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Hi all,

Its been a while since we've updated you so there's so much to share with you.

The long anticipated USONIC album is available at our label website to signed-up members of G4DZ.com at a discounted price up until the album release date on 31st July 2010.

Miles has been touring with Billy Ocean and has just finished a 6 week UK tour. Scott has been working with PiL and John Robertson with Grace Jones. Songwriting partner Monty Joseph from QTON productions is hard at work on a new animated project to be announced very soon and Yolanda has been working very hard writing the new Deep MO album, we'll be posting regular updates for MO fans on The Deep MO Facebook page. This album is going to be a very funky affair. It’s been a hot summer of heavy grooves being worked out in the 'Shed' which you'll get to hear some time in the new year. G4DZ Members will get access to preview clips of the new tracks as and when they’re ready. Robert Mitchell has just completed his album check out Edition Records for more info

The Deep MO has had a busy time of late, from 2 new basses arriving for Yolanda from the wonderful Christian Hatstatt and Gary Levinson at Levinson Blade

which have turned out to be perfect additions, maintaining Yolanda’s distinctive sound and she says they are great instruments to play - beautiful to look at too! Here are the babies,awesome aren't they?

Musikmesse in March was fun and we had Scott come out with us this year. We have footage of our interview for Elixir Strings and live clips at our YouTube channel which can be found at Elixir You Tube channel

We played at Ronnie Scotts in March supporting Bobbi Humphries as part of the Women In Jazz Series week, as well as a very,enjoyable date at The Greenwich Beer and Jazz Festival at the end of May supporting The Brand New Heavies. It was a little cold and rainy but hey, the band were HOT on stage and the crowd enjoyed themselves.

We're also very excited about the next bit of news for you.

LIVE DATES!

Yup,

The Deep MO will be doing more dates kicking of with supporting Incognito and The Brand New Heavies in August at the Hampton Court Beer and Jazz Festival and we have stunningly talented guitarist Marc Guillermont joining us onstage. Check him out at
www.myspace.com/marcguillermont

30/08/2010 The Deep MO Supporting Incognito and The Brand New Heavies

For tickets: www.hamptoncourtbeerandjazz.com

We're happy to announce that The Deep MO have been invited to be the official support band for Level 42 for their celebratory 30^th year UK tour in October...

Mark King has asked The Deep MO to support them around the UK and we're very honoured that the MO will be going on the road with him and the band.

The dates are as following and for more details on everything Level 42, please visit www.Level42.com

Level 42 Tour: The 30th Anniversary Support - The Deep MO

03/10/2010 Level 42 in Manchester Apollo UK

04/10/2010 Level 42 in Aberdeen Music Hall UK

05/10/2010 Level 42 in Glasgow O2 Academy UK

06/10/2010 Level 42 in Gateshead The Sage UK

08/10/2010 Level 42 in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall UK

09/10/2010 Level 42 in Oxford New Theatre UK

10/10/2010 Level 42 in Birmingham Symphony Hall UK

11/10/2010 Level 42 in St. Albans Arena UK

13/10/2010 Level 42 in Bristol Colston Hall UK

14/10/2010 Level 42 in Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre UK

15/10/2010 Level 42 in Portsmouth Guildhall UK

17/10/2010 Level 42 in Croydon Fairfield Hall UK

18/10/2010 Level 42 in Cambridge Corn Exchange UK

19/10/2010 Level 42 in Eastbourne Congress Theatre UK

20/10/2010 Level 42 in Margate Winter Gardens UK

22/10/2010 Level 42 in London indigO2 UK

23/10/2010 Level 42 in London indigO2 UK

24/10/2010 Level 42 in Southend-on-sea Cliffs Pavilion UK

25/10/2010 Level 42 in Ipswich Regent Theatre UK

So people, we'll be pretty busy with bringing the live side and the exciting new MO album to you but for now, join the members area at our labels site www.G4DZ.com for more videos, pictures, give aways and more exciting news and as a tease, here's a few new exclusive pictures by Jeff Spicer from the Greenwich Beer and Jazz Festival, you can see a lot more in the Members Area at G4DZ.com

For now, happy summer and keep it cool and funky!

B-B

March News

March 2010

This month we started work on the new Deep MO album, “Funk in the 3^rd Quarter”.

We’ve recorded drums on 3 new tracks, if you’ve come to our gigs or workshops you’ll be familiar with Promised Land and a favourite of Yolanda’s “Calling”. The next 3 tracks will be recorded live later in the year with the album planned for completion by September.

