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Last Updated: 30th Sep

Next Delirious? Single Marks Departure (30th Sep)

The next Delirious? single will mark a departure from the band's previous separation of their mainstream and worship material. In a bizarre move, the band have decided to release a new version of Cutting Edge-era worship song "I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever". Cross Rhythms quote Jonathan Brown of Furious? Records as saying: "Delirious? fans may be surprised by the choice of song but when they hear this stunning new version I think many will agree that it makes sense to pitch it at the mass audience.� The single will be released towards the end of the d:tension tour on December 10th. Before that the band's Fierce Distribution will be releasing "Schizophrenic" by Earthsuit (29th October) and "Close To Myself" by Kendall Payne. Both artists performed at this year's Greenbelt festival, with Earthsuit going down particularly well with the assembled Dum Dums fans. What do you think about these single releases. Are delirious? deciding that they need to win back their core Christian audience? Discuss it on our discussion boards.
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Girl Groups Depart (01st Oct)

In what appears to be a strange coincidence, both Shine and V-Enna have announced plans to split. The two girl groups had also formed around the same time and purveyed similar brands of "pure pop". Shine's latest album Keep On Moving had just been released in the UK and its planned US release has now been cancelled -- the band are said to feel "called to pastures new" and it is unclear what will now happen to the Shine Trust who operated their evangelistic work in Milton Keynes and who recently issued a press release saying they would not be continuing to employ the band due to the desire of three members to move on, or their operations manager. V-Enna say their split is due to family commitments following the marriage of Lucy Britten to Tribe member Linz.
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The Tribe on Tour (03rd Oct)

Alliance today announced the complete itinerary for the forthcoming tour by World Wide Message Tribe successors The Tribe. All the dates are now in our gig guide. The group will be supported on the tour by newcomers Oxygen who have been receiving plenty of press attention lately, touted as YFC's answer to hearsay. The tour is being put together in association with ICC Records, charity Samaritan's Purse and production company Wigwam (Spice Girls, Steps, Craig David) and will run from the end of November to the beginning of December.
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Fire Fly Find Distribution (03rd Oct)

Fire Fly have just lined up European distribution for their Beauty for Ashes album. The album will be released in 15 European countries through a variety of Christian and mainstream outlets in a deal put together by the band's Dutch agent 'Low Roof'. The band hope to be able to announce UK and US distribution soon but in the meantime are repressing the album so as to have copies available via mail order.
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Newish Delirious Album (03rd Oct)

It appears that the recently reported release of "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever" as the next Delirious? single is in part intended to tie in with the UK release of Deeper, a compilation of more worship focussed material gathered from the band's albums to date, from Cutting Edge onwards. The album has recently been released in the US and is expected to be released in the UK in early January with a few as yet undisclosed changes from the US release.
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Iona Box Set (06th Oct)

In between announcing that vocalist Joanne Hogg has given birth to a baby boy named Isaac (congratulations Jo) and that their website is to be redesigned very soon, Iona have informed us that they've been dropped by Forefront records "in favour of looking to sign 'pop acts capable of wider crossover appeal'". Since Forefront had a deal which meant they helped Alliance fund Iona's recording projects, Alliance are no longer able to continue their deal with the band who as a result are now independent. The band have decided to experiment with independetly releasing future albums on their own label and are asking fans to pre-order future projects to help with financing them. At the same time Dave Bainbridge has announced that the first release on Iona's new label will be a 4 CD box set containing the band's first three albums and an additional CD of unreleased material, both live and studio. The box set will also include a 56 page booklet of archive photos. The proposed release date is Spring 2002 and the band are asking interested fans to get in touch for more information.
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New Featured Album (06th Oct)

Our new featured album is the debut release from Airstar, UnseenForces. Airstar's music is delicate and acoustic, with the guitar work and great vocal harmonies constantly turning the focus onto the songs. As ever we have MP3s and RealAudio for your listening pleasure, and three copies of the disc up for grabs at www.britlinks.co.uk/album/.
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