News

Last Updated: 29th Jun

Land Hit Number 1 (29th Jun)

Land have achieved theirthird consecutive number one in the US Import Chart with"Taking Jericho" from their Point Me To The Skiesalbum. The band have been on the chart, which is compiled byWITR-FM from Rochester, New York, more or less continuouslyfor the past two years.
—discuss this story—

Ripcord's New Album (29th Jun)

Ripcord's second albumIcons Be Bygones is now available via mail order, atgigs and through Virgin Megastores in Oxford. The band saythat this new release is "vastly superior to its predecessorin terms of quality and production".
—discuss this story—

Ripcord Take A Break (13th Jul)

Almost immediately after releasing their new album Icons Be Bygones, Ripcord have announced that they're taking a break to regroup and begin looking for a record deal to help them acheive a wider reach for their music. The band closed the current stage of their journey with a farewell gig at Oxford's Zodiac, supported by Psalmistry. The new album has so far shifted around 750 units within two weeks of release.
—discuss this story—

Glorious Technicolour - Hip Hop at Greenbelt (13th Jul)

This year's Greenbelt Festival will feature a night showcasing the best in British Christian hip-hop. The night, presented by Glorious Technicolour, will feature contributions from DJs Paul Servier (Royal Priest), Tony Silcock (Psalmistry) and Trevor Loveys (2nd Nature, House of 808) along with MCs MinistriOfDefence, Edi Johnston and others. The team will also be providing break-dancing demonstrations and workshops and some open mic opportunities.
—discuss this story—

Eden's Bridge Start Appearing Live (13th Jul)

Celtic outfit Eden's Bridge, who have now released eight albums through EMI Straightway, have begun to perform live. The band have done acoustic concerts over the past few months in Bristol, Carlisle, Wakefield and Huddersfield and are planning more performances for later in the year. They are also publishing a songbook containing all 76 tunes from their first six albums.
—discuss this story—

Word UK's new Focus (14th Jul)

Word UK have announced the launch of a new imprint called Focus. The new label is intended to be a "home for the best contemporary Christian music in the UK and Europe today" and will initially be the launchpad for Phatfish, RiverDeep and Norway's Salvation Street who make their UK debut at this year's Greenbelt festival. The label will be headed up by Word UK's music manager, Shelley Needham and will be launched with a gig in Milton Keynes on August 31st. There seems to have been renewed investment in the UK scene from several major players recently, and the launch of Focus comes soon after news of Alliance's signing of Kindle and ICC's launch of their Elevation label.
—discuss this story—

Dust No Longer Invisible (14th Jul)

Dust have been playing live more regularly lately and have a new mini-album available. Entitled Invisible, the record was produced by Paul Burton who also worked on the band's Spirit EP. The band describe it as "a lavish feast of lashing guitars, driving grooves and bowel-loosening bass". The seven track recording is available for ten pounds from the band.
—discuss this story—

Tidbits (14th Jul)

Sola Harba have just released their debut EP, Public Paranoia, available from the band via mail-order. David McNair has also just released an EP. His three track release has been produced by Iain Archer. Formerly UK-based, Liberation Suite have just reissued their 1981 album Stride For Stride in digitally remastered form. Martyn Joseph will be touring with Tom Robinson and Steve Knightley (Show of Hands) on a tour next year to be billed "Faith, Folk and Anarchy". There will be a CD release to accompany the tour. More details soon.
—discuss this story—

New Featured Album (17th Jul)

Our new featured album (formerly 'indie of the month') is Carbon14's fab new EP Focus. The EP follows Detached and Connected, the band's debut, with a slightly more varied sound but still retains the band's core alt.rock/power pop stylings. As usual we have MP3s and RealAudio for your listening pleasure and as a special bonus this month three lucky winners will receive not only a CD copy of Focus but also a copy of Detached and Connected along with it. Check it all out at www.britlinks.co.uk/album/
—discuss this story—

Quench Complete EP (17th Jul)

Quench, the band which formed earlier this year from the ashes of the final Why? lineup have completed work on their debut EP. The band have been working at ICC Studios with producer Trevor Michael on the EP which is to be released later this summer on ICC's new Elevation imprint. Label manager Adrian Thompson says the band sound nothing like their former incarnation and said that the EP sees them moving in an Ash/Foo Fighters direction.
—discuss this story—

Long Time Of Quiet (31st Jul)

Things have been a bit quiet around here, haven't they. Don't worry, it's not that we've forgotten you, but rather a combination of work on the long-promised new-look Britlinks [getting closer each day, and now very near] and a trip to Genoa where I was helping keep dropthedebt.org up to date. To catch up on that visit http://www.dropthedebt.org/liveatgenoa/ and check out the discussion at sarahmasen.com/discuss/. From tomorrow we hope to be adding new stories as usual. There's quite a lot of news to catch up on so don't forget to check back.
—discuss this story—

Dum Dums To Split After Greenbelt (01st Aug)

In an open letter to fans posted on their website, Josh Doyle of Dum Dums has announced that the band are to split. He says that they've achieved their aims of playing Wembley Stadium and touring the world, and that after four top 40 singles they've decided to call it a day. The band's last ever live performance will be their headline slot on the Saturday night at Greenbelt this year.
—discuss this story—

Fono on MTV (01st Aug)

Fono continue to do well in the USA where some of their music has been heard backing the show Road Rules on MTV. The show's music supervisor got in touch with the guys adfter hearing some of their new material online. Fono are also continuing their relationship with the Goo Goo Dolls who they supported on tour some months ago. Robby Takac from the Goo Goos has invited Fono to join him in his studio where he'll produce some of their new tracks for them. The band plan to put the tracks on the web for download when they're ready.
—discuss this story—

Band Index is 500 (02nd Aug)

With the addition this morning of triflesky and Jewels the band index part of this site now contains over 500 listings. We're trying to develop them to include photos and biographies -- please bear with us as this takes quite a while, and if you're in touch with any of the bands listed on the site, it'd be good if you could encourage them to send us their bios. Also, if you know of any other bands or solo artists we should be listing please do get in touch.
—discuss this story—

Greenbelt Relaunch Website (02nd Aug)

With around four weeks to go before the start of the 28th Greenbelt festival, the festival website has been relaunched with a new look and a new section called 'Insight' which will operate as a form of webzine, with stories submitted by visitors and regular writers and then approved by an editor, and the facility for visitors to comment on and discuss those stories. Ticket sales are still strong in the build up to the festival and the festival has just announced that all the campus accommodation which was available has now been booked up (don't worry, there'll still be plenty of camping space). Check out the site at www.greenbelt.org.uk.
—discuss this story—

Delirious Launch Lesson (08th Aug)

Following the launch of their last single, Take Me Away through mp3.com, Delirious? this week launched their fourth album Audio Lessonover with a short tour of HMV stores around England. Take Me Away went top ten in mp3.com's charts -- the video for the song can be downloaded from www.delirious.co.uk/media/takemeaway.mov.
—discuss this story—

IndigoEcho's New Release (08th Aug)

IndigoEcho are hoping that their new CD Fade Away/Coming Home will go top twenty in the Virgin Megastore Edinburgh chart. The band have the CD on the listening posts in the store and plenty of pre-release interest. The band will launch the CD in the store at 6pm on 16th August.
—discuss this story—

Previous set of news stories

Search Britlinks:

News Headlines: