow", while the second will include the title track, a remix of crowd favourite "Obsession", and will be an enhanced CD containing the video for the single in a CD-ROM portion. News continues to come about the album, such as the fact that it features Jon Thatcher's writing debut, and the announcement of the birth of Stew Smith's first child and the imminent arrival of Martin Smith's second.
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New Name For 12 Feet (10th Feb)

Groove-rock band 12 Feet have recently announced a change of name to Ezra. The band have recently recorded another demo and are playing live fairly regularly.
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Delirious? Amy Grant's Backup Singers? (10th Feb)

Brent Bourgeois is in the process of producing a new album for Word Records in the US which is set to feature Amy Grant covering delirious' "Find Me In The River," with the d: boys backing her. The album is also set to feature a duet between Michael W Smith and Jon Anderson from Yes. The album is to be called Streams.
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Racing Slowly Ahead (10th Feb)

Robin from the band Race will be performing a solo acoustic slot in support of Ezra very soon. Robin will also be playing keyboards for Bryn Haworth in April and a Race songbook is now available.
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Delirious? in Dove Awards Scandal (10th Feb)

Okay, well that's just because I think that the dove awards are a scandal. Delirious? have been nominated for three of these CCM awards, "Best Group," "Best Song" for "Deeper", and "Best Rock Album" for King Of Fools. They're up against stiff opposition in both categories from established CCM names, but we'll just have to wait and see. The guys recently picked up the award for album of the year in Dallas' first CCM awards ceremony, having been nominated for four awards.
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New Member for World Without End (10th Feb)

World Without End recently announced that their (formerly) temporary backing singer, Kath Taylor, has become a permanent member of the band. They are excited since this will add flexibility to the lineup and believe that this could be the fulfillment of a number of prayers.
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Coming Soon... (10th Feb)

Plans are afoot to relaunch the Britlinks website with a number of developments and a new CD giveaway. Announcements will be forthcoming, but if anyone has any comments or suggestions please e-mail webmaster@britlinks.co.uk
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