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Last Updated: 31st May

Amos, Street Kids and Lots of Music (31st May)

The Amos Trust will be playing host to Iain Archer, The Amazing Pilots, Garth Hewitt, Paul Field and a gospel choir on June 16th as part of an event focussing on the charity's work with street kids in South Africa. Speaking at the event will be Tom Hewitt (son of Garth) who lives in South Africa working with children there.
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Emmaus Worship (31st May)

The new album from Emmaus is now available, described by the band as a real return to their roots, with lots of acoustic and celtic instrumentation. The album, which will be released in the US in a couple of months through Grassroots Distribution, focusses very much on prayer, praise and worship and comes hot on the heels of the band's recent worship compilation which brought together material they'd written over the past ten years.
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Andy Thornton Single (01st Jun)

EIS, who manage Andy Thornton have announced that they will be releasing a rerecorded version of the title track from his The Things You Never Say album as a single within the next couple of weeks. A major distribution company has expressed interest in distributing the album if the single is well received. Andy will be making a number of instore and radio appearances to support the release as well as fitting in his hectic schedule as Greenbelt festival manager.
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Wades Keep It In The Family (01st Jun)

Veteran gospel trio The Wades recently staged an elaborate launch for their latest album, A Family Thing. The songs on the album have a special focus on the importance of the family unit within a fractured society.
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Psalmistry Make Some Noise (01st Jun)

The new Psalmistry album will be All This Noise... and is reputed to show influences from artists such as Basement Jaxx, Moby, Asian Dub Foundation, The Prodigy and Travis (?!?). New vocalist Debbie has stepped in to take over from Lucy Britten (now with V-Enna) and this album is said to be more song-oriented than its predecessor. It will be available from July 3rd through ICC in the UK and Europe. The US release date will follow soon.
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NGM Stories (03rd Jun)

Various bits of news have recently been announced by Bristol based New Generation Ministries, who support a number of bands. A track from drum'n'bass outfit Trip, "Cream Tea", has been signed by Good Looking Records, described by Trip member Andy Hunter as "one of the fore running drum and bass labels". Steve have just released a second EP made up of demo tracks they have been sending out to labels. Tomorrow's Girl are working on their debut album which they hope to release later in the year. Original member Sue has left the group to be replaced by Rachel.
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More Than A 3 Second TV Memory (05th Jun)

Plymouth based 3 Second Memory will be appearing on the West country ITV show "Illuminations" on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th June at 12.27pm. The band will be playing 2 songs ("Hold On" and "Rain Down") as well as answering questions about their faith. The programme has already been recorded.
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Leave Your Fingerprint on Blueprint (05th Jun)

Blueprint are looking for help with logo design. Any talented designers wanting to leave their mark on the band's image should e-mail jpeg, bitmap or gif files to the band.
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Aieris Motion (06th Jun)

Aieris have begun to plan the follow up to their Meet Your Maker EP. The second release, to be titled No Motion Glow will be recorded in Glasgow with the same producer as its predecessor, and is due for a late October release.
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Carbon 14 Head East to West 1 4 (06th Jun)

West-country based Carbon 14 were so well received at a recent London gig at the King's Head in Fulham that they have been invited to play a set on a Saturday night at W14 in Kensington. Check out the gig guide for more details.
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Pentecost Press (07th Jun)

The decision to include a local band not normally found at "Christian" events has drawn some press attention for Cheltenham's Pentecost 2000 event. The Chaos Engine, who have been invited as part of the event organisers' attempt to encourage local talent, wouldn't be drawn on their beliefs, saying simply that they "don't believe in following religion blindly" (which hopefully none of us do...). Other artists slated to appear at the event at Cheltenham Racecourse include Delirious?, our current indie of the month skinflowers, World Wide Message Tribe, Urban Militia, and Expanse.
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Delirious? Release Date (07th Jun)

The new Delirious? album Glo will release on Saturday 29th July. Details of the album's distribution have yet to be revealed, but given that it is being released on a Saturday and the worship-focus of the new recordings it would appear likely that the album will not receive the mainstream push that the band's previous two have had. The official Delirious? website which was down recently as it was moved to a server located withing the Furious? offices is now back up.
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