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Last Updated: 11th Apr
The Critical Mass (11th Apr)
The Critical Mass is the name of a brand new festival ofurban art and spirituality based around St. Luke's Church inHolloway (former home of Greenbelt). The programme runs from2pm on Good Friday through to 9.30pm on Easter Sunday nightand includes musical performances from Steve Lawson,Whelk, Harry Napier, Dave Perry and various DJs. For moredetails check out www.thecriticalmass.org.
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Andrew Buckton's New Album (11th Apr)
New addition to the band index Andrew Buckton has just released his second album, Now But Not Yet which features a number of his friends including Jezz Carr and Steve Lawson and is now available from Sounds Good.
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Scottish Bands on TV (11th Apr)
IndigoEcho have been getting some mainstream radio and TV coverage with their album One being played on Edinburgh's main local radio station and a performance due to appear on a new Scottish TV programme called 'eikon'. The latter will also feature Superhero and the 'Future' event, which takes place every other month at King Tuts in Glasgow, as part of a focus on Christian music in Scotland.
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Juliet Turner Hotly Tipped (11th Apr)
Tipsheet, a music industry newsletter, has recently named Juliet Turner's Burn The Black Suit its record of the week in advance of the release of the album and a single to the UK market. The album has already gone platinum in Ireland and will be released to coincide with her UK tour supporting Roger McGuinn.
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Elevation Showcase (13th Apr)
Billing itself as "the new home of Britain's alternative Christian music", ICC's new Elevation label have announced plans for a showcase event at Gloucester Guildhall in July featuring Kato, BottleRockit and Psalmistry. Kato's Welcome To My World has been selling well at Spring Harvest and BottleRockit's new single, See You In Space Tonight single has just released as a taster for the album due later in the year. Kato and BottleRockit will be supporting All Star United in London in May and are both booked for this year's Greenbelt festival.
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U2's Beautiful Match (23rd Apr)
U2 are set to rework"Beautiful Day" the first single from their current album,All That You Can't LeaveBehind as the title tune for football show Match ofthe Day in its new ITV format. The band have added someextra UK dates this summer, but all dates sold out withinhours of going on sale.
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Download Skinflowers Show (25th Apr)
Skinflowers' Easter Monday concert at the new Mean Fiddler (formerly the LA2) in London is now available in full with stereo sound and high quality video through this link. The band continue to work on their second album.
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Maddy Leigh Blues Record (25th Apr)
The Maddy Leigh Blues Band are about to begin pre-production for their debut album which will be recorded early next year. The band are in talks with Michael Bloodgood (of stadium rockers Bloodgood) who they hope will fly in from Seattle to produce the album before mixing it in the USA. The album will be released by Meltdown Music.
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Formula 7 (25th Apr)
Formula 7 have been busy over the past few months playing support slots for Supervision, Audacity and a number of other bands. They plan to record a live CD taken from recordings of these shows as well as looking at the possibility of starting work on a new studio recording. They also have a newly revised website awaiting visitors.
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Formula 7 (25th Apr)
Formula 7 have been busy over the past few months playing support slots for Supervision, Audacity and a number of other bands. They plan to record a live CD taken from recordings of these shows as well as looking at the possibility of starting work on a new studio recording.
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TV Appearances (25th Apr)
Kato took some time out of their Spring Harvest tour to appear on ITV's Sunday Morning last weekend. They're currently promoting their Welcome To My World album. Superhero will be appearing on TV twice during May, on the Alpha Zone (Channel 5) on the 6th and on Eikon (ITV) on the 20th. Superhero have been recording more demos recently and are currently pushing them to record companies. IndigoEcho will appear on Eikon this Sunday.
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Tidbits (25th Apr)
BottleRockit have just relaunched their website. Mark Stoney has just released his debut album Amber. Tim Sherrington's Undone album is to be released by Kingsway on the 23rd May. B@sic are about to enter the studio to start work on their debut album which they hope to release this summer.
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