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Last Updated: 03rd Jan

Room 3 Festival (03rd Jan)

Room 3 Records have announced plans to repeat their successful Edinburgh festival venue at this year's event. The label, originally formed to promote Nervous Passenger and now also home to Superhero and IndigoEcho are currently looking for a range of artists interested in taking part in the festival. They can be contacted through the address listed in the labels index.
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Delirious? in the Lowlands (03rd Jan)

Delirious? have just released their first single to the mainstream market in the Netherlands. "It's OK" is available through Jive Records. Rumours are circulating that the band will be featured in a TV documentary, possibly on channel 4, featuring the band in the run up to their next single release. The band have also been busy recording new material for their next studio album with the help of Charles Zwicky, who also collaborated with the band on Glo.
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Track Flowers for Secret Archives (03rd Jan)

Secret Archives of the Vatican are reworking the track "Little Flower" from their Reformation album for inclusion on a compilation album being put together by besonic.com. This is the latest development in the band's successful relationship with the site.
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Steve USA (03rd Jan)

Bristol-based Steve (part of the NGM stable) have recently signed a deal with US CCM label Forefront. Not many details are available as yet, but the deal will see the band on the same label as american act Bleach whose arrival on the scene caused Steve to change their name (from Bleach).
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New Debt Campaign (03rd Jan)

As many of you will know, Britlinks has been very much in support of the Jubilee 2000 Coalition's campaign for the cancellation of the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries. Jubilee 2000 UK has now closed, but a new initiative Drop The Debt has been launched in the run-up to the G8 summit in Genoa this July and we really recommend checking them out and supporting in any way you can.
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Juliet Turner Goes Platinum (09th Jan)

Juliet Turner's Burn The Black Suit was certified platinum in the Republic of Ireland during the week before Christmas, indicating sales there of over 15,000. A thousand more copies of the album were then sold in the next week. The title track of the album will be released as its third single in February. She's going to be touring extensively over the next few months, including a 32-county tour of Ireland, a trip to the USA and a variety of European destinations. Juliet hopes to start work on her third album later this year.
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Dum Dums on TV (09th Jan)

The Dum Dums will be appearing on TV a few times over the next week or so, including a performance this Sunday morning on T4, and a behind-the-scenes video from their Shepherd's Bush gig in December (a webcast of which is archives on www.webleytv.com) on Live and Kicking. It's all part of the build up to the release of their latest single, "Army of Two" which is out on January 29th.
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Troy Donockley Hard At Work (09th Jan)

Troy Donockley's solo album The Unseen Stream is due for a US release very soon, but first it's being treated to a "Digital Surround" remix. Until that's completed no release date is being set. In the meantime Troy's still hard at work on his new album The Beautiful Suit and is helping Maddy Prior finish up her new album, King Arthur, which will be released in April and accompanied with a UK tour. Troy will soon be off to Japan and Mexico with Iona.
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Kingsway To Release Undone (10th Jan)

Tim Sherrington informs us that Kingsway Music have picked up his Undone album for international distribution. In preparation for the release, slated for May, the album is being remixed with Bruce Pont once again at the helm, and will probably feature a new running order and artwork.
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The Tribe and Co. (10th Jan)

An all new website is now up for The Tribe. It's flash-based, takes a while to download and seems to have a few bugs at the moment but maybe you'll have more success loading it. Alliance Music are planning a new compilation of World Wide Message Tribe tunes, focussing on their more laid back numbers. The album, called Chilled is due for release next month. The Innervation Trust will begin operations on February 1st, and the work of Shine and V-Enna will fall under that banner.
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IndigoEcho Chase Madonna (10th Jan)

Among the crowds trying to reach Madonna when she arrived in Scotland for her wedding last month were IndigoEcho, eager to get a copy of their CD to her. The band say they used their "inside knowledge of the Dornoch area" to get a copy of their album One to the "exact place she was staying". They hope she enjoys it.
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Superhero Delay Trip (10th Jan)

Superhero have had to postpone their trip to the USA, planned for later this month. Instead the band hope to arrive stateside some time during the summer. They've also experienced delays in the release of two new tracks which were to be available through their website and on a limited edition CD, but hope to have them available very soon.
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Formerly Known As... (10th Jan)

The Stud-U-Likes are changing their name, but as yet haven't announced what the new one will be. Their drummer, James, is now president of the TASC students union. They are still planning to release a live album, but may have to delay it until around September.
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