We’ve also been working hard on the Groove4dayz Records website which is now up and running. The label was set up for us here at Groove4dayz.com to release some of the music we write and record. Our intention is to release music by other artists and list their albums in our online shop for purchase as downloads and physical CDs. There’s a lot of our previously unreleased music to listen to, so go and check it out

The Deep MO play Ronnie Scott’s on Friday 12^th March supporting Bobbi Humphrey.

Yolanda, Miles and Scott go to the Musik Messe in Frankfurt this year where they’ll be playing on the Agora Stage on the 25^th with appearances in the main hall for Guitar and Bass Strings manufacturers, Elixir. If you’re going along stop and say hi.

Yolanda & Miles will be performing a workshop at The University of Lancaster in Preston on the 30^th of March John Etheridge will also be performing that night.

Groove4dayz Records http://www.g4dz.com/

January 2010

After an extended holiday on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat, Miles and Yolanda return to London having missed all the snow and having had a very quiet and much needed break.......although Yolanda's Uncle, reggae star Kulcha Don, did manage to get the rhythm section pair to back both him, Calypsonian Hero and his brother Arrow at a Christmas concert.

The year is starting with a very busy schedule. Miles is writing and recording a new album, he's already got some cool names to appear on the album. This project may surprise quite a few, but as usual it's sounding pretty damn impressive...details to follow.

He's also about to go out to Jamaica with Billy Ocean to perform at this year's Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival 24-30th January.

Yolanda is writing with John Robertson and Monty Joseph for the huge album project they'll be recording for Groove4dayz Records in 2011.
She is also going back to Mike Westergaard's studio 99 to record the full Deep MO album. This follows on from the 4 track EP released in August 2009.

In March The Deep MO will be appearing at Ronnie Scott's on 12th March during Women in Jazz Week. The band line-up is Miles, Yolanda, Scott Firth, John Robertson, Robert Mitchell and Valerie Etienne. They'll be supporting the Bobbi Humphries Quartet.

Yolanda, Miles and Scott perform on the Elixir stand and will make a main stage appearance at this year's Musik Messe 24th-27th March and also in March, Miles and Yolanda will be appearing at The University of Central Lancashire in Preston on the 30th.

Look out for the main article in Bass Guitar Magazine Issue 49. It's a Brit Funk Special and Yolanda contributed words and pics along with Stuart Zender, Julian Crampton, Ernie Mckone, Andrew Mckinney, Andrew Levy and Stefan Redtenbacher.

Check out this recently published interview for a blog by Yann Viseur of MusicCornershop

http://www.musiccornershop.blogspot.com/

November 2009 The last few months have been busy. Miles and Yolanda’s band The Deep MO joined forces with Dee C Lee in July 2009, which resulted in the recording of a single “It’s not over”. Released in September the single was selected as “Record of the Weekend” on Iyare’s 6 music breakfast show and selected for Tom Robinson’s “Introducing” also on 6 music. They performed live on the Robert Elms show on BBC London 94.9, have had great reviews and positive feedback from DJs and music business affiliates in 5 continents including, most importantly support and messages from new Deep MO fans through sites such as facebook and myspace.		Groove4dayz Records officially began in August 2009. There are 2 releases on the new label, The Deep MO 4 track EP and Dee C Lee & The Deep MO’s single “It’s not over”. There is much in the pipeline for the label, announcements to follow. BUY ONLINE at Amazon by clicking on the Deep Mo
Yolanda, Miles, Scott & John Robertson have all written together on various tracks for different artist’s projects over the years. Their collaboration on Billy Ocean’s latest album Because I Love You, also the title track of the album will be released in the US in 2010. . The writing team are now joined by writer/producer Monty Joseph and will be showcasing newly finished tracks on Songtank with some clips also here on Groove4dayz.com.		Miles and Scott Firth have completed the album from their fusion project U-SoniC. It’s called Evolution and Groove4dayz Records are currently negotiating licensing for the release of the album. Evolution will be available early 2010. Check the U-SoniC page here for updates.
Miles has just recently finished recording drums for Joan Armatrading’s new album (title to be announced). Miles said, “this is an extremely strong album indeed”. Considering the last album “Into the Blues” debuted at number 1 in the Billboards Blues charts, this bodes well for the future success of the album.. good luck Joan!

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