THE SEPIA SIGN FOR TV SOUNDTRACK The Sepia have signed a license agreement for 5 tracks with Black Diamond productions for use in a new television series they are producing. The series focuses on extreme sports, and The Sepia's music will be used for incidental purposes. The show is to be screened world-wide on terrestrial and cable/satellite channels, and I'll let you have more details as and when they're confirmed. More Reviews! The Sepia have also been receiving some great reviews lately. KlubKat have done a very extensive in-depth and positive review which you can read on-line at http://www.klubkat.com. Darker Than The Bat, the radio show in Belgium that is a big fan of The Sepia, has also done an on-line review. You can read it at http://www.proservcenter.be/ darkerthanthebat/cdreview.html The Dutch magazine Caer Gwydyon also ran a feature on The Sepia in their latest edition. Lastly, the gang have just done an interview for a special feature on them which will be available at www.electromancer.com soon so keep an eye out for that over the next few weeks. Lastly, thanks this time round go out to Batty in the states who is currently raving about The Sepia on the 'BPM' e-list, so much so, that numerous requests for demos from DJ's have been coming in this week! Some new additions to the website (http://www.the-sepia.co.uk) are due soon (in terms of news and reviews), I'll let you know as soon as they are ready for human consumption...... As you can see, lots of exciting things happening, and that's only the stuff they've told me about! I hope to see, and meet, many of you at Club Noir on 24 May!

RED TO VIOLET UK NEWS the unofficial U.K. small news big news TOP-5... 1..."we're playing Red to Violet's 'Here I Am' and 'Mr J' on the Network Evening Show, and let's do a T-shirt giveaway too...!" (head of music Joanne Bell, BFBS Worldwide Radio, beaming from U.K.) 2..."we've added the whole album to our database, for all of our DJ's to play..." (head of music Gill Rickson, URY University of York Radio, York) 3..."Here I Am is on our C-Playlist, we'll be doing a Red to Violet merchandise giveaway the whole week...!" (head of music Albert Boakye, LCR Radio of Loughborough Campus) 4..."Red to Violet just reached #15 on our Charts and the single 'Here I Am' is added to our A-Playlist...!!!" (head of music Matt Stevens from UKCR Radio University of Kent, Canterbury) 5... "still giving Red to Violet lots of airplay on our different radioshows, it's great to be able to support such a good piece of new music..." (head of music Sheena Guy, LochbroomFM, Ullapool)

JOHNNY PHILKO AT BENEFIT CONCERT IN OHIO I would like to remind everyone that the Benefit Concert for The Learning Centers' is this Saturday evening, I hope to see you all there. There has been a change to the concert, it will now be a free benefit concert with donations being taken at the door! May 12th, 2001 Johnny Philko will be in concert along with several other bands for a benefit concert at the Masonic Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. This concert will benefit The Learning Centers for Children in Cleveland, Ohio. Below is a short description of The Learn Centers for Children. The Learning Centers provide one-on-one, specialized training and tutoring -- free of charge -- to children with dyslexia. The organization is committed to increasing public awareness and improving standards of care through research and education. In addition, each Learning Center trains local teachers and volunteers who want to tutor children with dyslexia. If you can please stop in for the concert and help support this worthy cause. :-) Mike

GIMP EVENTS IN PETERBOROUGH Friday 25th May will be a special night for Peterborough's online local music fanzine www.gimpmag.com as they participate in the cities BBC Live event hosting their first METAL SPECIAL showcase night at Peterborough's popular music venue The Park. Organised by Kaz from local Industrial Metal band Quartergod and part of the GIMP team the city will see it's 3rd outing for the Peterborough gore metal beatdown crew. A treat is in store for all metal fans on this fine night as Kaz has managed to pull in Headliners Occupational Hazard, who for such a young band have achieved phenomenal success. With their mix of industrial, techno and hardcore, think Pitchshifter meets Fear Factory mashed in a head on collision with Clawfinger and Rammstein, they have been voted by Kerrang readers in the top 3 of best unsigned band in the UK. They also scored a whopping 9/10 from Metal Hammer for their live show, so this is a band not to be missed. On the local front we see more raw talent on show from one of our favourites Kingcow them "Emotional Metallers", it's a debut for Quartergod as they finally get it together to blast us with a show to remember and a highly welcomed set for newcomers Ellen Brody. The night will also consist of some top alternative music to fit in with the bill brought to us by our favourite alternative DJ's. Doors will open at 8pm - 2am, admission £4 or £3.50 with a special flyer and 16's are welcome although ID will be required.