The Channel 4 programme Top Ten : Electropop has been put back in the schedules and will now be broadcast on April 7th.

Atomic Kitten have now managed an impressive fourth week at No. 1 in the UK charts with Whole Again .

Another mini interview revolving around the forthcoming OMD tribute album Messages is now up. Click here to read the interview with Ganymede who have covered Messages for the album. Alternatively, you can access the interview via the Features page.

The release date has also been moved back on the album and it's now scheduled for release on the 1st May.

The Discography section has now been updated with two new sections - Videos and Books. More sections are in development and we'll post up details shortly.

The second in a series of mini interviews revolving around the forthcoming OMD tribute album Messages is now up. Click here to read the interview with Brian Hazard aka Color Theory who has covered Hold You for the album. Alternatively, you can access the interview via the Features page.

Congratulations to Atomic Kitten who have managed to hold on to the No. 1 spot for a third week. Whole Again has actually exceeded expectations by selling over 100,000 copies this week.

Andy McCluskey has been rummaging around through more boxes of tapes and OMD paraphernalia. Perhaps the most interesting material he's uncovered is the original recording session by The Id at the Open Eye studio in Liverpool. Only one of three songs recorded was ever released - Julia's Song, which featured on the Liverpool compilation album Street To Street. The tapes that Andy has uncovered feature the other two songs recorded by The Id: Electricity and The Misunderstanding.

Andy also has the original version of Almost recorded by Paul Collister on Winston and is considering including this previously unheard version on the B-Sides album.

Other tapes are recordings of OMD performing at The Factory in Manchester from 1979 and a gig at Eric's Club in Liverpool from 1978. There's also two of the early demo versions of Telegraph - one dating from June 1982 produced by Richard Manwaring. The demos are very rough (with some odd pitch changes!) and also feature different lyrics.

The Atomic Kitten single Whole Again has gone Silver and is expected to sell 90,000 copies by the end of the week.

As stated yesterday, Atomic Kitten's album Right Now is being reworked. Two tracks - Cradle and Bye Now are getting the remix treatment and are also being viewed as possible singles. The reissue of the album is scheduled for May.

Atomic Kitten look set to retain the coveted No. 1 spot for a third week and Whole Again is also tipped for the No. 1 spot in Ireland this week.

Andy is also planning to accompany the Kittens on a promotional visit to Germany next month. The plan is to drop in on a few radio stations and explore the recent success of Atomic Kitten in the UK. The interesting point is that many of the stations still have a strong pro-OMD attitude and want to talk to Andy about his role in writing for the girls.

Don't read too much into tabloid reports on the Atomic Kitten album Right Now being withdrawn and totally re-recorded. The album is in the process of being reworked, but mainly in the area of remixing some tracks, the possible addition of new songs and a brand new design for the sleeve artwork. The excellent Turn Me On is also being given the remix treatment with a view to releasing it as a possible single.

As promised, we bring the first of a series of mini interviews revolving around the forthcoming OMD tribute album Messages. Click here to read the first interview with Mark Nicholas aka Cosmicity who has covered Bloc Bloc Bloc for the album. Alternatively, you can access the interview via the Features page.

Good news regarding the forthcoming OMD B-sides album - we're pleased to be able to release details of the proposed running order:

1. Almost
2. I Betray My Friends
3. Waiting For The Man
4. Annex
5. Sacred Heart
6. Navigation
7. 4-Neu
8. Gravity Never Failed
9. Her Body In My Soul
10. The Avenue
11. The Angels Keep Turning (The Wheels Of The Universe)
12. Garden City
13. Concrete Hands
14. Firegun
15. This Town
16. Sugar Tax
17. Vox Humana

Congratulations to Atomic Kitten who have held on to their UK No. 1 spot for a second week.

The Kittens were also guests at last weeks NME Awards Party - an event that also featured U2. Natasha (getting into the spirit of things) opted to wear a T-shirt declaring "U2 - Just Another Irish Boy Band?".

Andy had also asked the girls to apologise to Bono on his behalf for the Kittens beating the boys to the No. 1 spot. In a nice gesture, Bono bought the girls a bottle of champagne and said he was happy to have at least been beaten by a good song.

It's official - Atomic Kitten's single Whole Again is No. 1 in the UK charts. The single, taken from their debut album Right Now, managed to beat U2 to the coveted No. 1 spot.

More on Messages - the OMD tribute album due for release in March by Ninthwave Records. Fans should be in for a treat as they hear some of their favourite OMD songs interpreted in a variety of different ways. Stand out tracks include Secret by Intact, The Beginning And The End by House Of Wires, Radio Waves by Underpass, Tesla Girls by Dynamo (just for the intro!), If You Leave by Dyed Emotions and Messages by White Town

The OMD Website will be shortly posting up brief interviews with some of the people, artists and bands involved in the recording of the Messages album. More details to follow.

You might remember that writer Gary Russell had a Doctor Who novel published last year called Divided Loyalties. Being an OMD fan, Gary opted to use OMD song titles as chapter headings. Now writer Martin Day has written a whole book titled after an OMD song. Doctor Who : Bunker Soldiers is published by the BBC this coming Monday. Martin adds:

"It's got nothing to do with the OMD song,I'm afraid, but I was desperate for a title, and after Gary Russell used OMD songs for his chapter titles, I thought there was only one way of bettering that...".

The OMD B-sides album has finally been scheduled for release on the 9th April. More details as soon as we have them.

The new Atomic Kitten single Whole Again will be battling it out with U2 for the No. 1 spot in the UK charts on Sunday.

Whole Again (the first release with new member Jenny Frost on board) sold 1,000 more copies than U2's single on its first day of sale on Monday and more copies are being shipped out to record shops to meet the demand. Whole Again has a classic pop-ballad feel to it and the various formats also include tracks such as Holiday and Locomotion.

If you'd like to see Atomic Kitten get to that No. 1 spot then go snap up copies of Whole Again tomorrow!

The girls are also making personal appearances at:

• WH Smith, High Street, Cheltenham. 4pm 1st February
• Virgin Megastore, Brents Cross London. 3pm 3rd February

Anyone trying to reach the Fin Music website recently may be experiencing problems. Mal Holmes is actually doing some behind-the-scenes changes and some technical problems have meant the site being down for a bit. Mal wants to reassure anyone trying to access the site that normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.