Former Cephas frontman, John Peddie, has been making a stir down in Aldershot. Songs of Rage is a community project that is 'passionate about Christ, focused on serving and discipling all those within the local alternative music culture' and aims to 'provide an opportunity for all those in the local alternative music culture to explore and express a faith in Christ'.

Basically it means they help out at local gigs, provide a weekly meeting point to chat and discuss life in general, clean up local venues, provide coffee etc at band video shoots and generally be witnesses within the local music scene.

For more information see songsofrage.co.uk or visit their MySpace or Facebook pages.

I can't decide whether this is just too cheesy or actually pretty cool... I played Guitar Heroes World Tour a couple of weeks ago and it was actually pretty cool, but when Christian artists are (often wrongly) snubbed by the secular media for just being poor versions of secular bands should software companies really be making rip-off versions of secular games?

Admittedly there are some good bands on the roster for Guitar Praise (Kutless, Relient K, FlyLeaf, Stellar Kart to name a few) but it does seem a bit of a cheesy idea...

http://www.guitarpraise.com

Scottish Alt-Punkers, Rodent Emporium , launched on-line sales of their debut album on Monday titled 'Music without Fear or Reprimand'. It features 'an abundance of ridiculously catchy tunes' (16 tracks) and is available as a download (£4) or as a real CD (£7) and can be bought via the Void Avoidance Online Store. Grab it now while it's cheap (they've yet to figure out how to add P&P to their payment system!)

Click 'Read More...' to see the track listing or feel free to discuss in the forums usng the link below!

FBS are hitting the UK in April and are still looking for a small number of bookings. The confirmed dates so far are as follows:

01 Apr 2009 - THE MARKET BAR, INVERNESS
02 Apr 2009 - HENRYS CELLAR, EDINBURGH (w/Sounds of Swami)
03 Apr 2009 - 13TH NOTE, GLASGOW (w/Sounds of Swami)
04 Apr 2009 - VENUE TBA, MANCHESTER (w/Sounds of Swami)
05 Apr 2009 - ROYAL PARK CELLARS, LEEDS (w/Sounds of Swami)
06 Apr 2009 - VENUE TBA, COVENTRY or BIRMINGHAM (CONTACT DOOGS)
07 Apr 2009 - NOW BOOKING, NOW BOOKING (CONTACT DOOGS)
08 Apr 2009 - NOW BOOKING, NOW BOOKING (CONTACT DOOGS) 

Doogs is arranging the dates so if you have any gigs for them then please conact him via his MySpace page.

Boy, it's been a busy day! I think I've spent more time working on the site today that both of us combined for the last 6 months... Sorry about that, things are gonna change!

OK, so, ANYONE who is in a Christian band (Punk / Rock / Metal / Ska etc etc) or knows a band or has just seen some tour dates somewhere, feel free to add the information! You must be a registered user and signed in then  under the User Menu click on Gig & Band Submissions then Add New Event. Please fill out as much information as you can - remember you can always come back and edit your submissions.

If your Christian band isn't  in our band list then, again, please add it using the Add New Band User Menu option.

Thanks again for your support!

 MaFt