Oh how the world needs another Martin Luther King Jr. right now. Such a powerful speaker and campaigner. In my opinion, one of the most profound men in human history. God rest his soul, lets try to remember what he was trying to teach us.

Happy New Year!

You can now subscribe to Cloud9 Mission News using your favourite News Aggregator (eg My Yahoo, Google News, My MSN and My AOL). You can use the rss feed to keep up to date on news and events or to include Cloud9 Mission News on your site.

To subscribe to the RSS Feed, visit The Cloud9 Mission News Blog and choose a button from the Subscribe menu on the right hand side.

Sad news today, one of my heros and the man credited to have invented Funk Music, James Brown, died Christmas Morning aged 73. Prayers go out to his family. He will be sadly missed. I never got to see him live too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6208981.stm

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

Also, Cloud9 – Disc One will stay at the lower price of $12.50 untill January 31st 2007. Get your copy at The Cloud9 Mission Shop.

The Cloud9 Mission Shop now features 3 new Black Tshirts, Badges, Magnets and Stickers.

Also, The Cloud9 Mission album ‘Cloud9 – Disc One‘ will be available at the new cheaper price of $12.50 throughout the Christmas Holiday (approx. £6.50). Get your copy now and save!

New Groove Formation recieved a great review when they played at Club 85 in Hitchin UK on 20th October 2006. The review was published in this months Vandalism Begins @ Home Magazine. Huge thanks to Tracy for writing the review!

Click here to read the review

As some of you may have noticed, it has not been possible to purchase The Cloud9 Mission album ‘Cloud9 – Disc One’ for a few months now due to technical difficulties at cafepress.com. Appologies to anyone that has tried to purchase an album unsuccessfully in the last few months.

Thanks to their technical support team, the error has now been resolved. Get your copy at The Cloud9 Mission Store.

Cloud9 contains 9 tracks including:

1. Cloud9
2. Greatest Fool
3. Scenic Route
4. Phunckibitch
5. Thump
6. What Really Matters
7. Folded Wings
8. Let Me Show You
9. Make Funk Not War

New Groove Formation have just posted some more videos from our recent gig at Cravenfest (Bedford Esquires). The band sound awesome as always but please forgive the appalling drum sound, I smashed through my snare drum skin on the 3rd song of the set. I did my best to carry on playing but theres nothing worse than the sound of a broken snare. Maybe its just my drummer’s ears talking?

Click here to see the other videos.

MySpace

MySpace

For those of you with iTunes or an iPod, we now have a podcast featuring all the free downloads from this web site. The podcast will be updated as soon as any new songs are available. To subscribe to the podcast, enter the URL below into iTunes:

http://www.cloud9mission.com/podcast.php

The web site is now back online with many important updates. Here is a list of the changes and new additions:

• Site is now 30% bigger on the screen making it easier to read on larger resolutions
• HTML pages replaced with a php database system
• MP3 Music Downloads now function correctly
• News is now organised by wordpress blog system
• Gigs / Concert Info page under the news section
• Bands page featuring other bands, artists and projects
• New Photo Gallery (more photos coming soon)
• MySpace Music Profile in place of old phpbb forum
• Second MySpace Profile for networking, chatting and friends
• More search engine friendly HTML Version
• New Yahoo Group Newsletter
• Brand new Believe Site.
• We now support The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign.

I hope you enjoy the newly updated site. Unfortunatly, my computer is still not able to run any music software so new music has been very slow. In the mean time, I have added a demo version of a new song idea aptly called “Its Been a While”. The recording is not the greatest and my guitar was a bit out of tune but you get the idea of the stuff Im writing now.

Download “Its Been a While” (Rough Demo)