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Enjoy and let us know what you think!

* Note: some regions have been restricted from downloading; this is an Amazon policy, not ours. Sorry!

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We here at MWIS would like to wish you all a very good 2012 and hope your festive season was suitably debauched.

Anyway, to start off the year we can now confirm that The Mission will be visiting South America in May as part of their ongoing 25 year anniversary celebrations!

Dates confirmed so far are:

• Thurs. 25th May: Teatro Coupolican, Santiago, Chile
• Sat. 26th (Wayne’s birthday!): Teatro Colegiales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Sun. 27th: Cine Joia, Sao Paulo, Brazil

There will also be a show in Rio De Janeiro on, we think, Thurs. 31st May and a show in Mexico City on Sat. 2nd June. More details to follow as we get them. Our agent is currently sunning himself on a beach somewhere, maybe Weston Super Mare, so extracting the info from him right now is proving difficult. But he’s back at work beginning of next week so we hope to have all the info for you at that time.We believe tickets are already on sale for the Buenos Aires show with Sao Paulo and Santiago going on sale very shortly.

The line-up for these shows will be as it was on the Euro tour of Oct-Nov just past – Craig Adams, Simon Hinkler, Wayne Hussey, & Mike Kelly.

We have also heard tale of at least one Euro festival appearance this summer by the band. Again, more details when we have them. Keep your eyes peeled.

Actually, we do hope to bring you confirmation very shortly of some Mission shows in South & Central America for May and even a festival appearance in the UK for June!
It ain’t been a bad year for me. Spent most of it at home which made a welcome change. The highlights being, of course,  getting through The Mission tour (fave shows being Madrid and the last two German shows in Koln and Hamburg) without me driving either Simon or Craig crazy or them me, the release of the Hussey-Regan album ‘Curios’, and Luis Suarez signing for Liverpool.
We’ll have a bit more of all that in 2012 please before the end of the world on Dec. 21st!
Have a good one……
Cheers,
Wayne

No, we didn’t get a copy writer from Groupon, but we would love you to visit The Mission Store to check out our wonderful array of goodies. There’s still XXV merchandise available, as well as the recently re-released “Live in South America” DVD and the gorgeously sublime Hussey-Regan album “Curios”.

And if you’re feeling particularly giving, please remember that the Hussey-Regan single, “You’ll Never Walk Alone” is still available; UK Mobile owners can text ‘track LFC’ to 80818 and you’ll receive a download code with which you can download the track. Texts only cost £1 which again goes to the ‘Respect 4 All’ charity.

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In the meantime if you’re in the UK you can text ‘track LFC’ to 80818 and you’ll receive a download code with which you can download the track. Texts only cost £1 which again goes to the ‘Respect 4 All’ charity. Below is the full press release recently issued to the LFC affiliated media.

We also wanted to let you know that both Julianne and Wayne are being appearing live on Radio Merseyside on Monday 28th November, the day of release of YNWA. Julianne will be featured on the Billy Butler Show between 4 and 4:30pm whilst Wayne will be guesting on the ‘Total Football Show’ with Alan Jackson between 8 and 8:30pm, both UK times. To listen to Julianne go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d736 and for Wayne go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7x7

Hussey-Regan to release ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ in benefit of LFC charity ‘Respect 4 All’

Monday 28th November sees the official release of the download only single release of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ by Hussey-Regan (Wayne Hussey of The Mission and Julianne Regan from All About Eve). All proceeds go to the Liverpool Football Club charity ‘Respect For All’. http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/community/respect-4-all
You can watch the video for the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnGkuEyYZA4

If you’re in the UK you can text ‘track LFC’ to 8018 and you’ll receive a download code with which you can download the track. Texts only cost £1 which goes directly to the charity. And from Monday 28th it will also be available at all digital outlets.
This release is the brainchild of Tony McDonagh at Manila PR and it is just one in a series of singles all being released on the same day by musician supporters of various football clubs who have all recorded their team’s anthems. Other clubs involved include Chelsea, Manchester City, and Arsenal. All releases are for charities affiliated to their respective clubs. Let’s see if we, Liverpool, can beat them in the pop charts as well as on the playing field. It’s gonna be a race to see who can top this premier league!

