Music News - April 2010

Delirious enter at No 4 in the charts

Radio 1 have at last been playing Delirious as the band broke into the UK Singles Chart at No 4 on Easter Sunday. For much of the band’s career the BBC station refused to play their music. Now the band have finished, it is their fans who through a Facebook campaign have forced the turnaround by downloading the single taken from their 1997 album King of Fools.

Below you can see the video of the live version of the track History Maker and read more about the campaign .Hear the chart announcement of Delirious’ new entry here:

Martin Smith emailed a message to the 67,000 Facebook fans whose campaign got the song into the charts. He said: "All the seventeen years that the band was together we never existed just to get in the charts or sell sell sell. Our best motives and highest calling was to try to be a voice that made others think, that called out praise and tried to chase down the smile of God. It was always about responding to what we saw in you - people all around the world, on fire for God, wanting to see the world changed by His Glory. In the end you did us out of a job. Our cheers and shouts for you from the sidelines reached their proper end, and we stepped back, the chapter closed.

Then, four months later you take a song and put it in the top ten.

I want to say thank you to all of you who bought or downloaded the song. And thank you to the remarkable individuals who came up with the idea in the first place and helped bring it to birth with such integrity, wisdom and skill. All of you - the planners and the facebookers and the downloaders - you’re all mad! Mad because you probably already own three copies of it, mad because you spent hard earned cash on a song that’s 15 years old and mad because you joined with others that you’ve never met to create a whole lot of noise about Jesus.

But I love mad people, and I’m very proud to be a part of all your lives.

All over the last tour we were using a Latin phrase cos it sounded better and more mysterious than the  English. ‘FabuIa Est Vestri’ – The Story Is Yours. I had no idea it would be taken to heart so quickly. I had no idea you would show how clearly that the story certainly is yours now, just like it always was and always will be.

Historymakers… I look forward to seeing you all in the next chapter."

Nottingham minister and entrepreneur Alistair Kent resurrected interest among the band’s fan base and the wider group of Christians in the UK, just in time for Easter.

The recent battle for the 2009 Christmas number one spot saw X-Factor winner Joe McEldery beaten by the relatively unknown American rock group ‘Rage Against The Machine’. UK chart listeners kept tabs on the race to number one with amazement as Simon Cowell’s five-year reign over the coveted Christmas no. 1 slot suddenly came under threat, when most people had thought it would be another forgone conclusion. The victory was secured through the Internet, namely a Facebook group set up by a couple of fans.

Alistair Kent called on all Christians to put the Delirious? track ‘History Maker’ on top of the UK charts on Easter Sunday. Alistair says: “Easter for many in this day and age is about bunnies, egg hunts and a school break. But it’s the message of Christ dying for the sins of mankind and his resurrection from the grave that people need to hear. And what better way to get this message across than through the medium of music and the airplay that a number one chart position brings. Although a chart-topping single for Delirious? is a wonderful goodbye gift to them from the fans and the wider church in the UK, it’s much more than that. It’s about a message of hope passing through the airwaves across a seemingly hopeless land.”

You can choose which online store to buy the single from for 79p by visiting  
http://www.invadetheairwaves.org.uk/buy-the-single.html
There are two different versions of the song, the original studio version and a live version recorded at their final gig last year. You can download both, as they both count towards the song's chart position. The chart is announced on Radio 1 between 4pm and 7pm on Sunday. See the video here:

[dweeb] head back to Cornwall

[dweeb] will release their new album 'Feels Like Dynamite' on 10th May 2010 and have now announced a tour to promote the album that will see them visit Cornwall twice. Their first visit will be to Ikon in Falmouth on June 19th and their second to CreationFest at the Royal Cornwall Showground at Wadebridge on August 10th. They also visit Exeter on May 18th and will be playing at weeks b and c at Soul Survivor. 'Feels Like Dynamite' is the follow up to the band's 2007 album 'It Came From Outer Space'. [dweeb] recently signed to Fierce! Distribution, under the Kingsway group of labels.

Shaping up for chart success

The debut single "All This Time" by Welsh-born techno pop singer BeBe Vox is shaping up to be a major mainstream hit. The song, which as well as BeBe's vocals features a rap from one-time thebandwithnoname man Ad-Apt, has reached number one in the Play.com Pre-order Chart. BeBe is currently mid-way through an extensive UK schools tour where she is performing her infectious electro pop tunes in over 100 assemblies in the run up to the single's download release on 26th April. BeBe is performing at both Spring Harvest sites this Easter in Minehead and Skegness. See the video for the forthcoming single here:

Secondly, a pop singer described as "the most promising up and coming Christian artist to come from the UK in many years," Tanya Cristina, has her debut single "Perfectly" released on Monkey Music on 7th June 2010. It was produced by Jorden Milnes who has worked with Geri Halliwell and the Sugababes. Tanya trained at the Soul Experience Vocal Academy and then entered the Open Mic UK talent search where she came second from 8,000 entrants. Tanya is part of the worship team at the church she attends in North London.

In Brief

*   The line up for the Ultimate Events Alton Towers concert on May 8th has been announced. It includes LZ7 (pictured left), thebandwithnoname, Four Kornez, Philippa Hanna, dweeb and speaker Reggie Dabbs. Several youth groups from Cornwall are making their annual pilgrimage to the theme park!
*   Worship leader Graham Kendrick, one of the foremost Christian songwriters of the past few decades, is to release a double CD Best-Of album. The 28 track album, titled 'The Very Best of Graham Kendrick (Knowing You Jesus)' will be released on 17th May 2010. Also released the same day will be 'The Ultimate Graham Kendrick Songbook' on CD-Rom, part of the Digital Songbook Series containing sheet music, chord charts and word masters for fifty of Graham's best songs.
*   Whitney Houston is to tour the UK in April playing nine dates between the 8th and 28th of April.
*   Iona are set to play three UK dates in May before touring the USA in June.
*   Narrowpath again proved how popular they are when they led the worship at the Big Shout event at the Royal Cornwall Showground at the end of March. See our report and exclusive Kernowyouth video on the News page.

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