GuilFest 2005. The Guildford Music Festival on 15th, 16th and 17th July 2005

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Artist: Aqualung
Genre: Moody Pop
Performing: 5th July 2003 / BBC Radio 2 Main Stage
Website Address: [www.aqualung.net]

If anyone can claim to have had their career choice in some way chosen for them, it's Aqualung's Matt Hales; born above his parents Southampton independent record store, with a piano dominating the front room, he was writing songs by the age of 4.

By 11 he'd been commissioned to compose his school Song (the melody stolen, he confesses without a hint of shame, from Howard Jones' “Humans Lib” album), by 14 he was co-writing with his brother a clutch of “songs about road safety”.

Awarded a scholarship at 16 to study composition in Winchester, by 17 he'd had his first symphony “Life Cycle” performed by a 60-piece orchestra, with Matt himself conducting. No ordinary childhood. No ordinary child.

What Now

Aqualung's next single If I Fall is now available for free exclusively on the band's website.

The first 8,000 visitors to the band's new look website (www.aqualung.net) will receive a limited edition double EP in the post for free!

CD1 is a new remixed version of If I Fall, alongside a Jim Copperthwaite remix of Tongue Tied, and an old previously unreleased demo version of Everything Changed.

CD2 is a live recording of the band at the Scala in London earlier this year - loving entitled Live at the Scala - the 7 live tracks are:

1. Good Times Gonna Come
2. Falling Out of Love
3. Cant Get You Out Of My Mind
4. Nothing Else Matters
5. Halfway to the Bottom
6. Gentle
7. Strange and Beautiful ( I'll put a spell on you)

Aqualung have just finished their first headline tour of the UK, following a sell-out European tour supporting David Gray.

Other news:

Aqualung's debut single Strange and Beautiful has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award.

Matt has recently co-written a song with Nitin Sawhney called
Lately, which will be the first single released from Nitin's new album Human on June 30th.

Matt will also be making a guest appearance at Nitin's show at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on July 20th.

Aqualung recently took time out of their current UK tour to record a couple of songs for a TV programme called re:covered - the programme where guests cover another band's song as well as one of their own. Aqualung played if I fall and covered the Beach Boys classic god only knows (which they've also been playing live on the current tour) We don't have a transmission date for the programme yet so keep an eye out for it on the website.

Lastly, Matt and Ben will be appearing as a duo at Radio One's One Big Weekend on Sunday may 4th at Heaton Park in Manchester check out Radio One's website for further info:

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/events/one_big_weekend.shtml]