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Last Updated: 19th Jan

Delirious? With Clown Prince (19th Jan)

Steve Taylor, the producer (Sixpence None The Richer, Newsboys) and solo artist sometimes referred to as the Clown Prince of Christian music, has been working with delirious? recently on a re-recording of their track "Touch" to be included on a forthcoming compilation album to be titled Roaring Lambs. The band are off to the Southern Hemisphere for a quick tour before returning to the UK to promote "It's OK". They are planning to spend the following months recording for their next release, fitting in a few UK dates along the way.
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Tribal Tour (19th Jan)

The WorldWide Message Tribe recently announced their long-rumoured but previously unprecedented UK tour. The group will play a number of venues across the UK, and will be supported by an act yet to be announced. The tour, organised for Alliance Music by Cardiff-based Big Ideas, will showcase the album Frantik but is intended to form part of the build up to this summer's Message 2000 event run jointly by The Message and Soul Survivor.
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Echoes In Megastores (19th Jan)

IndigoEcho have beenasked toplay in Edinburgh's Virgin Megastore onthe 3rd February, and the store will also be featuring the band'sOne album on listening posts in the store. The band, and Room 3Records, are hoping to see plenty of folks there.
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New Bathroom For Booley (19th Jan)

Booley has been hard atworkbuilding on his Bathroom Floor EP.One track, "Be Here", has been dropped, but four new tracks and a newhidden track have been added for a forthcoming re-release.
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Best of Emmaus (19th Jan)

Emmaus are working on abest-ofalbum to encompass tunes from all of their praise and worship basedreleases. There will be an accompanying music book for the album. The bandcontinue to work on an album of all new material, but without Lynne, whohas left the band to spend time on other activities within the community,and Ian has left the band to work with Booley. Emmaus' track "You'reBeautiful" is to be featured on the soundtrack of the upcoming film,Babies written by and starring a friend of the band.
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Dan Donovan Prepares (19th Jan)

Dan Donovan's musicalprojectsare currently snoozing, but he promisesthat activity will start again soon. Plans for Tribe of Dan to recordagain have had to be put on hold, but Dan's been working on some new tunesand sprucing up his website ready to spring back into action soon.
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Shine Mk. 2? (19th Jan)

Shine, who were featuredonBBC1 on Boxing Day singing their track "DoIt Right" as part of a special service from Manchester Cathedral, havechanged their name to Shine MK to reflect the location of their schoolswork in Milton Keynes. The group's debut album, Do It Right willrelease on February 29th, with US distribution through Reunion Records.
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Essential V-Enna (19th Jan)

V'Enna, another artist from the Movation stable, have recently signed aUS deal with Essential Records and hope to release their debut album inthe summer. The group have recently completed their first radio single --a special maxi-single is to be released in the USA at the end of February,including remixes from Zarc Porter, Robbie Bronniman (dba) and ToddCollins.
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Tidbits (19th Jan)

Superhero have startedane-mail announcements list. Simply e-mail themto sign up. The band are currently recording an album with Room 3 Records. The RGeneration have continuedwork on their website and hope to gointo a studio soon. A new band has been signed by Movation to work alongside the WorldWide Message Tribe. They will be officially launched at the Message 2000event. Watch this space. The long-rumoured new look band index and some otherspecial developments will be here before the next Britlinks News goes tothe virtual presses.
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Junction 1 (02nd Feb)

The news has recently slipped out of a new festival to be organised by Word UK, Alliance Music, STL distribution, Oasis Trust and the Evangelical Alliance. The new festival, to be known as Junction 1 will run on the August Bank Holiday weekend in direct competition with the long-running Greenbelt festival. The organisers are hoping to bring in a range of big-selling US CCM artists to draw the crowds and help them sell more records. Greenbelt has formally requested that the event not go ahead, but the organisers appear to have ignored that, falsely assuming that there is no overlap in the target audience.
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Greenbelt Gets Boost (02nd Feb)

Greenbelt recently announced a strong response to its pre-Christmas ticket deals. More youth tickets have been sold already than were sold in total last year and there has been a very positive reception for the special offers from youth groups and other interested parties. The festival's organisers are in negotiations with a number of key musical acts as well as planning a broad program to highlight the best in Christian arts from the UK and abroad.
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Coastal Single (02nd Feb)

Following an exciting past few months, including coverage in the Guardian and gigs across the country, Durham's premiere student band, Coastal Dune, will have a new single out on February 14th. The single, available directly from the band, is being release as part of National Marriage Week -- an MP3 of the lead track, "Till We're Old", will be available for download from http://www.nmw.org.uk
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yfriday for the Alpha Zone (02nd Feb)

Hotly tipped worship act yfriday, who are currently on tour with Noel Richards and whose debut album Rainmaker was recently released on Survivor Records will be recording at the MTV studios in March for the channel 5 show the Alpha Zone. The band will record two songs and some interview segments for broadcast later in the year. The band will be leading youth worship at Spring Harvest and Easter People and are already demoing tracks for their second album.
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SKiNfLOWERS Radio (02nd Feb)

Cheltenham-based Skinflowersare working hard to meet the 1st March completion date they've set fortheir debut album. A range of tracks are available from their website,with a streaming audio radio-style preview of the album available to thoseusing Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The pressure is on tocomplete work on the follow up to the man of blood EP following about of flu which halted work over Christmas.
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Phatfish Head for States (02nd Feb)

Phatfish are gearing up for thestart of a brief US tour this Saturday, followed by a range of UK dates inMarch. The band will be promoting their latest album, Purple ThroughThe Fishtank which was produced by noted US-based producer AlanShacklock.
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Superhero Prepare For Launch (02nd Feb)

Glasgow's Superhero are busyplanning the launch of their new album,set for release on the 4th March. The album launch will feature a set fromthe band, supported by fellow Room 3 Records act Nervous Passenger, aswell as short presentations from guest speakers. Superhero, who went fulltime only a few months ago, will spend the following months touringextensively across the UK.
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More March Launches (02nd Feb)

SCSI, the artists formerly known asDecember Blue, release their newalbum Crave on the 4th March. The album starts a new chapter in theband's unfolding story, bringing in a range of new sounds, with influencesfrom acts like Garbage and Texas. The album was produced by Americanhusband and wife team Tim and Carla White.
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Tidbits (02nd Feb)

Jonny Parks is currently inEastbourne, laying down tracks at ICCstudios for his debut solo album. Delirious? have beennominated for two Dove Awards: "Rock RecordedSong" for the track Gravity, and "Modern Rock/Alternative Album of theyear" for Mezzamorphis. The video for "It's OK" has been playlistedby MTV Europe. Tribe of Dan were asked tostep in after Bernard Butler had topull out of his scheduled appearance at Ronnie Scott's in Birmingham. Tenth Leper are celebratingthe launch of their new album, ReturnedWith Thanks. SecretArchives of the Vatican have been hard at work studying themusic of myriad cultures as they prepare to release their second CD. Theysay the new album will be "more ethnic, but also dancier" and are planningto invest in some new recording equipment to help them on their way. IndigoEcho have managed toget their new album, One distributedto all the HMV stores in Scotland as well as into their local VirginMegastore. A lot of opportunities seem to be opening up for the band, onthe same Room 3 Records label as Nervous Passenger andSuperhero. 3 Second Memory recentlysupported Dodgy at the Plymouth Pavilion.
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