The latest news is that Artificial Joy Club will be heading to Europe in early March to support the worldwide release of “Melt.” “Sick and Beautiful” has already started to get some heavy airplay in France and Greece. The band also did a new photo shoot earlier this week for Europe, hopefully we'll get some of the new pics up for you when we get them.

“Skywriting” is set to be released to alternative radio as the next single in the U.S. and Canada, the band won't be doing a video for it right away because of the European tour.

We just added a new fan page with a few of the letters we get everyday.

We're going through a brutal freezing rain and snow storm right now, it's been going on for the last five days. The storm is affecting a large part of eastern Canada and the U.S. Most people have been staying home and they have declared most areas a "state of emergency" for the next little while, until it lets up a bit. And a lot of people don't have power and probably won't for the next few days or even weeks they were saying on the news.

Everything is covered by about an inch of ice and trees are falling everywhere on to power lines, houses and cars. It finally seems to be letting up now. Andrew's power was out for about the last 35 hours.

It's Sal's birthday today, and she's going out to party all night.

Matt Levine and Alternative Rock World's GERBIL MUSICMAG #12 (The Year-End Spectacular) had “Sick & Beautiful” in the #80 spot on his “Top 50's Top 200 Tracks of 1997” and “melt” was #28 on his “Picks on the Best of 1997.”

In other end-of-the-year stuff the Consumable Year End Issue (Top 5 Lists) editor Bob Gajarsky had “melt” at #4;

Artificial Joy Club, “Melt” (Interscope).
"Sick and Beautiful" was the warped single, but lead singer Sal hits all the right chords on tracks like "Skywriting" while the line between pop and alterna-rock is blurred even further.

We just put up a page for the CD single of “Sick & Beautiful” because people have been writing asking where they can get it. You can use the CD Now link at the bottom of that page to get it on-line.

We also put up some photos from the show in Ottawa at Barrymore's on the photos page earlier this week.

Welcome to 1998!

We finally put up some stuff in the FAQ section of the web site, if there are any other questions you would like answers to e-mail us and we'll try and get them up for you.

Check out Gareth and Justin's Great Canadian Music Page it has info and links on cool Canadian bands.

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