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Girl Groups Depart (01st Oct 2001)
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.
V-Enna On Tour (31st Jan 2001)
V-Enna are keeping busy, having recently appeared at the Christian Booksellers Convention in the USA and are about to head out on a US tour with Newsboys member Phil Joel. There's no news yet on when the girls will be back in the UK.
The Tribe and Co. (10th Jan 2001)
An all new website is now up for The Tribe. It's flash-based, takes a while to download and seems to have a few bugs at the moment but maybe you'll have more success loading it. Alliance Music are planning a new compilation of World Wide Message Tribe tunes, focussing on their more laid back numbers. The album, called Chilled is due for release next month. The Innervation Trust will begin operations on February 1st, and the work of Shine and V-Enna will fall under that banner.
Innervation (11th Dec 2000)
Innervation is a new initiative bringing together the management company Kik-Start, the record label Movation and other groups to form schools outreach bands across the country. Initially working with Shine and V-Enna, the organisation's plans include forming a number of "clone" bands who will share the same material in order to spread resources across the country. The organisation, which will be headed by Mark Pennells (ex-WWMT and now manager of Kik-Start), record producer Zarc Porter (Perfect Music/Movation), Rob White (a baptist minister in Manchester, formerly with YFC) and George Petch. You can discuss this initiative on our "bands" discussion board.
Tribe's Big Gig (24th Jun 2000)
The World Wide Message Tribe have recently returned from taking part in the EO Youth Day at the Ajax stadium in Holland. The group played to a crowd of 50,000 at the annual event. The next day, they were back in Manchester playing at a Planet Life event alongside V-Enna.
V-Enna Hit The Top Spot (14th Jun 2000)
V-Enna's debut single hit number one in the US CCM charts and will be followed up at the end of June by "Where I Wanna Be". The group will be touring a number of American festivals this summer before the European release of their debut album in September.
Bits and Pieces (24th Apr 2000)
Booley has been asked to record a duet with Maire Brennan for a forthcoming compilation. V-Enna are due to release their debut album to the US market on September 26th. Fono and Delirious? will both play at Cornerstone on 6th July in the USA.
Essential V-Enna (19th Jan 2000)
V'Enna, another artist from the Movation stable, have recently signed aUS deal with Essential Records and hope to release their debut album inthe summer. The group have recently completed their first radio single --a special maxi-single is to be released in the USA at the end of February,including remixes from Zarc Porter, Robbie Bronniman (dba) and ToddCollins.
Artist Jumping Back (01st Sep 1999)
Lucy Britten, known for work on a number of compilation projects,including last year's Jumping In The House of God III is fronting a new Message (WWMT, Shine) band, V-enna. The group hopes to join the other Message groups in evangelistic work, but in the meantime are working on some recording projects.
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