Music News - September 2009

CreationFest Line Up well received

An impressive line up of Christian artists performed to a grateful audience in The Big Shed at this summer's CreationFest. Held on the Royal Cornwall Showground at Wadebridge, the week-long event was deemed a success. Among those who were well received by the Cornish audience, swelled by holidaymakers and festival goers who had travelled from across Europe to be there, were LZ7, dweeb, BOSH, thebandwithnoname, Philippa Hanna, Superhero, and Verra Cruz. Our photo shows Philippa Hanna in concert at the festival. CreationFest will be back at the Royal Cornwall Showground next August.

Hillsongs aiming at charts

Hillsongs London are having a stab at the UK singles chart with the release of the track "C.I.T.Y." which comes from their latest DVD 'Hail to the King'. Three different 'bundles' of the single are available: The Radio Edit, the Video and a bundle containing 5 different remix versions of the song. All three bundles can be downloaded for a combined price of £3.50.

Explaining the decision to release a single, Hillsong Church London's Pastor Gary Clarke said, "This presents us with another opportunity to change people's mindsets about Jesus and his Church. I think the song and the music video are a great representation of our house and I'd love to have a go at getting it in the charts. Potentially this has signficant meaning in the music and media arena's, both of which are highly influential mediums in today's society. Let's continue to do whatever we can to reach and influence the world we live in!"

Superhero tour

Scottish rock band Superhero have announced plans for their 'UK Winter Tour' taking place throughout October and November. The band, who's latest album 'The Bicycle Thieves' was released earlier this year, performed in Cornwall in July and August.

Venues for the UK tour have yet to be confirmed, but Superhero have penciled in 11 dates between 30th October and 28th November, lining up dance act Cyber-X as support group for the tour.

I'm on fire and nothing's going to gold me back

Athlete are back in the UK charts at No 71 with their new single "Superhuman Touch". The track is the opening title on their new album 'Black Swan' which leadsinger Joel Pott says is "the best thing we have ever done." Athlete, fresh from their appearance at the Greenbelt Festival over the August Bank Holiday weekend, worked on 'Black Swan' with esteemed American producer Tom Rothrock who'd been convinced to come along for the ride after falling in love with some acoustic demos.

LZ7 talks to CrossRhythms about single

A major mainstream record company will be releasing the track "This Little Light" by Manchester's urban music collective LZ7. The group's frontman Lindz West told Cross Rhythms, "A particular company have decided that they want to release the track as a single in April 2010. So even if you don't like it, I don't care, download it, because isn't it so much better to get some positive music out there instead of guns and drugs and how many girls you can sleep with? Just get some good stuff out there and make some good choices with your life - even if they're not listening to it from a Christian perspective, they're just listening to it as a good song and they're singing the lyrics. We have Muslims in the schools that we go into, still in their scarves singing 'This Little Light' at the top of their voices , not even realising they're singing the bible - it just has a big impact on people."

Lindz continued, "We're looking at doing a massive tour beforehand, secular and Christian, all over the country, and just promoting it and saying 'Look, on this date, download it, download it. Get it off iTunes, get it off spotify, get it off any means you can, but download the single, because it can only do good.' What we don't want is anyone phoning up stations and saying 'Why aren't you playing this song?', because that just creates a bad name for us in the first place. What we do want is people buying it and getting it to the position where it has to go on the radio airplay lists and the stations have to play it."

See the video for "This Little Light" http://www.lz7.co.uk/

In Brief

*   Veteran singer Bob Dylan is releasing a new Christmas album in October. 'Christmas In The Heart' will feature Dylan performing traditional Christmas carols and children's songs. All proceeds from the release will go to a charity which provides for families who have too little in winter. The charity will receive royalties from this album in perpetuity. It is being scheduled for release early to benefit people this Christmastime.
*   This month sees X Factor star Beverley Trotman release "Voice of Hope" - a gospel album.
*   Delirious? will release 'History Makers - The Greatest Hits' on 6th November 2009 with a standard CD version and a special limited edition version available. The standard version will be a 14 track jewel case CD containing the most well known worship songs from the band, intended to appeal to congregational audiences. The Special Edition will include approximately 30 tracks on 2 CDs, a DVD containing the bands existing promo videos and visual footage, plus a 52 page colour hard back book charting the history of the band.
*   Veteran rocker Cliff Richard releases the classic "Singing the Blues" featuring the Shadows from the forthcoming 'Reunited' album as a single on 14th September.
*   Kajagoogoo, who had a string of hits in the 80's, are to release a Greatest Hits album to coincide with their 2009 Reunion Tour. Nick Beggs, was in the original line up, and went on to play with celtic band Iona for a while.

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