Wayne Hussey is a life long Red and even penned the song ‘Draped In Red’ from the 2007 Mission album ‘God Is A Bullet’ celebrating Liverpool’s monumental and historic 2005 Champions League victory in Istanbul. Wayne lived and played in bands in Liverpool, including a 2 year stint in Dead Or Alive with a pre-cosmetic surgery Pete Burns, between 1977 and 1983 when he crossed the Penines for Leeds to join The Sisters Of Mercy. He still maintains a deep affection for the city and does try to get to Liverpool for a match every time he’s back in the country.
Anyway, we managed to persuade Wayne away from his hammock at his present day home in Brazil to say a few words regarding this release.
Wayne: “Well, it’s no secret that I’m a lifetime Red so this song is obviously very close to my heart. Most people when they hear this song can’t get past the football and LFC association. What people don’t, sadly, appreciate about this song is that it truly is a wonderfully written song. The lyrics are great and uplifting, the chord structure is sublime, and the melody is to die for. And the Kop always recognised a good tune. I’ve been playing it at home on the piano for years and always wanted an excuse to record it, so when the call came for a contribution to the cause I jumped at the chance. At long last I had a justifiable reason to record one of my all time fave songs, YNWA, which along with ‘God Only Knows’ by The Beach Boys are the two songs I want played at my funeral.

Of course there have already been many very different versions of the song over the years, some good and some not so with my own particular fave probably being Aretha Franklin’s version, but Julianne and I did try to do something a little different with it and I think we succeeded.
And of course I love the fact that it is for a local charity and will benefit disabled kids in Liverpool that want to participate in sports. I was at the recent home game with Wolves and at half time they had some of these kids come out onto the pitch and have a penalty shoot out at the Kop End and as well as entertaining, and amusing, the supporters you could see the obvious joy and delight on the kids faces from even right back on the Kop. And if Julianne and I can help, if only a little, then to see smiles on kids faces is more than worth it.”
Wayne goes on, ” My most favourite memory of my time as a musician is when we, The Mission, organised and played a benefit show at the Royal Court in Liverpool two weeks after the Hillsborough disaster. We managed to persuade Pete Wylie, and if you know Pete then you’ll know he actually didn’t need any persuading, and the legendary La’s to join us for the evening. Anyway, it was already obviously a very emotional night but when we were about half way through our set all the power in the building just cut out. No sound and no light. Pitch black. And spontaneously and with no coaxing the audience held up cigarette lighters and started singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. Of course to a man the band and crew started blubbering. A very emotional moment for me. It was at that moment that I realised that everybody in attendance that evening got it and knew why they were there. In tragic circumstances a brilliant memory.”

Walk on with hope in your heart!
You can watch the video for the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnGkuEyYZA4

If you’re in the UK you can text ‘track LFC’ to 80818 and you’ll receive a download code with which you can download the track. Texts only cost £1 which goes to the charity. Come on, do your part and support a very worthwhile cause and let’s see if we can’t get our Wayne and Julianne back in the UK charts!!!!!! Now that would be something, wouldn’t it?

Anyway, we managed to persuade Wayne away from his hammock at home in Brazil to say a few words regarding this release.

Wayne: “Well, it’s no secret that I’m a life time Red and when I was asked if I could do a version of YNWA for this LFC nominated charity I, of course, jumped at the chance. It’s obviously a song that means a lot to me because of it’s long association with LFC but if you can get past the association and any prejudice you may have then it’s easy to hear that this song is really a wonderful song. It has a very uplifting lyric, with a chord sequence and melody to swoon for. Of course there have already been many very different versions of the song over the years but Julianne and I did try and do something a little different with it.

Anyway, I know we’ve asked you to put your hands in your pockets quite a lot over the last few months what with the Mission shows and the release of Curios etc but I am asking, personally, that you try and support this and help it to maybe even be a hit. I’d absolutely love to see our version of the song in the charts whilst supporting the kids in Liverpool that will benefit from the proceeds. Walk on with hope in your heart. Thanks.”

You can watch the video that Julianne put together for the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnGkuEyYZA4

Also, we also wanted to let you know that Wayne recently contributed a vocal to the song ‘This House’ on the new Descendants Of Cain album. To hear the track go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfmfn5HWtSI

The album is called ‘Songs From A Vanishing World’ and it’s just been released by EchoZone/Sony. Proceeds from the sales of the album are being donated to the Wildlife Heritage Foundation. www.whf.org.uk

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