SWING OUT SISTER will be releasing a new album, rumoured to be titled "Where Our Love Grows" in March this year.
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES are to release a box-set of b-sides, and rare and unreleased material in June. The collection "Downside Up" will feature over 50 tracks in all including 30 that have never appeared on CD before. Polydor Records are also planning to reissue all their albums in remastered versions starting later this year, and the Banshees will also be releasing all their BBC live sessions on their own Wonderland label titled "Voices (On The Air)".
DEPECHE MODE singer DAVE GAHAN has released an online single 'A Little Piece' recorded live at The Olympia in Paris via his website in support of his forthcoming live DVD 'Live Monsters' that is released on March 1st.
SIMPLE MINDS singer JIM KERR has re-recorded the vocals of 'Don't You Forget About Me' to be used on a dance track from Italian DJs White Spaces. The track was originally intended for use on an advert but will now receive a commercial release in some countries.
DEPECHE MODE will release three new box-sets on March 30th. The sets; Singles Box 4, Singles Box 5, and Singles Box 6 will each include six CD singles from the band released between 1987 and 2003 and the 160 tracks featured will include all the singles reelased during that period along with b-sides, and standard remixes as well as additional remixes.
BOY GEORGE, as alter-ego side project 'The Twin', will release a 7" single 'Human Racing' on March 31st. This is the fourth limited 7" single released by The Twin and will be followed by a CD EP featuring all four singles, remixes and bonus tracks.
ALISON MOYET is about to go into the studio to start work on a new album, the follow-up to 2003's 'Hometime', with producer Anne Dudley from ART OF NOISE.
THE CURE are expected to announce that they will be one of the headline acts at this year's Glastonbury Festival. The band, currently working on a new album with rock producer Ross Robinson, were also 'honoured' at this week's Brit Awards in a performance of 'Lovecats' from unlikely Cure fans Jamie Cullum and Katie Melua.
TOYAH has recorded vocals for the new single from unknown band Family Of Noise. The single, 'Killing Made Easy', was recorded a year ago and is to be released in a limited edition of 500 copies via the Family Of Noise website.
SWING OUT SISTER have compiled an album showcasing their musical influences. Tentatively titled 'A Few Of Our Favourite Things' the album is schuled for initial release in Japan in March to coincide with Swing Out Sister's new album.
ABBA singer AGNETHA FALTSKOG will release a solo single, her first for seventeen years, on March 8th. The song 'If You Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind was originally a hit for Cilla Black in 1969 and is the first single from a new album 'My Coloring Book', a selection of sings that inspired Agnetha in her youth.
DEAD OR ALIVE singer PETE BURNS has now finished recording 'Jack & Jill Party' the track written for him by PET SHOP BOYS and the track will be released soon as a single on PSB's own label Olde English Vinyl.
PET SHOP BOYS have announced a handful of live dates for 2004. The duo will play six Japanese shows in May along with European festival appearances in Denmark and Sweden in July and August. No UK dates have been announced.
JASON DONOVAN has announced a handful of UK dates in March and April with more dates in the pipeline to be announced soon. The singer has now finished his West End theatre run in the musical 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and has been talking about recording new material later this year.
NEW ORDER are to have two BBC radio sessions released on CD on April 12th. The ten-track album will appear on the Strange Fruit label and will include one video track 'Transmission' along with five tracks from 1998 and four from 2001.
SOFT CELL singer MARC ALMOND will make a guest appearance with French electro act Trash Palace at London's '93 Feet East' in Brick Lane on March 10th.
